Giant Bomb Thread The Third: #TeamBrad
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Readiness doesn't affect the endings, well, not anymore after the Extended Cut. You only got one small scene in one of the original endings but EC included it.
Sleeplessnights
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I was asking for advice if I should get it or not. It's in a shop near me and I already got the last copy. If I told where you'd probably not have much use for it since I live in the Middle East.
It's up on wikipedia.
Reading about it won't matter if you don't actually experience it within the game's structure. But since you will never play it, look it up.
To add: He also said
"The black dude dies. And so does his brother. But his brother's a really minor character and stuff.
The main character? That dies?
I'll pick it up ASAP and play it
Thanks all.Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
The dude spoiling you is an asshole, but you'll learn that dying is just a fact of life in that game.
meltingparappa
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Executive summary that doesn't do the game justice:
(It's been a while so this is probably inaccurate too)
You're kidnapped and forced to play a game on some creaky iron ship with eight strangers where you solve puzzles or else you die. There's also a watch strapped to your wrist and you have to pair up with different people in order to get through certain doors.
One of the other contestants is a childhood friend whom you haven't seen in nine years. In the bad endings, she gets a fever and/or disappears FOR SOME REASON. Turns out a similar game was played nine years ago, involving two groups of children as a way to test a the presence of a psychic bond.
After a trillion twists (including mathematical twists where the number on the watches aren't accurate and allow for some sneakery by some contestants), the ultimate twist is that the person you thought was your childhood friend is "still" playing the game in the past, and reaching out to you in the future to solve a puzzle and save her.
The game you're playing was all set up by her and another contestant (who was a survivor of that first game) to both help her, and also to expose the villainous guy who orchestrated the first game (also a contestant in the second game).
All the "bad" endings you've gotten are canon endings that represent different time streams where her fever was actually her burning in an incinerator because she couldn't solve the final puzzle without your help, due to you dying before reaching a replica of the final puzzle to help her.
The final puzzle is just a silly sudoku puzzle of all things, but the presentation is fuck-awesome with you on the bottom screen and her on the top screen as a countdown clock to the incinerator ticks away.
You solve the final puzzle as she watches, enabling her to solve the puzzle in the past and live. You expose the villain and drive away in the desert (you're not actually on a ship), and just when you think everything is over you run into what you thought was a 2000 year old fictional Cleopatra looking woman referenced earlier in the game (the sequel follows up on this).
One of the other contestants is a childhood friend whom you haven't seen in nine years. In the bad endings, she gets a fever and/or disappears FOR SOME REASON. Turns out a similar game was played nine years ago, involving two groups of children as a way to test a the presence of a psychic bond.
After a trillion twists (including mathematical twists where the number on the watches aren't accurate and allow for some sneakery by some contestants), the ultimate twist is that the person you thought was your childhood friend is "still" playing the game in the past, and reaching out to you in the future to solve a puzzle and save her.
The game you're playing was all set up by her and another contestant (who was a survivor of that first game) to both help her, and also to expose the villainous guy who orchestrated the first game (also a contestant in the second game).
All the "bad" endings you've gotten are canon endings that represent different time streams where her fever was actually her burning in an incinerator because she couldn't solve the final puzzle without your help, due to you dying before reaching a replica of the final puzzle to help her.
The final puzzle is just a silly sudoku puzzle of all things, but the presentation is fuck-awesome with you on the bottom screen and her on the top screen as a countdown clock to the incinerator ticks away.
You solve the final puzzle as she watches, enabling her to solve the puzzle in the past and live. You expose the villain and drive away in the desert (you're not actually on a ship), and just when you think everything is over you run into what you thought was a 2000 year old fictional Cleopatra looking woman referenced earlier in the game (the sequel follows up on this).
Seriously, even if you ignore the entire story with all its twists, the actual prose of the writing/localization is utterly fantastic.
The sequel is infinitely more playable and takes all of this mind-bending and adds another entire other twisty layer on top of it. By the time the third game rolls around, some super genius is going to make a chart with a trillion criss-crossing arrows to explain how everything fits together.
Jibbajabbawockky
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To add: He also saidI know next to nothing about the game (I want to go in as clean as possible), but I think the thing he means is"The black dude dies. And so does his brother. But his brother's a really minor character and stuff.The main character? That dies?
I'll pick it up ASAP and play it
Just play it. Don't think about any supposed spoilers people may have told you and just play it.
Definitely. If you can put up with some shitty combat it's a fantastic game. Probably my game of the generation.
slightconfuse
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people die in the waling dead, who would have thunk???
its all about the exeution
its all about the exeution
You meet what's left of the original race that created the first Reaper in their own image (giant crabs), and they strongly hint at why the Reapers do what they do.
That the leviathan race made the reapers or someshit. So I assume he assumes there is a bigger power at work which acts as a last minute deus ex machina.
StopMakingSense
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Yeah, that Walking Dead spoiler, while kinda big, really isn't much of a spoiler in the long run.
brianmcdoogle
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That sounds incredibly stupid. I haven't played Leviathan or the new Omega DLC, but... yikes. I think if I ever want my Mass Effect fix again, I'll just play the first game's soundtrack and read the codex.
Fox Mulder
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I punted the franchise after I finished the 2nd game, but I still enjoy having the codex on my ipad. Such a deep universe that really went to waste.
brianmcdoogle
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I wish they updated the codex app on the ipad for retina. It is horrible to read. But, that would take more effort than what went into the ending of the series.
Sleeplessnights
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I feel better about getting that game now. I've been getting a lot of weird games thanks to GB, and that feels good.
This man is the wrongest wrong that has ever wronged the wrong.
I am taking joy in Patrick's amazing expression. Bombcast away!
To be more precise
The Leviathans created an artificial intelligence that inevitably rebelled and harvested its creators, turning them into the first Reaper. And so on.
It's not any less silly.
Typographenia
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I'm so glad Patrick finally beat 999. : )
Lovecraft did it first, and better.
Haunted
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That's a damn solid choice. I think I might do just that. *checks ME price on steam*
wrong.
Typographenia
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It's okay, Jintor. Some people weren't meant to appreciate great things like elevator humor.
It's been long enough now that a replay of 999 is in order, methinks. I know what I'll be doing on my christmas break!
ShockingAlberto
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I'd say finish the first week and if you're not feeling it by then, I doubt the game will do anything at that point to grab you.
slightconfuse
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got to beat the first week that si where the game turns
slightconfuse
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Seems brad just beat ME 3
@bradshoemaker: Um.
@bradshoemaker: Um.
Hot Coldman
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The first 4 days or so? Basically the tutorial. But yeah, if you reach the second week, you should love it. The story kicks up a notch, the gameplay gets altered in a pleasing way and generally it's a lot more of an interesting and enjoyable game. I'd say it gets "good" before week 1 is over, though.
Seems like he loved it - I guess we know the GiantBomb GOTY 2012 now (it's Minerva's Den)!
Typographenia
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Welcome to early 2012, Brad Shoemaker. Good to have you here. : (
Jake Tower
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Brad, if you're reading, the spoiler thread is here http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467193
Typographenia
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Hahaha, I think he's in the process of the ending. Just updated with a full "UM"
edit: hahahahaha, patrick
edit: hahahahaha, patrick
Jake Tower
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Brad is in stage one
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