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Mass Effect 3 |OT| Space Jesus Returns (tag all spoilers)
- Thread starter Blue Ninja
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I'll probably only play enough to boost my EMS to 5000 for ending purposes, but if I decide to stick around later on, I'll definitely send an invite.
I will have to give MP credit, playing with an Adept is pretty fun. Singularity at least complements the massive amounts of Vanguards I have seen so far.
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
Yeah no kidding.
That's gotta be the one of the weirdest, laziest decisions in the game to what could have been a really cool reveal. I thought it had to be fake at first.
From escapist magazine just had to post this
There's nothing 2001 about it. I mean if there were a 10-minute light show followed by symbolism, sure. But there isn't.
Barack Lesnar
Banned
Ok so yeah did some googling and yes you can bang Chobot, both fem and male sheps can hit it. From the chobot vs. maleshep romance scene on youtube all they do is kiss and then it fades out. I'm hoping that's just because it's youtube. What a waste if all the cut scene is is a kiss. What happened to seeing some ass like ME1
Yeah its kinda weird, they've put so much effort into this game, and they went with the laziest route to
show her face. I know its only people who romance her that get to see it, but even then, they only needed to model a human face with white eyes and some tatoo...
why on earth would you ever want to
Barack Lesnar
Banned
I love her character model. I dunno why people hate on it. The face looks like her altho a bit droopy but I immediately recognized the roundish Chobot face. And that dress and body...oh dear
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Barack Lesnar
Banned
I used to think that but have you played The Darkness 2? because in one of the earlier missions you go through a whore house and you see prostitutes bent over and getting rammed by a guy. You can see the guy's ass but no boobs or anything, not that I remember. You also hear the slapping sounds. I was kind of shocked at how explicit it was and was thinking about making a thread on it since 3 other people bought the game. I would've loved to see more passionate and raw sex like that in ME3. Conservatives ruin everything.
The sex scenes with the real love interest characters(Liara, Ashley, etc.) are
more explicit than the ME1 ones.
Mattdaddy
Gold Member
Kel'Raeger (or however you spell it) too.
Yeah, the Admirals are just stupid. Raan isn't so bad.
that seems a little much for a ME game, but ME1 did a good job of it. I watched a few romance scenes from ME3 on Youtube since i won't be romancing everyone and some of them weren't even sex scenes. Hopefully some of the scenes (that i didn't watch) do the themes justice.
Wiggum2007
Junior Member
Question, major mid-game spoilers:
During the Citadel Coup, will I miss out on any cool moments later on if I kill Ashley? I mean, obviously there will be some missing conversations but I'm not in love with her character in this game, I just wouldn't want to miss anything special like that lifepod scene with Liara or a fun squad interaction moment.
Ok I really feel like a dumbass today. First I discover there is a Journal, now I download this data pad app for my phone and now I realize what's happening with this galactic readiness shit. I kept looking at it in-game and wondering why, after all these missions and people I've helped out, isn't my galactic readiness moving from 50%. So I guess it works like Assassin's Creed where you send your assassin bro's on missions and earn money and XP? Is this just for the iPhone app or is it actually like this in the real game and I've just never figured it out? I'm so completely confused now!
Shorty11857
Member
Multiplayer + IOS apps increase it
Wait, what? There is no way to increase it just by playing the single player?
Nope.
I realize you all understand how this worked probably prior to release but I find this all to be super ridiculous and stupid. So what does it even mean then? I thought it the higher the readiness the different the outcome (endings). Is this not the case?
edit:
Ok. Well, I am enjoying the app, and yes the mail is pretty neat and being able to read the codex stuff on the go is cool. I just never understood the 'readiness' thing until now. Actually, now that I think about it, I still have no idea what it does but whatever, I'll just play the damn game as I was.
edit:
Ok. Well, I am enjoying the app, and yes the mail is pretty neat and being able to read the codex stuff on the go is cool. I just never understood the 'readiness' thing until now. Actually, now that I think about it, I still have no idea what it does but whatever, I'll just play the damn game as I was.
Shorty11857
Member
Nope you don't need to play the MP that much and it's kind of worked into the story which I thought was nice
Total Military Assets (Single player) x Readiness level (Multiplayer + IOS) = Effective Assets = Which ending you get
Yes. I believe you can. Cortez has been hitting on me numerous times even though I'm with Tali.
