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Mass Effect Legendary Edition remaster trilogy

Morpheus Kitami

Morpheus Kitami

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Akratus II said:
rusty_shackleford said:
I honestly don't remember anything about Jacob at all.
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Exactly. Just one of the many points where you think: what were they thinking? Re-introducing ANOTHER military bonehead in ME3 too. God these games could've been so much better.
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Funnily enough the only reason they brought in that guy was so the player would have a squad of an engineer, a bionic and a soldier. Vega literally only exists to fill out a quota if you suck so much he's one of your few allies left.
 
rusty_shackleford

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Morpheus Kitami said:
Akratus II said:
rusty_shackleford said:
I honestly don't remember anything about Jacob at all.
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Exactly. Just one of the many points where you think: what were they thinking? Re-introducing ANOTHER military bonehead in ME3 too. God these games could've been so much better.
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Funnily enough the only reason they brought in that guy was so the player would have a squad of an engineer, a bionic and a soldier. Vega literally only exists to fill out a quota if you suck so much he's one of your few allies left.
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I think he does a fine job at it though so I'm not sure if I agree with all the hate. Sometimes you don't want a massive walking daddy issues on your squad and just want a competent soldier.
 
Neki

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ME 1 was good and it was the startrek rpg i wanted albeit with a more straight forward epic space opera approach rather than the finer political points. I liked the driving sections and the save galaxy from spaghetti monsters plot.

ME 2 was ok but a completely different game and more focused on making imaginary friends and romance for all the fatties out there, it was still entertaining but barely related, combat suffered a major decline.

All i remember from ME 3 is shitty ending, sticky cover combat and they gave you a hispanic porn actor as a companion.

Its a 6.5/10 series but if you got nothing else to do the first one its worth it at least.
Why would anybody pay new game price for this when you can get the old trilogy set for like 15-30 bucks?
 
Semiurge

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J1M

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Lacrymas said:
The whole problem is the ME trilogy doesn't have enough story for a trilogy. The Reapers aren't interesting or diverse enough for that. It's notoriously hard to write trilogies because one of them very easily turns out superfluous, so not having a clear arc from the start exacerbated the issue. Theoretically, it's a good model - each part of the trilogy corresponding to the classic 3 act structure. The issue in practice is that each of the acts aren't 33% of the story, and it's no wonder the hardest to write, act 2, more often than not turns out mangled. Shepard does the same thing 3 times, collecting allies in both 1, 2, and 3. That's why they needed to reboot the story 2 times, once with Cerberus and once back with the military. If I had to retain the skeleton of each of the parts, I'd do it like this -

ME1: Hunting down Saren and becoming a Spectre at the end of the game, which gives you enough influence to go searching for allies in the first place. You find out about the Reapers when you kill Saren, he warns you about them and tells you to find a beacon to prove it to the other council members.
M2: Collecting of said specialized allies with the authority of a Spectre backing you up in order to find the beacon, which should happen at the end of the game. However, seeing how you are becoming a bit of a power player and you not having a lick of evidence for these so-called Reapers, the Council hinders you at every corner.
M3: The beacon is located and there is no doubt about it - the Reapers are coming and they will be here very soon. Everyone knows this already and are preparing for war. Harbinger attacks one of the capitol planets earlier than expected and since basically nobody is ready for war, you are sent there to help out with the defense, but are unable to stop them and you flee the planet. This is when you go to Cerberus asking for their assistance and resources, they send you to sabotage the other capitol planets in order for them to be subservient to Cerberus during and after the war. Then the combined might of the entire galaxy manages to drive out the Reapers from the original attacked planet and blow up the mass relays the Reapers are going to use, so they can't come for another thousand years or so.

This leaves the ending extremely open to other entries in the series and the state of galactic politics in turmoil due to the now immense might of Cerberus. If I had to write the story from scratch, though, I wouldn't include the Reapers at all. Not every trilogy needs to be about saving the galaxy.
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I've written about this before, but in short: Shepard works as the character for each game, but they needed humanity to be the main character for the trilogy. An antagonist that fails 3 times is not interesting, nor is it especially intimidating in round 3.
 

Maxie

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should've kicked her out of the game so as to spare me yet another daddy issues sob story like the rest of mass effect 2 cast
 
Heroic Liberator

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It still amazes me how Andromeda turned out to be even less appealing than the MMO tier crap with nuWare writing that Inquisition was. Still haven't played it and probably never will.
 
Tyranicon

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Hóngwèibīng said:
It still amazes me how Andromeda turned out to be even less appealing than the MMO tier crap with nuWare writing that Inquisition was. Still haven't played it and probably never will.
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There is nothing salvageable in Andromeda. Even BioWare ditched it like the garbage it is.
 
Bliblablubb

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rusty_shackleford said:
Tali is easily one of my least liked companions. Never really understood why she's so popular, she felt like a knockoff more bitchy ME1 Liara.
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Potential waifus were slim pickings in the first game.
ASSley was an okay-ish tomboy actiongirl who lost me when she turned into a poetry loving religiousfag. Good riddance when she unfriended Shepshep in the 2nd game. :argh:
Liara was simply too much. Teehee cutsie flushed cheeks oh I am so young and innocent, made me throw up a little in my mouth. She matured a lot in Shadowbroker and beyond tho, so overall she was the best longterm pick storywise. She was the default after all.
Tali was a bratty teenager catered to the consoletards, who would like to hide their face as well, and the one female team member they could not romance. Of course she became a favorite.
And she got DEM HIPS. :obviously:

I always wanted to romance the bitchy Asari counciler, but modders never fixed it. Sad.
 
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