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[Guerrillas in the Mist]

Speaking of artwork:

I mentioned this on a previous thread, but how cool would it be for Bioware to commission someone like Drew Strutzen to do the cover for the collector's edition of ME3. I'd buy that in a heartbeat, and I never buy the prestige/collectors/super-duper edition of games.

 

[Kinyou]

I'm right now playing again through Mass Effect 2 and what really bothers me are that except for Shepard, Garrus and Grunt, no one is wearing a real helmet. I don't know too much about spacewalks but I'm pretty sure that you would die if you were only wearing a mask in outer space. Also it just looks kind of silly:

It reminds of this Simpson spoof:
"Hullbreach! Space-air is flooding in, quick put on your glasses!!"

 

[overcast]

Game sounds great so far. They seem to be answering all of the interview questions just right for me.

 

[RedSwirl]

I'm right now playing again through Mass Effect 2 and what really bothers me are that except for Shepard, Garrus and Grunt, no one is wearing a real helmet. I don't know too much about spacewalks but I'm pretty sure that you would die if you were only wearing a mask in outer space. Also it just looks kind of silly:

It reminds of this Simpson spoof:
"Hullbreach! Space-air is flooding in, quick put on your glasses!!"

I don't think you're ever actually in a true vacuum throughout the game, just environments with air unbreathable to Humans (and most other races apparently).

My question in regards to this is: do most people in the future just have personal air masks on their person, like purses? It was really hard for me to imagine Jack just pulling one out.

 

[Pollux]

Love between humans is sane.

Krogan-human love.....not so much.

Don't even mention this...I still can't get the wrex image out of my head from the last thread. or the 18 boobed tali....ugh

 

[MalboroRed]

I don't think you're ever actually in a true vacuum throughout the game, just environments with air unbreathable to Humans (and most other races apparently).

My question in regards to this is: do most people in the future just have personal air masks on their person, like purses? It was really hard for me to imagine Jack just pulling one out.

If it's unbreathable air can't it get absorbed through the skin?

 

[HK-47]

Wrex, Liara, Garrus(well more in ME2), Tali(again, more in ME2) were good characters. They seemed perfect to build from. And the ones they kept, it worked well.

lol Liara

 

[Fimbulvetr]

I don't think you're ever actually in a true vacuum throughout the game, just environments with air unbreathable to Humans (and most other races apparently).

My question in regards to this is: do most people in the future just have personal air masks on their person, like purses? It was really hard for me to imagine Jack just pulling one out.

Still pretty illogical since they don't know what's in the environment that could effect them regardless of gas-masks.

 

[Zeal]

i'm so sick of hearing the term dudebro.

if by awesome as hell people mean dudebro, then yeah, skyrim and me3 will be dUdeBr0 as hell.

 

[Clott]

i'm so sick of hearing the term dudebro.

if by awesome as hell people mean dudebro, then yeah, skyrim and me3 will be dUdeBr0 as hell.

But dude! Common bro, it hasn't been around that long.

 

[Blue Ninja]

It's all addressed. Tali and the quarians think of "a geth" as being a single robot body, but Legion explains that the geth as a whole are lots of different AI routines and each robot body is driven by a selection of such routines. The individual robot bodies don't share senses and so one geth body can't see what another one is seeing, but each body isn't "a geth," it's a mutable set of AI routines that reconnect back into the broader geth "hive mind" when they download back into the AI cores.

Thanks. I'm usually pretty well-versed in ME lore, but that particular nugget bugged me when I came across it earlier today.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

Edit: Oops, that was meant to be an edit! My bad.



Person: Man, ME1 had some cool characters.

Bioware: Damn right!

Person: So we'll be using them in ME2?

Bioware: Umm, not really, you've all split up.

Person: Oh...

Bioware: But it's ok! Because we're making the BEST team ever of the best characters we can muster! In fact this team is so important the entire game is dedicated to it, the core story is barely present!

Person: Wow! Really? So THAT team we'll be using for later games, I get it now. Yeah, build the team, use them in ME3 for the core story.

Bioware: Well, no, that team broke up too.

Person: Then WTF was Mass Effect 2 about?

Bioware: Umm...well...you're banned from the forums and our games.

lol yeah that sounds about right ...

 

[Kinyou]

If it's unbreathable air can't it get absorbed through the skin?

I don't no about the skin, but toxic air would definitely affect you eyes

I don't think you're ever actually in a true vacuum throughout the game, just environments with air unbreathable to Humans (and most other races apparently).

When you infiltrate the stranded collector ship you can fly with the shuttle directly into the ship. There are no doors or forcefields that would keep the vacuum outside. I'll hope they just get the full helmets back for ME 3.

