Old one's Sage-ing, and yadda yadda yaddaGeneral ME discussion.
WHAT IS LOOOOVE~~
If you can't wait until the first thread hits it's bump-limit at least wait till it's off the fucking page.
>>91379Better?
It's almost here. I can't wait to reap the horrible consequences of screwing Tali while Liara was away.
To answer a question from the previous thread:>>91370There's a firefox plugin called Screengrab that does whole-page, selection, and visible portion screengrabs as a single png. If you want spoilers visible just select all the text before you save.
>>91395> Time for that raid through Illium! The upcoming Mass Effect 2 DLC 'The Lair of the Shadow Broker' will be available in just a few weeks on September 7, and you'll have quite a bit to do.>Aside from invading the Shadow Broker's secret lair, players will also be traversing through the broker's intel lair to find some new research. There will also be five new Achievements to keep players busy for a nice while.>Those looking forward to Liara T'Soni's appearance here will be in for a bonus: you can continue to pursue a relationship with the asari doctor. If you want to see how the whole shebang goes down, you'll have to pay 800 Microsoft / BioWare Points for the DLC, or $10 USD.
>>91408Oh god it comes out two days before school startsI'm so fucked
>>91408>you can continue to pursue a relationship with the asari doctor. >you'll have to pay 800 Microsoft / BioWare Points for the DLC, or $10 USD.and then mass effect was a vidya pimp and liara the vidya whore
>>91412Now I need Pimp Shepard in Destro Leopard Print
>>91407Is there any way to highlight only the spoilers?
>>91415why does he have a tiny fanny pack over his crotch
>>91440always be preparedalways
>>91440He never knows when he'll need a condom.
I dumped Liara for Ashley, then killed Ashley on Virmire.I wonder if that will affect anything...
>>91448Maybe the next DLC is Ashley based and if you left her to die her sister comes after you
>>91450I would laugh.
>>91450I have ALWAYS wanted to meet her sister. Also Kahlee Sanders.
>>91458a woman that is kind and caring yet can lay you out flat on your ass in two seconds if you cause a problem. Wonder what her profession would be. I keep seeing her as some kinda Battle Nun or a Monk type.
>>91462Maybe something like the D3 Monk design cept streamline the armor to make it look more like fabric and make the whole thing solid black or blue. a Warrior of the Church of St.Mary vs a Justicar...taking all bets.
>>91463...that's a monk?As in the "No weapons martials arts only final destination" kind of monk?
>>91489Yea they are using that design for D3, I think that is like her 3rd or 4th Heavy Armor design. Also..its Jack http://kotaku.com/5625154/hey-its-jack-from-mass-effect-2/gallery/
>>91522And a very nice Asari, though the inner area of that patch should be orange but...that is a really nice head appliance.
Heh
>>91522>Monk>Heavy armor
funky
So I bought the Kasumi DLC the other day and... wait was that really it? It felt like it only took an hour to finish. Not that I expect a whole lot for 7 dollars but that was probably the shortest DLC I've played next to Desperate Escape from RE5.
>>91555But it's not just one mission that takes less than an hour to complete.You're getting another character. Granted, this character is limited in terms of integration on the Normandy, but she is chatty during missions and fun as hell (not to mention full of win) to play with. HA HAYou're also getting a really fucking amazing gun. The Locust almost feels like cheating, it's so good, in my opinion.
>>91559SMG that doesn't jerk all the suck over the place and actually have a good range..I've actually been able to play some other classes without feeling crippled now.
>>91559Only because the other SMGs are so totally fucking useless.Also, I just finished my only No Gaming The System run. Only occasionally use Intimidate/Persuade choices (lost two member's loyalty as a result - I couldn't bring myself to decide between Legion and Tali, though), choose Suicide Mission people on the basis of how much sense they make for their roles (except for Thane, who I romanced the fuck out of, and was with me), not to ensure maximum survival odds. Etc.Half the NPC crew died, and so did Jack. Feels bad, man.
>>91559Yeah, I thought about the free character thing but we got pretty much the same thing for free with Zaeed. So it just kinda felt like Zaeed 2.0 Which isn't really bad, just I expected something a bit more longer for 7 dollars.
>>91572I've always kind of wished it was the other way around. Kasumi is just so much more likable than Zaeed.
>>91583She still has a lot of dialog about the crew. I always stop by her place and listen to her on my way to engineering to listen to them before I go see Jack
Screw all y'all, I love Zaeed. and secretly wish he was a romance option
>>91600
>>91610
>>91610I love you, Astro.Joker next?
>>91613Hell, I didn't make that. Found in on /v/ a while back.Anyways, I think there's an online splooge tool for shit like that. Or at least a downloadable PS brush pack.
>>91612At least I didn't make somethi--ALL GLORY TO THE HUMAN RACE!!
Calling it now.Barla Von is the Shadow Broker
>>91655That would be amazing. I doubt it's true, but I would play that five times.
>>91655I LOVE THIS IDEA. YES YES YES.
...I wonder if an Asari could mate with a Verun. Or a Geth.Or a Reaper.
>>91684If they can make psychic contact, they can mate with it.
>>91684Regardless who they mate with, the child will be an Asari.
Trailer for Lair of the Shadow Broker.I came.
>>91650oh spirits it moves
>>91695DOES THAT MEAN WE GET TO DRIVE AROUND IN ILLIUM?OOOOOH MAAAAAAN.Also, was that some Feron I saw? I CAN'T WAIT.
>>91695SHE'S GONNA BE PISSED MY SHEPARD HAD SEX WITH TALI
Fffffff--- I'm not even a big Liara fan, but I WANT SO MUCH.Can it be 9/7 now?
>>91700Or then she suggests Threesome
>>91695>>91700Ah crap, my Fem Shep whent for Thane. Maybe Shepard can convince him to kill her before she kills Shep.
>>91728[Motion for Thane to shoot Liara.]
>>91729[Upper left blue] Motion Thane to sugest an orgy.
>>91731Well he IS going to die relatively soon... Nice send off would be an orgy.
>>91733"Wow, Liara. I guess we have sex..."*glasses*"To die for."
>>91695I AM SO FUCKING EXCITED.
>>91737
>>91695Looks like they went all out for this.
>>91758Oh yea, we've known that Liara would have DLC since the start will those flagged audio files and certain bits of code. But this goes beyond anything I ever thought they would do. Even if it turns out "it was going to be part of the game from the start but we just didn't feel it flowed right at the moment." That is totally understandable since it didn't leave fucking gaps or walls like some other games (Dragon Age). I mean what looks to be a massive hunt all on its own plus picking up where we left off with Liara (I've got one Shep just for that) As always Bioware doesn't disappoint when it comes to a story.
So Miranda and Legion are the other DC Direct wave two figures with Mordin and Garrus. >>91761I just wasn't expecting so much. Driving, flying and what looks like to be a good bit of cutscenes.
>>91775yea this is actually more intense then many of the regular missions in the game. I mean you are going after the most powerful person on the planet. Taking him/her/it down would sew utter chaos throughout the galaxy. Its gonna be wild.
>>91782I wonder if he ever got his hands on that Cerberus info Admiral Kahoku promised him.
>>91782Well the game is, according to pretty much everybody, THE lead up to part 3.
A trilogy becomes....a quartet!ME3 will be all about the repercussions (one way or another) of taking down (or not taking down) the Shadow Broker.ME4 will be about Shepard vs Reapers.
>>91788I think this DLC is only going to have a minor impact on the ME3 story.
>>91788I feel angry at merely the thought of such a thing.
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>>91823
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5775972/1/How_Fornax_Changed_My_Life
Haha, Doctor Hal. Those are great.Are there more of them?
>>91829Hahaha, hell yes Fornax.
>>91791Bad joke, bad joke, I know....>>91822WHY wasn't this a renegade interrupt option????Deprive Samara of the delicious satisfaction of killing her own daughter, yessss....
