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TheSeks said:
Hah.

"Grunt: Your job sucks.
Shaman: Indeed."

:lol

Rite of Passage wasn't too bad, other than being over whelmed by the first two waves. After that the Thresher Maw nearly killed me and killed Grunt. With like 14-4 seconds left on the clock, Me and Garrus finally killed him.

Missed a body on the other clans battle area, but meh probably was just some credits, no big deal.

Leaves Mordin now to make Loyal before I leave the Krogan homeworld. Then it's Jacob, Jack, and Tali's time before getting Legion.
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Completely off topic but what is your avatar from? I feel like its from Persona but I've never seen that persona character before.
 
kai3345 said:
Completely off topic but what is your avatar from? I feel like its from Persona but I've never seen that persona character before.
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Persona 1 character in Persona 2: Innocent Sin: Yukino Mayuzumi.

Did Mordin's loyalty mission. Told him to keep the cure. Hopefully something will come out of that as the Krogan homeworld feels like a Gears of War type of desolation area. Maybe if Wrex and Grunt work together they can unite the Krogan from being all bloodthirsty.

Taking a break, I'm burned out and fighting the Krogan animals in Jacks facility (so I can get a romance option with her *sigh*) gets tiring for an adept. Basically run backwards with the SMG and take them out before they overwhelm me.
 
EatChildren said:
I did like that if you left that mission until last she had lost her marbles and assumed you were a hallucination.
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haha yeah that was awesome. Your entire team is just spewing out all of this knowledge about the Reapers that she's been working her whole life to uncover and her mind is just in pieces.
 
Someone explain Jacob's loyalty mission to me. Jacob's dad assumes command, doesn't want it, but forces people to eat toxic plants that make them go crazy/forgetful and takes all the food (even though the food will eventually spoil, as seen in the camp) for himself.

Then Jacob arrives... and gives him a gun... for his father to kill himself with. What? Why?
 
TheSeks said:
Someone explain Jacob's loyalty mission to me. Jacob's dad assumes command, doesn't want it, but forces people to eat toxic plants that make them go crazy/forgetful and takes all the food (even though the food will eventually spoil, as seen in the camp) for himself.

Then Jacob arrives... and gives him a gun... for his father to kill himself with. What? Why?
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Because space plants.
 
Their ship crashed, and high command died, leaving Jacob as the next in charge. Local flora degrades cognitive thinking. Command comes up with the plan to ration ship food between essential staff while subordinates eat local flora, in order to keep as many people still sane to operate the distress beacon and communicate with anybody who responds, rather than have everybody go mad.

Command power trips and starts assigning women to the men. Some men rebel and dislike this direction, leaving Jacob's dad's little harem hierarchy. They eat local flora and lose their marbles too, dividing the survivors between Jacob's dad, his women, and security droids.

Shepard arrives and discovers his mess. Jacob's dad admits to getting too comfortable with the situation delaying the activation of the distress beacon. Guilt trip for all the terrible things he did, threat of confronting his crimes, blammo; suicide.
 
TheSeks said:
Someone explain Jacob's loyalty mission to me.
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They crash landed on that planet. They eventually realized that the native plant life, while edible, causes mental degradation. The leaders of the group, including Jacob’s dad, decided that only they and the people who were fixing the distress beacon were allowed to eat the remaining food they had on the ship, while the rest of the crew were never told of what the plant life would do to them and eventually became savages.

The beacon was fixed, but Jacob’s dad went power mad, decided to stop the distress signal, and kill anyone who wasn’t made stupid by the plants so they couldn’t oppose his reign over the newly savage crew.

When Shep and crew arrive they destroy all of his security mechs, leaving him defenseless against the savages that wanted him dead. You can either make Jacob kill him, arrest him, or leave him with the savages, at which point he’ll commit suicide.
 
Yeah, its actually one of the best loyalty missions in the game, and actually made Jacob not entirely generic for me.
Well...best written. Structurally it's still "shoot through three-odd areas of enemies and engage in a dialogue tree at the end"
 
The_Technomancer said:
Yeah, its actually one of the best loyalty missions in the game, and actually made Jacob not entirely generic for me.
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Eh. I liked the quest, but it didn’t really do anything to endear Jacob to me at all. Nothing happens with him during the quest.

His completely average set of morals made him disgusted at what his dad had done, and then he moves on immediately. You could replace him with anyone who isn’t a sociopath and get the same reaction; scratch that, you’d probably get more of a reaction.

We got more character development from Grunt’s quest, for goodness’ sake.
 
So it was a "power corrupts all" story then. The spoiled food and Jacob's dad hoarding it all threw me for a loop, because if the food was going to spoil... how the hell did Jacob's dad live for 10 years in isolation at that point?

Jack's loyalty mission wasn't too bad, and the e-mail after goes with the whole "you thought wrong because you were a kid at the time" thing.

