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fine-tuning Your Perfect Shepard.
Each profile would have its own responses.txt
For example, I've played through the first 1/20 of the game 300 times; I *know* what I want Shepard to say to each of those people. On my 301st playthrough, I create a responses.txt (or borrow it from another playthrough) and modify it to my specifications. Shepard then makes those responses for that part of the game, and the wheel re-appears on the first conversation of the 2/20th part.
Er, you do realize Tak works for Bioware, right?
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Fuckin' NERDS.
I think he's just saying that he dislikes the need to explain gameplay mechanics, it usually happening regardless. Personally I like the way that everything's handled. There's a world of intricate mechanics that you can delve into if you want to, but otherwise you can just go all shootey shootey BOOM BOOM.
Why would I buy a game I'm only going to complete once.
Oh.
Well fine then.
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What does that have to do with a newgame+?
Enemies level with you already. If you start at 50 so do the enemies. Yes, you have more skills at your disposable, but by the time you leave Eden Prime you can, if you choose, have most of the skills already anyway.
ME wasn't replayable because it had a NG+. It was replayable because every time you played it you could get a different story, play a different character, save/kill different mates, etc. Added to the fact that there are a lot of different profession choices, the replayability came from that. Not starting at a higher level.
Don't buy it, I don't care. But don't try to act like it's the one feature that makes it not worth it.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
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Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
Om nom nom. I agree wholeheartedly. NG+ was not what made it replayable. I didn't start the fucking game again just so I could put those extra few points into Intimidate. I did it to do something differently. What the fuck, guys?
And that character was a soldier because I like shooters and not spells or whatever stupid crap you people play with.
While it doesn't kill the game or whatever, New Game+ is a feature that will be sorely missed. Any word on why exactly it was taken out, when it was implemented in the first game?
They've said now that you can continue playing once you've beaten the game, and the game doesn't just end at the credits. So there's not much need for it anymore.
Well then.
That's certainly a more-than-fair tradeoff.
People are bitching about that?
I'm fine with them taking it out it does mean that you can't play the main missions again with the same character. I've always like using a different character to make the next play through as different as possible.
"Read twice, post once. It's almost like 'measure twice, cut once' only with reading." - MetaverseNomad
While I do agree for the most part, something must be said in the defense of internal consistency.
Half-Life had a flashlight, and you were constantly running.
Half-Life 2 had a flashlight, and an energy requirement for running - which were tied together.
Half-Life 2: Episode 2 gave the flashlight a separate battery. This bothered* me until the commentary guy said something like "blahblah, we just say around the office that when the train crashed, the suit wires got crossed." - editing the IP to account for it.
I, being a fan of consistency in most things, would prefer that a patch be released for HL2 and Episode 1 giving the flashlight it's own battery; I'm actually ok with the movement restriction as I feel it fits the game better.
Similar issues with the graphical upgrades between the game and the episodes - but they keep claiming they'll update it to all be on the same level.
* and before anybody starts, when I say 'bothered', I mean like one specific piece of dandruff bothers a hobo.
you can kill somebody like a thousand times in one second if you have a minigun
or a wrex-launcher
I did muck around with a bit of NG+ on my Soldier, but that was mostly to get the level 50 achievement, and to ruin a bunch of people's day with said badass weaponry.
So I guess I won't miss the feature much, given that I barely put it to use as it were, but I did like having the option.
Doesn't faze me in the least as to getting ME2 however. Put that shit out on Steam and I'll have my credit card ready to go.
Although in my defense, the council are kind of being dicks.
And yeah, Eleven, that councilor pisses me off. I kind of wish you got to learn more about them though. You never even get to know their names, or much beyond their personality save "Asari girl is fair" and "Turian guy hates your guts."
Seriously, I got so pissed when I found out he bitched me out for saving the Rachni, and he would have bitched me out for not.
I loved the renegade reply to that. "Three... no four."
The Salarian dude seems to kinda like me so he's cool. Which means I'll probably save them this time through.
Their mission statement isn't "take out every threat in the universe", it's "facilitate peace", so I guess it makes sense when they're like "Uh, that might cause a war, so let's avoid thaaaaaaaaat."
Yeah the Turian is the only huge dick. The Asari grates on me a little but she is reasonably level headed, and the Salarian dude isn't bad.
The biggest dick is Udina, all double-crossing you to get in good with the council. That's why
I mean, the game has Shepard use the "Uldina's a politician, so he knows how to be a politician" explanation, don't they? I'm not sure if I think that really holds up.
He is a good politician. That's why he's a dick.
He's not a good politician! He literally said to the council, "I AM SO TIRED OF YOUR ANTI HUMAN BULLSHIT!"
Guy needs a filter.
You should watch CSPAN sometimes. There's a large population in America who think that this is a legitimate way that politicians should behave.
I really hope that your decision on this part plays into ME2. If I could have an Udina free game, it would be glorious. Or at worst, Udina still being an ambassador while Anderson makes him eat it regularly.
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Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
I'd rather he be Anderson's bitch (I said two sugars! Two!), or some random minor politician.
Or dead.
Origin: Galedrid - Nintendo: Galedrid/3222-6858-1045
Blizzard: Galedrid#1367 - FFXIV: Galedrid Kingshand
All making the Doomfist at the bartender, "send your beers in!"
I was thinking getting eaten by the Rachni Queen.
While I think it's bullshit the Volus don't have a representative (They fucking designed the entire galaxy's currency, or whatever, and you're saying they aren't important enough?), I think you might be projecting the BITCH YOU DON'T BELIEVEEEE MEEEE onto them with the all-powerful despots thing. They're not tyrants.
Uldina punched someone? How did I miss this?
You believe a council member should answer directly to their 'homeworld', then? I'm sure that won't create some cross-purposes at any point...
And Udina's methods are out of line if the only style of government you expect is the 'respectable hostility' of US-style government. Parliamentary governments are a tad more in-your-face about th—
Oh! What's all this, then?
The Terra First guy sure seems to suggest that a kind of parliament exists. I wonder if it's possible that Udina spent any time there...
Do not engage the Watermelons.
Perhaps not tyrants, but certainly "enlightened" despots. They routinely send out super soldiers who don't have to obey any laws to do their bidding. They seem to have a veto over other races' foreign policy, and thus have taken their sovereignty. And even a benevolent dictator is still a dictator.
I'm not saying how I think it should be, I'm saying how I presumed it was since there's never any mention of an Asari, Salarian, or Turian. I think cross-purposes are pretty apparent when the Turian guy clearly was slagging along at every turn, whether it's because Shepard is a human or because he still believed in Saren is hard to say.
And, so, the Alliance has some form of parliamentary government. You're saying that excuses Uldina acting completely unprofessional to what constitutes both the highest echelon of Citadel space and our political allies? That's kind of like saying, "Oh! At home we call everyone bitch, so don't be offended, you bitch."
Who's sovereignty did they take? The Batarians? You can't even say they did that. They just didn't support them when they came whining about us.
And Spectres do the Council's will, you could say, but I don't think they really do their bidding. They are there to keep civilization stable, and to do things others couldn't. The Council never said, "Hunt down Saren, kill him, and bring us his head for disobeying us." They left it up to the discretion of the agent. As long as they have stable individuals (and they usually do, since the selection process is so, erm, select) I think that's preferable to some bureaucrat telling them how to do their job when he's not really connected to the situation.
Well, not that it affects your argument, but the suit in HL1 was upgraded in HL2 (HEV mark IV vs mark V)