>>91824The mood whiplash in this is just fantastic.
The artist's comment for this one really makes it.>This technology will help us in our fight against the reapers.
>>91829Okay, I'm liking this story more and more as I read it.I'm pretty sure I almost bit through the rim of my coffee mug while reading through chapter 9.Jesus.
>>91848... Is the biting thing a good reaction or a bad reaction, I can't tell.
>>91896Depends on why she was biting it.
>>91896It's a flustered/amused/"oh lord this is marvelous" sort of reaction. Sort of like lipbitan.
>>91929Well now I have to finish reading it. Damnit Astro, I'm trying to patiently do nothing while waiting for the new DLC to arrive.
>>92029>Qwib Qwib Flotilla
>>92033>Incredulous Council
BAD JOKES COMING THROUGH
Fucking yes
>>92083>"Incredulous Council"
>>92147Awwww I don't know what part of that is more adorable. "EUCC XXVI brought to you by Tupari, Tupari brings your ancestors back from the grave!""BLOOD DRAGONS RULE""Sheppard, we are all in the same room no need to shout! "#@*&^!! REF THAT CALL!!!!"
>>92147>vuvuzela
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIdug40ZM-M
>>92156What's wrong with that? I thought all Salarians had horns!
>>92163well those things are just over blown noisemakers. Bet the Council boosts up the Korgan Birthrate just to wipe the new planet producing those from the galaxy.
>>92147I only just noticed that Thane's sneaking a drink from Tali, of all people.
>>92203Not to mention the backwash. Normal saliva has enough bacteria to kill a Quarian, but doesn't Drell skin cause rashes and hallucination? I imagine their saliva to have some paralyzing properties, too, sort of like the monitor lizard.Most embarrassing death for an assassin, ever.
>>92181Tali x Thane otpWhich makes me wonder...I know contact between Drell and Humans can cause hallucinations, but can it do the same thing to a Quarian? Would the effects be amplified by their weak immune systems?
>>92211>>92205Thane has levo-amino acids, Tali has dextro-amino. Drinking the same drink would give at least one of them an allergic reaction, both if there was backwash. Tali getting sick would be the least of your worries since Drell is drinking what is probably a beer meant for turian consumption.
>>92147As much as I despise how much fanart is Fem-shep centric, I do love the numerous little small touches in this picture.- Turian Foam Finger- Vuvezela- Varen
Mental images of Femshep going total Superfan even whipping off her shirt Showing full Blood Dragon Body Paint then poping on the Blood Dragon helmet and go screaming around the room.
hmmmm
>>92263Screw vanguard, time to play an engineer. (decreased mineral costs, here we go!)Also mfw 80% of players apparently used a male Shep
>>92263WHY NO LOVE FOR ENGINEER.WHY NO FUCKING FEMSHEPWHY
>>92266>>92265Most likely people going with default, or as every post in /v/ put it "casuals." Seriously though I went with default my first go.
>>92265 >>92266 What's so bad about playing a guy?
>>92269I like both! Different romances, totally different tones during play, an extra flavor of replayable value, et al. I just don't understand why there's apparently an overwhelming indifference to FemShep.
>>92266>WHY NO FUCKING FEMSHEP Tali is heterosexual. That's why.
>>92271 Because everyone talks about her incessantly and make funny jerk run videos of her enough that people may not want to make the same exact FEMSHEP themselves? Almost every comic is either a self insert or another female, possibly a mixture of the two. Most likely some of the people outraging here are a part of that 80% that don’t want to admit they can tolerate Meer. It's just a character roll, let people play as they wish.
>>92277>people may not want to make the same exact FEMSHEP themselvesWhat? Outside of romantic options, Femshep has the exact same dialogue choices as Maleshep.
Haha oh god.So, you know how conversations in this game can be kind of buggy (on PC, at least)? People sliding around in the background, wrong poses, incorrect camera angles, etc.I was just playing through Tali's loyalty mission, and in the middle of discussing a repair drone she'd sent back, my (fem)shep bent over and, I swear to god, began rubbing Tali's crotch.
>>92277>self-insertBut this is exactly what Bioware is letting players do: Play a game with their own self-insert. That's what you get when you make a game with conversation choices and face creation options. (oh, to dream about wrestling game level character creator options...)I need to play LotSB NOW before I get spoiled on GameFAQs, argh.
>Download LotSB>The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you are running>Apparently it doesn't work for anyone>my face when
>>92298Shit, and here I just downloaded it.
>>92298>open the file in a hex editor>it's 1.5 gigs of zeroes
Wow, sucks to be a PC player right now, I guess.In other news, That was fairly long for DLC. I played on insanity, the difficulty did not disappoint. Right before I entered the SB's inside lair I was down to about two bullets. (It didn't help that I was being dumb and mixed up my AI hacking and Incinerate mappings)I am now laughing my ass off reading all of the dossier info from the SB on my crew.
>Download LotSB>mfw this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you are running
Okay...I click on the link on the mass effect site to buy lair of the shadow broker and...its not there. To buy. For me.I am most vexed.
>>92327They took the download down while they figure out wtf happened.
>>92328Damn it. I was looking forward to playing tonight as well.
>>92329Apparently they're testing a fix right now, so maybe later tonight?
>STUPID GREESy CUNT MIRANDA LOOKS FOR SEX ONLINE
It's back up! Downloading at the speed of light!Also, am I the only one who finds BioWare's website damn near impossible to navigate?
>>92356EA's website is goddamn mess.
>>92358Seriously, I haven't been this frustrated by a web page since I was a student at the University of Ottawa.
>>92354Plus she doesn't know how to be a decent sister or give boy advice.Actually, I kind of like her more now.
>Play as Paragon Female Shepard>Stay faithful to Liara>Finish Liar of the Shadowbroker>Make sweet love to Liara, and listen to Shepard's talk about "Happily Ever After">While watching the vids at the lair, realize that the Matriarch Bartender is Liara's "father">Start thinking about how awesome Shepard/Liara's kid would be with those parent's and that "grandfather"
>>92354Yeah, although the fact that she can't have kids is sort of sad.Legion, Tali, Jack, and Grunt's web-history were fucking hilarious though
I have yet to actually play a Mass Effect game (I don't have any system that can run them, though I DID get the first game as a Steam Gift), but I still end up checking out the new content whenever anything is released. Weird.>>92354Dem chat logs.
>>92386Mass Effect: So awesome, people that don't play it want to know what happens next.
>>92382AH! So now the drinking visions makes sense
>>92382Not to mention all those badasses Shepard recruited, eventually acting as aunts and uncles.I doubt Thane and Mordin will live long enough though.
>>92390Grunt will be more like an older brother.
>inviting Liara for drinksOH GOD STAYING FAITHFUL TO HER WAS SO INCREDIBLY WORTH IT
Just finished Lair of the Shadow Broker. Two boss fights, lots of rewards and amusing tibdits, actual story relevance, the tying up of loose ends from both ME games, heavy character development, an unexpected fistfight, and some of best wisecracking I've heard in ages. And goddamnit Liara, you're making me regret not romancing you.On the other hand, Witch Hunt was absolutely terrible. I don't even feel like finding the Dragon Age thread to complain about it... I've run the full gamut of Bioware release quality today.
>>92382>While watching the vids at the lair, realize that the Matriarch Bartender is Liara's "father"...
>>92394Does that mean that if Shep wants those little blue babies, he or she will have to ask for her blessing?Hell, I haven't even played this game, I prefer Garrus and Tali as romantic interests, and I'm still imagining how glorious the wedding would be.
>>92396Well, according to ME1, Liara doesn't know the identity of her "father". Maybe in ME3 that can be resolved in a sidequest of sorts.
