ROUGE_BLOCK
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I do hope most of the footage is with a character with a helmet on so there is no "default" character. Sort of like what they did with the Inquisition trailers if my memory serves right.
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I do hope most of the footage is with a character with a helmet on so there is no "default" character. Sort of like what they did with the Inquisition trailers if my memory serves right.
Partially hidden in Inquisition trailers. Though ME gives them the opportunity to hide it fully, and honestly they shouldn't be afraid to.
That would be nice.
The Artisan
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it's been said that this is off from default femshep, which means whoever made it came pretty close to her in the character creator.
The Artisan
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I used vega a lot, especially on the cerberus missions. just to show em & TIM one human soldier they're missing out onGarrus and Javik is the team I had for most of ME3
Vega's incendiary ammo being able to be applied party-wide was amazing.I used vega a lot, especially on the cerberus missions. just to show em & TIM one human soldier they're missing out on
Javik + Liara are a very strong supporting combination. They both have great setup and detonation powers.
My playthrough was almost always Javik + setting appropriate secondary character.
The Artisan
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tbh, most of the time unless I was after trophies, I didn't pick squadmates based on whose powers/skills would be best suited for the mission but rather who I'd rather be conversing with and hear react to stuff along the way.
Depends on the mission for me.
The Artisan
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yeah, i think that is the most practical way to go about it.
StoppedInTracks
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For me it's always the same team in every mission. My squad. I am actually angry when I get "forced" squad members to specific missions.
StoppedInTracks
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On topic of Ash, one thing I noticed today: does BioWare have problem with sexy blondes?
Cause I cannot remember one sexy blonde in the series - maybe you guys can prove me wrong (do not remember ME1 cast that well)?
Miranda, Ashley - all hot brunettes.
Default Female Shepard - redhead IIRC
Specialist Samantha Traynor - black haired
Hell, even Yeoman Chambers was a sexy redhead!
Blondes are either old (Dr Chakwas) or unimportant.
Cause I cannot remember one sexy blonde in the series - maybe you guys can prove me wrong (do not remember ME1 cast that well)?
Miranda, Ashley - all hot brunettes.
Default Female Shepard - redhead IIRC
Specialist Samantha Traynor - black haired
Hell, even Yeoman Chambers was a sexy redhead!
Blondes are either old (Dr Chakwas) or unimportant.
Well blonde hair did look very plastic in the engine.
My Shepard was some blonde Dolph Lungdren dude so yeah.
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Conrad wasn't enough for you?
Cullen was the only blonde person in Inquisition IIRC.
StoppedInTracks
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Confirms Bios think blonde = sexist :/
Even tho I love the look of Cassandra in DA2/ DA3. And herrrrrrr voice.
She and Leliana were always a bit over the top with their religiosity for me. Though I wonder if the ME team would go down the intergalactic holy war route. Might be a bit too Halo though.
StoppedInTracks
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Didn't you find Tali too much "religious" - for the lack of better word - in the ME series? For me she was a little bit too much.
What?
TC McQueen
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She was barely religious. I think the closest she got to that was some stuff in ME3 and Keelah Salai (I'm totally misspelling that).
Yes, we have some hard info.
- Shepard is not in it
- Current-gen only
- Frostbite engine
- We've seen a logo with the name ARKCON that's related to the game
- Will NOT be named Mass Effect 4
- Emphasis on exploration
- You can drive a Mako in it
- Vague talk about potentially a new galaxy
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
prag16
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They even changed Yvonne Strahovski from blonde to brunette for Miranda.
But yeah, I agree with the above... might have had a little to do with how terrible blonde hair looked in that engine.
But there was a lore reason too I thought... that after humans became spacefaring, lines between ethnicities blurred by and large as people started to identify as human rather than hispanic, european, african, etc. A few generations later, a lot of recessive traits were phasing out.
Liara was more religious than her with all the "Goddess!" she keep saying everytime something terrible or surprising happen, and that isn't much anyway.
Pretty much the only character that seemed religious in the least to me was Ashley.
I believe, in fact, that she's the only character who really talks about her religious beliefs at all.
Yup, and even then it's not really scratched at much.
