So I see my favorite alien, Liara, whom I've been excercising my incredible charms upon. We chat a bit, and then...POW! Sex scene hits me like a boot to the head.
Sex.
Bit misty, but clear in all the right spots.
Barry White should've been playing. Point is though, it was a shocker. A good one.
You were imagining them doing it the entire time, and then it happens.
This game is a gift from the future.
She decided to "put our relationship on hold." I was not pleased. So I think I've probably screwed that up for the game.
So I see my favorite alien, Liara, whom I've been excercising my incredible charms upon. We chat a bit, and then...POW! Sex scene hits me like a boot to the head.
Sex.
Bit misty, but clear in all the right spots.
Barry White should've been playing. Point is though, it was a shocker. A good one.
You were imagining them doing it the entire time, and then it happens.
This game is a gift from the future.
She decided to "put our relationship on hold." I was not pleased. So I think I've probably screwed that up for the game.
The same for me, but, from what I understand, she's only putting it on hold until later in the game.
Has anyone really screwed up parking your Mako yet?
For example, if you park it on top of a bunker then use the *enter bunker* button, when you zone out, the mako is still parked on top and you are on the ground below it
i really screwed up like this and dont feel like going WAY back to my last save and redoing the whole planet
is there a way to jump back to the normandy without being int he mako?
im hosed :P
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Has anyone really screwed up parking your Mako yet?
For example, if you park it on top of a bunker then use the *enter bunker* button, when you zone out, the mako is still parked on top and you are on the ground below it
i really screwed up like this and dont feel like going WAY back to my last save and redoing the whole planet
is there a way to jump back to the normandy without being int he mako?
Has anyone really screwed up parking your Mako yet?
For example, if you park it on top of a bunker then use the *enter bunker* button, when you zone out, the mako is still parked on top and you are on the ground below it
i really screwed up like this and dont feel like going WAY back to my last save and redoing the whole planet
is there a way to jump back to the normandy without being int he mako?
im hosed :P
I think you can hit start to enter the menu and hit X to return to the Normandy.
So...yeah. The Ally achievements must really be broken.
I've played through the game twice. First time, got Completionist, had Wrex & Garrius in my party the whole time(well, from when you first get them) and didn't get their achievement.
Second game(newgame+), I was going to try for another pair, but heard that the totals needed for those achievements stick with you through when you do it, so I switched back to Wrex & Garrius after about a quarter through the game.
Now I'm starting my third playthrough and I still haven't gotten 'em. WTF Bioware...
Yea, bad plan believe that second bit. There are numbers on gameFAQs that work for them. Really you need to go to the Citadel, complete no fucking quests you don't have to, then get your party members then complete quests/missions. With Liara it was well well well past the completionist achievement. They're not bugged as the numbers on gamefaqs worked perfectly for me.
So I finished playing ME for the first time a week ago. Fucking sweet.
My character looked totally badass and fit the male voice so well I didn't even think that it could go horribly wrong.
Fast forward to my second playthrough where I decided to make Shepherd look just like Samuel L. Jackson. Even saying the conversation choices out loud in SLJ's voice before I pick them can only carry the game so far until the standard male voice carries over.
The best part is that when Shepherd looks angry or surprised he looks JUST like Samuel Jackson, but when he starts talking... ugh. I've never been so disappointed in my life.
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PharezonStruggle is an illusion.Victory is in the Qun.Registered Userregular
edited December 2007
The menu, the beginning, virmire to the end of the game are the best parts about ME. There's just something so epic and awe inspiring about it.
I think I've broken one sidequest, UNC: Privateers. Maybe somebody can sort it out.
I think I did it out of sequence. I found the ship and the privateer base with the dead guy inside, wiped the place out, and went back to Garoth in the Citadel. Now the journal tells me to go back to the Strenuus system and search for signs of his brother. I've already found both the ship and Wilhelm's body, I can't activate either, or find anything else in the system.
Is there something else I have to do to finish the mission? I can do without it, but it's at the top of my journal, and I have to look at it every time I check what I'm actually doing.
So I see my favorite alien, Liara, whom I've been excercising my incredible charms upon. We chat a bit, and then...POW! Sex scene hits me like a boot to the head.
Sex.
Bit misty, but clear in all the right spots.
Barry White should've been playing. Point is though, it was a shocker. A good one.