>Use save editor>Lez out with Tali
>>92354>>92375>>92383> Find the Dossier Computer> Read the brief descriptions and :D face> Start at bottom, read my way up.I got to say those Dossiers really were pretty damn satisfying. They really were the icing on the cake. Some of the stuff was just nice fluff to help understand characters better. Other bits were cool as heck like Hackett's. Then there were the silly ones like watching Grunt's Extra-net search queries. Tali was also very fun to read.> What the hell is a nerve stim? Like, mental functions? Pain drug? (been playing Fallout 3 non-stop for the last few days, so forgive me)> Wonder why Tali keeps installing and uninstalling a Nerve Stim.> Wonder what a Nerve-Stim pr- oooooooohhhhhhhhhhh now I get it.Then there were the sad ones.> Read Garrus> Son I am disappoint > Read Miranda's> ;_;While I've never "liked" Miranda, I've always defended her as a character. Her Dossier actually was probably one of my favorites if only because it showed you a rare glimpse into a secretive character who actually has played a big role in the ME Universe's story. > Read Legion's Cantbreathohgodwhatthefuckamireading.jpegLegion's was the best by far.
>>92354Miranda is a character with flaws and weaknesses who works insanely hard to hide them at all costs. She attempts to act cold and bitchy because she never learned how to love.
>“A mass arrest of over 200 alleged slavers in the Salarian Union city of Aegohr on the planet Nasurn is being credited tonight to Spectre Tela Vasir. "There are cases that can't be talked about and ones that can", said Supervisory Special Agent Yalson Sao. "We are pleased to say Ms. Vasir -- may all her eggs hatch -- was instrumental in breaking one of the ringleaders of this operation". The term "breaking" may not be entirely figurative -- the batarian in question is recovering in an Aegohr hospital with injuries to three eyes and several small joint fractures. Vasir herself declined lengthy comment, attributing her success to "good intel".”> Cerberus Daily News>July 21st> mfw "good intel"Bioware you rascals you.
Today, I punched the Shadow Broker in the face.Today... I became a man.
>>92426I love The Illusive Man's dossier. Sure at first I was disturbed that The Shadow Broker knew how many freaking space cigarettes the guy had smoked in one day, or what kind of clothes he wore, but then I thought about things for a while. Out of all the things he could have written in that Dossier, all you could find was an activity list of Cerberus Ops, and a report about how much he smoked, the thread count of his suit, and how many Women he slept with.It's like TIM challenged The Shadow Broker. >"Here - you want some info on me? Here's my goddamn list of sexual conquests, you Yahg faggot. Oh and feel free to sift through my space trash to find my cigarette butts."
So I've been paying far more attention to the other stuff within the Shadow Broker's lair before I finally sat down to read the dossiers. My favorite is easily Mordin's STG file on Tuchanka."Commander Kirrahe sugggests that Specialist Solus is in fact a walking cloaca, restates importance of holding the line."
>>92426I really liked Vasir. In the end, she was right: there really wasn't any difference between you working for Cerberus, and her working for the Shadow Broker. There were other differences between you - Shepard probably wouldn't bomb three floors of civilians, even on a hard renegade run - but in that regard, she was right.
So, these guys are like super evolved aliens, but were unfortunately discovered by the Citadel before learning space travel and are now cut off from the rest of the galaxy?
>>92432I was surprised how much of a badass she was, since I was not expecting that tough of a boss fight.I hope that in ME3 we meet other Specters of that caliber. Maybe a female Turian voiced by Sigourney Weaver.
>>92433Not 'super evolved', just physically really tough and incredibly dangerous. The one that became the Shadow Broke was highly intelligent, but he was the exception, not the rule.
I loved the dossiers.Grunt is even more of a little kid than I though, Legion an internet troll, and I though it was funny how Jack kept getting banned from message boards for being a total /b/tard.
I'm hoping the next Normandy has a place for characters interacting with each other better, maybe a lounge of sorts with a big tv. This recent dlc, made me realize all the great possibilities. Its weird that I'm missing the elevators now.
A cloaca is the posterior opening that serves as the only such opening for the intestinal, reproductive, and urinary tracts of certain animal species. And that's why you don't have sex with Salarians or birds.Mordin Solus is one tough one of those.
Reading Grunt's Dossier makes it seem like he became a teenager over night.Then he buys and action figure.
Thane should continue to wear loose clothing that leaves his chest uncovered.Oh Bioware, I know that's what you made him for, but now your being a little silly about it.
Okay, I was all about telling Cerberus to shove it before this DLC, but then I find out they killed a pope... Which pretty much cements my decision.
>>92451A pope? Why the hell would they kill a pope?
>>924522171 - Pope Clement XVI assassinated via rosary beads coated with sodium nonacetate and dimethyl sulfoxide. Death attributed to age and heart failure. Replacement, Pope Leo XIV, has eschatological beliefs in-line with militarizing humanity; forgiving attitude to salarians re: genophage proves useful for strategic alliances against turians.Ssssssoooo I guess that means Catholicism survived the whole proof of alien existence thing, huh?
>>92453Its been worked that it can survive pretty much anything
>>92441>Its weird that I'm missing the elevators now.I never missed the long rides, but I did miss the conversation.
>>92453What's so bizarre about that? Perhaps it's only this modern generation that only knew one Pope (John Paul II) in their lifetime until Benedict. Several Popes were murdered throughout history, and many more likely were murdered but their death mistakenly identified as natural. That Cerberus would choose to hasten the demise of a Pope who they believed worked contrary towards humanity's best interests is far more interesting to me. It shows that The Illusive Man isn't concerned with petty matters of Terra Firma or Earth religion.... that these things are simply tools that can be used to mobilize the greater whole of humanity. Well played.
Mass Effect 1 disappointed me with the whole Paragon/Renegade thing. They sold it as Idealism vs Pragmatism, and that it was more about methodology than whether you are a hero or not. Sometimes it held to this, but usually Renegades were jerks and Paragons were saints. 2 was even worse in this regard, as I can't think of a single instance where it wasn't just nice Shep/jackass Shep. On the other hand, it gave us Mordin, who is, in many ways, exactly what a Renegade SHOULD be like. He WILL save as many people as he can, even if he's got to dirty his hands in the process.Hopefully they'll finally nail it in 3 and we can finally start to see Good/Evil karma meters die out.
>>92475I thought it worked pretty well, myself. It's just holding different standards for 'interpersonal interactions' and 'field work'.
>>92473Didn't say bizarre, didn't actually give a descriptive. Just said it supported my decision to tell TIM to shove it.
As much as I loved the dossiers, to my surprise I really enjoyed the conversation between Shepard and Liara in the captain's cabin. I don't even like Liara that much.>my face when Shepard lets down his/her emotional guard a little bit while chatting with Liara at the end
>>92480And this is where it gets fun. Personally while initially abhorred by the deed, I'm more intrigued why Cerberus saw it so necessary to kill the pope and how they ensured the new one was elected. Why was it necessary? Was it to secure a means of preaching to the masses the basic Cerberus message on the religious front where Terra Firma and Cerberus shell companies could only influence politics and popular media?Speaking of Terra Firma I think it's interesting how on CDN they've consistently reported about Asari/ Human films being released in Alliance space... They all are romantic comedies with some twist like Guess who's coming to Dinner. I thought the one where the Asari Spectre disguises herself to look human was novel, but the one about the Chess championship was rather forced.
God damn, I dont know if it was just me but I spent at least an extra half hour finishing Lair of the Shadow Broker thanks to various bugs and crashes.That asside however, god damn it was good. I especialy like some of the stuff you get access to at the end. Speaking of which, in the vid files you see this (pic), anyone know what thats about?"prator gavorn, omega"Because it looks like a Turian fighting collectors, on Omega.
>>92509Could be, I mean that virus was meant to kill all the aliens and leave the humans. So if you run the humans out into the open from their protection then it makes them easier to collect without notice.
Finally got around to getting Mass Effect 2 earlier this week, and just finished it tonight.Fuck giving the place to Cerberus or destroying it, I'd rather put Legion, Tali, Garrus, and Mordin on the job of re-purposing it into my own personal space battle-fortress. Starship Shepard I'd call it.
