Mass Effect General - /meg/

>>166225546
>new collage
good man

>>166225040
>80% of players played as male Shepard
why are they forcing that femshep meme then?

>>166225524
could be their brother or whatever played on the same account afterwards

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Femshep Bestshep

>>166225515
>Why don't they release the end game decision (destroy/keep Collector base, red/green/blue) on any of these official stat images?

Do you have any idea how sensitive people are to RGB? Any official statistics that showed their favored ending isn't popular (particularly synthesis and control) would meet a shitstorm.

The Collector's base is a good one, I remember people on GameFaqs and The Escapists doing essays in how preserving the base is a necessary evil because Cerberus was the galaxy's only hope against the Reapers and stuff, then ME3 happened.

>>166226016
>Do you have any idea how sensitive people are to RGB?

Why do you think I want them to release it?

>>166225728
Feminism.

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>>166225735
>girl

beast waifu pic related

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Thread claimed.

>>166225515
>>166226016
whoever faction "won" would go "make it canon" and fights would break out

>>166226016
>Do you have any idea how sensitive people are to RGB?
Yes, I would love to see Destroy getting >50% of the votes and the tears of Synthesisfags.

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>>166226161

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>>166226267
You guys continue to provide reasons this information should be released.

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>/dag/ is still dead

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>>166226147
>Implying I would not eat out Ash's asshole even harder if she had a huge cock and heavy balls

>>166225546

Damn, new collage. Nice to see.

>>166226415
what stops you from making a new /dag/ and shooting it

>>166225861
>>166226585

You anons sure know how to make a gal blush.

>>166226267
This, and people would probably misinterpret the stats. For example, you'll notice that 39.8% of the people in that image Bioware released had the "Long Service Medal" achievement. Meaning, fewer than 40% of the people who the image was discussing played any of the previous games or even played the third game twice; thus that 60% should be ignored for arguments about the popularity of certain choices among the fandom.

>>166225807
Nope, just tried it on Insanity and a shot with the Cain at 190% doesn't even remove all of their armor, let alone their health
Also I just noticed there are 3 mechs and not 2

>>166226861
It'd probably be even fewer who actually played ME1/2 when you take into account the save file sites that went up around these games.

>People thought there was too much driving across landscapes in the Mako? Alright, axe it
>It's kind of annoying to wait for the Normandy elevator? Fuck you, Normandy is now completely unconnected levels with fast travel
>Inventory has too much clutter? We'll remove it then
I miss when Bioware listened to their fans while being severe as fuck

>>166227075
Doesn't the Cain damage the crates too?

I wonder if quarians can spray an aerosol of stored waste from their suits when they need to dissuade assailants.

>>166227076
Even more so when you consider that you can get the "Long Service Medal" achievement just by playing ME3 twice. Though 36% of players getting quarian-geth peace would indicate that at least that many players imported a save.

>>166227215
Nope, drop a fucking nuke next to them and they're fine, but if a robot shoots some rounds at them they break immediately
Bioware logic

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>>166227172
I will miss the sexed up waifus, when they turned up the cleavage and asses to eleven.

>>166225546
Is that a new alien in the collage? Neat.

>>166227075
reload, try again. you need to hit an exact spot for it to work.

>>166227215
nope

>tfw will never watch tungsten telephone poles screaming towards the ground while sheathed in burning hot plasma.
>tfw will never feel the impact with my feet before hearing the sound.
>tfw will never marvel over the mushroom cloud after recovering from the passing shockwave.
>tfw will never mop up surviving combatants in a hauntingly silent landscape of toppled trees and wrecked buildings doused in a layer of fine grey dust.

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>Kai Leng poster is active early today

Is Kai Leng the worst character in the series? He's even more useless than Jacob.

>>166228573
>The most prominent Asian character in the series is a ninja edgelord.

Bravo bioware!

>>166227446
source?

Level with me /meg/, is it worth it to explore every inch of each planet surface, or should I just go for distress beacons and such marked on the map?

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>>166225546

Now, that's a good fuckin' OP, WITH a well-made, related collage.

>>166229074
The wiki has maps with all the points of interest marked. For the most part you can stick to the distress beacons / already marked locations. It doesn't take that many to complete the collection quests so you should be all done with them by the time you're halfway through.

Do Protheans not need space suits or was Bioware just lazy?

>>166229449
I should say, I don't care at all about collectible quests, I just mean the actual content that side quests attached to it and such

>>166226521
>huge cock and heavy balls

This made me laugh, for some reason.
Make a fic about it.

>>166229654
ah, if you don't care about the collection quests then yeah, just hit the objectives. don't even bother with the crashed probes/trash loot stuff either unless you're using omnigel for every lock.

>>166229639
both.

>>166229654
Do the Asari sidequest so you can unlock Conrad Verner's quest in ME3.

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>>166227446

I'm absolutely okay with cleavage and huge butts clad in latex/spandex/space materials, I just prefer them out of combat and at specific times.

>>166228696
>>The most prominent Asian character in the series

Kasumi's a lot more prominent than him. Leng has, what, ten lines? Outside of combat taunts.

>>166230102
I just came off a ME3 replay so that's fine
I also never really liked Verner

>>166230193
Oh, forgot about her, my bad.

Most prominent chink then.

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>>166228573

Oh, hey, a nice .gif of that.
>that Not Actual Gameplay
Lel.