My question in regards to this is: do most people in the future just have personal air masks on their person, like purses? It was really hard for me to imagine Jack just pulling one out.

They could fix that issue by making the helmets like the ones in Dead Space 2

Anyway just found this, made me laugh:

 

[thisisjimmy]

Hey, that's apretty huge list. Can't OP just spoiler tag all of the verified information and leave the speculations untagged?

 

[erpg]

Hey, that's apretty huge list. Can't OP just spoiler tag all of the verified information and leave the speculations untagged?

Why would this distinction matter?

 

[Jinfash]

I'm contemplating whether I should get the Arrival DLC or just watch some youtube walkthroughs. I'm only interested in what happens story-wise, and I heard ME3 will pick up right after the events of Arrival. Thoughts?

 

[Trickster]

i'm so sick of hearing the term dudebro.

if by awesome as hell people mean dudebro, then yeah, skyrim and me3 will be dUdeBr0 as hell.

To me it seems that dudebro is used about games that are not very complex or dumbed down, and features big bulky "badass" dudes in order to appeal to the bigger mass market of casual gamers.

 

[Ickman3400]

I'm contemplating whether I should get the Arrival DLC or just watch some youtube walkthroughs. I'm only interested in what happens story-wise, and I heard ME3 will pick up right after the events of Arrival. Thoughts?

Youtube it. The DLC is 80% combat anyway and there's no choices to be made really and it's only an hour long at most.

 

[ReBurn]

After reading this thread I want to go back and replay the first two games. I'm so hyped for this.

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

I'm contemplating whether I should get the Arrival DLC or just watch some youtube walkthroughs. I'm only interested in what happens story-wise, and I heard ME3 will pick up right after the events of Arrival. Thoughts?

Are you a big ME whore? if the answer is NO, just youtube it, just played it today and there's barely a few nuggets of really important plot and the DLC by itself is pretty underwhelming.

 

[Captain Tuttle]

After reading this thread I want to go back and replay the first two games. I'm so hyped for this.

Replay the first one just to see The Citadel as it should be. That was one of my biggest let downs with ME2, the terribly gimped Citadel.

 

[Tylahedras]

Man, now that Ashley is back I have to download that damn PS3 interactive backstory to get her onto my team in the PS3 version.

 

[Coxswain]

To me it seems that dudebro is used about games that are not very complex or dumbed down, and features big bulky "badass" dudes in order to appeal to the bigger mass market of casual gamers.

It doesn't mean anything besides "violent game I don't like".

 

[bigace33]

Man, now that Ashley is back I have to download that damn PS3 interactive backstory to get her onto my team in the PS3 version.

What do you mean Ashley is back? She is dead on my play through. I saved Kaiden instead and wifed up Liara.

 

[entremet]

I'm kinda hoping that we never see Tali's face. It would be an epic troll on Bioware's part.

 

[Snuggles]

I'm kinda hoping that we never see Tali's face. It would be an epic troll on Bioware's part.

I want her to take off her mask but then for there to be another mask under it

 

[Zen]

Does Ashley look... ugly... to anyone? She looks like she has been drugged and tarted up, not that Liara looks good in that cover shot either, but her shot looks like artwork.

What do you mean Ashley is back? She is dead on my play through. I saved Kaiden instead and wifed up Liara.

Ditto.

 

[Nirolak]

I'm kinda hoping that we never see Tali's face. It would be an epic troll on Bioware's part.

Their art director basically stated that they were spending a bunch of time making one for her in that Garrus video.

On that note, we should probably put up at least one Garrus shot from that.

 

[entremet]

Does Ashley look... ugly... to anyone? She looks like she has been drugged and tarted up, not that Liara looks good in that cover shot either, but her shot looks like artwork.




Ditto.

The Liara artwork is from ME2.

 

[HadesGigas]

Does Ashley look... ugly... to anyone? She looks like she has been drugged and tarted up, not that Liara looks good in that cover shot either, but her shot looks like artwork.




Ditto.

She looks like she's dead inside.

 

[cluxdeluxe]

[QUOTE=Captain Tuttlp

 

[Nirolak]

Whoops, I didn't realize the OP had more updates.

 

[Wiggum2007]

Ugh, Mass Effect Evolution #4 details are out. Saren's glowy cybernetics/robo arm no longer came from Sovereign, but from the same Reaper artifact that affected the Illusive Man. =/

Is this them setting up the Illusive Man to become indoctrinated in ME3?

 

[jett]

-Visually it's tapping the heels of games such as Killzone 3 and Crysis 2, with 6 months development time left.

lol

 

[Deleted member 13876]

Ugh, Mass Effect Evolution #4 details are out. Saren's glowy cybernetics/robo arm no longer came from Sovereign, but from the same Reaper artifact that affected the Illusive Man. =/

Is this them setting up the Illusive Man to become indoctrinated in ME3?

