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Mass Effect Thread: LegionOverlordEDI3way.txt

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Blake T wrote: »
    Hey, I said the combat was shit.

    I know, I saw.


    Good man.

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  • Wrench N RocketsWrench N Rockets Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Pharezon wrote: »
    Uh, there isn't a new shotgun.

    None of the current shotguns have double barrels. The shotgun on Shepard's back does. It's something new at least.

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  • ZeroFillZeroFill Feeling much better. A nice, green leaf.Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    fuck that, mass effect is a console series

    also, my computer recently crashed and I would have lost all of my mass effect shit if I had followed this advice so I'M SAYING YOUR ADVICE IS BAD

    The Geebs That Is A Chump

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    For anyone that wants new guns to play with, I just saw a new DLC called the Firepower Pack in XBL's ME2 add-on area for 160 points. The new guns sound fun. That is if you like...
    ...a pistol with a laser-sight, an Assault Rifle that's half Sniper Rifle, and a three-barreled Geth shotgun with what sounds like a Carnage-like charge-n-fire ability.

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I do like all of those things.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    oh goodness me!

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  • That Dave FellaThat Dave Fella Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    So when I traded in my Xbox 360 for the Slim I gave in my HD as well so I don't have any new game plus or whatever.

    If I just start from scratch what are my options for choosing what happened in the first Mass Effect?

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    So when I traded in my Xbox 360 for the Slim I gave in my HD as well so I don't have any new game plus or whatever.

    If I just start from scratch what are my options for choosing what happened in the first Mass Effect?

    there are none

    zero

    you get the same game no matter what

    you get to pick your origin story bits (spacer/colonist/earthborn and war hero/survivor/ruthless) but that is it

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  • That Dave FellaThat Dave Fella Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    What, I remember confirming what happened? Like Wrex surviving or whatever.

    Maybe I'm remembering wrong. I really don't want to play through the first one, again.

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Go ask for it back.

    (like offer money and stuff)

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    What, I remember confirming what happened? Like Wrex surviving or whatever.

    Maybe I'm remembering wrong. I really don't want to play through the first one, again.

    oh, you get to "confirm" what happened on a new game+ from the first one

    but you don't get to change anything except whether Udina or Anderson is the councilor

    when you start a brand new ME2 dude that isn't a ME1 import, everything is always:
    wrex dies, rachni die, you never did any sidequests, all the colonists on feros died, etc.

    bioware considers it the "path of least resistance" but it's basically a dickheaded Renegade run

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  • That Dave FellaThat Dave Fella Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    They'd have wiped it.

    Oh well, looks like I'll be playing through Mass Effect 1 again at some stage.

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    They'd have wiped it.

    Oh well, looks like I'll be playing through Mass Effect 1 again at some stage.

    Nothing wrong with that, especially if you want to be a proper General in ME3.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    playing through ME1 again after playing ME2 is downright punishing

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    playing through ME1 again after playing ME2 is downright punishing

    Sad but true. I like the more epic and open feel of the universe, but the gameplay is miles worse than ME2. So hard to go back to ME1. :(

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    so, i bought the new guns

    ain't tried the new assault rifle yet (playing a sentinel right now) but i've tried the new pistol and shotgun

    the new pistol is basically like the Carnifex with a laser sight, so that's pretty rad

    and the new shotgun is GODLIKE

    triple-barreled geth plasma shotgun with crazy knockback and accuracy you can snipe with

    the gun is almost OP it's ridiculous

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    so, i bought the new guns

    ain't tried the new assault rifle yet (playing a sentinel right now) but i've tried the new pistol and shotgun

    the new pistol is basically like the Carnifex with a laser sight, so that's pretty rad

    and the new shotgun is GODLIKE

    triple-barreled geth plasma shotgun with crazy knockback and accuracy you can snipe with

    the gun is almost OP it's ridiculous

    this out for the PC version yet? i didn't see it on Bioware's site when i checked earlier.

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Pony wrote: »
    so, i bought the new guns

    ain't tried the new assault rifle yet (playing a sentinel right now) but i've tried the new pistol and shotgun

    the new pistol is basically like the Carnifex with a laser sight, so that's pretty rad

    and the new shotgun is GODLIKE

    triple-barreled geth plasma shotgun with crazy knockback and accuracy you can snipe with

    the gun is almost OP it's ridiculous

    this out for the PC version yet? i didn't see it on Bioware's site when i checked earlier.

    don't know

    the website doesn't even mention it, and you can't even see it available in-game on the Xbox

    but if you go to the Xbox Live website, you can buy it through there, which is what i did

    someone at MS probably boned up and this was likely not supposed to be released yet

    but, i have it now, it's mine 8-)

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Orca wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    playing through ME1 again after playing ME2 is downright punishing

    Sad but true. I like the more epic and open feel of the universe, but the gameplay is miles worse than ME2. So hard to go back to ME1. :(

    I just play it on casual now when I replay ME1. Then it doesn't matter how many bullets my team mates choose to put into walls/floors/ceilings/Shepard. Though it does make the end fights against Saren ridiculous.

