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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    You can buy the DLC on Amazon for the exact price it costs. Sure, you're buying the fun bucks equivalent in points, but it's still the exact amount you would have to pay.

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  • SnicketysnickSnicketysnick The Greatest Hype Man in WesterosRegistered User regular
    Not in the UK you can't :(

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  • StrikorStrikor Calibrations? Calibrations! Registered User regular
    I remember having to buy funbucks through the Dragon Age site just to get the correct amount for the ME2 DLCs because shockingly the ME2 page lacked that particular amount as an option.

    Never again. As much as I prefer Steam, at least Origin lets you buy stuff directly.

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  • GatorGator An alligator in Scotland Registered User regular
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    At least wiping him the second time around is super satisfying

    Like, pow Black Widow right in the kisser your banter don't mean shit

    The banter the second time around was mostly Shepard being very clear about how much Kai Leng sucked.

    Seriously, it's like he had two writing teams. One tried to sell him as Captain Badass. The other made jerking off motions every time he was on screen and spent every second they could making him look even more like a joke.

    This is a problem that haunts Bioware's RPGs as a whole

    They have several writing teams working in parallel with, apparently, only the vaguest of plot outlines

    Those writing teams do very good work (with the notable exception of whoever wrote the introduction and ending to ME3), which gives us excellent scenarios in both ME 3 (Palaven and especially Tuchanka) and DA: I (the "help the mages" quest - though the "help the templar" quest is really cool too -, the Fade, and especially Corypheus' attack on Haven). There's practically not a character-focused quest in ME 2 that sucks.

    But the end result is less than the sum of its parts. ME 2 is the high point of the ME series, and it's basically lots of character-driven quests stitched together. In terms of overall plot, it's basically insignificant. DA:I's overall plot peaks with the attack on Haven, and then crashes and burns.

    It's a real problem.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    ME2 didn't have a plot. Other than you working with terrorists for...reasons?

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    Spoit wrote: »
    ME2 didn't have a plot. Other than you working with terrorists for...reasons?

    This isn't accurate... like at all

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    At least wiping him the second time around is super satisfying

    Like, pow Black Widow right in the kisser your banter don't mean shit

    The banter the second time around was mostly Shepard being very clear about how much Kai Leng sucked.

    Seriously, it's like he had two writing teams. One tried to sell him as Captain Badass. The other made jerking off motions every time he was on screen and spent every second they could making him look even more like a joke.

    This is one of the things that kinda drove me up the wall with me3

    Same deal with the awful reporter. "Hey we're introducing this entirely bizarre and unnecessary character onto your ship. Unlike every other character in all 3 games, we've based her face on the voice actress's. And she can't really act. Frankly we think she sucks, so we're going to give you the option to kick her off your ship in every conversation you have with her, frankly you should just do that."

    Like, there's a bunch of individual scenes with great writing. But it never forms any sort of cohesive whole, you can clearly see all the seams where each writer's little fiefdom butts up against another.

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  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    Kana wrote: »
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    At least wiping him the second time around is super satisfying

    Like, pow Black Widow right in the kisser your banter don't mean shit

    The banter the second time around was mostly Shepard being very clear about how much Kai Leng sucked.

    Seriously, it's like he had two writing teams. One tried to sell him as Captain Badass. The other made jerking off motions every time he was on screen and spent every second they could making him look even more like a joke.

    This is one of the things that kinda drove me up the wall with me3

    Same deal with the awful reporter. "Hey we're introducing this entirely bizarre and unnecessary character onto your ship. Unlike every other character in all 3 games, we've based her face on the voice actress's. And she can't really act. Frankly we think she sucks, so we're going to give you the option to kick her off your ship in every conversation you have with her, frankly you should just do that."

    Like, there's a bunch of individual scenes with great writing. But it never forms any sort of cohesive whole, you can clearly see all the seams where each writer's little fiefdom butts up against another.

    Miranda?

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  • finnithfinnith ... TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited August 2016
    Dizzy D wrote: »
    Kana wrote: »
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    At least wiping him the second time around is super satisfying

    Like, pow Black Widow right in the kisser your banter don't mean shit

    The banter the second time around was mostly Shepard being very clear about how much Kai Leng sucked.

    Seriously, it's like he had two writing teams. One tried to sell him as Captain Badass. The other made jerking off motions every time he was on screen and spent every second they could making him look even more like a joke.