>>92509It's Captain Gavorn. The guy in charge of keeping the Vorcha in line. Those are Vorcha he's shooting.Also yes, I glitched on top of objects no fewer than three times. Highly frustrating.
>Jack's dossier>Private Message>her poem>"A warning">"This is not a place of honor">"No esteemed dead are buried here"OH SHIT I KNOW WHAT THAT'S REFERENCINGgolfclap.gif
I'll just leave this here
>>92536Pfffffffft.
Am I the only one who wants to see more of these two, even though they were basically extras?
>>92547Well they did say the Liara pack was the first in the DLC was would be bridging the gap between 2 and 3. Needs some action back in Krogan space helping to unite the clans and maybe showing how strong they could be in actually allowing Asari to become Clan Members. That would be A Massive Fleet, a Android Horde possibly, a Massive swam of Space Spiders and a Joint Clan of Krogan and Asari commando units give or take the resources of TIM..Shep gonna either be listens to or people are gonna get whupped.
>>92551Yeah, I'm thinking there will be another two major dlc. One will deal with Wrex (assuming you didn't kill him) uniting the clans or something like that. Maybe settling that whole Aria thing once and for all as well. The other one involving either Ashley of Kaidan, I don't know what their role will be for ME3 though. They better show Admiral Hackett at some point in that mission however, and he better look like Bishop from Aliens, for obvious reasons. I'm starting to think the whole Rachni thing will have no implication on the last game though, which is disappointing considering it was supposed to be a pretty big decision in the first game.
>>92553>I'm starting to think the whole Rachni thing will have no implication on the last game though,Oh no, its definatley going to have an impact.When Sheppard is chasing Spectre Tela Vasir , just before you boss fight her you can upperleft blue her with a bluff."I threw hundreds of humans to their death at the battle of the citadel, and I unleashed the rachni on the galaxy! Do you think I wont sacrifice another human life!" (Shep then signals Liara to throw a table at the target to save the hostage)Thats the second time its been mentioned, my guess is its building up to at the very least a small bonus for an end battle.
>>92553Ash or Kaidan will be the second human Specter, just watch.
>>92522Explain?
>>92559Speaking of Specters, I hope they actually play a role in ME3.Hopefully they are as badass as Tela Vasir.
>>92593?
forgot my Sheppard
>>92596No NO! This is wrong! SO WRONG! Its Joker X Normandy 2/EDI! Not Joker X Normandy 1! THERE CAN BE ONLY THE OTP!
>>92554You just know there's going to be a "Gondor Calls for Aid" moment in ME3 where the various factions Shepard has allied with join the battle in his favor.The Quarian flotilla, Clan Urdnot, the Rachni, the Geth, the Shadow Broker's network, Cerberus, the Council... all based on your prior decisions.
I felt that I should post this here as well as the Mystery Inc. thread.
>Just installed ME1Hm, the plot is interesting, but I don't give two shits about the gameplay.>"Oh thank God you saved us!" "This is the beginning of the end!" "We were just going about our business, when we were attacked!" "All will be gone!" "Thank Mic (lol) that you saved us!" "Doom! Doom!">*Yo, what's with your friend?>"Him? Oh, he's just a bit unsettled.">"I can shut him up."Oh, I guess Shepard is going to give him a toffee or somethi->*BEAST ASS UPPERCUT LIKE A MOTHERFUCKING BOSS.*If I can keep on punching people like this, I think I'm going to love this game.
>>92632Just wait til you meet the paparazzo.
>>92632You're going to be hanging up on people. A lot of people.
In related news it looks like we'll be getting Geth Early/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1310788/The-real-2001-Scientists-teach-robots-trick-humans.html
HOLY FUCK I HATE YOU MIRANDA, YOU YOU SLIMY GREASY INFERTILE CUNT, EVERY TIME I CAN ALMOST STAND YOU ON A REPLAY, YOU GET INTO A BITCH FIGHT, YOU WORTHLESS CUNT AND SINCE YOU ARE SUCH A BUBBLING SLUT BAG I NEED AN IMPOSSIBLY HIGH AMOUNT OF PARAGON POINTS TO KEEP YOU AND WHOEVER YOU SPAT THAT VAGINAL YEAST INFECTION VOICE AT.YES, I MAD.
>>92701Yeah, that kept happening to me too, thing is it's not a paragon/renegade deal, it's a "How much did you interact with them?" deal and since people generally avoid Miranda or Jack this argument is the hardest to settle whereas no one has problems with the Legion and Tali fight.
>>92703REALLY? FUCK ME.THANK YOU.
>>92705IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT SNEAKYIT'S ALL YOUR FAULTIF YOU WERE A BETTER CAPTAIN WHO ACTUALLY TALKED TO HER ONCE IN A WHILE THEN MAYBE SHE WOULDN'T BE SO COLD AND DISTANT
>>92701>"I was built and designed to be perfect in every way!">Every biotic, even Jacob, is better at it than her>Her combat skills are mediocre>Potato face
>>92717Maybe if she didn't suck bawls literally and figuratively I'd give more than a SINGLE shit about her.>>92718The ONLY redeeming quality she and it's ONLY ONE, is her final class credit gives her a team boost stat to weapons and health. Whoop dee fuckin doo.
Just played LotSB. Damn, I wouldn't ever want to get punched by Shepard.
Ugh I'm beginning to hate you all, I haven't even finished my second playthrough of the first game and yet now I feel I must get this game ASAP and download all all the DLC.
>>92718>>92723Hey, Slam is a one-hit kill on the outside of the Shadow Broker's ship. Makes the final battle a cakewalk.I honestly wasn't fond of Miranda at first, but she's grown on me. She's no Tali, but I like her well enough.
I raged
GOOD GODDAMNJust played through LotSB. SO AWESOME. And Feron is so cool and the hugeass ship and Liara and holy fuck. A few bugs, yeah, but no big deal.It was worth it just for the car chase banter.
>>92779For me what made it worth it was seeing video feed of a Krogan and then later a Volus punching that one news reporter.
>>92804She was later making out with an Asari though.
>>92809Awesome.
>>92811I smell blackmail potential in 3 MWAH HA HA HA HA!!!
>>92813I don't know how well that would work for blackmail. Just about everyone wants to fuck Asari. Also did the video feeds reveal Liara's father?
>>92814Something to do with the fact that she always come at us like a Human Purist.
>>92815I always thought she just wanted you to look bad for a good story. She has shit to say even if you let the council die.
>>92814There is a short video of Matriach Aethyta staring at a photo of Liara, nursing a drink. This heavily implies Aethyta is Liara's 'father'I kind of wonder though how somebody like Liara came from Benezia and Aethyta....
>>92821How so?
>>92821Liara is pretty damn awesome, I don't find it surprising that she had badass parents.
>>92823Her personality doesn't seem like Aethyta or what little we've seen of Benezia (who, granted, was indoctrinated.)I don't know, usually Liara grates on me. LotSB was definitely the exception.
>>92834Well Liara is still really young as far as Asari go.
Hmmm so Liara is pure blood yet not if one of her parents genes was influenced by Krogan sequences..eh I don't get it. Yet she does seem to have some of that Krogan in her. Grandpa Wrex...heh
>>92844They're only called that because both their parents are Asari. It was never stated about it going farther than that.
>>92829Their kid better be even more badass, but I'm thinking nerdy as well. She will probably hang out with her older brother Grunt most of the time.By the way, does Shepard and Liara now have their own private army?
>>92869Well Liara does, so as long as sheppard doesnt piss her off s/he does too.That said, that comic needs one more pannel: And then we fucked!
I was never especially fond of of Liara, not saying I disliked her, she was just pretty 'meh' for me in the first game.Now the fact she's gone all commando and was one of the ones responsible for your extra life is cool, and the shadow broker dealie. but I can't say I care for her more than anyone else in my team.
>>92869That strip was pathetic.
You know who'd be a better Shadow Broker than Liara?Mordin.