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>>166230148
But Mass Effect is all about the combat.

>>166228696
>no Qing Chong
>no Zhang Liuzhou
>no Yang Beibei

'Kai Leng' sounds dumb, and I wish we got more Chinese peeps.

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>>166230462
The not actual gameplay on every piece of footage we've seen makes me LOL. Meanwhile they keep tweeting that they're playing the game at home even though we've yet to see a live demo on any platform.

>>166230669

That's the only footage with 'Not Actual Gameplay', though, right?

There's the first real trailer that showed (although with no HUD) gameplay, the Sony thing and the latest one. That I can remember.

>>166230886
The CES footage (linked in OP) has the disclaimer at the end, "Captured in Engine. Representative of Game Experience". Literally everything they've shown has a disclaimer in that vein.

>ENEMIES EVERYWHERE
>GO GO GO
>singularity doesn't have enough strength to lift krogan yet
>throw him all the way across the room and kill him instead
>cast overload, sabotage, and warp in the middle of a group of enemies
>get fucking killed because insanity is hard
I forgot how fun this is

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>>166230669
They don't even have images about the special edition "casual Tempest clothes" yet.

Because if it's a hoodie, I'm buying it.

Garrus is my waifu.

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is dysentery still a problem in the future?

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So, I have Gayquisition running on Ultra-High settings at 40-60 fps. Am I ready for Andromeda, bois?

>>166233658
no one is ready for andromeda

>>166233819
Including Bioware

>>166233342
Is it a problem these days for modern armies?

>>166233342

Is it a problem for modern militaries?

>>166233658
Yeah. Im assuming you mean at 1080

>>166234581
Yes

>>166226521
>>166229791
His tongue tasted sweat as he licked at her taint, she pushed her ass back, the tip of his nose met with her puckered hole. He breathed in her scent, a deep musky perfume that made him crave more.
Ashley yelped as he grabbed her thighs and pulled her rear into his face. Her erection swung freely, leaking pre as he swirled his tongue around the rim of her anus.
It felt surprisingly good, she closed her eyes and moaned as the wet muscle probed just beyond the opening.
One of the hands holding her thighs moved, caressing her enormous penis as it traced a line toward her heavy balls.
Another moan escaped her lips as he fondled her scrotum, gently weighing the fertile orbs in his hand as his tongue explored her rectum.
Inwardly she wondered what he found so enticing about her anus, then again she liked his anus too. Her humongous meat-spear bobbed an affirmative as it drooled long thin threads of sticky pre.
The man just kept licking, relishing her musk and taste. He flicked his tongue across her hole, her scrotum and even bent her chubby member down to suckle at its glans.
He played with her foreskin, moaning as his cock ached in his pants, begging for release.
"Yeah lick my girl/boy-pussy" She groaned "Put your tongue in my shit-hole skipper."
He obliged, grabbing one of her enormous balls in each hand as he dove in, the force of his ass-spelunking drove her forward as he forced as much of his cerberus issue cyborg tongue into her anal cavity.
"Yes! good boy!" She moaned.

"Hughmmuffhhgum" He replied, she shuddered as his warm breath entered her poop-chute. Her heavy balls dangling like only fertile woman-testicles do. The puddle of pre was steadily growing, she was drooling thick strands of slick fluid, her cock throbbed, bobbing. A light touch was all she needed. Shepard felt her need and he pushed his tongue against her prostate, she screamed in pleasure and came all over his spaceship models.

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>>166225546

>Letterbox List of Science Fiction to watch while you wait for ME:A
>http://letterboxd.com/meganon/list/meg-watch-while-we-wait/

Nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMsg35Wuhvo

I had forgotten how much I fucking hate the brat at the beginning of ME3

>>166237007
Don't worry fampai, he isn't real, just a piece of Shepard's imagination.

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>>166235965

The absolute madman!

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>>166237007
Never agreed with hating the kid. Always aw it as a valid narrative device that represented Shepard having nightmares about the horrible nature of the war. He tried for years to prevent the Reapers from arriving at all, and he ultimately failed in that because nobody listened.

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>>166235965
This is one of those times when I keep laughing my head off while reading it but I also find it hot as hell.

>>166238703
>>166238232
I'm glad you like it!

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Explain how you would aim this in real life.

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>>166239236

I don't know, man.

>>166239236
There's a scope type thing if you look at the fish's asshole.

>>166239236
Attach a scope that weighs 50 pounds

>>166239479
>50 pound scope on a 100 pound rifle

Amazing.

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>>166239236
Like this

>>166239418

What?

>>166225546
I WANT TO FUCK A FEMALE TURIAN RIGHT NOW GOD DAMNIT

>>166240886

Yeah, and I want to eat Ashley's asshole, what of it?

I am new to these threads, what is the meaning behind the Garrus beta meme? He seemed alright to me.

Do they ever talk about prosthetics? I remember the guy in the Citadel hospital bed being told that he was losing his leg. I feel like they would have decent prosthetics, right?

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>>166240886

>>166241328
Of course they would. Shepard was 60% prosthethics since ME2.

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>>166240886
you and everyone else, bro

>>166241653
Oh yeah. So why was that guy so worried?

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>>166235965

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>>166241328

Not really. Shepard has synthetic materials in him and Kai Leng has prosthetic legs, but other than that, they never mention it aside from something small about asari sniper teams getting prosthetic replacements to use the Widow, or something.

