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Alan Wake, Mass Effect 2, and Mirror's Edge.

Three of my favorite 360 games, actually.

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Oh, cool, I'll take a look.

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RayDyn posted...
The only one they offered was Assault Rifle, much to my disappointment.

This reminds me of something I loved about ME1, the way the achievements actually tied back into the gameplay and gave you bonuses.

More games need to do that.

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KCF0107 posted...
James Bond 007: NightFire spoilers (just to be sure)












17. Killing in Style

The 007 series' multiplayer component encourages players to choose their favorite Bond character because the characters lack individual stats. NightFire did something a little different that gave players an advantage of using a particular character without including stats. Oddjob's bowler hat was now a weapon and only exclusive to him.

Oddjob's size gives any player that uses him a little bit of an advantage, but that pales in comparison to what his hat brings to the table. It is essentially like having a Golden Gun on you that you can use every minute or so. I am not positive, but I believe that being hit by Oddjob's hat will kill you no matter what, even if you have a full set of body armor on.

The fact that it can be used very often in a match and that it will kill its target every time it hits it makes this one of the most hilariously broken weapons in a video game.

Much to the chagrin of my friends though, it never got old. Successfully killing someone from 100 yards or more away is as satisfying as always, even if it's mostly because I just killed someone with a goddamn hat!


(I would rather die from a steel hat than Jaws' steel teeth any day)

Hahaha, I loved Oddjob's hat in Nightfire.

My friend and I used to have snipers only duels on the Ravine stage. If you set up respawns to spawn far away from your foe the game would almost always spawn you inside the building on the opposite side of the ravine from the other guy. Then you'd have to figure out how to get out of the building without him shooting you since he knows where you are. It was incredibly fun.

Anyway, one time he had me pinned down on a roof. If I stood up to shoot him he'd nail me. At that point I hadn't used the hat much, but I picked it anyway. Lined up with where he was, aimed upwards, and tossed it.

About three seconds later you see the hat come flying in on his screen, right into his scope.

After that I became very proficient at sniping with the hat.

It was awesome. Some of the most fun I've ever had playing a game.

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RayDyn posted...
Ok, so...

Bro Shepard (yes, I named him Bro)
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War Hero
Infiltrator
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Plan for trilogy, not going pure paragon or renegade, Kaiden dying on Virmire, hopefully keep Wrex alive on Virmire, no romance in ME1, romance Tali in ME2 and ME3, resist urge to kick dude out of window in ME2, but I probably will still do it.

Lets do this.

What bonus power did you pick? Lift is great for setting up sniper shots.

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PartOfYourWorld posted...
Speaking of which, I was wondering about that one achievement for "bringing a majority of the galaxy at war assets to the final conflict." I thought I did that during my first playthrough but never got the achievement. Is multiplayer required for that one as well, or do I just need to do pretty much everything?

IIRC that achievement requires you to have at least 4000 resources available when you hit the Illusive Man's base. Without multiplayer that means you need 8000 total. I had about 7000 so I just did two or three multiplayer matches to get it above 4000.

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ShadowHalo17 posted...
Also those Cerberus Engineer turrets really suck when you don't have Sabotage (haven't put any points into it yet).

Once you can hack them, though, they become amazing tools. One of my favorite things to do with my Infiltrator was to hack a turret right after the Engineer set it, then watch it unload on him before he could get away.

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Started up ME1 again. Adept on Hardcore. I was planning on waiting to do this, but now that I've started I want to continue.

Also, the Salarian Engineer has become my favorite multiplayer character. So much fun.

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It's only abilities that actually electrocute, burn, or freeze the enemy. And the effect has to trigger. So for shock they actually have to do the stun animation and have the electricity crackling over them.

I don't think Sabotage can do the stun effect.

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http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/53997/what-are-all-the-possible-power-combinations-for-detonation

That has all the biotic and tech combos. I didn't realize you could detonate enemies that are on fire with biotics.

