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Is there some sort of time limit to do Galaxy at War? Or can you do it independently from the story without having a Mass effect 2 "suicide mission"?
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Okay, just finished the entire game. Wow. Even with some of the glitches and moments where the game told my Xbox to fuck itself I have obsessively been playing this game for days now. Something like 34 hours and I did every side mission I could find (plus multiplayer). Not sure how my Readiness Level actually played out in the end but most of my galaxy was 94% and above and only because of multiplayer. Without multiplayer everything would probably have been in the 70s for me.
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Liking this so far, but I'm really not looking forward to the end, what with all the pissing and moaning I've heard about it. I can't help feel they've shot themselves in the foot character wise because of ME2 though...
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I'm a one woman kind of man unlike some of you deviants so I've been waiting for Ashley to be romanced but she hasn't yet and I think I'm near the end. Ive turned down everything that comes my way, reporters, aliens, gay dudes, doesn't matter. I'm staying faithful. The old yeoman killed herself when I told her I was upset with her. Oops. I wasn't really that mad but I wasn't going to let her off easy. Oh well. |
I'm sure you already know, but here is how it's done. Spoiler, I guess, "just in case"
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Prerequisite: She must survive the events of ME1.
Shame. I was hoping you could romance her without that fact. |
Yeah I looked all that up after I posted.
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SPOILER: show Has anybody tried the online portion of the game yet? I mean, I got all the systems at 50%. I'm wondering if will that number go up in the story, or is it online only and fluctuate each time to start up the game? |
You need to play multiplayer to get them to 100%.
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How much multiplayer are we talking? A couple of hours of hard work or several days grinding?
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Dunno. Wandering around some gaming sites and everyone is in an uproar that Bioware said you can get all the achievements without having to step into online.
Either they lied or I'm not doing something right. |
There's only 2 you can't get without the online mode. Not a huge deal.
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I just watched the Hitler vid, DTTS. Its dead on with how I feel right now.
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I figured Tali and Shep would have dirty hot sex on the Quarian homeworld at least once.
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Some new info regarding the "From Ashes" DLC pack since it provides about 30-40 minutes of extra playing time but is also heavily padded in file size.
The pack itself is around 628MB in size but based on people who hacked the PC version of the game, its real size is around 6MB. The rest is just padding or repeated files to make people think not everything was actually on the disc. Also confirmed to be just a few voices and dialog files for the extra member of the crew. |
Weird. Maybe it's a patch as well or is it confirmed that the majority of it is just junk?
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If anyone is on PC and wants to play multiplayer I have a couple other friends I play with most nights. PM me and we can get you in as our 4th. We use Skype while we play over the in game voip.
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I tried multiplayer and it was quite fun actually, so when you max out your galaxy at war stats, is that forever on your save file? You can use the war assets earned in any subsequent single player run-throughs?
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Mildest spoiler you can imagine about the last mission, but I've annoyed people for pointing out mundane shit before, so I'll be nice.
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This'll tide me over until the next 3 seconds of GTA footage leads to the next 40,000 points of speculation. |
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Really hope so.
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I have to wonder what kind of ending people would have been happy with. My issue with my ending isn't that it wasn't good, I thought it was very good. I just wish my decisions mattered. If I had gotten this exact ending because of things I did in ME2 I would be satisfied and there would be a lot more replay value.
Still enjoying the multiplayer though. Played it all night. |
I would've like my decisions in past games to matter more, seems like the only the ones that matter in the slightest is weather or not Ashely or Kaiden died in ME1 and how you handled Tali's loyalty mission in ME2.
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Damn right that needed spoilers.
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Just remembered that was just Fangry. Fuck it then.
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One of those, Shepard deserves an ending that doesn't end with him being shot, stabbed, or blown up. |
I don't want a happy ending, I want a non-rushed ending with closure about the surviving crew.
I witnessed a girl having a nervous breakdown playing it who liked the ending and as much as she wanted to skip off with her love at the end, she knew it was time for her to go. She cried thought the whole game it seems. |
You can't please everyone and in this case it seems Bioware pleased no one with their three generic endings.