I personally think they should go more into it. Not necessarily Deus Ex:HR style, where they explain every little detail about how the electroactive polymers work and how the electrodes cause scarring tissue on the nerve cells because the glial cells see them as foreign contaminants that eventually cause the body to reject the prosthetics unless you pop special drugs.
But, I do think they should play a bit more with the subject. Maybe you meet an Alliance admiral or ex-soldier with a prosthetic arm, for example, or a reconaissance special forces team with leg replacements.
Just something.

>>166241941

They also mention how the prosthetic is only temporary since they can regrow limbs, if I remember correctly.

>>166241653
He's 30% actually.

>>166242085
So, in ME the stem cell stuff didn't pay off?

>>166242242
Then why is the non player Ryder in a wheelchair this game? Just waiting for the limbs to grow or did the arks not bring the best medical equipment with them?

>>166242496
Because Bioware games are written by hacks.

>>166241941
Shitty writing, maybe bad health insurance, maybe initial shock?

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>>166235965
>that ending

>>166241905
How much on her being the tsundere squad mate?

>>166242496
>Just waiting for the limbs to grow

Y'know, this would make it very interesting. A 'I feel a personal need to be out there helping people, but with my legs fucked and the doctors still working on my replacements, I need to sit and roll around in my wheel chair' kind of deal, where the sibling gets very jittery and frustraded and stuff, because they can't do something they desperately want to do.

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>>166242810
nah, that's peebee, she's apparently a lone wolf that doesn't much care for others until Ryder comes along. Vetra's the insecure squadmate, she's clutching her hands in the trailer

>>166243496
Sure? Peebee looks like the Traynor/Sera/Meril of the group. The quirky one.

>>166243926
could also be that they're trying to make 'new' characters by combining old ones. Peebee might be Sera with hints of Vivienne to make her even worse, for example

>>166225990
>only 18%
>best

>>166244659
Can't expect the masses to appreciate.

>>166244836
Jennifer Hale's voice was boringly annoying

>>166243926
>Traynor
>quirky

>>166245074
>Lel have u seen my toothbrush

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>>166244659
the majority of the population is uninformed pleb

>>166245402
i tried a femshep playthrough
literally stopped after Eden Prime just on how annoying Hale's voice was

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Synthetics > Organics

>>166245830
low quality bait
meers performance in me1 is much worse than Hales

I have been thinking, in retrospect were the Collectors in ME2 pretty much a non-threat?

I mean, they only have one ship, so "powerful" a recon frigate blew it and their only accomplishment was kidnapping tens of thousands (out of billions) of humans in remote colonies outside Alliance jurisdiction.

Any Collector attack on major colonies like Elysium and Terra Nova would probably face an immediate response as soon as the comm went off, let alone Earth that has like 10 dreadnoughts protecting it.

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>>166246297
It is, but Meer gets a lot better after that while Hale, at best, kind of stays stagnant.

>>166246552
>muh wage gap

>>166246513
>they only have one ship, so "powerful" a recon frigate blew it

The SR-2 is a cruiser class, not a frigate. It also had classified reverse engineered Reaper weaponry.

>>166246513
Yeah, the consensus is that ME2's main plot is shitty filler.

Walters needed a reason (even if mediocre) for Shepard to work in his wanked shady organization.

>>166246720
And lots of pillows

>>166247185
don't forget LEATHER SEATS

>>166246720
>The SR-2 is a cruiser class, not a frigate

No, it's still called a frigate. That gun did give it firepower equivalent to a heavy cruiser, however, per the codex.

>>166247596
God that was such a shitty ship design.

>>166246513
Millions actually, but yeah, overall a non-threat in the grand scheme. Certainly a big threat to the few dozen million humans in those Terminus colonies though. A worthy task for a Spectre either way. but that doesn't change the fact that ME2's story was shit.

Also they had more than one ship, and they weren't that weak. One of them destroyed a turian frigate flotilla (which consist of 1 cruiser leading 4-6 frigates) without suffering damage.

>>166247897
>One of them destroyed a turian frigate flotilla (which consist of 1 cruiser leading 4-6 frigates) without suffering damage.

I though that a ruse by TIM.

>>166248007
The cruiser being damaged was the ruse, as was the distress signal. The turian patrol getting destroyed was legit, iirc.

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>>166250542

>>166250542
Fuck you I just had lunch

>>166250680
I swear to god if we don't see Vetra in a dress I will pay my friend to mod her casual outfit

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I'm going to marry Ashley's butthole!

>>166246552
Meer only catches up at ME3

pleb

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>>166252771
Meer catches up in 2, and overtakes by 3
but I still alternate plays, because every time I romance Tali I wonder if Garrus romance is better and vice versa.

Garrus is always better, but not by much

>>166246513
It's really stupid because the one reaper they were building would probably actually have helped if it was unleashed on the galaxy since everyone wouldn't be taken completely pants down in ME3. I'm not even sure how the reapers woke up in darkspace to begin with without the signal but I don't think the collectors had anything to do with that.

What if Brandon Keener had done mshep's voice and Meer had done Garrus', who you got /meg/?

>>166252771
Meer is about as good as Hale in ME1 and only gets better in later games while Hale declines and sounds more and more bored.

