Looks Like I’m Due for an Update
Haven’t written a post in a good 4 months, mostly because I didn’t have much to post about. Now, however, I’ve finished quite a few games and now I’m due to write about it. Since As much as I may want to go off on a tangent like I usually do, I’ve finished so many games I’ll keep my descriptions of everything short.
I’m proud to say I have 100% completed nearly every game I’ve finished this time around.
Paused/Unfinished
A game I absolutely love (as you can probably tell by my playtime of 200+ hours), but with my excitement about all of my new games, I’ve put this most recent playthrough on hold. Really haven’t been feeling it lately anyway as I’m starting to see all of the glaring flaws this game has. It’s brilliant and my favorite of the Assassin’s Creed games and it definitely has the best story in the series. It’s just that the gameplay is lacking in a few areas (namely stealth) and can be very frustrating when a guard still detects you when there’s a 10 foot wall between you and him. All in all I’m glad to take a break from this, again, great game.
Skyrim: a game everyone loves but eventually gets sick of eventually (be it 200 hours later or 2,000). I started this when I really had a craving to play it and couldn’t load my original Skyrim save because I broke that game by overmodding it. For me, I got sick of it because it can’t compare to the Witcher. I think if I tried to play it in a few months from now, I’d enjoy it again, but starting it during my playthough of Witcher 3 was a mistake. This has been on pause for a while and at this point if I play it again, I’ll probably just start a new playthrough, probably on the old edition of Skyrim since it has so many more options for mods.
Shit, I feel awful for saying this since this game was gifted to me on SG, but I kind of hate it. And I don’t know why.There’s nothing wrong with it and it seems like a great stealth game, I just really dislike playing it. I still have it marked as ‘never played’ because maybe I’ll give it another chance in a few years, and it doesn’t really feel like I started it (more like tried it out), so I can’t mark it as ‘unfinished.’ I really just feel terrible for not liking it though, someone who really would have loved it could have won it instead of me. But nope.
Beaten
I literally just finished this game less than an hour ago (I decided to go for the ending that is generally considered bittersweet. Without spoiling anything, it’s what made the most sense as every option is shitty if you think about it. This one is what I thought was the least shitty). I have mixed feelings about it, as the story is absolutely great and the characters have a lot of depth but almost everything else is either mediocre or downright bad. It’s definitely by far the most buggy game I’ve ever played. I had to restart the game multiple times due to game breaking glitches. I can look past that, it’s fine, just very annoying. What the real issue was is how horribly repetitive it is. Repetivity isn’t always bad, but when it’s like this it definitely is. It’s just the same shit copy and pasted over and over again in about 10 areas. The eliminations are great and anything that strays from those general missions is good. And the story, wow, there’s some hard hitting stuff in there that will make any not racist person furious. Those few missions and the story and characters is what makes this game worth playing. But you have to have the patience of a saint in order to 100% this, and I just couldn’t do that.
And shoutout to my boy Donovan, the best character in the whole game and definitely one of my new favorite chracters. I’m not about to spend $15 on a 45 minute long DLC centered around him, but I do hope we see and hear more of him
Completed
Every game in this category, I absolutely loved. Let’s start with the one I loved the most.
My favorite game of all time, and I’m confident nothing will ever beat Witcher 3. I liked it so much that I’m going to read the book series, then play through all of the games. And I don’t even like reading. I actually had to take a break for a few weeks after finishing the expansions (finished the base game a few months ago) because I literally fell into a depression for a little bit. I was actually bawling when the final credits started rolling. Needless to say it was a big part of my life. It took me 6 months and almost 300 hours to do everything there is to do in that game. And I loved almost every second of it (can’t say I liked those smuggler caches in Skellige very much).
Really enjoyed this game, the time travel mechanic is so ingenious and was a dream come true to people like me who just have to know every outcome to a choice based game. Only thing I didn’t like was that hella cringy (dear god hate myself for even typing that word) and that nothing mattered in the end because everything boiled down to two choices at the end that dramatically change the ending. Only a few things made very minor differences. That’s generally the case in choice based games though, and it isn’t a huge issue.
One of my favorite games, definitely. It vastly improved on its predecessor and had some great gameplay. I don’t know what the general consensus on this is, but I thought the story was good, but not great. I really don’t think I had a single problem with this game aside from a few minor technical issues. Everything was smooth and well done.
Really loved this, it was so cool to play this game from Clementine’s perspective. She’s such a great character. I didn’t like it quite as much as I liked the first game, and this one really showed how nothing you really do makes a difference. For example there are a few times you have the option to stop someone from dying, and they die no matter what you do. Other times you can pick whatever dialogue choice you want and will get the same response. Again, not a huge deal but this is definitely a much bigger problem than it was in Life is Strange, where you could actually prevent deaths and change events with what you say. Anyway, I made a big mistake in choosing the ending that I did, so next time I play it I’ll definitely go the other route.
Abzu is so great. Just beautiful, atmospheric, and relaxing. I played it twice just so I could 100% it. One of the best things about it was the beautiful soundtrack, which I think made the whole game.
Last game. I really enjoyed this one too, enough to 100% it. I absolutely adore Danny Wallace’s voice acting so I had wanted to play this game for a while. Pretty crafty how they were actually able to make you feel for these quadrilaterals.
What’s Next
So next up on my list of games to play is between a few choices. I’m missing RPGs, so I may start Fallout New Vegas. I didn’t like what I played of Fallout 3, but everyone raves about NV so I’m willing to give it a go. I’m also thinking about LA Noire or Mafia 2 since I really enjoyed the whole old timey vibe Mafia 3 had going on. And then as a side game, something linear and story oriented like The Wolf Among Us or Firewatch. I would have loved to have played the new Walking Dead but I’m just not sure if it’s going to be worth $12, especially with how short it is. But anyway, I have lots of options and I’m really excited to start right after I submit this post!
But you have to have the patience of a saint in order to 100% this, and I just couldn’t do that.
And crazy luck because there are 2 glitched achievements in Faster Baby DLC. If you are cursed like me, no matter what you do you’ll never unlock them until it’s fixed (probably they’ll never be fixed), if you are lucky you’ll just unlock them without any problems.
Man, that whole game is glitched. Can’t believe how many issues I had to get past throughout that game. That’s unfortunate though, looking at your profile it seems like you’re a huge completionist, having two glitched achievements must have killed you a little bit inside.
I read that there are more glitched achievements in base game after a certain update. I’m glad I finished the game before that update was released.
Yes it’s definitely killing me. It’s the very first time I have seriously considered using SAM because I had already met the requirements multiple times but I’m having a massive moral dilemma. I must have killed about 90 people with proximity mines and the achievement requires 30. I must have activated more than 120 vehicle traps and the achievement requires only 10. I tried on a new save slot. I tried in offline. It doesn’t bloody work. I sent them a tweet to fix it and many people emailed them but nothing so far.
Yeah, I know for sure I should have gotten the achievement for killing an enemy immediately after kicking open a door as well as making enemies kill themselves with their own molotovs but they never popped. I don’t care about achievements so I doesn’t bother me but I can see how absolutely infuriating that could be if you try to obtain it multiple times and no matter how hard you try it just doesn’t work.
At that point, you should just use SAM. You know that you’ve done it multiple times and you’ve tried every option you possibly could to get the achievement. Hangar 13 isn’t fixing anything. Pretty much the only thing you can do if you want that credit, is manually unlock it. It seems like you deserve to, you’ve earned these achievements 3-12 times over.
I have no idea honestly. I don’t know what the conclusion of the inner battle I have in my mind will be. But I downloaded the software and even ran it but did not go through with it last week so maybe that is an indication of what the end result may be.
I had no idea that the achievements you mentioned were bugged. May I ask how you tried the molotov one? I know that progress won’t save if you kill someone with their own molotov and reload a checkpoint. You need to die to make it count. If you did it like that then wow there are A LOT of glitched achievements then. This is the first time I see those 2 being mentioned as glitched. Damn they really botched the wonderful franchise and even the achievements along with it. Unbelievable. Mafia deserved better.
Hey, if you’re morally against it or you feel as if you’re cheating yourself then don’t make yourself do something you don’t want to. I can understand how it may feel like you didn’t earn the achievement even though you absolutely did. You just don’t get that feeling of satisfaction after 100%ing something if you have to manually change something in order to get that 100%, if that makes sense.
What I did was a mix of shooting the molotov out of their hands and shooting them, causing them to drop the molotv on themselves. No reloading checkpoints, but I’m thinking maybe I accidentally killed a few of them using the latter method and that’s why I didn’t get it. But they all squirmed before dropping so I’m not sure. After checking out the other achievement, I’m positive I didn’t get “Never Saw it Coming”. I thought it was killing someone within 5 seconds, but it’s 2. I certainly didn’t do that.
I actually thought it was 3 seconds after kicking the door open. 2 makes it even trickier but there are definitely good places to get that achievement. I actually got it during 2nd mission where you can also farm for molotov achievement. As for molotov you most likely killed them with the shot maybe even some of them could have been headshots while trying to shoot the hands. As soon as they are about the throw molotov you can also make them drop it on themselves by shooting them in the legs. And definitely die to save progress, don’t reload a checkpoint.
I will wait before using SAM. Maybe they will fix them after releasing the last story related dlc. It’s wishful thinking but we will see.
Good to know, on the off chance I ever play the game again and decide to get all of the achievements I’ll keep your advice in mind!
It seems like the game, while still plagued with issues, has been fixed quite a lot since day one. So maybe if they’re still listening they will fix it.
Thomas Was Alone is one of my most favorite games. I’m not too proud to say I cried over these rectangles. Rectangles!!!!
It proves good writing can make you care about just about anything. The sound design is also spectacular, too.
Yes! It was just so well designed in so many ways. Challenging without being overly frustrating, emotional without being cheap, and having Danny Wallace narrating. Can’t really think of anything bad to say about Thomas Was Alone.
So I liked AC II best so far, but I can see why you love III. It IS a great game! Although I really struggled with the beginning, like…. am I really playing a Templar here??? :D
Ah, so it’s not just me who got…. ehm… annoyed? by Skyrim. It might have gotten to me earlier then to others, I guess, but still. It just was like… I don’t get anywhere. Where ever I go there are again loads of quests and it just doesn’t end! Then I tried a new character (mage for fun’s sake) and I hated it even more. Haven’t touched it since then… :]
So I guess Witcher is for you what Mass Effect is for me :D
I’m still playing W2 right now - if I find time between all the challenges/monthly themes/playing appreciated wins. But I’m getting there. As far as I remember I just now completed chapter two. I don’t love the game, though it is great. I have hopes for the final part, since everybody told me so far how great it is ;)
Life is Strange is just…. <3
Actually there is supposed to be a second in the future. So I’m pretty excited about that!
Yeah, and finally the Walking Dead…. What can I say? I love the game. It brought me to watching the series and buying/reading the comics :D
But yes, you are right: The first one is the best! I mean, Lee is not there….. sniff
Have a great time!
Happy backlog killing :)
AC2 definitely has a special place in my heart, I’ve probably played it 7 or 8 times now but I keep coming back. It’s my third favorite behind AC3 and Black Flag. Now that an incredible reshade preset and the texture mod for it has been released I’ve been dying to play through it again. I loved how you got to play as Haytham in AC3! He’s probably my favorite in the series behind Connor and Edward (Black Flag). I found myself generally agreeing with him over Connor, whose idealistic goals frustrate me.
Yeah, I understand why you got sick of Skyrim. It used to be my favorite RPG and I played hundreds of hours on multiple playthroughs, but even before playing Witcher 3 I realized how it really isn’t so great. Every quest is more or less the same: There’s a problem. I need this object to solve it. Go to a dungeon or bandit camp and kill everything to get it. Come back and get a small reward. Rinse and repeat. That’s the case for almost every single quest, including the main ones. That and the fact that nothing you do makes any kind of difference is what made me get sick of the game.
I really want to play Mass Effect. Completely forgot about that and Dragon Age Origins, two RPGs I’ve been dying to play. The one thing stopping me is that I’m afraid I won’t like it because I’ll just be constantly comparing it to the Witcher. But that’s probably just negativity getting the better of me. They seem great!
I honestly didn’t play Witcher 2 and barely started 1 when I decided to play Witcher 3. So now I feel bad about that which is why I’m going to get the full experience by reading all of the books and completing all of the games. Witcher 2 is definitely considered to be not nearly as good as W3, but like you said, still great. From what I’ve seen it sets the foundation of the third installment in both gameplay and story elements.
Any info about the second Life is Strange? I know the prequel with Chloe is coming out but is there supposed to be another main installment? I hadn’t heard anything about that.
Ah man, I miss Lee so much :( One of my favorite characters. TWD just isn’t the same without him.
And thank you! I wish you luck with your backlog too, looks like you have a ways to go :)
I’m currently playing Black Flag! excited bounce
Edward already seems pretty cool, though I’m not far yet. Have two other games I’m playing at the same time and although I want to start AC like every time, I try to play the others more, so I have them off the list and can totally focus on Edward :]
Even though I love the games, I somehow can’t bring myself to play them again. I mean, I have played ME lots, because I can choose different ppl to date, but AC is always the same right? I like how you still do that and enjoy them :]
Yeah, that seems about right :D
And inbetween all that I stuffed my bags with every flower I could find :D
Well you might compare DA to Witcher, but ME has a different setting (sci-fi and such) so that made them already different for me. I haven’t played W3 (as I said) but 1 and 2 have no chance against ME 1 and 2 - for me. I like Shepard waaaaaaaay more then I could ever like Geralt. But that’s just me ;)
Plus the great thing about having lower expectations: You can only be positively surprised, right? So think the worst and give it a try :D
Going back? Mhm, you might get disappointed. But you like the Witcher, so maybe not. Just be prepared, that one is lots of frustrating walking around ^^
I don’t really now. I just heard about it from Dodger on her channel. That’s all the info I got :]
I knooooooow. twd without Lee is so incomplete cry
Ha, thank you. Yeah, got some games waiting for me :D
That’s great! BF is such an amazing game and Edward is a very good character. He starts off as a greedy pirate, then develops into something much more as the story goes on. It’s an origin story, so don’t expect him to become an asssassin very early in the game. I won’t spoil anything but you really are in for a treat :)
I don’t really know how and why I can play them so much, but I just have some kind of attachment to Assassin’s Creed. I’m a huge fan of the lore and general mechanics and I love a lot of the general concepts. Playing Unity and Syndicate was incredibly disappointing in that sense. They’re the two that I don’t see myself replaying anytime soon. I have only finished BF once (so I’m due for a replay!)and AC3 three or four times because they’re so massive, but the games released before that I have played way too many times. Anyway, I try to keep my AC playthroughs spicy by making my own rules and restrictions, rather than following optional objectives, which I hate with a fiery passion. For example, never getting detected, never using medicine or wearing armor, using only base level weapons, fighting exclusively with the hidden blade, just small rules that will make things more challenging. But even when I don’t set those rules for myself I still love replaying these games.
Good thing about me not getting disappointed with W1 and 2 is that I already played about 10 hours of W1. I can’t say I liked anything except the story, but I’m willing to push through bad mechanics and graphics in order to experience the story.
Good advice on ME. I do love the Sci Fi setting and the fact that Shepard is a distinguished character that you can put a spin on, rather than a shell of a character like in Skyrim. One thing that seems great about ME is your ability to really choose between good and Evil. Geralt is a character from the books so there’s only so much you can do to create choices. They have to match his character. So you can’t usually pick a truly evil route (not that I would, but it’s nice to have the option) or a truly good route. It all depends on how Geralt’s character feels about the situation. As an example, he will always have chemistry with a certain person even if you don’t romance them. Because in the books, they were his soulmate. I don’t think any of that is bad in the slightest, but it certainly is nice to be able to completely shape Shepard’s character rather than just mold it like you would Geralt.
I sounded really circlejerky talking about how much I love Witcher 3, but I really am willing to give ME and DA a chance (I actually played Origins a long time ago and loved it, but I had to give it up for reasons I can’t remember). You and everyone else make it sound so great and I’m excited to try it out! May even start tonight, who knows!
I just KNEW it! He will come around! <3
Right now I’m doing what I always do: First explore the whole map and then get on with the main story :D
So Havannah is nearly mine! Well, explored :D
That is a nice idea. Buts definitely a twist to playing it. It’s like some game have the cheevos for not killing anybody in one go and in the other killing everything and doing it violently. I liked that about Deus Ex. I just ruined my peaceful one right at the end, because I couldn’t see the peaceful way cry
I’m quite ambivalent with AC. I would love working on all those cheevos but since they are only Uplay and not steam I don’t. That makes it easier to let the game go before I’m done, but at the same time I’m a bit sad because I don’t fight for every bit :D
Ha, lucky you. I would really like to love the Witcher, but I’m just not getting that warm with Geralt - sadly :(
About the chemistry thing. I read that at the start of 2 you always start making out with a certain character, even if you kinda dated the other one in the first. Which I didn’t like. I mean, I was lucky. I dated her in the first already and therefore it made sense in the second, but just thinking about choosing the other one… Since I played ME before touching W, I’m kinda used to games that keep your choices. That’s really the greatest thing about ME. Choosing what I do and going on from there. And yes, having the choice to be good or evil and.. you know. I mean, you still follow a certain story and you can’t change that, but you can totally change how you do it. Even though DA is supposed to be similar, for me it isn’t since in every part there is another character. It really makes no difference what you decided in 1 or 2, whereas Shepard has a story that goes on. Ok so in Andromeda it’s not important any longer but Andromeda just playes in the universe with the species we know and (maybe) love but it’s not directly involved with the rest. But again you are getting a main character that keeps going for the following games. Super excited about that! bounce
Yeah, sry, what W3 is for you, it’s ME for me. I just love the games! <3
Even if I have played one just one really. I tried to replay it, but I don’t feel that comfortable with older games, so… yeah, I replayed two more :D
And no, I’m still not done with that series, since I haven’t dated everybody yet :]
So, have you started? ;)
Ps: Sry, if I start about ME…… you see what happens :D
Well good news for you if you’re an achievement hunter, the upcoming AC Origins is going to have Steam achievements.
From what I’ve heard and seen about Geralt in the first two games, he is rather flat due to the fact he has no memory of his life before the events of the games. This makes him really fit with the so called Witcher’s Code (hint: it’s not real, witchers just use it as an excuse to not do something). For example, not interfering in conflict, not having emotions, always taking some kind of reward for their work, etc. You can also shape his character in a way that you couldn’t if he didn’t have his amnesia. Like, book Geralt would never romance Triss. He only did so because he had no idea about anything she had done or a few other things that I can’t say because they’re spoilery. I seriously can hardly tell you anything without giving you spoilers about Geralt at the end of Witcher 2 that lay the foundation to Geralt’s character in Witcher 3. Let’s just say something happens to Geralt that gives his character a lot more flavor, development, and personality. But if you still don’t like him at the end of everything that’s okay too! His dry humor, sarcasm, and neutral personality isn’t for everyone.
Yes, one very minor issue I do have with the Witcher is (and I have no idea if this is the same between W1 and W2) that your choices in Witcher 2 don’t have a huge impact on Witcher 3. Some minor characters will show up in game and there is a possible minor appearance change. That’s it. And apparently in W1 you have the option to kill a character, but no matter what you do, since there is no save import, they will be alive in W3.
It seems like from what you’ve said, ME doesn’t really have this problem. That’s great! Seeing your own Shepard develop throughout three games must be very cool. By the way I’m just curious, what do you think about Andromeda? The general consensus seems to be that it isn’t nearly as good as the original 3 but it’s still a decent game if you can get past the animations.
You’re going to be happy, your comment before convinced me to start ME1. I made a female Shep, tried to make it look like myself and she just ended up looking decent in cutscenes but kind looking like Michael Jackson in game. Yikes. But anyway, she’s a Spacer with the sole survivor backstory. I thought it would be interesting if she came from a really nice life and then everything went to shit and scarred her for life. Also picked the Soldier class because this is my first time that I’m going to finish a game playing exclusively on M/K and this class seemed like the easiest way to ease me into things. And I’m trying to go the paragon route, the only thing I dislike is sometimes I’ll pick a benevolent seeming dialogue choice and Shep will say something incredibly rude. Only other issue is like you said, it’s definitely very dated. I’m enjoying the story a lot but I don’t know how I feel about the gameplay just yet.
So I just got to the citadel and finished the obviously unsuccessful meeting with the council (I don’t know what they expected, trying to discredit a very high ranking spectre with no proof). Going to start playing again very soon and do the side missions I picked up. I’m really enjoying what I have played so far!
Random question: Can your Shepard, no matter what gender you pick romance anyone? Or is it restricted to party members of the opposite gender?
PS: It’s ok, thank you for putting up with my Witcher and AC rants :)
Whaaaaaaat, it has cheevos? <3
Yeah, I’ve thrown it on my WL but didn’t look any closer at it :D
Well I tried to give Geralt a kind of personality even if it is just for me. Like siding with elves and dwarfs and even letting beasts alive like the werewolf in W1. And since I dated Triss in 1 it worked out in 2 as well. And yeah, I by now heard about Yinivere (or how ever we write her :D) and know that she is his real love. But since Triss was the first girl we landed in bed with… well I kinda kept her at my side. Though Geralt in 1 is for me mostly running around and looking under which skirt he can get O.O ;) :D
About Andromeda: Have a look at my Log 6 and 7. I wrote a bit about it there ;)
But to make long searching short: I LOVE IT!
