lucebuce12
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Just giving EDI clothes in her default outfit would've been a solid start.
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MASS EFFECT: ANDROMEDA Gameplay Series #2: Characters
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Back-In-Black
Banned
Why? She's a robot.
StereoVsn
Member
Are you talking multiplayer or single player? Because I don't care for the 3-4 available powers in MP and now same design is on SP. So we have a lot less options, have to depend on AI for combos (i have strong doubts that this will be any good) and squad mates feel like power button powers now vs being team mates. Meh.
prag16
Banned
I don't follow. If anything they were closer to merely "power buttons" in the trilogy than here.
StereoVsn
Member
In the trilogy it felt like you were directing a team. Here it feels like they are just like 2x damage boasts.
prag16
Banned
I don't know. In the trilogy I largely saw them as a roundabout way to effectively give the player character extra powers. If the AI is good enough (a big if) this could feel more like teamwork than that did.
Apparently Bioware finally managed to provide trailers to Gamersyde - so now here are all the trailers in one big fell swoop: http://gamersyde.com/news_mass_effec...-18836_en.html
Thanks to Bioware and to Gamersyde for being so awesome!
Thanks to Bioware and to Gamersyde for being so awesome!
CommandThrower
Member
I would have preferred more party members that are aliens, but I'm satisfied by what we have. Six party members means that there's more room for dialogue and character development.
I see myself using the Krogan and the Turian/Asari as my main party members.
I see myself using the Krogan and the Turian/Asari as my main party members.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Fucking ace.
ShemhazaiX
Member
The problem is that they need to have at least two humans on the team, a man and woman, so that all of the people who are against having alien intercourse have romance options.
SirPinkyNose
Member
I am against anything that is not Human-Quarian intercourse and where is my option?
Complistic
Member
Glad there's only 6, The amount of dialogue per squad member in ME2 was terrible, ME1 and ME3's conversation were much deeper.
Pick Jaal and just close your eyes?
Apparently squadie in MEA that has least of dialogue still has more dialogue than all ME3 squadies combined.
I wonder if they included the DA style banter into that account.
Complistic
Member
Probably referring to how many wrongly believe Ashley was "racist" since she didn't trust aliens. People don't like character flaws in their characters apparently.
SirPinkyNose
Member
Or because she claimed that sometimes she can't tell aliens apart from animals.
I cured genophage because I was doing paragon playthrough.
I'm so glad that bs Black & White system is gone in MEA.
At least I didn't sleep with Ashley.
Complistic
Member
Yeah that's totally unreasonable.
I mean I see either one of these guys for the first time and I immediately think, oh that's a sentient space-faring species and totally not just a weird trunkless elephant and a floating jellyfish.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Ash was a racist, and I use was because she dies every time.
I went grey and only missed out on some options that would have made the narrative a cakewalk, technically it was already gone in ME3, where they added up and you could do either.
I went grey and only missed out on some options that would have made the narrative a cakewalk, technically it was already gone in ME3, where they added up and you could do either.
Going by the tweet from a developer, the least talkative squadmate has "More dialogue than the "squad mate" who had the most dialogue in ME3", not more than them all of them combined
https://twitter.com/macwalterslives/status/834902781446225921
Yeah that's totally unreasonable.
I mean I see either one of these guys for the first time and I immediately think, oh that's a sentient space-faring species and totally not just a weird trunkless elephant and a floating jellyfish.
My unerstanding is it was actually intended to refer to the Keepers, but didn't fire as specifically as it was supposed to.
ArtificialIntelligence
Member
Do you think the 1080 will be enough to run it 60@4K ?
That's... a definition of xenophobia.
"I'm not racist, I just don't trust people from other parts of the world."
Yeah.
We all have our demons.
Lol
Slackbladder
Member
What the fucking fuck is going on? Why can't I connect to Gamersyde at all? Timed out every day this week?
Hopefully when the reviews hit we'll get some 4K video up.
Edit: If I use a proxy no problem. Must be my ISP fucking things up.
Ivory Samoan
Gold Member
AI has been confirmed to be affected by difficulty choice - so I'm thinking it's that also.
Well, I'm hoping it's that, at least.