>>166253475
To me it looked like she got full of herself as she more got recognition and the tryhard shows

Honestly both Meer and Hale suck because the character they have to voice is a stoic, bland, action hero with very little opportunity presented to actually SHOW some emotion in their voice beyond aggressive yelling.

That being said, I prefer Hale. Meer sounds like he's reading his lines straight off the script at times between ME1 and ME2. He's fine in 3 though, I finally noticed the improvement.

>>166252607
That buttholes has seen some African action, I'm sure

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>>166253475
youre trying too hard

>>166253823
>Honestly both Meer and Hale suck because the character they have to voice is a stoic, bland, action hero with very little opportunity presented to actually SHOW some emotion in their voice beyond aggressive yelling.

This desu, Shepard has little personality regardless of what you do. S/he's the worst of both world as a protagonist. Defined enough that you can't properly roleplay, not defined enough to be even the least bit interesting.

I only really believed emotion from Shepard twice, both times with Meer. Once at the end of Overlord, once in Shepard's conversation with a romanced Tali at the conclusion of the Rannoch arc.

>>166253871
You're confusing it with Miranda's (and Jack's, half the galaxy has been in that one).

Should I install EGM and MEHEM?

>>166255415
and CEM

>>166238351
Well because not every Shepard would give a fuck about the kid, some Shepards are sociopaths

What is the best full auto assault rifle in ME3?

>>166253112
If Gayrus had been a thing instead of Gaydan I would have been all over that

>>166253823
This Meer is a lot better when he's voicing non-Shepard characters in the game

>>166255415
MEHEM + CEM yes, EGM maybe.

>>166256813
Harrier, and it's not close.

>>166257550
What's wrong with EGM?

>>166257932
nothing's really wrong with it, I'm just not crazy about what it adds.

Does anyone have that photoshop merging Stranger Danger Shepard with FemRyder?

Do you think you'll get to be a cyborg in Andromeda?

>>166259674
Bioware tends to forget that cyberpunk has a place in the ME universe

>>166254194
There are also plenty of moments in the Citadel DLC, namely Grunt's fun birthday party and the final scene where he says "...the best".

But watching scenes of femshep she was clearly better in ME3.

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Who do I pick guys?

Kaiden or Liara?

>>166263047
You stay pure.

>>166263047
Have fun never getting rid of Liara

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>>166263047
Garrus

Who's the best buddy, banterwise, to bring along in the Shadowbroker DLC?

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>>166263047
Garebear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlyFidcj1Gc

>>166263825
Anyone. It's mostly Liara and Shepard banter.

>>166263047

Liara.

>>166263825
There is no banter with the third companion, he pretty much stays silent.
So I always bring Garrus, he and Liara know each other and he's great against broker troops.

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Why is she so perfect?

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>>166263047
ignore them both and romance Garrus

>>166263825
None of them say anything, pick whoever.

>>166264651
Man, turians are spooky without their armor.

>>166264651
Can I romance garrus in ME1?

>>166265820
No
2 and 3 because of the landwhales and the faggots

>>166263047
Kaidan if you're renegade
Liara if you're paragon

Garrus if you're a fun loving shep
Thane if you're a tragic woe is me shep
Jacob if you hate yourself

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>>166266973
You forgot Traynor if he likes chess, nerdy things, and clothed sex under the shower.

>>166268695
>clothed sex under the shower.
seriously, why

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>>166264637
>manjaw with cleft

>>166269064
Space lesbians for a Christian audience

>>166268695
If Bioware could give Traynor a personality that doesn't evolve around her being gay why couldn't they with the gay pilot?

Does anyone know what the weapons in the preorder are? Like I can't find any info other than that there are four of them (gut says pistol, Rifle, shotgun, and submachine gun).

>>166271260
Haven't found any info on anything in the pre-orders yet except how the deep-space explorer outfit looks. It's just not released info yet, apparently.

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>>166271260
No idea, there's a helmet for watching all the Andromeda Initiative videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFEUvTABkok

A fat Ameripig demanding quarians in the game

I don't want buy Andromeda. I am still unironically pissed off about ME3's ending and Bioware's reaction to our problems with it. My problem wasn't the color coded "All 3 look the same," but rather the purposeful ambiguity instead of an actual ending. They went for ambiguity thinking that's deeper but instead it felt lazy and scared to give actual closer, happy or sad.
But I really loved the game series, even 75% of the ME3, and I really wana go back to that universe. But I don't want to give EA money. I don't want them to think they can just fuck the things we love and get away with it. And I can't justify pirating it since that works even moreso in EA's favor as it 'justifies' their DRM and other bullshit practices as they view pirates as lost sales, not people that wouldn't ever give them money. I don't want to buy this game but I don't know if I can resist. I know I won't preorder it, but how long does it take for a game sale to not be part of the 'initial' sales period? Like how long till it's a residual?

>>166271919

I mean they're adding jet packs. Like they are purposefully trying to get me to be excited for this. I personally, although I can appreciate other do, don't mind the shoddy animations. It's a Bioware and Bethasda thing that character animations are just a low priority. *I* can accept that and tolerate it fully, I'm not there for the animations, I'm there for the story and the role playing. If I want graphical/animation fidelity, I'll play whatever the new Crytech Engine game is. And even the splitting up of the trees isn't that big of a deal. I used to use the save editor in ME2 and 3 to do that and 'build' my own character. Yeah it makes you a jack of all trades, but to be frank, even using the prebuilt trees I never feel underpowered. There was never a fight I just couldn't do. So the ability to just pick my favorite things isn't a huge problem. And fucking jetpacks... but why oh why does it still have to be an EA property.