Yeah, the original trilogy has a totally different flair to it and i love it way more, but Andromeda works for me. I’m happy with it. Ok, so the character animation is a bit flat and I can’t stand Ryders synchro voice in German, but so what? Now I’ve played it in English and that’s fine. Yeah, those big games I somehow still play in German, although more story filled ones like VNs I always rather play in English. Strange, right? :D
I’m really looking forward on working on my Batch, since I allowed myself the next ME:A playthrough with that :]
Oh man, my first Shep had a broken nose, because I didn’t know I could turn the face while creating her. But even with the option of changing her in 2, I didn’t. My Shep had a broken nose and I was by then happy with it! :D
I would have to take a look at my notes, I’m really not sure if I ever played a soldier :D
I liked the stealthy one with the sniper. Yep, I dunno the English name, since playing it in German. And I propably do know it, but just can’t think of it :D
Oh, I know I praised the game like what not, but your having a dry part in front of you. As long as I remember. It’s a lot running around on the citadel and no big action ;)
But man, you can ride the mako soon! <3
No. Sadly you can’t. You probably already have met Tali. You can only date her as guy (I hate it! My fem Shep so wanted to date her!). So now I get my notes out and tell you who you may love as girl ;)
Yeah, I’m keeping a list, just to make sure to have dated everybody at some point :D
So ME1 for girls: Liara and Kaidan. Aaaaaand Sha’ira. But I don’t really count her, since she is no real romance :D
For the boys: Ashley and Liara, and Sha’ira.
Right, Tali was for neither. And both Ash and Kaidan where supposed to be for the same sex but they taken it out like last minute, so there might be some dialogs that seem to lead to a romance… but don’t ;)
Ah, that’s absolutely fine. I’m right now thinking about adding you as a friend, but I just know, that I’ll probably write here way more with you then on steam :D
It does! I think it may be the one large game where I will actually put the effort in to get all of the achievements. I am unbelievably excited! I can’t wait to explore every inch of the game and do everything possible. After the mediocrity of AC Unity and Syndicate, I am so hyped for a game that actually seems to have a lot of love and effort put into it.
I like for my Geralt to be kind as well. I almost always pick the merciful option or what I view as the lesser evil, even if it means killing more people in the process. Like, there’s this one time where this group of villagers were hanging an enemy deserter who just wanted to go home to his wife. Even though it meant killing more people I chose to attack the villagers because, well, they were murderous dicks to this man who wasn’t hurting anyone. Personally, I like Triss a lot as a character but I don’t think she’s right for Geralt. I totally see the appeal to their relationship though, she’s very sweet in the games and makes Geralt happy. On my next playthrough of W3 if I can stomach having to break Yennefer’s heart then I will romance Triss. Yen is great imo, but a lot of people find her to be a bit of a bitch. And she is sometimes, but she would go to the world and back for Geralt and she always has a good reason for acting the way she does. She’s really just a character with a lot of depth.
Really interesting perspective on Andromeda, it’s nice to see someone actually showing some positivity to it! It really does seem like a decent game that just has some setbacks (that they are apparently working to resolve).
It really seems like almost everyone has trouble creating a fully normal and good looking Shepard in ME1. I’m relatively happy with mine and I will definitely get used to her appearance eventually. Funnily enough, the nose on my Shep is actually probably her best feature.
I almost picked Infiltrator (I believe that’s the one your talking about, specializing in sniping and tech I think), since I absolutely love ranged combat but after extensive googling it seemed like the best class to ease me into playing with M/K would be the jack of all trades type, or the soldier.
I don’t mind the lack of action! I’m actually really enjoying running around and just talking to people. I haven’t met Tali quite yet but I imagine I’ll get to her soon.
I figured you’d be able to romance Kaiden! I’ve been really nice to him and he has been giving off some serious vibes. I haven’t met Liara yet and I’m not sure when I will but after I judge her character, then I’ll figure out who I want my Shep to romance :) So really the only difference between a male and female Shep is that if you’re female you can’t romance Ashley and if you’re male you can’t romance Kaiden. That’s not too bad! (and side note, I just KNEW that the asari consort was going to be an option for “romance” as she was giving off some pretty heavy vibes too)
I accepted your request! Just so you know I generally don’t initiate conversation so don’t take that the wrong way but I am always happy to chat! I may need someone to rant about ME if I get really into it, which it seems like there’s a good chance that will happen.
Oh man, now you’ve infected me! And I haven’t even played the other AC games yet, so it probably has to wait ages for me :D
Some of those big games are just super nice to complete 100% and others, I didn’t get round to, although they where fun. Gotta get back to them eventually :D
Yeah, I see what you mean. I guess I would have killed them off a well. Like with the so called witch in 1, yeah, no, I don’t kill her just because those townies said so -.-
I already hear about her being a bitch. But sometimes I like bitches :D So that’s fine for me. I’m looking forward to finally meet her in 3!
I guess it was a 50/50 chance for me with Andromeda going great or… well bad. Since I was so excited about it beforehand and had pretty high hopes the likelyhood of me being disappointed was actually pretty high. But no, that didn’t happen, I was totally back in the ME hype! :D
Right, it IS the same as in German cough
The most dangerous thing with infiltrator and sniper is, that we can slow down time while sniping. I really loved that thing but the moment I started in 3 with MP… I was kinda lost, because it didn’t work there for rather obvious reasons :D
But sniper was just great fun :]
Hope your having just as much fun with your soldier!
Tali comes around rather soon, and she is lovely. But yeah, you can’t date her before 2 and only as guy then. In one the romance options are not that much, but they get there :D
You met Liara rather late. And I fell instantly in love with her :] <3
Ok, so what ever I wanna say about Kaidan… I can’t so I’ll be quiet right now :D
Yay! No worries, I like silent friends as well and if you ever feel like talking about it via steam, poke me, I’ll react if I can! :*
Otherwise we’ll just keep on doing it here, that’s also fine by me :)
Glad I got you hyped, you can be sure I’ll be playing it the second it gets released so you’ll probably see me ranting on here about how (hopefully) amazing it is. Since you’re on BF now, if you’ve played all the games before that (AC1, AC2, Brotherhood, Revelations, AC3) then you only have Rogue, Unity, and Syndicate left. Rogue is kind of short and the other two are on the longer side.
You get to slow down time?! That is so cool. I’ll for sure go with infiltrator next time then. I am having fun with soldier, the shooting is quite fun even though I’m really bad at it!
Oh god now I want to know about Kaidan! Since it’s a spoiler, if you can, just tell me if what you want to say is good or bad. I don’t want to romance him just for him to be a really bad person or die immediately or something.
Ok, last question sorry. So if you meet Liara rather late but Kaidan immediately, does that mean if you romance him you’re unable to romance Liara? Or do the subplots come at the same time so you can’t make that mistake. I just really don’t want to screw this up!
And right back at you, whenever you want I’m happy to talk either on steam or here, whatever works.
(I even played the one with the girl. Liberation?)
Yeah, I think the main problem is them not being on enough discount for me. The playing is not THE problem, not owning more so :D
It is cool. And you can turn invisible and… aw, man. Wanna play ME sigh
To many games waiting for me atm :D
Uhm… how to say it in short? Right, one either likes him or doesn’t. At some point I was purely annoyed by him.
But I learned to like him (a bit at least) when he turned into a gay romance option :] :D
No prob ;)
Yeah, as far as I remember you can’t get that far in the romance dialogues before Liara turns up. Anyway, you normally can push more then one candidate as far as relationship and then you have to choose at some point. So no worries, you probably can’T srew it up ;)
Sounds good ;) :*
And yeah, I’m kinda tired. All those winking smileys try to tell me something :D
Wow, even Liberation! You’re dedicated. That one’s okay but suffers from being a PSVita port and thus is kind of low effort. Still fun though! They’re definitely not cheap, it’s a bit ridiculous to see AC1 on sale for $9.99 at the lowest 10 years after release.
Invisibility too?! Damn it, I’m only a few hours in, maybe I can start over and pick Infiltrator? Nah, but I for sure will choose that class in ME2.
Hm, okay. Right now I like him just fine despite the odd cheesy remark, but there’s nothing in particular that’s drawing me to him as a romance option. So I’ll keep what you’ve said in mind :)
That’s nice, makes me a lot less nervous that I’ll screw up with it. I think I’ll go with Liara anyway since even though I only know what she looks like, she seems cool. Just a tip for you, you cannot do that (choose between two after romancing both) in the Witcher 3. Without spoiling any outcomes, just don’t romance both Triss and Yennefer (if you get to the game eventually and need more specifics without spoilers just let me know!).
Hah, well you better go catch a few winks then ;)
Well it seemed like fun, since she is the first (and only?) girl. But compared to the rest it’s lacking a bit. Though it was fun. But… yeah, not the same :D
Ha, belief me! You WILL replay it. I mean, you replayed AC, so…. in ME you even have some more reason to. Ok, maybe not the first, but the rest? Hell, yeah! :D
Oh, you will remember my remark and you will realize what I actually wanted to say! But since I don’t intend to spoil, yeah… ;)
No, it’s not that you already are in a romance with them. You can only have one romance, but leading up to it. And then you have to decide which one it’ll be. Or something. I never had that situation. I always new from the start who I wanted to date - or I fell in love with some character. Like with Suvi in ME:A the moment I switch language to English <3
Had the winks, now I’m up and about! Some more killing to do with Edward :]]]
So little frustration report:
I already disliked the ship fights in III. I start to hate them. And I fear, I might not be able to get on with the story unless I enter ships with metal aboard. Yeah, ship got like 4 times destroyed. Frustration lvl pretty high :D
Yup, the first is a bit clunky for my taste but the overall concepts are great so I can definitely see myself replaying the others. :) Status Update, last night I got named a Spectre and am ready to leave to go find Liara. Tali is great by the way!
I already dislike Kaidan too, that took like an hour. Definitely would rather have my Shep go single than romance him. Like there’s nothing wrong with him, he just seems like a bit of a downer. So anyway, won’t have that problem of having to choose!
I don’t like the naval combat in AC3 either. In fact, it stopped me from 100%ing it last time and has stopped me this time (only reason I have it marked as completed is because I have done every single thing there is to do in that game and more, and explored every single inch. I just despise optional objectives so I sometimes like to pretend they don’t exist). I hate it so much I’m not willing to put in the effort to do the optional objectives.
Anyway, one issue with BF is that it can be a tiny bit grindy at first. Finding rare materials like metal that you need for upgrades can be difficult. Many of the ships with metal are either more difficult like you said, have very little metal, or are in the south part of the map (which just also happens to be the more difficult area). Only advice I can give you is that it gets significantly easier as you go on, and it’s much more fun than AC3’s naval combat. And if you’re having problems with getting the Jackdaw destroyed a lot, then maybe you aren’t equipped to have the Jackdaw fighting the ships you’re trying to take on. As grindy as it is, start with destroying the smaller ships and slowly build up your materials, and then upgrade your hull, cannons, and mortars a bit and you will be set. Don’t focus on your harpoon boat or fire barrels until you have nothing left to upgrade. If you’re still having trouble, that’s completely fine, just look up a guide to help you prioritize upgrades and combat strategies.
Huge tip: When in battles with multiple ships, you can board ships you’ve brought to near destruction in the middle of the battle and heal your ship that way. Kind of ridiculous how the enemy will just wait for you to board and heal up your ship but it’s very convenient.
Another tip: If you’re fast enough, if you can swim to an enemy ship before it sails away or they shoot you dead, you can board it without having to engage in combat. Just kill everyone on the ship, then go back to the Jackdaw and hit it with a broadside, then boom: you can instantly decide what to do with the ship (since everyone is dead).
Another small tip: There are a few islands with destroyed ships that will allow you to gather materials before they explode. The only island I can remember the name of is Florida, but it has two destroyed ships. You can loot crates to get small amounts of cloth, rum, and metal and then get off before it blows up. You can fast travel away and back and do this as many times as you need. Not incredibly fast but if you just need a tiny bit more money or materials, it can help.
Yeah, I know, a bit clunky and story is progressing rather slowly. Totally get that. That’s why it’s least played of all of them - well, Andromeda is so far, but that’s just because I try stopping myself of just playing that. I mean, I’m still here to assassinate games, right? :D
Ha! Knew it! Nobody likes him!
Well, guess some do, but for most part he is… yeah, Kaidan :D
Oh man. Thank you, that is a huge relieve!
And the tips are nice. Most of my troubles evolve around to many ships trying to kill me off. Like I atack one ship and a thousand pup up and join in the fight. How is that fair? cry
But boarding ships during the fight and healing my ship that way - awesome idea. Guess that’ll help me out! Gotta try it tomorrow! Would love to try it right now, but it’s already close to bedtime rubs eyes tiredly
It really is so hard to not replay the games we love! But that is the burden we backlog assassins must carry… (lol)
Yeah, thankfully we got to switch parties fairly quickly! Right now I’m rolling with Garrus and Tali since I like them best but I’ll maybe switch to Liara and Tali once I find her.
No worries! The grindy aspect of BF is by far the worst part but it’s not always bad and gets a lot more fun once you get super OP. So trust me, you’ll be destroying Man o Wars in no time! They’ll still gang up on you but they’ll be no match for your Jackdaw especially with that handy healing method.
Have a nice night :)
Oh man. It indeed is. Happy to hear there is somebody who understands me :D
In that way I hope you won’t get to infected by ME, since you would wanna replay it… A LOT! xD
Garrus and Tali, yeah, I’m pretty sure I worked with them as well (though I tend to try to work with a “perfect” team. Like one soldier, one tech and one biotic. So playing as an infiltrator would probably mean Ash and Liara. Sounds kinda right. Or Grunt and Liara <3).
OP = Overpowered?
Ha, you mean, once I’ve suffered through this blackwhole of frustration I’ll pay them back? Man, I love to hear that! <3
It was a great night. I fulfilled one of my dreams since I life in this place (like… uhm… 17 years?) and slept on the balcony, under the stars. It was great. The cats were super excited. And it ended at 4 am sharp, because the birds decided to shirp that loudly, that I thought they were sitting on my pillow! O.O
Spent the rest of my sleep time back inside, so all fine ;)
Hah, I’m really getting into it now! Only thing I don’t like is the paragon and renegade system as I’m not a fan of morality meters. I don’t want to be told what actions are good or bad, black or white. There should be a grey area with many choices you have to make and there shouldn’t be meters and points to determine which one is the paragon or renegade choice. In fact there shouldn’t even be paragon or renegade choices. Just choices that have their own set of consequences.
Honestly still debating between Kaidan and Liara for a romance. I’m a bit indifferent to both right now. I wish you could romance Garrus!
Yup, you’ll be really overpowered. The only ship battles that should really come as a challenge once you have all the upgrades are the Legendary ones. They’re insanely difficult.
That sounds really nice! It’s way too hot right now for me to do something like that.
Well there are replies that are neither, as far as I remember. But you can always go for your gut feeling, right? Like one moment you feel like being a badass and the next your nicer or something. That also works ;)
You can romance Garrus - but not in the first game ;)
Yeah, so your tip worked wonders! I managed that stupid mission and now can play on. Thank you sooooooo much! :*
And yes, suddenly the fights are way easier. I upgraded cannonballs and stuff mostly. And it’s like magic! <3
Yeah, yesterday was rain again. Seems to be the same today as well. I prefer hot over rain sigh
But to hot to sleep on the balcony? That’s surprising O.O
Have a great day - ugh yeah, time difference, but you know what I mean ;)
Yup from what I gathered there seems it seems to be top = paragon, middle = neutral, bottom = renegade. I think that’s my problem, I’m trying to max out my paragon points so I can get all the charm levels, right now I’m stuck at 10. Once I get charm maxed out I’ll be a lot more comfortable with picking whatever I want. Thanks :)
That’s great!! I just think he’s weirdly adorable and such a nice guy. Like I think he’s my favorite so far.
No worries, glad it helped you! You might know this already, but boarding ships as soon as it’s convenient is important because if it accidentally gets hit by any weapon (friendly fire or not), it will sink and you’ll only receive half of the materials on the ship when you sail over the location it sank.
Oh wow, I would kill for some rain right now, haven’t had that in months. I’m jealous, this summer heat is killing me.
Well, it’s too hot and I also don’t have a balcony so :)
You have a nice day too! Or is it night? I don’t even know.
Uh yeah, the first had that charm leveling, didn’t it? There is some memory, but it’s a dark one :D
He is! Garrus is… aw, man. You’ll love him in two :]
Yeah, I know. I killed some ships by accident, because I think I might be getting OP already :D
Though really. But oh man, we are pirates, we’ll get through this! :]
I want my summer back! cry
Ok, so 20h ago it was 2am at mine. Right now it’s 10 pm :D
So night it is. I shall play now with Edward hrhr
Yeah, I did some research and apparently you can’t even max out charm without doing multiple playthroughs. So I’m at charm level 10 and can pass most speech checks (there have been a few where I can’t which is unfortunate but what can you do) so I’ve just let it be and now I’m doing and saying whatever I want, and enjoying it a lot more.
Ah I’m so glad! He’s definitely my favorite. Going to go with a Liara romance I think since I know I’ll romance Garrus, and apparently if you romance Kaidan then cheat on him or break up with him it devastates him and I don’t want to do that to the poor guy.
See? After that initial difficulty it gets so easy! Almost too easy sometimes, you may destroy some lower level ships in one or two hits.
Right now it’s 3:30 PM, just woke up like an hour ago, feeling very unproductive as per usual. Have fun with my boy Eddy :)
Ugh, I really can’t remember that part. It’s no longer in 2 and 3 ;)
But it’s good you enjoy it now more. Playing it on gut feeling is nicer in any case :)
But…. but… If you date Liara in one, you have to break up with her in the next on, if you wanna date Garrus. Although he is worth it. But… don’t hurt my sweet Liara! :D
Yeah, the small ships just fall apart. Silly things, they should upgrade a bit! ;)
Yeah, I know that feeling. Have that a lot as well. Well today was different, but not so much by choice. But my normal day is also a bit unproductive. Apart from the part where I try to brighten up the life of my two lovely tomcats ;)
Ed decided it’s time for his piratebed - gosh, he is wearing the cat-leather outfit. It’s so……. I don’t even know if it’s gross or attractive :D
Thank goodness! Automatic persuasions always feel kind of cheap so that’s good!
Ahh I don’t know it’s such a hard decision! I’ll let her down really nicely though.
Lately since I’m on summer holidays and I just can’t get a job, I haven’t been doing much of anything. It’s great but I do feel a bit guilty :/
Aw you have kitties, that’s lovely. What are their names? I have a cat and a dog and I love them so much.
Shh Eddy could wear anything and still be attractive. Except the shark hunter outfit. We don’t talk about the shark hunter outfit.
You know…you coooould just stick with her and replay the game and date Garrus :D
Or not. Or - and that is the real cool thing - you can even replay the same character and date Liara. Or what ever :D
Huh, ok, sorry to hear that :/
But, you could try and get the most fun out of your summer holidays and start in autumn all refreshed and high spirited! Make the best out of what your doing, even if you sleep half the day and play the rest ;)
Feeling guilty just ruins the fun. But it’s easy to say that, way more difficult to act that way (even more so, when there are ppl around that try to make it seem bad or something -.-).
Yeah, I’m living with my parents and we actually have my baby cats (2years old really :D), an old cat (17y) and a dog (uhm… 11 years?). And fish. I don’t count them, they just are :D
So a little zoo and it’s nice. I love animal!
Yeah, I know! He’s just….. :] <3
I don’t know what came over me but I actually ended up going with Kaidan when they both confronted me. At first I said “Can’t I have you both?” just to see what would happen, which wasn’t a good decision. So I reloaded and made my choice. I immediately felt terrible for Liara though, she’s so sweet and would have been a great choice but my gut just told me to go with Kaidan. I legitimately spent like half an hour trying to come to that conclusion though, I put more thought into that choice than I do my own life decisions!
Oh no it’s okay! It’s not a huge deal, I’m living with my parents and am well supported, but my parents want me to have a job. Since that’s not looking likely I’ll do the same thing I’ve been doing all summer (and your recommendation), sleep, play, and pretty much nothing else. Sounds like my idea of heaven :) The only reason I’m pushing so hard to get a job is so my parents are happy (since I’m basically a hermit according to them, which isn’t an unreasonable assumption lol), since I’m being pretty lazy and unproductive right now!
Aw that’s so sweet! Do they all get along or do you have to break up cat fights sometimes? And 17 years old, wow! I hope my cat lives to that age.
Really wonderful list of games, both beaten and put on hold – I think I’m going to have to keep an eye on you! :D
Hah thank you! I’m trying to get through the gems and shorter games right now so the games eventually will decline in quality. Hopefully this next batch of games is just as good as this one :)
Good luck finishing your over 5,000 games, that must be really overwhelming. And I thought my backlog was big.
Thanks! :D I’ve given up on actually giving them all adequate playtime, but partially thanks to this site, I’ve also been able to take the time to pare that library down to a less intimidating and more realistic number of games to spend my time on. And everyone’s posts on here help refine it down to, as you say, the gems! :)
P.S. According to Steam, I haven’t actually hit five thousand yet (thank goodness) – and I’ve tried (mostly successfully) not to let it balloon as much this past year as it did the two or thee years before when the bundle sites were in their heyday.
