Mass Effect 2 *spoilers around pg 29/30*

[Sjofn]

I thought about that, but doesn't the lizard people wind up effectively servants of the jellyfish, and doesn't staying on the jellyfish planet actually kill them in the long run? And yet no one else is stepping up to the plate, offering to relocate them and give them a better place to live.

The hanar themselves are working to fix the "the planet slowly drowns the drell" problem. They just haven't fixed it yet, so Thane is a bit screwed, although he (apparently) is not doing all he can to survive either.


EDIT: On the ME2 front, I am doing an experimental "always take Jacob with me, damn it all" hardcore run on SALLY SHEPARD, who is going to rock his bland little world eventually (although she is pretty bland herself. They will have very bland children together one day). I hope he uh. Learns some new tricks in ME3. Horizon went a lot better than I expected though. Sally is an infiltrator and took Garrus and Jacob and it ... somehow worked out fine!

[tmp]

Sally is an infiltrator and took Garrus and Jacob and it ... somehow worked out fine!

Garrus, the unsung Crazy Calibrated hero of ME.

[Fordel]

It's not like Humanity is really putting the universe ahead of themselves either. We've basically done in 50 years what it usually takes other races like 500, more or less on the sleeping giant threat of "Do you REALLY want to piss us off?".


Which is what makes the ME universe so awesome, they got humanity RIGHT!

[snowwy]

Jacob must die in the.....whereever is hottest. I hate you! *urge to reload ME1 rising*

[Amaron]

That's taking it a bit further than "let's hate this race which is likely to attempt to attack and enslave me".

That's racial profiling already.

Yea that's my point.   Being a Xenophobe is far worse than racial profiling.

[tmp]

Yea that's my point.   Being a Xenophobe is far worse than racial profiling.

I might've used wrong term, but my point was these two were one and the same -- xenophobe will assign negative traits to a race/species. Which is precisely what "this race/species is likely to attack and enslave us" thinking is doing.

[Amaron]

I might've used wrong term, but my point was these two were one and the same -- xenophobe will assign negative traits to a race/species. Which is precisely what "this race/species is likely to attack and enslave us" thinking is doing.

Ahh it might be my fault since  I'm using the sci-fi meaning of the word.   Where you are prejudiced against all alien races no matter what.   I find that to be a pretty far cry from being cautious around some race which finds humans delicious and likes to deep fry us.

[Jeff Kelly]

The more and more that is released the more sceptical I become. This is because the released stuff only concerns the looks and not the gameplay.

It's nice that the characters look better, but maybe six months to release and no gameplay footage whatsoever makes me rather nervous

[Sjofn]

It's way easier to release "check out how this looks" shit in such a way that's interesting. Watching people play a game is the most boring goddamn thing in the world.


EDIT: Also, there IS gameplay footage already, isn't there? That stupid kinect demo or whatever, and also part of the opening where it's Shepard and Someone Else.

[Velorath]

It's way easier to release "check out how this looks" shit in such a way that's interesting. Watching people play a game is the most boring goddamn thing in the world.


EDIT: Also, there IS gameplay footage already, isn't there? That stupid kinect demo or whatever, and also part of the opening where it's Shepard and Someone Else.

Yeah, they actually showed quite a bit of gameplay at E3.  Gametrailers has a number of gameplay videos up, one of which has almost 20 minutes of gameplay footage.

[tmp]

Yup they were showing off the beginning, the rescue krogan princess mission and the "please hold this idiot ball for a minute, Mr. Reaper" one.

[Pennilenko]

My fish died. 

[Tannhauser]

I hope I can still sexually harass my crewmen. 

[Mazakiel]

If we can no longer hit on our crewmen, then the Reapers have already won. 

[rk47]

lol. i wish the opposite is true. some crew deserved to be punch and thrown out of the airlock at times. :)

[Sjofn]

I am continuing my "take Jacob everywhere, goddammit" playthrough. I'm not looking forward to the collector ship, although at least he has a shotgun and barrier. Maybe I'll do Garrus/Jacob for that, it worked alright on Horizon! 

[Shrike]

Garrus and Jacob? Better you than me. Garrus was barely adequate there and I only brought him along for moral support when confronting the faithless Ashley.

Hopefully, Garrus gets tuned up a bit in ME3. He's one of my favorite teammembers and a veteran of all my initial playthroughs, but--lets face it--he's a bit of a weak link in combat. Jacob is just hopeless. He'll be warming a bench on the reconditioned Normandy when she sets sail on her last adventure in ME3. Maybe. There is an airlock, after all...

[TheWalrus]

Jacob who?

[LK]

You may know him as Token.

[Paelos]

Jacob who?

