The Mass Effect thread

[ReaperCharlie]

Also:

BUT THE PRIIIIIZE

[ReaperCharlie]

So glad he won't be in ME3.

Says who? It could be a surPRIIIIIIZE

[ReaperCharlie]

Wait a second.

You forgot spoiler tags.

FFFUUUU

[ReaperCharlie]

Hiraki can you link me to your game history btw? I see that you pre-in'd for Harry Potter but I can't be arsed to go look your sh*t up (or even to PM you. lol)

So get on that pronto, and PM it to me. <3

[ReaperCharlie]

No, this:

http://mafiascum.net/wiki/index.php?tit ... arding_War

[ReaperCharlie]

No.






And yes, Umbrage, that'd be sick.

[ReaperCharlie]

Heal: Liara
Hurt: Legion

I see how it is. You PM'd everyone to get them to support the

robot

.

[ReaperCharlie]

Well at this point everyone is something.

You have

THE ROBOT

THE ASARI

THE QUARIAN

AND

THE TURIAN

Everyone was 'something' before, too. lol

There isn't very much character overlap, surprisingly.

I PM'd no one. They just have good tastes in characters (except Hiraki and anyone that likes Tali).

No, I was talking to ZR or something. I forget who. lol

THE (COOL) ASARI.

tyvm.

I agree with Hiraki.

[ReaperCharlie]

Hurt: Legion
Heal: Tali

Because I don't know who this legion character is yet and I feel left out not playing THE GAME.

Hurt: Legion
Heal: Tali

YARRRRRRR!!!!

ITS A WAR!!!!!

<3

[ReaperCharlie]

Oh teh noes!

(I'm not sure I like that, actually. With the amount of people playing, it could lead to quick hammers. Put them back up 2 or 3 each)

[ReaperCharlie]

Umbrage PM'd me...

Big finish = rule 34 pics of winnar?!

[ReaperCharlie]

HAHA! VP also PM'd me!

Subject: The Mass Effect thread

Hurt: Legion
Heal: Tali

Because I don't know who this legion character is yet and I feel left out not playing THE GAME.

You're on the wrong side, homie. You can trust me.

Tali's people created geth. The geth turned on them and stole their homeworld, forcing them into space. Now VP is saying he'd rather have the horrible robots who kill poor little Quarians, than the Quarians themselves, even though we don't know what their faces look like yet!

Obv-lame.

And I boned Tali on my play though! Admittedly, it was a last resort after I botched the Miranda-Jack situation, but still. Cold-blooooded ♫♪

HA! He's embarrassed that he's so inept with girl-juggling that he "had to take Tali as a last resort", and now he's atoning for it by trying to lead her oppressors to victory!.. Wait.

VP IS A BASTARD. LEGION IS FOR DEATH, NOT TALI.

[ReaperCharlie]

LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE! Proof: I have no idea where those musical note icons come from.

That is straight up copypasta.

[ReaperCharlie]

Legion's really not a bad guy. He brings perspective to the geth side of things. The geth attained sentience and the quarians flipped out. Who's the bad guy here really?

Wait wait wait wait whoa whoa whoa whoa.

Who fired the first thermal round? Yes, the Quarians.

But who arose and decimated their masters' homeworld, driving them into space? THE GETH.

[ReaperCharlie]

LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE! Proof: I have no idea where those musical note icons come from.

That is straight up copypasta.

Even if you were telling the truth (which you're not), it would clearly be entrapment. You're saying you PRIVATE messaged me, then publicly displayed my response to that PRIVATE message. Tomfoolery is afoot.

LIES. ALL LIES. YOU SIR ARE A DIRTY LIAR!!!

Down with Tali Z'whore.

*SHOCK AND AWE*

GTFO MY MASS EFFECT THREAD, YOU BLAGGARD!

[ReaperCharlie]

BUT...

BUT GARRUS RULE 34 IS SO GREAT!!!!

[/esurio]

[ReaperCharlie]

Only the people voting to Heal Legion are morons.

[ReaperCharlie]

FFFUUUU ESURIO </3

[ReaperCharlie]

TALI.

SHE'S NOT DEAD RIGHT?

FFS RC. YOU SCARED ME.

I KNOW RIGHT

WHAT THE F@$# GEEK DUDEZ

SAVE TALI!!!!!

[ReaperCharlie]

WE NEED THREE MORE HURTS TO SLAY TALI
BLITZKRIEG ME DROOGIES.

F U 2

[ReaperCharlie]

GOOD IDEA! I THREATEN MODKILLS IF TALI DIES! IN

ALL

MY GAMES!

Also:

[ReaperCharlie]

[ReaperCharlie]

MOAR LEGION HURTZ PLEZ

[ReaperCharlie]

Truth: Mute is also useless.
































And a moron. ^_^

[ReaperCharlie]

I agree 100%.

Hurt Legion Heal Liara

[ReaperCharlie]

Haaaa pwned.

Anyway, what's with the Legion love? I don't get it.