    This is one of the things that kinda drove me up the wall with me3

    Same deal with the awful reporter. "Hey we're introducing this entirely bizarre and unnecessary character onto your ship. Unlike every other character in all 3 games, we've based her face on the voice actress's. And she can't really act. Frankly we think she sucks, so we're going to give you the option to kick her off your ship in every conversation you have with her, frankly you should just do that."

    Like, there's a bunch of individual scenes with great writing. But it never forms any sort of cohesive whole, you can clearly see all the seams where each writer's little fiefdom butts up against another.

    Miranda?

    Dianna Allers? I just never talked to her. Yvonne Strahowski (sic, definitely) can actually act.

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  • Dizzy DDizzy D NetherlandsRegistered User regular
    finnith wrote: »
    Dizzy D wrote: »
    Kana wrote: »
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    At least wiping him the second time around is super satisfying

    Like, pow Black Widow right in the kisser your banter don't mean shit

    The banter the second time around was mostly Shepard being very clear about how much Kai Leng sucked.

    Seriously, it's like he had two writing teams. One tried to sell him as Captain Badass. The other made jerking off motions every time he was on screen and spent every second they could making him look even more like a joke.

    This is one of the things that kinda drove me up the wall with me3

    Same deal with the awful reporter. "Hey we're introducing this entirely bizarre and unnecessary character onto your ship. Unlike every other character in all 3 games, we've based her face on the voice actress's. And she can't really act. Frankly we think she sucks, so we're going to give you the option to kick her off your ship in every conversation you have with her, frankly you should just do that."

    Like, there's a bunch of individual scenes with great writing. But it never forms any sort of cohesive whole, you can clearly see all the seams where each writer's little fiefdom butts up against another.

    Miranda?

    Dianna Allers? I just never talked to her. Yvonne Strahowski (sic, definitely) can actually act.

    See the bolded part, that's what I was responding to.

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  • KanaKana Registered User regular
    Dizzy D wrote: »
    Kana wrote: »
    chiasaur11 wrote: »
    At least wiping him the second time around is super satisfying

    Like, pow Black Widow right in the kisser your banter don't mean shit

    The banter the second time around was mostly Shepard being very clear about how much Kai Leng sucked.

    Seriously, it's like he had two writing teams. One tried to sell him as Captain Badass. The other made jerking off motions every time he was on screen and spent every second they could making him look even more like a joke.

    This is one of the things that kinda drove me up the wall with me3

    Same deal with the awful reporter. "Hey we're introducing this entirely bizarre and unnecessary character onto your ship. Unlike every other character in all 3 games, we've based her face on the voice actress's. And she can't really act. Frankly we think she sucks, so we're going to give you the option to kick her off your ship in every conversation you have with her, frankly you should just do that."

    Like, there's a bunch of individual scenes with great writing. But it never forms any sort of cohesive whole, you can clearly see all the seams where each writer's little fiefdom butts up against another.

    Miranda?

    Oh, yeah, that's true

    It feels a lot less noticeable though, at least to me

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  • morgan_cokemorgan_coke Registered User regular
    Yeah, but for some reason, Miranda's face always looked weirdly square to me. Like someone took Strahovski's face and mushed it up inside a glass cube.

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  • GatorGator An alligator in Scotland Registered User regular
    Faces are not Bioware's strong point no

  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    They do ok on faces I think. Hair though... not great.

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  • DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
    edited August 2016
    Yeah, but for some reason, Miranda's face always looked weirdly square to me. Like someone took Strahovski's face and mushed it up inside a glass cube.

    Allers looks like there was a facial recognition malfunction and she vaulted way beyond the boundaries of uncanny valley, like way more than the others to the point where something had to have gone wrong in the imaging process but Bioware just said "That's pretty funny; run with it - it'll freak people out!"

    Miranda looks like a Persian cat in human form.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    I think it's whenever the faces go through the talking animation is where it gets janky. DAI seemed to get it right though.

  • Skull2185Skull2185 Registered User regular
    Another thing BioWare was not so great at in ME was pre-placing dead bodies. They're always in the weirdest positions. ME2 was funny though, because sometimes the dead bodies would blink. Like the Eclipse merc Samara kills when you first meet her. If you watch the merc's face, she'll blink after a few seconds. Like she's playing possum or something.

