Mass Effect 3

How about if you're romancing no one and Mordin thinks you have the hots for HIM? Now that is an interesting conversation.

"Subset of krogan sexual deviants enjoy salarian flexibility. More cartilage in skeletal structure."

I hadn't run into that. That's just hilarious.

I love this game.

Haven't done Arrival. Enjoyed Kasumi and the Shadow Broker. I agree that the armor/weapon/outfit DLCs are 'meh'. Can't see spending any cash on another type of bang-bang.

I must admit, I've no love at all for Kaiden. Not that I hate him either. He was, like Thane, one of those incidental party members I had no real opinion on.

I must admit, I've no love at all for Kaiden. Not that I hate him either. He was, like Thane, one of those incidental party members I had no real opinion on.

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I agree. I'm not sure why, but he's pretty bland. The fact that Jacob and Kaiden are the two human male love options makes it obvious that the mass effect designers are guys.
Seriously, I would take Garrus over these two sleeping pills and Garrus has no lips...

They managed to make a non-bland human male in DA:O. Why is it so hard for ME?

maggi90w1 said:

I agree. I'm not sure why, but he's pretty bland. The fact that Jacob and Kaiden are the two human male love options makes it obvious that the mass effect designers are guys.
Seriously, I would take Garrus over these two sleeping pills and Garrus has no lips...

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Garrus' VA has a pretty hot voice, though. Just sayin'.

But yeah. You're right, they feel very generic, as if little thought was put into them beyond making them reasonably cute.

Female Shepard getting the limelight.
I think there are some pics/vid of the original female, Jane Shepard. I'd think they use that.

Also, E3 revealed that (for now at least) Shepards in ME3 have a kind of blade made out of light as a melee option. It looks rather sick. (You can see it at ~2 m)

Looking good so far, only recently discovered the ME games and loving them, this is definitely a game I'm looking forward to. Of course, after replay DA:O a dozen times I was looking forward to DA2 as well...

I'm Captain Shepard, and this is my favorite thread on AW.

I'm an incredible nerd, but...

I have a HUGE problem with the latest videos. Basically, they describe how Shepard has a new melee weapon.

Fantastic! Shields kind of demand that people have a short sword, as said shields stop fast moving projectiles but let slower moving objects in. Mass Effect still has guns because it is assumed that you can overload shields with sustained fire. All right, this is cool.

Even cooler is the fact that the omni-tool is used to create the blade. The omni-tool is basically a minifabricator which creates small objects. That's what 99% of an engineer's powers are: The construction of small bombs and drones that are launched at the enemy. You program this via a hapatic interface (The hologram that appears around your omni-tool, which has force feedback sensors built into your gloves).

Awesome!

But here is what pisses me off: The Devs say, "Oh, and you jam this big HOLOGRAPHIC sword into people! Nothing hurts more than a HOLOGRAM in the face."

Excuse me?

Okay.

So.

What the omni-blade is CLEARLY doing is manufacturing/extruding a monomolecular rapier, which is good. Cuts through armor and is cheap to create rapidly. Won't last long, but you only need to stab them once. The holographic part is NOTHING MORE than an AIMING device so that you can actually maneuver a blade that's thinner than a human hair.

It's NOT A FUCKING HOLOGRAM SWORD!

GOD!

Maybe he used it as an accesible concept? People might tilt their heads and go "whu?" at the idea of "hard-light sword" or "compressed particles sword".*


*uh... symbolic terms.

I don't need any fancy melee ripoff of Halo. Yeah I said it. All I need is my anti-materiel rifle and my invisibility power (it had BETTER be making a comeback) so me and Kasumi can tear shit up from the shadows while Grunt pulls aggro and tanks.

I know I'm probably the only perv who cares in this thread but if they offer more alien/human ship options in ME3 they better not crap out on the consumation animations.

Fem Shepard and Thane was a cop out IMO. The FS/Miranda animation was so much nicer.

amrose said:

I know I'm probably the only perv who cares in this thread but if they offer more alien/human ship options in ME3 they better not crap out on the consumation animations.

Fem Shepard and Thane was a cop out IMO. The FS/Miranda animation was so much nicer.

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Ha. So the anti-videogame crazies can point and go "SEE!"

Actually screw it. Make it an R-rated love scene. Let it EARN the M rating. Yeeeeeeah. My Femshep and Liara like that idea.

Kaiser-Kun said:

Maybe he used it as an accesible concept? People might tilt their heads and go "whu?" at the idea of "hard-light sword" or "compressed particles sword".*


*uh... symbolic terms.

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Should have just called it the omni-blade then...

Bioware needs to take notes from the Witcher 2's dev team when it comes to the sex scenes.

Cause...

Damn.

(THIS LINK HAS NUDITY, but it's on youtube so you need a youtube account to view it)

But...seriously, DAMN.

Zoombie said:

Bioware needs to take notes from the Witcher 2's dev team when it comes to the sex scenes.

Cause...

Damn.

(THIS LINK HAS NUDITY, but it's on youtube so you need a youtube account to view it)

But...seriously, DAMN.

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Witcher dev team = European = not pressured to keep things "PG-13" by uptight prudish execs.

Damnnnn you puritanism!

Zoombie said:

Damnnnn you puritanism!

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Quit yer whinin' and be glad you're not a gamer in Germany or Australia. Talk about censorship. Geez.

I am so looking forward to ME3. I thought 2 was a big improvement on 1.

I'm interested in seeing how much the ME2 party members will feature in ME3, given what might have happened to them at the end of ME2.

Zoombie said:

Bioware needs to take notes from the Witcher 2's dev team when it comes to the sex scenes.

Cause...

Damn.

(THIS LINK HAS NUDITY, but it's on youtube so you need a youtube account to view it)

But...seriously, DAMN.

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I think that worked better as comedy than an expression of the two's intimacy...still, that kind of smirking, black-tinted humor is part of the Witcher atmosphere, so maybe it was exactly right.