Garrus is sick, and Liara is too, but I don't get the Legion love.

[ReaperCharlie]

Also:

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/3/30 ... _super.jpg

[ReaperCharlie]

THAT PICTURE IS HILARIOUS WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

IT PERMEATES MY VERY SOUL WITH ITS PERVASIVE HILARITY.

[ReaperCharlie]

Nah dude. It's not the picture that's funny. It's the text. And the voice with which I imagine the text being spoken. And the fact that I'm called "Reap" by half of my online friends who are black and have the southern ebonics accent that I'm imagining the text being spoken with. I guarantee it's about 300% (or more) as funny for me as it is for anyone else, but for some reason I feel compelled to post it again. And I don't know if I can ever stop...

Wait, is this what indoctrination feels like? o_0

[ReaperCharlie]

Hurt: Zachrulez
Heal: Myself

[ReaperCharlie]

:sneer:

[ReaperCharlie]

I agree it seemed like ME2 was a bunch of fanservice.

Particularly this, though:



I lol'd.

And then I got mad because I realized that I'd probably not get a satisfying relationship with anyone.

I was right.

And then I was sad.

[ReaperCharlie]

DUDE

ARE YOU SERIOUS?

MIRANDA DROVE THE PLOT.

If by "plot" you mean your erection, then yes.
And if by Miranda you mean Tali, yes of course.

HAHAHAHAHAH

ROFLPWNT

[ReaperCharlie]

How old are you, Mute? Just out of curiosity.

[ReaperCharlie]

Oh. You are jaded then.

No wonder you like Legion better than Tali, lmao

[ReaperCharlie]

Search parameters triggered: "prat"

See this post before using the word "prat".

[ReaperCharlie]

[ReaperCharlie]

Ohhhh, "teal dear". I see what you did there (though I didn't before).

[ReaperCharlie]

Hurt Legion Heal Garrus

[ReaperCharlie]

Oh yeah oops. Haha

Heal Liara

[ReaperCharlie]

Hurt Legion Heal Liara

<3

Let's DO this!

[ReaperCharlie]

Then VOTE WITH ME, FOR GREAT JUSTICE.

LIARA > LEGION

SHADOW BROKER

> GETH

[ReaperCharlie]

"THE ORDER"?!?!

[ReaperCharlie]

Then VOTE WITH ME, FOR GREAT JUSTICE.

LIARA > LEGION

SHADOW BROKER

> GETH

damn you irresistible black bar spoiler.

OMFG DID YOU LOOK!?!?!?

NOOOOOOOOOOO

[ReaperCharlie]

It's not cheating, it's calling in your contacts, just like Liara would do!

[ReaperCharlie]

Jason just kicked Legion in the f*ckin FACE. LOL

[ReaperCharlie]

Hurt: Liara
Heal: Legion

ObvAlt.

WHO'S CHEATING?!?!?!

[ReaperCharlie]

Hurt:Liara
Heal: Legion

Now this I KNOW is an alt! VP/Amished

CAUGHT RED HANDED.

LYING SCUM.

[ReaperCharlie]

Hurt: Liara
Heal: Legion

ObvAlt.

WHO'S CHEATING?!?!?!

Well you did that by calling in people who obviously weren't playing up to that point.

Now the floodgates are open.

ALTS/HYDRAS DONT COUNT

THATS VOTING MORE THAN ONCE IN THE SAME DAY BY THE SAME PERSON.

[ReaperCharlie]

Hurt:Liara
Heal: Legion

Now this I KNOW is an alt! VP/Amished

CAUGHT RED HANDED.

LYING SCUM.

That was clearly Amished voting.

...




Clearly.

OH WAIT: http://mafiascum.net/forum/memberlist.p ... un=Amished

Last visited? ....... Yeah.

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah ooba, either that, or, "anything goes."

In which case, may the best man/woman/robot/

person with the most alts (me)

win!

[ReaperCharlie]

Srsly. Look.

Liara is about to win, son. And that's

without

me using alts like VPBaltarscum!!

HA.

[ReaperCharlie]

We should vote Legion to win just to spite RC at this point.

Why do you think I supported Tali to die? (It's not because I actually hate her.)

You were the one who called for a war, lol

[ReaperCharlie]

If you're desperate enough to use an alt to cheat on a silly contest that has no importance whatsoever, I'm giving you the extra vote.

THE GAME IS COMPROMISED.

THE MOD WANTS LEGION TO WIN.

HERESY.

[ReaperCharlie]

Reapers gonna reap.

WHY WONT THE COUNCIL BELIEVE ME?!! 0_o

[ReaperCharlie]

I'm not on at midnight and I can't even vote for the day? saaaaaaad panda.

Depends who you're voting for

Yeah, it's clear this game is b0rked, because THE MOD IS PARTIAL, and the PLAYERS ARE ALL CHEATING.

Well, the ones voting for legion are. We Liara-lovers are doing everything the right way!

[ReaperCharlie]

Reaper has indoctrinated a bunch of people. We must kill him and soon.