Why is that a big deal? Anyway, I think it's both? The artifact sowed the seeds for indoctrination, but Sovereign surely advanced its progress.

 

[Lostconfused]

yay for more retcons!

edit: nvm then.

 

[-viper-]

garrus suit looks horrible. looks like it belonged to wrex.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

I'm right now playing again through Mass Effect 2 and what really bothers me are that except for Shepard, Garrus and Grunt, no one is wearing a real helmet. I don't know too much about spacewalks but I'm pretty sure that you would die if you were only wearing a mask in outer space. Also it just looks kind of silly:

It reminds of this Simpson spoof:
"Hullbreach! Space-air is flooding in, quick put on your glasses!!"

Yes, exposure to vacuum even with an air mask will not only be unpleasant but quite deadly. Unconsciousness in under a minute, death in under five.

 

[neojubei]

They could fix that issue by making the helmets like the ones in Dead Space 2

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Seeing that gif makes me wish some of the ideas in Dead Space like Zero-G gameplay made it into the Mass Effect series.

 

[USD]

Anyway just found this, made me laugh:

This irked me so much. The whole time I was thinking, "Yeah, Garrus, you might want to get that checked out."

 

[Relaxed Muscle]

garrus suit looks horrible. looks like it belonged to wrex.

Yeah, looks bad, they should just put him the Phantom armor and be done with it. Fuck that blue/black thingie....

 

[Lostconfused]

Seeing that gif makes me wish some of the ideas in Dead Space like Zero-G gameplay made it into the Mass Effect series.

In the mass effect universe things get done the old fashioned way. If you have to get somewhere, you walk.

 

[Deleted member 13876]

yay for more retcons!

The best part is that it directly contradicts that Q&A answer.

Have either of you actually read the comic? Nowhere does it show Saren getting transformed in any way? It just shows him getting a slight jolt from the artifact, with his body completely unaltered afterwards. It probably just drove his obsession to get to Sovereign and Sovereign is the one who gave him the actual physical alterations.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Seeing that gif makes me wish some of the ideas in Dead Space like Zero-G gameplay made it into the Mass Effect series.

I wish more games used the virtual interfaces from Doom 3, where you actually used computer interfaces in the game world, navigating touch screen menus and pressing buttons and so forth. Shit was so awesome, but the only other game that I can think of that ever used it again was Prey (which used the Doom 3 engine iirc).

 

[Wiggum2007]

Have either of you actually read the comic? Nowhere does it show Saren getting transformed in any way? It just shows him getting a slight jolt from the artifact, with his body completely unaltered afterwards. It probably just drove his obsession to get to Sovereign and Sovereign is the one who gave him the actual physical alterations.

My bad, maybe I misread the details on the Bioware forums, they do seem to be saying now that he definitely got his glowy eyes from the artifact. And it seemed pretty easy to believe given all the other weird shit they've been doing with the fiction in Evlolution . We already know that Saren got enhanced by Sovereign, that he hates humans because his brother was killed in the First Contact War. Now a reaper artifact is suddenly involved in the First Contact War and the whole conflict is revolving around it. Humans and turians now understand each other even though this is the first time we've come in contact. Then, TIM gets knocked unconscious and wakes up and is told about the end of the conflict because of the Citadel intervention, and somehow immediately has knowledge of Illium, the Terminus Systems, etc. Oh and turians are now amoral space nazis willing to turn their own kind into husks to create an unstoppable army. And it's all written by ME3's lead writer, woohoo!

 

[Deleted member 13876]

Illusive Man got his from the artifact yeah, but I've checked yet again and it doesn't show Saren with glowy eyes post-artifact exposure.

 

[Lakitu]

I've read a few summaries of the Evolution comic series.... what? Is it as bad as it sounds?

 

[Captain Tuttle]

I just played through mass effect 1 and 2 on the pc for first time and I did not miss the citadel from the first one while playing 2. The citadel from the 1st one kinda felt like a giant grindfest for me.

Fair enough. I thought it was great. Walking around, talking to people, doing stuff that didn't always involve a gun. Good times.

And those awesome load screens with the shot of the Wards.

Back on topic, It's kind of disappointing that TIM has been indoctrinated.

 

[DirtRiver]

What? Are you telling me The Illusive Man has been indoctrinated and that's why he is a bad guy?

Fuck, why can't we have a bad guy that is a bad guy simply because he is a bad guy. Takes away the vibe I got from that character.

 

[Kitschkraft]

This irked me so much. The whole time I was thinking, "Yeah, Garrus, you might want to get that checked out."

He was too busy with calibrations.