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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    EDI-Joker relationship discussions are among my favorite in ME3

    Specifically "I then called him on his bullshit"

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  • PriestPriest Registered User regular
    Having grown up in such a vehicle, I was rather fond of "The Airlock is Ajar" joke between him and EDI.

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  • Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    Oh gods!

    I forgot how much I love that the video creator added Numa Numa to the dance part.

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    Really I love all the EDI stuff.

    That she went from what she was on Luna to a character I cared about as much as my two biggest squad-bros (Legion/Garrus) over the course of the series is amazing.

    I don't remember who said they didn't interact with EDI much but maaaaan, missing out. She has some of the best/funniest lines in the game.

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    edi is why i pick green

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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    EDI is why my finger twitches for a picosecond before picking red.

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Really I love all the EDI stuff.

    That she went from what she was on Luna to a character I cared about as much as my two biggest squad-bros (Legion/Garrus) over the course of the series is amazing.

    I don't remember who said they didn't interact with EDI much but maaaaan, missing out. She has some of the best/funniest lines in the game.

    I don't know if this is a reference to me. I think I said something to the effect that I didn't bond as much with EDI in 3. But I did talk to her every time I could. I think the weird thing that happened with me was that
    I was better able to identify with her as a silly little holo globe thing than as Sexybot McBoobies

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Cambiata wrote: »
    Really I love all the EDI stuff.

    That she went from what she was on Luna to a character I cared about as much as my two biggest squad-bros (Legion/Garrus) over the course of the series is amazing.

    I don't remember who said they didn't interact with EDI much but maaaaan, missing out. She has some of the best/funniest lines in the game.

    I don't know if this is a reference to me. I think I said something to the effect that I didn't bond as much with EDI in 3. But I did talk to her every time I could. I think the weird thing that happened with me was that
    I was better able to identify with her as a silly little holo globe thing than as Sexybot McBoobies
    I actually kinda like that while she was Sexbot McBoobies the only people who seemed to care about it was Joker and Engineer Donnelly. EDI herself was more concerned with the bodies limitations in comparison to what the Normandy itself provided. And of course calling Joker on his bullshit. But by the end of ME3 the writers had almost completely gotten me past my initial "oh ffs" reaction to her appearance.

    That said I think it would have been pretty neat if by the end of the game she'd modified the body to be more combat effective by adding armor or something which ended up making her look less sex-bot and more I'm-here-to-fuck-up-your-shit-bot

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    Also does Kasumi still show up at the party if I started but didn't complete her side quest? Stupid thing bugged on me (again for like the fourth time) and by the time I realized it I would have had to basically start over from scratch.

  • DacDac Registered User regular
    Or if near the end of ME3, EDI has the ability to save the day, but has to give up the humanoid body to do it.

    Bonus points if Joker is the one that has to pull the metaphorical trigger in some way.

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    "Commander in my cycle when we fled combat by falling through tanks containing aquatic animals we usually… oh riiiiight. We never did. You are a trailblazer."

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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Just punched Han Gerrel in the stomach.

    Hmm..Didn't feel as good as I thought I would. Beating up on a quarian feels a lot like kicking the shit out of a terminally ill patient for some reason.

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  • StrikorStrikor Calibrations? Calibrations! Registered User regular
    Yeah, I was disappointed by that one, too.
    I wanted to shoot him in the knee and have Javik throw him out the airlock. Don't fuck with Shepard.

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  • PriestPriest Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Ya, I think part of that is the mood in the room.
    I think it'd go better if the Renegade interrupt was something like you calling Han Gerrel an asshole and then Tali punching him, then Legion pantomiming a scoreboard (Tali: 2 Han: 0)

    Oh, and just so you all know, thanks to your recommendation, I'm laying the groundwork to take Legion to the Fleet in ME2. I don't know why I've never tried this. Should be amusing at best, a war-crime at worst. Will let you know how it goes later.

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
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  • Dr. ChaosDr. Chaos Post nuclear nuisance Registered User regular
    They're trying to upload a Daww virus into his system.

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  • Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    I still think tossing him out of the airlock would have been entirely appropriate. It's not like he would have really died. He's wearing a spacesuit, after all.

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    I still think tossing him out of the airlock would have been entirely appropriate. It's not like he would have really died. He's wearing a spacesuit, after all.

    Maybe we'll get an "Airlock" interrupt in Mass Effect Next. We've been waiting for one since ME2.

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  • PriestPriest Registered User regular
    I can't help but notice the similarities between Zaeed meeting Vido in the Refinery and Shepard's Renegade interrupt in Mordin's loyalty mission. Both involve shooting a flammable tank/pipe. I feel like bringing Zaeed on Mordin's mission after doing his own loyalty mission is ripe for parody.

    Zaeed: "Goddamnit Shepard."
    Shepard: "What?"
    Zaeed: "I light a gas refinery on fire and you get all pissy. You blow up a goddamn hospital and I'm supposed to be the monster?"

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  • NEO|PhyteNEO|Phyte They follow the stars, bound together. Strands in a braid till the end.Registered User regular
    Priest wrote: »
    I can't help but notice the similarities between Zaeed meeting Vido in the Refinery and Shepard's Renegade interrupt in Mordin's loyalty mission. Both involve shooting a flammable tank/pipe. I feel like bringing Zaeed on Mordin's mission after doing his own loyalty mission is ripe for parody.

    Zaeed: "Goddamnit Shepard."
    Shepard: "What?"
    Zaeed: "I light a gas refinery on fire and you get all pissy. You blow up a goddamn hospital and I'm supposed to be the monster?"
    Not really the same, the refinery was the whole thing, the hospital was just that one little pipe.