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Defense Matrix does indeed give Sentry Turret and Combat Drone a damage boost. It actually boosts all of the Engineer's skills. Incinerate and Overload benefit from it the most, I'd say.

It also looks pretty cool, particularly with blue armor.

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I believe it would. I can double check in a bit when my girlfriend goes on a mission.

As long as your weapons put your cooldowns at 200% then the cooldown reduction from DM is minor. It's a 60% reduction normally and you can drop it to 30% at the end of the skill tree.

Get the Paladin and Locust and dominate.

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ShadowHalo17 posted...
Starting new ME3 game now. Man... Engineer has Combat Drone and Defense Turret, AND the possibility to use Decoy. That's a lot of distractions.

I think I'll go with Warp Ammo though, since otherwise I won't have an ammo power. And there's already too many options with only three quick-use buttons.

Defense Matrix is a great bonus power for an Engineer. At least 15% damage reduction depending on how you build it, a 25% bonus to all tech damage when it's active, and the ability to purge it and restore 70-100% of your shields.

The delay it causes on cooldowns is less than a third of a second once you max it and get the 30% reduction of the slowdown. It's pretty amazing.

Warp Ammo would be good, too. Probably my second choice for an Engineer.

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Anything that knocks an enemy beyond a certain height cause the lightning to hit them.

I've hit a dude with Charge and watched him go soaring into it.

Even better is when then get caught in a Singularity, Warped, lit on fire by Incendiary Ammo, then hit by the lightning. Overkill.

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After thinking about the game when I finished it again today, there's a couple of little things I've noticed that I don't like or wish had been done differently.

The biggest thing was Kal'Reegar dying offscreen. Lame. If he's gonna go out fighting I want to at least see it. I'd love a "Kal'Reegar's Last Stand" DLC that puts you in his shoes, defending the relay or whatever it was. Make his class and skill set a mixture of Soldier and Engineer since he's a quarian marine. It won't happen, but I can dream.

Everything else is minor and doesn't really detract from my enjoyment of the game. Even the Kal'Reegar thing isn't too big a deal, but the dude deserved better.

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Hahahaha.





I want one of these for each class.

I'm trying to decide which class to use when I start ME1. I'm leaning Adept or Engineer, but Soldier is a possibility. And I'm playing on Hardcore since I never got around to it.

I'm considering trying to get the rest of the achievements in the game so I've got all the achievements in the series, but that'll take at least two more playthroughs. Stupid ally achievements.

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Pirateking2000 posted...
How would you all respond if this was true

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/995452-mass-effect-3/62352734

Response (probably response of fanbase as a whole)



hmm

Interesting. Hoping it's fake, there's too much there I don't like.

Liara 1000 years in the future as a matriarch would be cool, though.

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Insanity done and all achievements unlocked.

Time to take a break and try to finish something from my backlog before I start up ME1 for a full series playthrough. Might try to finish Uncharted 2, I started it like a week ago and haven't touched it since.

One really minor annoyance about ME3 for me is that you can't change the color of your Tech Armor. It's a small detail I would've loved to see. My Sentinel wears orange and red so the orange TA doesn't look bad, but it'd be cool if you could make it match your armor colors.

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PartOfYourWorld posted...
btw, my Insanity Run is going pretty well. Turrets have killed me a few times (Engineers set them up in some funky places, and if Shep is unaware, they kill in about 2 seconds), but other than that, this doesn't seem particularly challenging. I'm worried about that

MINI SPOILERS?

huge onslaught of enemies near the end of the final mission, though. That barrage of reaper mutated baddies killed me on Normal, so I don't even wanna think about it on Insanity.

For me it got a lot easier once I hit about LV40 and had a decent selection of powers. The end segment is timed as Leonhart says. You do have to kill the wave of brutes and the harvester, but the banshee wave after that is definitely timed.

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Anyone on 360 wanna play? Me and my buddy are playing. Neither of us have working headsets.

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On the final mission for my Insanity run.

Defense Matrix + Tech Armor has become one of my favorite ability combinations. The combined defense boost and the 100% shield recharge from purging DM makes you even more of a unkillable murder machine than in ME2.