Well, just because you have all these games, not all of them have to be part of your backlog :) Definitely is important to keep your list small so you don’t get overwhelmed and it seems like you’ve done a great job with that.
I’ll start a new reply, because that other one feels super crowded by now :D
Oh, my poor, sweet Liara! sob I have to go and comfort her! :D
It’s totally fine though. If you felt that way, that’s alright. I did something else with him, but I guess that’ll be Ash for you then :D
Or not, that would be such a wicked and mean twist of faith! :D
Ah, I see. So basically the same as me. But your life sounds as if something happens in autumn, so not as bad as mine really ;)
Are you still going to school or are you studying at an university? Or non of the above and your life is basically the same as mine? :D
Which oc would also be fine ;) :)
Yeah, no, not really. I mean, sure the boys also have their little battles, but it’s mostly fun. I just feel sometimes uncomfortable with it, since Ameno is a… ehm… how do I call that in English? Macho? He’s trying to be the tough guy and bully Tizio (who is bigger, but never mind that :D). So I try to stop him a bit, just to realize, that Tizio goes on a second later. So much for rescuing him :D
The old lady knows just fine how to handle the boys. The Dog is more of a problem, because he loves cats and want’s to play with them. Sadly that is not working, he just doesn’t know how to do it. It basically always ends with a scarred cat, flying fur and stuff… So the moment he tries to jump up and join we have to stop him. Although the boys love him, but it just doesn’t work out :(
In the end the doggy is also old with grey hair and all that. I would let them sort that out, if he was a baby, but this way - na, thanks ;)
How old is your cat?
Oh wow we really have been talking a lot!
I don’t know! I might regret it later but we’ll see :) I do still feel awful for leading her on, I should have picked who I wanted in the beginning so no fictional person would get hurt.
Unfortunately I already know exactly what you’re talking about because somehow I manage to spoil everything for myself. I dislike Ashley so I have no issues with her being the one. Do you like her? I’m not a fan of her xenophobia and racism, wish Shep was able to change her mind.
Yep, I’m going to be a senior in high school in a few months, but will also be starting community college at the same time, so I’m going to have a lot going on soon enough. I know I’m young, I’ve especially noticed here and on SG most people seem to be on the older side. Nothing wrong with that at all but it’s surprising that less people around my age are a part of these communities. Are you out of Uni? But your life sounds like the dream, so relaxing and wonderful! :)
Aww poor Tizio, but if he can hold his own then he’s a strong boy :) It’s always the smaller ones that seem to always be the ones to pick fights!
Ah that’s sad, dogs get so rough. They just want to be friends but cats are fragile and don’t play as tough as dogs do :( We were originally going to get a bigger dog, but I care more about my cat than anything in the world and I didn’t want him to get hurt, so we got one that’s his size. She still plays rough but they both enjoy it, and sometimes the cat gets too rough for the dog!
He’s about 8 or 9, we don’t know for sure since he was a stray. His name is Pedro and he’s a cute lil fatty <3 He’s such a sweet kitty, only wants cuddles and food and the occasional play with Rosalie (my dog).
Ah, just a tiny bit ;)
Well I guess one never knows who ones falls for. And Liara is a big girl, she can handle that :]
Urg, no! I hate those two things about her. But I kinda like her more then I like Kaidan. Plus she was more useful in the fights. I somehow refused to take him along. All girl gang and stuff :D
Senior in high school is the last year, right?
What is community college though? O.O
No worries about your age. Although it is true, that the gaming community gets older, the youth is always welcome! (Gosh, that makes me sound like granny :D)
No, sadly I never was at university, since I… disfunctioned out of school. I don’t know how to say that better. So basically I was to scared of failing, had a breakdown as result and are at home with depression since then. I just wish it was that relaxing, I always have to endure the worried talks from my parents, what’s gonna become off me. I mean, I understand them, I think about that myself, but it’s stressing out -.-
Sry, if that was too much info hide
Yeah, I know! And worst part: Ameno looks so super innocent! And he is not :D
That is a pretty nice and sensitive thought. I never thought about the height difference while we picked the dog. Plus, nobody in my family is a fan of small dogs. It’s so easy for them to run under feet and such. Now the cats do that, but let’s not think too much about it :D
Aw, I love cuddly, fat tomcats! Well, not too fat, but a bit. I hope Ameno gets a bit bigger soonish, since his breakout attempts might fail more. At least some of them would be already impossible since he wouldn’t fit through :D
But it would mean mostly, that he’s getting calmer I guess and that would be pretty nice. But right now he is a teeny with way to much energy! :] :D
Yeah I’m still honestly completely indifferent to both, I just thought that the way I’m playing my Shepard, she’d prefer Kaidan. I don’t know.
Since I’m a soldier I don’t think I’ve had a use for her even once. I have the guns covered, so I need a techie and a biotic, not more firepower. So I have no problem with her “leaving”. She is nice though and has an interesting backstory, if it weren’t for the racism she would be great!
Yes, the last year. Community college is basically university but very easy to get into and a lot less fancy. They are 2 year colleges, so you can only really get an associate’s degree unless you transfer to a 4 year university. You can take community college courses in high school for either extra high school credit, or get ahead with your college credits as well.
I kind of understand, I’ve had depression for a number of years on and off and more or less dropped out of my first year of high school. It wasn’t particularly difficult, I just got incredibly depressed for no reason whatsoever and never showed up to classes. So for my second year I switched schools to a mostly online one, and I only have to go to classes 3 or 4 times a week. So even though I no longer have severe depression I still go to it since it’s such a great school.
Your parents aren’t unreasonable in their thinking but that is stressful to have hanging over your head. You just have to start with tiny little steps to eventually get yourself back on your feet, if that’s what you want to do :)
Tizio, Ameno, such cute names :)
Yes, my dog is always following close behind and you have to constantly watch where you step! Cats are agile and can get out of the way, but dogs don’t even try and that usually ends badly for them :( I like bigger dogs as well, but it wasn’t just the safety issue, poor Pedro is scared of big dogs.
Yeah he’s probably a bit too fat, but he rarely plays (sometimes he’ll pick a fight with my dog though) and he can’t go outside or the coyotes will eat him so we don’t really have any choice but to let him be the lazy kitty he loves to be.
Ah, even if he gets big he’ll always find a way to escape! They’re opportunistic little creatures :)
Ah, so your Shep is more humanity loving? ;)
No, I get it, I guess by the time I was through with the first game I had a personality sorted out for my Shep and every following one had some thing they did or liked. Like one of them was pro humanity and didn’t like aliens to much (not sure if she took any of them with her on missions, would have worked out either way: Either we take them along so if they get killed - who cares - or we don’t because we didn’t trust them. But can’t remember. Then again we have some pretty awesome human teammates in two :D) so she pulled that through the whole game. But I didn’t feel to comfortable with that, since I am not that way. And yes, she was a meany and did all the mean and bad stuff :D
Yeah, makes sense. We don’t need Ash (nor Grunt) if we are a soldier :)
Sounds like extra learning ;)
I guess back then I would have done something similar, but nowadays… even thinking about it stresses me out. Gosh, I hate it. I guess this way I’ll never get back to school and after that to university -.-
Yeah, school in itself is not necessarily the reason to have a break down. For me a lot of things came together really. We had bullies for years at school and I suffered since… the 4th year at school (I went to a school, where one stays in the same class until the end. So there is only a change of students, if some leave or some join but it basically stays the same.). And at some point I realized, that life can be nice and there are nice ppl out there and that’s when it went down for me. So yeah, learning was part of if it, but the main part was the human part ;)
But I’m glad to hear, you got around and are doing so fine! :)
Right, that’s what parents do :)
And since I’m going on the 30… yeah, I get them. BUT I managed to work in between for almost a year, so yay! :D
They really are. I used to write stories, they both come from there. Normally I would have chosen some Lord of the Ring names, but… yeah, I didn’t know I was getting two or which gender they’ll have :D
Yeah, that’s what dogs do. Wait. Ameno does the same, when you are in the kitchen. He even lies down to know what’s going on. We really have to pay attention, when we do something in the kitchen. In that way he is just like a dog :D
Aw, that’s mean. But I guess Tizio will sooner or later be scared of big (black) dogs as well. Just had an accident today - again -.-
My boys are not allowed to go outside on their own, since they are special breeds. Expensive, pretty and supposedly rather trustworthy. Yeah, I don’t trust my neighborhood, nor tomcats. They tend to look for a new home if it suits them. So only out in company. Wont that work for Pedro as well? But it might go to his head, like with Ameno and his breakout attempts :D
So far he didn’t manage to overcome (right word?) his harness and a leash, but that’s always the final step I take :D
Nah my Shep has no preference toward any race :) I didn’t like how when rejecting Liara she said that it would be best to be with my own kind, I wanted to call her back and tell her that wasn’t why! Would be really interesting to play as a racist character though, like you said I can see that being extremely uncomfortable. I get mad enough when characters like Ashley make those remarks, don’t know if I could pick those dialogue choices myself!
It is, luckily I’m just taking one language course so it isn’t too much extra work.
Well, you don’t need to go to Uni to be successful, there’s plenty of other things you could do :) This is obvious, but stressing yourself out over these kinds of things just makes the issue worse. But the fact that you were able to work for an entire year is a huge achievement!
That’s understandable, I’m sorry that happened to you, especially when there wasn’t much you could do to change your situation (if you have to stay with the same bad people for years that’s terrible). And when things like that just build, there can be one little thing that can send you tumbling. It’s definitely a difficult thing to deal with.
Ooh the kitchen is the worst, cat or dog, they want food so badly that they get as close to you as possible and sometimes you end up stepping on them :(
Aw, I hope no one got hurt!
At least they still get to go outside, that isn’t complete freedom but it’s nice they’re able to get some fresh air once in a while! I bet they love that. A harness and leash is a great idea too, does that annoy them or are they okay with that?
Unfortunately we can’t do that with Pedro, he’s an opportunistic boy and once we let him out he’ll stop at nothing to get out again. He can open our screen door with his claws too! And our fence is easily jump able so unfortunately we cant let him out. Plus the coyotes would get to him. It’s not like we live in a rural area either, they’re just bold. So I’m not letting my kitty out there under any circumstances, even if most of the time he probably would just sit and relax.
How are you doing with Black Flag now? Still struggling or is everything a piece of cake now?
Yeah, that’s the same with my Shep most of the time. Or they prefer aliens over human :] :D
Because there are some real a-hole human and some freaking nice aliens <3
I think I still would rather hit Ash for her racism then repeat that :D
Uh, I like languages (although I’m rather bad at learning them. Unless I just use them, then it works out for me, but learning by book -.-)! What are you learning?
True. But I just realized the other day that I still would like to study archaeology and that is… yeah, a bit difficult ;)
Thank you for being understanding :)
And kinda sry, my depression came up that early. Guess I feel comfortable writing with you :)
He’s not so much for food there, but more to be where something happens, yk?
Nope, looked fine. I’ll write about it in my weekly update, if your interested in the story :D
Well once you let them out you can never go back. They wanna go again. And they make it pretty clear they want to :D
Like sitting and meowing. And more meowing and going on everybodys nerves until it finally happens! And a couple of hours later it starts again :D
Ameno is doing really great with it, we can even walk on the leash. That’s pretty cool. But with him I started that rather early when I got him. Like I also trained driving in the car with him and he is super chilled in the car. I confess, I had plans with him. Taking him along to places, visiting friends and such. And he was supposed to be alone. But after a month I realized that I couldn’t handle him by himself. He needed a cat playmate. So Tizio was never that trained. Yes, we tried the harness (and the car) but he is not that comfortable with it. First he even refused to walk with it on. Then he walked around awkwardly and by now… he copes, but that’s it.
Those coyotes sound… nasty! I’m glad we have nothing like that here. Though wolves are supposedly returning. So far not in towns though :)
I enjoy it greatly! But I somehow don’t get the story done. I take over every fort and then look around the map and collect everything and I’m still not half way through. BUT! Today I have a story part in front of me, since I conquered the map next to it!
Uh and the seabattles work out. I already took over 3 battleships for my fleet! :]
But I’m still scared of the legendary ships. Tried one and then decided…. that I better wait until my ship is completely upgraded :D
I’m terrible at learning them as well. I was fluent in French as a young child, but since I never used it I completely forgot it despite taking lessons to keep it up. Funnily enough, I’m learning French. It was that or Spanish, and I find Spanish more difficult.
ooh, archaeology! That’s a fascinating subject. Whatever happens, there’s always time to study what you’re passionate about, even if it’s years from now.
Hey no worries! I’m happy to talk about anything, anytime. And you’re easy to talk to as well, it’s quite nice :)
Sure! I’ll try to remember to check your profile then.
They are, my dad has had a few run ins when walking the dog, so now when he walks her at night he brings mace, just in case.
Exactly. And you think they’ve given up but then you go outside, and they make a mad dash to get out before you shut the door. Crafty little kitties :/
That’s great! Sounds like Ameno is practically a dog, but with all of the benefits of being a cat too. And it’s so cute that you got him a companion :) I’ve tried a harness and leash with a few of my cats as well. One of them learned eventually, but at first he would just refuse to move, which me being a kid, thought was a sign that I should drag the cat to get him to start walking (great idea, I know). Pedro was just a lost cause.
Oh, that’s me too in every open world game. If there are side quests or collectibles to get, you can bet that I’ll do it all before progressing the main story.
Even with a fully upgraded Jackdaw, legendary battles are incredibly hard. So good luck with that! I don’t envy you on that front.
Just talking about Black Flag with you makes me so desperately want to play it again. Like as much as I feel like playing Mass Effect and not AC3, I kind of want to finish it just so I can play Black Flag.
I always struggled with French. So I stayed for 3 months in France (imagine, I couldn’t really say a word, when I arrived and we had to take a dictionary every where, since the ppl I stayed with could neither speak English nor German. That was fun :D). By now I forgot most of it though -.-
Yeah, as kid I used to freak out the moment I saw a bone (even if it was only on tv) but the partner of my aunt was archaeologist and he somehow introduced me to it. I even was invited to join a dig which was aaaaaawesome! :] <3
Thank you :*
Dunno if you noticed it yet - I know I have three more replies, but I wanted to answer this one first - I posted my update :D
What? A mace? For walking the dog? Ok, so you need a bigger dog, since that sounds super scary! Or no dog at all :]
Gosh, I would be frightened to go out. But then again it’s probably different if one grows up with it, right?
Ameno is pretty good with the dashing out business. He escaped a few times that way, because my dad didn’t expect it and was to slow… :]
Yeah, the only thing he can’t do, is use the outside toilet and drink outside. Guess he is a little diva ^^
Ugh yeah. Not good pulling your cat along. Ok, so I do it sometimes with Ameno, like the last few feet to get inside, but it’s rare. But cats mostly don’t “work” with harness because it’s like the mum neck bite and they therefore freeze. At least for some cats. Others don’t mind at all :)
My mobile told be today, that I have 72% done of the sidequests! bounces around excitedly
So that’s nearly of my radar then :D
Maybe… I will just ignore the legendary ships then? I mean….. I don’t HAVE to kill them off, right? Urgh, probably I’ll still try though :D
I know :D
For me it’s totally the other way around. But I already told you that, right? :D
Oh no! That must have been tough to deal with, not being able to understand anything. It would be like being a long term tourist.
Checked out your update, poor kitty! It sounds like the pup really did mean well but was just a tad too rough that time around. Glad to know that everything turned out ok though :) And about the biggie vs biggy thing, I have no clue. They’re abbreviations of “big deal” so that probably has something to do with it.
Just to be clear, mace, as in pepper spray. My dad doesn’t carry around an actual mace when on walks! It’s not as scary as it sounds, they generally keep away from people and would rather target smaller prey like rabbits or like I said, house cats :( The mace is really just there as a precautionary measure. Can’t say I grew up with this since only my most recent houses have really had this problem with coyotes. Sometimes you can hear them howling to each other in the middle of the night, it’s really loud.
I didn’t know that! I thought they just froze because they’re stubborn and decided not to move just to spite you. But that makes a lot more sense.
ooh you’re really progressing really quickly! you can totally ignore the legendary ships (I believe they count toward 100% sync though), they’re a huge pain in the ass to destroy and I honestly didn’t find that aspect very fun. The ships take very little damage while they take a significant chunk of your health.
Right now I have no motivation to fix those mouse issues with ME2, though it’s just a matter of changing the value in the ini. I’m considering dropping it for a month or so then starting again because A. There was a bug in character creation and Shep has no eyelashes and I can’t do the whole game with an eyelashless Shepard and B. I’m very afraid of experiencing some Mass Effect fatigue. Usually I wait at least a few weeks to start a new game in a franchise so I think I’ll do that. Bad idea starting a brand new game immediately after finishing ME1.
Well we threw the dictionary after two weeks away and just used it for some stupid words. Worked out pretty fast. I guess, I’m actually quite quick in learning by doing, but boring, dry studying is nothing for me - at least with languages. Or maybe in general, that would explain, why math is just not my thing. Mostly :D
Yeah, doggy is always like that. But I think the problem is, that he learned it that way from our old lady cat. She always ran away, the moment he seemed to be interested in her. So now he kinda does the same with the babies and they react differently. So there we go, Problem occurs -.-
I thought it comes from “big deal”, it’s just kinda… bizarre. At least to somebody from “outside” :D
OH! I thought he’s running around with a… baseball bat thing! :D
Well, pepper spray seems reasonable :D
God! It would sooooooo freak me out! I kinda grew up with fairytales and was as a kid SO afraid of wolves (like in the dark house, there were definitely wolves at the bottom of the dark stairs or under my bed and I didn’t dare to move and stuff. Even living in a country were there are absolutely no way wolves!). So I guess it might reappear and I’ll just die of fear hide
We have a… uhm, animal park where you can go into the compound and no way, I’ll ever set foot in the wolf thing! Not sure though if it’s allowed at all :D
Yeah, I got myself some nice catbooks when Ameno was about to move in and some of them had a few nice things to tell, I didn’t know of :)
So tada! Now I spread cat knowledge! :D
I’m working on it. Reached plus 60%. It’s suddenly going way easier, when most of the places are freed and I can focus on the mainstory. Though I still have to free the difficult forts. I’m working on upgrading my sip first though. I’m a bit worried they’ll blow me to pieces otherwise :D
Mhm. I will try them, once the ship is ready, just to.. well, try :D
I mean, I thought I’ll never get the white whale and when I spotted him the second time I gave it another go and it worked right away, so it can really go either way ;) :]
That sounds frustrating! I never had struggles with any of those games - luckily. It sucks :(
Aha! Confess, you just wanna play some AC! :D
How does this work out with helping on the fleet thingy? I mean, if you really play BF, we could at least use it to our advantage, right? :D <3
Definitely, immersion is a much easier way to learn anything. The way they teach languages at school is terrible, you should be taught the way you’re taught your native language, through gradual learning rather than memorizing grammar rules and sentence structure. Like it should be taught like you’re a young child learning rather than someone who can presumably “apply” the base rules of their own language to help learn this new one. Anyway, I’m done ranting about that sorry, I just really hate the way languages are taught in schools!
Grammatically speaking it’s more or less an adjective so I think it should be “y” but it isn’t… But I’m also not an expert on that kind of thing so don’t trust me!
Noo a baseball bat would be cruel :( This way it doesn’t truly harm them it just incapacitates them.
Aw that’s cute! I bet you didn’t like hunting very much in AC3 though, so many wolf ambushes that can scare the crap out of you if you aren’t paying attention. But anyway, the coyotes are definitely scary, I haven’t had a run in with one yet but I hope I never do.
I’m thinking they probably wouldn’t even let you in a wolf enclosure, you’re right. Maybe you can face your fears by spending some time around there though!
The forts are really fun! Some of those harder ones are actually pretty easy, and then some of them are a bit tricky. They get hard when there’s a scripted storm or a bunch of ships guarding the fort. So you have to focus on avoiding the waterspouts or managing whether to attack the ships or the fort itself.
Ok I admit it, I do want to play it a lot (I really want to play ME as well though, this is a big dilemma). I’m so hype for Origins and the same team made BF so it’s the closest I can get right now. Like, I know the story of AC3 well enough that I can completely leave it and come back after finishing BF. I’m not sure about the fleet since I never bothered learning it beyond the basics (by the way, there’s an app where you can manage your fleet on your phone), does it have some kind of friends aspect? But if you or I find a social chest, royal convoy, or white whale, that will be shared to everyone on your Uplay friends list so they can go do those activities as well :)
At this point, I might play it and I might not. Like I want to play Mass Effect but I also want to play Black Flag, but I also get the odd urge to play other games I’ve already finished instead of actually moving through my backlog like I should. Such a hard decision :/
I’m absolutely with you on the language learning train! I was super lucky with English. I was born abroad and lived until my eight year not in Germany. Had to use English in bits and pieces since I can think. Later on I visited my aunt in England… like EVERY year. And fell in love with England, so… there we go. Nowadays I watch series and movies a lot in English, I read most books in English if they are originally written in English. The only thing where I don’t always use the English option is with games. Rather funny really, but for some reason it’s more easy for me. Guess because there are a lot of made up things and to totally get them, I just play it in German. VNs and such though oc again in English. So all the games that are mostly story… :D
Yep, I love English. I sometimes talk out of the blue with my mum in English - she only complains if I have some funny accent going on. I even dream sometimes in Eng. And now I stop :D
Ah well, gramma. Was just curious if somebody could explain it. So far you are the only one really reacting to that question :D
It would be cruel. Yes. The only creatures I can harm without thinking too much about it: mosquito. So I’m happy to hear we don’t like harming coyotes :)
So I hope neither you nor your family ever encounters one. And most off all the little animals you have! ;)
Not because I favor them, but because they are more likely to get eaten, right? O.O
That’s not cute! sob I suffered a lot as a kid because of that.