You know how I roll.

[ReaperCharlie]

Reaper has ruined this game. Good job.

^^^



I will now be playing the side of a wild card. I don't care who wins between Liara and Legion, and either or will make a suitable victor.
Give me a reason why I should side with you and your vote. Hiraki is an exception, however, as whomever he chooses I am duty-bound to oppose.

I LOVE LEGION.

FUCK LIARA.

Obv. WIFOM is obv.

Time to give Legion victory Mute. Also, RC messed up the game after it took eons to get to this spot, so now you're obligated to show him what happens to cheaters. Don't let some noobs that haven't trudged through this long ass game ruin the results!

SAID THE GUY WHO WAS LOGGING ONTO ALTS TO VOTE MORE THAN ONCE EACH DAY

HAAAAAAAAAAAAA

<3

[ReaperCharlie]

Nobody Special said he'd pay them all in COUGHxual favors...

I don't... I didn't... I don't even...

>.<

[ReaperCharlie]

He's gay and I'm female. What do I get out of it?

I'm sure he and you can work something out...

[ReaperCharlie]

Actually, I did the exact opposite because of his PM.

GET OUT!

[ReaperCharlie]

We are already best sarcastic friends

Sotty is the cheerleader.

[ReaperCharlie]

No, that's this guy:

[ReaperCharlie]

I MEAN---



BACK ON TOPIC YOU DOGS!

[ReaperCharlie]

HUZZAH, HELIMAN! =D

Sotty, I hope you know that I meant what I said with all possible <3, and that it was in complete jest, as I have nothing but the utmost respect for yours and Zachy-poo's relationship. NOT THE SUN BEING HELD IN YOUR HANDS COULD SEPARATE YOU TWO, NOR COULD ANYONE SETTING HIM ON FIRE SEPARATE YOU TWO.

And that is a beautiful thing. <3

[ReaperCharlie]

No pikajens, you must heal Liara.

[ReaperCharlie]

WHY IS THERE SO MUCH ATTENTION ON THE DAY THAT IT TAKES A HIATUS?

BECAUSE UMBRAGE WASN'T LIKING THAT LEGION WOULD BE DEAD BY NOW, SO HE RIGGED IT. DUH

[ReaperCharlie]

Rigged.

RIGGED, I SAY.

[ReaperCharlie]

WHYS.

WHYS DID I MISS THIS.

Because ReaperCheater got bitchslapped by karma, and it just so happened to bite you in the ass too.

Haha.

<3

Seriously, no hard feelings. Not like it helped anyway, eh? haha

You have the HaH mod and THE ORDER for that.

'sides, there were never any rules before

[ReaperCharlie]

Ok, I am ashamed.

[ReaperCharlie]

lol @ Garrus

good show, Umbrage.

exactly my thoughts.

bravo

[ReaperCharlie]

Also, for great justice (and moar lulz):






...that guy's stuff is sick Umb, I hadn't seen it before!

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah, that one's good too.

I hate the quotes in that font, they look like this:

Ah yes ,Reapers' <-- wtf, it's not a comma, it's a quotation mark.

[ReaperCharlie]

I'm being serious though.

In my first playthrough, I was stuck on that part and the big collector battle on Horizon(?) for about a week.

You just need to be really lucky. Also, focus on Harbinger with a sniper. That usually works.

Also, don't use the pussy sniper rifle that gives you 20 shots but they barely do any damage. Do the ME1 themed one.

Collector battle on Horizon is HARD.

Dang. There's another part in the game that's THAT hard? -__-

[ReaperCharlie]

Was this the collector ship platform or Horizon that you just described?

And how did you beat the big floaty thing? lol

[ReaperCharlie]

Well it sounds like I am royally boned when I get there, then.

I have like... no ammo for any of my special weapons. Perpetually.

And I'm an Adept so all I can do is try to use the force on stuff.

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah well.

When I beat the game and shove it in your face, who will be laughing THEN?






(... wait, it'll still be you, because it will have taken me 398 tries... )

[ReaperCharlie]

I wish there was a file I could pull up on the PS3 to tell me what decisions I've made in a given playthrough. For my insanity playthrough I'm trying to do everything completely the opposite so I have two very different ME3s.... but I have a terrible, horrible memory and can't even remember what I picked for some things.

Maybe I should start writing it down in the future, but it's too late for these two playthroughs now...

PS: RC, PM me later to yell at me to write flavor. Again, bad memory. <_<

WRITE FLAVOR!

[ReaperCharlie]

What branch again? Navy?

Heh.

[ReaperCharlie]

No way I'd join the Navy just to get called a "semen" all the time. lol

Basic for the Navy is what, 8 weeks long? Not too bad.

[ReaperCharlie]

Fun fact, according to current naval ranks, I'd be an O-6.

Burn, Shepard. Burn.

But either way, that beats out Halo's Master Chief, eh?