>>92885 Mordin would only be a....short-term solution....
>>92885He's a former black-ops geneticist with a few years left to live.Yeah, I'm not seeing it.
>>92886>>92887It would only be for awhile, but it would be the most amazing thing ever during that time.
Guys, obviously the best choice for Fantasy Shadow Broker is Wrex.
>>92889Not that I wouldn't love a krogan SB, but Wrex is A) Far too focused on rebuilding a stable krogan societyandB) Up there in age - granted, this could still mean 200-400 years or more left in life... but Liara would have longer, regardless. Plus she *likes* being an information broker. Wrex doesn't have the personality, IMO, for keeping an identity hidden and using others to do things. He's much more straight forward.How many kids do we think Wrex has sired...?
>>92891Depending if you count the possible Asari. I find it to coincidental that Two Krogan and Two Asari leveled Two Space Stations.
>>92893As for Krogan, from what we know of the way they are raised its hard to tell if he has or hasn't yet.
Samus is recruited by Shepard in the next game, what happens?
>>92898Sex...and he Pistol whips Mother Brain and Ridley
>>92898 She breaks down in the face of a Ridley-Reaper and needs Jacob to save her.That and/or Shepard sexes her.
>>92898Eh, either she has a mental breakdown during battle and later gets all emo, or she get obsessed with Shepard and keeps calling him Adam.
>>92893My only issue with Wrex being Liara's grandfather is that it would make Aria significantly older than Aethyta and Benezia, both of whom are well into their matriarch ages.
>>92898>>92899>>92901>>92903You just don't understand, Shepard.Adam...he is like a drug to me.
Wait I thought Adam was the older commander dude who Samus saw as a father figure. This is starting to squick me out.
>>92906Asari's stages are not necessarily determined by time, but rather when they feel they are ready to move on. You would know this if you had listen/read the codex.
>>92909Dude, you have no idea how fucked up and retarded Other M gets.
>>92910It's been a while.My point still stands, though. Aria seems noticeably younger than Aethyta.
Hehe, oh Tali I-Wait a minute.>"Human Courtship and mating">Insalled ImmunoboostBut Im playing Femshep this time? Either Bioware is screwing with me or Tali has got her funk on with a human other than my Femshep character! Yes, or she's a lesbian and preparing just in case, but I have my doubts.
>>92915Nah, she is probably into Joker, but most likely Jacob.
>>92916Joker doesnt realy seem her type. And Jacob is prety bland... if well built.Maybe its one of the enginers, Donnelly perhaps?
>>92917 One of the greasemonkeys would make more senseThough maybe it's just an oversight or lazy prgramming by the developers?
>>92917In the Mass Effect universe, everyone is into Jacob.
>>92917 Hey now, Jacob is a handsome piece of manmeat, Kasumi seems to think so anyway.
>>92920Eh think Kasumi's a cool guy girl, he she watches Jacob and doesn't afraid of get caught by anything.Kasumi's enjoys her eye candy, but Jacob isn't much beyond that.
The Fuck? Jacob had the best Loyalty mission.Dude is a total bro and probably the coolest human next to Shepard.
>>92922Really? I always thought his Loyalty mission was one of the weaker ones.At any rate, Jacob is certainly rather bland compared to much of the crew (hell, most of the crew) but he's by no means a bad character. He has some good lines and a rather interesting role as a good-natured ex-military jock working for an amoral terrorist cell purely out of loyalty.Compare that to Kaiden "Return of Carth Onasi" Alenko.
>>92922Personally I liked Mordin's and Garrus' loyalty missions more. And Tali's is always a win if you take Legion with, especially in terms of plot foreshadowing.But yeah, Jacob's is pretty cool too. I just think that beyond his daddy issues Jacob's bland. He is clearly meant to be low-key, minimum drama, but unfortunately for a lot of people he just comes off as boring.
>>92923The way I see it, Jacob's loyalty mission is a good mission (the whole "horrific breakdown of order" thing is interesting), but it's not a good loyalty mission. There's no interesting twist or important revelation for the teammate; whereas Tali had a real reaction to what her father did, from the very beginning Jacob had little relationship with his father, and every step along the way merely confirmed that his dad was a dick and barely even tried to give him a decent justification that would give some shades of gray.The mission would have worked better if it was just another mission.
>>92930This this this this.
>>92930No, man, that's the point of the loyalty mission. He's putting demons to rest. It's like visiting the Normandy wreckage, he just went there to verify his dad was gone, and the twist was immediate that he was alive. His relationship with him was already rocky, and he knew it, but he just wanted to put it to rest, regardless of whether or not he was alive.
Fuck all y'all Jacob is a bro.
>>92923>Thinks Kaidan is like Carth.Yeah, I'm gonna ignore your opinions from now on.>>92949>>92967>>92922Yeah, Jacob is a really cool dude.
>>92970It doesn't matter if their personality was slightly different. It's the voice and inflection that was almost the exact same, and reminded us of what he had in common with Carth.> Carth - first character to join your party, gun-slinger counterpart to the assumed Melee/ Jedi skillset of the PC, serves as a steady support figure and adviser to the main character. Has emotional baggage that leads him to extreme hatred of the Sith. Lost his significant other. Talks about preserving the Republic against the Sith.> Kaiden - First character to join the party, is a biotic/ tech counterpart to the base template shepard, serves as a calming influence to the crew, is very level-headed and rational but harbors deeply buried baggage regarding Turians. Lost his girlfriend (emotionally) due to biotic training clusterfuck. Talks about humanity finding it's place in the galactic community and upholding the Council.There is a reason Carth is Virmire-tier. Bitch about Ash all you want for believing in Space God (Lol tolerance), or shooting Wrex (how incompetent do you have to be to let that happen?), but at least she wasn't Carth 2.0. Wow, did I write Carth is Virmire-tier? Freudian slip I guess.
So, you guys think Shepard is going to die for sure in the next game?
They brought Shepard back from the dead, the next step is cloning and then......
>>93005Better hurry up and have those little blue babies.
>>93010Or for a more Sci-fi equivalent.
>>93011>My face when "tons of little blue children".
>>93013Shortly after Shepard's death a new story breaks that he sired thousands of blue babies.
>>93005Well if you play super renegade...
>>93014YES
>>92970>>93003I was more referring to the shared voice and the fact that both were bland "regular guy" characters that the player starts with to-You know what? Fuck it.
>>93014 Shepard won't just sire a horde of blue kids; she/he'll sire an entire species. Cerberus probably saved Shepard's genetic material and have been breeding it with anything they could while Shepard was out cold and during the mission.
>>93028BEHOLD!!! MALE ASARI!!!
>>93016 Super Renegade should stop being a mopey little bitch, and as a plus he wouldn't look so buttfugly (pretty thoughts equal pretty face~)
>>93031Renegade is nice sometimes but then Paragon gets the nice Captain America speeches
>>93035 If playing a pure Paragon let me get my hands on this ingame I would go goodiegoodie in a flash
>>92915Why did the Fem!ShepxTali romance have to be cut from the game?I am so disappoint. :c
I'm playing ME1 in prep for two and I want to know how much of the bar roughly equals 190 points?I heard that up to 190 points of both your Ren & Para alignment bars will carry over to the next game.
I'm just looking forward to being able to alter my Shep's face. He looks alright straight on but it turns out when you look at him from an angle he's skeletal with an oversized nose.
>>93041Gibbed save editor > Import new headmorph > Adjust meshes, textures and colors as desired > PROFIT
>>93043 X-bawx?
>>93035>>93036
Shep could stand to take some pointers from this guy.
>>93050AwesomeThis reminds me, we really need to visit the moon again in ME3, and see where they landed for the first time.
>>93048 Aw yeah, that's the stuffOf course I'm not adverse to a bit of CHARGING STAR when the situation calls for it either
>>93052Better have damn awesome Paragon dialog to go with it.
