Mass Effect

[Paul M]

Go back ten years and I'd call Mass Effect, "unfinished." Today however we get games that are so much worse I have to just say that ME needed more, "polish." It seems like they intended a lot more with a lot of things and couldn't get it all done in time, so in that regard I think they did a good job of tying things up well enough.<BR><BR>Someone needs to explain to me why there are Thresher Maws strewn throughout the known universe though. Are they the true master race? Did they create the Reapers?<BR><BR>Also I have to say that I'm still very disappointed with the resolution options on Feros. To me nothing you are able to do at the end there is a satisfying option for a Paragon. I don't want to spoil anything, V qba'g guvax gur bayl bcgvba fubhyq or xvyyvat n 50,000+ lrne byq vagryyvtrag perngher.

 

[Arleban]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Shrubber:<BR>Go back ten years and I'd call Mass Effect, "unfinished." Today however we get games that are so much worse I have to just say that ME needed more, "polish." It seems like they intended a lot more with a lot of things and couldn't get it all done in time, so in that regard I think they did a good job of tying things up well enough.<BR><BR>Someone needs to explain to me why there are Thresher Maws strewn throughout the known universe though. Are they the true master race? Did they create the Reapers?<BR><BR>Also I have to say that I'm still very disappointed with the resolution options on Feros. To me nothing you are able to do at the end there is a satisfying option for a Paragon. I don't want to spoil anything, V qba'g guvax gur bayl bcgvba fubhyq or xvyyvat n 50,000+ lrne byq vagryyvtrag perngher. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>The travelling species of the galaxy are the Thresher Maw's Johnny Appleseeds. Really.

 

[Flipside79]

Despite some obvious flaws and whatnot, this is still one of the the best games I have ever played, easily in my top 10. It ranks up there in the engrossment factor for me with things like the Hero's Quest/Quest for Glory series. Surely a lot of that is nostalgia talking, and if I played them again I would not be as impressed, but ME is giving me that same feeling as those games did when I was a kid. Every time I open the galaxy map and that music starts playing, my heart kinds skips a beat. Probably because I am a total sci-fi nerd, and always dream of what it will be like to explore other worlds, and stare at the sky with my telescope all the time.<BR><BR>Another thing, I generally HATE RPG's, I find them very boring, even games like Oblivion, but for some reason ME just sucks me in. With KOTOR I liked MOST of the game, but I found the combat boring, and the game started to get a little dull about half way through, and I was only finishing it to say I finished it. With ME, while the combat isn't great, it removes the traditional RPG combat that I disliked in other games.<BR><BR>I am the type of gamer that you are more likely to find playing a sports/racing/shooter than you will any kind of RPG, yet I LOVE this game.

 

[Semi On]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">It seems like they intended a lot more with a lot of things and couldn't get it all done in time, so in that regard I think they did a good job of tying things up well enough. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Much like Oblivion, I have a sneaking suspicion that they purposely left some open doors for expansions.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Someone needs to explain to me why there are Thresher Maws strewn throughout the known universe though. Are they the true master race? Did they create the Reapers? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>This was answered in one of the side quests, but you may not have seen it if you never played as a Sole Survivor. <BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I don't want to spoil anything, V qba'g guvax gur bayl bcgvba fubhyq or xvyyvat n 50,000+ lrne byq vagryyvtrag perngher. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>1) I'm not convinced it's dead.<BR><BR>2) There are some people you just can't reason with. I see no reason that can't also be true, at some point, in an interstellar race to save humanity.

 

[Semi On]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">No I do agree that there is a very minor "exploration" reward on every planet; but for the most part there is no way for you to tell where those "hidden treasures" will be and for the vast majority of the finds all your getting are minerals. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>If they tell you where it will be, how is it exploration?<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">You know like you get one of those Alliance side mission saying one of their bases is under constant attack; you land on the planet and make contact with the garrison; and you have to go out and find roving bands of pirates which drop clues as to where the main base is; and then you assault it. At least something like that would have been more engaging than what was typically on a random planet. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>While the clues were more of direct answers, you just described the Cerberus missions.

 

[Hurricane]

I agree with shrubber.<BR><BR>Considering that both Shepard and Saren were looking for the same thing from it I think their should have been a branch where Shepard is able to convince it it's not like Saren.<BR><BR>Actually it should have been obvious since Saren had an army of Geth which it could identify and you were in a completely organic crew.

