Well I went back last night and had no problem killing the the men after Li'Ara. I guess the Gods were with me tonight. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --<br><br>Yeah I have more than ten saves already. What can I say- I'm a frequent saver. I make it through a rough area and immediately save- just a habit a have when playing games.<br><br>So how does Bioshock allow you so many saves then? I understand it is a completely different game, but come on- it seems like it should have been doable.
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You know it's entirely possible to save often and not litter yourself with billions of saves.<BR><BR>It's called <I>overwriting an old one.</I>
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Psion:<BR>You know it's entirely possible to save often and not litter yourself with billions of saves.<BR><BR>It's called <I>overwriting an old one.</I> </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Yeah, I'm on my second run through the game and I can't say I've ever been in a situation where I needed to go back more than the 10 saves I have. I tend to keep two-three "current" quick-saves which I cycle through (so I don't get myself stuck, which I really hate) and then keep the last of those and start working the next 3 least recently saved slots.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hast:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Psion:<BR>Tip for Bioware: Next time, <B>seamless transition between decks on the Normandy</B>. None of this elevator crap. The idea of an elevator as the central method of transit between decks on a warship is extraordinarily laughable to begin with. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I think the problem here is that Microsoft are a bunch of confused lemmings on stuff like "don't use the hard drive for caching". Some idiot decided that 2 years ago and now no-one dares to remove that ban.<BR> </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Nah, the Normandy is just extremely poor level design. Based on the rest of the game, there is no reason they could not have all the important stuff in the ship in one area without an elevator.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Psion:<BR>You know it's entirely possible to save often and not litter yourself with billions of saves.<BR><BR>It's called <I>overwriting an old one.</I> </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>You are absolutley correct, except that if I do that I can't go to a specific point in the game and replay it if I wanted to.
So, is anyone else willing to admit how high their save numbers got for a single character?<BR><BR>Mine was 278 saves for a hardcore Adept run on which I did *everything*.
The problem is that you can't name saves, so you'll need to memorize or write down the number – and even then it is pretty easy to accidentaly overwrite a save.
I used one save slot until just before the end of the game... got up to 37 saves I think... did enough content to get the "Completionist" achievement.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Bravehamster:<BR>So, is anyone else willing to admit how high their save numbers got for a single character?<BR><BR>Mine was 278 saves for a hardcore Adept run on which I did *everything*. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I'm at like 114 on my <I>second</I> (yes save numbers are cumulative) playthrough of an Insanity character, where I save way too often. I don't think I broke 50 for my first playthrough and I'd save even less than that if I could go back in time knowing what I was doing.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by hello world:<BR>non generic... starcraft? redneck space marines were pretty cool. The techno-space thing has been done to death. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Rednecks in space is NOT original. Heinlen. When I heard the starcraft voices, all I can think was 'what's with rednecks in space? it's cute but why are they always rednecks?'
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Psion:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Bravehamster:<BR>So, is anyone else willing to admit how high their save numbers got for a single character?<BR><BR>Mine was 278 saves for a hardcore Adept run on which I did *everything*. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I'm at like 114 on my <I>second</I> (yes save numbers are cumulative) playthrough of an Insanity character, where I save way too often. I don't think I broke 50 for my first playthrough and I'd save even less than that if I could go back in time knowing what I was doing. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>It's been a while, but somewhere in the 210-230 range. I <I>hate</I> incrementally numbered saves, it makes me very aware of my game save OCD.<BR><BR>Give me a location, time-stamp (either in-game or real world), and (if necessary) party members. With that information I have all that I need to find my latest save, since I only keep 2-3 save slots it's never that difficult anyway. Hell, ME has a Resume Game that (I assume, never used it) loads up the last save anyway, there just isn't any need to incrementally number the damn things.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Hell, ME has a Resume Game that (I assume, never used it) loads up the last save anyway, there just isn't any need to incrementally number the damn things. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>The couple times I used it, it actually loaded the auto-save, which was older than my last save, I think. I could be mistaken though. At the time, I remember thinking, "That's fucking retarded."
Linked in the news/links section of yesterday's Penny Arcade:<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I know that they all probably assume they have better, much more important, urgent, timely, things to campaign on, but I sure would like to get their individual takes on the new video game that one company is marketing to fifteen year old boys. <BR><BR>It's called "Mass Effect" and it allows its players - universally male no doubt - to engage in the most realistic sex acts ever conceived. One can custom design the shape, form, bodies, race, hair style, breast size of the images they wish to "engage" and then watch in crystal clear, LCD, 54 inch screen, HD clarity as the video game "persons" hump in every form, format, multiple, gender-oriented possibility they can think of. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>He must've shelled out for a special edition, neh?<BR><BR>I'm particularly amused (and bemused) at the distinction between 'shape', 'form', 'bodies', and 'breast size'.