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  • RuldarRuldar Registered User regular
    Sometimes it's just best to play dead if you have the option and hope Shepard and his team leaves without double tapping.

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  • StrikorStrikor Calibrations? Calibrations! Registered User regular
    (Cut to Shepard spending 5 minutes growing more and more frustrated trying to biotic charge a dead body)

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    edited August 2016
    Forgot how light the Lancer is

    Can carry the Valiant and the Lancer and still be at +140%ish power recharge speed

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    The time has come. You must choose between 1 and 325.

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    Choose wisely.

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    324.

  • DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
    56....ish?
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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited August 2016
    324: So Anderson dug three holes. Once Anderson was done Kahlee placed each sapling, covered its roots with rich black soil, and watered them in. "There," she said, as she stood. "They were troubled people, but each was trying to do something good, even if they went about it in self-destructive ways. "I'll miss them."

    Anderson nodded. "Well said. Come on... it's a two mile walk back to the hotel."
    Note, this is about Gillian, the autistic biotic girl who was mind bendingly stupid enough to try to assassinate TIM, Nick, a boy so dumb, he thought joining a biotic groupie club and using two pistols at once would be enough to take over the galaxy, and Hendel, who's only crime was helping Aria and shooting Nick's stupid terrorist girlfriend in the face.

    58: "Any ideas?" "Yes," Anderson replied. "First we need to have dinner. A good one. Then we'll go home and get ready for tomorrow. I'm going to be a shady business man, and you'll play the part of my girlfriend."

    "I am your girlfriend."

    Anderson smiled, yes, you are. That makes you perfect for the role."

    Kahlee laughed. Anderson liked the sound of it.

    "So," Kahlee said, "why are we going to play dress-up?"
    "Because as we used to say in the navy, there's the way we're supposed to do things, and there's the way we actually do things." Which means?" Which means that while C-Sec continues to do things by the book we're going to break the rules." "A naughty admiral. I like it come on," she said. "i'm in the mood for an asari stir-fry tonight." He grinned. "And for dessert?" That" Kahlee said, "is for me to know and for you to find out."

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  • finnithfinnith ... TorontoRegistered User regular
    5

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  • Ivan HungerIvan Hunger Registered User regular
    98

  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    5: Leng stomped his face, felt something give, and knew that part of the fight was over. Then, having turned toward the back of the room, Leng pressed the button on his stylus. His pistol, or what looked like a pistol, produced a loud BOOM as it exploded, hurling shrapnel in every direction. When he entered the lobby both of the Batarian guards were down and one was clearly dead. "Don't bother to get up," Leng said, as he bent over to pick up his cane. "I'll find the door on my own." Then, having completed his mission, Leng limped away. His right leg was on fire. But the matrix was safe, the Illusive Man would be pleased, and he could leave Khar'shan. Life was good.
    Everything about Leng in this novel is spectacular and the only thing that makes reading this train wreck remotely entertaining. All those troll memes? The originated here.

    98: "He was killed in a gentleman's club called Chora's Den."
    "I know the place," Anderson admitted sheepishly. "It's pretty rough."
    Kahlee wrinkled her nose. "Men."

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    cereal

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  • finnithfinnith ... TorontoRegistered User regular
    Yes read that page.

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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    Every time this happens I am astounded that this is a thing that was actually published

    I shouldn't be, because it's always this bad, and yet

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited August 2016
    I assume this book was written in two weeks, because for all the crap Deception gets, Deitz also wrote Halo: the Flood. That itself had lots of, "And then Master Chief shot some aliens," but it also had some genuinely good moments and a few feels. To me, it didn't seem slapped together. Not great, but not insane. There were moments such as Keyes fighting the Flood infection in his mind, a good subplot with Autumn's ODSTs, POV from Covenant characters, etc. He's not a great author, but Deception reads like a first draft, and Bioware said, "Unhuh, good, let's go with that."

    Deception is just a special brand of catastrophe.

