Mass Effect Franchise bitching thread

Billychu said:
Yeah. My save was deleted so I'm halfway through the game right now and I'm playing through all the DLC that I never played before.
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I can't wait for your reaction to The Arrival.

A) It does more to link the plots of ME1 and ME3 than the main plot of ME2.
B) It does this in the dumbest way possible.
 
EmCeeGramr said:
I can't wait for your reaction to The Arrival.

A) It does more to link the plots of ME1 and ME3 than the main plot of ME2.
B) It does this in the dumbest way possible.
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I'm not buying it because I heard it was so terrible. I'll just check out a summary.
 
Billychu said:
I'm not buying it because I heard it was so terrible. I'll just check out a summary.
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It shows you what you are in for with ME3. A shitty corridor shooter with awful plot and a nonsensical "twist" (apparently)
 
you can destroy relays by throwing big rocks at them

and the reapers just cruise on into the galaxy in TWO DAYS i mean ONE DAY i mean 30 MINUTES

and then when you destroy the ALPHA RELAY that's just been discovered, apparently the reapers that were like ten minutes from reaching your location and thus are already technically inside civilized galactic space, will apparently decide to be good sports and leave until the events of ME3 start
 
EmCeeGramr said:
I can't wait for your reaction to The Arrival.

A) It does more to link the plots of ME1 and ME3 than the main plot of ME2.
B) It does this in the dumbest way possible.
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A lot of that rests on how ME1 plays out and the fact that we're getting a sequel to that game involving Shepard and co at all.
 
EmCeeGramr said:
you can destroy relays by throwing big rocks at them

and the reapers just cruise on into the galaxy in TWO DAYS i mean ONE DAY i mean 30 MINUTES

and then when you destroy the ALPHA RELAY that's just been discovered, apparently the reapers that were like ten minutes from reaching your location and thus are already technically inside civilized galactic space, will apparently decide to be good sports and leave until the events of ME3 start
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The sad thing is I'm still planning on buying ME3. There's still this tiny part of me filled with hope that I should stop listening to. But seriously thats fucking stupid.
 
Billychu said:
The sad thing is I'm still planning on buying ME3. There's still this tiny part of me filled with hope that I should stop listening to.
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Rent it!!! If you love it, buy it then! Please stop giving BioWare your money up front and hoping for the best.

No good can come from that arrangement...
 
Peter.Simpson909 said:
Rent it!!! If you love it, buy it then! Please stop giving BioWare your money up front and hoping for the best.

No good can come from that arrangement...
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he should buy it, im there day one myself and have no issues giving bioware my money.
 
EmCeeGramr said:
you can destroy relays by throwing big rocks at them

and the reapers just cruise on into the galaxy in TWO DAYS i mean ONE DAY i mean 30 MINUTES

and then when you destroy the ALPHA RELAY that's just been discovered, apparently the reapers that were like ten minutes from reaching your location and thus are already technically inside civilized galactic space, will apparently decide to be good sports and leave until the events of ME3 start
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Now that I think about it, the whole problem with that DLC is that because it came out so late it couldn't have anything to do with ME3 because the game was already deep in production. It was basically doomed to not set up anything.
 
Billychu said:
As much shit that I give the games I do still enjoy them.
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Fair enough. I enjoy them both TBH. I don't HATE ME2, but I was disappointed by it.

If you enjoy Mass Effect and where its headed then by all means--be there day one--just suggesting that those who aren't satisfied with the direction the series is going--or with (potential) plot twists like TIM has been indoctrinated, not promise them their money up front without first kicking the tires...
 
Seeing how both the ME- and Assassins Creed-franchise seem to have run their course in terms of story, I wonder what the next big "thing" is going to be. You know, the next big, popular, successful franchise that has everyone hyped, that starts out extremely promising and then later is being turned into a series of new entries every one or two years.

What kind of genre would that franchise be of, what story/setting would it follow? I almost fear that we´re already in the state of convergence where new popular franchises are becoming less and less likely and instead sequels to well-known IPs dominate even the last of the creative minds.
 
EmCeeGramr said:
you can destroy relays by throwing big rocks at them
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A mass relay supposedly survived getting shoved out of it's position by a mass ejection from a supernova. Even if it was the slightest of impacts that sent it drifting for millions of years or something. I still have to imagine that it was exposed to quiet a bit more stress than simply having a big rock thrown at it.
 