I didn't really like Zaeed's mission. The choice to save the crew or don't was completely stupid. "Screw loyalty, I'm going to save them!" was LITERALLY the top choice for paragon. So basically Bioware is saying "yeah, fuck you for wanting to save these people from our rampage. Get loyalty without a huge mess after, meanwhile Zaeed is CAH-RAZY!" kinda ruined the character to me.

Kasumi's mission was cool, but I avoided sneaking into the private quarters, not that it matters since experience isn't given with enemies killed anymore.

Mordin's mission was eh... I've always been fond of the Krogans so I can understand why they want to fix the Genophage and actively oppose Mordin's reasoning for it. But it's good to see (after telling him to keep the research) that he's starting to question that and feels that the Salarians bringing the Krogans into the space-age quickly was a bad idea... which I can agree with since it means the genophage was needed and all that over the wars.

Grunt's mission was actually pretty good because it was just a "survive this" mission and the Threshaw Maw achievement made it pretty intense to beat on Insanity after surviving the waves as an Adept with Garrus and Grunt.
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Leaves Tali and Samara for Loyalty missions before getting Legion and doing his now.

Saved before talking to Jack. Apparently I can start a romance with her since I turned Miranda down. I can talk to her multiple times before going into the relay to advance the relationship if I skip this talk right now and do the last two loyalty quests and Legion's quests before hitting the Omega 4 relay, getting the achievement, reloading the save and telling her I don't like her that way, right? :|

Also where can I mine Element Zero so I can learn Jack's Warp Bullet skill? Does that even stack with Garrus' armor piercing squad ammo skill?
 
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There's definitely something wrong with me.
 
I bought Mass Effect 2 on PS3 to get ready for ME3 since I can't have it on my platform of choice (steam). Playing femshep paragon keeping everyone alive and broshep renegade just not giving a fuck who lives or dies. I'm on the Shadow Broker DLC right now and its a blast (4th or 5th playthrough, second time with all DLC)

my favorite class is Infiltrator because assassin cloak + sniper head shot is brutal, might play broshep as a adept
 
I was playing ME2 earlier and finished the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC. It made me go through read up on the events of Mass Effect 1, and damn, what a fuck-awesome story that was told in that game. Makes shake my head at what transpired in Mass Effect 2 (i.e., nothing really).

I heard the story/script for Mass Effect 3 was leaked. I haven't looked up any information myself, but I hope it lives up to ME1.
 
Speaking of, the guy who was in charge of writing Lair of the Shadow Broker is a relatively new employee at BioWare (that was his first project), and he's the one who has written all of Ashley and Kaiden's dialogue for ME3.
 
TheSeks said:
Leaves Tali and Samara for Loyalty missions before getting Legion and doing his now
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If you want awesome awkwardness during Tali's mission, I suggest doing her mission right after you recruit Legion. You should be able to do her loyalty mission and Legion's before the big shake up.

Also where can I mine Element Zero so I can learn Jack's Warp Bullet skill? Does that even stack with Garrus' armor piercing squad ammo skill?
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Element Zero

Ammo powers don't stack as far as I know.
 
EatChildren said:
There's definitely something wrong with me.
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It’s okay, we still love yo-… is that Deception?

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Why would you support the unedited version?
 
ElectricBlue187 said:
I bought Mass Effect 2 on PS3 to get ready for ME3 since I can't have it on my platform of choice (steam).
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ME2 has an intro comic for the events of ME1 - Would ME3 have one as well? Considering to double-dip on ME2 on the PS3 - recreate the meat of the game sans DLC.
 
I regret nothing (that's a lie).

I'm pretty sure ME3's comic is issue #1 of Invasion with a 'limited edition cover'.
 
Still 1 month before ME3...was hoping to do ME1 and ME2 before that, but i feel like im gonna run out of time.

The soundtrack of ME1 is still very good, its one thing i wished they would have kept for the sequel. Not that its bad, its just feels too much...i dunno what the best word is. Too much "hollywood-like"?

Anyway, i hope ME3 will have some musics in the style of ME1, and not just the galaxy map lol.
 
Crewnh said:
If you want awesome awkwardness during Tali's mission, I suggest doing her mission right after you recruit Legion. You should be able to do her loyalty mission and Legion's before the big shake up.



Element Zero

Ammo powers don't stack as far as I know.
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I'm making a save state for that just to see it in case the collectors attack before I can. :(

I gotta talk Jack up to start a romance with her since I have a Miranda romance save too far back for my taste. I'll get her to "think about it" within like 4 story missions left, I'm sure. Then bang her through the Omega 4 relay and then reload and tell her "NO" and hopefully not have a "romance: flagged" issue for ME3 when I go all FABULOUS for the (redacted for Bioware/EA/MS lawyers) member.