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Multiplayer DLC is on its way although not other details in regards to price, release date, or info besides it containing new classes based on a leaked image.
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Probably going to be a matter of time until someone tries to find out if this one is also on the disc depending once all the details get revealed. http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...r-dlc-spotted/ |
I have promoted two multiplayer characters to the "front lines" now.
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How and where do you promote them?
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It's like prestiging. You get characters up to level 20 and then just press X. 20 is the cap.
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This is bordering on Peter Molyneux syndrome, and that's before plot holes you can drive the Normandy through. Having not purchased the game, I don't feel "ripped off," per se, but that's a pretty lousy ending to a series that was supposed to be all about choices and shit. |
I didn't have a problem with the endings in the most basic sense. To me, the series has been building towards an ultimate showdown with the Reapers and throughout the story it has been painted as next to impossible to achieve victory. The choices at the end amount to making a hard choice in order to achieve that victory.
That being said, I think the various endings do leave something to be desired. Like others have said we're left to draw conclusions or speculate as to what happened to characters at the end. As has also been pointed out there are some continuity issues with choices that carried over from previous titles. I'm alright with the direction that the game was taken because I can live without the cliche "everyone survives even though the chances of winning in the first place were slim to none" ending. I think it could have been done better though. |
Does anyone wanna play with me and G in 30?
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You have XBOX live or PS3?
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I'm on your friends list, doofus
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Did you accept my friend request?
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will see if my daughter doesn't cry when I log on, lol.
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The main plot was always fucked, I just looked at it like big black robots to kill, oh well. All the time the subplots, attachment to the crew and quite well executed interspecies politics kept me coming back. The thing with Molyneux is that when his games were good, most of the ideas he had that never made it in were superficial anyway. He loved talking about things they were probably trying, but was way too early as they didn't even know if it was possible now. Bioware have basically lied about a very fundamental aspect to the game and even through doing that, if the ending had any closure in at all after a game I found an immense amount of joy in up until that point, I probably would have just thought "oh you Bioware, you lying little toerags. I'll let you off this time!". But no. We got what I am assuming is the deadline ending no matter if they do DLC the ending or not. Obviously this "save your save111!!1" is making me think DLC ending even more, but they could make a Mass Effect 4 that a Miranda that's been reconstructed by Jacob reconstructs Shepard one... more... time.... Then we find out that Desmond ruined this series too by looking at the events through an Animus in 4156. |
I dunno. After watching the endings it makes me glad I didn't waste a lot of time and aggravation trying to get a perfect playthrough. Only went in with all theaters at 52%. Not sure what would've changed if they were at 100%. Am happy though that I now get to attack some others games on my shelf.
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I think a good chunk of that was the lack of Drew Karpyshyn. And yeah, I know he was a writer in ME2, but he was no longer the writer. The series was hackneyed, but still lovingly crafted. Similarly, his novels were some of the best game books ever. The novels were awesome right up until someone else started writing them, then down the crapper. Quote:
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Ha, I actually read that yesterday after I beat it. |
Pos rep him and see how many dots he can get.
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that last bit where it focused on the marauder shields bar, it got an irl lol from me.
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That's another thing, what exactly does your galactic readiness change? Anything?
It wasn't a huge pain because the multiplayer was actually kinda fun, but I don't think it mattered in the long run. |
Just gives you the third ending, I believe.
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Roxer Smash.
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I keep going back to the multiplayer. Can't stop myself. For some reason I can't explain I need my Galactic Readiness to be 100% despite the fact that I've beaten the game twice now.
It's weird considering that I don't give a fuck about Achievements, but the Terminus system getting down to 97% seems to really bug me. |
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Yeah, those damn Geth, being able to think for themselves and not being half organic. Totally a Borg ripoff.
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So when you step the challenge level up to silver and gold, what does that do. Tougher enemies? They are pretty damn tough to begin with and I can't image going any higher. Would also help if I wasn't using the default weapon.
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