But I was never afraid of dogs. Guess in my head they were not that closely related :]
No, wolf ambushes in games never bothered me really. It’s more the water accidents. Like the first time in WoW diving real deep and a shark came around. And yeah, BF the sharks… noooooo, THAT I don’t like :D
Not sure I wanna get rid of that fear. Guess it might be rather healthy to have a fearsome respect of some creatures :)
And since wolves are coming back. Omg, it’s like… Winter is coming! Only it’s: Wolves are coming! o.o :D
Already had a stormy fort. I actually thought that was rather easy. I just constantly circled the fort and there where no other ships bothering me. So yay, that went smoothly! :)
I’ll give those difficult ones today a try. Had a middle difficult one left over yesterday :D
Not really sure. I mean, I realized the location sending thing, because the system seems to do it even without friends playing BF right then. But they said something about fleet missions going faster or something. No idea really. And it is not that important :]
Yeah, I know about the app. I made it crash today somehow and can’t use it since then, because it’s supposedly already running. Urgh, technology ;)
Gosh, I have such a haunting melody going on with the Ram song. “It’s a lie, it’s a lie, it’s a lie, lie, lie…” :D
Yeah, I kinda now that problem! I never manage to get around and work on my batch system. But one day! Or the moment I’m done with monthlies and priorities and such :D
Did you have any luck on the job front?
Wow, that’s so lucky. Your English is pretty good and you didn’t even have to take a class!
Same, even when I kill bugs I make sure they’re 100% dead because I don’t want them to be in pain. They’re just going about their day and don’t deserve to suffer.
Thank you! They’re the reason I would never walk my dog alone at night. I don’t think I’m big enough to be intimidating enough to make them keep their distance.
Yeah of all of the things to be afraid of, wolves are a pretty rational fear to have :)
The stormy forts only get hard if you get near a waterspout. After that it’s nearly impossible to get out of the pull.
Either way, I’m sorry but I’m not going to play BF :( I played it for a few hours the other day and that’s all I needed, it’s out of my system now.
Oh man, the shanties are one of the best parts of the game. Sailing along and hearing LOOOOOOWWWLAAAANDS, LOWLANDS AWAYYYYYYYY
And I started playing Mass Effect 2! Fixed the mouse issues, Shep has eyelashes, AND I was also able to make my Shepard look almost identical to my ME1 Shep, just a little bit less ugly and Michael Jacksony. I hope the hair is less hideous in ME3, otherwise I’m just going to stick with the bun for the rest of the series. So all in all I’m loving this so far! Can’t wait to run into Garrus, he’s not one of my dossier quests so I’m assuming he comes in later in the game :(
No luck yet, still working on it. There’s one place that looks promising though, and if I got it I may be able to work with a friend of mine.
Edit: HOLD ON ARCHANGEL IS GARRUS!! I mean I don’t know for sure but one of the gang leaders just said he’s a Turian and all the details fit him perfectly. He’s been in the wind since Shep’s death, and he’s an omnitool and sniper expert. And no one can kill him because well, he’s Garrus. I’m calling it right now, it’s Garrus for sure. Don’t know how I didn’t see it earlier.
Well they tried to teach me some grammar :D
Thank you :)
Good thing I wont work as a Shepard. Guess wolves are a real plague for them - again. Also they walk way to much for my liking :D
Yeah. I got lucky and could avoid all off those storms :)
By now I have freed all forts and collected everything I could get like that in the wild. Now only story and ship missions left (and those legendary ship). Should go a bit faster now. I hope :]
Ah, no worries! It’s not as if we would really play together, right? So don’t worry about me. You just enjoy your gaming! :)
Main reason to sail around for me. My crew is really good at singing by now!
That sounds awesome! Now you can totally enjoy the game!
And yes, the hair was also a complain thing for me. Way to little nice styles.
He will come around :)
I’m rooting for you :)
And fitting to all that BF playing: I’ll go tomorrow see the new Pirates movie :D
Nice, sounds like you’re nearing the tail end of the game! Are you starting to see Edward’s development from reckless pirate to responsible human being?
Well, we could have done multiplayer together, but who plays AC for the multiplayer?
Yes, I’m absolutely loving it, played it all day yesteday! The only part of the first dossier I have left is the Krogan, so I’ll get on that and see how the rest is going to be like. But today I’m going to play, and maybe even finish, Mafia 2 :)
And I was totally right about Archangel being Garrus! He’s so adorable but also a bit like Batman. Also, Jacob is really boring so I don’t want to romance him even a little bit. I was thinking about the assistant Kelly, but apparently you can’t romance her if you have a main romance. What a shame.
By the way, you’re completely right. Infiltator is amazing. That slow mo and invisibility just makes you feel like a total badass :)
And thank you, hopefully I can get something before I’m accused of being a hermit again!
If you’ve seen it already, was the movie good?
I’m not sure how close I am really. Ade (?) just left me sob and Mary….. cry
Yeah, I guess MP could be fun. BUT since I have way to many games waiting for me (and I already love the ME MP) I don’t have time to even give it a try :D
Oh. The Krogan! <3 cough
Yeah. No, I don’t like my team in 2 AT ALL! NEVER EVER! :D
And of course Archangel is Garrus!
And yes. Jacob is a bit lame. But remember me telling you about my alien not loving shep? Right, she had something going on with him, since he was perfect for that :D
Kelly is fun. (She even feeds your fish, if you date her. So they wont die any longer :) ) We have someone similar in 3 (girls only!) whom I like better. Plus in 3 she is a real romance option. Kelly is just a side romance :]
I know! I loved playing as Infiltrator! You even get snipers, that can shoot trough things. Like shields and barricades AND helmets! So that’s pretty awesome :D
Well you can never beat my hermit life! Just don’t make the mistake and befriend with the coyotes, that might just ruin your reputation ;) :D
I don’t really know what to say. It hat a few moments I could laugh at. But the main part of the movie was like: “Please, can we cut this out of the movie?” I hope they stop producing Pirate movies. They might still finish the whole project with a bit of dignity. But since we all know Disney, I don’t think they will quit. I guess Jack will eventually find a way to live forever and we will see a movie where he is a space pirate or something sigh
Oh no, I actually did cry when that thing happened with Mary, she was one of my favorites :( Luckily you get to play as Ade in Freedom Cry, and if I’m not mistaken you see him a few more times. So you’re fairly close to the end actually!
Yeah, AC MP is dead anyway and it’s fun enough, but nothing special imo.
Grunt is great! He’s weirdly smart and insightful, considering he’s a Krogan that was pretty much just bred to fight.
Ahh I know, I was just so oblivious about it being Garrus until the last minute and felt like an idiot :)
That’s why I want to romance Kelly, I was so sad when I went to my quarters and saw the option to clean out the fish tank. I neglected the poor fishies :(
Ooh that is cool! So far I only have the default sniper rifle, I’m hoping I haven’t missed anything. Only thing I don’t like about infiltrator is how your main weapon only has 10 bullets. You run out veeerrry quickly.
After meeting Kaidan at Horizon, I don’t know what to think. He acted like an asshole but he’s not wrong at all, Cerberus is shady and I still don’t trust them and I can see why he got so angry. Calling Shep a traitor to what she believed in was too far though. But then he sends an email apologizing for all the horrible things he said and finishes the email with him wanting to continue the relationship. Like, from what I’ve seen if you romance someone in ME2 he says that he understands why Shepard “cheated” , which, what kind of passive aggressive BS is that? Like just because he wants to continue with the relationship doesn’t mean that they are in a relationship during ME2… Ugh, that just makes me mad.
But still, I know you dislike him but Kaidan actually really grew on me! So I’m really conflicted now. I think I’m still going to be with Garrus in this game because why not (though I’m currently mad at him because he NEVER wants to talk). Even though I know I’m going to feel guilty about it (which I guess means I really am cheating, who would’ve thunk) I know I’m getting ahead of myself but I just don’t know who to go with in ME3. I am so conflicted that I literally had a dream about it.
(Edit: Ok, more or less started a relationship with Garrus and it’s adorable. I don’t even feel guilty!)
Anyway enough of my overthinking such a minor aspect of the games.
Ooh also, I’m really mad at myself, as I’ve spoiled so much of ME, as I do with every other series I play or watch. I look something seemingly innocent up and then find out a huge spoiler, or watch a youtube video, and then bam another huge spoiler. Why do I do this to myself?
Hah, don’t worry I’m not planning on being friends with the scary coyotes :)
Aw, that’s sad! Those movies apparently used to be so great too. You’re probably right though, as long as they keep making money they’ll keep releasing them. Hopefully if Johnny Depp ever quits though, then they’ll finish off that series. Your idea about Space Pirates of the Caribbean actually sounds completely believable :/
EDIT: I have a really important question for you that I can’t find the answer for on google. After recruiting Thane I was forced to progress in the main story by boarding the collector vessel that was a trap. Now I’m doing loyalty activities and whatnot, but I still have to recruit the Asari Justicar. I’m afraid to though, as I don’t want to get locked into doing another main mission just because I recruited everyone. So my question is, after recruiting the asari will I be forced to progress or will I still be able to do as I please? I just really don’t want to wait to do those missions as apparently doing too many after the next main mission can have repercussions.
It’s getting all crowded again :D
Yes, Mary was/is also my fav. And… man, it is so sad. Why had she have to die? sniff
I mean, Anne was alright, but Mary….. <3
Was Anne the mom of Haytham? Or is his mom a random stranger?
Oh, and I decided to be done :]
Yep, Grunt is cool and pretty though and seems to be more intelligent then the rest of his lot :D
Yeah, at some point I went to look after those fishies EVERY time I got back on the ship. Sooooo stupid -.-
True. That’s the most annoying part about snipers. Way to little ammo and way to quick spent. But I’m pretty certain you can upgrade your weapons, right? Or was that only in three and Andromeda? Anyway, some weapons have more shots then others :)
And if you take along a pistol it should work out. Plus you also have your abilities which help a lot :)
I didn’t remember the letter by word. But yes, it was a bit much all that. And yes, I don’t REALLY like Kaidan, but then I do, because I dated him with one of my male sheps and… he was adorable and all that. So I get you.
You see, that’s why I pick one romance partner and stick with him/her until the end. No conflicts in between, no betrayal, no nothing :D
And: The dating is not minor! It’s the main reason why I have replayed it that much! Why I’m still having to play it! :D
Uhm…. no, have no answer to that. The only times I spoiler myself is when I need help with solutions and then I try to keep it to a minimum. I never searched for anything story related. I mean I even avoided trailers for ME:A because… I wanted to know nothing in advance :] (Funny how I always want to write “no” instead of “know” :D)
Well I hope and believe that PoC doesn’t work without JD. But then…….. we all know Disney.
Speaking of Disney: I was really, REALLY worried about the latest Star Wars movie, since Disney was involved. But it was marvelous, awesome, amazing! I loved it! So…. Disney can do nice things :D
Maybe Space Pirates would be funny. Maybe they should start something new though ;) :D
Ok. I’m not entirely sure tbh. But I know that the main missions are somehow marked. And you should avoid them AT ALL cost if you want to play everything. Because if you go on with the main story some side missions will no longer be available. But I don’t think the Asari is such a main story. Wait a sec, I’ll start the game and have a look :)
Yeah, so much for checking it out. Sadly my last play wasn’t cloud saved so…. I have no started game. But I’m pretty sure in your questlog the main missions are marked. Sry, that I’m no more help then that :(
If it’s still not working out or unclear I will start a new game :)
I know, she was such a key beneficial figure in Edwards life and she didn’t deserve to die :( And honestly I kind of shipped them a little.
No, Anne is just a friend of Edward’s (if you ever read the book Forsaken, Haytham’s mother is not ever seen or heard from). I don’t know if you’ve gotten here yet, but basically she becomes quite close to Edward after Mary’s death. They kind of bond over it, nothing romantic though as far as I know.
You decided to be done? Meaning you’ve finished BF?
Went and had dinner with Kelly so now I have her feeding my fish! Thank goodness, I immediately went out to the citadel and bought a bunch.
You can upgrade your weapons, armor, Normandy, etc but I haven’t seen anything that increases ammo capacity (apparently it exists though, but the gain is very small, like one bullet). The viper rifle has a ton of bullets but doesn’t do a lot of damage so it kind of cancels out :/ The widow rifle is amazing but only has 13 bullets. But yeah, using incinerate regularly and my trusty SMG really helps things :)
Linked the letter, recorded by Kaidan’s VA, HERE. It’s very sweet but only briefly stopped me from getting with Garrus!
Definitely see where you’re coming from there. Without the romance, he’s a bro but there’s just something missing with his character I feel like. Romancing him helps with that by giving his character a little more depth. But my main issue with Kaidan isn’t his character, but his generally terrible dialogue. I don’t know if it gets better in ME3, but as an example it’s really cringeworthy to hear “BIIIIIG PLACE!” every time you speak to him in the citadel. It feels like wasted talent for a really great VA. But anyway, even though I kind of am cheating on Kaidan right now, I’d rather do that and keep my options open between Garrus and Kaidan, rather than do another playthrough just to see what happens if I stay faithful to him. If I end up loving this series as much as I love AC though (which will probably happen), then I can see that being on my list though.
I’m just horrible, I have no self control :) I’ve even spoiled the ending of ME2 very slightly. Cerberus is bad (what a surprise), and Shep surrenders to the alliance, and there is an option where everyone dies I think. I don’t have context on any of those things though so it’s okay. And I still have no clue what the ME3 ending is, or why everyone hates it so much. So I’m trying to steer clear of that the most.
That’s nice! I’ve never seen Star Wars (I know I’m awful) but it’s really cool to see so many fans of that series raving about these latest movies. It’s nice to see people happy rather than pissed off that their series got ruined.
The Asari is a main mission as in she’s a part of the dossier, but once you have almost everyone recruited it seems like you don’t actually have to complete the mission. I’m just afraid of being forced into another main mission because like you said, some things will be unavailable (really hoping I didn’t fail any quests after being forced to play the mission with the “abandoned” reaper ship).
I appreciate the help anyway, thank you :) What I’m going to do is recruit her, and even though it will be a pain, if I’m forced to go right into the next mission then I’ll reload and recruit her after doing everything else, leaving one side mission so her loyalty mission can appear.
I’m absolutely for shipping Mary and Edward. And I bet there are tons of Fanfictions running around involving them :)
Yeah. I thought so. It’s just she said something about “him staying in one place and being a nice dad”. I thought she might hint something with that. But guess not.
And no, I didn’t read the books so far. But I looked up why the heck Haytham turned into a Templar since his dad is an Assassin and even his son turned into one!
Ha, I have only the legendary ships and the ship missions left. I wanted to do them. And then I figured it’s not worth totally stressing out over it and I wouldn’t miss THAT much if I don’t do it :]
So yes, I’m through with BF :)
Kelly deserves a dinner - for feeding the fish! :D
Ah, so I did remember correctly! Actually it kinda worries me, that I wasn’t sure about it. It is really time for me to play it again! I mean, I even forgot things! That can not be! shock
Na, believe me, Garrus is sooooooooooo much more worth it!
There really is not much of a choice in one anyway, so you either had to go for Kaidan or Liara - or stay single - and if you didn’t stick with one off them you naturally cheat. So that’s totally cool :]
Yeah. You can supposedly kill everybody off. I never managed to do that though. I once wanted to play a game where only girls survived. Right that was probably the one, that got lost with my new pc. Oh well, guess I have to do that again then :D
And I wasn’t that annoyed by the end of 3. So not everybody is complaining. I mean, sure it could have been better, but… it’s ok. And we will take about it, once you reached it :)
No, you are not awful for not knowing the movies. There are actually quite a lot of ppl out there who don’t and that’s ok. I mean, I also have movies I don’t know or like and others totally hype them. So who cares really :)
Although Luke was probably the first movie character crush I had :D
Mmmmmmh. Even though she is a main mission I’m pretty sure she is not a real main mission like pushing the story too much on. But I might be wrong. And I think your idea is really great. So do that :)
Yep, they’re just good friends. I love how she becomes Ed’s quartermaster after Ade leaves <3
Forsaken is the only one I’ve read, it really gives you a lot more detail on Haytham’s character and motivations, and you get an amazing monologue from Connor at the end. It’s not the best book I’ve ever read but it’s alright. As for the other AC books, they range from adding a lot to the story like Forsaken, to just retelling the games’ stories in book form. Or so I’ve heard.
Oh wow congratulations! How did you feel about the ending? With that touching song and all of Edward’s dead friends at the table, as well as him meeting his daughter, it’s just so bittersweet! So, are you going to go on to AC Rogue or are you going to take a break from AC? And yeah you really aren’t missing much so it’s no big deal at all :)
How dare you forget a minor detail! But really, play it again if you miss it :) Not sure if you knew, but it’s a great game, I can vouch for it!
I’ve only seen a tiny bit of the relationship so far but I already love it! I’ll probably end up staying with Garrus honestly. He’s such a cutie pie.
I have to admit, your feelings about Kaidan are kind of my feelings about Liara. Like, I like her well enough but I don’t love her character. So picking Kaidan in 1 was a no brainer.
Right, okay well I’m going to try my hardest to have everyone survive. If they don’t I will just reload and try again until they do. I can’t have Kelly dying, I need someone to feed my fish!
Good to know, you’re probably right in that it’s become a big thing and the complainers are just blowing things out of proportion because that’s the cool thing to do. But yes, we’ll definitely talk about it when I get to that point :)
Yeah, it’s always funny when people act like it’s a huge outrage if you haven’t seen something as popular as Star Wars. Like, maybe I’m just not interested?
Good to know, thanks. I’m going to do her mission right after sending this reply. Let’s hope everything goes as planned!
Yes, that was sweet! Although I don’t like her screaming around so much. It’s just not the same having a deep manly voice aboard or a woman screaming around cough :]
Interesting. So I would have to pay attention if it’s basically the game in book form or an additional book? I shall start looking into that to figure it out, I guess :)
I liked the ending! But… (and I guess I am totally at fault myself for playing so much around on side missions) it felt super abrupt. Like it could have gone on way longer and… it was the end. I mean, it WAS the end and I’m absolutely happy with it, but I kinda played a bit in the wrong order :D
Well I only have AC the first game and the one with Ade atm on my library. And I was intending to work on my batch a bit. But then I entered in the challenge me mid theme and now… I’m going to play the first AC - if it works :D
I know, I know! Shame on me! :D
What? Really? I heard sooooo much about it, are you really sure it’s a good game? xD
I guess I understand how you feel about Liara. I might have been just the same but since I already knew I was not going to date Kaidan, she was my only choice left (actually the first character I really wanted to date was Tali…) and since then… I fell in love with her :]
It’s actually not that difficult. Though Kelly might be. Just get every side mission done before you go on and sh should be safe though :)
Btw. did it work out with the Asari and the missions?
I know. It’s a question about taste and nobody can be forced to like something. I mean, I for example am not that big a fan of “Pulp Fiction” and I know a few ppl think that’s…. yeah, outrageous as well. But what can I do? It’s just not my kind of humor? Not really my fault, right? On the other hand I love movies with Vin Diesel and… yeah, a certain friend of mine just shakes her head when I say that. So how am I allowed to judge somebody for liking or disliking something? The only thing I say: Try it. It’s pretty hard to form an opinion without knowing about something (like I forced myself to read and see the first book/movie of 50 shades. Yeah, I kinda regret both, because it was just badly made :D), but that is also up to everybody :)
Agree with you there, no one can replace Ade <3
More or less, but none of them are essential. Like if anything isn’t clear you can just find the answer on the AC wiki. If you do read the books, as far as I know everything up to Forsaken (so AC1-Revelation’s books) is more or less a retelling of the game’s stories with some extra details that don’t occur in the games and inclusion of side games like Bloodlines. From Forsaken onward, the stories are told either from someone else’s viewpoint (Haytham’s in Forsaken, Elise’s in Unity’s book, etc) or just add a lot of detail.
I’m glad you’re happy with it, abrupt or not. It sucks to see so many people hating on the ending especially when I don’t have the ability to judge whether that hate is justified.
The AC1 is great! Just a few things, you need to pace yourself since even though the story is amazing, the gameplay is dated and the missions are extremely repetitive. You’ll burn yourself out so quickly if you binge it. And also there are 420 flags and 60 templars to collect, unless you really want to you shouldn’t try to 100% it because it is literally hell to get all of those flags. The other thing is that if you play with a wireless controller, you’re going to have issues. I can help with that if that’s the case. M/K and wired 360 controllers will have no issues.
I see where you’re coming from with Liara. Like, she recovered Shepard’s dead body and delivered it to Cerberus, all because she couldn’t bear the thought of losing her or allowing her body to go to the collectors. Like whether you were in a relationship with her or not, that shows some real love and dedication on Liara’s part. I wanted to cry when she said all that. She is a lovely person.