He can't get enough of that N7 jacket.
There is no best ending. Seriously.
But to put yourself in a position to get every possible ending, you need at least 5000 effective assets.
Shorty11857
Member
You need 5000+ Effective Strength to the best of my knowledge for the best ending and I'm fairly sure you need some MP for that, I needed 70% Readiness to get to that level
I haven't played ME3 yet despite it being there. I did get back with Liara in my current ME2 run however and I just
Should I bother doing Arrival and Firewalker again? I really don't want to slog through Firewalker unless it carries over to ME3 in some way; it's such a boring set of missions.
sent David to Grissom Academy in Overlord
Seriously, let me repeat this: There is no one definitive "best" ending.
Firewalker isn't referenced at all, and if you know what happens in Arrival it can safely be skipped.
Shorty11857
Member
Well I was only going by what I heard, I only got the one ending and read that you needed 5000+
I didn't like Koris in ME2, he seemed like a pompous prick. I loved Gerrel's accent, and he seemed more down-to-earth. Man, did ME3 ever reverse that for me.
And Kal'Reegar doesn't come back =(. How awesome would it be if in ME2 Tali died, and Reegar took her place as a squadmate?
Are there any sex scenes with the supporting characters though
like Tali, Miranda, etc? When do they happen?
Arrival carries over (
a few lines of dialogue and a character affected by the events
As far as the ending and galactic readiness, I think to be able to get all the possible options you need 3000k assets (so around 6000-7000 total at 50% readiness) I don't think it's possible at this point to get 5000k assets at 50% readiness without playing multiplayer or using the iOS apps, and if you're considering purchasing infiltrator or the multiplayer just to see that ending, I would strongly advise you to just play normally and watch it on youtube-it's just a 10 second clip added onto the normal endings.
I wouldn't quite call it the "best" ending for reasons I'm not going to explain here, but it will be referred to that by most people and youtube because it takes the most assets to achieve.
I wouldn't quite call it the "best" ending for reasons I'm not going to explain here, but it will be referred to that by most people and youtube because it takes the most assets to achieve.
I do having slogged through it once. At least it saves me the trouble from having to do it again and again. Crisis averted, thanks.
Anyone that is part of your current crew have full scene rather than fade to black
cortez is full too
bengraven
Member
So I just arrived on
and I'm doing the final couple missions to finish the game. Gotta admit the last few sequences have been really epic, though I'm a bit nervous about the ending.
I'm also pissed that (Jack spoiler)
Earth
I'm also pissed that (Jack spoiler)
I only got to see Jack twice, my romance from ME2, while every other romance showed up multiple times. Saw her once on Grissom, which was a great sequence, then the moment at Purgatory. That's it. I'm assuming I won't see her again.
That fuirst picture isn't about showing the model off in a bad situation it's about showing the sparse polygon count that creates that sharp edge on the cheek, because the model is lower poly than the standard set in ME2.
Go fire up ME2 and make comparisons, you will not find as many awkward and angular shots because the models are higher poly. Kelly Chambers is irrefutably higher poly in ME2 than 3, especially her hair. You can clearly see the poly texture cut in comparing the
illusive man
They didn't magically unlock another 256mb of ram on consoles that didn't exist before Mass Effect 3.
bengraven
Member
You have to! One character says one line about it! You don't want to miss that character or line!
HarryHengst
Member
You'll speak to her one more time.
I have already swaped disc's four times within the first few hours of the game. What. The. Fuck. I am so irritated by doing this. Is there anyway to avoid this unbelievable bull shit? I swapped the disc out twice at most in ME2. What the hell?
Other than that and some serious issues with lip syncing (i.e. the mouths are way behind the voices) and sometimes total loss of dialogue once, I've simi-enjoyed this game thus far.
Other than that and some serious issues with lip syncing (i.e. the mouths are way behind the voices) and sometimes total loss of dialogue once, I've simi-enjoyed this game thus far.
Melchiah
Member
According to Digital Foundry's article the main missions are on the other disc, and the sidequests on the other. Can't you install the game on the HDD?
Riposte
Member
That part in the final set of missions where you get to contact all your old surviving squadmates you recruited for the war was a real nice touch.
I've noticed people said they capped out at around 53~ with imported characters? I hit 59 and was real close to 60.