[ReaperCharlie]

What? You've never seen a boot-ass butterbar try to dress down a gunny? lmao

It's like:

[ReaperCharlie]

Not even for free college and a kick-ass paycheck.

Not even for a kick-ass paycheck.

kick-ass paycheck.

kick-ass paycheck.

?!?!?!

The lulz, they are epic.

[ReaperCharlie]

That's until you're paying $1500 for a studio.

Yep.

[ReaperCharlie]

Studio == 0BR apartment, for the most part.

's way cheaper than the 1BR and 2BR options, which are about $1800 and $2100, respectively.

[ReaperCharlie]

The latter. lol

[ReaperCharlie]

Luckily, BAH = awesome for this area though.

[ReaperCharlie]

Just calculated: BAH for an E-1 (i.e. bottom of the barrel), withOUT dependents = $1824.00/mo.

That's baller.

[ReaperCharlie]

[ReaperCharlie]

Is that where you're from? lol

I personally love California.

[ReaperCharlie]

Haha Flameaxe. You're nuts. Where did you live in Cali, and where do you live now?

@ Mute: I would say "wanna tell Marines > Navy jokes?", but I'm sure you'll hear plenty once you hit the fleet.

For now though, back /ontopic.

Do you think there's gonna be a Mass Effect 4? Or are they gonna really, truly cut it off at 3?

I think it's a big enough cash cow that they'll cave. See: Halo 3:ODST, Halo Wars, Halo Reach, etc.

[ReaperCharlie]

If by 'near' you mean 60 miles away. Totally different place, bro.

I grew up in the City, and still love it. Not there any more, and moving even farther away soon.

But as Tony Bennett would say... I left my heart in San Francisco.

[ReaperCharlie]

I wanna live in Ireland, but we all know that's a fucking pipedream.
So, Montana or somewhere else where fuck-civilization would work.

Montana's really pretty for the most part.

[ReaperCharlie]

+2

I am 100% stoked with this turn of events. I hope it's delayed until at least June, fwiw.

[ReaperCharlie]

I wonder...

If you chose to give Cerberus the Collector base, what will be the justification of TIM turning on you? I can only assume something akin to indoctrination...

Yeah, I was just wondering that yesterday.

If I'd made the other choice... then W(hy)TF would he do that?

There'd be no reason!

[ReaperCharlie]

LOLOL ^

[ReaperCharlie]

[ReaperCharlie]

THIS IS THE DAY, JUDAH.

THIS... IS THE DAY.

[ReaperCharlie]

No, that's Charlton Heston.

Movie is Ben-Hur (1959).

[ReaperCharlie]

ME2 was 15 bucks on Steam the other day, I think... you missed it!

[ReaperCharlie]

Sorry, it was 10. lol

[ReaperCharlie]

[ReaperCharlie]

[ReaperCharlie]

[ReaperCharlie]

Huh? What happened? Did you take the Paragon path in Zaeed's mission, and then not have enough Paragon/Renegade points to Charm or Intimidate Zaeed out of hating your guts?

[ReaperCharlie]

I lost Zaeed on my playthrough. He was loyal, and they wanted somebody with experience who could lead a team.

Seemed like a no-brainer. BUT NO. ZAEED DIES. WTF

[ReaperCharlie]

Um. No.

I f*ckin talked to Zaeed every time I got the chance.

All those stories where he was like 'BTW I'M BAD@$$.'

And then he dies doing something that TALI lives doing?

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Bioware

[ReaperCharlie]

YEAH BUT ITS SUPPOSED TO BE SO THAT OTHER PEOPLE DIE.

NOT ZAEED. HOW CAN HE DIE. SENSE. THAT MAKES NONE.

I would take a loyal Tali. It's cute. ^_^

[ReaperCharlie]

Also, MASS EFFECT MOVIE time.

Basically this: If Mass Effect were to be made into a movie, who would you cast as each character, and why? Don't just pick Seth Green for Joker and/or Yvonne Strahovski for Miranda, either... be creative!

Here's a template:

Commander Shepard (male, paragon) - Ron Perlman
Commander Shepard (male, renegade) - Ewan McGregor
Commander Shepard (female, paragon) - Scarlett Johansson
Commander Shepard (female, renegade) - Denise Richards
Biotic GOD - Matt LeBlanc
etc	etc
etc	etc
etc	etc
etc	etc

Obviously those are not my choices.

And if you're trying to find a pic of someone but don't want to crop/resize/whatever, try googling their name under images, and setting image size to medium, that's how I found all these pics.

Anyway, cast away!

-RC

[ReaperCharlie]

STFU STFU STFU

AND DO IT.

Also, this is cool:

[ReaperCharlie]

I like your new avatar.

[ReaperCharlie]

It's probably going to be

terrible

F*CKING AWESOME.

I am probably going to pirate it anyway.

ftfy

[ReaperCharlie]

You know, after seeing that picture, it hit me.

MATT LEBLANC WOULD MAKE AN AWESOME KAIDAN!

wow, you're right.