You were imagining them doing it the entire time, and then it happens.
This game is a gift from the future.
She decided to "put our relationship on hold." I was not pleased. So I think I've probably screwed that up for the game.
The same for me, but, from what I understand, she's only putting it on hold until later in the game.
If you got that conversation about waiting then you've done everything you need to trigger it
i came into this thread to ask if there was something i was doing wrong with the fucking mako...
then the thread title i'd been reading for the past so many days finally clicked.
still, that thing is a fucking monstrosity. i hate it with a passion. i was loving mass effect up until that fucking terrible thing. i mean, it looks cool, but i can't control it for shit
i just landed on feros, after dinking around in the citadel for four hours doing sidequests, but this game is fucking awesome.
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i wanted love, i needed love
most of all, most of all
someone said true love was dead
but i'm bound to fall
bound to fall for you
oh what can i do
Abusing the zoom in really helped me. There were a few camps where the enemy didn't even seem to notice me while I picked them off from extreme range with the cannon.
I only found the mako troublesome when you need to do tight u-turns. I thought it felt great to control on the non-story planets, especially the moon. It felt perfect there, which probably explains why it feels so bad on normal worlds or driving down roads.
The mako handles absolutely fine so long as you're not pulling some zany drive-by action. The poor controls are the ill-effect of a system wherein:
+ direction is relative to the turret
+ the turret can swivel independently
+ the camera tracks the turret
What this means is that often times, unless you're shooting straight ahead (i.e. over your mako's "nose"), you'll find yourself in the unenviable possession of a ridiculously unintuitive left stick control scheme. Pushing "up" (i.e. what you would imagine is forward) could mean turning right while pushing "right" might mean putting your mako in reverse. It's a mess...but it *is* workable with practice and some good directional skills.
That said, I highly recommend sniping with the main cannon+zoom feature and then casually driving through the smoking geth remains. When you start shooting things as you drive past...well, that's when you'll lose it.
Was there another level of zoom? I don't even remember. It's only been about 30 days since I put that game down and already I've forgotten how it plays.
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Was there another level of zoom? I don't even remember. It's only been about 30 days since I put that game down and already I've forgotten how it plays.
Yep, if you click the right stick while holding down the L Trigger, you can zoom in twice more.
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Not to sound like a complete rookie, but currently I'm about half way done with the main story line, with a level 30 Soldier. Once I finish the main quest, if I choose to start again from the beginning, am I allowed to reuse the same character I had before, from my previous run?
This is the first RPG I've played since Xenogears (and well, I guess I got through half of FFX). I'm generally not an RPG fan; but the setting was too enticing to ignore. I'm absolutely loving it so far, even though I think I'm making a bunch of RPG mistakes. I took on Noveria first w/ a level 9 soldier. I didn't take a tech person to hack into all those crates, and Benezia (sp?) is currently crushing my pathetic team over and over again.
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This is the first RPG I've played since Xenogears (and well, I guess I got through half of FFX). I'm generally not an RPG fan; but the setting was too enticing to ignore. I'm absolutely loving it so far, even though I think I'm making a bunch of RPG mistakes. I took on Noveria first w/ a level 9 soldier. I didn't take a tech person to hack into all those crates, and Benezia (sp?) is currently crushing my pathetic team over and over again.
I would strongly recommend always keeping someone techie (Kaiden, Garrus or Tali) in the party - not only can they pop open crates, but their tech abilities can overheat enemy weapons, damage shields and even shut down an enemy's Biotic/Tech abilities for a short time.
Benezia is a tough fight. I suggest knocking out the initial couple of commandos and then displacing to a different corner - Benezia will take pot shots at you from her spot, but she can't hit the whole room, and won't move to get a better shot. Don't forget that there are fusion core thingies all along the catwalks, and pitch grenades at bunched-up Geth.
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This is the first RPG I've played since Xenogears (and well, I guess I got through half of FFX). I'm generally not an RPG fan; but the setting was too enticing to ignore. I'm absolutely loving it so far, even though I think I'm making a bunch of RPG mistakes. I took on Noveria first w/ a level 9 soldier. I didn't take a tech person to hack into all those crates, and Benezia (sp?) is currently crushing my pathetic team over and over again.
