Leviathan is way better than Omega. You explore more planets and there is more than only combat to do. You also learn more about the Reapers, while Omega is just about retaking Omega...which might be more or less interesting to you depending on how much you liked Omega and Aria in ME2.
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Leviathan is way better than Omega. You explore more planets and there is more than only combat to do. You also learn more about the Reapers, while Omega is just about retaking Omega...which might be more or less interesting to you depending on how much you liked Omega and Aria in ME2.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
TC McQueen
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I love the precision of a mouse, but I fucking hate playing on a keyboard. Controllers are way more comfortable and efficient for me, especially since I couch game.
digoutyoursoul
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Don't do this , please
Night Hunter
Banned
BouncyFrag
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Hmmm. . . Mass Effect: HANGMAN
I smell a possible new omni-tool hack minigame unless we get our sweet, clean, forever unlocking omni-gel back.
Fine Ham Abounds
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Mess Affect: A L P H R E D
Not going to lie.
I liked the Mass Effect 2 hacking mini-game. It felt right.
With how ridiculous the inception horn and its relatives are... I'd still laugh pretty hard if they went with this community tribute for the music.
I liked the Mass Effect 2 hacking mini-game. It felt right.
The long-standing rumor has been a return to exploration. It will be really interesting to see if that becomes apparent in a stage demo or trailer which tend to heavily favor the more explosive sort of beat.
With how ridiculous the inception horn and its relatives are... I'd still laugh pretty hard if they went with this community tribute for the music.
I'd like them to bring back hacking, definitely. And holstering. That better be back.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Demoing such things would go a long way in showing what the new game is about and what it does that the last two games maybe did not do so well, and create some buzz within the fanbase, so hopefully that's what they do.
BouncyFrag
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Alphred Vanguard class. Shotty can be upgraded to the Claymore after passing Krogan Rite of Passage solo and on foot. You bet he's got a quad.
Clarkus Darkus
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Well if next-gen games are proving anything, It's open world is the new craze, So the next ME cannot be anything less that explorable, ME3 felt small with citadel being the only hub, For an RPG space opera i would like to think they would go the ME1 route, Which is have explorable planets each with side missions or main missions. But obviously not recycled ones.lol.
It's EA.
They'll show off explosions and combat. I doubt EA sees value in showing off exploration as, unlike Dragon Age, they don't feel like they need to win back the ME audience.
MrTroubleMaker
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PC, but will probably get it on ps4/xb3 at some point. I did the same for the first three, except for the first game since it was console exclusive at first.
Gozer the Gozerian
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all i want to know is how many species of alien can i fuck in this one
That's actually worse.
Nostremitus
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Was most of this described in the books or something?
I've played all three games and the historical archives you see when helping Legion are fairly damning.
TC McQueen
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It was mentioned/seen in conversations with Tali, Legion, and various NPCs, plus the codex entries for the Quarians and Geth. ME3 decided to go from the "the Quarians were decent people who might have made bad choices due to external factors" to "the Quarians were totally in the wrong for what they did to the Geth" for no real reason.
Hell, there's a whole scene with people being racist to Quarians, which is one of the few paragon interrupts in ME2.
Nostremitus
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That's the difference of perspective. The Quarians were displayed as decent people because the in-game characters telling you that were Quarian. The archives and their actions in 3 tell a different story.
I'm not saying that every Quarian is evil, that's not true of any species. But the choses of their governing body and the actions carried out by their people are villainous.
That's the perception I got playing the games, anyway.
TC McQueen
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The codex and Legion's stuff (plus the stuff Shepard sees) aren't from the Quarian perspective, though. That's why it feels like a bullshit writing change to a lot of people, because the entire Geth/Quarian conflict had been written to be ambiguous, like the genophage, up until that point. It's like they decided to add all the evil/dumb Quarian stuff to make an artificial dilemma for drama's sake or to prevent people from going to the obvious choice of a Quarian/Geth alliance.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
I have a question that I'm sure has been asked before, but I'm too lazy to slick search and type some stuff in that form as opposed to the one I'm typing in right now, but is there an ending to Mass Effect 3 where the Reapers don't win? The three "choices" that I ended up with at the end of my first playthrough made it seem like Bioware went for the lazy route and didn't actually come up with a bunch of endings based on the things the player did throughout the series.