[ReaperCharlie]

HAHA. Nooooo. NO AVATAR IN MY ME. LOL

I would probably pick Jillian Murray to play Liara, but I'd dub her over with Ali Hillis' voice... so soft and soothing. ;P

[ReaperCharlie]

Super Mario Brothers.

Nah. Neither of those chicks works as Ash. Gimme someone more plain.

And, Natalie Portman, are you kidding me? She's like a little girl. Nothing like Ash would be.

[ReaperCharlie]

Yep. Been called that before.

[ReaperCharlie]

I'm sure there's more to this than meets the eye, but I'm hoping there isn't.

[ReaperCharlie]

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/944907-/55193503

[ReaperCharlie]

Also: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6646491/1/Mass_Effect_Shika

[ReaperCharlie]

[ReaperCharlie]

She did so have tits.

Kinda...

Spoiler: (obligatory nsfw warning)

But not really. lol

[ReaperCharlie]

I totally cheated every time I played.

Ooooooh yeah baby. Space sex. I couldn't say no.

HAHAHAHAHAHHA

*being quoted*

[ReaperCharlie]

So, just started the suicide mission. Think I found an easter egg or something similar. If you watch closely in the corner

when the eyebot sentinal things first notice you, at the bottom left of the screen, a ship that to me looks like the Pillar of Autumn from Halo can be seen

.

YOU KNOW, I THINK I SAW THAT.

[ReaperCharlie]

Apparently other people did too:

http://www.google.com/search?q=PILLAR+O ... ASS+EFFECT

[ReaperCharlie]

Smaller, more intimate squad

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/30 ... ate-squad/
http://www.unthinkable.biz/home/article ... ller-squad

Could be good. Hopefully it will be EXCELLENT.

Look at the quote about Jack. :0

Not sure if whats-his-face is gonna like that one! :0

[ReaperCharlie]

HAHAHAHA

Give it up. Everyone hates Batarians.

Look:



That's a face only a mother could love.

[ReaperCharlie]

Same with the Vorcha. But.....

For guys like you, they make special things:

Spoiler: do NOT open this

http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/562027

[ReaperCharlie]

also: for esurio

Spoiler: sfw, kinda

[ReaperCharlie]

I'd take Ashley over Tali any day. Ashley has strong opinions, and isn't shy about expressing them. She's not racist. She wants humanity to be safe, and I hate to burst your bubble, but that means you can't trust aliens completely.

All this talk about racism comes from the fact that she doesn't like aliens on THE MOST ADVANCED AND SECRET ALLIANCE VESSEL IN THE GALAXY. I'm all for working with allies, and I trust my squad, but I can still see where she's coming from. The Normandy is incredibly valuable, it's the one advantage humans have over the stronger races like Turians. And let's look at who she doesn't trust, shall we?

A member of the race that not too long ago was at war with humans, and one of which is currently the biggest threat in the galaxy. Not to mention he's a skilled Infiltrator.

A dangerous mercenary and known criminal who'll do anything for any remote possibility of helping to save his race.

A scavenging tech expert who does nothing but watch the engines all day.

Benezia's daughter.

Sure, Shepard sees Garrus, Wrex, Tali, and Liara. Nothing to be afraid of. But when you look objectively, as I'm sure Ashley is doing, they are really big security risks.

And as for her 'it isn't human' speech, let's say you're in a burning building, about to collapse any second, and you can only drag out one person. Do you save the human, the batarian, or the vorcha? Honestly.

She's right. Anyone will save their own race first. Take Wrex. He was willing to kill Shepard and align with Saren to save his people. And unless you were a real smooth talker, Ashley had to bail you out of that. I'm surprised she didn't turn to Shepard after that and go "Who's racist and paranoid now?".

And the reason she lets Shepard jump down her throat when talking about her beliefs is because HE IS HER COMMANDING OFFICER. YOU DON'T TALK BACK TO YOUR COMMANDING OFFICER. EVER. EVEN IF THEY ARE A REAL JERK. YOU HOLD YOUR TONGUE AND DO AS TOLD. THAT'S MILITARY 101.

Ashley's a hero. Women in the navy? Someone has to be really strong to last through that and keep their beliefs and character strong. I don't care how bad Jump Zero was for Kaidan, I assure you Ashley had it worse. In comparison, Tali is a wimp with no real character.

That's why I love Ashley. She's a fantastic soldier and she doesn't let her job compromise who she is.

That and what Mute said.

The whole 'anyone who doesn't want to give turians hugs and kisses is racist' thing is out of control. Especially since how some races are portrayed, as you said. At first geth were evil scum machines that were hurting the cute lovable quarians. Then Legion came along and suddenly geth weren't so bad after all. It's silly.

Everyone wants to have all the species love each other and work together to stop the Reapers and live happily ever after with krogan marrying salarians and humans sleeping with turians and geth making peace with quarians and all notions of racism come crashing down in one giant lovefest. But it's not going to happen.