I would strongly recommend always keeping someone techie (Kaiden, Garrus or Tali) in the party - not only can they pop open crates, but their tech abilities can overheat enemy weapons, damage shields and even shut down an enemy's Biotic/Tech abilities for a short time.
Benezia is a tough fight. I suggest knocking out the initial couple of commandos and then displacing to a different corner - Benezia will take pot shots at you from her spot, but she can't hit the whole room, and won't move to get a better shot. Don't forget that there are fusion core thingies all along the catwalks, and pitch grenades at bunched-up Geth.
I've managed to take out her first few waves of guards; then actually kill Benezia herself. It's her last guards afterword that are mopping my team up. They come from all directions. Right now, I'm just trying to keep my team alive long enough to get to a good corner after I kill Benezia to survive. I've got Wrex and Ashley with me; so I'm trying to spam immunity to outlast them. My team's armor sucks right now (probably because I didn't take a techie to hack open those crates).
So, I just beat the game, the entire end of it was totally epic. I was surprised by how short the main storyline was, though, you can fly through the game if you ignore the side-quests.
I believe I got the paragon/renegade ending. Basically the one where you are a paragon but let the council die. It seems to me like that one is the right ending. What happens in the other endings?
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So, I just beat the game, the entire end of it was totally epic. I was surprised by how short the main storyline was, though, you can fly through the game if you ignore the side-quests.
I believe I got the paragon/renegade ending. Basically the one where you are a paragon but let the council die. It seems to me like that one is the right ending. What happens in the other endings?
My first time I played a Paragon and saved the Council. They are of course tremendously grateful and agree that Humanity has proved to be valuable ally, and will be given a seat on the Council. You are asked for your recommendation, and you can choose between Udina and Anderson. You then set off to find a way to stop the Reapers.
My second playthrough was as a Renegade and I elected to let the Council die. Gleefully, Udina plots to install a new Human Council to fill the void while everyone is still reeling from the realization that the Reapers are real.
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So, I just beat the game, the entire end of it was totally epic. I was surprised by how short the main storyline was, though, you can fly through the game if you ignore the side-quests.
I believe I got the paragon/renegade ending. Basically the one where you are a paragon but let the council die. It seems to me like that one is the right ending. What happens in the other endings?
My first time I played a Paragon and saved the Council. They are of course tremendously grateful and agree that Humanity has proved to be valuable ally, and will be given a seat on the Council. You are asked for your recommendation, and you can choose between Udina and Anderson. You then set off to find a way to stop the Reapers.
My second playthrough was as a Renegade and I elected to let the Council die. Gleefully, Udina plots to install a new Human Council to fill the void while everyone is still reeling from the realization that the Reapers are real.
If you save the council does that affect whether sovereign is destroyed or not, or is choosing not to save the council effectively just choosing whether or not you want them to live?
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Iron WeaselDillon!You son of a bitch!Registered Userregular
So, I just beat the game, the entire end of it was totally epic. I was surprised by how short the main storyline was, though, you can fly through the game if you ignore the side-quests.
I believe I got the paragon/renegade ending. Basically the one where you are a paragon but let the council die. It seems to me like that one is the right ending. What happens in the other endings?
My first time I played a Paragon and saved the Council. They are of course tremendously grateful and agree that Humanity has proved to be valuable ally, and will be given a seat on the Council. You are asked for your recommendation, and you can choose between Udina and Anderson. You then set off to find a way to stop the Reapers.
My second playthrough was as a Renegade and I elected to let the Council die. Gleefully, Udina plots to install a new Human Council to fill the void while everyone is still reeling from the realization that the Reapers are real.
If you save the council does that affect whether sovereign is destroyed or not, or is choosing not to save the council effectively just choosing whether or not you want them to live?
Sovereign is destroyed no matter what. Your choice determines whether or not the Council survives.
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So, I just beat the game, the entire end of it was totally epic. I was surprised by how short the main storyline was, though, you can fly through the game if you ignore the side-quests.
I believe I got the paragon/renegade ending. Basically the one where you are a paragon but let the council die. It seems to me like that one is the right ending. What happens in the other endings?
My first time I played a Paragon and saved the Council. They are of course tremendously grateful and agree that Humanity has proved to be valuable ally, and will be given a seat on the Council. You are asked for your recommendation, and you can choose between Udina and Anderson. You then set off to find a way to stop the Reapers.