I'll mine the Element Zero before hitting the IFF mission to research the powers.

Also is there any place for massive money or am I screwed out of getting everything on a first playthrough? I kinda want to get the last armor upgrades but they want like 70,000 credits which is INSANE.
 
EatChildren said:
There's definitely something wrong with me.
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I've got all that too, although I bought the digital versions of some of the comics. Maybe we need to start an ME Anonymous group?

EatChildren said:
Speaking of, the guy who was in charge of writing Lair of the Shadow Broker is a relatively new employee at BioWare (that was his first project), and he's the one who has written all of Ashley and Kaiden's dialogue for ME3.
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As someone who actually liked Ashley's character, this brings me great joy.
 
EatChildren said:
Speaking of, the guy who was in charge of writing Lair of the Shadow Broker is a relatively new employee at BioWare (that was his first project), and he's the one who has written all of Ashley and Kaiden's dialogue for ME3.
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So lead writer for ME4 then, with Patrick Weekes.
 
I have almost bought all the comics a few times...I just have never gotten into comics like ever....Maybe these ones I need to pull the trigger on? Really give me an honest review. I am a HUGE Mass Effect fan, own and love all the books (just got Deception haven't read it yet but plan to obviously) so in your guys's opinion should I get the comics...are they worth it?
 
BabeSlayer said:
I have almost bought all the comics a few times...I just have never gotten into comics like ever....Maybe these ones I need to pull the trigger on? Really give me an honest review. I am a HUGE Mass Effect fan, own and love all the books (just got Deception haven't read it yet but plan to obviously) so in your guys's opinion should I get the comics...are they worth it?
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They're all pretty shitty to be honest. The writing is quite tacky and all are poorly paced. I mean, even in the context of hating on Mass Effect 2, the comics show Walter's doesn't really understand how to write a graphic story. They're not very enjoyable to read or look at, I guess is what I'm saying.

Redemption and Invasion are passable if you're desperate for more Mass Effect and like throwing money at EA/BioWare. Evolution is a steaming turd though. It handles the First Contact War really, really poorly and is just all over the place in how it deals with established canon. It's really disappointing actually, as it takes a pretty interesting idea and executes it very, very badly. A lot of what I thought the First Contact War would have been like is totally different to how the comic presents it.

They all seem very half arsed is how I'd put it, and I don't really recommend them. You can download samples of Redemption, Evolution and Invasion online if you're interested in seeing the quality. Otherwise you could always try Incursion, Inquisition and Conviction. Those are free, online mini-comics just a few pages long, but do give you an idea of the kind of quality you can expect from the multi-issue comics.
 
I finished through Horizon today (on Insanity, as a soldier). Not too tough so far, just a few rough patches where I needed to switch up my strategy. The three waves at Horizon's end weren't bad, easier than my first time through on Normal since this time I got on top of a pile of crates, so husks couldn't reach me and there was cover from which to shoot the rest. I'm really liking Insanity though, not too tough but you've got to pay attention or get rocked.

TheSeks said:
Kasumi's mission was cool, but I avoided sneaking into the private quarters, not that it matters since experience isn't given with enemies killed anymore.
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How do you get the dna sample without sneaking into Hock's quarters?
 
I don't own any of the figurines and I haven't bought the Liara Bishoujo figurine though. So um, I guess that's something?

An-Det said:
How do you get the dna sample without sneaking into Hock's quarters?
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I assume TheSeks meant he took out the security room and fooled the guard out the front of Hock's quarters to get in, rather than sneak around the back killing the guards on watch.
 
Research with results you can share with your colleagues on RedTube.
 
I don't understand America but that has to be against the constitution.
 
This is what we call in Australia a bloody outrage.
 
About done with part one. I'll save it for tomorrow. Got part two installed. Is any of the DLC worth getting as I've seen none of it. I heard Shadow Broker was good, the rest was not. Truth or fiction?
 
Up to Noveria now, really don't like the beginning, the whole hub is so boring and steril.
Playing as an adept, which is new to me, singularity is pretty damn awesome.
 
EatChildren said:
I assume TheSeks meant he took out the security room and fooled the guard out the front of Hock's quarters to get in, rather than sneak around the back killing the guards on watch.
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Correct, outside of those two guards (how anyone didn't hear me and Kasumi warp/stealth striking two people and not coming to check on them, I dunno...) I was totally James Bond in not raising suspicions. I'm sure going the sneaking route doesn't raise alarms either, but let me dream Bioware did something right for once!
 
Arjen said:
Up to Noveria now, really don't like the beginning, the whole hub is so boring and steril.
Playing as an adept, which is new to me, singularity is pretty damn awesome.
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I think that was point of the beginning hub area. It's an outer, futuristic colony for various businesses and some shady organizations. I think the "sterile" look was on purpose, much like we see in other sci fi media of futuristic architecture.
 
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