Your cooldowns do suffer a bit from having both up, but they're under 3 seconds each for me and I usually didn't take the recharge boosts on the actual skills.

I used SMGs and Heavy Pistols. The Locust and the Paladin are a great combo. I imagine this build could do a lot of damage with a Shotgun as well. Might try it in a NG+.

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Prothy the Prothean is indeed superior.

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Taking Vega with me on all missions has given me the opportunity to see most of his nicknames for the crew.

Shep is Loco/Lola,
Garrus is Scars.
Tali is Sparks.
Cortez is Esteban.
Javik is Buggy.
Liara is Doc.

I haven't seen him refer to Ashley, Kaidan, or *spoiler non DLC squaddie* by a nickname. I don't have Ashley in this game, though. I think he may have called her Ash like everyone else does in my other game.

Javik and Liara cracked me up. And you'd likely only see him use the nicknames if you brought them together on certain missions.

And yeah, I liked him before, but using him in every mission has had him grow on me. Easily one of the best human squadmates.

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James is pretty funny to take on missions.

At one point I had to tell one of my teammates to shut down an AA gun, and I had him do it. His response?

"I'm not so good with tech but I'll pull some wires out, see what stops working."

Then to top it off he actually walked over to the console on the gun and started kicking it, with Shepard and Kaidan in the background shaking their heads.

Totally unexpected.

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I have no idea what promoting does for your N7 level. I've only promoted once, although my N7 recently went from like 35 to 60 without me noticing. May have been the promotion that caused it.

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Pirateking2000 posted...
anyone know the point of promoting? Does it reset your level (don't feel like resetting level / want to unlock more stuff to but N7 level won't raise or whatever etc)

It resets your level for that particular class and puts them into the main game as a war asset. 75 points for each promotion. It's really not worth it, although it is a way to force a respec without having to get a respec card from the packs.

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His references to other real life games are great, too.

"I don't get the complaints about the 'Grim Terminus Alliance' games. So what if you can capture and beat slaves? It's just a game."

I would totally play Grim Terminus Alliance. A GTA style free roam as a criminal in the ME universe?

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Yes.

Even with the disappointing ending ME3 is still one of my favorite games ever. It's incredibly fun.

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I did it with my pistol completely by accident on Insanity, then my next shot headshotted the enemy.

It was pretty sweet.

And yeah, I think dodge rolling missiles is better, especially getting out of the way at the last possible second.

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So I discovered that you can shoot missiles out of the air now.

It's awesome.

Not at all practical, but awesome.

I don't think you could do it in ME2, but now I want to try.

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http://shoryuken.com/2012/02/29/meet-persona-4-arenas-new-console-exclusive-character-labrys/

There's also this console exclusive character, Labrys.

I'd rather have Junpei or Yukari than this new chick, though.

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Endings were incredibly disappointing, and made people feel like all the hours they'd sunk into the trilogy meant nothing. Internet overreacts and freaks out as it usually does when it comes to stuff like this, and there you go.

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Yeah, I don't think that was supposed to be a big reveal or anything. It's fairly obvious that Kai Leng is packing Reaper tech, which inevitably leads to indoctrination.

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Object Rho is probably one of the biggest sources of indoctrination for Shepard, considering you spend two days unconscious in the same facility it's in.

Watch, everything that happened in Arrival was just a setup for the Reapers to establish a backdoor into Shepard's head...just in case.

Ok, probably not, but that'd be crazy.

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I actually noticed the trees when I looked around the second time I went through the ending sequence. They're not there before the run and the whole atmosphere feels just like one of the dreams. And there's way, way less buildings behind you than there should be given that you basically just came out of the city.

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futuresuperstar posted...
That theory is definitely fun. The only problem with it is really the VIs inability to detect traces of it in Shepard on Thessia.

The thing is, we haven't seen any proof that the VI could detect simple traces of indoctrination. Kai Leng was in deep and had willingly had Reaper tech installed, so of course it could detect him.

