Why? I was never a huge fan of her as a squadmate.
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Why? I was never a huge fan of her as a squadmate.
Other than the last moments of the main mission where she lose connection to the Normandy(and funny scene ensue on the shuttle on the way to the port), I'm not sure what's so special about her on the Citadel.
The Artisan
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yeah me neither. but i think she was required
She's required for a mission in the base game, not in Citadel, as I recall. I don't believe any party member is required, even Wrex.
The Artisan
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oh yeah i misread. she's required for cerberus ambush
I'm playing it too (in a lesser resolution 
) and I had forgotten how big the Citadel is compared to the third one.
Also, I love the first appearance of Sovereign. No cutscene, no bullshit, you just run up a small hill and holy shit what is that thing over there ???
No warning, no nothing, it's just suddenly there, and it makes that noise, and it slowly leaves the atmosphere.
Even after playing the whole trilogy a bunch of times, this moment still works so well. You just get a gut feeling that something huge and bad is happening.
Love the first one, great use of music (and of silence sometimes).
) and I had forgotten how big the Citadel is compared to the third one. Also, I love the first appearance of Sovereign. No cutscene, no bullshit, you just run up a small hill and holy shit what is that thing over there ???
No warning, no nothing, it's just suddenly there, and it makes that noise, and it slowly leaves the atmosphere.
Even after playing the whole trilogy a bunch of times, this moment still works so well. You just get a gut feeling that something huge and bad is happening.
Love the first one, great use of music (and of silence sometimes).
Boombloxer
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Most definitely. Better throw in Uncle Urdnot while you're at it.
Javik and Tali/Garrus for me.
The Prothean African death machine.
His condescending dialogue for everyone was brutal.
I'm playing it too (in a lesser resolution
Also, I love the first appearance of Sovereign. No cutscene, no bullshit, you just run up a small hill and holy shit what is that thing over there ???
No warning, no nothing, it's just suddenly there, and it makes that noise, and it slowly leaves the atmosphere.
Even after playing the whole trilogy a bunch of times, this moment still works so well. You just get a gut feeling that something huge and bad is happening.
Love the first one, great use of music (and of silence sometimes).
Yass! Even just reading your post, the image and sequence are still so clear in my mind's eye, 7 years later*.
*5 playthroughs
Just watched Star Trek Beyond and couldn't help but think about Mass Effect a couple of times, with the floating space city reminiscing of the Citadel, the swarm of "bees", the armor of the bad guys making me think of the Collectors & the voice actress of one of the Quarian admirals.
I thought the exact same thing while watching.
Well except 600 years later Liara is still alive, as are many of the other long living races
But in another galaxy. While the action will be Andromeda, which takes 600 years to reach.
It's possible an element of the plot may be building a Mass Effect relay, but I doubt it. I honestly expect Andromeda to be as close to a soft reboot of the franchise as is humanly possible. A few opening nods to the existing fans, and then new stuff all the way.
Either that or Walters' worst tendencies will reemerge and we'll have Cerberus once again being schizophrenic, along with Protheans and Reapers.
In all honesty, if any of those three (Cerberus, Protheans or Reapers) show up in Andromeda I will consider the game a failure*. We need to leave that shit in the past.
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By this I mean in the same way I consider Mass Effect 2 a failure: Its failure to live up to being what it could have been. It still may be a fine game on its own merits, just... disappointing.
EatChildren
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Cerberus would be the ultimate failure.
JohnnyFootball
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I would be fine with ME2 Cerberus, but ME3 Cerberus needs to stay dead and buried.
JohnnyFootball
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Yeah, now that I got my PC upgraded (Geforce 1070) and ME now has modded controller support I am happy playing the PC versions for the definitive experience.
I honestly hate ME2 Cerberus most of all. I feel like ME3 Cerberus is truer to their ME1 roots, while ME2 is the outlier.
The Lamonster
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So for anyone that actually liked uncharted worlds (like me), No Man's Sky is pretty much a modern day version of that. I'm enjoying it, and totally getting the same vibes I got in 2007 when exploring in ME1.
Wasn't that explained in ME3 though, that they put their best face to Shepard in spite of being evil by deliberately forwarding him dossiers of people he'd be comfortable around.
They tried to explain it, yes. Doesn't mean I liked the explanation or bought it.
Poodlestrike
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Cerberus is the only one I'd really, seriously object to. Protheans could be kinda neat, have a colony of 'em out there having done their own Ark project. Maybe a single, lone Reaper, screwing around. But no Cerberus, we did that to DEATH.
Personal guess is N7 day, at which point we'll get the full blowout. I still have faith in the March release date, given how they're talking about emulating the Fallout 4 strategy.
shinobi602
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After Titanfall and Battlefield release.
Regginator
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So I'm replaying through ME1 and 2 on Steam for the fourth time, and I'm halfway through 2, and I've only recently come to a shocking revelation. I'm sure it's already been discussed, but this is new to me. In the Eternity bar on Ilium, you can hear three co-workers (a human, turian and salarian) having a bachelor party. One thing lead to another, and they talk about how that asari dancer looks a lot like them. The human says she looks human, the turian says she looks turian, and the salarian says she looks salarian.
And then something eerie dawned on them, and it actually left me speechless for a minute... Do the asari look different depending on the race you belong to? (And seeing as Shepard is human, we always see asari as human-like beings.) Maybe an evolutionary trait to boost their chance of reproduction?
And then something eerie dawned on them, and it actually left me speechless for a minute... Do the asari look different depending on the race you belong to? (And seeing as Shepard is human, we always see asari as human-like beings.) Maybe an evolutionary trait to boost their chance of reproduction?
Mediking
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To even further blow your mind: If you have a drink at that bar, the Asari bartender will look different afterwards.