>>93044Yes, totally doable. i've done it myself. Start interwebbin, come back if lost.
I really need to get cracking on my PC playthrough so I can take real decliious LotSB screenshots, not cheap ones from youtube.Anyway, I'm both amused and disappointed that Shepard never learned how to carry herself like a girl. I never have a problem until she puts on the dress... And then it's like, "HI I'M SUPER BUTCH."
>>93066 "HI, IM THE LEAD ANIMATOR, I'M JUST GONNA REUSE THE SAME SKELETAL ANIMATION BASE FOR BOTH SHEPARDS."
>>93066She really needs to stop leaving empty beer cans on the table and cigar nubs in the toilets.
>>93075>FemShep smoking a Cuban cigar while charring Collectors with the M-451 Firestorm and laughing in Jennifer Hale's voice.I came.
>>93076....oh....oh my.
>>93075AND WOULD IT KILL HER TO PUT THE SEAT DOWN?>>93076Batarian are the new Cubans.
>>93076Just got a mental image of a female version of The Comedian IN SPACE.
>>93081WELP, I know what my next playthrough is gonna be.
back to the dossiers because I want to leave my two cents.Miranda: When reading the ipartner thing, I thought: damn, this girls knows what she wants....but then I got the end and realized that the only reason she was on there was because she wants children. that's why she asks for medical history and nothing else. She must have thought the problem was weak ass sperm. I felt sorry for her.Jacob: obsessed with his body image.Jack: gets b& regularily but writes poetry. Interesting, in an emokid kind of way. Kasumi: Jacob stalker. I woke up my house with laughter when I got to the end of her 'poem'.Legion: Vidya addict.Tali: human fetish, no matter WHAT shep you play. Reading her letter to the deceased quarians parents made me realize that Tali has actually seen alot of death and battle.Anderson: the guy spends all of his time away from his family at a job he hates. Kind of sad to see his liquor bill actually, not that i'm judging him.Samara: pretty sad. Didn't know she had other daughters.Thane: snapping necks all day, erry day. Except when he's on my team....Mordin: holy shit, kirrahe and Mordin make a fucking awsome team. I would watch a show based on them.Grunt: cannot spell and is obsessed with predators and human fighters.Garrus: never really thought about garrus' family. ;_;Hackett: keeps the alliance off your back.overall, good character development.
>>93084The real sad part about Anderson? Reading Revelation tells you that he's been divorced for twenty years. ;;
Garrus' dossier made me sadface hard. And then I realized Shepard could really help him. But he's too busy CALIBRATAN ERRYDAY to open up and talk about that shit.
>>93090I realized that the SB (or agent's) report is probably right. Garrus won't ascend to greatness while serving Shepard. He needs to do stuff on his own. :/
Paragon Shep needs to be able to blow the Shadow Broker operation Sky high. "No person should ever has this much knowledge""But Shepard think of the power.""Exactly."
>>93103I don't think that would really work out very well. At this point it seems like the galaxy NEEDS a Shadow Broker.
So, I love the party member from the past two games, but am I the only one who wants some new ones on ME3?Maybe a Turian female Specter, or perhaps someone from a species that has not been shown. Hell, give me a Batarian who can be like a Spock to my Shepard, always criticizing or downright insulting.
Casey Hudson is still on denial about the whole mining/probing thing, claiming that most players in fact loved it and even became addicted to it. Oh yeah, and its coming back for the next game. What the fuck, Bioware?
>>93111 Boo on your ideasWhat we need is an Elcor squadmate
>>93114Eh, maybe we can have other aliens on the new Normandy as crew members. But, we need some that can actually go into battle. Also, this thing. I want it as a pet, even if it stays back at the ship.
>>93115 Like thisBut without the dude on top and wearing an Elcor design of combat hard-suit with a tank canon strapped to the top.>>The slow speed and immense size of the elcor makes them easy targets. Fortunately, their durable hide allows them to shrug off most incoming fire. Elcor warriors don't carry small arms; their broad shoulders serve as a stable platform for the same size of weapons typically mounted on Alliance fighting vehicles.
>>93117Eh, they could be an alternative to the Mako.BTW, I like the maneuverability of the Hammerhead, but why the fuck is made out of tissue paper and has no zooming cannon? I hope they bring back some sort of exploration, like they did in Overlord. And a better vehicle than the Hammerhead or Mako of course, maybe something like these gunships they already introduced in ME2.
Legion puts half of the party members to shame. Goddamn, he's easy mode made flesh.
>>93121 No wonder they made him a late game addition, if you want to get the Good End anyway.
>>93120Just fix the hammerhead, it's easy:MISSILES DO NOT HOME, THEY HIT WHERE YOU SHOOTZOOM FOR ITMACHINE GUN MACHINE GUNMACHINE GUNNOT MADE OF WEAK BREAKABLE POOP BLOCKS
>>93121Ha, and yet he is the only one who died for me in suicide mission. I didn't really care that much though, since I barely used him and got him almost at the end of the game.
I really had no problems with the Mako to be honest, especially in the main mission because it was cool to drive to my destination instead of just dropping in with the shuttle. I think it had more to do with the fact that some worlds were just a pain in the ass to navigate, and there was little variety. They could have fix them and maybe make the controls a bit more responsible, instead of just getting rid of it altogether. I hope they bring back some driving in the missions, they made worlds feel bigger than they actually were.
>>93124Suicide mission has kinda bullshit rules, also I think I'm gonna do a complete restart so I can get the widow instead of that horse shit machine gun.By the way, what's everyone's default teams? I go raw classes, Legion/Tali, Jack/Samura and Shepsoldier.
>>93117I would love to see the elcor/hana/volus DO more in this game. It's obvious that volus don't fight (due to one suit rip = instant death), but they could be pilots right? And the hanar. When will we see blasto? Is he real? or fiction? Can they actually hold weaponry? Perhaps they're decent biotics?
>>93124 IT'S TIME YOU LEARNED WE'RE A TEAM ANONYMOUS! WE ALL GO HOME OR NOBODY GOES HOME!
>>93128 There's too many Biotics kickin about
>>93112>players in fact loved it and even became addicted to it<_< Maybe a little bit.
So, speaking of vehicles...Are we going to get a new Normandy again, or perhaps the same one with some remodeling?I'm thinking we are going to need a bigger more powerful ship in order to take on the Reapers, the Shadow Baker's lair with some battle modifications might work though.
>>93135Refit the Normandy II with more stuff. Make it more like a Wing Commander Type Ship. Hanger Maybe actually give us a Crew Quarter Access area and a lounge area. StarCraft II had a nice lounge area with really nice Atmosphere
>>93150I would actually like this, especially since the Normandy is now EDI's body and its probably hard to move her to another ship. They need to at least give us a cooler bigger bridge though, I don't like how it was distributed in the past two Normandy.
>>93151Also, a working bar or lounge where characters can interact with each other, it could replace the elevator banter from the first game. Hell, we already have a bar in Kasumi's room, we just need a bartender.
I'm guessing the Normandy will get damaged at the beginning of ME3, and will get remodeled. It will probably get bigger, and with more weapons.Speaking of weapons, anyone else remembers that dead Reaper the Batarians found and kept in the first game. I think it was called the Leviathan of Dis, and still had a working super-cannon. Maybe we can visit the Batarian home world in the third game, and take that weapon from them. That way they can finally get that character development they are seriously lacking. I mean, even though they are supposed to be important to the history of humans in space and Shepard, we really don't know much about them, other than the fact that they are basically space Nazis that is.
>>93152And any good ship should have a good band.Admit it, you all want to see someone like Garrus or Tali come out of nowhere and turn out to be REALLY good at playing a guitar or some Turian musical instrument.
>>93157Nah, thats just dumb.
>>93159>>93159YOU'RE just dumb!