Then again it's entirely possible this is all simply plotholes Bioware missed and there's nothing more to it. We'll find out in April, I guess.

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Man, I love the random awesome moments in combat in ME3.

Centurion pops up, I hit it with Overload and drop its shields at the same moment it throws a grenade, I roll forward and hip fire as I come out of the roll and land a headshot with the Paladin.

Awesome.

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ShadowHalo17 posted...
Where's the refund guy? And what other NPC conversations have I been missing out on?

Refund guy is on the Citadel outside of the warehouse you go into to talk to "Fade" for Garrus' loyalty, IIRC. Right next to the Tupari machine. His is funny simply because it's a saga across all three games.

There's the turian right at C-Sec customs that keeps calling the customs chick racist. And a whole lot more that I can't think of because I mostly remember the ME3 ones right now.

ME3 is cool because the conversations have multiple parts and you can hear something new as long as you check the people out everytime you come back. Of course you could just go to a different floor and come back repeatedly to hear the full convo, too, but that's no fun.

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Dude, you're missing out on so much if you skip the random stuff. It may not be truly important, but like you said, it really adds to the experience.

Like the "ALL YOU HUMANS ARE RACIST!" guy on the Citadel in ME2. Dude cracks me up.

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So, Halo's post had me thinking, what are your favorite random NPC conversations in ME2 and ME3?

ME2

1. Bachelor party
2. Valley girl quarian/Friendzone turian
3. Refund guy

ME3

1. PTSD asari in the hospital
2. Teenage human and C-Sec turian at the docks
3. Random French dude and batarian at the docks

ME2 had more funny stuff, ME3 had more heartwarming and sad stuff.

I still love the way the French dude doesn't shut up and the batarian eventually warms up to him. Good stuff.

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ShadowHalo17 posted...
Oh... wow. There's a turian and quarian talking in Eternity on Illium. The quarian just divulged some... information. About her suit. At the end she's like hey human, private conversation, go away.

I wasn't even standing near them, I was by the door. So the whole bar could hear what they were talking about.

But like. Yeah. Quarians have "nerve-stimulators".

How did you miss the nerve stimulators? They're mentioned multiple times in Tali's files in LotSB. She repeatedly installs and uninstalls them and reads books about human courtship.

And you've never seen the Valley Girl Quarian/Friendzone Turian conversation?

Please tell me you've at least listened to the entire bachelor party going on nearby.

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Well, yeah, that's the downside. But it'd be hilarious either eay.

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At this point I'm sure the volus thing was a typo that people ran with. Disappointing but not surprising.

I'd be down with them being DLC, though. You wouldn't even need to take cover, you could just walk behind low walls and be good.

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LeonhartFour posted...
Also how do you play Mass Effect without talking to everyone you can?

This. Even if you don't like them you should still be talking to them so you don't miss anything.

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ZFS posted...
"I could have had Joker sing to you over the com..."

"I hate you."

"I hate you...?"

"Sir."

"As you were, Williams."

A++

Awesome moment. James talking about it afterwards is pretty funny, too.

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1. Zelda
2. Ogre Battle
3. Mass Effect

Knocked DKC down to #4.

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Xenosaga.

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I don't have to go back to work until Monday, so I'll definitely be able to play starting tomorrow. PTO for my birthday is awesome.

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RayDyn posted...
I did not know that Mark Meer voiced all of the Hanar in ME3, even Blasto. That makes the Big Stupid Jellyfish bit even funnier for me. And he voiced Biotic God Niftu Cal? Oh man.

Seriously? No way. That's pretty awesome. And people say the guy has no range.

Finished Tuchanka on my Insanity run. The coming events should be interesting for this FemShep given who she romanced.

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ShadowHalo17 posted...
I'll just send him into the vents then. He volunteers for it anyway, might as well let him meet his doom there.

That part always bothered me.

"Practically a suicide mission. I volunteer."

And the way he says it makes it sound like he's trying to be all badass like Shepard.

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