Thank you for the tip :) Yes! Everything worked out just fine, thank goodness. So now I’m just finishing up side missions and exploring all of the star systems. Exciting stuff.
Definitely agree with you there! You won’t know if you’ll like something until you try it, and if you don’t like a popular thing that really isn’t a problem at all. I’m sure I’d like Star Wars if I watched it, but for now I have no interest in trying it out. I will someday though! And if you want to watch Vin Diesel’s movies then you go and watch those Vin Diesel movies and you enjoy them! (and oh god I can’t believe you put yourself through not only the 50 shades movie, but also the book! do you enjoy suffering?)
Maaaaaan, I soooooo hope there will be soon a decent sale for the newer AC games, right now I really wanna play them. Like England and France….? <3
I tried to read a ME pre story. It’s about Andersen and what happened between him and Saren. I only read the first once, since my sis-in-law didn’t have the others. It’s was fun because I knew all the characters, names, places… and then… sooooo wrong :D
So it’s sometimes difficult/strange to read a book with a different perspective of something one already loves and knows. Like in books the insight of a character is way clearer and in movies/games that’s nearly always missing. That might be easier with AC, since the characters swap all the time or even more irritationg. Would be worth a try :)
They do? Oh well. Haters gonna hate ;)
But I also was ok with the Me ending so… maybe it’s not saying too much :D
No, really. If I’m happy with the game per se, the end normally can’t really ruin it for me. It might be unsatisfying or something, but it will never completely ruin it for me (I hope, I have never encountered a game so far that did that for me. I think O.O)
I have the xbox 360 controller. Actually friend of mine recommended to start playing AC but only with a controller. And then he said I should get that one. So I started playing with controller only with AC :D
Yep, Liara was sooooooo sweet. I really missed her as companion in the second game (guess by now you know she is no companion for the game ;) ). Actually I visited her pretty often, because I desperately hoped she might join me. But she never did :(
Awesome! Happy to hear it! :)
So what kind of movies do you like? I guess action is not that top priority? ;)
I absolutely do! Like I have seen Riddick… I dunno how many times. And all the Fast and the Furios aaaaaaand the Triple X. And Babynator was awesome <3 :D
Gosh, sorry. I’ll stop. If I find the fangirl off switch :]
I know, right? But! Since I already survived the Bella&Edward Drama (the first book was actually fun for me, the rest I suffered through) and even survived the forced movie session to them (I REALLY, REALLY didn’t want to see it!), I figured it couldn’t be worse. Oc I was wrong. The book was horrible. At rare moments I really liked Mr. Grey, but most of the time it was so cringeworty and her… I wanted to constantly slap her cough The movie was actually more fun, since we didn’t have her stupid insight. At the end off it I had finished a bottle of wine and started to enjoy it. But by then it was over and… I refused to see it a second time just because I was drunk and therefore might have enjoyed it more :D
No seconds from that for me! Nononono! It’s something I never wanna get back to. I even stopped asking to get it back. A friend borrowed the book and… yeah, she kinda forgot it. That’s ok. I don’t even need the book on my shelf! :D
You should of course form your own opinions about Unity (Paris) and Syndicate (London), but I’ll just say, don’t have high expectations or you might be disappointed. They’re mediocre games that I personally enjoyed a lot, but I’m not exactly itching to replay or 100% them (don’t let my steam hours in Syndicate fool you, I actually only have like 60 hours). Especially Unity, which is my least favorite in the series and a huge disappointment, I feel.
Fair enough, yeah. You already have a preconceived notion of what occurred, then you read that it actually happened in a completely different way. Really throws you off of things a bit.
I do have theories about the ending, everyone dies, earth gets destroyed, something not very happy. Something is going to get destroyed, and it’s going to be devastating. I just know it.
Good! Controller is for sure the best way to play AC, they’re definitely designed around controllers. As long as it isn’t wireless you’ll have no issues using a controller for AC1 and AC2. There’s a pretty easy fix if it’s wireless though.
I wanted to see more of Liara and her pursuing the shadow broker. But nooooo they had to lock that content in a DLC. It’s sad, I thought that since I owned the deluxe versions of ME1 and ME2 that I would get all of the DLC. But I got almost no DLC aside from some cosmetic things. Damn shame, since Lair of the Shadow Broker looked great. I have the digital deluxe edition of ME3, yet I STILL have to pay for almost all of the DLC, including the Citadel one which I was really looking forward to. I just can’t afford to spend so much money on DLC (I looked it up, for all story related DLC for ME2 and 3 combined, it costs $81 +. that’s ridiculous), but it’s depressing that people that don’t have it are missing out on so much content. Ok, rant over. I’m just really upset that I missed out on so much.
Did you buy the DLCs, or did you feel as if you could live without them?
I’m honestly not a big movie person, games and TV shows are more my thing. I really enjoy the odd movie though, especially superhero movies and some action movies (I really like Star Trek). What about you? There must be other genres you like besides Vin Diesel movies :)
Oh no, I’m sorry you put yourself through that :( The few excerpts of the book that I’ve come across, it seems like it’s just cringe from start to finish. Same with the movie, no wonder you had to get drunk to enjoy it!
By the way, yesterday I officially finished ME2! That suicide mission was by far the most stressful and tense mission I’ve ever had to deal with in a game. I spent every second terrified that someone was going to die. Then Shep says that some of the crew died, and Joker says all survivors boarded the Normandy. So I was sitting there through the credits trying not to cry, partly because I was so sure I did everything right, partly because I didn’t want to reload the whole mission to correct my mistakes. Then it loads back into the Normandy, I go around the ship and I don’t see anyone missing. Go up to my cabin only to see that I got the “No One Left Behind” achievement. Mass Effect 2 gets a first place award in brutally toying with my emotions.
Anyway, it was so great and the Garrus romance was amazing and the cutest thing ever (love that you can cuddle with him after the game ends, really nice touch). I loved the ending too, telling the Illusive Man to shove it and seeing the imminent Reaper threat. It’s depressing that it’s finished, I don’t even have the heart to move it from now playing to completed in my steam categories.
I considered starting 3 today, but I have a feeling I may put it off for a little bit (Edit: Maybe not, I might start tonight or tomorrow even though I’m still sad ME2 is over, I just want more Mass Effect!). I just don’t want it to end, it’s sad enough being 2/3 of the way through I don’t want to be done with it! Replays just won’t be the same :(
Thank you for warning me. That’ll be a real help, because now I probably expect the worst and then might even enjoy it because it really is not THAT bad ;D
Nah, I really try to go there without expectations, that normally works the best :)
I knooooow! My Liara romancing Shephard never learned the whole story about the Shadow Broker (and she most of all would have deserved it). I got the DLCs later on ;)
Yes, one can absolutely live without them. It’s really a shame that EA refuses a season pass or something similar. But yes, I got every story DLC. No, I don’t own too much money, I just…. decided that I love ME enough to be that stupid sigh
The Citadel DLC….. if you want to buy one, I would absolutely recommend getting that one. It’s just… :] <3
Ah yes, I always kinda count movies and tv shows as one. But they are definitely not :D
Yeah, I watch more TV shows nowadays as well and not that much Movies. Star Trek is fantastic btw! <3
Genres? Lemme think. Detective things, action, adventure, fantasy, sci-fi, superheroes, sometimes a bit romance, bollywood, queer. Yeah, I think that mostly covers it ;)
Right now I’m watching season 4 of Elementary, since I noticed Netflix has it.
I’m sorry too. It’s one of the few books I would stop myself from reading, if I had the chance to do it. And I will not read the rest or every see the other movies! I’m not that suicidal :D
Yay for finishing it! bounce
It’s just awesome, isn’t it? <3
And yes, I know. That was a bit… irritating. But Joker was talking about no name characters. Kelly and the Doc can actually die if you don’t go right up to the mission after the ship was… ehm… overrun? Dunno the right word. And the rest of your team can also die if you don’t do the loyalty missions plus install the ship upgrades. I dunno if they can die if you did all that ;) :)
So another yay, for getting everybody safely home and showing the illusive man who’s really the boss! :D
Yeah, it will never be the same as the first time. That’s absolutely right. But I still loved it. Every single time. The only thing I got annoyed off, was the planet scanning in 2 :D
And gooooo, safe the universe! They need you! :]
I’m right now suffering a bit through Enclave. I really want to complete the story at least once since it was picked for me, but… it feels so old and clumsy and I already can’t jump that good in new games, how am I supposed to manage that in an old game? sigh
Yes, that’s my motto :) Go in with low expectations, that way you can’t get disappointed. Had low expectations with Syndicate and Unity, I was still disappointed. The main problem with those two games is the narrative, which is inconsistent and full of plot holes in Unity, and Murder Happy Fun Time with no character development in Syndicate. Modern day, which I love, is practically nonexistent. But if you dislike the MD then that might be a pro for you :)
And you’re very sneaky, ignoring my theories about the ending :) I’m going to assume that means at least one of those things is right, briefly revel in my rightness, then get very sad because that is the opposite of a happy ending :(
I only have a few hundred dollars in my Paypal that I can actually spend, but I kind of want to spend it to get all of the (story driven) DLCs. Missing out on Kasumi, Lair of the Shadowbroker and Liara, the Citadel, etc, it sucks. So you make a very compelling argument :) And it’s not stupid at all, it’s your favorite thing so you might as well get the full experience! What I’ll probably do is give in like an idiot whenever I decide to play through the series again, which at this rate might just be immediately after finishing ME3.
Oh nice, I enjoy most of those genres too :) TV shows are just so great as there’s so much great content, when movies, while most are good, are just too short to get incredibly invested most of the time. Elementary is good, I watched quite a bit of it before it just became too much of a pain, since it isn’t on USA Netflix. Is season 4 the one with Kitty (I think that’s her name, Sherlock’s protege)? Right now I’m watching Luther (which has been put on hold in favor of ME of course) which is basically yet another detective genius type show. Except it has Idris Elba in it which automatically makes it good.
It really is great, I’m so glad you convinced me to start playing it, thank you!
Yup you’re right. In hindsight, even when Shep said that “we lost some great crew members,” she probably meant on the Normandy and not on the collector base, as nobody died there except that Lilith woman from Horizon. But still, as a person that was about to have a panic attack throughout that whole mission, that and the “all survivors are onboard” really threw me for a loop.
Apparently even if you do everything right, ship upgrades, loyalty missions, everything like that, the crew can still die if you assign them to the wrong things. Like if you send Jacob through the vents, he’ll take a bullet to the face because his tech skill wasn’t good enough to shut the door in time. The only ones that are good enough are Tali and Legion (who is absolutely adorable by the way!!), everyone else dies I believe. For the boss battle, if the crew you leave behind is bad at defense (ie Tali, Mordin, etc) they will die. Things like that are what got me real freaked out. But like you said, yay, none of that actually happened :)
Definitely, the planet scanning in 2 and the Mako driving through practically vertical mountains in 1 are the two things I really don’t miss.
So I started ME3 and am loving it so far, of course. Got to tell the illusive man to shove it once again, immediate GOTY 2012. I only have a few minor complaints so far. The hair somehow got uglier, how is that even possible?! Had to give Shep a lumpy high bun because it was the least lumpy of the hairstyles. Seriously, is wearing a Bumpit on the side of your head the style in ME3 or something? Aside from that though, the face import really messed up my poor Shep’s face so I spent 2 hours building it from scratch and I’m pretty happy with the result! She looks similar to before, but more pretty and intimidating and only looks ugly from some angles (the hair does not help). Side note, really nice detail that according to Chakwas, if you take a more renegade path, the scars you had from the beginning of ME2 will start to come back. Some of the animations are weirdly kind of bad, did you notice that? Like some are decent, and some are worse than ME2. All of the war stuff is very confusing but I’m sure I’ll get the hang of that pretty quickly :) I just don’t want to mess anything up. And last thing, the mouse acceleration is pretty bad (even when turned off) but I’ll get used to that too. Other than all of those very minor things, it’s all so so great!
Oh, also I noticed in the beginning of the game when you do the mission on Mars with Liara and Kaidan, Liara most definitely still loves Shepard (i mean, if bringing her back from the dead wasn’t proof enough, hah). You have Shep still pining over Kaidan, who wants to give in but still has his completely reasonable doubts, and then Liara seeing all this going down and giving Shep these lingering looks, staring as the two are talking to each other. I’m probably overthinking things but that just made me really sad, she loves Shepard so much I can only imagine how much it hurts her to speak with the person she loves about how Shep doesn’t want to lose what’s most important to her (while staring at Kaidan).
Which as kind of a side note, Shep was upset during and after Horizon but after the initial sadness she moved on to Garrus and fell in love with him. Now in the start of the game, she’s clearly very much hung up and still in love with Kaidan. Like, some of the dialogue you don’t have a choice with and Shep sends some very obvious signals that she still loves him. Love is a funny thing, and I’m not complaining about it as I think it’s both sad and adorable, but it’s strange that the player doesn’t get a choice to show no love toward him whatsoever. Like, people who want to be bitchy towards Kaidan (aside from a few renegade choices) should be able to! Not that I would but the option should still be there!
This whole game so far is just really sad. Shepard’s discharge (by the way, exactly why was she discharged? Was it just the working for cerberus thing or is there another thing that caused her to be relieved from duty?), her PTSD over the events of Earth and that little boy (this broke my heart and I’m really hoping that we see more of these ‘episodes’ as they seem like a great opportunity for development. Or was that PTSD scene just a one off thing?), Kaidan possibly dying by the hands of what is somehow going to turn into EDI, Liara’s obvious unrequited love, I could go on. Like the tone has gotten noticeably darker throughout the trilogy and I’m so here for it. Especially Shep’s development. The more awful things she has to see and go through, the rougher her character gets. Paragon options are less and less paragon every single game, and renegade options get darker and more horrible each game. ME1 was sunshine and butterflies in comparison to ME2 and 3. Even scripted lines are significantly, for lack of a better word, tougher. Like I really feel like ME3 paragon Shep is more like ME1 renegade Shep than ME1 paragon Shep, if that makes any sense at all.
But it’s kind of unbelievable. I have been living and breathing Mass Effect since I messaged you that I started ME1. The only breaks I’ve taken was like a 1 day break between ME1 and 2 (and that doesn’t even count because I tried to play ME2 during that break) and I played Mafia 2 for like 2 hours. Other than that, it’s been me spending all of my free time playing ME. I think it’s safe to say that you’ve got me obsessed with this. Haven’t done this with any game series before, even Assassin’s Creed. It’s very unhealthy, I know, but I kind of love it. I’m dreaming about it, thinking about it when I’m not playing, even “seeing” elements of the game in real life (don’t worry I’m not hallucinating). It’s all I want to ever do now. I’m addicted now, it’s almost surpassed Witcher as my second favorite series (but in the Witcher’s defense, I don’t usually enjoy reading books and am trying to read the books before doing another playthrough which is kind of making me resent it a bit). It might have even surpassed Witcher, I don’t know yet.
I’m really sorry to be talking your ear off (or eyes, whatever) about ME but I just love it so much. Please let me know if my fangirly rants get to be too much :)
ooh wow, Enclave does look old. Good luck with that one, yikes. From the reviews it seems like you aren’t the only one having trouble with it. Are you at the very least enjoying the story? Because that’s what’s most important, bad gameplay can be partly overlooked if the story is great.
MD?
But yeah, I always try doing that or have now expectations. Somehow in school they doubted when I said I didn’t have expectations for a certain thing but I got so often disappointed by that point that… yeah, I didn’t have any expectations! :D
But I guess…. I might still have a bit of expectations going on. Like secretly hoping I might get pleasantly surprised ;)
Oh, sry. Didn’t mean to be sneaky… I kinda forgot to answer it. But then again… Do you really want me to answer? I mean I can tell one thing: There are for different endings. So, there you go. Now go on playing :P
Oh Kasumi was sweet - you can’t date her thought -.- And the Shadowbroker was nice. And… ups, noooooo I won’t say more! :x
Also I totally get that. Both the replaying right after finishing as well as probably getting the DLCs then. I think I loved every single one of them. But then… I love the game and every extra story to make it last longer is loved… :]
Right. Tv shows that actually tell a story are nice. Whereas there are some that don’t feel to much like telling a story. I mean, I would be totally annoyed if I had to watch it actually on tv because I had to wait and then watch every week once. Like I couldn’t see it in my time and when and how much I want :D
I haven’t seen all Elementary seasons in one, so it’s quite nice to come back to it every now and then. His protegee? Mhm, no I think that was three. Yeah, I’m kinda sure :D
And Luther. Yes, that was also a nice one! :]
Your very welcome! I’m always happy to infect someone with the ME fever :D
And to answer your question in advance: no, it’s not too much. Actually I’m giggling and happy to hear/read you are so happy/excited about it! bounce
It’s like I found somebody who can absolutely understand, why exactly I love the game sooooo much!
About this Kaidan/Liara situation. I never was in it. Kinda. Because Liara loves Shep. Even if you don’t date her (and didn’t try going that way) she loves Shep. It’s either a really close friend/family thing or obviously going right to romance. So in that way all her actions and looks make sense. On the other hand…. Yes, you abandoned Kaidan for Garrus. Maybe the game is stupid and thinks you didn’t mean it seriously and you would go back to Kaidan given the chance. Or maybe your Shep still has some mixed feelings about him, because you in fact did date him! Ugh, don’t ask me. Because as I said: I sticked to one romance partner. So in that sense, no, I didn’t encounter that scene :D
Right. I wanted to say something about the hair and face and stuff. Yes, some facials where not properly imported. Sadly really. Yes, the hair…. stays a sensitive subject, though I liked the new colours in it :D
No, I’m not sure I noticed the animations problems. But then again I also didn’t think it was that bad with Andromeda and loads of ppl complained about that. In fact that much, that the devs tried to do something about it. So yeah, maybe I’m easy to satisfy :] :D
Right, wait, there was something else, I wanted to react to srcolls up
The Discharge. Yeah, I’m pretty sure it was mostly about Shep being disloyal to the… army - I know they are called something else, can’t think of the name right now though O.O - and cooperating with the criminal organization Cerberus. Because Cerberus is considered to be criminal, you see?
Oh, do tell. What happened with the Geth?
God, one day I’ll decide against him - probably never though sigh
And yes, the game is getting darker. That’s right. And the choices way more clear in one or the other direction. And yes, Sheps face gets the red glowing scars if your going renegade.
sigh I miss my Shep. Which ever of them. I guess I’ll soon go back there :]
Enclave: The story seems… alright I guess. But I think I’m getting motion sickness (gaming sickness) way more easily with older games. Well I can’t play more then one mission and then I have to stop for a while or I’m… yeah, feeling unwell. And I really, really dislike old graphics (yep, that’s the main reason why I’m not going back to ME1, although it IS ME! :D). So I’m suffering a bit through it. But at least I’m halfway done. And I will absolutely do this! :D
Also I started AC1 since I couldn’t play Enclave for a long period of time, and I feels… I dunno clumsy in comparison. I think I’ll just focus on the main story and try to keep this one short. Yeah, I might miss a lot, but then it’s always irritating to go back to the origins of a series with just having played one of the newer ones (some games are an exception of course :D). Like with Hitman. The first one just didn’t work out for me after playing… uhm Absolution it was I think.
Have a lovely ME evening! :]
(And thank you for telling me so much about it! I really love reading so much about it and how you see and experience things. Can’t comment on all though :D)
Sorry, Modern Day. It’s barely in Syndicate and Unity.
Hah, I get you on that :) you say you have no or very low expectations but you secretly hope it’s going to be great, and when it’s not you curse yourself for not actually having low expectations
ahhhh sorry I assumed! I’m just really nervous about the ending(s) and part of me wants to know really badly what it is and the other part of me is avoiding all ME content like the plague so I don’t find out. Interesting to know that there are 4 endings though, thank you for telling me that somehow eases my fears a little bit.
Really cool that Liara is the shadow broker now, I just wish I had the DLC so I could have seen that journey! Love the new, more badass Liara though. She’s still sweet but now she’s also extremely capable and one of the most powerful people out there.
Yes! Definitely get you on that. Having to wait one week between showings is torture, having to wait between year long hiatuses for the next season is even worse. Which is why sometimes it is just best to watch shows that are finished :)
It was season 3? Ok, I must have stopped there then. That one was interesting though, the protege’s character got increasingly interesting, her arc was just really cool to see.
I feel the same it is so nice to be able to talk to someone about one of my new favorite series! I don’t have any friends that are really really into games like I am so it’s always great to be able to talk about them! Especially since I’m so obsessed with ME right now, if I wasn’t taking out all my excitement on you then I’d have to harp on one of my poor friends that doesn’t care about ME at all. So this is much better :)
Right, well I just hope Liara isn’t too hurt by anything :) I definitely really like her character now and just want her to be happy.
Yeah, you’re probably right on the game assuming because Kaidan was the original, that Garrus was just a fling. But that is definitely not true, my Shepard loves them both. It’s just interesting that the ME2 love interest isn’t taken into account at all until a little later.