All races have seriously fucked up at some point. The Krogan declared war on the entire galaxy. The Turians bullied their way into owning the Citadel with their military strength. The Geth kill anything that comes within a few lightyears of their territory. The Quarians tried to kill all the geth when they could no longer use them as slaves. The Batarians are notorious slavers. The Asari are slavers as well. The Vorcha are savages. The Salarians destroyed the Krogan and shied away from responsibility. The Hanar keep the Drell as servants. The Drell fucked themselves even worse than the Krogan. The Volus control the economy and have an unstable government. The Elcor are stuck in tradition. And Humans are greedily snapping up colonies at the expense of other species.

There's no way all that can be erased. And there's no reason to trust other species without good cause. The Turians and Humans are really close to another war, you can feel it whenever Shepard talks to a Turian. They just don't get along.

Sure, Shepard's squad is learning to trust each other and work as a team. But that doesn't mean the rest of the galaxy is doing the same.

ITT: ReaperCharlie agrees with Umbrage.

[ReaperCharlie]

WAIT.

WAIT.

WAIT.

YOUR ZAEED LIVED?!??!!

FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[ReaperCharlie]

YES. lol

Wait, so how did she die? lol

[ReaperCharlie]

Bahahahaha...

Bye, Miranda!!!

[ReaperCharlie]

Haha you're "THAT GUY" that wanted her sister?!?!?

LOLOLOLOOOOOLOLOLOL

[ReaperCharlie]

[ReaperCharlie]

A google search for Oriana Lawson yields this

Spoiler:

[ReaperCharlie]

Cover is good. The way it was in ME1 was good. But combined with the recharging shields and health? No way. You can just sit there and spit at enemies at leisure until they fall solely because they don't have the same regen.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Only times I've seen an enemy recharge were some minor geth and asari vanguards.
It's one of the reasons I despised the cover system; even on insanity the game was made trivial by all the cover and regen BS. The other reason was so many times the cover was forced, like, "oh hey thanks deus ex machina on delivering a wall right where I need it that otherwise would not make logical sense to be here."

so. much. this.

i mean, on insanity there are still challenging parts, but overall i was like...

[ReaperCharlie]

So, I'm well into my ME2 playthrough now. I imported my level 50 sheperd from ME1. Thoughts so far are mixed.

The story is excellent so far. Good stories in general will keep me in games even if the rest of the game is annoying.

I'm glad the ME1 equipment system is gone. It took way too long to manage weapons and armors and upgrades. The new system isn't as annoying, but its so simplified. I'd have rather kept the same concept as ME1, but revamp the user interfaces to make it more user friendly. I liked collecting weapons and upgrades and selling the extras for profit. Is there a good way to make money in ME2? I haven't found it yet.

Upgrading is also simplified. I'm not sure I like this as much. I didn't think anything was wrong with the old upgrade system, other than not being able to upgrade your crew/see what they can do unless they were already in your party. ME2 fixed this, but leveling up is so boring and pointless now its almost like you could take it away and the game wouldn't be lacking. Then it'd just be another 3rd person shooter.

Hacking/overriding - SOOOO annoying. This is a case where more realistic isn't better. The ABXY mini game from ME1 was just fine.

Resource scanning - Also annoying. Mostly because I have an obsessive compulsive need to continue sending out probes until the screen says depleted. And even then, its not REALLY depleted, it just doesn't make the controller vibrate anymore. I mean, at least give me the option to spend some credits or something to put an icon on the planet where the hotspots are.

Picking up ammo - laaaaaaame. If I wanted a strictly shooter, I'd stick to halo. Oh right, its not ammo, its some magical thermal clip that stores heat and when it can't store any more, you're SOL. Oh and right, of course it makes sense to track it as number of shots rather than # of clips and a heat meter, that totally doesn't make it seem like collecting ammo for weapons that have infinite ammo built into them Oh, and I can run out of thermal clips for my pistol and I have to switch weapons, even though these magical thermal clips work on any weapon and I still have some via still having shots available for my other weapons. Thats TOTALLY not picking up ammo at all So lame. I'd have had much more respect for it if they'd have just presented it as a full ammo gathering retcon, rather than a half assed "oh look you now have thermal clips that store heat and limit your shots for each weapon individually even though all clips work for all weapons" retcon.

Linearity of missions - not the overall story, but, for example,

when I go into the Omega quarantine zone, I go pick up the professor, and then it forces you back to the normandy. I get they want to have that conversation in the control room each time, but I wanted to go back and get archangel and finish the the omega side quests without having to go back and forth to the normandy 40 times.

The map - not there durring missions - I wanna know where I can go and what buildings I can go into. I miss being able to set a waypoint and the radar on the HUD in general. When the map is there, its useless.

I remember trying to use it to navigate around omega and afterlife, and aside from pointing out the general location of points of interest, the map doesn't help you get there at all.

No staircases labeled, no upper/lowel level discretion, no doors. Hell, it doesn't even really show you clean boundaries of where you can and can't walk to.