What achievement is required to unlock shape, form, body and breast size custimization? I didn't see those options when I was creating my character and now I feel like I'm missing out.<BR><BR>I want to play the game he is reviewing.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Semi On:<BR>What achievement is required to unlock shape, form, body and breast size custimization? I didn't see those options when I was creating my character and now I feel like I'm missing out.<BR><BR>I want to play the game he is reviewing. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Indeed. My female Shepard needs *something* to make up for the fact that I couldn't get her eyes to come out symmetric.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">No, it loads the most recent of any save, not auto-saves. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Yeah, the resume works right, but if you die and go to the load screen game, for some retarded reason it puts the last autosave ahead of your manual saves in the list. It only costs a few seconds of time to reload again, but it was still intensely frustrating to forget to go down one and call up an older autosave since it was on top.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Lord_Byron:<BR>the fact that I couldn't get her eyes to come out symmetric. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>lol, and I thought I screwed up something with my dude. From some angles he looks like Bronson after being kicked in the head by a horse.<BR><BR>As for that article, I hope Bioware sues the living crap out of that dipshiat.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by NervousEnergy:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">No, it loads the most recent of any save, not auto-saves. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Yeah, the resume works right, but if you die and go to the load screen game, for some retarded reason it puts the last autosave ahead of your manual saves in the list. It only costs a few seconds of time to reload again, but it was still intensely frustrating to forget to go down one and call up an older autosave since it was on top. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Also, using that option really highlights the point that Mass Effect doesn't autosave nearly often enough. I got better about saving more myself, and now on my second run through I usually know where I might die and where I'll be safe, but I've still had some times where I've lost a fair bit of progress.
So...I'm in my second run through and I'm finding that there are things that I wanted to do differently to see how they turned out, and I just couldn't bring myself to do them. <br><br>1. Romance sub-plot with Ashley instead of Liara - For a couple reasons. First, I just don't like Ashley. Her character is annoying and bigoted. They gave her backstory to explain it, but I still just don't like her. Secondly...I don't have to use the FUCKING elevator on the Normandy to talk to Liara. <br><br>2. Kill the captive alien on Noveria. I was totally going to, but I couldn't do it. So instead, I let her live, and then instead of being nice to the Council about it, I was just rude to them. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --
Half the time I just ignore the council anyway. "Want me to patch you throu-" NO I DO NOT, JOKER. I mean it's basically designed so no matter what you do the Turian will get angry and the Salarian or the Asari will praise you. I justify this by thinking if it's really important they can call me over the space hologramphone or whatever, and if Bioware didn't program that in there it's not my fault. :v<BR><BR>However if you go Renegade at the end of Noveria (you know what I mean) the dialogue response to the Turian is absolutely awesome. So that one I always connect through to the Council.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Mojo-jojo:<BR>I was totally going to, but I couldn't do it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Play on hardcore or insanity and you will find justifying that becomes extremely easy out of raw frustration at those damn acid spitballs.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Psion:<BR>Play on hardcore or insanity and you will find justifying that becomes extremely easy out of raw frustration at those damn acid spitballs. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>This second run through is on Hardcore, but it's a New Game+, so it's mitigated by my equipment and levels. I didn't have much trouble with the acid. <BR><BR>Hmmm...that makes me think...can you get the Hardcore/Insanity achievements on a New Game+ or does it have to be a completely new character?
Yes, you can get them on a new game+<BR><BR>It's really not so much the acid blobs themselves as it is the enemies who spit them have this problem of <I>refusing to die</I>. This is far more an issue on Insanity, I've found, regardless of being at level 1 or level 60.
So I finished a new+ play through to get the Asari and Krogan ally achievements, which I did. I still only got to level 59 though, so I'm a little annoyed. It's unlikely I'll play again to try to get that and the Insanity play through achievement. Those two plus Shotgun Mastery are the only ones I didn't get, but screw 'em.<BR><BR>I have not successfully gotten the Ashley romance to go though, on two attempts. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, both times I just ended up with Liara coming to my room alone. Hell with her though.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PerfectCr:<BR>What is a new game "+"? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Beat the game, start a new campaign, and it gives you the option of using a pre-existing save of a completed game. Your character will have all the talents and gear from when they beat the game, making Hardcore difficulty...doable.
