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Mass Effect |OT| Alien love in an elevator
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Psychotext
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Woah everyone... there's plenty of stuff in there I'd consider spoliers. Plus a bunch of stuff I think people would much rather get blown away by the first time they see in in game themselves.Naeblish said:
Just a warning, I suppose it depends on your sensitivity to finding out little details.
DreamMachine
Member
I said WOW...
Gamespy review: "This is one of the best games of the year, and will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the greatest games ever made."
Gamespy review: "This is one of the best games of the year, and will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the greatest games ever made."
Mr. Spinnington
Banned
Hey thanks, I gotta update the OP but I've been a little crushed with my workload these past few days. I'll be on it by tomorrow though!GarthVaderUK said:
Now I gotta go put this in the reviews thread so the official one remains impressions/discussion only.
VideoGamer.com review http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/mass_effect/review.html
*stabs anyone who complains about 8/10 score*
Last I checked 8/10 is a freaking good score. And you're in denial if you try to pretend the game doesn't have flaws, but it's still a freaking good game.
Sabotage's ability to overheat enemy weapons is near useless. At medium to long range it has virtually no effect since it just means enemies will spend ~4 more seconds in cover. At close range it is useful, but then again stunning an enemy completely would be even more useful.
Overload doesn't disable shields completely, it deals a specific amount of damage to shields. It's probably the best of out these 3 abilities, but considering you can't use it very often means that your pistol will be dealing most of the damage to enemy shields anyway.
How does engineers get better mines by the way? I thought all classes had the same ones. Being able to open anything in the game doesn't matter much anyway, any character can do that if you have someone with Decryption and Electronics in your party.
Last I checked 8/10 is a freaking good score. And you're in denial if you try to pretend the game doesn't have flaws, but it's still a freaking good game.
Damping doesn't silence all abilities, it adds up to 60% longer recharge time. And that doesn't matter since 90% of the enemies seems to never use abilities at all. The major threat is most definitely people shooting at you. Damping can stun enemies for ~3 seconds though which is good. But not that great considering there's 4 Adept spells which also stuns enemiesIronicallyTwisted said:
Sabotage's ability to overheat enemy weapons is near useless. At medium to long range it has virtually no effect since it just means enemies will spend ~4 more seconds in cover. At close range it is useful, but then again stunning an enemy completely would be even more useful.
Overload doesn't disable shields completely, it deals a specific amount of damage to shields. It's probably the best of out these 3 abilities, but considering you can't use it very often means that your pistol will be dealing most of the damage to enemy shields anyway.
How does engineers get better mines by the way? I thought all classes had the same ones. Being able to open anything in the game doesn't matter much anyway, any character can do that if you have someone with Decryption and Electronics in your party.
That doesn't make sense. The Sentinel class doesn't even have the pistol attribute. Sure you aren't mixing it up with the Infiltrator class?IronicallyTwisted said:
Psychotext
Member
Like I said, it really depends on your sensitivity to it. Seeing people die in cutscenes was enough to start my spoiler warning alarm off!Naeblish said:
Sectus said:
In addition to the eight talents listed on the Galactic Codex, every class has a "class talent" with the name of the class itself.
Soldiers get health regen and more health, Vanguards get bonus damage with pistols and shotguns, so forth and so on. I believe the Sentinel one actually works almost like having the Pistol skill, increasing damage and accuracy and giving Marksman skill.
Of course, unlike the "real" Pistol talent, a class talent only has a maximum of 6 ranks (points spent) instead of 12, so you won't be able to achieve the level of mastery in a Pistol that every other class in the game can do - of course, some other players may never spend more than 6 ranks in Pistol anyway. You also can wear light armor as a Sentinel but you can never upgrade its quality through talent point expenditure.
Ark-AMN said:
Which one did you see?
More importantly, was it Liara or some other random Asari?
The romance scene with Liara contains sideboob and Liara's ass and otherwise covers up naughty bits and uses quick cuts. The other one contains kissing and only implies sex. I almost wish I hadn't seen it yet, but I'm a sucker for spoilers. If the Ashley / Kaiden ones leaked I'd probably watch those too.
Anyhoo, either scene is available for Shepards of either gender if you're into interspecial lovin' with asexual blue humanoids.
Soldier gets to use heavy armor and they can use all 4 weapon types.SpudBud said:
Vanguard can only use pistol and shotgun, but has access to 3 or 4 spells.
I personally would recommend Vanguard as it's a more varied and fun class to play. I think Vanguard would be a slightly more powerful class but both should be perfectly fine to complete the game with. If you're planning to complete the game more than once (which you'll need to do if you wanna try to get more achievements or play higher difficulties) I recommend you save the better class for another playthrough.