Loading screens - yay these are a plus for me. I got so tired of standing around in elevators in ME1. I enjoy the computerized loading screens that show whats going on - elevator changing levels, shuttle landing, picking up the shuttle, etc.

Navigating the galaxy - driving the normandy around at the solar system level is pretty fun. I don't like how much I have to think about it though - I keep overshooting planets and stuff. I haven't gone on to explore other systems in a cluster yet so I don't have an opinion on the fuel system used, but I'm guessing I will find it pretty annoying. I'll get there eventually because I'll want to explore everything and finish every side quest like like ME1. At least buying fuel is pretty cheap, and its kinda like the only thing to spend credits on.

Anyways, thats my first impression. I've made it as far as

picking up the first round of dossier crew members, and did horizon last night for first contact with the collectors. I'm going to go check out the citadel and start doing some loyalty missions and maybe do some random exploring before picking back up with the main plot assignments.

The story's got me hooked enough to overlook the annoyances above, but I hope ME3 finally gets everything right.

:goodposting:

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah. Citadel was ghay.

[ReaperCharlie]

Illium was a joke and Omega was too small for what you got to explore outside of missions.
I get they wanted to streamline shit and compress all the walking, but FFS I (and others) wanted to explore the Presidium and see how it was rebuilt after the effects of ME1

yeah, this.

[ReaperCharlie]

Happy birthday!

Thanks!

Happy birthday!

[ReaperCharlie]

That'd be awesome. I'd also expect it... I didn't pay however much money for whatever armor pack, NOT to keep it!

[ReaperCharlie]

I'm going to punch them in their collective faces if they do that. lol

[ReaperCharlie]

I think complaining about "the man" in video games is just about as fruitless as complaining about "the man" in politics.

I like some Activision games a lot. I like some EA games a lot. I like some Valve games a whooooole lot.

Valve was "the man" when people wanted to complain about Steam Friends not working for what, 2 years? LOLfail

Valve is also still "the man", because people want to complain about no Half-Life 2 Episode 3 or Half-Life 3.

[ReaperCharlie]

Or that, yes.

I love Vanilla TF2, I just don't like all the new stuff very much.

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah but that's not going to change. lol

[ReaperCharlie]

I usually wait until about 30 as well.

I remember when new games cost 30-40, not 60.

Well, 15-20, actually, but that was on DOS.

[ReaperCharlie]

Good on ya.

But what really makes ME mad is when people try to sell MOVIES for exorbitant amounts like 30-40... WTF?

I don't care if it's RAINBO-RAY, I'm still not gonna plop down that much for a movie. Special features or not.

[ReaperCharlie]

I'm talkin PC games.

Console games as far as I remember have always been over-priced.

[ReaperCharlie]

I fit into both.

[ReaperCharlie]

Hey I really enjoy a lot of Xbox games. Don't worry, I vett most of them before I buy them.

I JUST picked up Assassin's Creed and Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Dragon Age 1 a month or two ago.

The only ones I get upon release are Halo, Gears of War, etc. Big names I know I can trust.

[ReaperCharlie]

I had upwards of a million of each element except element zero. I only had about 200,000 of that.

[ReaperCharlie]

HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH

:trollface:

[ReaperCharlie]

lol wtf.

I don't know what to expect now.

[ReaperCharlie]

OMG, YOU REMINDED ME! I NOW KNOW WHY YOU CANT HAVE A BATARIAN SQUADMATE !!!

Spoiler:

Because you killed them all!

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/05/19/biowa ... -3-starts/

[ReaperCharlie]

It says "Reaper IFF" right under the planet name.

You know, how they always list the missions under the planet name? Yeah.

[ReaperCharlie]

HAHAHA!!! thats really funny, I love it! XFD

Udina: THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
Anderson: yeah, and then--
Udina: THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
Anderson: ...
Anderson: STFU UDINA, PLZTHX. NOBODY WANTS TO START ANY INTERNET MEMES HERE K? ok, so then we--
Udina: ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
Anderson: @%#&@$%@#$

[ReaperCharlie]

Wow, this comic is AWESOME. Just finished #125. lol

Dam# it's over.

I just wasted a whole hour at work, lol.

[ReaperCharlie]

I like how Reck has taken to trolling every thread that's not his own. And by like, I mean it's annoying.

I like how you call it trolling when someone points out that this really belongs in the video game thread and shouldn't have been made as it's own separate thread.

lol

Just saw this again while reading page 1.

[ReaperCharlie]

Not my fault Mass Effect is so awesome.

[ReaperCharlie]

Guiding Shepard around is less of a struggle than it's ever been. Aiming also felt snappier, and guns have the punch now that they've always lacked.

YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS

...and I too, was like 0.0 when I thought about female Krogan. lulz

[ReaperCharlie]

OH SH*T, forgot about that part. You're right.


LOL, I love when you get to

talk to that one Krogan and convince him to go back to the camp and f*** some b****es!

LAWLS

[ReaperCharlie]

Or when

Shepard mates with a batarian.

