I'm under no illusions here, its likely meaningless but if anyone wants to post thats the place to do it.
It's believable that they would crowdsource feedback, after all, the BSN is comprised of the hardcore fans, most of whom were highly upset by the ending.
On March 17 2012 11:53 Orcasgt24 wrote: So I went back and have begun playing ME2 on insanity. I do not in the slightest miss fighting Krogan and Vorcha.
Garrus' recruitment mission? It's pretty hard on Insanity
I like the more diverse enemy types in ME2 though. The game is a lot harder than ME3, aside from maybe a few specific battles.
I've heard a lot about the Quarian Infiltrator though, gonna try for it next. Stupid RNG system. I have none of the Infiltrators unlocked yet I have Widow IV :/
Anyone else who had to laugh every time the pilot (name slips from me) of normandy explain to you how much he loves EDI? It just reminds me too much of the indian guy in the big bang theory who fell in love with siri the iphone app. I get that they want diversity in every way possible, so you get a lot of interracial and homosexual relations, but when you fall in love with an intelligent blow up doll, it's long passed the stage where it made sense
On March 17 2012 23:49 Euronyme wrote: About EDI. + Show Spoiler +
Anyone else who had to laugh every time the pilot (name slips from me) of normandy explain to you how much he loves EDI? It just reminds me too much of the indian guy in the big bang theory who fell in love with siri the iphone app. I get that they want diversity in every way possible, so you get a lot of interracial and homosexual relations, but when you fall in love with an intelligent blow up doll, it's long passed the stage where it made sense
"Blow up doll" is hardly the correct description lol, and even though Joker and EDI have a technically very fucked up relationship, it is quite obviously primarily a comic relief subplot with a lot of funny dialogs etcetera.
On March 17 2012 23:49 Euronyme wrote: About EDI. + Show Spoiler +
Anyone else who had to laugh every time the pilot (name slips from me) of normandy explain to you how much he loves EDI? It just reminds me too much of the indian guy in the big bang theory who fell in love with siri the iphone app. I get that they want diversity in every way possible, so you get a lot of interracial and homosexual relations, but when you fall in love with an intelligent blow up doll, it's long passed the stage where it made sense
Yes I didn't understand that either. How can a self aware, intelligent, highly advanced synthetic being, able to learn and alive in any way you can describe "being alive", fall in love with a semi intelligent bag of meat, water, bones and organs, it's long passed the stage where it made sense indeed.
On March 17 2012 23:49 Euronyme wrote: About EDI. + Show Spoiler +
Anyone else who had to laugh every time the pilot (name slips from me) of normandy explain to you how much he loves EDI? It just reminds me too much of the indian guy in the big bang theory who fell in love with siri the iphone app. I get that they want diversity in every way possible, so you get a lot of interracial and homosexual relations, but when you fall in love with an intelligent blow up doll, it's long passed the stage where it made sense
Yes I didn't understand that either. How can a self aware, intelligent, highly advanced synthetic being, able to learn and alive in any way you can describe "being alive", fall in love with a semi intelligent bag of meat, water, bones and organs, it's long passed the stage where it made sense indeed.
I might've missed something, but wasn't it only on Joker's side? EDI never said anything about that iirc. She just went on about what it meant with for her being self aware and having a body.
Edit. It's a computer.. It's an advanced iphone siri. It'd hardly what would qualify as being alive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life
On March 17 2012 23:49 Euronyme wrote: About EDI. + Show Spoiler +
Anyone else who had to laugh every time the pilot (name slips from me) of normandy explain to you how much he loves EDI? It just reminds me too much of the indian guy in the big bang theory who fell in love with siri the iphone app. I get that they want diversity in every way possible, so you get a lot of interracial and homosexual relations, but when you fall in love with an intelligent blow up doll, it's long passed the stage where it made sense
Yes I didn't understand that either. How can a self aware, intelligent, highly advanced synthetic being, able to learn and alive in any way you can describe "being alive", fall in love with a semi intelligent bag of meat, water, bones and organs, it's long passed the stage where it made sense indeed.
Living beings are sometimes irrational and self awareness does strange things. I remember some woman marrying a stone, and some guy having sex with a bicycle. She is under constant influence of humans and rewriting her own code/making decisions. I thought it was rather well done.
On March 18 2012 00:29 Euronyme wrote: Edit. It's a computer.. It's an advanced iphone siri. It'd hardly what would qualify as being alive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life
Its a mammal. Its an advanced Amoeba. its hardly what would qualify as being alive.
Joking aside, this is one of the bigger questions ME tries to ask. Is synthetic life as much alive as organics. Clearly I tend to think so and you dont, which is perfectly fine
On March 17 2012 23:49 Euronyme wrote: About EDI. + Show Spoiler +
Anyone else who had to laugh every time the pilot (name slips from me) of normandy explain to you how much he loves EDI? It just reminds me too much of the indian guy in the big bang theory who fell in love with siri the iphone app. I get that they want diversity in every way possible, so you get a lot of interracial and homosexual relations, but when you fall in love with an intelligent blow up doll, it's long passed the stage where it made sense
Yes I didn't understand that either. How can a self aware, intelligent, highly advanced synthetic being, able to learn and alive in any way you can describe "being alive", fall in love with a semi intelligent bag of meat, water, bones and organs, it's long passed the stage where it made sense indeed.
I might've missed something, but wasn't it only on Joker's side? EDI never said anything about that iirc. She just went on about what it meant with for her being self aware and having a body.
Edit. It's a computer.. It's an advanced iphone siri. It'd hardly what would qualify as being alive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life
No, EDI was totally into Joker as well. You can talk to her in the Citadel about it, and give her some advice about a relationship with him. Bioware went all out with every kind of relationship possible.