    Heh heh, looking for that Cereal quote, here's an old gem from a few years ago: Trump TIM

    114: During the 30 minute presentation that followed Oro brought the Illusive Man up to speed on the largely sub-rosa pro-Cerberus communications effort that she and her staff were engaged in. The Purpose of the campaign was to counter the drumbeat of negative publicity that consistently found its way into the news. "At the moment we're working with the phrase, 'Cerberus will sound the call, be ready,'" she explained. "The mainstream media won't run our ads so we're using guerrilla marketing techniques to put our message out. That includes wall crawls in places like Hu-Town on the Citadel, pirate sites on the extranet, and a network of flesh and blood storytellers. All trained to tell tales about the rise of humanity." "Well done," The Illusive Man said approvingly. "Our polling shows that even though members of other races tend to have a negative impression of Cerberus, most humans feel we're a positive influence. "

    Also:

    The Biotic Underground has a cunning four step plan to take over the galaxy.

    #1 Rob Aria's bank on Omega.
    #2 Take over Omega from Aria, blackmail the Illusive Man.
    #3 ???
    #4 Eliminate the Citadel Council and establish a Biotic Oligarchy ruling trillions of citizens across ten thousand worlds.

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  • NotoriusBENNotoriusBEN Registered User regular
    Every time this happens I am astounded that this is a thing that was actually published

    I shouldn't be, because it's always this bad, and yet

    its like reading through the diaries of a mad man...

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    I don't understand how every single page can have a passage of sublime awfulness.

    It's like a fractal of bad writing.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited August 2016
    64: "Then, having placed a wireless tap under the comm console, he was done. Or should have been done. But Leng was something of an adrenaline junkie and enjoyed being where he was.That’s why he checked the cupboards, located some cereal, and had breakfast before putting everything back exactly as it had been. It was his apartment now, a place where everything that happened would be known to him, and to Cerberus. The thought pleased him and Leng was still smiling as he left."
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  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    Every time this happens I am astounded that this is a thing that was actually published

    I shouldn't be, because it's always this bad, and yet

    its like reading through the diaries of a mad man...

    Like back in 6th grade I had to write a short story

    Since I'd been reading DnD fantasy novels I wrote one in that setting and of course it was awful because who makes a 6th grader write a 30 page short story are you insane

    This is basically that but somehow the quality of the writing is worse and I can only assume someone was actually paid for it

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  • cB557cB557 voOOP Registered User regular
    You'd need to be something of an adrenaline junkie to ask money for writing like this.

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  • SorceSorce Not ThereRegistered User regular
    64: "Then, having placed a wireless tap under the comm console, he was done. Or should have been done. But Leng was something of an adrenaline junkie and enjoyed being where he was.That’s why he checked the cupboards, located some cereal, and had breakfast before putting everything back exactly as it had been. It was his apartment now, a place where everything that happened would be known to him, and to Cerberus. The thought pleased him and Leng was still smiling as he left."
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    This being the same apartment that Shepard gets in the Citadel DLC.

    Was there a cereal box in there we could look at? I forget.

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  • CambiataCambiata Commander Shepard The likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
    Sorce wrote: »
    64: "Then, having placed a wireless tap under the comm console, he was done. Or should have been done. But Leng was something of an adrenaline junkie and enjoyed being where he was.That’s why he checked the cupboards, located some cereal, and had breakfast before putting everything back exactly as it had been. It was his apartment now, a place where everything that happened would be known to him, and to Cerberus. The thought pleased him and Leng was still smiling as he left."
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    This being the same apartment that Shepard gets in the Citadel DLC.

    Was there a cereal box in there we could look at? I forget.

    There was no cereal box in the Citadel DLC. But there should have been.

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  • manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    241: Other than the light, the bucket that had been placed in a corner, and the narrow bed, there was no furniture in the room. Nothing that could be transformed into a weapon, used as a pick, or otherwise turned against his captors. And Leng knew why. Cory Kim had been a prisoner- and knew everything there was to know about prisons.

    133: But he couldn't resist watching Mythra Zon leave the building. She had a high forehead, wide-set eyes, and perfect lips. The asari was shapely as well. However, Nick's infatuation with Zon was more than a case of teenage hormones run amok. There was an energy around the female. Something that emanated from deep inside her.

    ...

    Nick was young and inexperienced. And even he knew how dangerous the point position could be. Because if some group was laying in wait for the biotics, they would try to kill him first. But armed as he was with his talent and two pistols Nick couldn't imagine anything like that happening. What he could imagine was some sort of attack in which he would heroically kill the assailants, save Zon from mortal danger, and earn her undying respect. That would be a good thing...

    Jackpot!

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