>>166272152
>>166271919
Just wait 2-3 months at most and there will be a crack.

>>166272450

I don't have a moral or grand objection to pirating, I just personally don't do it, other than to 'require' games that I've owned in the past but are no longer available in any real capacity, like NES roms and shit like that. I don't like the idea, for just me, applies to no one else, of pirating recent (5-6 years at least) games since it contributes to them fucking over PC gamers. They view pirated games as a lost sale, when in reality 90% of pirates would never give them money even if pirating was really impossible. But devs think otherwise and the result is the draconian DRM and other bullshit that is justified cause of 'evil pirates' and I can't in good conscious contribute to the problem on my own accord.

So I won't use a cracked version, since in there eyes that's still a sale, just one they didnt get money for. I fear I might be stuck with a lets play for this one.

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Would you eat one of her cookies? Keep in mind that she'll want you to accept that she is the cutest femtur

>>166271919
I'd say buy used, but that won't work on PC and assumes you'll be playing on one of the consoles.

>>166273101
Fuck off

I love the Ruthless background on a Renegade Shep
>sending in Shepard who sacrificed his entire unit to peacefully solve the biotic cult situation
>Major Kyle even calls you Butcher of Torfan

I can't wait to corner and sexually assault the salarian pilot. If they didn't want to be treated as sissies, they should not have belonged to a society of dickless beta males

>Turians become Marauders, intelligent enemies who can reinforce their allies and use assault rifles
>Asari become Banshees, highly cunning enemies who can teleport across the field and use devastating biotics
>Krogans become Brutes, near-unstoppable death machines who tear down everything in their paths
>Rachni become Ravagers, walking heavy turrets of death who can also continually spawn swarmers
>Batarians become Cannibals, highly durable enemies equipped with heavy artillery who can consume other enemies to strengthen themselves

>Humans become either Husks, whose main strategy is literally to throw themselves at the enemies unarmed and hoping for the best, or Abominations, who just run to the nearest enemy and blow themselves up

I'm not sure how but I think that's racist

Man, romances in ME2 and 3 were downright realistic compared to 1
>recruit Liara
>talk to her
>she stammers a bit about how she wants to study me
>tell her to her face that I don't trust her
>go on a few side missions
>talk to her again
>yo Shepard there's a mutual attraction right?
>apparently Shepard is now dating Liara

>>166273101
she probably made it out of her """special mixture""" don't eat them

>>166273101

Go hug a fucking tree and that should simulate the fucking feel you'd get when cuddling with a Turian.

Not to mention her sharp teeth which makes it impossible for her to give blowjobs.

>>166277919
i think you've just given me a tree fetish
also
>implying
you can do anything with good enough tongue-work

How come every single biotic in the series except for Shep can do some form of gliding / super jump? Now we get jumping mechanics and a double jump with a jet pack, but no classes to allow true biotic god gameplay. Yes, I'm mad.

>>166278068
What's more important: Epic cutscenes or fun gameplay?
The answer's pretty obvious but I'm sure Bioware picked the other option

>>166277840
I think ME2 definitely handled the romances better (with better choices at that) but still had big flaws here and there. Tali and Garrus' romances can be summed up as, you do them and favor and now you persuade them into fucking. That being said Tali already crush on Shepherd and one could maybe argue that Garrus too had one though handled far more subtle, he only says the whole "You know someone women like scars" with FemShep which I always found suspiciously flirtatious after having played as Maleshep where Garrus just roasts you instead.

ME3 handled romances the best. Few flaws with the major characters. Supporting cast of ME2 characters suffered a lot from lack of screentime but the majority of people didn't romance them anyway.

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>>166277524
w-what?

>>166277984

You need help, friend.

>>166278287
>ME3 handled romances the best
Here's what interactions with Liara are like if you romanced her in ME1, played Borker, and continue romancing her in ME3:
>meet her on Mars, immediately hold hands and gaze into each other's eyes before getting on with the plot
>back on the Normandy, she asks if you should continue the relationship
>say definitely
>after the Citadel attack, she sends you a message saying you should hang out on the Citadel
>go do that, talk about Benezia a bit
>she somehow mentions you being friends so Shepard can say "friends doesn't cut it anymore Liara, I want more"
>before the Cerberus assault, she once again asks you if you are,in fact, in a relationship now
Jesus fucking Christ
And then she says "I love you" like 4 times throughout the rest of the ending because Bioware thinks that's how you get the player emotionally invested

>>166278472
>Liara can be in a relationship with you in all 3 games
>no other love interest does that
>is still uncertain whether you love her or not multiple times within ME3
Wew.

>>166277919
>>166277917
>>166274668
Rude, she just wanted to give you a cookie

>>166278638
>>no other love interest does that
Tali, surely

>>166278669
Can't romance Tali in ME1

>>166278695
Oh? So the only LIs for a male Shep are Liara and Ashley?
So that's why Liara asked me if I was dating Ash even though my entire dialog with her consisted of telling her she let her squad down, telling her she should stop fucking talking to me like I'm her friend, and saying her poetry bullshit is boring
Bioware!

