Mass Effect 3

[Surlyboi]

Asari Adept is bullshit 
Stasis maxed out perk freezes the guy on the spot and on top of that gives 50% dmg bonus.
Now we all know why they carry sniper rifles. It's a free head shot.

Fuck that noise. Sniper rifle's too slow unless you've got the automatic one. Get the Carnifex and a couple of damage mods and it's headshotapalooza.

[Sjofn]

Is this out yet?

It isn't out yet, is it. :(

[Nonentity]

Asari Adept is bullshit 
Stasis maxed out perk freezes the guy on the spot and on top of that gives 50% dmg bonus.
Now we all know why they carry sniper rifles. It's a free head shot.

Asari Adept was my favorite class for a long time. At max rank Stasis, you can create a bubble at a location, and anyone who walks into it gets frozen, including guardians. They just drop their shield.

That being said, on Gold difficulty, you just can't do enough damage to bring things down. You turn into a support role of rooting targets and throwing around damage while people who are doing more damage take them out.

Speaking of bullshit, max level Vanguards with SMGs. Almost no cooldown penalty, they charge around once every second and a half or less, always being at full shield, shooting people point blank. It's the only class that was able to get more score than my Asari Adept.

[kildorn]

My Asari usually outscores SMG/pistol vanguards. You can actually do a ton of damage. Warp Bombs all day long, and take both talents to increase the damage/radius and the one to give you a 30% chance on cast to have no cooldown.

Stasis->Warp does about 80% of an assault trooper's health in a room sized radius, and infects everyone hit with Stasis. Warp->Throw is your anti Atlas tool. Fast, and happens to murder small moving with the Atlas. Really, throw is under-rated. It's packing a 1s cooldown, and hits like a truck oddly enough. Doesn't work on anything shielded in any way. But it will oneshot a phantom with it's barriers down.

Really with any biotic that can warp bomb, do so. It's crazy effective, and the reason I don't like the tech classes (they can't tech burst reliably like warp->throw combos can. Something to do with the duration of the effects that combo makes it near impossible). Asari Adepts just never meet anything they can't warp bomb easily. Stasis/Warp works on armor, barriers and shields. Singularity/Warp only works if the target is defenseless. Shockwave/Warp only works with large numbers of points in shockwave for the lift, and only at crazy short ranges. Humans with pull instead of shockwave would actually be a ton better.

[Miasma]

You guys keep doing this good research and let us know what the most overpowered class/build for the single player game is TIA.

[Surlyboi]

Well, since you're gonna be running as Shepard, that pretty much eliminates all the alien specs right off the bat.

That said, the two most kickass human specs I've found have been soldier and infiltrator.

[Ard]

Speaking of bullshit, max level Vanguards with SMGs. Almost no cooldown penalty, they charge around once every second and a half or less, always being at full shield, shooting people point blank. It's the only class that was able to get more score than my Asari Adept.

Yeah, I'm going to ditto this one, since that's mostly what I played.  It really is completely absurd, although shotgun would be better than SMG if I could get the weight down to the point where I can still chain the charge ability nearly instantly.  It's really silly, but some of the most fun I've had in a shooter.

[rk47]

Kinda disappointed they don't have co-op campaign or scripted missions.
The horde mode is okay, but I really want a level where the team had to rush to disarm bombs in like 10 minutes. That would've been quite tense.

[Ratman_tf]

Just saw the newest trailer again on tee vee and it got me thinking.

I'll be terribly disappointed if Mass Effect 3 has an action movie ending, where Sheppard rallies all the races and they kick the Reaper's butts with ships and guns.
When Sovreign was introduced in ME1, I got an Evil V'Ger vibe from it. This powerful cosmic entity that could destroy planets and who knows what the fuck else it's capable of? ME2 didn't negate any of that, but neither did it promote it. But seeing an army of Reapers and Husks in the trailer looks boring to me. I want Sheppard to pull a Captain Kirk and beat the Reapers with some crazy monologue about humanity. Maybe find some key or idea that undoes the Reaper threat, not shoot them in the face until they go away.
I want a Sci-Fi ending, not an action movie ending.

[Ratman_tf]

dbl post

[rk47]

"I DEMAND TO SPEAK TO THE SOVEREIGN!" Shepard screamed at the tops of his lungs as he emptied his Carnifex hand cannon into another husk.