Hmmm, could someone spoil me on Arrival? I kinda want to play it for myself, but at the same time, I don't want to contribute any more money towards Bioware/EA's shitty DLC shop.
 
Lostconfused said:
A mass relay supposedly survived getting shoved out of it's position by a mass ejection from a supernova. Even if it was the slightest of impacts that sent it drifting for millions of years or something. I still have to imagine that it was exposed to quiet a bit more stress than simply having a big rock thrown at it.
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The Mu relay was supposedly moved out of the Terminus by the shockwave of a supernova. Still, a physical collision with something probably isn't going to produce similar results.
 
Lyphen said:
Let's really start this off:

When the lead writer wants to cheese the story, he fucking will.

Game creator, Casey Hudson and screenwriter adapting the game to film, Mark Protosevich at Comic Con.

How quickly the franchise died off for me with 2. And they're going full speed into multi-media expansion while shitting on what they've already created.
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I'm with you on this one.

Also, when I first heard and saw Mass Effect, I thought it would eventually turn into the 4X Space game I've always wanted. Personal character with an intriguing story, with planet exploration, minerals and trading, etc.
 
Unicorn said:
I'm with you on this one.

Also, when I first heard and saw Mass Effect, I thought it would eventually turn into the 4X Space game I've always wanted. Personal character with an intriguing story, with planet exploration, minerals and trading, etc.
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Don't even start. It would be so amazing. The reason why I love Mass Effect is the world. I love all the races and the technology and setting. Exploring that, really exploring it would be a dream for me. I bought an Xbox 360 because I thought Mass Effect was going to be like that.
 
Everyone talks about all the sex you could be having in the Mass Effect games, but my Shepard never got on anybody in either game.

My friends say it is easy, but lord knows I never scored.

That is my bitch.
 
Lostconfused said:
A mass relay supposedly survived getting shoved out of it's position by a mass ejection from a supernova. Even if it was the slightest of impacts that sent it drifting for millions of years or something. I still have to imagine that it was exposed to quiet a bit more stress than simply having a big rock thrown at it.
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Query: the Reapers made the Mass Relays. The Mass Relays are indestructable. The Reapers do not have indestructable armor.

Que?
 
The_Technomancer said:
Query: the Reapers made the Mass Relays. The Mass Relays are indestructable. The Reapers do not have indestructable armor.

Que?
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The Mass Relays are not indestructible.
 
Snuggler said:
Hmmm, could someone spoil me on Arrival? I kinda want to play it for myself, but at the same time, I don't want to contribute any more money towards Bioware/EA's shitty DLC shop.
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it's a shitty DLC, don't buy it. And there's nothing to spoil, you'll know everything when you start playing ME3.
 
If you ever want to be even more depressed about Mass Effect, there was a video on GameInformer's site during the ME3 reveal hype that was downright sad. It was a video with the lead art director on ME3, and he talked about how "Well uhh they're uhh all bipedal species because uhh we had the one animation skeleton uhh..." and on the subject of sexes for each race he chimes in with the amazing, "What are you going to uh do with a uh turian, uh throw a pair of boobs on them uh that would be silly"
 
Marjorine said:
Everyone talks about all the sex you could be having in the Mass Effect games, but my Shepard never got on anybody in either game.

My friends say it is easy, but lord knows I never scored.

That is my bitch.
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Just keep talking to them after ever mission until they want to get into your pants. That's it.


EmCeeGramr said:
If you ever want to be even more depressed about Mass Effect, there was a video on GameInformer's site during the ME3 reveal hype that was downright sad. It was a video with the lead art director on ME3, and he talked about how "Well uhh they're uhh all bipedal species because uhh we had the one animation skeleton uhh..." and on the subject of sexes for each race he chimes in with the amazing, "What are you going to uh do with a uh turian, uh throw a pair of boobs on them uh that would be silly"
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Being bipedal is superior to anything else. Don't know why people fault sci fi for it.
 
The_Technomancer said:
Query: the Reapers made the Mass Relays. The Mass Relays are indestructable. The Reapers do not have indestructable armor.

Que?
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If people can make black boxes that survive plane crashes, why don't they just make the whole plane out of the black box?
 
The_Technomancer said:
Okay, nigh on indestructable. Survive a supernova indestructable.
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One (seems to be) made out of organic material originally (the reapers) while the relays are completely synthetic.

I guess.
 