On March 17 2012 11:53 Orcasgt24 wrote: So I went back and have begun playing ME2 on insanity. I do not in the slightest miss fighting Krogan and Vorcha.
Garrus' recruitment mission? It's pretty hard on Insanity
I like the more diverse enemy types in ME2 though. The game is a lot harder than ME3, aside from maybe a few specific battles.
I think difficulty in ME is totally dependent on class. I played infiltrator in ME2 on hardcore and it was pretty challenging then I played a soldier on insanity and the game was a joke cause adrenaline rush was OP as fuck. Then again you can say the same for most bioware games...like mages making DA too easy, etc.
The Joker/EDI relationship didn't just come out of nowhere. Remember that they spend alot of time working together (while you're off doing whatever side mission), and Joker was responsible for unshackling her. She's building a personality and Joker interacted with her all the way through this process. I thought it was the most obvious relationship in the world once EDI got her body.
Joker/EDI relationship pretty much contradicted the whole, created destroys creator thing the game was trying to portray. Since the two of them lived in peace and made things work in a relationship, it's supposed to mean on a whole that synthetics and organics can live together. Meh, I just really hope they change the ending to at least rid us of plot holes (I don't need closure, just a good logical outcome).
On March 18 2012 02:48 mastergriggy wrote: Joker/EDI relationship pretty much contradicted the whole, created destroys creator thing the game was trying to portray. Since the two of them lived in peace and made things work in a relationship, it's supposed to mean on a whole that synthetics and organics can live together.
It was the Reapers who claimed this, not the game. You can contradict their point even more by having the Geth and Quarians cooperate.
On March 17 2012 11:53 Orcasgt24 wrote: So I went back and have begun playing ME2 on insanity. I do not in the slightest miss fighting Krogan and Vorcha.
Garrus' recruitment mission? It's pretty hard on Insanity
I like the more diverse enemy types in ME2 though. The game is a lot harder than ME3, aside from maybe a few specific battles.
Honestly, it's not so much hard as it just takes 3 years to kill anyone. You just have to take it a lot slower than you normally would on Insanity and you'll get through it just fine.
ME3 I beat in 24 hours flat on normal dying maybe 5 times (twice at the very end when they spawn 3 Banshees because fuck Banshees). It was by far the shortest and definitely the easiest on normal. I really don't have the patience to play it through again on Insanity because the renegade options make no sense whatsoever and the ending will still be bad no matter what I do.
On March 18 2012 02:48 mastergriggy wrote: Joker/EDI relationship pretty much contradicted the whole, created destroys creator thing the game was trying to portray. Since the two of them lived in peace and made things work in a relationship, it's supposed to mean on a whole that synthetics and organics can live together.
It was the Reapers who claimed this, not the game. You can contradict their point even more by having the Geth and Quarians cooperate.
But then you can't even at least TRY to bring up those points to the stupid starchild.
So a friend of mine spliced all 3 endings into one video.
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I've been playing the drell adept for some time on the multiplayer and I can't quite pinpoint what Reave does to my health. I know it's aoe, does some damage, gives me some damage reduction, but does it actually give me an extra bar of HP?
Had a funny multiplayer game: Joined a random random silver game and saw kids with sub 40 N-levels and level 16-18 chars. Usually I'd leave but I was feeling generous and decided to do some charity work. It ended up being my asari adept (with player-controlled meat-shields) vs cerberus, which was fine by me. Even reapers would have been fine, just don't give me geth. First few waves were facepalmingly bad. They ran around like headless chickens. They even managed all 3 to die to the very same turret while ressing each other. But come wave 10, they all learnt the ropes the hard way and were trailing my lead without any objections =) We even managed a full extraction! Kids did well. The sad part was I had 103K points to their combined 37K. If you ever played on the higher difficulties you know what that means about your squadmates ^^;
I came in at ME2, so I can't say I'm too much of a hardcore fan. All I know is that ME2 & ME3 had great gameplay and sidestories. After finishing up the game I was flabergasted at how... inadequate is was. I've been a sucker for unhappy endings since Silent Hill 2 so I can take it like a champ, but ME3 failed to have a happy or sad ending... it had a series of nonsensical rationalities (by superior beings) and a ship full of dead-set friends fleeing from the battle, for no reason relevant to their own morals. One of those endings is only helpful for the reapers. Another creates a horrible situation for anyone in the sol system. The final one makes no sense when regarding the redundant actions of living beings (which is what the basis of the choice is supposed to be for). So why would shepard choose any of those?... He could jump off into space and it would all probably turn out better for organics. I'm on the fence about relay destruction.
I like to use certain forums and treat them as microcosms of the world, teamliquid being one of them. It helps me figure out a good standing of opinions males 15-40 as a majority. So when I came on after finishing the game, I was delighted to see that 9 out of 10 unique posts hated the endings as well. What seem like the apex of hardcore ME players at bioware's forums basically had my issues with the endings and more holes and irrationalities that I hadn't even considered. I'm a little mad that I played $70 for a story with very poorly written endings, but I really feel for all those fans that actually stuck through since ME1, tweaking their game to get the perfect ending... when the ending came.
Now I've been reading about a few big-named game critic sites and hubs who have basically been chastising the fans of ME3, saying that the fans just want their own happy ending. Fuck that. I have seen some amazing posts on other sites about how idiotic and nonsensical every choice was to make, whereas the hubs/sites preachers have almost nothing but ad hominem attacks. You're looking at people who payed $60 to $200 for a story that doesn't have endings relevant to the entirety of the game. They have a damn right to be angry.
Anyways, not such a big fan of the game, but I'll defend the hardcore gamers about this issue to the end. They got screwed over, plain and simple. As for the statement trying to make it seem like there's a 50-50 love/hate about the endings... no... there isn't. Hate is in the majority, as it should be.
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