There's another thing worth mentioning which might be a tiny spoiler...
When getting some of the "mastery" achievements (killing 150 enemies with a specific weapon, or using an ability 75 times) you get the option to choose one bonus attribute when making a new character. For instance, if you have the achievement for killing 150 enemies with a sniper rifle, or having used Sabotage 75 times you get to choose between Sniper Rifle and Electronics as a bonus attribute for that character.
That's something to keep in mind if you're planning to play through the game multiple times (hell, you could probably just start a temporary character, use something like Throw on a box 75 times and you can have that bonus attribute for your very first real character)
That's something to keep in mind if you're planning to play through the game multiple times (hell, you could probably just start a temporary character, use something like Throw on a box 75 times and you can have that bonus attribute for your very first real character)
SpudBud said:
A Soldier is going to have more health and more armor and can use more weapons.
A Vanguard is going to have a lot of powerful close range offensive options but not be able to "take a hit" as well.
Common Ground:
Pistol, Assault Training, Unlockable Shotgun
Soldier
+: Assault Rifles
+: Combat Armor (Medium => Heavy)
+: Unlockable Sniper Rifle talent
+: Unlock Shotguns slightly earlier (less investment into Pistol)
+: Unlockable Fitness & First Aid
+: Class talent - More health, health regen
-: No Biotic powers.
Vanguard:
+: Biotic powers (Throw, Warp / Unlock Lift, Barrier)
+: Class talent - More damage with Shotgun, resistance to enemy Biotic powers
-: Unlockable Tactical Armor (Light => Medium)
LunaticPuma
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Dyno said:
They said in the beginning that they have boundless love for ME are just going into minutia. Hence the title "Nitpicking." They love AC too, but not as much as ME from what I can tell.
rebel^pudding
Banned
are there any pics comparing the game with the filter on and off?
UnholySpectacle
Member
Wait, if you are a female Shepard you can get it on with Ashley instead of the blue chick? I thought the lesbian action was limited to the alien girl only?
UnholySpectacle said:
I have no idea where you got confused, but the only one talking about it was me, so let's recap:
Male Human Shepard: Romance storyline with Female Human party member OR Asari party member.
Female Human Shepard: Romance storyline with Male Human party member OR Asari party member.
Also, there is no such thing as a "male" Asari. Which means there is no such thing as a "female" Asari, either. Maybe they clone themselves. Maybe they asexually bud. Maybe they're hermaphroditic. Maybe they use parthenogenesis. Beats me. Since you can get intimate with not one, but two of them in the course of the story, maybe some of the dialogue will reveal a bit more data. :lol
They obviously look similar to female humans, though.
methos1975
Banned
ghostmind said:
Waiting also, my order has a delivery date of Nov 27, that better not be true. Amazon is really starting to piss me off with their pre-orders, they went from getting them to you on the day of release to a week after, not kosher.
Psychotext
Member
It would appear some people (like me) feel that there's spoilers in the GT review, others don't. Proceed at your own risk.
jjasper said:
The spoiler-age is mild and on par with a film trailer, IMHO. If you're so antsy about that sort of thing enough that you have to ask, then I think you may as well just wait.
To put it another way, if you like watching the little quick cuts before an episode of Battlestar Galactica, this should be fine. If you look away for fear of spoilers, then it won't be.
If anything was a bigger spoiler than that, I missed it. And don't remind me what it is, because I haven't played it yet to know what gave away something it shouldn't have. :lol
Could someone give a rundown of how the various weapons handle? There just seems to be a gap between the pistol types and the assault rifles (or are smg's included in the pistol type?).
I want to play the vanguard class but eh, i've never been big on shotguns really so how good are the pistols in the game?
I want to play the vanguard class but eh, i've never been big on shotguns really so how good are the pistols in the game?
DreamMachine
Member
why is this thread so quiet ??
it's one of MS's big guns I figured there would be more talk about it.
it's one of MS's big guns I figured there would be more talk about it.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Does anyone who has the game yet know if once a character falls in battle they can be revived? or are they dead till the battle is finished? Thanks.
SlasherJPC
Banned
Thyrus said:
Honestly in my experience, the pistol has been one awesome weapon. It can do considerable damage to a enemy even from far away where as it seems with the shoot and assault rifle you need to be somewhat close. Thats just my observation in my first 7 hours of playing.
BenjaminBirdie
Banned
DreamMachine said:
We're all...you know...waiting for it? Also, it's a 360 exclusive which means a lot less gnashing of teeth when it comes to reviews.