 

[Magus`]

Arleban: I would advise checking GameFaqs (especially the Achievement Guide) for lists of missions/etc and make sure you have as much as possible. There are some on Feros or Noveria that are possible to miss, which would make getting the Asari Ally harder to get.

 

[Semi On]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Considering that both Shepard and Saren were looking for the same thing from it I think their should have been a branch where Shepard is able to convince it it's not like Saren.<BR><BR>Actually it should have been obvious since Saren had an army of Geth which it could identify and you were in a completely organic crew. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>It's their story. They gave you such options in several other places in the game, so it's not like you never get to talk an enemy down. Basically, you're bothered because the entity didn't have a sufficiently flexible personality?<BR><BR>It could be argued that the entity only agreed to help Saren <I>because</I> of the presence of the synthetics and some memory of the last time synthetics marched across its soil. Without that fear, it had no reason to help you at all.

 

[Paul M]

<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>It could be argued that the entity only agreed to help Saren <I>because</I> of the presence of the synthetics and some memory of the last time synthetics marched across its soil. Without that fear, it had no reason to help you at all. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>That would be story telling, and it would be perfectly acceptable. That's my point about it, we get thrust in front of this thing that is immense in it's potential impact, and get, "Hi. Oh you don't want to help? Die!" It just seems like an utter waste to treat something that has 50,000 years of back story like that.<BR><BR>That's all.

 

[Hurricane]

Well yeah it did bother me a bit because it was one of the few scenarios that you couldn't either intimidate or convince someone one way or another.<BR><BR>Cyhf V xvaqn gubhtug gung gur zvaq pbageby gur Gubevna unq jnf fvzvyne gb vaqbpgevangvba. Vg jnf cbffvoyr gur Erncref nccebcevngrq guvf cbjre gb pbageby betnavpf yvxr gurl qvq jvgu gur Cebgurnaf. Fb jura Fnera tnir vg gur nfnev nf n tvsg vg fubhyq unir abgvprq gung vg qvfcynlrq gur fnzr punenpgrevfgvpf nf gur pbybavfgf. Orvat gung vg erzrzorerq jung gur erncref qvq naq gung vg jnf n fragvrag betnavp yvsrsbez vg jbhyq unir unq zber zbgvingvba gb fgevxr n qrny jvgu Furcneq. Abg gb zragvba gur snpg gung vg jnf orvat uryq Ubfgntr ol Ovanel Uryvk(vg fubhyq unir ernyvfrq gung vg jnf ng yrnfg). Znlor zl ceboyrz vf gung V tnir gur gubevna gbb zhpu perqvg sbe orvat na rba fcnaavat yvsr sbez.

 

[Semi On]

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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">That's my point about it, we get thrust in front of this thing that is immense in it's potential impact, and get, "Hi. Oh you don't want to help? Die!" It just seems like an utter waste to treat something that has 50,000 years of back story like that. </div>
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<br><br>As I recall, it was closer to, "Hi, can you help me?"<br><br>NO!!! DIE PUNY MEATBAG!!!<br><br>/me pulls out shotgun<br><br>And fleshing out the story a bit in your own head is part of role playing. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --<br><br>At that point, you weren't supposed to know what the Reapers are in the first place. If the entity explained what was going on, the revelation on Virmire wouldn't have been as impactful.

 

[Semi On]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Well yeah it did bother me a bit because it was one of the few scenarios that you couldn't either intimidate or convince someone one way or another. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>That your mind tricks will not work on a 50,000 year old entity capable of mass mental manipulation shouldn't be all that surprising...<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Cyhf V xvaqn gubhtug gung gur zvaq pbageby gur Gubevna unq jnf fvzvyne gb vaqbpgevangvba. Vg jnf cbffvoyr gur Erncref nccebcevngrq guvf cbjre gb pbageby betnavpf yvxr gurl qvq jvgu gur Cebgurnaf. Fb jura Fnera tnir vg gur nfnev nf n tvsg vg fubhyq unir abgvprq gung vg qvfcynlrq gur fnzr punenpgrevfgvpf nf gur pbybavfgf. Orvat gung vg erzrzorerq jung gur erncref qvq naq gung vg jnf n fragvrag betnavp yvsrsbez vg jbhyq unir unq zber zbgvingvba gb fgevxr n qrny jvgu Furcneq. Abg gb zragvba gur snpg gung vg jnf orvat uryq Ubfgntr ol Ovanel Uryvk(vg fubhyq unir ernyvfrq gung vg jnf ng yrnfg). Znlor zl ceboyrz vf gung V tnir gur gubevna gbb zhpu perqvg sbe orvat na rba fcnaavat yvsr sbez. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I didn't exactly see a lab or genetic sequencer handy for it to do a lot of investigation. We have no idea what form its intelligence takes. To be honest, I think you just look for reasons to complain about this game.