>>166278783
Yes. Kaidan, Ashley and Liara are the only romanceable characters in ME1
It was back when Bioware still thought they were making a sci-fi game and not a dating simulator in space

>>166278648

I'll accept her cookie if she gives me a cuddle trial so I can rightfully judge for myself if Turian girls are superior.

>>166278068
In ME3, if you take Kaidan to the Ardat Yakshi monastery, when Samara does her biotic gliding stuff you get a little bit along the lines of "so uh, I don't suppose you've figured out how to do that either, right"

>>166279349
Meanwhile, in the Citadel DLC Liara effortlessly floats Vega around

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>>166278867
Those were the days.

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>>166279349
>>166279434
gets me angry to no end when you play a biotic class and Liara comes up to your room in ME3 about that device she created and tells you you're "one of the most powerful biotics in the galaxy"

>>166266258

Very, well drawn, even if it looks a bit too much like the guy from Far Cry 3.

>>166273101
>she'll want you to accept that she is the cutest femtur

Hold on there, meow, there's a difference between calling her the cutest female turian and calling female turians in general 'cute'.

So, sure, I'll take a cookie.

>>166281494
Both are acceptable.

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>playing a biotic class

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>>166283450
>playing Soldier like a normie or Vanguard like a redditor

ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING.

So, I started ME3 and... WHAT'S WRONG WITH SHEPARD'S HANDS?

>>166284191
For some reason in all Dragon Age and Mass Effect games the hands are strangely crippled. Bioware not only can't into animations but also not into proper anatomy.

>>166283616
>playing Soldier like a normie or Vanguard like a redditor
hah so true

>>166284502
soldier's fun though

you get other characters to fill up powers but your teammates will never be as efficient with a gun as you

>>166285140
i bet you romanced liara too you absolute scumfuck.

>>166285140
get out

>>166285282
I didn't romance anybody faggot

i accidentally romanced liara once and replayed an entire mission to undo it because FUCK liora

>>166282598

For a turian, she's pretty cute baking cookies for the crew.
>tfw no proper crew interaction so far
>no Ashley reading poetry for Liara
>no Wrex telling stories

>>166285852

Is her baking cookies canon?

>>166285282
>>166285303
he's right though

>>166286268
All of HTQ's art is canon, I believe.

>>166273101
Cute.

>>166288168

Who's HTQ?

>>166288746

Oh, jeez.
A guy that drew stuff for MEG a good while back.

>>166289198

Sorry if I offended you.

>>166289276

Not at all. Just didn't think of all of the new people coming in.

>>166289705

Ah ok.
Yeah, I got here a week and a half ago so I'll have to learn all the general stuff in this thread.

I'm currently playing ME1 and I bought the hamster. Whenever I would go near it and click, it would make a "meep" sound. I do this after every mission. But I just tried to make him "meep" again but he was silent this time. He's not dead because he was running around like usual. What's going on?

>>166291551
He's tired of your shit.

>>166291551
save the game and reload, is the hamster still silent?

>>166291551
you're crazed, there's not hamster in ME1

>>166291551
have you tried restarting it?

>>166291551
No hamster in ME1. You're hallucinating.

>>166291659
>>166291753
He is still silent. Maybe it's because I let the fish die? I keep forgetting to feed them.
>>166291889
>>166292445
I meant ME2, sorry.

>>166293074
He's scared that you let his friends die and that he's the next.

>>166293074
You've reached max meeps for this playthrough, you're going to have to start a new character.

>tfw no more Kieth David or Lance Henriksen

I mean what even is the point anymore

>>166294470
Clancy Brown is a pretty good get.

I'm not crazy about the Ryder VAs. The human leader of the AI sounds ok. Jien Garso or whatever the fuck her name is.

Who would you like to see besides Anderson and Hackett?

>>166294786

>Tfw Mark Meer and Seth Green won't even do additional voices for Andromeda

I mean what even is the point anymore

>tfw no qt turianette gf.

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>>166295382

>>166295040
Is it confirmed? I mean there wouldn't be even a "random Andromedan race" voiced by Meer like the Vorcha and Hanar?

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>>166295040
>being this stuck in the past

So you can't play as a male pc in Andromeda?

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>>166296254
you can play as a gay twink.

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so was this /v/ leaker full of shit? He also said the Asari ark was pretty much btfo.

Anyone else think that Andromeda will be Inquistion-tier garbage?

>>166296707
No, we are of course all hyped and expect a return to ME1 greatness
/meg/, where pattern recognition isn't allowed

>>166296379
Who's that fucking faggot?

>>166296707
Most definitely. It'll be a stinking pile of SJW shit. Nothing Nu-Bioware has made is good.

>>166296949
Scott Ryder, Captain of the Tempest. Brother to Sara Ryder, marketing fodder and cripple.

>>166295590
Vetra is a qt.

>>166297212
>Brother to Sara Ryder
I haven't paid any attention to Andromeda information, whichever Ryder you don't pick becomes an NPC?
Also, what is it with Bioware and weirdly spelled names? Shepard, Hawke, Ryder

>>166297354
>Shepard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard

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>>166297354
Shepard was a reference to Alan Shepard, https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/who-was-alan-shepard-k4.html

Ryder is supposed to be a reference to Sally Ride, but they couldn't help themselves and turned it into RYDER. Because they're a bunch of Richards I guess.

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>ywn spent some comfy downtime after a mission with an exhausted femshep qt 3.14

>>166296045

He hasn't said anything about doing voices for it and his IMDB says nothing about him being involved in Andromeda in any way.