Was it hard for you to stick to one love interest per playthrough? Or was it easy to choose for you? I tried to at the very least only romance Garrus in ME2 and flirt with Kelly enough for her to feed my fish. But then I accidentally led Thane on, which made me feel awful about immediately telling him that I just wanted to be friends. He’s for sure going to be the next one I romance in 2 though :)
So Kaidan asked me about cheating and I actually liked how it went. I can understand why people were pissed he even asked that after Horizon, but I think both he and Shep handled that whole conversation well. Shep explained that she never wanted to hurt him but after Horizon and them being apart she just couldn’t do it. Then Kaidan actually apologized and took full responsibility for his actions. He doesn’t blame Shepard for anything, but reassures her that she’s the only one for him (which breaks my heart because I’m leaning toward Garrus still). But then before that she kissed Garrus, so I feel guilty for leading them both on at this point! I love them both so much it’s going to be really hard to choose. But I guess that’s what replays are for right?
I like your optimism, the hair may be awful but at least the colors are nice, you’re right :)
The running and jogging animations in particular are just awful, and the lip sync and facial animations were never incredible in ME but they were a lot better in 2. And in cutscenes, I’m often seeing characters turn their heads in a way that would only work if their neck was broken. Just weird things like that, everything just seems kind of stiff. It’s not affecting my enjoyment of the game at all but when i first saw that jogging animation I said “oh dear lord that’s terrible” out loud. But I also have an interest in animation (though I know nothing about it as of right now) so I tend to really pay attention to it. So maybe I can get nitpicky at times. It’s just strange because it’s so inconsistent, like the combat animations are pretty good and then you have the ones I mentioned before and the contrast is just massive.
Right, okay. I thought maybe she did something else that put her on house arrest. Like in the DLCs or in the events between 2 and 3. Since discharge is one thing, house arrest is another. But working with Cerberus is a pretty damning thing I suppose.
“Oh, do tell. What happened with the Geth? God, one day I’ll decide against him - probably never though sigh” Sorry can you elaborate on this? I looked through my comment and I can’t seem to remember what this is referring to. Do you mean what happened with the Geth on Legion’s mission? Like did I decide to kill or convert them?
Yep, the transition into darkness is just fascinating. Choices are getting harder to make (like which is the lesser evil?), but at the same time they’re getting more black and white. I don’t know how to explain it but it’s just so interesting. And how sometimes the renegade choice is the best one now. I’m trying to stick with a mostly paragon Shep (as even though I try to choose what’s natural I almost always pick paragon anyway) but finding it more difficult now that the lines between paragon and renegade are blurred.
Yikes, well don’t force yourself to play it, even if you feel obligated! If it makes you feel sick then that’s just miserable :( But I wish you luck if you decide to push through it!
I understand the graphics thing, I refuse to play any game released before the PS3, X360 generation. Graphics aren’t a big deal but they are when they’re as bad as they were sub 2006 or so.
And for ME1, if you haven’t downloaded the mod MEUITM, it improves graphics tremendously!
AC1 definitely will take you some getting used to, like you said, especially since you’ve played the newer games first. It’s a lot easier when you go from oldest to newest. You will miss out on very little if you don’t do all of the content, so you’re okay (you’ll miss out on being able to read some maps and guard routes so you can plan assassinations but this is not necessary). The missions are extremely repetitive so I don’t blame you, but the assassinations are top notch. They don’t get as good as they are in AC1 until Unity. My only recommendation would be to do save citizens nearby the assassination missions. They can help you infiltrate the area. But even that isn’t entirely necessary as there are always multiple ways of getting inside. Otherwise you can skip whatever you want and be okay.
Thanks, I will! And you have a wonderful dated graphics evening :)
(good to hear because I absolutely love talking about it all!)
Soooooo much to react to, soooo much to say and type. So let’s get started :D
Ok, MD makes sense and it already made sense in retro perspective. I guess I’m really no smart detective :D
Mhm. I would try to avoid spoilers (and I try real hard to not tell you anything here!), but in the end, what ever you feel comfortable with :D
And yes, I have tried every ending. And no, I have no idea which one I prefer. But since I’m mostly going for the friendly way… yeah, the most friendly is probably my preferred ending :D
In the DLC you help Liara to get the job. Which is really cool :D
But yes, she is just awesome in three. So sweet and at the same time though. So melancholic and wise. And so… did I mention, that I kinda wanna replay after talking so much about the game recently? :D <3
Yeah, my second Shep struggled a bit. I started with him in 2. And since I’ve seen Miranda for the first time (my reaction: “Oh hello, angel”) I knew I wanted to date her. But Jack……… <3
But then I fucked up the Jack situation (yep, literally) and so I ended with Miranda. Which was fine :D
But if you mean, if I struggled to be faithful with Liara: No, no problems there, even if she was not that much around in two. But my Shep was dating her and I did everything to stay faithful. And yes, Thane tempted me like… a lot! I mean, I’m an absolute Garrus fan as well but I already knee I was going to play a Shep just for him. And I had no idea about Thane then and he was just so differently sweet. And I still haven’t dated him yet sigh One day, Thane! One day, I come and get you! <3
Yes, exactly that’s why I play it more then once. And the nicest thing is: If you decide to replay with a Shep that already finished the game (like the one you play right now with and date the other guy) she keeps her lvl and you can reach the top end guns and all that. I relayed it with one Shep to master the hardcore mode :)
Yeah, the running animations… are awkward :D
And now that you mention it, I kinda remember some strange head turnings going on…. O.O
Gosh, tbh I might want to look it up. But I am rather certain she got arrested because of the Cerberus affair. In the end it still it rather stupid because without Cerberus she would not be back and all that :D
“If Shepard took part in the events of Arrival, the Commander is on Earth and is placed under arrest, waiting to be tried for causing the destruction of the Bahak system and its 300,000 batarian colonists. If not, then Shepard is tried for working with Cerberus.” Right. There is this one DLC for 2 where you… kinda kill a lot of Batarians. Yep, that’s the other reason. But since you didn’t play that, it’s “only” the Cerberus thing :D
Yeah, so in 2 you find this one Geth unite, right? And you take it on your ship. And then you have the choice of activating it or… not. I wondered which one you picked there :D
But I guess you kept him, since you mentioned the Geth mission with Legion. So yeah, Legion is aboard. Because if you don’t activate him and hand him over to Cerberus you supposedly have to fight him at a certain point in 3. But that never happened to me (yet) ;)
Yeah, I normally try to stick with paragon choices. But it was really interesting to force myself to go all renegade this one try. It gives the game a different touch which is also nice. I mean, I don’t feel like doing it the renegade way but it sure was also fun. Then again I already had to create that Shep with her being a bit thougher and meaner in mind otherwise it would never have worked out :D
In the end she was super bitchy with Jacob. Have you met him in 3 yet? Guess you’ll see why she was bitchy to him :D
Oh and about Elementary: I think it was three. I kinda only remembered his protegee, when you mentioned her. I can’t recall though what happened with her. I think I shall soon rewatch the series. And this time in English. I started it back in the day in German (when Amazon didn’t offer it in English yet). Sooooooo yeah, some things get blurry :D
But I like the show. Mostly because they did a few thing totally different and still got the Holmes idea across :]
One at a time works for Enclave. Also I got some wristbands that can help out with traveling sickness. I still train to play with them, but it makes it way easier :)
Oh, I had no idea, there was a mod. Somehow I’m not that much into modding games. I got some for Cities and Banished, when I played it. But since they mostly don’t work that good with achievements I avoid them. Aldo most games work for me without. But I do now there are some nice ones for Skyrim for example. If I ever get back to that one… :]
I tried to play AC from start to “now”. But AC1 never wanted to work. Now it does though! bounces around happy
But apart from 1 I have played AC chronologically. I mean I even play Liberation in the right position :D
But I don’t think I’ll play these… 2d AC games. The China and what not ones. Nope, not my kind of game ;)
Ah, ok. So the citizens are actually useful! Good to know. Thanks, I’ll keep it in mind :)
Didn’t feel to good yesterday. So I started to play a rather…. boring dating game. Like you have to organize the week and then you just sit in front of your pc and wait for the week to be over :D
But I’m progressing with the others. Slowly but still :)
(Happy to hear it :) )
I appreciate that! I know it’s hard because I’m nosy and am pushing for spoilers even though I don’t want them AT ALL. However, if you have any non spoilery tips on how to get the best ending, that is more than welcome! I’m so afraid to mess something up and get some kind of ending where everyone dies or something.
That is cool! She’s so good at her job now too, such a badass. But at the same time, after meeting Javik she turned into a bouncy fangirl! Just adorable.
Hah, I’ve been a bad influence on you :) It may get in the way of your backlog plans but I’m sure you would have a great time replaying ME again too.
Even if you messed things up with Jack (which seems like it’s easy to do since she’s batshit crazy) you got to get with the hottest Cerberus agent out there, so that’s definitely a silver lining! Aw that’s sweet though, that you stayed true to ya girl Liara. By the way I know I said like 3 days ago that I was just ok about her character but I actually love her now. Take her on every mission.
What I may do is reject Garrus on this playthrough and go back to Kaidan, then dedicate an entire playthrough for Garrus and only Garrus. And then another for Liara. And then I’ll have to fit Thane in somewhere (he became one of my all time favorites behind Garrus), and Jacob can be alone forever as far as I’m concerned. Then I’ll have to play a male Shep and see all of his romances. But I’m getting way ahead of myself, that’s like over 5 playthroughs of the series. I can just see me 10 years from now, going yes! I finally romanced everybody!
That’s good to know, I had no idea there was a new game plus! Saves having to create a brand new character from scratch :) I’m too attached to my current Shep to do that anyway.
How’d you handle the hardcore mode? Is it…. hardcore?
Yup! The game as a whole just seems less polished but not to the point where it significantly impacts the quality of the game.
Ahhhh ok! Thank you for looking that up :) The batarian thing is mentioned quite a few times, but of course they just say that the Alliance did it as Shep didn’t have any part in it. So either way she gets placed under arrest, which I mean, fair enough. It’s funny how Shepard always points out she was relieved of duty when people mention her arrest. I guess I wouldn’t want to talk about that either, hah.
Riiight I thought that was what you were talking about. So in Legion’s mission I ultimately decided that destroying the geth was a bad idea, because I thought they would be an important asset later on and that it wasn’t fair to destroy these sentient beings when you have an opportunity to change their views for the better. Not activating Legion never even occurred to me :) What did you do?
I honestly can’t even imagine playing as an entirely renegade Shep, some of those options are just ridiculously cruel. And I could never treat my squad mates badly :( Especially playing entirely renegade in 3. This game is depressing enough without Shep doing a bunch of horrible and cruel things to get what she wants :( That being said, aside from renegade Shep making some terrible choices, the bitchy and sarcastic responses must have been hilarious for you to watch.
I have not met Jacob yet! But from what I’ve seen, I’m guessing he’s still with Cerberus. I don’t think he’d betray Shepard or anything, but if he’s an asshole to me then I’ll be an asshole to him too. EDIT: Met him just now, he was fine. I’d be pissed if I romanced him only to find out he cheated on me with the doctor though. But he was his nice boring self so everything went well.
I watched it a while ago too, but from what I remember I think she tortured her rapist and then left the country forever to avoid getting arrested. But yeah, the show had some really cool ideas. Like Sherlock not acting like a child 100% of the time (like in the BBC show) and Watson and Moriarty being female. Puts a nice twist on things.
Ah well I’m glad you’ve found a way to push through it :) Speaking of, did you ever end up finishing Witcher 2?
The mod for ME1 that I mentioned is so easy to install! Unlike almost all of the other mods for ME. It makes things look almost like ME2, in some cases better. So it’s a must have imo. Here’s the link if you want to take a look (http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect/mods/searchresults/?).
Wow you played Liberation! That’s some dedication right there. Yeah, don’t bother with the Chronicles sidescroller AC games. As you know, I’m a diehard AC fan and I played about 2 hours of China and couldn’t do it anymore. They’re like bad ripoffs of Mark of the Ninja, and they have a story that you likely won’t care about at all.
Yeah the citizens will generally just give you vigilantes which will help you fight, so that isn’t super useful. However near entrances or areas where assassinations occur there will generally be a save citizen nearby that will award you with scholars to blend with.
Aw are you okay?
And an update on my most recent events with ME3: Ok, I’m irritated. Was wondering why my war readiness rating was stuck at 50% so I googled it. Turns out, I have to play multiplayer to increase it and get the amount I need to be able to get all of the endings. If I had the DLC I could get away with it, but now I guess I have to grind the multiplayer or cheat by adding war assets to the game files. Either way that’s some bullshit.
By the way, Mordin died curing the genophage (“someone else might have gotten it wrong”) and Thane died being a badass and I cried so hard both times. I almost had to shoot Kaidan and I would have cried at that too if I did have to. That whole siege of the citadel messed me up man, I did not see Udina’s betrayal coming. And Thane died early because of it so of course I shot the dick. Glad he’s gone, never liked him. This assassin guy seems like an interesting enemy though.
Still debating on the romance thing, had the opportunity to romance the reporter Diana and Traynor. Diana was easy to reject, but Traynor was admittedly difficult. She’s very sweet, cute, and clearly has a thing for Shep. But unfortunately there may only be one
EDIT: So I just dumped Garrus, that was the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make in a game. My logic is that I can romance Kaidan in this playthrough, then get the most out of my romance with Garrus on the next playthrough when I have the Citadel DLC. If it weren’t for that I’d probably be debating all day about who to choose.
He took it so well and seemed disappointed but not hurt, but after reloading and comparing the scenes to when you break up and when you tell him you love him, there’s just no comparison :( Just gotta keep telling myself that I’m doing it so I can get the full Garrus romance when I have the DLCs. Doesn’t make things any less sad though.
Help I’m more attached to a dinosaur looking fictional alien than I am to most people in my life
Well, no. You can’t really fuck the end up. You only have to go after your gut and decide which ends works best for you. You can go in three directions or be a badass :]
Ah yes. Liara the Javik fangirl. I sooooo liked that part. It’s like her dreams came true! <3
Ah man, that backlog and ME. They don’t like each other. It’s like backlog and MMOs, they distaste each other as well :D
Messing up with Jack is super easy. Just have sex with her and bamm you can’t date her. Idiotically funny, right? :D
So did you meet Miranda in 3 yet, because, well… any thinking human being that worked at some point with Shep can’t really stand Cerberus any longer, right? ;)
And it’s sooooo mean. I kinda love every character in ME. Some more, some less. Most off all I’m annoyed Vegas is no romance option sob He would be perfect for a though Shep <3
I did mention, I like Vin Diesel, right? :D
And yes, working without Liara is…. it’s difficult. I sometimes have to force myself to build a different team. It’s like shes sneaking into it every time!
I know how you feel about being all renegade. I couldn’t pull it through with all teammates. That’s why she was my only Shep who disliked aliens. And dated Jacob. And then was pissed with him, since he dumped her for some stupid scientist :D
Haha, yeah, I know. That’s me literally. If I didn’t have that backlog, I would play ME way more, way more often. Oh, but you could poke me the next time you start a playthorugh and depending on who you date I would start with you :)
At some points hardcore was just that: Hardcore. But at others it was not at all. I know you are not yet there, but when you reach London and have this horrible fight…. It was way more easy in Hardcore o.o
Yeah, the Batarians are mentioned now and then. I always wondered what happened there until I got the DLC and suddenly it aaaaall made sense :D
Funny I totally forgot it. But then again it has been a while… :]
Up until now I never turned against Legion. I couldn’t. But yes, I turned once against the Geth. Guess what? It was my mean Shep :D
Afterwards Legion is a bit… disappointed?
(Sherlock, I just mention it to make the different subject obvious :D)
Ah yes, now that you mention it, I remember it. She was the one who couldn’t open the door. Also Sherlock brought her along from England. Yeah, I remember. But she was no replacement for Watson :]
Ha, yeah, these Sherlocks are different. But I also like my BBC Sherlock. He is way more light.At least up until the last season, that was so intense and darkish. My dad had trouble with his immense drug abuse. I just tried to explain to him, that Sherlock always had drug problems, even the book Sherlock took drugs. Apparently that doesn’t work out for my dad :]
(W2) Nope, still didn’t find any time for the last third of Witcher 2. The Challenge Me thing got in the way. One more reason to get that done soon and get back to W2 before I forget everything again :D
(AC) Ha, I just wanted to do it the right way and order :D
Also I like the series a lot, so it felt pretty smart to get that one as well. Plus it was not as expansive as the newer ones, so… yeah :)
The Scholars are really pretty helpful to get into places. But that’s the only thing I use them for. Yk for the assassinations and such. They are to slow to get into town. I rather jump around then wait for them :D
Yeah, it’s all right. Knowing about it makes it easier to handle it :)
Also it makes me avoid certain games from the start. But that is ok.
And back to ME3 :D
Ah yes, the readiness. You can manage without it though. But it’s best to do every side missions in that case - which you’ll probably do any way, right? ;)
But I loved the MP from ME3! At some point it was a bit annoying to play it since the shut off service. Dunno how that is nowadays. But if you ever want some help, you can poke me on steam and we can become Origins friends and I’ll come with you. But just beware, that I have to go to bed at some point :D
Oh, but if you consider playing MP you should get all the MP DLCs. They are for free, so no worries. It just gets difficult playing with others if you don’t have them :)
Mordin… sniff He was so….. soooo… and then he sacrificed himself cry
Yeah, there is a lot going on like that. Also Thane….. it was soooooooo sad! And all because of this stupid Cerberus Agent >.<
Who is in a way real cool, but then… on the wrong side! -.-
Traynor is a girls only option. Just so you know :D
I never dated Diana though o.o
Poor, brave Garrus! But again, just as Liara: he will manage :)
And you will come back to him at some point, so that’s ok :)
And yes, I know! This attachment to made up characters…. I never before or after encountered it that much as with ME! <3
Ok, good to know. Suppose I’ll just have to try for the least bad option when I get there.
It’s funny though, after fangirling about Javik she and the other crewmembers just get increasingly tired of his shit. Like she’s always talking about how the Protheans aren’t how she thought they were! As a sidenote, Javik really wants to throw Legion out of the airlock. He’s mentioned it like 5 times so far :)
Ah yes, at some point you just have to think, do I want to have a possibly great experience with a new game or do I want to have a familiar yet still amazing experience with a game I’ve already played multiple times? Usually I’ll give in and end up replaying a game :/
Hah! Well Jack is… damaged. Maybe you screwed her too early? Like there’s probably something really intimate about having sex for the first time right before you’re about to go on a suicide mission. I guess.
Yup, met Miranda. I think it’s safe to say she completely hates Cerberus now that they’re, you know, working with her father and trying to kill her.
Now that you mention it, James is a bit like Vin Diesel! I can’t unsee that now. But he’s adorable, flirting with Shep until she actually acknowledges it, then he gets all flustered. Just so cute. If you could have romanced him it would’ve been the cutest thing ever.
Now that I have Kaidan, who is ridiculously overpowered, he’s like a god I mean holy crap. But anyway, I’m rolling with him and Liara now most of the time. As much as I love Garrus I’m not about to put Shepard’s ex and current boyfriend on the same team, I’m not that cruel. And G is more or less an infiltrator so he isn’t the most useful team member unfortunately.
Oh god being a racist Shepard sounds awful! Entertaining, but awful. Bet you burned a lot of bridges in that playthrough. Good to know you can get angry at Jacob :) Not even saying a word to Shep and then boom he got some doctor pregnant. Real classy, Jacob.
That damn backlog, I wish we had all the time in the world so we could get done all the games we want to play and have all this time to replay the others to our hearts desires. To be honest though, at this moment the only games in my library that I’m really itching to play (that I haven’t already played) are the Wolf Among Us, Witcher 1 and 2, Firewatch, Thief, Fallout NV, DOOM, Dishonored, and Deus Ex HR. The rest, and even a couple of those ones can wait.
But I get you and everyone else here, there’s really something so satisfying about checking off each game, having a library with every single game played (especially since you spent money on most of those games). You’re making some great progress on that front.
Aw that’s sweet, it would be fun to play with you! Once I finish 3 I’ll know almost everything so you won’t have to hold back on talking about anything.
ooh I’ve heard about something going down in London a few times from Anderson, and the cinematics all contain London being blown to shit. Sounds exciting. Interesting to hear that it’s actually easier on a hard difficulty though? yikes.
It’s actually interesting, there have been two or so quests involving the Batarian fiasco and both times they acted like it was Shep’s fault directly. Canonically it was I guess, but it’s still weird to see since I don’t have that DLC. In that first quest and during other times Shep explains that the alliance needed to destroy the relay. But in this other quest, when a batarian tries to kill her, she explains it like she was the one who did it, with no mention of the alliance. Just a tiny inconsistency I thought was interesting :)
Ahh that’s so sad, I mean you are basically killing a large number of his people so that might make even a machine a bit upset. I’m glad that you don’t usually turn against Legion, he’s so wonderful and pure. He actually makes you sympathize with the Geth and what they want for their people.
I was so angry at the quarians when I learned they didn’t heed my advice and created a fucking war with the geth. Especially when they would have been more than willing to negotiate peace. It’s not something my Shep would usually do, but after they left her, Tali, and Kaidan to die on the geth dreadnought, she socked one of the admirals in the gut and yelled at all the others. Don’t regret it one bit.