 

[Hurricane]

Umm do you even read what I post or do you just flame on GP?<BR><BR>I stated that maybe I gave it more credit than it deserves; I just found it silly that it was literally, <BR><BR>"hey can you help me?"<BR><BR>"NO die meat sack!!!!"<BR><BR>"Wait can't we talk this out?"<BR><BR>"Like I said foo!!! DIE!!!!"<BR><BR>Plus I don't think Charm or Intimidate are powers; I thought they were more like charisma modifiers. SO it's not like the Jedi Mind Trick where you go, "These aren't the droids your looking for." with the actual droids sitting next to you. I thought it was more along the lines of the force of your personality can swing people one way or another.<BR><BR>I mean shoot you could reason with the Raichni Queen which was concidered more barbaric all around.

 

[Zaskar]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Cyhf V xvaqn gubhtug gung gur zvaq pbageby gur Gubevna unq jnf fvzvyne gb vaqbpgevangvba. Vg jnf cbffvoyr gur Erncref nccebcevngrq guvf cbjre gb pbageby betnavpf yvxr gurl qvq jvgu gur Cebgurnaf. Fb jura Fnera tnir vg gur nfnev nf n tvsg vg fubhyq unir abgvprq gung vg qvfcynlrq gur fnzr punenpgrevfgvpf nf gur pbybavfgf. Orvat gung vg erzrzorerq jung gur erncref qvq naq gung vg jnf n fragvrag betnavp yvsrsbez vg jbhyq unir unq zber zbgvingvba gb fgevxr n qrny jvgu Furcneq. Abg gb zragvba gur snpg gung vg jnf orvat uryq Ubfgntr ol Ovanel Uryvk(vg fubhyq unir ernyvfrq gung vg jnf ng yrnfg). Znlor zl ceboyrz vf gung V tnir gur gubevna gbb zhpu perqvg sbe orvat na rba fcnaavat yvsr sbez. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Bs pbhefr lbh ner, vgf n shpxvat cynag -- zhpu bs jung vg qbrf vf vafgvapg naq abg vagryyvtrag orunivbe. Guvf jnf fnvq va gur tnzr.

 

[Zaskar]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I mean shoot you could reason with the Raichni Queen which was concidered more barbaric all around. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Space fairing race Vs. a fucking plant GoGoGo!

 

[Hurricane]

Wait the Raichni were space fairing? I kinda thought they were like The Aliens from the movies; evil alien cockroaches.

 

[Arleban]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Magus`:<BR>Arleban: I would advise checking GameFaqs (especially the Achievement Guide) for lists of missions/etc and make sure you have as much as possible. There are some on Feros or Noveria that are possible to miss, which would make getting the Asari Ally harder to get. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Yeah, I'll go and take a look. I just don't want to play through with only 2 team-mates for those specific achievements to get nothing by the end of the game. Thanks.

 

[Magus`]

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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Semi On:<br>As I recall, it was closer to, "Hi, can you help me?"<br><br>NO!!! DIE PUNY MEATBAG!!!<br><br>/me pulls out shotgun </div>
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<br>You are correct. The other interpretation is quite flawed -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --<br><br><blockquote class="ip-ubbcode-quote">
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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hurricane:<br>I stated that maybe I gave it more credit than it deserves; I just found it silly that it was literally,<br><br>"hey can you help me?"<br><br>"NO die meat sack!!!!"<br><br>"Wait can't we talk this out?"<br><br>"Like I said foo!!! DIE!!!!" </div>
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<br>What, you think a thing that's been alive for 50,000 years can't develop an ego? It didn't consider you worthy of equal standing and wanted you dead, so why would it reason with you? Your stance is kind of silly.<br><br><blockquote class="ip-ubbcode-quote">
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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hurricane:<br>I mean shoot you could reason with the Raichni Queen which was concidered more barbaric all around. </div>
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<br>The Rachni queen was not barbaric at all, so yet another silly point.

 

[Arleban]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hurricane:<BR>Wait the Raichni were space fairing? I kinda thought they were like The Aliens from the movies; evil alien cockroaches. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I am a bit confused on this as well. I thought they were great stowaways, but at Noveria they did say that the ship that the queen egg was found on was a Rachni ship...