LOL

[ReaperCharlie]

It will be once I get to an editor. It will also be better quality.

I miss when my hair was that long. ;P

[ReaperCharlie]

I liked elements of both the first and second, and disliked elements of both the first and second.

Hopefully BioWare will guess correctly which is which, and Mass Effect 3 will be the best of both worlds. lol

[ReaperCharlie]

The game was slow but the story was amazing. Nobody hates on ME1!

And ME1 Mafia should be pretty fast. I'll be surprised if it's over 40 pages long, even with 14 players.

[ReaperCharlie]

True. I only have one game that I've finished through ME1 and 2.

I got bogged down on my other ME1 playthrough, AND on my ME2 one as well.

[ReaperCharlie]

wait are you talking about other than what was already in there? (i.e. femshep+liara)?

[ReaperCharlie]

I agree. We should go burn Kinetic's house down!

[ReaperCharlie]

LOL. I was gonna say that, but didn't because I didn't wanna spoil anything for anyone!

[ReaperCharlie]

F(l)avo(u)r?

What?

[ReaperCharlie]

What are you talking about? Stop talking about it, whatever it is.

[ReaperCharlie]

Wait. New trailer?

LINKLINKLINK

[ReaperCharlie]

EH HEH HEH HEH HEHHHHHH

Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

[ReaperCharlie]

Also, no, Mordin doesn't really sound different.

[ReaperCharlie]

No, it's not worth it to try scanning all the planets. You get nothing.

The end... well... you'll just have to figure that out for yourself!

Wait, you even did Arrival already?

[ReaperCharlie]

What? I wasn't.

[ReaperCharlie]

Haha. You won't necessarily die if you don't do Legion's loyalty mission. Mute is on crack.

Well, Arrival (and Shadow Broker too, I think) are meant to be played after the ME2 finale.

I played Shadow Broker before, and Arrival after. I don't think it REALLLLLY matters, but.

[ReaperCharlie]

Yep, it's semi-modconfirmed.

Mute is on crack.

Heck, he even said it himself.

I am on crack.

[ReaperCharlie]

Actually Rhinox, that part of things actually does kinda only make sense AFTER the "end" of ME2.

[ReaperCharlie]

It doesn't have much to do with it being RELATED to the end of the game, it's more to do with it being the only thing that makes sense in direct concatenation to the alleged beginning of Mass Effect 3 (

the trial, etc

). It doesn't make sense for so many other things to happen between Arrival and ME3. That's why it's best played after. But if you rearrange it in your mind, it's pretty much the same. It's not like you straight up

spoiled

anything for yourself (at least, I don't really

remember

any

spoilers

like that).

Another spoiler.

[ReaperCharlie]

I forget, which ones were those again? lol

[ReaperCharlie]

Hammerhead is ok cause it's a lot more aerial, but the Mako gets my vote for favorite as well.

I have a little RC Mako on my Xbox Live avatar, which I paid REAL MONEY for!

[ReaperCharlie]

I would you-know-what ALL OVER a multiplayer campaign.

[ReaperCharlie]

Hmmm. I would pick.....









.....wait for iiiiittt.....

Biotic God Volus!

[ReaperCharlie]

HAHA! ^winwinwin

[ReaperCharlie]

Wow where did you get that?

That's awesome. I guess I'll be getting that.

[ReaperCharlie]

*peeks*

MSRP: $329.99

*faints*

[ReaperCharlie]

And I thought it was going to be expensive.

ORLY ZACH

_________

You ^

__________________

Me ^

[ReaperCharlie]

That was a joke, Commander.

[ReaperCharlie]

WHAT?!!?!

WHY?!

HE'S NOT A CERBERUS AGENT HE'S A FORMER BLUE SUN WHO'S NOW A MERC.

TL;DR: DONT MAKE ME KILL ZAEED NOOOOOOOOOO

[ReaperCharlie]

-___-

[ReaperCharlie]

Yeah. Zaeed's not that petty.

[ReaperCharlie]

Also: Me and Garrus had a baby! D'awwwww.....

[ReaperCharlie]

YOU DIDN'T LOOK AT ALL THE DOSSIERS?

*shoots Mute*

[ReaperCharlie]

Wait. WHAT??!!

I totally don't remember that part. LOL

Link or gtfo

[ReaperCharlie]

I lol'd! xD

[ReaperCharlie]

Just want to throw this out here. If anyone wants to play The Brave and the Beautiful 2: Fairy Tales (my new mini theme)...

Go here and type "/in for RC's".

[ReaperCharlie]

Never mind; too late! :0

[ReaperCharlie]

[ReaperCharlie]

Still waiting on the Large Theme queue, I guess. Shoulda just kept it a Mini. Sigh.

Seriously, the reason we made it a Large was because the Mini Theme queue was so long. Literally, 30+ mods/games long. The Large Theme queue had like... 3 or 4. I signed up for both, and I'm now already modding Brave and the Beautiful 2, but Mass Effect still has yet to start.

Fail choice was fail.