>>93156the batarians have a derelict reaper? AND there's one floating in space? That's like.....three reapers in the current ME universe, and STILL the council won't believe me. Also, how did said reapers die? Did the protheans manage to take out a few or was it the 'beings of light' that one rich volus was investigating?Also, since new reapers are made by liquifying millions of species individuals (that is still so stupid) and making cores out of them, why did prothean reapers fail?
>>93175Maybe there's not enough meaty bits in Protheans, and they ran out of Protheans before they made enough gray goo to build a Reaper Core.
It takes 3 playthroughs to reach level 60 in the first game right? All this retreading is becoming a pain in the ass.
>>93121You think so? He's pretty worthless to me on my insanity runs. He may be a sniper, but he's essentially Tali in terms of squad skills.
>>93182Oh yeah, you wanna destroy everything, take him, Grunt, put on both their special weapons put legion behind cover, let Grunt go full BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD mode, have Legion occasionally hack whatever bots show up while pouring out drones, WIN FOREVER, or you can take Jack instead of Grunt, both make great tanks to cover Legion bots and sniping.
>>93185Jack's a tank? I heard Jack was squishy.
>>93187What? No! Jack and Grunt are Team EVERYTHING DIES.
>>93187JACK IS A SUPER TANK, Seriously, her abilities maxed out make her probably the most offensive character in the game.
>>93188>>93189She still goes down quicker than most everyone else in battle the second she pops out of cover. Only Tali and Mordin drop quicker than her in my experience.
Jack is not a tank I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about.Whenever I took her with me on my insanity runs, she always got ripped to shreds.Not only that, but Mordin, Tali and Kasumi are the ONLY characters with a worse defensive stat than Jack for the final battle.
>>93175A total of five Reapers have been revealed, four of which were interacted with. Shepard, of course, has killed two of them, destroyed the corpse of a third, and kicked the ass of a fourth.Sovereign, the Reaper vanguard who manipulated Saren and the Geth in a bid to override the Protheans' tampering with the Citadel, was killed in a one-two punch by Shepard (taking on Sovereign's mind through possession of Saren's corpse) and the Normandy (delivering a direct shot through Sovereign's physical body the moment it became vulnerable).Harbinger directly commanded the Collector forces in a campaign to kill Shepard and forge a new human Reaper, though was not physically present at any point thus far. During the fall of the Collector base, Harbinger abandoned his slaves and made one last speech regarding the futility of Shepard's mission before vanishing back into the darkness.The Derelict, the somewhat functional corpse of a long-dead Reaper, was located by Cerberus and Turian forces by studying the crater left in a planet by an ancient weapon. Although the exact origin of said shot remains unknown, it was fired by an ancient race into a Reaper thousands of years ago and left a floating hulk adrift in space. Although dead, the corpse still remained in orbit due to a powerful mass effect engine and continued to "indoctrinate" those within reach before finally being destroyed by Shepard in a search for the IFF needed to locate the Collector base.The Human Reaper, effectively "aborted" by Shepard in the heart of the Collector stronghold, was the unfinished attempt to harvest humanity into a new Reaper, possibly a recognition of the species being deemed worthy for Shepard's actions and a way for the Reaper forces to return to Citadel space. It may or may not have been destroyed, based on which ending the player pursues.The Leviathan of Dis, while not explicitly shown or explained, it an ancient ship of unknown origin currently under the control of the Batarian government. Both ME1 and 2 drop hints that the Leviathan is likely a Reaper.
>>93200The Leviathan might have been Sovereign.
>>93201That never even crossed my mind.Makes sense, though.
>>93193>>93198Huh, I play with her on Insanity and she destroys everything and never usually dies on me unless I guide her up shit creek without a paddle, then again, most of the time I have her spaming shockwave, so I dunno, she she's pretty tankin when I use her.
>>93205A tank is a damage sponge, someone who can take a lot of hits before getting killed.Jack can't take a lot of damage.
>>93201>>93204how does that make sense? sovereign fell at the citadel, where the batarians aren't allowed, let alone their government.And if the turians found the derelict reaper, why didn't they tell their government, which denies reapers exist?also, I'm sure the human reaper was being built to replace sovereign as the vangaurd reaper. But if THAT failed, how will the reapers enter citadel space? They can't exactly just walk there, that would take hundreds of years wouldn't it?
>>93208The Leviathan of Dis was found in 2163 and disappeared shortly thereafter. The game happened in 2183.How it could have gone down is that Sovereign was hanging out in the solar system, basically asleep, when the batarians found him. Then he woke up and left to find another hiding spot.
>>93207I see, I was just confused by the fact she never gets hit and thought she could take a lot of damage.
>>93212She only has like 230 HP and like 250 Barrier. (At least the level 30 Jack in my game does.)Grunt has like 540 HP, 300 Shield.
Okay, maybe a stupid question, but am I able to get DLC for the PC version of Mass Effect 2 if I bought it off of Steam? I really, REALLY want Lair of the Shadow Broker (and maybe Overlord and Stolen Memory) but I don't want to blow my money on something that won't even work for me.
>>93211oh, maybe. I hope not though, I'd like to see why the batarians were so secretive about it.
>>93221You have to get microsoft points (or whatever the PC flavor is), and you buy the DLC from Bioware's site. You then get a download link on your profile page on Bioware's site. Once you download the file, you run it and it installs the DLC for you.
>>93236Thank you very much.
>Remember the old days when you could just slap Omni-gel on everything?Can you really call it the old days when it was only two years ago?
>>93430>Doesn't get the joke
>>93211But don't forget the Mass Effect prequel story which lines up everything involving Saren and Anderson. The dates in that novel would have to match. No dice I think.
>>93468Yeah, what we know of Sovereign thanks to Revelation is that Saren takes it from the humans who were studying it since about 2162. It doesn't quite add up.
I just beat the Shadow Broker yesterday, and I am slightly disappointed Barla Vonn wasn't the SB. On the other hand, yay Liara.Also, a drawfag request.I would love it if someone doodled Grunt staring in awe at a Tyrannosaurus skeleton. Or a comic of Grunt asking a million dinosaur questions to one of the human crew. Because let's face it, it doesn't matter how much more potentially badass Tuchankan prehistoric life was, the bite force of over 134,000 newtons is nothing to gawk at.Fun fact: When measuring forces against the average skeleton, aluminum is used, due to similar density and tensile strength. A tyrannosaurs' skeleton has a density and tensile strength comparable to steel.
>>93561Grunt on the Dinosaur Train
>>93561 So, are we making requests? Because I would really want to see a drawfag's interpretation of what their daughter would look like, especially after what Shepard said in Lair of the Shadow Broker and learning that awesome Matriarch Bartender would be the "grandfather". I guess she could be wearing an armor similar to Shepard's, and maybe along with stuff from the other party members. Anyway, I read that Asari's facial marking have something to do with the species of their "father". Maybe is not true, but it could be cool.
>>93603Oh yeah, I guess she could be teaming up with "older brother" Grunt.
Suddenly I want, nay, NEED Shepard's child to be raised by krogans.Like, for whatever reason, Shepard named Wrex to be caretaker of Shep Jr should he/she and significant other die.IT WOULD BE SO AWESOME. I fangirl over krogans waaayyy too muchAlso, if Shepard is Grunt's battle master, than Wrex is no doubt Grunt's surrogate father. I keep thinking to what Wrex says if you defeat the thresher maw (who honestly has trouble doing this??)
>>93624This reminds me of that scene in Thud! in which Little Sam is being guarded by two trolls as he sleeps in his cradle. Oh man, imagine if Shepard ends up similar to Vimes in the parenting department...THAT! IS! NOT! MY! SPACE COW!
>>93624>he/she and significant other die. Hey, fuck you, buddy.Although, I'm all for "uncle" Wrex and "older brother" Grunt helping to raise and train Shepard Jr. Hell, not to mention "grandpa".
There's this image /v/ uses to start mass effect threads and states its from ME3. It shows the asari councilor or someone talking about how shepard saved the citadel from the reapers.Doesn't the council deny the reapers existence?