He's the dude playing the dude who's disguised as another dude!

[Amaron]

Jacob who?

[Sjofn]

Garrus and Jacob? Better you than me. Garrus was barely adequate there and I only brought him along for moral support when confronting the faithless Ashley.

Hopefully, Garrus gets tuned up a bit in ME3. He's one of my favorite teammembers and a veteran of all my initial playthroughs, but--lets face it--he's a bit of a weak link in combat. Jacob is just hopeless. He'll be warming a bench on the reconditioned Normandy when she sets sail on her last adventure in ME3. Maybe. There is an airlock, after all...

Garrus is fine in combat, I'm not sure what you are smoking there. I actually had such an easy time on Horizon with Jacob/Garrus (I'm playing an infiltrator), I checked my settings to make sure I was still on Hardcore. And I was! 

Jacob isn't quite as useless in combat as I feared, he's just last place in basically everything. And when you have so many team members, and only two slots, last place is never, ever going to leave the ship normally. There is nothing he is strong against, basically. Everyone else has something they're pretty good against, so even if you don't take them normally (Jack, I almost never take Jack, for example), there are missions where they're pretty good and you'll let them out of their room for once. Jacob has no such talents. Although now that he has barrier, he can shotgun people in the face better than he used to.

[Merusk]

Garrus and Jacob? Better you than me. Garrus was barely adequate there and I only brought him along for moral support when confronting the faithless Ashley.

Hopefully, Garrus gets tuned up a bit in ME3. He's one of my favorite teammembers and a veteran of all my initial playthroughs, but--lets face it--he's a bit of a weak link in combat. Jacob is just hopeless. He'll be warming a bench on the reconditioned Normandy when she sets sail on her last adventure in ME3. Maybe. There is an airlock, after all...

Garrus as a weak link is entirely based on the fight setups of ME2.  The few sniping areas (his recruit & the Collector Ship) he did fine for me.  Anyplace involving running & Gunning he was, indeed, a liability.  Particularly since I was an Inf myself and needed more muscle often times.

[Shrike]

Yep, that. Pretty much what I was referring to. Garrus only has a couple of missions where he shines in ME2.

After a couple of playthoughs, I only brought him on Haestrom (Garrus and Zayeed with long rifles was the shiznit), and put him in charge of the alt teams on the collector base. That was about it. Everywhere else I spent too much time unifying his dead ass.

He also died way too much on ME1, but that was more of a matter of bad luck on turian armor drops. If he scored a Colossus X he was a beast.

[PalmTrees]

Area lift makes Jacob useful and squad fire ammo is a nice buff. Having the enemy occasionally stop and do the "I'm on fire dance" gets you a few extra hits in. But due to the way defenses are, warp and overload take priority and since Jacob has neither he has plenty of free time for his sit-ups.

[Lantyssa]

He also died way too much on ME1, but that was more of a matter of bad luck on turian armor drops. If he scored a Colossus X he was a beast.

Colossus X makes anyone a beast.  I got a suit for Tali and she was just as unstoppable.

[Shrike]

Yeah, had a Colossus X on Tali on one of my playthroughs. She was unstoppable after that. However, in ME1 her ability to continusously chain attacks that debuff and rip hell out of enemies made her a steamroller when teamed with Shepard.

I did Novaria with her and Liara and Shepard was basically along for the ride. Between Liara's singularity and Tali spamming overload, sabatage, carnage, and whathaveyou, Shepard had plenty of time to stand around and take in the scenary. Kinda missed that in ME2. Still took Tali everywhere, but mostly becasue she was Tali. Could justify it because the drone was so handy, but nothing like in the first game. Can't say the same for Garrus, much as I like him otherwise.

[tmp]

An updated picture of the douchebag squadmate has been released as reward for hyperactive fans.

[Rasix]

Can they please write in a Virmire like scenario where I can kill that douchenozzle?  Hour 1 or 2 preferred.

[Ingmar]

Slightly less douchey than prior picture, but still incredibly douchey.

[Strazos]

Did he get lost on his way to the set for Gears of War 3?

[tmp]

Oh comeon now. If it wasn't for the faux mohawk the guy could pass for maleShepard's cousin

(and the mohawk thing seems to be an actual haircut popular with the military so can't really blame them for picking it for a well, soldier, either)

[Shrike]

Mohawks are farily commonplace these days, and not just in the .mil. They seem inordinately popular with our maintenance dept. at work. Well, at least with those that still have hair. There's irony for you.

Ummm...what was this thread about again?

[Sir T]

Is it bad that my first reaction on seeing that guy was to curl up laughing?

[Sjofn]

He better have the sexiest voice actor in the history of voice acting.