My second playthrough was as a Renegade and I elected to let the Council die. Gleefully, Udina plots to install a new Human Council to fill the void while everyone is still reeling from the realization that the Reapers are real.
If you save the council does that affect whether sovereign is destroyed or not, or is choosing not to save the council effectively just choosing whether or not you want them to live?
Saving the council or not doesn't affect Sovereign's destruction.
There are basically 4 endings:
Paragon/paragon where you are good and save the council. Everything looks bright, Humanity and the council are going to work together to save everyone's asses.
Paragon/renegade where you are goody goody and let the council die. Humanity is going to do it's part and rebuild the council to save everyone's asses.
Renegade/renegade where you are a bad ass and let the council die. Humanity will take full control over the council and will make sure everyone knows they are in charge and ready to save everyone's asses.
Renegade/paragon where you are a bad ass that saves the council. The council is scared of the reapers and realizes just how unprepared they were for this kind of action and looks to humanity to be bad asses and save everyone.
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GoodKingJayIIIThey wanna get mygold on the ceilingRegistered Userregular
edited December 2007
Mass Effect thread, page 2? Unacceptable.
Just beat this mother. I loved it, especially
making Saren shoot himself in the face.
It is an incredibly buggy game though. I'm looking forward to a much more stable effort from Bioware next time.
It is an incredibly buggy game though. I'm looking forward to a much more stable effort from Bioware next time.
They don't do stable. They command their games have choppy framerates.
Yar, the framerates were all over the place. And apparently it's even worse if you have an older system like me.*
But I'm not even talking about that. I'm talking about tons of bugs that made me have to reload, like:
- getting stuck on rocks
- frozen in place after a cutscene
- flipping the Mako
These are just a few of things. A lesser man might have buckled under such annoyances, but I enjoy this kind of pain and suffering. Oh, and overall the game was freaking awesome.
*I just found out my system is more than a year old... MFR dates back to 9/2006. I bought the freaking machine in November, you'd think I could get a newer system. So apparently that means semi-crappy disc drives that don't spin the DVDs well (giving me all kinds of Unreadable Disc errors with ME) and no HDMI compatibility. I am actually pretty pissed about getting an older system, and may attempt to take it back to the store I purchased from, despite being well over the 30-day limit.
Oh well... maybe I'll get the red rings and will be able to ship it back for a new system.
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She decided to "put our relationship on hold." I was not pleased. So I think I've probably screwed that up for the game.
PSN: Threeve703
The same for me, but, from what I understand, she's only putting it on hold until later in the game.
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For example, if you park it on top of a bunker then use the *enter bunker* button, when you zone out, the mako is still parked on top and you are on the ground below it
i really screwed up like this and dont feel like going WAY back to my last save and redoing the whole planet
is there a way to jump back to the normandy without being int he mako?
im hosed :P
I think you can return to normandy from your map.
I think you can hit start to enter the menu and hit X to return to the Normandy.
Yea, bad plan believe that second bit. There are numbers on gameFAQs that work for them. Really you need to go to the Citadel, complete no fucking quests you don't have to, then get your party members then complete quests/missions. With Liara it was well well well past the completionist achievement. They're not bugged as the numbers on gamefaqs worked perfectly for me.
My character looked totally badass and fit the male voice so well I didn't even think that it could go horribly wrong.
Fast forward to my second playthrough where I decided to make Shepherd look just like Samuel L. Jackson. Even saying the conversation choices out loud in SLJ's voice before I pick them can only carry the game so far until the standard male voice carries over.
The best part is that when Shepherd looks angry or surprised he looks JUST like Samuel Jackson, but when he starts talking... ugh. I've never been so disappointed in my life.
Is there something else I have to do to finish the mission? I can do without it, but it's at the top of my journal, and I have to look at it every time I check what I'm actually doing.