This was made https://imgur.com/a/2ijLi
Just noticed that in the conceptual prototype there's already a dilapidated highway and a very old Alliance ship modeled.
Wonder how much colonization has been done when you wake up.
Just noticed that in the conceptual prototype there's already a dilapidated highway and a very old Alliance ship modeled.
Wonder how much colonization has been done when you wake up.
Darth Pinche
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Holy shit! I need to try this!
Regginator
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Way ahead of you, when it dawned on me I immediately talked to the bartender hoping there'd be new dialogue, but nothing
I also found this:
ThoseDeafMutes
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There's porn of Asari, they appear on signs, and people look at them through proxies, cameras and intermediaries all the time. They wear human, form-fitting armor. They are humanlike, the other species barely have any claim. If they used mind powers or pheremone pixie dust to make people think they look like them, it would be common knowledge because of how incredibly easy it would be for the illusion to break down.
Poodlestrike
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This. They all reference different features.
The Lamonster
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uhh is there a pic or video of this somewhere? I never noticed...
Nostremitus
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shinobi602
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I question the prospect of releasing a remaster of the original trilogy after Andromeda releases. Despite some doom and gloom, Andromeda is coming along very well, it'll be ready in Q1.
It was brought up at EA a long while ago and wasn't given the greenlight. I last asked about a possible ME remaster not too long ago (about 1-2 months ago), a clear "no, not happening" was said. This is a clear shift in their tone, which, I have no idea how they didn't realize it's easy money on the table a long ass time ago. Even if they started working on it now, they wouldn't be able to cobble together something worthwhile in 5-6 months, so it'd have to release after Andromeda.
While I'd definitely buy it...prime time would have been before the new game.
It was brought up at EA a long while ago and wasn't given the greenlight. I last asked about a possible ME remaster not too long ago (about 1-2 months ago), a clear "no, not happening" was said. This is a clear shift in their tone, which, I have no idea how they didn't realize it's easy money on the table a long ass time ago. Even if they started working on it now, they wouldn't be able to cobble together something worthwhile in 5-6 months, so it'd have to release after Andromeda.
While I'd definitely buy it...prime time would have been before the new game.
DeadlyParasite
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It's hard to say. Most of the work would probably be put on the first and second game because Mass Effect 3 still holds up remarkably well texture and visual-wise on PC (aside from some character models).
Personally I am not looking for anything dramatically changed gameplay-wise. If they can somehow work a better movement/cover system into ME1 I'd be totally happy if the rest was just superfluous texture and resolution changes.
And of course proper controller support for the PC versions.
JohnnyFootball vindicated!
Amazing that it took EA this long to realize something that was abundantly obvious.
I would also be super down for a Dragon Age Origins remaster (hopefully with something like the Sten mod that makes him look like Qunari in the latter games).
I have hope that you're right....
But I'm also totally prepared for the delay to Q4 and the billion CALLED IT posts.
Amazing that it took EA this long to realize something that was abundantly obvious.
I would also be super down for a Dragon Age Origins remaster (hopefully with something like the Sten mod that makes him look like Qunari in the latter games).
I have hope that you're right....
But I'm also totally prepared for the delay to Q4 and the billion CALLED IT posts.
VenomousCoffee
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Oh please God let this happen soon Oh please God let this happen soon Oh please God let this happen soon
JohnnyFootball
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It depends. A well done remaster has no time table. Although I would agree that it would have made 100X more sense to do it before Andromeda and use it as a means to promote Andromeda.
However, the bright side is that if Andromeda is well received it will still make sense to re-release the trilogy for people wanting to experience it.
I was particularly encouraged by the comments along the lines of: "A remaster is something that you can just do or do it really well. I want to make sure that if we were to do it, we would do it really well and that people feel that it's the same game but it feels so much better in this new shape and form. There have been titles that have come out that have done it really well, and there have been others that maybe haven't done it so well. We just want to make sure that we stay in the 'done it really well' camp."
Mediking
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Wow... interesting... Maybe Bluepoint Games can jump in and quickly help or something?
JohnnyFootball
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The funny thing is that I have kinda lost my appetite for it as I have rediscovered my love of PC gaming now that I have a purchased a Geforce 1070 and am considering a PC playthrough with the controller mods at 1080p/60fps and some minor PC visual/gameplay mods.
Still I would buy it.
However, those are saying it would NEVER happen clearly don't pay attention to the business world. Things are constantly changing and things that seem impossible can become possible after one meeting between execs. Businesses that survive are those that can adapt to market conditions. Does that mean a remaster is guaranteed? Not in the slightest. It simply means that "not happening" really means "not happening right now"
Nostremitus
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I have the trilogy on PC with controller mods and I'd still buy a remaster.
Hopefully the "Do it well" camp is similar to Metro Redux... Where they basically recreated the old game in the new engine. Or Wind Waker HD where they completely reworked the lighting and textures and also fixed late game pacing issues and boring segments.
That would be worth buying... Having the DLC included so that everyone experiences the full story would also be a major plus... Because, honestly, right now the asking price for the original games +DLC is way too much for the average gamer to consider purchasing.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
I would never expect (nor would I require) ME1 to get the same kind of overhaul that Metro Redux got. It would require changing too many things to have that be practical and not be just slapped in. While Metro Reux changed much of the game mechanics, it never required changing the encounter or level design the way I believe Mass Effect would.
Nostremitus
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True, which is why I also included the Wind Waker example. New lighting engine, new textures, game fixes, done...
Because there's some hilarious interactions with her towards the end of the dlc.
Also, on the topic of remasters, I could see EA pulling an Activision and bundle the remaster with Andromeda, thus delaying the release of the game.
JohnnyFootball
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