Breakfast at Noon
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I hope we get new trophies on the ps4 remaster.
I really do not want to farm the same ones for the 4th time.
I really do not want to farm the same ones for the 4th time.
Hyperzephyrian
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Their lore reason for changing Yvonne Strahovski's hair was based on a long-lived and wrong idea that blonde hair is dying out.
The real reason for the change was that black hair gave her the "femme fatale" look they were going for.
Also, have some Yvonne Strahovski.
prag16
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Their lore reason for changing Yvonne Strahovski's hair was based on a long-lived and wrong idea that blonde hair is dying out.
The real reason for the change was that black hair gave her the "femme fatale" look they were going for.
Also, have some Yvonne Strahovski.
Can NEVER have too much of her. She is my favorite, and Mass Effect 2 introduced her to me. Have watched nearly her entire filmography since then, haha.
Florida_Man_5000
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We also had a hangman puzzle rumor for the title, right? Something like ~~NT~~T(?). A reverse hangman gave 8-10 possibilities. Go back in this thread, you'll see it.
The Artisan
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I don't remember it being forced very often. In Me2 the loyalty mission always dictated who you brought along and in Me3 Liara was mandatory in a couple of missions as Edi was for the cerberus attack. Don't remember about Me1.
Were you talking about any game in particular?
I believe that was EatChildren, based on a leak.
We know that at one point the (working?) title was Mass Effect: Contact. We can't be certain that is still the title.
Florida_Man_5000
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Cantest
Cantlet
Contact - naw, that ain't it!
Content
Contest
Context
Contort
Contrat
Dentist
Fantast yup!
Fontlet
Gantlet maybe!
Mantlet
Montant
Pentact
The Artisan
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oh, man. the ME film is supposed to be based on shepard's story yeah? I hope yvonne will be around to do the film.Their lore reason for changing Yvonne Strahovski's hair was based on a long-lived and wrong idea that blonde hair is dying out.
The real reason for the change was that black hair gave her the "femme fatale" look they were going for.
Also, have some Yvonne Strahovski.
Not really, obsessed with re-taking her planet maybe but even that eased up by ME3.
I don't see the point of changing them just for the sake of it except ME1 stupid companion achievement, i'm not doing that crap ever again
What made me sad about the ME3 ending wasnt how bad it was, but how would they do a sequel to the series after that. Im still worried about this.
At this point, I wish they do something like Dragon Age Inquisition. A stand alone with a closed history that doesnt tie in to a sequel. I feel that a lot of stuff gets thrown out in the way when bioware things "oooh, lets make this choice matter" but nope, it doesnt matter because 5 years passed and they couldnt figure out anything. (Im still pissed about the rachni queen)
At this point, I wish they do something like Dragon Age Inquisition. A stand alone with a closed history that doesnt tie in to a sequel. I feel that a lot of stuff gets thrown out in the way when bioware things "oooh, lets make this choice matter" but nope, it doesnt matter because 5 years passed and they couldnt figure out anything. (Im still pissed about the rachni queen)
The Artisan
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I don't think remastered games get a new set of trophies. They'll probably be the same.
Me2 is the only platinum I've got and I'll happily make Me2 on Ps4 my second.
huh? what is that?
Inquisition does take a lot of the choices from the previous games into consideration for the lore and world state. But I also do think that the world of Thedas is much better written and well thought out compared to ME's.
Mass Effect 1 has achievements for bringing each squad member on a majority of all missions in the game.
Because of that, you'll need at least 3 playthroughs in which you do a significant amount of the side content to get them all.
In addition, getting Liara's also means that you hold off on doing pretty much all the Citadel sidequests until you get her.
The Artisan
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da3 is the first da game i've ever played and i know about that website, but was there an import save for people who played the previous games?
No, you rebuild your choices using the website. An indirect approach, but the game's story does reflect on the actions of DA 1 and 2 using the keep (a brilliant tool IMO).
No.
You either use the Dragon Age Keep website or you use the default world state.
The Artisan
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I see. I can definitely see why someone would be annoyed by that, but there's almost no game where you can get all of the trophies/achievements on the first go.
Ok, was this a result of last gen --> current gen? Or was it not even possible if you got a last gen version of the game?
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