[Tapper]

Kanubis, on 08 March 2012 - 11:48 AM, said:

Tapper, on 08 March 2012 - 08:54 AM, said:

Oh man, the visual eye-candy is astonishing. Never played something that looked this good. I agree with SB that it feels a lot like ME2, but improved in almost every way (apart from bouncy instead of sticky grenades... loss of control there).
I'm just at the Citadel after doing the Mars-mission, and I gotta say, the early dialogue is awesome. Kaidan is truly butt-hurt to the point of being a nuisance. Liara was more natural than in both other games, which is a good thing since she's

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My fem-shep's ME1 snuggle-buddy and I made her Shadow Broker, both despite liking her not all that much, but better than Kaiden or Ashley, and after Mordin's comments about chafing I turned Garrus down

I'm looking forward to meeting all the other cast members. Particularly looking forward to seeing if Kasumi is in my game, even as just a cameo, because I played her DLC only after I did the Suicide Mission.

See, I totally agree on the visuals, but have heard a lot of people slagging them off too. What format are you on? I'm playing it on the PC and it looks amazing.


I saved Ashley in ME1, and the early dialogue is great...

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I was pleased that her and Liara spoke a couple of lines to each other when I first got to Liara on Mars. It pissed me off no end in ME2 when I came across Ashley on the kidnapped colony planet, and she didn't bat an eyelid at Garrus and Tali being on my team. I haven't got much further, but so far Liara is a convincing evolution of her nerdy origins and harder ME2 persona.

1920*1080 on PC. And cross-team interaction is indeed cool. I guess in the Mars section it was easier to code as this was a more or less fixed party (either Kaiden or Ashley + Liara) and therefore allowed Bioware to insert dialogue without the need to design 9 different conversations. As such, I expect interaction to drop again further on in the game.

[Stalker]

well anyway, I stole borrowed the game from my brother, so gonna get some play time in. How's the MP? I've heard good thing about that, like horde mode on crack, so if you guys are on at some point, we should give it a shot.

[Dolorous Menhir]

Struggling to find a clear answer online, maybe someone here can help. I have endgame saves from ME2 ready to use. If I go back and play the DLC on them, will I be able to import the endgame & DLC outcomes to ME3?

Or do I need to go back to a pre-endgame save in ME2 and work through the DLC content?

[Tapper]

Dolorous Menhir, on 08 March 2012 - 11:18 PM, said:

Struggling to find a clear answer online, maybe someone here can help. I have endgame saves from ME2 ready to use. If I go back and play the DLC on them, will I be able to import the endgame & DLC outcomes to ME3?

Or do I need to go back to a pre-endgame save in ME2 and work through the DLC content?

I installed the Overlord & Kasumi DLC after my ME2 playthrough, went through them, and imported the latest safe file. Characters from both appeared in my ME3 game with reference to the ME2 save.

So I'd say: yes, imports of after ME2-vanilla stuff still count.

[Slow Ben]

I guess i'm the only one who's glad the face didn't import. My guy looked like a douche.

[Dammon]

My face didn't import over but since it was only a slight modification of one of the preset faces it didn't bother me at all.

I was going to hold off starting ME3 until Saturday morning because I knew I wouldn't have much time to play it last night and tonight (Had people round for dinner last night and am going to the Rugby tonight) but I couldn't help myself and ended up playing until midnight last night

[Gothos]

Avoiding reading your posts, but I've gotten started and played a little bit. It's slightly annoying that everyone I met so far wants to bone my FemShep. Haven't gotten far as I couldn't give the time to play much, but I'm liking it so far.

The Council... gah!

[Aptorian]

Bought the N7 Collectors Edition for PC earlier today. It's installing as we speak. I've cleared any commitments the entire weekend. The fridge is stocked with fatty food, sugar and 4 liters of cola. MY BODY IS READY!

[Dolorous Menhir]

Surely they'll do a fix for the face thing? It doesn't make any sense that that wouldn't work.

[Illuyankas]

It'll probably be faster just to recreate your face at the start as best you can. I'm sure your Shep's jaw being a handful of pixels wider won't matter inside an hour.

[Tapper]

I wonder if the Team Zeta "Bridge Burners" unit that becomes an upgrade to the Alliance Marines is a wink towards MBotF....

[Morgoth]

I had to remake Shepard's face, which was annoying. He looks approximately the same, but I simply wasn't allowed to make him as drawn and grizzled looking as he used to be.

It's actually messing a little with my immersion.

[Aptorian]

Just arrived at the citadel after the initial story introduction and tutorial stuff.

So... am I the only one who thinks that the start was, well, really bad?

The dialogue and the events so far are so hamfisted I can hardly believe it.

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The awkward dialogue between Sheppard and Anderson. The human leadership being generically inefficient. Generic hallmark card comments about war. Cheesy scene with child that gets killed and Sheppard being all "baaawwhhh", poorly handled scenes with Kaidan again and again bringing up cerberus and Sheppard acting like he fucked somebody's dog, Stupid scene with Kaidan getting messed up and Sheppard looking like a puppet that got its strings cut, etc. For a game that supposedly has a professional storyteller as its narrator... this is really mediochre, if not down right pathetic. It's really hurting my immersion in the game so far. It doesn't help that I am not sold on the premise of the game to start with. Now, I tried to stay as far away from information about the story as possible, so maybe I should have known better, but I did not expect the game to actually start with the invasion of earth and then they would send you out to gather troops. I thought maybe the game would flash back in time and the game would be about you preparing for the invasion. I don't understand why the Reapers are hovering a meter over the ground, shooting lasers at buildings and deploying troops. They are gigantic planet killed machines. Why are they not just using planet killing technology from outer space on the surface? They're there to kill all life, not to invade the planet. It makes no sense other than "it looks cool".