    "You cannot fight this Shepard, Sovereign is unstoppab-"

    *pew pew* "Sorry, you were saying?"

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    smof wrote: »
    Orca wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    playing through ME1 again after playing ME2 is downright punishing

    Sad but true. I like the more epic and open feel of the universe, but the gameplay is miles worse than ME2. So hard to go back to ME1. :(

    I just play it on casual now when I replay ME1. Then it doesn't matter how many bullets my team mates choose to put into walls/floors/ceilings/Shepard. Though it does make the end fights against Saren ridiculous.

    "You cannot fight this Shepard, Sovereign is unstoppab-"

    *pew pew* "Sorry, you were saying?"

    same

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2010
    playing on casual should save Jenkins

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  • That Dave FellaThat Dave Fella Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Yeh, I'll probably just rush through it on casual.

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    using console cheats in ME1 makes the experience slightly less painful, too.

    i'm probably going to do a FemShep run in ME1 next. i'm slightly curious how romancing Garrus even works. i'm Turian-Curious.

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2010
    using console cheats in ME1 makes the experience slightly less painful, too.

    i'm probably going to do a FemShep run in ME1 next. i'm slightly curious how romancing Garrus even works. i'm Turian-Curious.

    according to mordin, chafing is a concern

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Nerdgasmic wrote: »
    using console cheats in ME1 makes the experience slightly less painful, too.

    i'm probably going to do a FemShep run in ME1 next. i'm slightly curious how romancing Garrus even works. i'm Turian-Curious.

    according to mordin, chafing is a concern

    also, Turians have a different amino acid make-up than humans, which means a Turian's bodily fluids are toxic to humans and can cause anaphylaxis

    to quote Mordin directly

    "Do not... ingest."

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    what's with bioware releasing all the OP weapons on DLC

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2010
    bioware's done a pretty good job of making their paid DLC cheap, at least

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  • UsagiUsagi Nah Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    using console cheats in ME1 makes the experience slightly less painful, too.

    i'm probably going to do a FemShep run in ME1 next. i'm slightly curious how romancing Garrus even works. i'm Turian-Curious.

    So if I'm just playing ME1 for the first time is it worth it to play sans-cheats for the full experience, or should I just give in and use cheats so I don't scratch my eyeballs out?

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    do a legit playthrough

    it's only hard to deal with after glorifying in ME2's glow

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Dubh wrote: »
    do a legit playthrough

    it's only hard to deal with after glorifying in ME2's glow

    pretty much this. cheats are only for when you've already finished ME1, need a new base character to import into ME2, and can't deal with going back to ME1's game mechanics.

    when i first played ME1 i had a lot of fun, but ME2 has spoiled the hell out of me.

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Usagi wrote: »
    using console cheats in ME1 makes the experience slightly less painful, too.

    i'm probably going to do a FemShep run in ME1 next. i'm slightly curious how romancing Garrus even works. i'm Turian-Curious.

    So if I'm just playing ME1 for the first time is it worth it to play sans-cheats for the full experience, or should I just give in and use cheats so I don't scratch my eyeballs out?

    well it's not the sort of game where it's cheats that you need to make it better, like no-clipping past a really obnoxious puzzle or something. i mean halfway through the game money becomes meaningless and you get the best kind of weapons and armour and mods, so it's very hard to find combat challenging.

    it's just an awkward and unpolished game with some real gems of setting and characters and writing.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    speaking of obnoxious puzzles

    I just realized there was no towers of hanoi in dragon age/ME2

    I feel kinda cheated

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    there was a tower of hanoi in dragon age 8-)

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2010
    man, that scene where you finally catch up with thane at the penthouse is amazing no matter how many times I see it.

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    wait tower of hanoi what

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  • MeldingMelding Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    why do i keep playing on insanity? i am at the ship part and i keep getting ruined.

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  • BirudojinBirudojin Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Dubh wrote: »
    do a legit playthrough

    it's only hard to deal with after glorifying in ME2's glow

    I keep trying to do playthroughs of ME1 at work, both to build up my library of savegames for testing with and to keep it fresh in my mind. It's so hard to do now :( Sadly, saves from retail kits won't work on our xboxes, so I can't just pillage websites for savegames either.

    It doesn't help that I keep accidentally pressing the wrong button and holstering my weapon instead of punching enemies right in front of me, or forgetting how to use bound powers and things..

    Hopefully I'll be saying the same thing about ME2 later on :D "This game is so bad! The new one I'm working on is so much better!"

    Also, <3 the Mattock - it's fantastic for playing with if you can get headshots reliably.

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  • DidgeridooDidgeridoo Flighty Dame Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Langly wrote: »
    wait tower of hanoi what

    You know, that stupid stacking game that every adventure/RPG tries to cram in as a puzzle

    Tower of Hanoi

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  • OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    using console cheats in ME1 makes the experience slightly less painful, too.

    i'm probably going to do a FemShep run in ME1 next. i'm slightly curious how romancing Garrus even works. i'm Turian-Curious.

    Don't swallow.

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