A massive humanoid-shaped Reaper appeared before him, chuckling softly as he pointed his finger cannon at Shepard's lone shape.

"Speak. Shepard. Are you ready to surrender?" taunted the alien.
"Surrender this!" Shepard gave Garrus the signal. A Protheanium coated bullet flew from the Black Widow Custom's barrel. Garrus suppressed a grin, knowing it'll hit the target just as he squeezed the trigger. It hit the Reaper on the crotch, creating a blinding blue light on the groin area. The eyes on the Human Reaper rolled back as its hands covered the sweet spot, it fell forward, crashing into the ground with its butt pointing to the sky.

"Joker, now!"

"Arming Prothean Lancer - target acquired. DESCENDING"

Normandy's sleek form emerge from the shadow of the moon and made a pass at the mass relay, gaining an awesome sling shot speed, except this time, it's not heading out system.

"This will hurt. A lot." Ashley grinned as she punched the authorization codes, the whirring Prothean tech generators buzzing to life, humming into a higher crescendo.

"NO, SHEPARD, NO!!!!" Sovereign begged as he struggled to get up, his cabled butt-cheeks exposed.

"Feel the butthurt of the human race," Shepard smugly exclaims as he flipped the bird.

"NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-"

There was a piercing shrill as Normandy hits it mark.

"We have PENETRASHUN~!!!!!" Joker screamed on the comms.

"Should've brought lube," Shepard turned away from the screaming Reaper, "One butt hurt, ninety nine to go."

[Ratman_tf]

"Feel the butthurt of the human race," Shepard smugly exclaims as he flipped the bird.

 

[Surlyboi]

Heh.

It should end like Banks' "Matter" ended.

[rk47]

It should end like this.

[caladein]

That's basically how I've played the last two, so I'm okay with that.

[Spiff]

So what you're saying is they should finally go all the way and make Reapers romance-able? 

[caladein]

No, I just want to be able to have Shepard /facepalm at some point, preferably followed by knocking someone's teeth out.

[rk47]

fuck that. i want this. desu desu.

http://18thcenturyfrenchlesbos.tumblr.com/post/18239183040/translated-version-of-this-comic-brought-to-you-by

[Bunk]

I can't even figure out what order I'm supposed to read those panels in.

[Fabricated]

Top down, right to left. Remember everything is backwards in Japan. 

[Teleku]

I think the point is that you could read each panel in any order you want and it wouldn't make any difference to comprehending it.

[TripleDES]

Found out what the Reaper motivations are. They're almost the same as the source of inspirations, i.e...

[luckton]

Back on the DLC thing, if you really want every bit of it right out the door, you're looking at about $870.  

Here's the total rundown:

Collector's Edition (needed to obtain all content):

$80 - N7 Collector's Edition

Pre-order bonuses:

AT-12 Raider - Origin pre-order bonus
Chakram Launcher - Play the Kingdoms of Alamur demo
M-55 Argus - Pre-order bonus for select retailers
N7 Weapons pack - N7 Edition bonus
N7 Hoodie - N7 Edition bonus
N7 Warfare Gear - Pre-order bonus for select retailers
Reckoner Knight Armor - Play the Kingdoms of Alamur demo
Robotic Dog - N7 Edition bonus
Squad Outfit pack - N7 Edition bonus

Auxiliary purchases:

Unannounced price for the iOS game Mass Effect Infiltrator, which can affect the main game.

$10 day one "From Dust" DLC

$44.99 for the Liara figurine - which oddly enough now comes with multiplayer unlock DLC

$24.99 for The Art of Mass Effect Universe - Collector Assault Rifle unlock DLC/Powerup

$80 for four Mass Effect 3 toys - "Slightly randomized" multiplayer unlock DLC

$59.99 for the Mass Effect 3 controller - Collector Assault Rifle unlock DLC/Powerup

$209.99 for the Chimera 5.1 Headset - Collector Assault Rifle unlock DLC/Powerup

$34.99 for the Mousepad - Collector Assault Rifle unlock DLC/Powerup

$79.99 for the Messenger Bag - Collector Assault Rifle unlock DLC/Powerup

$24.99 for the iPhone case - Collector Assault Rifle unlock DLC/Powerup

$79.99 for the Mouse - Collector Assault Rifle unlock DLC/Powerup

$139.99 for the Keyboard - Collector Assault Rifle unlock DLC/Powerup

That DLC is some serious business, huh?   