(by the way it is the cutest thing ever that everyone calls Legion “it” except Shep, who calls Legion “him” or a friend. just so pure and lovely)
Ok and now to Sherlock: Yeah of course, Watson is the only one for Sherlock :) I haven’t seen the most recent season of the BBC Sherlock yet. I honestly disliked season 3 so I really have no desire to continue watching but the drug use has me intrigued. Why do I like deeply disturbed characters so much? But I can see your dad and other people not liking that kind of thing as a plot device, it can be a hard topic to watch :)
AC: Yeah Liberation is what, like an 8 hour game? So not hugely time consuming. And Connor is briefly in it which makes it automatically worth playing.
Yeah I usually don’t mess with scholars either. Going in and out of town I’ll usually just take the “secret” entrance or gallop up to the gate with my horse and jump over the guard’s heads.
By the way, talking about your post on your profile on AC1, if you aren’t there yet fast travel will soon be available! I believe you get it once you have assassinated at least one person in each city (so sequence 4 or 5 I believe). And the game is a huge pain to shut off, safest way to do it quickly is exit the animus then just ALT F4.
“Yeah, it’s all right. Knowing about it makes it easier to handle it :)
Also it makes me avoid certain games from the start. But that is ok.”
Shit, so sorry I know I keep doing this I’m trying not to forget to respond to anything. What exactly were we talking about here?
Annnd back to ME3:
Yep I just saw that it’s impossible for me to get enough war assets to get all of the possible endings with no DLC and at a 50% readiness rating (but I’ll try as hard as I can by doing all the content anyway of course!). So either I have to cheat, live with it and get whatever ending I’m not able to get on the next playthrough, or play the MP. If I choose the latter then I really appreciate your offer and I may take you up on it :)
Oh Mordin :( And Thane :( They were loyal and brave heroes until the very end. As cool as this new assassin is I want him dead for what he did. Like you said though, if he was on the right side he would be an amazing asset and a pretty cool team member.
ooh I did not know that :) I think Diana swings both ways though.
Garrus is fine (unlike me, i am still sad about it), it seems like he’s already moving on. Flirting with Tali every chance he gets :( They’re a cute pairing, he deserves to be happy, and it’s great that he’s moving on. But he sure is doing it super quickly. And I never even wanted to break it off in the first place! Ah if only Kaidan and Garrus were ok with a tiny bit of polygamy. But yep you’re right, I’ll play again and go back to him next time :)
Me either actually. Like, Witcher 3 had me so attached and involved with many of the main characters and I’ll always love Connor and Haytham from AC3 but I’ve never actually been so unbelievably invested in those characters like I have been with Shepard and Co. It’s pretty amazing (or pathetic if you’re a pessimist but whatever!) <3
Oh and I’m curious, how many times have you played ME 1 2 and 3? You said you’ve neglected 1 a bit but you really know your stuff with 2 and 3.
EDIT: Found out something horrible just now. A bit obscure so you may not remember it. But there’s an asari huntress as a PTSD patient in hospital. She’s freaking out because no one will give her a gun and she’s also telling her story about what happened to her on Tiptree, a human colony. She met this farm family before one of her indoctrinated squadmates came along. The asari and the daughter ran, defensless (the asari was showering and had no gun). Everyone in the family except the farm girl became indoctrinated and the asari patient killed them all and enjoyed doing it. So she and the daughter hid after that, but the farm girl was injured and couldn’t stop crying in pain. The asari had important data and couldn’t risk being seen so she killed the girl to shut her up. It turns out that girl’s name was Hillary and was around 15 years old. Joker has a family on Tiptree, and a little sister aged 15 named Hillary. So Joker’s entire family was killed by this asari huntress sitting in the hospital and asking for a gun. And you can’t even tell Joker about it, so I guess he never finds out what happens. So that just ruined my night.
In the Spectre office you can authorize her to get a gun, which she will then use to kill herself. You lose war assets from that though. I know this is horrible but I didn’t authorize the gun because I want her to suffer, knowing she killed Joker’s sister.
Ah, you’ll manage it just fine! It’s not that difficult to decide for an ending. Unless you are not happy with any, then… yeah.. :/
Ha, yeah. The not so noble and perfect Protheans. Guess that’s always a problem if you encounter and Idol. They just crumble to dust and act like every ordinary person :D
Yavik and Legion. I know what you mean :]
Ah. No. Jack. She thinks Shep just once to fuck around with her (literally) so she confronts him and that’s that. But if your going for a romance, you say no, because it’s not all about sex. Which totally confuses her and… yeah, you see where that is going, right? ;)
Hope that spoiler was alright, you didn’t sound like Jack was right on your to romance list :D
I knoooooow, right? James is just sooooooo adorable and his best friend is a gay guy <3
But nooooo, bioware won’t have us dating him sigh
Oh, I bet there are some terribly cute Fanfictions about him and Shep around. I never checked that out O.O
Mhm, I get that. I don’t think I could take current bf/gf and ex with me on the same mission. That would totally feel like bitching would happen :D
I don’t really now if that is possible since I never had that situation, but in my imagination it would totally happen :D
Yeah, Jacob was kinda insensible about the whole subject. I mean, he could at least have written like… a Mail. Just to warn her. Don’t think it would have helped though. She would still have been pissed about the whole thing. Just because she left Cerberus and has been arrested he sleeps around and gets random women pregnant? Noho, Jacob! Just no!
The wolf among us <3
It was sooooooo nice! <3
I also loved Thief! <3
And yes, Deus Ex, totally get that as well :D
And even having the time…. one can never play the games at the same time sigh
Yes, then we can talk about every thing and….. bounce around
It just depends on who you wanna date really :D
I would be kinda relieved if you picked someone I already had though… and sad… The world is soooooo complicated! sob
Yeah, I guess it’s mostly because the weapons and skills are way better on lvl 10.
Or. I dunno. One just turns super duper. I dunno. It certainly seemed way easier :D
Could also be because stumbling around on easy mode one has no idea whats really happening and aaaaaah! :D
Huh, never really realized that. Or yes, maybe. But… It just always felt like, yeah, I’m responsible, since I’m part of the alliance? Dunno. Also we are not always friendly with them, right? So it didn’t feel too out of the place :D
Nooooo, in general I really like Legion. “Shepard commander!” <3
But I kinda misused that one Shepard for all the bad things :D
Urgh. Yeah, I know. Why do they have to fight them? They have literally the same origin and just… sooo frustrating!
But again, you can influence that :)
Yeah. I know. But for Legion gender is of no importance. I mean he could as well be a she and we’d never know. Though yeah, for me he is a he. Clearly :D
Man, I’m so annoyed right now. I just now figured out how to speed up this game (Cosplay Maker). Happy on one hand, but pissed, since I wasted soooo much time on it already :D
Sherlock: But I don’t see them dating, like EVER. It’s just a pure love between them. She is the most important person for him but just not in that way :)
I liked it. It was so super fucked up :D
But I guess it’s understandable it’s not so easy for everybody. It is a though subject and he falls deep. But it’s just blindness to think it’s something unusual for Sherlock Holmes. Or maybe missing knowledge about him :D
AC: True, Liberation was rather short. I also hugely missed the out of the Animus aspect. But the rest was fun. Jumping around in the swamp and I loved the option to wear different outfits! :D
Can’t say I remember Connor though O.O
Yep, unlocked the fast travel. Which is super awesome and handy! <3 Makes everything so much easier! This riding around in between was rather… annoying cough :]
Oh right. That would be an option I guess :D I always do it the “hard” way. Logging out of the animus, logging out of the game, selct the profil and THEN shut it off -.-
““Yeah, it’s all right. Knowing about it makes it easier to handle it :)
Also it makes me avoid certain games from the start. But that is ok.”
Shit, so sorry I know I keep doing this I’m trying not to forget to respond to anything. What exactly were we talking about here?”
Gaming sickness :D
ME3:
Really? Without the DLC it’s not working out? Didn’t realize that o.o
I’m pretty sure there is still something going on MP wise. The MP was pretty good. Also… you need it for the story :D
But I have some high lvl charas there (I’m pretty sure at least), so we should be able to do the normal rounds with just the two off us if you feel more like that :)
Thanes end is sooooo bittersweet because he sacrifices himself, knowing all to well he’s going to die anyway. Which I hate btw. I would have liked every teammate to survive! But noooo, sweet Thane has to die! And Mordin, the so brave and though Salarian. I mean, I’m not in love with the Salarians, but he’s just awesome! (In Andromeda the pilot is a Salarian :D)
What was the Assassins name again? Can’t come up with the name think
He is a real though enemy though. I sooooo hated him in some battles sigh
Wait a sec. Yep, Diana is for both available :D
I liked Tali and Garrus together a lot! It’s like: I can’t date either of you right now, so be happy together! <3
It’s so cute when you walk in on them at some point :D
He’s waiting for you. Just in a different dimension ;)
Nonononono, that is NOT pathetic! We are gamers, we are allowed to feel that way! nods enthusiastically
I’m still looking forward to W3, since it’s supposedly the best W game, I’m having high hopes… damn, there is already the mistake -.- :D
I’m not entirely sure. I think I have completed 1 twice. I… wait. The notes might help here :]
Also my coffee is empty but I’m way to much typing to go downstairs and fill it up again :D
Yeah. With one I’m still not sure. I’ve marked Liara and Kaidan as completed romance option but I know that I never finished the Kaidan playthrough. I wanted to play it with my mum since I love the game so much but we never finished it. So… yeah. On the other hand I think I’ve played my mean Shep from one all to three. Urgh, dunno.
Two is way more easy: 5 times so far. Since I never dated Kelly on her own. Unless… again, I have not completed the last playthrough. Damn, I really have to look if I still have the old saves and can play them onto my pc. Let’s see. I have dated Liara, also Garrus. I can remember dating Miranda aaand Jacob. The Kaidan romance is a blur though O.o
On to three: Jep, 6 times. Liara, Garrus, Steve (<3), Samantha, Miranda and Kaidan. That would also mean I HAVE dated Kaidan in two :D
And in case your curious: Andromeda played once so far :]
I knooooow. I listened to all the stories all over the place (yeah, I have to much time on my hands and I so love how the NPCs tell parts of there life the more you come back to them), but I am not sure I made the connection. Probably did though ô.o
But yes, poor Joker sniff
Did you push him and EDI to dating? :] <3
Javik is definitely…. flawed. Like aside from the whole enslaving inferior races thing, he’s just all around very black and white and doesn’t understand a lot about the world. It’s a cool thing to watch but it shows a very stark contrast between what he finds acceptable and what actually is.
But, speaking of Legion… bby no :( He’s dead too now. He sacrificed himself so the Geth and Quarians could live in harmony, and right before he died he referred to himself as “I” instead of “we”. So he became a person, and then died :( It was so sudden too I didn’t even connect that he was gone for a few seconds after he fell over. Poor Legion. All these deaths are NOT OK
Ah that’s sweet though, that she gets confused. She’s only ever been used her whole life and seeing Shep treating her like an actual person must be such a strange concept for her. But yeah Jack and every other maleshep romance is not a priority on my romance list :) Now that I’ve finished ME1 and 2 I don’t mind spoilers for different outcomes or anything that didn’t happen in my playthrough, as I’d probably eventually look it up on Youtube anyway.
Yes! James and Cortez are the best, I love their banter! When I was looking up romance stuff I found out that you can actually have a one night stand with James if you have the citadel DLC. So that’s cool but not the same as a real romance at all. And as maleshep you can romance Cortez which I didn’t know, help him get over his dead husband and all that. Just… really cute.
Yeah I don’t think that can happen, especially because Garrus and Kaidan really don’t seem like the type to be petty like that. Like, I see them as still being bros despite the awkwardness. But I’m still not going to take them on missions together :)
Oh man, an email might even be worse! Like, “Hey Shepard, I just wanted you to know i stopped caring about you a long time ago, cheated without telling you, and knocked up some scientist lady. Also I quit cerberus, hope you weren’t found guilty but I don’t really care either way. Also I still have daddy issues. Ok bye.” Damn right your Shepard should be pissed!
I can tell you love thief, considering it’s your profile picture :)
What’s next on your list aside from finishing up W2? Anything good?
Well, if it helps I can tell you already that I will 100% be going for Garrus on my next playthrough. ME1, not sure if I’ll romance someone or not. I may just replay 2 and 3 for Garrus, then after that eventually do a full replay of the trilogy, maybe romancing Liara? I don’t know though. But either way you will be free to talk about anything and everything :)
Honestly I still die on normal sometimes. Infiltrator is bad at crowd control (well, not so bad anymore now that I have the Black Widow and a 43 bullet ammo capacity) and I am still bad at gaming with M/K. So hardcore sounds like a nightmare! But good news, I am getting used to M/K finally and I may actually play some games without my trusty controller now. How I ever played shooters with a controller, I have no idea.
Yeah, the batarians never really did seem too trusting of humans, or anyone else really. Especially that one bartender that tries to kill you. But yeah it didn’t really feel out of place :) It is sad that all that happened to them though, I would be angry too if the military committed genocide on my species for the greater good.
Always a great feeling, knowing that you wasted hours of your life on something that could have taken just a few minutes :)
Sherlock: I can’t see them dating either, I can totally understand why so many people ship them, especially the BBC Sherlock and John. But they belong together, just in a platonic way! Hm, maybe I’ll have to watch season 4 sometime, they only release one like every 3 years so I’ve got time.
AC: yeah the disguise mechanic was great! I wish they had brought it into the main series as it’s such a cool concept! Definitely fits the assassin “hide in plain sight” thing too. Connor was in 1 mission for like 5 minutes, Aveline traveled to New York to help Connor with something? I think, don’t really remember honestly.
Good! Everything goes uphill from there and will just be a lot less tedious from now on. That’s like a 30 second shutdown process, thank goodness they streamlined that in every other entry in the series.
Ah right, gaming sickness :) That may have its pros and cons but I’m sure it helps you narrow down what you’re going to play a little bit!
ME3: Yep, that’s what I read. Who knows if it’s right but I don’t want to take any chances. Well thank you :) Maybe I’ll check it out today and see what it’s about, I don’t usually play MP but if I have to then I have to!
What makes it even worse is how he’s literally dying when you meet him, so you try not to get attached to his character, then oops you do anyway. And then he dies early because of course he does :( It’s just all around sad. And Mordin, the greatest salarian who ever lived. Sacrificed himself so the Krogan could live. Can all of these characters just stop it with the self sacrificing!
The assassin’s name is Kai Leng, seems like a hard enemy.
Yes, I’m still jealous but if they’re happy then I’m (and shep) happy. :) Speaking of Tali, why in the world did they not do a face reveal when she took off her mask on Rannoch?! Like, that’s something I’m sure everyone wanted to see, then the camera cuts away. Like whyyyyy I just want to know what she looks like!
Nah, keep your high hopes for W3! You (probably) won’t be disappointed. Once you get there it’s going to be like the roles are reversed, with me dying to tell you all this stuff but not being able to, and you discovering all the magic for the first time :)
Well if it makes you feel better there basically is no Kaidan romance in 2 except for him being mad at you on Horizon then apologizing later. So you don’t need to worry about that :) But 5 and 6 times, wow. For such big games that’s quite a lot. Andromeda only once? Shame on you! Kidding, but it sounds like you’re going to have to replay that one eventually :)
yeah the ptsd soldier was my favorite until I found that out, now I think it’s the couple that are trying to figure out a way to properly break up with the husband at war.
I still can’t believe you can’t tell Joker :( Poor guy will never find out what truly happened… But anyway, yes I did! But first I picked the dialogue option to come on to Joker just to see what would happen. He of course rejected Shep :) But it all ended happily, with Joker and Edi sitting in the bar playing Hot or Not.
Ok, I think I’m sort of getting towards the end. Did all side missions except for 2 which I am locked from doing for now, fully explored every galaxy available so far, and so all I have left is Priority Thessia onward.
Also it’s raining right now! That never happens.
EDIT: Just making sure, Shepard isn’t indoctrinated right? Just thinking about that, it’s the kind of ending I can see viciously pissing people off. Please tell me that’s an insane theory. ———- Ok, you answered this one. I’m not exactly happy that it’s apparently a theory that makes sense… but okay.
Another edit: Ok thank goodness, I don’t need to do the MP. I have the extended cut DLC which means I need 3100 effective war assets to get all of the endings. I have 3300. So no grinding or cheating needed! I’m still nervous that something’s going to glitch out and I won’t be able to get all the endings but that’s just me being paranoid.
And also, I have a choice. As a birthday gift I just got $100. I’m either going to spend it on AC Origins or ME DLC. Not sure what to do as I will definitely get more hours out of Origins but I care more about mass effect right now. Both would likely be played at around the same time, ME maybe a bit earlier. The most recent two ACs have burned me pretty badly as well, but I actually have good expectations for this one. Neither are really going to go on sale so I don’t know. If I buy both then I’m out $80. Any input?
Well to Yaviks defense: He is from a totally different time and world and everything. So for him it is all pretty normal to think so and we are the idiots to believe in something different. But that’s all I’m willing to say to his defense. Because I think it is just cruel to assimilate every other species and say: Oh, now you are Protheans, but not equal and you have to work for us -.-
It’s like the Borg… only worse. They at least accept everybody as equal. As one. Yeah, you know what I mean ^^
I know. It also took me a while to fully understand/accept, he was gone for the sake of G/Q. That. Is. Not. OK! I cried. I sometimes cry playing games, because I get so emotionally involved, but never that much and often as with ME3 :/
And then the one Geth comes up and says something about Legion. That was so……. sniff
Ah, you mentioned it somewhere in your reply. Tali and the Mask. You only see her face if you romance her or spoiler yourself on the internet. I still haven’t done the first but the later. Which is a bit disappointing tbh. Like she could look really cute alien but in the end it’s not really alien. So I’m way more happy with pics fans made :)
Yeah, I kinda get, she’s not a priority. For me neither. And still Jack is just awesome and cool and so broken. She is somebody I would like to hug until all is better again. And she was the only romance so far I looked what happened when I went for two. She and Miranda…. well kissing and fighting, right? :D Only no kissing :]
Having a one night stand with James is not the same as a romance though. It’s a start but… that’s that. Ok, so it’s better then nothing, but he would be so nice to romance! <3
Yeah, that was actually pretty heartwarming and touching and though. Even more when saying goodbye to him. It like broke my heart to leave him, because he already lost one man in his live and that was soooo sad already. This game is sad. Maybe I don’t wanna replay it. Which is not true, never mind me :D
Urgh. You are right. I guess she would have been way more pissed if she got THAT mail. Like rip his head of the moment we see him. I still wonder how he survived her. I think this is one bioware mistake. Shep was not allowed to go enrage :]
But tbh I liked his new girl. He might be stupid and all that, but she was alright :D
OH NO! What gave me away? fake shocked :D
Sadly steam does not have that many avas from games I like. Not even that one. Had to build it myself.
Next on the list is 80 Days. Because it fits into both monthly themes. From Bleao and from sg. So, looooooooots of screens this month :D
Also I still want to finish the Cosplay Maker since it’s also now part of the monthly and part of my Batch. That I probably never finish anyway :D
Garrus and Liara. They are super! That’s alright then. Then what, Thane or Tali? I would join for both :]
The Batarians don’t trust anybody! Ok, so maybe some more then others but in the end they don’t. And they hate the humans because they feel that humanity is getting everything way to quick. The Turians feel the same, but since they are already in the counsel when all this started they don’t feel that intimidated I think.
Sherlock: Oh I totally ship the BBC John and Sherlock. But not the Elementary Joan and Sherlock.
Yeah, I kinda wish they would produce faster. Both BBC and Elementary. Although somebody thinks it’s the end for the BBC Sherlock O.O
AC: Yeah, the disguise worked perfect. Melting in with the crowed and all that - can you actually say it like that? Anyway. Blind in. Hide in the open and all that :D
Also, you seem to stir some kind of memory of the encounter with Connor, but it’s really hart to tell :D
Gaming sickness makes me definitely try to avoid fp games! I have this one game where you walk over an island and nothing happens. But it’s fp. That one was a real challenge - and then I thought I was done with it. They released a “Landmark Edition”. Luckily the whole game is not toooooo long -.-
And back to our beloved theme: Ok, so as said below, you can manage without. That’s nice. Although the MP is real fun, you should really try it at some point. Unless you hate the shooting, then maybe not :D
Also the slowmo with the sniper doesn’t work in mp, for obvious reasons -.-
Yeah, but the Krogans so deserve to be free of that shit! Yeah, they kinda overdid it back then, but to nearly sterilize them is a really hard punishment. I was super irritated when I started playing Andromeda since I like cured the genophage, right? But they had no idea I did that back in the day. Until I realized they left our system before all that happened. So they had nooooo idea the Krogans were cured! o.o
| Right, Kai Leng! How could I forget? I would really like to like him. But I can’t : |
Ha, yeah, I can totally see me writing non stop about W3 and you having to hold your tongue :D
Actually I’m looking forward to that too ;) :)
Yeah, Kaidan works that way just like Ash. She is also pissed in 2 and then comes back in three. Although with being promoted she suddenly feels different.
I know! Shame on me! But to my defense: I already joined BLAEO when Andromeda came out so I didn’t dare play it straight away a second time. I mean the first time already took me nearly 100h, how can I possible explain that?? :D
But I have put it into my Batch. And if I ever complete that, it will be in the next one as well and so on. I think it’s good enough to play 9 games and then come back to ok. Considering I also play monthlies I play way more then the 9 games before I go back to it ;)
Yeah, the breakup story. I get how it is a problem to brake up in such a time. They should just do a threesome and that’s that :] :D
Joker and Edi are just sooooooo perfect for each other! And even though she is a… has a mechanical body she is super tender and careful and all that :)
Ok, where to spend the money? That is a though one and I hope you realize I will absolutely forward the DLC idea, right?