The_Technomancer said:
Okay, nigh on indestructable. Survive a supernova indestructable.
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It's hard to say how much of a feat that really is without knowing how close the star that went supernova was to the Mu relay, since it wasn't the star Mu was orbiting. The Mu relay was shoved "trillions of kilometers" out of its orbit by the shockwave of that blast, which means it probably settled ~1 light year from its original position in orbit. How long it took to move that far I don't think is actually known, nor do they really describe what kind of supernova actually took place. It's also curious how the Mu relay ever actually came to a stop in Rachni space at all, and I don't think an explanation for that is ever given.
 
Balphon said:
If people can make black boxes that survive plane crashes, why don't they just make the whole plane out of the black box?
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Probably because it weighs so much (I'm guessing). BUT REAPERS ARE IN SPACE
 
Balphon said:
If people can make black boxes that survive plane crashes, why don't they just make the whole plane out of the black box?
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Right, but a mass relay is already spaceship sized. Strap some engines on it, give it a computer core. Eh, its barely even a nitpick, but its something that struck me.
 
This thread made me replay ME1, and I totally totally totally hate the mission where you are in a frigate and you have to rescue an ambassador. Fucking enemies, they are L2 biotics and they use the Shield Boost and Throw, and Shepard is slow as fuck, he tries to stand up just to be thrown again(and the ragdoll animation they used looks stupid, Shepard would have most legs/arms bones broken), by the time I need to heal or revive squad member I'm out of shields and in critical health. fuck that mission and fuck slow Shepard.

That's all :)
 
Snuggler said:
Hmmm, could someone spoil me on Arrival? I kinda want to play it for myself, but at the same time, I don't want to contribute any more money towards Bioware/EA's shitty DLC shop.
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Hackett contacts you about doing him a favor and rescuing some undercover lady from a group of batarians. Apparently she and her team were trying to be secret about doing stuff on an asteroid, but doing it poorly. Turns out she and her team have been studying a reaper thing on the asteroid.

You rescue her by doing some "stealth" sequences, and she tells you that they believe the reapers will be showing up crazy soon. The relay's been pulling a pregnancy thing or something, and it has been having contractions quicker and quicker. Shepherd says "Oh no, that's not good. Let's go see."

You get to the asteroid base, see a big ticking doomsday clock, and get betrayed by the lady and her people because they were all indoctrinated by the reaper thing. You have to fight all the brainwashed people, and try to stop them from letting the reapers through some relay that's near by. For some reason that's the relay they chose to use.

Shepherd decides to ram the asteroid into the relay, stopping the reapers but dooming several hundreds of thousands of batarians to death in the process. This is the main setup for ME3 since you will have to stand trial for the deaths of all the batarians. Why on earth? I don't know.

Anyways, you decide it would be a good idea to blow this popsicle stand, and call joker. You fight your way to the space port, but you're greeted by a giant, floating hologram... HARBINGER! Or the Collector main guy, depending on if it's before or after the suicide mission.
They basically say "this won't change anything! We're gonna kill everyone!"
Shepherd - "Nu-uh! We're humans and we're strong and stuff! We're gonna win!"
Then you escape while the relay explodes from the impact. Hackett visits you on the Normandy (looking a lot like Zaeed, I must say), and tells you to be prepared for the consequences. He'll try to back you up, but it won't be easy.

To be continued!
Tune in next time! Same Turian time, same Turian channel!

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Jezan said:
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That's all :)
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ENEMY IS EVERYWHERE! GO, GO, GO!
Yeah, fighting enemies with powers can suck if they knock you down. It's frustrating sitting there, watching your character flop around like a fish on land. I still wish they would have done more with that mission to tie in with Kaidan.
 
WanderingWind said:
The final boss of ME3 will be the reanimated husk of Corporal Jenkins riding the human-goo Reaper 2.0.
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The reaper looks like either Kaiden or Ashley depending on who died.
 
Billychu said:
The reaper looks like either Kaiden or Ashley depending on who died.
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I'm always down for a new opportunity to kill Kaidan. If Zombie Jenkins is allied with Robo-Alenko he is clearly the enemy and must be stopped.
 
The_Technomancer said:
Query: the Reapers made the Mass Relays. The Mass Relays are indestructable. The Reapers do not have indestructable armor.

Que?
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Could be limitations on the material used in the Relays. The Reapers also could depend more on their shields so they don't think the armor matters?
 