Oh. Well I'm playing through on Hardcore and having had any major issues with difficulty, this is my first time through. (15 hours in now)
Logging in to play Mass Effect was telling me there is new downloadable content. Does it always say that or is there something afoot?
It's never said that for me.<BR><BR>I just put the disc in, though, and booted it up -- no DLC popup for me. Where in the process did you get it?<BR><BR>I went to the menu, hit start, resumed my game, nothing.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PerfectCr:<BR>Oh. Well I'm playing through on Hardcore and having had any major issues with difficulty, this is my first time through. (15 hours in now) </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>You aren't on Hardcore if it's your first time through. You have to finish it once to unlock HC.
It's been saying that to me since Day 1, which in my case was like five days before the street date.
Oh, maybe it's Veteran then? Whatever the hardest difficulty is.<BR><BR>Can someone tell me (other than achievements) why I need to do the side planets. Damn they are boring. This Mako diving around cookie cutter planets is getting old FAST. I really like this game but my gosh are those parts B O R I N G !
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PerfectCr:<BR>Oh, maybe it's Veteran then? Whatever the hardest difficulty is. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>That's not the hardest difficulty overall, only the hardest during a first play-through. There are two harder difficulty levels beyond that.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Can someone tell me (other than achievements) why I need to do the side planets. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>You don't. They're optional. Some people think they're boring, others thing they're great. It's important that they're there, however, to create a sense of galactic size and exploratory potential.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by senduran:<BR>It's important that they're there, however, to create a sense of galactic size and exploratory potential. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>That is their purpose of course, but the debate will rage on as to whether they succeed in doing that or not. Personally I don't think so for the simple fact that they're almost all cookie cutter clones of each other scattered across the galaxy.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Shrubber:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by senduran:<BR>It's important that they're there, however, to create a sense of galactic size and exploratory potential. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>That is their purpose of course, but the debate will rage on as to whether they succeed in doing that or not. Personally I don't think so for the simple fact that they're almost all cookie cutter clones of each other scattered across the galaxy. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I'm not a huge RPG guy, but I understand the genre. I know not every side quest has to relate to the main storyline, nor would I expect that. But I do expect the side quests to be interesting. I appreciate that Bioware was trying to expand the universe and make it "feel bigger", but the planets are indeed cookie cutter designs with minimal variation. I did two of them and now I am so disgusted I am not sure if I will complete the rest of them. Which is a shame because I really would like to. Plus, the controls on the Mako are horrible.
The things you'll primarily miss out on are experience and gear. By passing those levels, you'll miss out on most of the experience and wind up fairly low powered compared to those that finish it. Personally, I'm a completionist in general and a horder specifically so that goes against my OCD nature.
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<br>That is their purpose of course, but the debate will rage on as to whether they succeed in doing that or not. Personally I don't think so for the simple fact that they're almost all cookie cutter clones of each other scattered across the galaxy. </div>
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<br><br>I don't care at all that the physical locations are 'cookie cutter'. Then again, I'm used to jRPGs where 99% of battles take place essentially in the exact same place (the battle takes place in a special battle-only map) and there's little or no story reason for them to occur. You do them to level grind so you're actually good enough to complete the main quest battles.<br><br>ME, on the other hand, doesn't require any level grinding (the main quest battles scale to you), but if you want to increase in level/money/items and explore you're given lots of really cool story reasons to do so in the form of kick-ass UNC missions. Having your typical 'random' type battles book-ended by Lance Hendrikson talking to you is something you just don't get anywhere else -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif -- -- View image here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/forum/smilies/biggrin.gif --
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<br>That is their purpose of course, but the debate will rage on as to whether they succeed in doing that or not. Personally I don't think so for the simple fact that they're almost all cookie cutter clones of each other scattered across the galaxy. </div>
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<br><br>I don't care at all that the physical locations are 'cookie cutter'. Then again, I'm used to jRPGs where 99% of battles take place essentially in the exact same place (the battle takes place in a special battle-only map) and there's little or no story reason for them to occur. You do them to level grind so you're actually good enough to complete the main quest battles.<br><br>ME, on the other hand, doesn't require any level grinding (the main quest battles scale to you), but if you want to increase in level/money/items and explore you're given lots of really cool story reasons to do so in the form of kick-ass UNC missions. Having your typical 'random' type battles book-ended by Lance Hendrikson talking to you is something you just don't get anywhere else -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif -- -- View image here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/forum/smilies/biggrin.gif --
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