Nostremitus
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The codex is an "in universe" historical record. The Quarian history was written by the Quarians. Legion's stuff is damning to the Quarians. The Geth who sided with the Reapers did so because they feared attack from the Quarians. The Geth on the home world weren't malicious, but the reason no Quarian ships ever returned from the veil is because they went in to either steal from, abduct, sabotage, or attack the Geth... Of course the Geth would defend themselves.
Not sure where you're going with the stuff Shepard sees. Are you talking about the racism? That's not relative to the topic of whether or not the Quarian government, and therefor their role in the galaxy, is villainous.
Not sure where you're going with the stuff Shepard sees. Are you talking about the racism? That's not relative to the topic of whether or not the Quarian government, and therefor their role in the galaxy, is villainous.
Gozer the Gozerian
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Ugh please don't be contact wars
Indeed, no prequel, please.
MrTroubleMaker
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I hope its not first contact war either
I think (HOPE TO FUCKING GOD) this is the accurate interpretation. Would allow them to introduce new species.
Exploratory
Banned
Stop teasing start dropping bombs.
TC McQueen
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If there's any bias in the codex, it's towards the Citadel Council's POV, at least through ME2, because
It would be damning if the Geth weren't literally the biggest social retards in the Mass Effect universe. Most of the problems between the Geth and the rest of the galaxy would've been solved if the Geth simply told everyone they weren't planning to kill everyone before Legion came around.
Nostremitus
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Clearly... Mass Effect: Dentist
A simulator.
A simulator.
They want to move past the prior trilogy. I'd be shocked if they picked up the Leviathan angle.
I expect everything to do with the Reapers to be swept under the rug barring a few token mentions.
I put a lot of stock into some vision of a First Contact War game being scrapped so not worried about that.
Oh god.
We're playing as a Special Circumstances agent.
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Nostremitus
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The Quarians are the reason the Geth had that reputation though. They attempted to use fear mongering to persuade the rest of the galaxy to help them commit xenocide.
ArchedThunder
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I hope I can bring my genocide of the Quarians into ME4, even if it takes place before ME3.
royox
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anexanhume
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The toothbrush in "The Citadel" It was under our noses the whole time.
TC McQueen
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The Mass Effect universe was already anti-AI before the Geth came around (hell, there's a sidequest in ME1 where you kill a gambling AI for being an AI). Believe me, a robotic race kicking its creators' asses would probably be way more effective at causing fear mongering in such a setting than anything said by the Quarians.
Nostremitus
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My point is that the Geth never did anything wrong. Sure, a faction of them made the mistake of trusting the Reapers in order to better defend themselves from the Quarians and became indoctrinated, but the main group of Geth on the Quarian home world were only defending themselves.
royox
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Every time an organic race ship entered the "Geth Space" the Geth attacked it. This was told several times during ME1.
Also...do you remember the "not legion's Geth"?? Those ones want to destroy all the organics.
Also Legion tells you during ME2 or ME3 that they need to expand, and they will defeat everybody who try to stop their expansion.
Geth are not as bad as Quarian say....but they are not as good as Legion wants Shepard to see. How many times the Geth (Legion itself) lied to Shepard during ME2 and ME3? He tried to access to the normandy's system (THANK GOD we had EDI). He lied when he said they would NEVER use Reaper tech. And he never says why he wears Shep. armor.
Machines can't be indoctrinated.
funkystudent
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Oh for the love of god dont be a prequel.
Nothing good ever comes from prequels. It would be the laziest thing they could do.
Nothing good ever comes from prequels. It would be the laziest thing they could do.
figadapaura
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NO! A prequel would be the worst. Anything but that.
Please be first contact with other races.
Please be first contact with other races.
Nostremitus
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Legion was accessing the Normandy's systems the same way EDI accesses the systems of every ship and port they come in close proximity to...
Legion was being honest in saying the Geth wouldn't use Reaper Tech. To him, the ones who took the tech are no longer Geth. The Heretics became different programs. This was after the Heretics had already split from the collective. This means that the surviving Geth would not.
As far as Geth becoming indoctrinated? They look at the same equation and come to a different outcome... That sounds an awful lot like brainwashing or indoctrination to me.
wolfhowwl
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If the game is a sequel, I really hope that they would start with a clean slate and not mess around with an import from ME3.
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