Bear with my wall of text because, in spite of all the rough edges and shortcomings, the mass effect series makes me think and fills a video game hole in my lifelong love of science fiction. To wit:
C. J. Cherryh wrote a series of novels set in the Foreigner Universe. Humans meet an humanoid species, the Atevi, that (from Wikipedia now)
"...possess no directly corresponding concept of liking or loving another person, but instead place utmost importance on a concept called manchi, most directly analogous to loyalty. Man'chi is not merely a cultural construct, but is an intrinsic drive, a natural instinct to follow a leader, and is therefore a difference between the two races that cannot be bridged."
Back to mass effect. So when I first met Ashley, I too thought her a xenophobe. However, the Cherryh books made me wonder if we could (or did in the ME universe) meet aliens for whom the human overtones or even the whole human concept of trust was, well, alien. In which case, an Ashley would be who you'd want at your back.
What in the hell? why would you not cure the genophage? unless of course you killed off Wrex you SOB!
Krogans are capable of so much and wiping them out is a bridge too far
ArtificialIntelligence
Member
I am really looking forward for the 1080Ti announcement. If it is good enough I'll probably sell 1080 and go for the 1080Ti
What in the hell? why would you not cure the genophage? unless of course you killed off Wrex you SOB!
Krogans are capable of so much and wiping them out is a bridge too far
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Nah that was the server issue and am incredibly human 01110000000000111111
Salarians totally fucked them over by giving them tech to ascend into space age, basically skipping several steps of cultural and technological evolution. They never grew out of their warring nature and now had tech to wage war on galactic scale instead of among themselves on their own planet. That combined with rate of reproduction they were threat to other races when looking at whole extinction thing.
Salarians fucked up, Krogans fucked up and Turians just didn't want to get wiped out by Krogan Rebellion.
Why one should cure them and basically reset situation back to pre-Rebellion date? IF Krogan's can't rain in their warring nature then they will go after all other races once their numbers are back up. Because you are friends with 1 or 2 of them?
More or less Salarians make somewhat solid argument for not curing Krogans.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Yeah I wouldn't cure the genophage either, comes with the benefit of keeping Mordin alive.
Well main reason is that as it stands Krograns are on the verge of extinction, unless I'm mistaken it wasn't going to make the already born krogans somehow not have genophage but new krograns wouldn't be effected, with Wrex as the leader he was going to have them on a more righteous path. Unless im mistaken, it was the nuclear fallout that pretty much ruined tchunka and set them back to the stone age, now that they've matured they I don't think they'd go back to doing what they used to do.
I have faith in the krogans and I don't believe in genocide of sentient species, I mean are we going to start eliminating vorcha and batarians as well? Where do stop on the path to being full fledged space nazi's?
edit: had no idea you could save mordin, for some reason in my renegade playthrough he insisted on trying to cure them and I put several bullets in his back with tears streaming down my eyes ..... then I had to kill Wrex as well
I never knew you could sabotage it on the slyedit 2: looking back at this ME3 fact sheet, 92% of people cured the genophage!
additionally 54% never met Wrex n FX? thats brazy so they let that Psycho rule the krogans?
Still crazy to me that there actually was a pretty effect on the whole Krogan race through out the 3 games, too bad bc of all the press over "choices not mattering" we won't get another connected trilogy
Crimson_Echidna
Banned
What always got me was how so many of the people claiming Ashley was racist were also defending Cerberus' every action.
Funny thing too is nothing about Ashley's feelings are irrational either, which is the prerequisite for being a "xenophobe." Humans are still fresh off a war where Turians threatened to wipe them out, now trying to work their way up to the Citadel council where the other aliens are also prejudiced against them. Talk to plenty of NPCs and the feelings are mutual across all the species of wanting to look out for their own, but Ashley somehow gets singled out as somehow being the worst.
Back-In-Black
Banned
Cerberus doesn't pretend to be something else. And, I don't know many people defending them post-ME2. Hell, even ME2 I only supported TIM as much as our interest aligned. I never believed he was looking out for all the races in the galaxy.
Yes it was incorrectly named, briefly.
Yes this is actually becoming a problem for us. We've been capturing on lower difficulty settings, but we don't want to give the impression the game is "easy". Far from it. Our Lead Designer tells me Normal is balanced similar to ME3, but Insanity gets REALLY hard.
I'm actually super sympathetic to that sentiment.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
What got me with cerberus is that if you've not played through ME1 almost completely you're missing a ton of context.
If you chose lone survivor for Shepard's origin for instance, Cerberus killed your whole unit and they were behind a bunch of other depraved shit as well.
If you chose lone survivor for Shepard's origin for instance, Cerberus killed your whole unit and they were behind a bunch of other depraved shit as well.
That's great to hear.
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