If you got that conversation about waiting then you've done everything you need to trigger it
then the thread title i'd been reading for the past so many days finally clicked.
still, that thing is a fucking monstrosity. i hate it with a passion. i was loving mass effect up until that fucking terrible thing. i mean, it looks cool, but i can't control it for shit
i just landed on feros, after dinking around in the citadel for four hours doing sidequests, but this game is fucking awesome.
most of all, most of all
someone said true love was dead
but i'm bound to fall
bound to fall for you
oh what can i do
+ direction is relative to the turret
+ the turret can swivel independently
+ the camera tracks the turret
What this means is that often times, unless you're shooting straight ahead (i.e. over your mako's "nose"), you'll find yourself in the unenviable possession of a ridiculously unintuitive left stick control scheme. Pushing "up" (i.e. what you would imagine is forward) could mean turning right while pushing "right" might mean putting your mako in reverse. It's a mess...but it *is* workable with practice and some good directional skills.
That said, I highly recommend sniping with the main cannon+zoom feature and then casually driving through the smoking geth remains. When you start shooting things as you drive past...well, that's when you'll lose it.
AKA: mdraw, dux, milkman
AKA: mdraw, dux, milkman
Not close enough? Click the right stick.
Still not close enough? Click the stick again.
You can get like 8 or 10x zoom from the Mako cannon. Makes sniping with the 150mm really easy.
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AKA: mdraw, dux, milkman
The Division, Warframe (XB1)
GT: Tanith 6227
I would strongly recommend always keeping someone techie (Kaiden, Garrus or Tali) in the party - not only can they pop open crates, but their tech abilities can overheat enemy weapons, damage shields and even shut down an enemy's Biotic/Tech abilities for a short time.
Benezia is a tough fight. I suggest knocking out the initial couple of commandos and then displacing to a different corner - Benezia will take pot shots at you from her spot, but she can't hit the whole room, and won't move to get a better shot. Don't forget that there are fusion core thingies all along the catwalks, and pitch grenades at bunched-up Geth.
The Division, Warframe (XB1)
GT: Tanith 6227
I've managed to take out her first few waves of guards; then actually kill Benezia herself. It's her last guards afterword that are mopping my team up. They come from all directions. Right now, I'm just trying to keep my team alive long enough to get to a good corner after I kill Benezia to survive. I've got Wrex and Ashley with me; so I'm trying to spam immunity to outlast them. My team's armor sucks right now (probably because I didn't take a techie to hack open those crates).
Oh well, live and learn.
My second playthrough was as a Renegade and I elected to let the Council die. Gleefully, Udina plots to install a new Human Council to fill the void while everyone is still reeling from the realization that the Reapers are real.
The Division, Warframe (XB1)
GT: Tanith 6227
The Division, Warframe (XB1)
GT: Tanith 6227
There are basically 4 endings:
Paragon/paragon where you are good and save the council. Everything looks bright, Humanity and the council are going to work together to save everyone's asses.
Paragon/renegade where you are goody goody and let the council die. Humanity is going to do it's part and rebuild the council to save everyone's asses.
Renegade/renegade where you are a bad ass and let the council die. Humanity will take full control over the council and will make sure everyone knows they are in charge and ready to save everyone's asses.
Renegade/paragon where you are a bad ass that saves the council. The council is scared of the reapers and realizes just how unprepared they were for this kind of action and looks to humanity to be bad asses and save everyone.
Just beat this mother. I loved it, especially
It is an incredibly buggy game though. I'm looking forward to a much more stable effort from Bioware next time.
PSN: Threeve703
They don't do stable. They command their games have choppy framerates.
Yar, the framerates were all over the place. And apparently it's even worse if you have an older system like me.*
But I'm not even talking about that. I'm talking about tons of bugs that made me have to reload, like:
- getting stuck on rocks
- frozen in place after a cutscene
- flipping the Mako
These are just a few of things. A lesser man might have buckled under such annoyances, but I enjoy this kind of pain and suffering. Oh, and overall the game was freaking awesome.
*I just found out my system is more than a year old... MFR dates back to 9/2006. I bought the freaking machine in November, you'd think I could get a newer system. So apparently that means semi-crappy disc drives that don't spin the DVDs well (giving me all kinds of Unreadable Disc errors with ME) and no HDMI compatibility. I am actually pretty pissed about getting an older system, and may attempt to take it back to the store I purchased from, despite being well over the 30-day limit.
Oh well... maybe I'll get the red rings and will be able to ship it back for a new system.
PSN: Threeve703
MY BAD, FIX'D!
Also you're an evil, heartless bastard.
Also, I'm glad you think so, I'm going for the renegade look this year.
Everything else has been pretty smooth.
You can still be renegade and get him.