 

[Zaskar]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hurricane:<BR>Wait the Raichni were space fairing? I kinda thought they were like The Aliens from the movies; evil alien cockroaches. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Yah, your perception of them is way off. I think the main thing with that whole bit was everyones perception was off and bad shit happened.

 

[Zaskar]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I am a bit confused on this as well. I thought they were great stowaways, but at Noveria they did say that the ship that the queen egg was found on was a Rachni ship... </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>Today, yes<BR><BR>Gur xebtba ba orunys bs gur pbhapvy jntrq jne ba gur enpuav sbe 200 lrnef jvcvat gur enpr bhg. Gur enpuav jurer fcnpr snvevat naq ner irel vagryyvtrag. Ubj ryfr jbhyq gurl xabj jurer gur Zh erynl jnf?<BR><BR>Gur enpuav dhrra va gur yno jnf gur ynfg bs ure xvaq. Fnena hfrq ure gb gel gb jrncbavmr ure bssfcevat.

 

[arhra]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Arleban:<BR>I had better be getting my goddamn Asari and Quarian achievements soon. I have run every assignment, explored every system in every whatever on the map, as well as completed the citadel, Artemis Tau, Feros, and Noveria. I made sure to do just enough on Citadel to be able to leave, took Tali, got Liara as soon as possible on Artemis Tau, and then came back for the citadel quests. I even received the completionist award for doing most of the game...which doesn't really make sense.<BR><BR>edit: I'm sure I read someone had earlier had their achievements with Liara trigger when still on Noveria. It just shocked me a bit last night when I finished it, I'm back on the ship, and no trigger. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>It triggered for me shortly after finishing Virmire (which i did last, out of the main story planets), when i was finishing up a few of the sidequests on the Citadel (i think it was after finally dealing with The Fan).<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I am a bit confused on this as well. I thought they were great stowaways, but at Noveria they did say that the ship that the queen egg was found on was a Rachni ship... </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>You weren't paying enough attention to (or missed entirely) the lore about the Rachni Wars - they had a massive interstellar empire, used mass relays, etc, before the Krogan wiped them all out (they attacked when a survey team from one of the Citadel races opened a primary relay linking to their space, which had been isolated and cut off up until that point).<BR><BR>If they didn't have any way of getting around by themselves, the Rachni War would have been a whole hell of a lot shorter and less bloody... (just quarantine any planets they're on, station garrisons in orbit, forbid anyone from landing, and blow up anyone who tries).

 

[Arleban]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Zaskar:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I am a bit confused on this as well. I thought they were great stowaways, but at Noveria they did say that the ship that the queen egg was found on was a Rachni ship... </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>Today, yes<BR><BR>Gur xebtba ba orunys bs gur pbhapvy jntrq jne ba gur enpuav sbe 200 lrnef jvcvat gur enpr bhg. Gur enpuav jurer fcnpr snvevat naq ner irel vagryyvtrag. Ubj ryfr jbhyq gurl xabj jurer gur Zh erynl jnf?<BR><BR>Gur enpuav dhrra va gur yno jnf gur ynfg bs ure xvaq. Fnena hfrq ure gb gel gb jrncbavmr ure bssfcevat. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Gung'f n tbbq cbvag. Gur Enpuav dhrra qvq fnl gung onpx gura (gur Enpuav jnef, V'z thrffvat) gurl urneq "bvyl fyvgurevatf" be fbzrguvat juvpu frg gurz ba rqtr naq cebonoyl perngrq gur onq svefg vzcerffvbaf. V jbaqre vs gung jvyy or rkcnaqrq hcba va shgher tnzrf? Znlor n ovg bs Erncre gvaxrevat? <BR><BR>V unir abg pbzcyrgrq gur ragver tnzr, fb vs gung'f rkcynvarq, gura V'z thrffvat V'yy svaq bhg fbba rabhtu.

 

[Hurricane]

Well then I stand corrected.<BR><BR>But still it was willing to strike a deal with Saren; so it had to have some sense of diplomacy.