    It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing... And take away its pain.
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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    NEO|Phyte wrote: »
    Priest wrote: »
    I can't help but notice the similarities between Zaeed meeting Vido in the Refinery and Shepard's Renegade interrupt in Mordin's loyalty mission. Both involve shooting a flammable tank/pipe. I feel like bringing Zaeed on Mordin's mission after doing his own loyalty mission is ripe for parody.

    Zaeed: "Goddamnit Shepard."
    Shepard: "What?"
    Zaeed: "I light a gas refinery on fire and you get all pissy. You blow up a goddamn hospital and I'm supposed to be the monster?"
    Not really the same, the refinery was the whole thing, the hospital was just that one little pipe.

    The hospital was also populated only by baddies. There were no non-combatants.

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  • PriestPriest Registered User regular
    That's why I say parody though, the situations are totally miles different, but I feel like Zaeed would try to equate them in his single-track Merc mind.

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  • peacekeeperpeacekeeper AustraliaRegistered User regular
    paragoneded all 3 run throughs and ive blown that stupid fuckin pipe on tuchanka, if you fuck up that fight its the krogan from me1 all over again

  • PriestPriest Registered User regular
    Just picked up Kasumi for the first time. Was expecting brooding-batman type from the advertising, was pleasantly surprised to get whimsical miscreant.

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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    Kasumi's fun.

    One of the more pleasant and level-headed crewmembers.

    If it wasn't for the fact she'd steal everything you have, she's pretty near the top of the list for people you'd want to hang out with in the crew.

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  • curly haired boycurly haired boy Your Friendly Neighborhood Torgue Dealer Registered User regular
    kasumi's great

    a little eccentric, but who isn't, right?

    she only spies on everyone and writes poetry about jacob's abs

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  • chiasaur11chiasaur11 Never doubt a raccoon. Do you think it's trademarked?Registered User regular
    kasumi's great

    a little eccentric, but who isn't, right?

    she only spies on everyone and writes poetry about jacob's abs

    And the underwear thing.

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  • Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    She can't fool Javik though.

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  • Regina FongRegina Fong Allons-y, Alonso Registered User regular
    She'd never steal anything actually important from Shepard though. She knows who is saving the galaxy, and she is not dumb.

  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    @Priest where's my rant?

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  • PriestPriest Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    @Morninglord - You opened Pandora's box by indulging my OCD like that. I've been working on it in little snippets (since I can only work on it so long before wanting to play or do something else). If I'm doing this, I'm doing it right. Been converting pictorial dimensions to 'real' dimensions to get this right.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    ok ill be patient

    ill bug you in a week

    that reminds me its been ages since i worked on my own pet project

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    So since we're on ME2 a bit which is rougher (for you or in general), Paragon on Mordin's loyalty mission, or Renegade on Jack's?

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  • PriestPriest Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Sorce wrote: »
    So since we're on ME2 a bit which is rougher (for you or in general), Paragon on Mordin's loyalty mission, or Renegade on Jack's?

    Not sure if this is for me or not. This one is always a bit tough. Ultimately Maelon was trying to undo what he felt was the brutality of the Genophage. Let him live but send him on his way. Went Paragon on Jack's too. Aresh is living in his own prison, no need for a bullet. At best he goes after Cerberus himself. At worst he gets himself killed.

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  • Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    ok ill be patient

    ill bug you in a week

    that reminds me its been ages since i worked on my own pet project

    Whatcha workin on?

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  • StrikorStrikor Calibrations? Calibrations! Registered User regular
    Hopefully a batarian-punching compilation.

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  • SoundsPlushSoundsPlush yup, back. Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Mother's Day, 2186

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  • envoy1envoy1 the old continentRegistered User regular
    Priest wrote: »
    Sorce wrote: »
    So since we're on ME2 a bit which is rougher (for you or in general), Paragon on Mordin's loyalty mission, or Renegade on Jack's?

    Not sure if this is for me or not. This one is always a bit tough. Ultimately Maelon was trying to undo what he felt was the brutality of the Genophage. Let him live but send him on his way. Went Paragon on Jack's too. Aresh is living in his own prison, no need for a bullet. At best he goes after Cerberus himself. At worst he gets himself killed.

    If you save Aresh there's more to his story in ME3.

    From the wiki:
    "If Aresh was spared, he survives the destruction of the Teltin Facility. Sometime later he takes up work and ends up on the colony of Elysium.

    In 2186, Shepard receives a news alert stating that he saved a shuttle of children evacuating the Reaper-occupied colony."

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  • Regina FongRegina Fong Allons-y, Alonso Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    I always spared him, it was better for Jack psychologically IMO. The whole point of the loyalty missions is to get your crew squared away so they're ready to potentially meet their proverbial maker. What does Jack need, some sort of closure and perspective or yet another corpse in her wake?
    Also, I can't remember whether it's in the first conversation after her loyalty mission or before you even leave, but she very quickly gets over being annoyed at Shepard for not letting her kill the guy and says it was the right choice.

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  • bloodatonementbloodatonement Registered User regular
    edited May 2014
    Just replayed the end of ME3 with 5700~ effective military strength to get the "perfect ending"

    I didn't notice before but apparently
    destroying the Reapers kills EDI. Her name is the memorial wall, and Eva isn't standing around with everyone one as Shepard's name is put on the wall.

    edit:
    and apparently since I missed the Hanar diplomate mission
    Kasumi is dead too.

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