>>166296124

You what? They've literally been in every game so far. We're not talking about 10 years here.

>>166298445
Why is everyone's Femshep always a redhead?

>>166299060
Default Jane's a redhead.

>>166299060

Because it's the default femshep....

>>166298926
That's said
It's a lot of fun going back to ME1 after you have become accustomed to his voice and intonation, and every so often going "hey wait this NPC with one line was Shepard"

>>166299132
Was it that way in ME1?

>>166298926
>You what? They've literally been in every game so far.

Right, so time to bring in some new voices.

>We're not talking about 10 years here.
You're right, it's been 9.

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>>166299272
>You're right, it's been 9.

>>166299501
It wasn't at all clear whether you meant how long they've been voicing characters in the same game series, or how long it has been since the last game

>>166299132
Even though blonde cute femshep won the popular vote. I'll never forgive them for forcing frecklebeast.

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>>166299501

>>166299670
>>166299651

Guys, I literally just said they won't do voices for Andromeda, I didn't say anything about the first Mass Effect.

If you didn't realize I meant since the latest game you're in the wrong. Since that was the last time they voiced anything Mass Effect related. It would take a real mouthbreather to not understand.

>ackshually
this fucking guy

>>166299913
And what I'm saying is why do you need more voice work from the same actors that we've already had as part of three games? It's ok to bring in new VO and like I said, Clancy Brown is a good get.

>>166299659
It was fucking stupid for them to think of changing femshep's look in the third game in the first place.

Imagine if they'd talked about changing sheploo's look

>>166300101
>Imagine if they'd talked about changing sheploo's look
Nothing because fucking no one cares what their male character looks like
Are you a queer or something?

All that said, you guys are crazy if you don't think Meer and Hale aren't going to have some tiny cameo somewhere.

>>166299659
Because people threw a fit in how it was decided in a "beauty pageant" that went against everything Femshep "stands for" and shit.

Would Femshep beat Motoko Kusanagi in a 1v1?

>>166300765
Real talk, it was pretty fucking stupid. Regardless of what you think, Sheploo is the face of the franchise. Changing femshep at that stage is just needless and feels uneven.

>>166300083

But Mark Meer and Seth Green are bro as fuck and funny.

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That male Ryder looks like a faggot. Nothing will ever surpass male Shepard face model.

>>166301970
>t. Seth Green's mom

>>166302417

What've you got against Seth?

>>166301970
Seth was an annoying cunt in The Italian Job and I can't remember anything else he's done
Joker was also annoying at times but I guess that's down to the writers

>>166302546
he's an annoying manlet, just like joker.

>>166302576

>Implying it wasn't the writers fault in the italian job too.

WHO DO I LEAVE?

http://www.strawpoll.me/12118113/r

>>166302673
The writers wrote him as a nerd, Seth made it an unbearable annoyance all by himself

>>166302576
he was fine in Buffy. But that show's aged very strangely

just started ME1, babby's first bioware game

what to expect

>>166302814

Yeah well I haven't seen the movie so I wouldn't know. But I think he did good as joker and when you watch interviews with him and shit he seems like a cool guy.

>>166302806
>linking result page
How are you gonna get unbiased opinions that way you idiot
I wish it was possible to nuke both of them
>>166302926
A videogame
Just fucking play it, or make a thread on /v/ if you wanna do "GUYS WHAT AM I IN FOR" shitposting
feel free to ask if you have specific questions

>>166302926
Your favorite character is shit.

>>166302926
clunky combat, graphics that aged pretty badly, and a plot and characters that more than make up for that

Doing a replay of all games, cant decide which class I want to play.

Should I go with Infiltrator or Vanguard which I've done before but are solid or try something different like Engineer and try to struggle through Adept.

>>166303175
Do you want to play the same class in all games? If so, Vanguard is probably best and might be fun depending on when you last played the games
Otherwise go with Adept, they're OP in 1 and 3 and you'll just have to deal with being ineffective in 2
If you don't care about having the same class go Adept -> Soldier -> Adept

>>166301258
The shitstorm blonde femshep caused was worth it. http://kotaku.com/5826702/fans-picked-the-blonde-in-a-controversial-video-game-beauty-contest-but-thats-not-a-bad-thing

>>166303369
I dont remember can you change your class when you import the save?

>>166303539
Yes, every game allows you to play whatever class you want even with an imported Shepard

>>166303681
>>166303539
I should say though, any class is fine in ME2 unless you play on one of the highest two difficulties

>>166301258
>Real talk
Fuck off

>>166304029
How tedious are ME games on insanity difficulty??

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Why is it so hard to make an attractive femshep in ME, I give up at this point.

>>166304469
>Implying Bioware artists are capable of modeling females.

>>166304187
They're more boring on non-Insanity, no real challenge
Not that Insanity is particularly difficult anyway

>>166304469
Were you trying to recreate Kahlee Sanders or something?

>>166304187
ME1 is bad at the start cause you start with shit weapons and have to fight insane encounters, but once you get some better loot it's fine and a lot of fun
ME2 is fun as a Soldier or Infiltrator, every other class is useless
ME3 is fun as fuck as any class
>>166304469
I think she'd look pretty good with better graphics
The entire face is a bit too wide, maybe

>>166304469
Fair skin and jet black hair with bright green eyes

>>166304753

FUCKING HELL MAN
You just described my femshep who I personally thinks attractive as fuck.