 

[Arleban]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by arhra:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I am a bit confused on this as well. I thought they were great stowaways, but at Noveria they did say that the ship that the queen egg was found on was a Rachni ship... </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>You weren't paying enough attention to (or missed entirely) the lore about the Rachni Wars - they had a massive interstellar empire, used mass relays, etc, before the Krogan wiped them all out (they attacked when a survey team from one of the Citadel races opened a primary relay linking to their space, which had been isolated and cut off up until that point).<BR><BR>If they didn't have any way of getting around by themselves, the Rachni War would have been a whole hell of a lot shorter and less bloody... (just quarantine any planets they're on, station garrisons in orbit, forbid anyone from landing, and blow up anyone who tries). </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I believe it's the first. I was thinking more like a virus being spread. One ship visits the Rachni homeworld, gets attacked and escapes but with a nasty stowaway (sort of like Aliens). Once that ship gets home, hell breaks loose, and anyone fleeing planet carries eggs, spores, full-grown Rachni stowaways to all ports around. Finally no more planets to "infect", but then whoops....Relay gets opened! <BR><BR>Meeting the Rachni queen last night definitely made me rethink what I had previously thought. I still killed her though. Kate Shepard is an asshole. Luckily, Parallel Universe Nigel Shepard is not. <BR><BR>I really have no idea if I should be rot13'ing this or not. Let me know if I need to edit.

 

[Zaskar]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Gung'f n tbbq cbvag. Gur Enpuav dhrra qvq fnl gung onpx gura (gur Enpuav jnef, V'z thrffvat) gurl urneq "bvyl fyvgurevatf" be fbzrguvat juvpu frg gurz ba rqtr naq cebonoyl perngrq gur onq svefg vzcerffvbaf. V jbaqre vs gung jvyy or rkcnaqrq hcba va shgher tnzrf? Znlor n ovg bs Erncre gvaxrevat? <BR><BR>V unir abg pbzcyrgrq gur ragver tnzr, fb vs gung'f rkcynvarq, gura V'z thrffvat V'yy svaq bhg fbba rabhtu. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>No it is not. But there is lots of DLC and two more games scheduled for that.

 

[Zaskar]

Na, you don't have to rot13 something that is way wrong -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --<br><br>rachni != aliens<br><br>rachni == human but bugs

 

[Arleban]

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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Zaskar:<br>Na, you don't have to rot13 something that is way wrong -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --<br><br>rachni != aliens<br><br>rachni == human but bugs </div>
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<br><br>The words! They burn! -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --

 

[HappyBunny]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by arhra:<BR>Pfft. Get Tali some good armour </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>That's easier said than done. I'm doing a hardcore playthrough right now and I'm in the upper 20s, and she's still using her original armor because I haven't seen a single piece of Quarian armor yet. It's possible I missed some on a vendor somewhere, but still, it's kind of annoying.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PerfectCr:<BR><BR>Yeah but no cinema I've seen puts a screen door in front of your eyes as you watch the movie. I don't know what Bioware was thinking by putting the film grain effect on by default. Horrible choice. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Personally I think the film grain looks fine. I haven't actually tried the game with it turned off, because I see no need to. Maybe it depends on what kind of TV you have?<BR><BR>I do agree the motion blur looks bad though.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Shrubber:<BR>Also I have to say that I'm still very disappointed with the resolution options on Feros. To me nothing you are able to do at the end there is a satisfying option for a Paragon. I don't want to spoil anything,V qba'g guvax gur bayl bcgvba fubhyq or xvyyvat n 50,000+ lrne byq vagryyvtrag perngher. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Meh, it seems fine with me. Just because you're trying to play a "good" guy doesn't mean everything has to go your way. Yeah, maybe your character would have liked to do something different there, but bapr vg nggnpxf lbh, gurer'f abg ernyyl zhpu tbvat onpx. I just see that as a case where your character's desires can't control everything that happens in the universe. It's not really reasonable to be able to reason yourself out of every situation. I'm actually surprised at some of the ones you are able to get out of without combat in this game.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hurricane:<BR><BR>But still it was willing to strike a deal with Saren; so it had to have some sense of diplomacy. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I think what you're missing is that it struck a deal with Saren... and then he <I>betrayed</I> it. The thing is pretty pissed off about that. From its perspective, you're basically the same as Saren, so why should it give you the time of day?

 

[Magus`]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Hurricane:<BR>But still it was willing to strike a deal with Saren; so it had to have some sense of diplomacy. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>If Saren's interests matched his own (and don't forget that Saren promised him he could eat your team as part of his agreement).<BR><BR>It doesn't magically make him open to everything, like you're stupidly assuming.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by HappyBunny:<BR>That's easier said than done. I'm doing a hardcore playthrough right now and I'm in the upper 20s, and she's still using her original armor because I haven't seen a single piece of Quarian armor yet. It's possible I missed some on a vendor somewhere, but still, it's kind of annoying. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>There are several venders who offer a "Non-Human Armors" section - at least one on the Citadel (but I think two) and one on Noveria I believe.

