Mass Effect 3

[Sjofn]

Ugh, you really think so? I think it makes her look like a greasy douchebag. Bald was way better.

[Lantyssa]

Yeah, I do.  Mind, I cut my hair like that once in college...

It's not a style I like on everyone, but on her it works for me.

[tmp]

Jack's hair makes me think of this guy

so yup, totally works.

(edited cuz the original image server didn't like hotlinking much

[Rasix]

Yep, always makes me think of white text on a blue background.

[Outlawedprod]

http://crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com/2012/03/bioware-day-one-dlc-developed.html

TL;DR: All of the character content from the 'developed after the game was sent to the publisher' From Ashes DLC was found on the install disk.  The rest of the DLC content may also be there, but stuff's encrypted so nobody's been able to tell for sure.

Apparently you can edit a file to turn your Mass Effect 386 SX into a 386 DX.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRRpGlmtws8

[tmp]

Will that give full content associated with the DLC guy, though? They said the DLC thing wasn't completed until after the game went into certification, but that doesn't mean parts of the content couldn't be included in the core game earlier. IIRC it was similar with Dragon Age and its various DLC -- people found incomplete versions of assets from latter DLCs shipped in the earlier DLCs and the core game, and those were simply "work in progress" deal.

[eldaec]

Don't be ridiculous, whether RMT guy was or was not completed at any particular time has nothing to do with why EA ended up charging for him.

They decided way back to make a chunk of the game cost extra because it is a good business strategy and they do it with every game they make.

I don't even have a problem with this, I just wish they'd stop lying to people about it.

[tmp]

Yeah i think it's fairly obvious that decision was made early, i mean it's not like they don't have the track record of taking exactly the same approach with their two last games by now. I just don't think they must necessarily be lying when they say the thing was finished after the main game was finished.

[Tannhauser]

Only about five hours in, no stuttering or bugs, runs really well and looks great most of the time.  Also 'feels' better than DA2; it might be on a rail, but so far it's not insulting me with generic areas.

[rk47]

Multiplayer seems fun in small doses. Scratch that, sometimes you just wanna keep going for hours.
Enjoying running around with soldier class spamming concussion shots that uses cryo rounds. Smash smash smash. Lovely.
There's limited maps, but I feel overall it was a solid effort. Despite some niggling issues with random loot and crap.

[tar]

Yeah, right there with you on the multiplayer. Wasn't expecting to like it, then it ate my weekend 

[Sky]

Love the random Salarian npc "Don't touch that"

[Polysorbate80]

Ugh, you really think so? I think it makes her look like a greasy douchebag. Bald was way better.

IMO, her personality's the biggest improvement.  I actually like her now.

(But while the hair's OK, those clothes on top of the tattoos...hurts my brain to look at)

[Rokal]

Kaiden wins the award for worst crew-mate in ME3.

"Hey Shepard, I have doubts about myself and/or you, but I swear this will be the last time I talk to you about it".

"Sure you do Kaiden. Sure you do." 

[Velorath]

Kaiden wins the award for worst crew-mate in ME3.

"Hey Shepard, I have doubts about myself and/or you, but I swear this will be the last time I talk to you about it".

"Sure you do Kaiden. Sure you do." 

Conversely, Kaiden is one of the more realistic characters in ME3.  Can you fault a guy for being skeptical when he saw Shepard die, and a couple years later magically comes back to life and is working for a group that is equal parts evil and stupid?

[Ingmar]

Ash looks horrifying now. Her redesign is the biggest mistake they made with the "look" of things I think.

[Trippy]

Kaiden wins the award for worst crew-mate in ME3.

"Hey Shepard, I have doubts about myself and/or you, but I swear this will be the last time I talk to you about it".

"Sure you do Kaiden. Sure you do." 

Conversely, Kaiden is one of the more realistic characters in ME3.  Can you fault a guy for being skeptical when he saw Shepard die, and a couple years later magically comes back to life and is working for a group that is equal parts evil and stupid?

Sounds like Ash's dialog.

[Trippy]

Ash looks horrifying now. Her redesign is the biggest mistake they made with the "look" of things I think.

She still looks far better than any FemShep.

[tmp]

Shepard does have excuse of being a meat popsicle for couple of years, though

[Sjofn]

Ugh, you really think so? I think it makes her look like a greasy douchebag. Bald was way better.

IMO, her personality's the biggest improvement.  I actually like her now.

(But while the hair's OK, those clothes on top of the tattoos...hurts my brain to look at)

I liked her in ME2 already. I did like her stuff in ME3 as well. Just loathe her hair.


EDIT: Also even my rebuilt FemShep looks better than Ashley. Ashley is a duck-lipped horror show.

[AcidCat]

I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying this game, but I guess I shouldn't be. I wasn't even going to get it, but bought it on impulse while in Target. Which is the same thing I did with ME2, for some reason between these games I forget how good they are or something.

And also having a lot of fun with the multi.