[Surlyboi]

As noted in some of the comments, that price is highly inflated as a lot of the shit listed is duplicated.

Boil it down and it comes to about 140 bucks. A little high, but not that totally ridiculous price.

[Zetor]

Yeah, about 2/3 of the list is the assault rifle DLC. Plus you get a mouse, keyboard, mousepad, etc etc.. so it's not like 100% of that cost is the DLCs themselves.

That said, I'm holding out on ME3 until I get some feedback ~1mo after its release. I have too many games to play as it is!

[Tebonas]

Everything but "From Dust" is just for completionists, nothing that will really add content to the game. If its like Dragon Age, it will likely trivialize the game to a point where loot gets pointless. Which was never Mass Effects strong suite anyway.

[Velorath]

Back on the DLC thing, if you really want every bit of it right out the door, you're looking at about $870.  

Congrats on linking a poorly researched article from Kotaku.

To start with, they list From Dust when they already listed the Collector's Edition.  They also list the iOS game which doesn't have any DLC or do anything for the main game other than add an alternate means to increase Galactic Readiness.  The rest of the DLC is multiplayer stuff, and presumably, all of it except the Collector Assault Rifle can be unlocked through playing (from the sound of it, the Action Figure and Razer products DLC are just the same packs you purchase for in game credits in multiplayer).  But hey, lets help reward a shit website with clicks because they came up with yet another tabloid style headline.

[luckton]

Congrats on linking a poorly researched article from Kotaku.

To start with, they list From Dust when they already listed the Collector's Edition.  They also list the iOS game which doesn't have any DLC or do anything for the main game other than add an alternate means to increase Galactic Readiness.  The rest of the DLC is multiplayer stuff, and presumably, all of it except the Collector Assault Rifle can be unlocked through playing (from the sound of it, the Action Figure and Razer products DLC are just the same packs you purchase for in game credits in multiplayer).  But hey, lets help reward a shit website with clicks because they came up with yet another tabloid style headline.

Much anger, I sense here.  Touch you, the bad person did, yes?

[Velorath]

1) You linked to Kotaku which in and of itself is generally a sin here.
2) It's not even an article that Kotaku wrote.  They just copied and pasted an article from Destructoid.
3) It's fucking Kotaku.

[koro]

As utterly batshit as I feel EA's DLC and pre-order policies are, I have to agree that list is pretty overblown.

Besides, as Velorath says, it's a Kotaku article originally posted on fucking Destructoid. Something from either of those places should be taken with a huge helping of salt if not dismissed out of hand, but from both? Yeah...

[Kageru]

The list may be over-blown, but it's still repulsive. And EA's ability of knowing when to stop is not one of their notable features. And pre-order bonuses are primarily so you don't have time to get a warning from bad word of mouth.

[Ironwood]

As noted in some of the comments, that price is highly inflated as a lot of the shit listed is duplicated.

Boil it down and it comes to about 140 bucks. A little high, but not that totally ridiculous price.

Your idea of ridiculous and mine;  they do not agree.

[eldaec]

There is only the one piece of content dlc. The rest is all cosmetic or cheat mode bullshit.

EA may be a giant bag of cocks, but I give zero fucks how much cosmetic or cheat mode dlc they wish to sell to other people. If the Origin thing wasn't stopping me buying this, the only thing that I would be irritated by would be having to deal with the terrible EA download interface in order to recover the removed-for-launch companion. If I could buy a 'Fuck Origin complete game' edition on steam or in an actual box without having to deal with this shit I would happily pay extra.

[tmp]

1) You linked to Kotaku which in and of itself is generally a sin here.
2) It's not even an article that Kotaku wrote.  They just copied and pasted an article from Destructoid.
3) It's fucking Kotaku.

I have nothing useful to add; i just want to note i love how wonderfully your AV and the content of the post fit together.

[Surlyboi]

As noted in some of the comments, that price is highly inflated as a lot of the shit listed is duplicated.

Boil it down and it comes to about 140 bucks. A little high, but not that totally ridiculous price.

Your idea of ridiculous and mine;  they do not agree.

Ridiculous is 840, only mildly asinine is 140.