Mass Effect 3

[Ragnoros]

Any indication if they will have some way to input your decisions from the last two games? I don't have saves from either available. Or will I just be going to masseffectsaves.com again?

[Ironwood]

Illusive Man has been buying his cigarettes from Tobacco Reapers Inc. and was indoctrinated over the course of ME2, of course.

As long as Bartlet is in it, I'm sold.

[Lakov_Sanite]

I never got why keeping the reaper base was a paragon/renegade decision. It felt much more natural for my renegade shep to say "fuck you martin sheen" and just blow the thing to hell and be done with it.  The whole game I'm kicking ass and taking names and then suddenly the choice is "oh no lets be cautious and preserve this base for science!" seemed off.

[Fordel]

It's about who you are giving it to.

[TheWalrus]

For me it was more about using something that had liquefied people in it. Yeah. Not cool. I nuked that shit.

[HaemishM]

For me it was more about using something that had liquefied people in it. Yeah. Not cool. I nuked that shit.

Same here. I took the "Fuck you, we aren't using Reaper Tech" as the paragon ending. It seemed morally... questionable, to say the least.

[Sjofn]

My reasoning even for my less paragon-y Shepards was "You guys fuck everything up. Even bringing me back from the dead ended up with your stupid base being taken over by robots."

My lone Renegade playthrough kept the base, but she knows in her heart it is a terrible idea. She had a momentary lapse of reason.

[caladein]

It's almost like Sjofn and I get completely different copies of BioWare games.

[stray]

I don't remember that much of either game. I'm going to try it again. I hated the last story though - if you can call it a story. The first was less.. linear and straightforward. I thought Jack was kind of hot, but I was a Paragon, and I didn't like where it was going. Next time I'll be a Renegade. I made the mistake of romancing Tali. I can't believe she didn't take her mask off for me. What a tease.

[Sjofn]

She does take her mask off, the cameraman was just coy.

[stray]

I was really hoping she'd be some hot Arab girl, found a cure, and the game suddenly became Prince of Persia.

Oh well.

[lamaros]

I've played both 1 and 2 in the last few days. I never got why you all thought 2 was so great. Then I played 1. If they improve again at that rate 3 might be an actually good game. 

[Lantyssa]

I was really hoping she'd be some hot Arab girl, found a cure, and the game suddenly became Prince of Persia.

She's a frog.

[Sky]

Now I keep seeing the Oglaf Arabian Nights.

Dammit.

[Lantyssa]

[Sjofn]

Now I keep seeing the Oglaf Arabian Nights.

Dammit.

I don't understand the problem. 

[Sky]

Sorry...did you say "mustache"?

http://oglaf.com/2arabian/

NSFW

[Sjofn]

Yes, I know what it was referring to. I still don't see the problem. 

[Sky]

 

[Lakov_Sanite]

 

[Nonentity]

Oglaf, you make everything terrible. And boners.

Friggin' animated semen.

[Lakov_Sanite]

As opposed to you avatar of an animated seaman?

[bhodi]

For me it was more about using something that had liquefied people in it. Yeah. Not cool. I nuked that shit.

Same here. I took the "Fuck you, we aren't using Reaper Tech" as the paragon ending. It seemed morally... questionable, to say the least.

Ehhh... It was a sunk cost.

[Tannhauser]

I blew up the base because I didn't want Cerebus defiling my dead crewmen.  That and IM's a rogue AI.

[TripleDES]

I hope increasing "galactic readiness" using "other platforms" is also entirely optional. I don't want my ability to finish a game a certain way to be affected by how much people I spammed Mass Effect promos to on Facebook.

[LK]

I hope increasing "galactic readiness" using "other platforms" is also entirely optional. I don't want my ability to finish a game a certain way to be affected by how much people I spammed Mass Effect promos to on Facebook.

It won't. They've explicitly stated that you can achieve the best ending without doing anything outside single player in the game.

[tmp]

Clicking "I like" on Facebook is totally single player, though

edit: in other news, a hands-on for the forthcoming multiplayer mode at RPS.

[rk47]

Do you want to play / watch this game / agonize over the numbers?

[Sjofn]

I am amused hide helmet is an option. Which is good. This is one of the only games I like having one on, though!

[tmp]

If the "action mode" automatically picks the dialogue responses and lets you kill people manually, does the "story mode" automatically kill people and let you pick dialogue responses?  

edit: ah, close but no banana

"For those who want to emphasize story immersion and minimize combat pressure. Story mode will set manually-selectable replies in conversation and a minimal combat difficulty." (official description)

and the "rpg mode" is apparently a cute name for how previous ME games were played already.

[luckton]

Apologies for the size.

[Fordel]

The texture or whatever it's called on her hood is really really good.

[NiX]

Horde mode is in ME3 and it's brutally hard. I wasn't considering this game at all, but I would just for the teamwork it takes to get through each wave of that mode... unless they make it easier so it appeals to everyone.

[Lantyssa]

The texture or whatever it's called on her hood is really really good.

I was amazed by it, too.

[tmp]

Not really hard with a decent 3d renderer, i'd imagine. Fabric patterns are pretty easy for procedural shaders.