Also, bright green eyes masterrace.

>>166304849
>>166304753
Well, black hair and light eyes is objectively the best combination
I remember being able to sit through DA2 because default femHawke was so fucking cute

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>playing anything else than a redheaded femshep

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>>166304717
No, just trying to make a qt is all. I wish you could have longer hair.
>>166304750
Tried making jaw/chin as "skinny" as possible. I already started the game but now I realize I think I may have put the eyes too close together.

>>166305236
That character model got me to play ME3 again, since my femsheps looked like shit.

>>166306142
>but now I realize I think I may have put the eyes too close together
I would have said they were too far apart from the picture of your character, but I'm absolutely horrible at making qt grills
Also, that girl looks like she's 15

>>166306458
Fuck I think you might be right. I wish I could restart and fix. Too late I guess. I hope the citadel in ME3 isn't awful like in ME2. I miss ME1's citadel.
>Also, that girl looks like she's 15
Your point? Women are most attractive at the ages of 15-25. Anything past, and the looks begin to dwindle. I'm not a man so I can't speak for all of them, but there is a reason one of the most popular pornography tags is "barely legal" and "teens". I am aware MILF is popular as well, but on average, teenage girls are the apex of female beauty as seen in history and all of society and even most cultures. Also in my opinion, I think the girl I posted is very qt, I'd give anything to look like her.

>>166307005
Never said she wasn't hot m8

>>166307180
? I see, you made it seem like it was a negative thing that the girl posted looked 15. Typically people say that as a complaint.

>>166307005
>I hope the citadel in ME3 isn't awful like in ME2.
Depends in what you expect, the Citadel is the only hub world in ME3, so you better like it.

>>166307329
Yeah I was too lazy to post my entire reasoning for saying that, hoping that no one would make a lengthy post defending being attracted to teenage grills
My point is simply that you shouldn't model femshep off that face because she's way older
I like looking at qt characters as much as anyone else but that would just break my immersion every time I look at her
It's as silly as making her be an anime chick or something

>>166307617
That is true, but when that 15 yr old in question gets older, the facial features stay the same for the most part, just wrinkles and sun damage for skin would mostly change. Usually the attractive traits for a female are small chin/jaw, heart shaped face, large eyes, long lashes, small curved a small bit upward nose. Anything else like a tan/dark skin or pale skin, short/tall, freckles or clear non marked skin, etc are just individual preferences that will vary, but the features listed above are usually seen in most "attractive" women.

>>166308445
Looking at >>166306142 again
>small chin/jaw, heart shaped face, large eyes, long lashes, small curved a small bit upward nose
I guess zero out of five ain't too bad

>>166308445
>15 yr old in question gets older
Getting older being 20-26 or something. Obviously as you near the ages of 50+ the nose and ears will noticeably change as they are cartilage and not bone.

>>166308614
>0/5
In what way? She has a small tapered face, small chin, and a small nose along with long dark lashes. You can't seriously think she has a large nose, tiny eyes, barely any lashes, and a long rectangular face.

>>166308842
>not having a small X means having a giant X
I stopped caring about this train of thought but I'd just like to mention this:
Her face is a rectangle, stop lying to yourself
Look at that jaw, want me to draw a line around it?

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>>166309081
C'mon now...

>>166302926
The Star Wars of Sci-fi games.
The second one is the best.
But really, it's a masterpiece trilogy despite any flaws. Suicide Mission is the best final battle in any video game ever.

>>166302926
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5_mHgxSRzQ

>>166309487
>Suicide Mission is the best final battle in any video game ever.
I hope you're joking. ME1's finale was miles better. ME2 was literally filler.

>>166309656
Elevators part is invalid in PC version. Everything loads instantly at this point. Consoles a shit.

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>>166309487
>second is best

I wish reddit would just leave.

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>>166309243
Just look at how much the chin protrudes from the jaw in that "heart" pic
Also, I've never before seen anyone calling something this man-jawed heart-shaped

>>166309830
This. Literally walking on the outside of the Citadel mowing geth away with endgame weapons and fully upgraded bionics was pretty rad.

>>166309487
how much does EA pay you for shilling? really know, name your income. or do they just hand out origin points?

>>166309830
Not joking. ME1 ewnding was a regular awesome video game final battle. Suicide Mission is something the whole game builds up to and in which your decisions can mean the deaths of your team members. Regardless of the fact that most people just look on online what the path of least casualty is, it is still something no other game has done before or since. Not even other BioWare games.

And it's objectively awesome through and through too.

>>166235965
Lewd!

>>166309937
The fuck do you mean by "invalid"?
Sure, everything loads instantly but that doesn't stop the elevator rides from being way too fucking long
That key binding to speed the game up 30x is great though, also helps for exploration
Oh man, remember the loading screens in ME2?
>holy shit why does my game take so long to load?
>get a mod for static image loading screen
>loading time is now 1 second
>turns out Bioware just always made the stupid loading animation play fully
Good times

>>166310114
So no other game before has main/important characters dying? Nigga what? And it wasn't awesome, it was boring as fuck and anti climatic as hell. ME2 is shit compared to ME1. Get some taste, friendo.

>>166310365
People were bothered by ME2 loading screens? It was a full animation but it's not like it was FFXV or something.