 

[HappyBunny]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Magus`:<BR><BR>There are several venders who offer a "Non-Human Armors" section - at least one on the Citadel (but I think two) and one on Noveria I believe. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Yeah, the times I looked they didn't have any Quarian stuff. I haven't been to Noveria yet, though.

 

[onkeljonas]

My girlfriend finished ME a few days ago, and besides complaining about the fact that it was over she said it was the best computergame she has ever played. She was able to genuinely connect with the NPCs which is definitely a first for her.<BR><BR>I also liked that one of her biggest complaints was that you could tvir gur pbhapvy frng gb Hqvan... "Gung'f fvyyl, abbar jbhyq tvir gung nffubyr nalguvat. Jul pna'g V xvpx uvf nff?"

 

[Semi On]

Hurricane,<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Umm do you even read what I post or do you just flame on GP? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I didn't flame you. I merely stated my disagreement and opinion. <BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Plus I don't think Charm or Intimidate are powers; I thought they were more like charisma modifiers. SO it's not like the Jedi Mind Trick where you go, "These aren't the droids your looking for." with the actual droids sitting next to you. I thought it was more along the lines of the force of your personality can swing people one way or another. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>That was a joke, but the point remains that charisma modifiers may not be all that ineresting to a 50,000 year old form of life radically different than our own.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I mean shoot you could reason with the Raichni Queen which was concidered more barbaric all around. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>So you got to do exactly what you're complaining about not being able to do. Why would it be realistic that you can reason with anything and everything in the game?<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Wait the Raichni were space fairing? I kinda thought they were like The Aliens from the movies; evil alien cockroaches. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Think more along the lines of the Hive Queen from Ender's Game which was so obviously the inspiration for them. If you haven't read it, do so now. Afterall, the Queen promised to find some place in the galaxy where she could have a breed without causing harm and is the last of a race that nearly conquered the galaxy. That doesn't sound like anything similar to the giant plant or the Alien.<BR><BR>Arleban,<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">V jbaqre vs gung jvyy or rkcnaqrq hcba va shgher tnzrf? Znlor n ovg bs Erncre gvaxrevat? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>You, also, need to read Ender's Game to understand that part better, I suspect. They don't communicate in the same way we do. If they don't know how we communicate and are listening for "songs" that don't sound anything like they would expect them to, they can very easily misinterpret our presence as hostility or danger.<BR><BR>Hurricane,<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">But still it was willing to strike a deal with Saren; so it had to have some sense of diplomacy. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Such as, as I stated earlier, those shiny things look like the shiny things that wiped out the last squishy things to cross my path. I better be on my best behavior.

 

[U-99]

http://threepanelsoul.com/index.php<BR><BR>So, is this comic about rejection? I don't know the context.<BR><BR>Pretty damn funny, if it is.

 

[Zaskar]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by U-99:<BR>http://threepanelsoul.com/index.php<BR><BR>So, is this comic about rejection? I don't know the context.<BR><BR>Pretty damn funny, if it is. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I think so, he is in the minority in not liking the character.

 

[Zaskar]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">"Gung'f fvyyl, abbar jbhyq tvir gung nffubyr nalguvat. Jul pna'g V xvpx uvf nff?" </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I wanted to use my shotgun or atleast an airlock on him as well.<BR><BR>Va gur raq ur gbgnyyl fubjf uvf gehr pbybef naq gung ur hfrq furcneq gb shegure uvf pnhfr naq abg uhznavgvrf.

 

[Flipside79]

Is it wrong that I found the opportunity to wipe out a bunch of settlers very appealing -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --<br><br>I started out fairly Paragon, with a little bit of Renegade, but as the story progresses, I am starting to get sick of people getting in my way, and just mowing people down and executing "flip floppers".

 

[Zaskar]

<blockquote class="ip-ubbcode-quote">
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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Flipside79:<br>Is it wrong that I found the opportunity to wipe out a bunch of settlers very appealing -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --<br><br>I started out fairly Paragon, with a little bit of Renegade, but as the story progresses, I am starting to get sick of people getting in my way, and just mowing people down and executing "flip floppers". </div>
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<br><br>While my paragon play though was fun the renegade options to just get shit done where very pleasing -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --

 

[The Faceless Rebel]

In all Bioware games, evil characters always just have more fun. ME is no exception that rule.

 

[Psion]

If you don't love your Renegade playthrough inside the first five minutes of Eden Prime, you're broken.<BR><BR>"I'll shut him up."