And the only way Shepard can send the Reapers back is activating the newly discovered Gamma Relay and allowing the Bothean (newly discovered super race) to enter the fray. But, it's a suicide mission! Shepard goes alone, meeting the mechanized Saren standing in the way. An epic, cover-based shootout takes place and Mecha-Saren Prime is defeated. But at what cost! Is Shepard dead?

Well, that depends on you, doesn't it? If you cheated on your love interest from the first game, yup, you died for humanities sins. If you remained true blue (get it? Blue! Upper right! LOL!) then Liara/Kaiden/Ashley runs in, moves a heavy, well-place beam and resuscitates you. With the power of love.

The prologue will have Wrex's children running around a Christmas tree in badly knit sweaters as Tali kisses Legion under the mistletoe.

Everything turns out a-okay!

...or does it? Off in the Delta Quadrant, a lone Reaper has escaped the final, expensive CGI space battle, nursing it's wounds and biding it's time. Sequel? Only time will tell, true believer!

Yeah, there will totally be a sequel. Parts 4, 5, 6 will be a story-driven, visceral MMO.
 
WanderingWind said:
And the only way Shepard can send the Reapers back is activating the newly discovered Gamma Relay and allowing the Bothean (newly discovered super race) to enter the fray. But, it's a suicide mission! Shepard goes alone, meeting the mechanized Saren standing in the way. An epic, cover-based shootout takes place and Mecha-Saren Prime is defeated. But at what cost! Is Shepard dead?

Well, that depends on you, doesn't it? If you cheated on your love interest from the first game, yup, you died for humanities sins. If you remained true blue (get it? Blue! Upper right! LOL!) then Liara/Kaiden/Ashley runs in, moves a heavy, well-place beam and resuscitates you. With the power of love.

The prologue will have Wrex's children running around a Christmas tree in badly knit sweaters as Tali kisses Legion under the mistletoe.

Everything turns out a-okay!

...or does it? Off in the Delta Quadrant, a lone Reaper has escaped the final, expensive CGI space battle, nursing it's wounds and biding it's time. Sequel? Only time will tell, true believer!

Yeah, there will totally be a sequel. Parts 4, 5, 6 will be a story-driven, visceral MMO.
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The sound of a thousand fanboys crying out, and being silenced.
 
WanderingWind said:
And the only way Shepard can send the Reapers back is activating the newly discovered Gamma Relay and allowing the Bothean (newly discovered super race) to enter the fray. But, it's a suicide mission! Shepard goes alone, meeting the mechanized Saren standing in the way. An epic, cover-based shootout takes place and Mecha-Saren Prime is defeated. But at what cost! Is Shepard dead?

Well, that depends on you, doesn't it? If you cheated on your love interest from the first game, yup, you died for humanities sins. If you remained true blue (get it? Blue! Upper right! LOL!) then Liara/Kaiden/Ashley runs in, moves a heavy, well-place beam and resuscitates you. With the power of love.

The prologue will have Wrex's children running around a Christmas tree in badly knit sweaters as Tali kisses Legion under the mistletoe.

Everything turns out a-okay!

...or does it? Off in the Delta Quadrant, a lone Reaper has escaped the final, expensive CGI space battle, nursing it's wounds and biding it's time. Sequel? Only time will tell, true believer!

Yeah, there will totally be a sequel. Parts 4, 5, 6 will be a story-driven, visceral MMO.
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Sadly, what you've outlined here is probably superior to what they've cooked up...
 
Hey, check out this parody of mass effect someone put together! I almost bought it until I heard the voice acting and the line "we fight or we die, that's the plan". HA HA HA HA HA!! And that Rage Against the Machine riff? Oh those Youtube uploaders and their inappropriate music choices!

THIS is Mass Effect.

Makes me want to weep...

I wonder what some of the original artists/writers think of the evolution of Mass Effect? Do they wish it had stayed more "true" to its initial direction? Or do you think they're all like "more guitar bitches!!! Slice 'em up Wolvie-style!!!"?
 
Peter.Simpson909 said:
Hey, check out this parody of mass effect someone put together! I almost bought it until I heard the voice acting and the line "we fight or we die, that's the plan". HA HA HA HA HA!! And that Rage Against the Machine riff? Oh those Youtube uploaders and their inappropriate music choices!

THIS is Mass Effect.
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That...that really sums it up right there.
 
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