Meh, I am sure it gets better once the story gets rolling. I hope.

[Tapper]

Aptorius, on 10 March 2012 - 10:36 AM, said:

Just arrived at the citadel after the initial story introduction and tutorial stuff.

So... am I the only one who thinks that the start was, well, really bad?

The dialogue and the events so far are so hamfisted I can hardly believe it.

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The awkward dialogue between Sheppard and Anderson. The human leadership being generically inefficient. Generic hallmark card comments about war. Cheesy scene with child that gets killed and Sheppard being all "baaawwhhh", poorly handled scenes with Kaidan again and again bringing up cerberus and Sheppard acting like he fucked somebody's dog, Stupid scene with Kaidan getting messed up and Sheppard looking like a puppet that got its strings cut, etc. For a game that supposedly has a professional storyteller as its narrator... this is really mediochre, if not down right pathetic. It's really hurting my immersion in the game so far. It doesn't help that I am not sold on the premise of the game to start with. Now, I tried to stay as far away from information about the story as possible, so maybe I should have known better, but I did not expect the game to actually start with the invasion of earth and then they would send you out to gather troops. I thought maybe the game would flash back in time and the game would be about you preparing for the invasion. I don't understand why the Reapers are hovering a meter over the ground, shooting lasers at buildings and deploying troops. They are gigantic planet killed machines. Why are they not just using planet killing technology from outer space on the surface? They're there to kill all life, not to invade the planet. It makes no sense other than "it looks cool".

Meh, I am sure it gets better once the story gets rolling. I hope.

Because in one of the DLCs

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Shep destroys an entire system to halt the Reapers (dunno if you can save the Batarians who live there, I didn't), and is demoted and almost court-marshalled because of it. No-one still believes in the Reapers as a threat.


Secondly, the game has to introduce characters for those who only play three.
Thirdly, little kid is going to be even more annoying in the little dream sequences you get to play.
Fourthly, the Reapers literally reap: they harvest life instead of just nuking it all from orbit.
Ffthly, you basically get to prepare for the Reaper invqsion while they are already invading, to add a sense of urgency

[Aptorian]

Tapper, on 10 March 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

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Shep destroys an entire system to halt the Reapers (dunno if you can save the Batarians who live there, I didn't), and is demoted and almost court-marshalled because of it. No-one still believes in the Reapers as a threat.

Oh, hadn't heard about that. Was this a part of the Shadow Broker DLC? I did see a mention of an attack on the Batarians in the Journal.

Ffthly, you basically get to prepare for the Reaper invqsion while they are already invading, to add a sense of urgency

But... The Reapers are already there levelling city's. Exactly how long are we supposed to believe it will take them to destroy every single city and harvest every single human being? 24-48 hours would be my estimate. Maybe a week. Certainly not a month or a year or how ever long this game is going to stretch over.

This post has been edited by Aptorius: 10 March 2012 - 11:19 AM

[Tapper]

Aptorius, on 10 March 2012 - 11:18 AM, said:

Tapper, on 10 March 2012 - 10:50 AM, said:

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Shep destroys an entire system to halt the Reapers (dunno if you can save the Batarians who live there, I didn't), and is demoted and almost court-marshalled because of it. No-one still believes in the Reapers as a threat.

Oh, hadn't heard about that. Was this a part of the Shadow Broker DLC? I did see a mention of an attack on the Batarians in the Journal.

Ffthly, you basically get to prepare for the Reaper invqsion while they are already invading, to add a sense of urgency

But... The Reapers are already there levelling city's. Exactly how long are we supposed to believe it will take them to destroy every single city and harvest every single human being? 24-48 hours would be my estimate. Maybe a week. Certainly not a month or a year or how ever long this game is going to stretch over.

The first event is The Arrival DLC. The second... the timeline is not important?

[Garak]

The Reapers are not just wiping out people. They are harvesting people.

[Aptorian]

Fine then. If I was a 50,000 year old gigantic space ship I would build toxic bombs into my systems that I could launch through orbit that would create paralysing clouds that would blanket whole continents. Or I would use hypno mind rays from my future tech satellite disks or better yet, I would just use those flocks of insects from Mass Effect 2 that can't be fought.

But why even bouther, if all they need is organic meat to flesh out their space robot bodies, just grow it in a vat. Clone some humans or cows. It's the same issue that Matrix had. Why do they need sentient beings for food when a cow could do just as well?

The plot made more sense in ME1 when the Reapers simply seemed to be ancient machines stuck in an endless programme, destroy all sentient biological life every 50,000 years, rinse and repeat. Why? Because that is why they exist. To destroy. Where did they come from? Who knows. They could be a billion years old. That made a lot more sense.

Anyway, I'm well, into the game now and it's gotten much better. It's the depth of the story that I like and it has that in spades. I still think the conversation scenes are appalling bordering on embarrassing. There keeps being these pauses right after a conversation where Sheppard is just starring into nothing like the guy is... well, a soulless computer character.

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[Cause]

I think they need living sentient beings. Sovereign stated that each reaper is a nation. They are fully aware geth, not a collection of hundreds of VIs but possibly the memories of untold thousands of harvested sentients.

[Gothos]

The Reaper vs Prothean war too centuries. It might not be as immediate as would be expected.

Also, stop nitpicking and enjoy the game.