>>93629 My guess is that they are just covering their own ass, and don't want to cause panic. Hell, even Anderson pretty much said so in the second game. Not to mention that a lot of Sovereign's remains were apparently taken by the military, and they probably not want to admit anything. Or it could just be a fuck up on Bioware's part.
>>93631I think it was more like half of Sovereign's remains went missing, very likely by the Keepers just doing their job, and what they did manage to save wasn't enough to get any quantifiable data from. So the Council used the excuse that there's no evidence to keep the public happy.
So, is it just me or the guns from the first game haven't aged that well? I sort of liked how they remodeled the sniper rifle for ME2, but the assault rifle and gun which are used so much for cut-scenes and trailers, really need a make over.I mean, when compared to the guns in the second game, and especially the ones they have been releasing later with DLC, they just look really odd. Maybe its just the color, texture, or the weird square shapes but if feels like they need to mess a bit with the look. I mean, even Halo Reach did it.Hell, I don't even know why they kept those circle things at the sides where the weapons mods are supposed to go. They got rid of the mods in ME2, so they really serve no purpose and just look really bad.
Two things:1. Liara is at a comparable age of ten. Enjoy your stat-rape.2. If Kepral's is such a problem with the Drell, wouldn't a lung transplant fix everything, if not delay the inevitable.
>>93647Asari don't really work that way. Age don't necessary dictate their stages, or maturity. Second, I think the Drell disease is more like SPACE cancer. Sure it stars in lungs, but spreads later spreads.
>>93648There's an asari on Illium, talking tech with a salarian, and she mentions being 160 and "finally moved out". And since Asari live roughly ten times humans do, I just put two and two together.Although you're likely right.And according to the wiki, Kepral's is the lung's incapability to absorb oxygen, which then spreads to other organs. Since lungs are the first to go, it seems reasonable that a lung transplant would fix that.
>>93649Actually I think she said 60, thats usually when Asari leave their homes in the Maiden Stage.
>>93650Aaaaand a quick trip back to Illium confirms that. Fuck.
Finally tried out each of the other classes in ME2 to see how they compare to ME1. Sentinels turn me into a krogan, fuck yeah. I'll actually see this save file through so I can get a fucking shotgun and make me, Grunt, and Jack go on a freight train of death killing spree.
>>93714Vanguard is easily the coolest one.
>>93719I always FemShep'd as a Vanguard, and ManShep'd as Soldier my first run through, so yes, it's an awesome class. But I reiterate: Sentinels are krogans with pistols. They take enormous amounts of damage, heal quickly, and you better fucking run when they run at you with low shields.
>>93646The new guns do look a bit better.
>>93649there was a thread on /v/ similar to this today. Why does garrus still have a scar if you get the med-bay updgrade and why doesn't joker just get a heavy bone weave?My answer was "characterization", but I'm sure bioware has a reason. I don't think you can just open up Joker and graft steel onto his bones, you need to be built tech like shepard was, and garrus....just likes his scars. And maybe drell physiology is too difficult to fuck with?
>>93649A lung transplant does fix it. In one conversation path, Thane mentions this, but says that he refused to be put on the waiting list; he would not take from another so that he could continue living. Some other Drell can enjoy that lung, one who wasn't just a tool for killing.
>>93741We actually discussed this two threads ago, if I remember right. I think we concluded that a lot of it has to do with the fact that Shepard's got a lot of cybernetic enhancements while Garrus and Joker don't.
>>93746yea Shep is a freaking patchwork of cybernetics so any additional systems are mostly software updates and small additions to the wetframe stuff they've already built into Shepard that brought back the crispy critter.
>>93747I always went the simple way:Joker can't because his bones are already too fragile to accept the weave, and Garrus can't use the medibay-antiscar thing because it's designed for levo-amino acid-based life. At best, it's be rejected, at worst it would kill them both.
So should we all accept that Thane is doomed to kick the bucket?It would be kind of cool to see that hashed out, from a story/emotional perspective.
>>93795I like the idea of having the third game start off at the funeral of Mordin, all the other squadmates reminiscing about others who've died (Thane would have died recently, possibly Samara since she's a matriarch, etc), and the reason the levels restart is because Shepard's been busy lately with gathering/organizing intel from all his sources; rallying everybody as a general tends to let one see less on the field.
>>93799I really don't want any of my crew to be dead by ME3. I traveled all over the galaxy to help them so they could help me stop the reapers.
>>93863 Mordin's old bro, he's GOING to die, another couple of years at most.Thane I can see the possibillity of bullshitting it that he could be saved from his condition to keep him around, but no he's also on the way out, so... I guess it's just something we have to learn to accept.
>>93865Hoping for Epic DLC lead ends for their final stands.
>>93893they could have already had their final stand at the base though.I think biowares going to face some major problems with the way they've given the player so many choices.
Thane I am alright with, I was never really TOO attached to him, and while it would suck if he wasn't in ME3, I'd be okay with it.But Mordin? Oh man, I don't want him dead. He's the best characters.
>>93904If it opens with a wake for..someone (my heart will fucking break if its Anderson) and they start remembering everyone that has left this world within the recent years..hell a speech from Shepard about those that have passed would be epic. Shepard raises his/her glass "Here's to Anderson...the first human Specter."
So I finally have access to a computer that can run Mass Effect and while the combat is somewhat clutLOADING LOADING LOADINGtered, the inventory is annLOADING LOADING LOADINGoying, and the AI is stuLOADING LOADING LOADINGpid I'm liking it so far. I REALLY prefer the elevators to the regular loading screens.
>>93916Really? I found the loading times to be much faster for ME2 compared to ME1.
>>93968I'm TALKING about Mass Effect 1.
>>93909I myself would like to have seen shepard a little more torn up about wrex. Well, one of my sehpards anyway.
>>93916Yeah, 1 has shitty load times and is all around a rough experience, but you can tell they put a lot of effort into polishing the world and story. Sadly, Mass Effect 2 takes a huge piss on those factors with a moronic plot involving Cerberus and Reapers building themselves out of and enslaving organics and by going for DURR SHOOTANS HURR instead of polishing the RPG aspects of the combat. On the plus side, you're party members are more interesting in 2, though Wrex is too busy beating people into submission on his home world to join you.
I think it would be cool if in a future Mass Effect game, Shepard is a recruitable party member. He would be older and/or retired of course, perhaps something like with Anderson or Hackett. Hell, give me his offspring as character for my crew. I guess he/she would be either human, Asari, or perhaps no one at all depending on your action in the original trilogy...
>>93988Originally I'd hoped that Mass Effect 2 would have you play a new guy and then Shepard would act differently depending on how you characterized him/her.
>>93909I doubt it'll be Anderson because you can't kill Keith David. Unless you're one of his friends, possibly from the other side.
Am I the only one here following Cerberus Daily News? I've been following it since ME2 came out, and it's still awesome. Just all the little tidbits fleshing out more and more of the universe.
>>94034I've tried. It just reads as bland, so I lose my attention span for it real quick.So I found some pictures from Lakme Fashion Week and I immediately thought: There needs to be more of this kind of fashion shown in the ME universe.
>>94093>>94094Looks like someone found the old Privateer 2 costumes
>>94101I had to look that up. I feel either young or like I really missed out on a generation (or ten generations) of PC gaming
>>94181Check in with Spoony since he covers all that was basically good and bad about the FMV era of PC games. Christopher Walken as a sleazy cop..pure gold.
Hey Nurse, do you have Terminus Armor, by any chance?
>>94183The great thing about FMV games today is that you can watch them all on youtube or let's played and you don't have to worry about the crappy gameplay.
>>94093this is more like dune actually.
>>94486Yeah. And as far as I'm concerned, that's okay. There should be a dune like planet that some crazy backwater religious colonists really wanted to live on. And then they discover it has crazy ass worms rachni that create this hallucinogenic compound.No, no, wait. I'VE GOT IT.Alternate ME universe. Drell = fremen