The Official Mass Effect thread

[XtromaniaK]

Do you think anyone cares if you ask if anyone cares if he cares?

 

[ProjectPat2280]

You think I care if someone like you takes me seriously on a comic book message board?

I say you do, if not you wouldn't waste your time by voicing your opinion. My 2 cents.

 

[Jerry!]

Do you think anyone cares if you care?

Well apparently he/she does.

 

[XtromaniaK]

I say you do, if not you wouldn't waste your time by voicing your opinion. My 2 cents.

What're you talking about? People love wasting their time.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

What're you talking about? People love wasting their time.

Yea, i dont really know what i said, i just wanted in on the discussion.

 

[Timstuff]

ROTFLOL!

Anyway, from what we heard from the British film classification board, only one version of the cutscene lets you see breasts. And in all likeliness, it's going to be the one you get if you play as a human male and decide to have sex with the female human NPC, because if it were a character that both male and female avatars could go at it with, then there would be multiple versions of the cutscene with actual nudity. So you may want to take that into consideration, you pervs who were going to make a female character just for the sake of seeing some human-on-alien boob action.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Boobs!!!!!!!!!

 

[Zenien]

The news that Mass Effect would feature an uncompromising, high-res simulation of alien lesbian sex was sweet, and hot, like spun sugar. For Gabriel, at any rate. Some of the community reaction is dedicated to demanding gay parity for the male persuasion of this sexual equation, lengthy treatises by oiled men who crave starborne sodomy. The rest of the dialogue is just boring. Boring, terrestrial, and (quite frankly) myopic.

Where are the bipedal crustaceans in this calculation? The swirling, aroused gasses? The lonely, sentient space station whose hermetic bulkheads hold secret clusters of erotic delights, provided your character has both the skills and equipment? Carpe astrum, you Goddamned backwater clowns. There must be an entire universe of thrilling, dangerous, sometimes razor sharp genitalia that slavers beyond the Horsehead Nebula.

You might have noticed that we're advertising an Everquest game, an act that I'm aware places us in significant rhetorical peril. If I had not found the game completely electrifying, I would have turned down the buy. Of course, what I find electrifying has somewhat strange parameters.

I used to enjoy a deeply indie online CCG called Star Chamber, which was eventually purchased by an online CCG company called Worlds Apart (which did, among other things, the Lord of the Rings online CCG). As does happen from time to time, World Apart was eventually purchased by Sony Online Entertainment, becoming SOE Denver. Since then, they also delivered a Stargate CCG that we liked enough to advertise.

Legends of Norrath: Oathbound is a game within a game, similar to Final Fantasy's Triple Triad, that you can play against other players directly in the client. It's tied into the loot systems for both EQ games, so that cards you get in packs are actually equipment and so forth - I find that interesting, but as a person with no investment in those systems it doesn't motivate me. What motivates me is a rock solid, deeply tactical card game, which Oathbound absolutely is. It plays in a stand-alone client which you can download, and comes with a fairly elaborate tutorial that is worth playing all the way through. I had no interest in it, I felt confident dismissing it out of hand, and it won me over. You may find yourself similarly surprised.

I have a very high opinion of Eurogamer, but I don't know how a person could possibly have reviewed Team Fortress 2 already. We put time in both at work and at night, and I don't feel like I'm any smarter about the sometimes extraordinary interplay between the game's nine Goddamned classes, which mesh in real time to create some kind of shuddering Chaos Engine. I have a lot of fun playing it, though the Medic brings me the most joy, so I've focused on it almost to the exclusion of all others. A healing "gun" - like the repair module present in Tribes, almost a decade ago - is an immensely satisfying way to model that relationship. Anytime your medical gun is attached to a player, your "Overcharge" ability is building up. When unleashed, both you and your target become invulnerable to enemy attacks. It's an incredible siege breaking technique, and it's earned simply by embodying the virtues of your class. But where to use it, when to use it, I'm still learning this - and what's more, other players are still learning that I can do it. I always love the early period in these multiplayer offerings, before the hard limits are known, when players seem to be magicians and anything is possible.

(CW)TB out.

You forgot to quote his always awesome post pertaining to the comic.

 

[Jerry!]

Because its boring.

 

[kainedamo]

Look familiar??

 

[WhatsHisFace]

HOMG it's real life Adrian Shephard!!!!!!

edit: Whoops. Adrian Shephard was from Half-Life: Opposing Force. I guess in Mass Effect it's just "Shephard".

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Well gentlemen, Microsoft announced a Special Edition of Mass Effect. Anyone know what's in it?

 

[Dark_Lord]

Well gentlemen, Microsoft announced a Special Edition of Mass Effect. Anyone know what's in it?

• Fiction Book: Galactic Codex: Essentials
• Mass Effect Art Book: A Future Imagined
• 2nd DVD with exclusive videos about Mass Effect (Art of Mass Effect, Interactive Storytelling of Mass Effect)

source: http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/03-10-2007-6592.html

I've already pre-ordered mine from play.com

 

[lollycop]

Whats this game rated?

 

[Jerry!]

Its going to be M if it isn't rated already.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

• Fiction Book: Galactic Codex: Essentials
• Mass Effect Art Book: A Future Imagined
• 2nd DVD with exclusive videos about Mass Effect (Art of Mass Effect, Interactive Storytelling of Mass Effect)

source: http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/03-10-2007-6592.html

I've already pre-ordered mine from play.com

Hmmm... I don't think that's worth the extra money if it indeed will cost more.

 

[Jerry!]

Hardly any of those special edition releases of games are worth the money. Art book included you say? **** that.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Halo 2 and 3's are good because there are huge movies. Gears had a great documentary as well.

Jade Empire's sucked, Doom 3's sucked and Mass Effect's looks crappy as well.

 

[AshtonFoster]

I'll getting it...Anything Mass Effect, Im down!! I've been over at IGN looking at all the videos (and theres a lot of them now). All I can say is WOW!!

 

[Wolfwood]

I like Mass Effect as much as the next guy, but that Limited Edition set looks boring as hell. I might get it though for the DVD, depending on the price.

 

[블라스]

Boobs!

WHF you are WRONG! Jade Empire's CE is awesome because it included an extra character, Monk Zeng!

He's basically San Te from The 36th Chamber of Shaolin

I love Jade Empire! :heart: :heart:

 

[WhatsHisFace]

I love the 36th Chamber of Shaolin... but... Jade Empire was a somewhat awful game in my opinion.

 

[GFreeman]

Piss on your opinion.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Says the guy who likes Perfect Dark Zero more than Gears of War.

 

[GFreeman]

I also like a pile of dog **** I found in my yard more than I like Gears of War.