[rk47]

if anyone wants multiplay, toss me an invite. 'farkov' is my origin ID.

[Rasix]

Ugh, you really think so? I think it makes her look like a greasy douchebag. Bald was way better.

IMO, her personality's the biggest improvement.  I actually like her now.

(But while the hair's OK, those clothes on top of the tattoos...hurts my brain to look at)

I liked her in ME2 already. I did like her stuff in ME3 as well. Just loathe her hair.


EDIT: Also even my rebuilt FemShep looks better than Ashley. Ashley is a duck-lipped horror show.

Ashley is my Merril for the ME world.  Don't you judge her! 

The Jack sequence.. wasn't my favorite.  I do agree on the hair.  Terrible.

[Sjofn]

Duck. Lips.

[Quinton]

All I have to say is....

BLASTO 6: PARTNERS IN CRIME

I laughed.  And laughed.  10 minutes of pure awesome.

[rk47]

MP impression after getting some classes to 20

Sentinel: Human - Fav class ever.
Adept: Asari - Bullshit imba.
Engineers: Boring, but Salarians are pretty good.
Infiltrators: In Bronze, running around cloaked with a Phalanx is the only fun way to play! Extra points for maxed out Sticky bombs on Atlas asses.
Vanguard: Cannot into dying alone :(
Soldiers: Poor, poor soldiers. In bronze they can kick ass with 1.5 sec Concussive Shot and Adrenaline rush for ultimate bulletstorm, but silver and above is a bitch. I really need tips on how to play these guys.

[Jeff Kelly]

What I keep wondering: Does Ashley have two bionic arms or is this just a really unfortunate looking top?

Also ME 1 Ashley looks like a colonial marine, ME 3 Ashley looks like something a Playboy editor puts together for the "sexy colonial marine" issue of the magazine, a duck-lipped version of that.

Morin's quip about the Krogan battletank being enough iron to supplement the Thresher Maw's diet for a week left me laughing for quite a bit though.

[Tebonas]

Yes, thats not the Ashley my character remembers. She is ugly, but at least not as ugly as that embedded reporter.

I'm glad she withheld sex in Mass Effect 3 up to now.

Re: Morin. Especially because it immediately followed the players order to tell him something he doesn't know. 

[Jeff Kelly]

I missed that one.

[Special J]

I don't care about any eye-rolling plot elements, duck lips or day 1 DLC.  I am totally into this game as much as the last two.

And happily surprised to find myself enjoying multiplayer.  Playing vanguard mostly.  Don't know how much staying power it has but it's pretty cool right now.

[Bunk]

Yes, the ducklips are terribad
Kaiden died two games ago (curious, does he get the exact same plot as Ash? face smushed, visits in the hospital?)
Jack looks waaay better with hair
My femShep doesn't look too bad, quite different from default though

[Special J]

My manshep's face wouldn't import.  I had to rebuild it, and I managed to it get it reasonably close but I had to restart a few times to get it right.  Yes, I know that's sad.

[Sjofn]

Naw, it's not sad. It's jarring to have someone Not Your Shepard acting like they're. Well. Shepard.


Kaidan gets a similar arc to Ash as far as I know. He's still Kaidan-y as I assume Ashley is still Ashley-y, so the dialogue can be pretty different. Kaidan doesn't ramble poetry at me, for example.

[kaid]

MP impression after getting some classes to 20

Sentinel: Human - Fav class ever.
Adept: Asari - Bullshit imba.
Engineers: Boring, but Salarians are pretty good.
Infiltrators: In Bronze, running around cloaked with a Phalanx is the only fun way to play! Extra points for maxed out Sticky bombs on Atlas asses.
Vanguard: Cannot into dying alone :(
Soldiers: Poor, poor soldiers. In bronze they can kick ass with 1.5 sec Concussive Shot and Adrenaline rush for ultimate bulletstorm, but silver and above is a bitch. I really need tips on how to play these guys.

Krogan soldiers are still pretty good at higher difficulties simply because of their extreme durability. The human soldier is just not very impressive at all.

Engineers are all pretty good the human engineer and salarian are both excellent although I think the human is probably the strongest. Fully upgraded zappy drone and fully upgraded for multiple target stunlocking overload spam is just insanely good. They are probably the strongest defense strippers especially for biotic/shields and once things are showing red health bars they will make them twitch on the ground until dead. Really engineers have little need for actual weapons their powers are really strong.

I suck at vanguards but I have seen to many good ones to doubt their abilities in the hands of somebody who knows how to play one.

Infiltrators are overall good but the quarian one is DIRTY currently for farming gold geth maps. Maxed out sabotage turns geth maps into a total snooze fest. Got lots of enemies? Well make them fight each other while you pick their heads off one at a time.

[Jeff Kelly]

The Infiltrator with Widow sniper rifle is ROFL-easymode in single player.

Kill an atlas mech in three shots and evrything not using barrier in one or two, while nobody's shooting at you because your invisible.

It's a lot easier than in ME 2