But that is for two reasons. Reason one: I love ME (big surprise!) and there will never be a discount on it - at least I don’t think so. Second: I will not buy the AC game before hand and probably will wait until it’s on discount. Sooooooo, from my point of view it’s absolutely clear what to do ;)
Also I checked if there where already DLCs for Andromeda. No luck so far sigh :D
Right, what was great about Javik though is he finally started to come around at the end and understand that maybe there is another way other than what he knew. His goodbye talk with Shepard was just touching. He even shook her hand.
It’s ok, I cry too. Mass Effect has definitely been the best at making me cry though. I didn’t cry at Legion though because like you I didn’t even register it at first (but best believe I cried when I saw him in the montage of all the dead at the end). The Geth comes up and explains legion’s sacrifice and that’s when it really sinks in :(
Oh wow, as per your recommendation I looked up tali without her mask and they officially used THIS?! A photoshopped stock photo. Neato. This one is so much nicer! Though according to the synthesis ending, I guess the stock photo really is the most accurate as there is an image of a quarian without a mask speaking to a geth, and she looks human aside from the skin color and glowing eyes.
Yeah, even if I eventually get to male shep Tali is my highest priority there. Prefer femshep’s VA so that won’t be happening anytime soon though. But now that you mention Miranda and Jack, they would be an…. interesting couple. Constant fighting and hatred but I feel like they’d fit in a weird way. It certainly wouldn’t be a healthy relationship though.
Agree with you there, James seems like a cuddler not the type you just screw and shoo. But like you said better than nothing I guess :) And Cortez, the most surprising character in the way that he actually had depth. Such a sweetheart. But oh god you do make a good point that is just devastating <3 Steve doesn’t deserve that, he deserves everyone he loves to be alive and well and anything else he wants too because he is wonderful.
Well, you could always kill him off in ME2 as revenge before it even happens :) But yeah, not taking anything out on the scientist girlfriend, she was fine! Jacob however…
yeah I have to say I was surprised when I saw that you didn’t have a ME avi. I’ve stuck with this same one since I got my steam as I really haven’t found anything better. Plus it’s AC so i kind of have to keep it :)
Well at least 80 days looks interesting, you enjoying what you’ve played so far? Cosplay maker I have no comment on :/
Yeah, I don’t know. Will for sure go for my man Garrus but after that, I love the Kaidan romance so much that I can see myself sticking with it even when I try not to. The end bit of their relationship and Kaidan hanging Shep’s name on the memorial just completely broke my heart. I sincerely believe they’re soulmates, but I will try to get the self control in order to actually make different choices the next time around. Because Liara needs to fit in there somewhere, and Thane too! Maybe romance Liara, then Thane in 2, then Liara after his death. As long as she isn’t too hurt by it, it’s two birds with one stone.
So you can’t play any FP games? That would be rough, wow.
Huh, so Andromeda takes place in a different galaxy or something? Somewhere that the krogan somehow can’t contact Andromeda’s krogans to tell them Shepard and Mordin saved them all? But anyway, yeah the genophage is a really morally fascinating topic. Like, I understand why they needed to do it. It was that or kill them all. But both just seem inhumane and all around wrong. Like maybe there could have been another way.
Punching the Leng’s sword and shattering it then stabbing him and saying “That’s for Thane you son of a bitch!” Wow that was satisfying. He was interesting and it’s sad that he’s indoctrinated and all but he signed his death warrant the second he stabbed Thane.
You should really finish up W2 and buy 3 immediately, I’m so confident that you’ll really enjoy it. Even if Geralt isn’t your favorite person in the world. The story is just incredible, and the DLCs are even better.
It’s so interesting how Kaidan and Ash are such different characters, but they both do the exact same things. And act in the same overall way. It’s just interesting to see these two entirely separate characters playing the same roll in the story.
You’re so organized wow. Batches and everything! But 100 hours is a huuuuge time sink, understandable why you haven’t played it 3 times already.
They’re adorable, I’m so happy that they found peace together in the synthesis end. Like, that was the one thing that made me happy.
I thought you would :) But I asked anyway because I really want the DLC. But like, if I don’t preorder AC, I will buy it the second it releases even if the reviews say it’s terrible. So either way I’m going to spend $100 on that. It did occur to me that for the DLC, it is actually easier to Edward Kenway the DLCs. The installation would be easier (not having to deal with bioware points and weird installation) and I wouldn’t have to spend unfair amounts of money. But I’m morally against it so that’s probably not going to happen.
By the way I’m sorry if this reply isn’t as enthusiastic as usual, I’ve decided that the ending has thoroughly pissed me off. Like it’s less of an anger thing, I’m just crushed. I’ll get over it and I’m not going to let it affect my enjoyment of the series as a whole but for now… I don’t know.
But anyway, next on my list will be finishing up Mafia 2, which I have terribly neglected since playing ME. Then, I’ll play Shadwen since you so nicely gifted it to me :) Thank you so much again by the way. If you’d like, I have a bunch of spare steam keys laying around that I’m just going to eventually give away on SG. Most are trash, but if you want to take a look, see if there’s anything you like, you’re welcome to do so!
God, I’m so happy to hear from you right now! I worried a bit the ending pissed you totally off and you somehow focus that on me, since… I have said I’m not that unhappy with the ending. Yeah, I know, that’s probably just ridiculous, but my brain does stupid things every now and then :]
So, yay, for writing! hug
Ha, yeah. I guess living in Sheps time and WITH Shep eventually influenced even Javik :D
Oh, btw. in the Citadel DLC you supposedly can even have a one nighter with him. Again, I haven’t done that, because every time I’ve played the DLC Shep already had somebody ;)
I’m pretty sure that I even hoped the first time, this new Geth was Legion with a new Body, yk? And then he wasn’t and I was totally broken :(
Yep, that’s the one I have in mind, when thinking of Tali. The one Bioware picked just doesn’t work out for me. I mean, it’s ok I guess, but I feel the other fits better. I can imagine my cute little Tali to look like that :]
Ha, Miranda and Jack dating would be super awkward. Like fighting one moment and jumping straight into bed the next. Don’t anybody could endure that :D
But my Shep was really worried, when they fought over him. Like, what the heck is happening here?!? And they even threw around their biotics. Scary, man, super scary!
Steve is wonderful and a surprisingly deep character, as you said. First he appears to be just the pilot and yeah, ok a guy. And then you get to know him and he turns out to be super adorable and wounded and such a poor guy who lost the one person that mattered most to him! And then he fights in his way so bravely alongside Shep and tries everything to save Shep only to eventually loose him as well. It was just sad :/
Yeah, as I said: I’ll gonna play a round where I kill off every guy at the end off two and play only with the new guys and my ladies :D
So NO JACOB! HA! xD
Well, I could make myself a N7 ava, but then I feel like my Origin is more the ME account :D
There I got Kasumi as ava - yeah, the offered it as a standard ava, didn’t make it :)
80 Days is… not to bad? The only thing that really bothers me right now: The achievements don’t unlock. Apparently they did an update and since then it’s broken or something? Sucks -.- Now I wait for them to fix it before I play a second round :)
Cosplay Maker…. had a lot of different costumes! Haven’t figured every one out, since they are not the original name (I guess?). So for some no idea where they come from :]
I guess Kaidan is for you, what Liara is for me. (Mhm, now that I think about it, all of the three ppl you date in one, you can date neither of them in 2. Yeah, I kinda knew it all the time, but it just now sinks really in :D) The first romance in the game is just the one you associate the game with or something? Like every time Liara turns up in the game I melt a little bit :D
And yes, in Andromeda I had an instant weakness with the Asari again. Although she is so differently crazy :D
FP mostly. There are a few other games that also cause trouble. Like Fallout 4 was a problem although it is not really a FP game. But I will return to that one and try if it works with the wristbands!
Andromeda is in a different time and galaxy. They set off before all that around Shep goes down and put them self into a cyro sleep. Only to wake up 500 years later in a different galaxy with no clue what happened back home. And probably never figuring it out, because… no idea how you could sent mail that far and making sure it really arrives. And, would you really wanna tell them anyway? Like make them feel even worse because they lost so many ppl. I mean, sure, they lost them anyway, but knowing what happened would make it somehow even more worse, right?
So yeah, the Krogans are still running around with the Genophage -.-
Oh yes! That was so for Thane! And he still deserves more, because he killed Thane -.-
Alright. I’ll put the priority higher up for W2 :D
About buying W3, not sure though. Not because I don’t want to! God, if I had the money I would buy most of the games on my WL right now, but yeah… I don’t :]
Well both of them stay loyal to the alliance. Also they had no reason not to. Like they were not killed off and had to be put back together and all that. So yeah, they just stay with the alliance and therefore are both pissed because they feel like Shep betrayed them and what they believe in - which she never did… -.- :]
Well, I have a Batch, that doesn’t mean I’m getting anywhere with it though :D
Ok, so Cosplay Maker is on that Batch, as was Hacknet, but since I priorities some wins and most definitely the monthlies, it’s just not getting that good along :D
This month maybe though, since both monthlies don’t seem that time consuming :)
Yeah, that’s the nicest thing about the synergy. Joker and Edi. I guess it’s the main reason I went for it because red would have killed her off and blue… well, yeah, fucked with his brain, right?
Yeah, I’m also conflicted with that way of getting things. But it’s your choice and I totally understand how you feel about the Origins game. I have a few games that are just the same for me. (Yes, I made my parents give me ME:A as a X-Mas present, preoder :D)
I know. It’s ok hug
It frustrated me masively that Shep died, after all I did. And at some point I got (mhm, leo doesn’t know a word for it…) familiar with the idea and it was ok. Well, not OK, but… ok, you know? :/
Mafia 2 looks/sounds fun. Enjoy it!
Poke me, when you start Shadwen ;) (Again, your welcome! :* )
Mhm, you could write me what kind of trash it is, if you feel like it ;) :)
Not at all, I plan on continuing to bother you with my rants for quite a while :) This is the first time I’ve put actual effort into maintaining contact with someone I don’t know irl! So I’m not about to abandon that. I am unhappy with the ending but would never take that out on you.
Shep is influential :) Pretty admirable how she just has this quality that makes people want to follow her to the end and back. Oh goodness, a one night stand with Javik? That just feels wrong. He’s 50,000 years old!
Yeah, I had thought maybe Legion had transferred himself to every geth and a part of him was a part of every geth. But no…. :(
Agreed, she just looks so much more real in that fanart rather than a staged photo of some random lady. Might feel differently if they used an image of a woman who seemed like she resembled Tali, the original photo just doesn’t fit somehow.
Yes! I thought it was going to end with one of them dying or at least getting hurt if you couldn’t persuade them. I can still see them totally hate-screwing though. But you’re right, totally NOT a sustainable relationship :)
Couldn’t have said it better. Steve deserves all the happiness in the world <3 Thinking about him just made me realize how amazing this series is for relationships though. Like, it’s so progressive but not in a way that’s shoved in your face. People have gay, straight, interspecies relationships and just talk about it normally. No one bats an eye. Most of Shep’s relationships feel so natural, even if they’re difficult anatomically like Shep/Garrus or Shep/Tali. I hope one day we get to a point like that here where you can love who you want and it’s completely normal (except, you know, without the interspecies part that would be horrible).
Kill off Garrus?! NO. But that’s going to be hard to do, emotionally. I wish you luck on that as killing off every guy is ridiculously sad :( Garrus, Mordin, and Grunt deserve to live forever. But Jacob, you go right ahead and kill him off with no regrets :) I mean, I feel bad saying it but he’s just not very interesting and doesn’t have a very nice personality. And I die a little bit inside every time my Shep had to say in a flirty tone, “I’m more interested in just talking for a bit.” You don’t want Jacob, Shep, stop acting like you do!
Yikes, you must have to mess up pretty badly to completely break achievements in a game update. For cosplay maker, the outfits are probably not the official name due to copyright issues? Maybe. Probably.
I think you’re right, you love Liara so much (she is lovely) and I just adore Kaidan. I know it’s an unpopular opinion but I just think he’s such an interesting character, his backstory, how he wears his heart on his sleeve, is supportive but not afraid to tell you when he disagrees, just he’s everything I’d want in a guy aside from the occasional ridiculously cheesy line. Ok so maybe I have a big crush on Kaidan. Just realizing that now. I think that’s it too, you’ll always have an attachment with the first one you romanced. Like a first love, but with ME.
You can’t romance Liara in LotSB? Damn, what a bummer :/
So you romanced the asari in Andromeda?
That’s so inconvenient, hopefully those wristbands will help with every game you want to play from now on :)
That’s an interesting premise. They have no idea though, wow. It’s true that maybe ignorance is bliss in this case, but I don’t know I would do everything I could to find out what happened. For closure, you know? 500 years later, I would love to see how the milky way galaxy rebuilt after the reapers. But anyway, poor Krogans!
Oh definitely. Was really hoping that maybe the renegade option would be something incredibly violent, Kai Leng deserves the worst and more. Interesting enemy sure, but I wanted him to die a million times more than anyone else in that damn game.
No rush, truly. W2 and 3 will be waiting for you when you’re ready and able to afford it as it’s so expensive right now (only reason I got it was because it was a gift). But once you do get it, it’s worth every penny I promise :) I’m the same way with Andromeda right now. Would buy it in a second if it was like $15 but it’s double that.
Yeah, Ash and Kaidan are both very firm in their beliefs. They wouldn’t pack up and leave the Alliance just because Shepard asked nicely. Relationship or not, their anger is absolutely understandable. They definitely had too much doubt in Shep but none of it was without reason.
Even if you aren’t getting anywhere with your batch, you should be proud that you’ve already gotten so many done!
You’re definitely right there. Joker and Edi, the harmony between organics and synthetics, it’s wonderful. But I just don’t think it was the right thing to do.
And control never seemed like a real option for me. SO hypocritical to condemn TIM’s actions throughout the game, then do exactly what he would have done. Then, eventually it’s always a possibility that Shepard could begin to believe total annihilation is the only option to solve an issue, and begin the reign of the reapers all over again. Sounds horrible, and not like a choice even the most renegade Shep would pick.
By the way, I was thinking if you picked the destroy ending, what’s to stop them from rebuilding synthetics like EDI and the geth? The space boy, assuming he was being 100% truthful with Shepard, basically started it would destroy all nonorganics but that technology could be easily rebuilt. The knowledge and data to remake EDI and the geth is there just like it would be there to reconstruct omnitools after the destruction. Emotional attachments aside, after years synthetics would be built again in some way, shape, or form anyway. Only difference now is they and all of the organics would be aware of the reapers and the consequences of a conflict caused by lack of understanding.
Thank you for the hug and understanding :) It’s been two days now and I’m still thinking about it regularly and the series as a whole. Like I have a very strong urge to play ME1 again. Then ME2. Then ME3 because I apparently enjoy suffering.
I especially keep thinking about the scene after your squadmates get hit in the explosion. After the sadness of seeing the scene with Kaidan, I looked it up with every other character and realized something. They all think Shep is going to die. They just know it. Kaidan having to be held back and reaching out with the last of his strength to get Shep to stay. Javik fighting with everything he’s got to go out there with Shep and die fighting for his people. Garrus saying like hell he’s leaving as he has said time and time again that he will follow Shepard to the very end. And if you romance him, he finally says “i love you.” Tali saying that her home isn’t Rannoch, it’s there with Shepard. All of it is final and they know it. And I’ve made myself emotional.
Yeah, I don’t have much to say on the topic of her death except that I’m still mourning :( Can’t believe I got so attached to her. But you’re right. The problem with the ending isn’t that she dies. But still the fact that she dies is still devastating.
I’m definitely conflicted too. I don’t want to do it but they really don’t make it easy on you to get things legitimately so it’s tempting. I guess all of that will depend on when I decide to replay things. If I don’t have the money I won’t have a choice. But I’m going to get Origins anyway despite my better judgement :) At least I think so. Spending $100 on a game isn’t something you can do without building yourself up to it and coming up with some ridiculous justification.
Thanks, Mafia 2 is really good! I’d be done with it by now if it didn’t crash every hour and require me to redo a whole bunch of the mission every time. If I can gather the motivation to play something (I’ve got the post mass effect blues, don’t feel like plaything anything right now), Shadwen will be it. Then Witcher 1 because you know what? Screw the books. It’ll be 5 years before I play the first two witchers if I try to read the books first.
Hm lets see, I have quite a bit. I won’t list every game but I’ll name out all of the bundles and you can let me know if you’re interested. I looked and unfortunately do not own anything on your wishlist. This will be a bit long sorry. Broken Age, bundle stars sims mega bundle, humble 2k bundle, a bunch of trash from GMG mystery bundles like postal 2, lucius, etc. indie legends 4 bundle stars, humble indie bundle 17, I think the fantasy heroes bundle stars, humble sierra bundle, cryptic mega bundle and nemesis bundle stars, clickteam fusion and unreal humble bundle, dollar mega bundle stars, dollar ultra bundle stars, deep dungeons of doom (i think(, humble gamedev software bundle, some february and whatever month DS2 was the early unlock monthly bundles. That’s about it. This is why I no longer buy bundles unless a game I want is on there. It became an addiction for a little bit :)
By the way, update on the job front if you were wondering. I can’t get one, not because there isn’t anything out there but because it’s come to light that I might have some medical issues that could potentially prevent me from doing the kind of work I’d have to do (basically being on my feet for hours on end). So until I get an official diagnosis I can’t really apply for the jobs that are available to me.
EDIT: Started Shadwen! Good game, but it seems like it’s going to be a short one. 3 hours in and I’m roughly halfway through. Overall good quality. Really unique in the way the whole game is one big escort mission, but when the little girl’s AI isn’t being idiotic, it works really well. The controls are difficult at first but you get used to them and they become intuitive. So it’s good fun and worth a play :) The hardest part is making sure the little girl doesn’t see that you just brutally murdered someone.
That’s sweet of you! I’m also happy to have this… kinda penfriend :] :*
I like it! I like writing to and reading from you :)
And just go on. Complain as much as you like, I also complained about it, it just happened the first time I played it and that’s been a while :D
Aw, no way! Shep would NEVER influence ppl! NEVER! Not even the counsel! Or… the whole galaxy or… well I dunno who. Shep would just… nooooooo! :D
Yeah, it sounds creepy to hop in bed with someone who is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo old! Like will he fall to dust if one touches him? ;)
Well maybe it would have been better to make a pic, like with PC and not take an actual photo or. I dunno. I just doesn’t work out -.-
Yeah, with the first game they still weren’t that sure about what they where doing, I guess that’s why Ash and Kaidan were no homo option and Liara the only alien. But with two they became bolder and offered a lot. It’s like not only Shep was reborn but the dating options as well :D
And you are totally right: it is nice how it doesn’t matter what gender or race the partners are. Ok so the alien gay options are mostly for women, but so what. Still it became way more free and it is a something we on earth still need to learn a lot about :)
Inter species at this point is not nice nod
Damn. You are right. I could never kill of Garrus and Thane and Mordin and Grunt and…. sigh Maybe that’s why I never finished that game. I couldn’t make myself do it :]
Though I’m still curious to see how 3 works out without them. Like I know it is possible, I already encountered one placeholder, because….. Mordin somehow died once :( I wanted him to be safe in 2 and sent him back with the crew. That was some kind of mistake….
(80 Days) Yep, and more and more ppl start complaining.
I just now unlocked an outfit that looks like Miaranda. Look - well not 100% but I still think it is her :D
Yep, you’ll never get over your first love. Neither in rl nor in ME :D
Uhm. I dunno tbh. My Liara romance was the first time I played ME. I only got the DLCs after finishing the first time and it felt sooooo wrong to go back to two so I didn’t. No wait. I think I might even have gotten the DLCs later then that, because only one Shep has made them so far in 2, so that’s pretty late. Where as EVERY Shep had to go through the Citadel :D
But I’m pretty sure, that your romance with Liara becomes more obvious in the SB DLC :]
No, I didn’t. We just fooled around :]
Actually I wanted to date the Turian female. Then I switched the game to English, since I couldn’t stand the MCs voice in German and… I instantly fell in love with the Scottish accent of my human, female scientist. So there we go. No Aliens :D
But I don’t think she has the position of Liara. The Turian would have worked that way, but not the religious scientist ;)
It would be nice to know, how the milky way got along after the attack. Maybe there will be some kind of message in the future, who knows. At the arrival there is none though :]
Ah, no. Sorry to inform you: We don’t let him suffer anymore just because we’re renegade :/
Well I got back to W2 :D
Somehow I was unmotivated after 80 Days don’t work and I just finished AC, it’s like falling in a hole and… yeah. I though for a minute to start ME and then like: “Nooooooooooooooo, I can’t! My backlog!”
You are right, it is not nice Shep has to decide for the whole galaxy. It is exactly what the reapers did. They said that life evolved the wrong way, so it has to be destroyed. They said synthetic life is wrong, so all has to be destroyed. Shep comes along and is forced to literally decide for them. Ok, so in the process she can safe life from extinction but in the end she still forces something on everybody. And then again she was chosen to make the decision :]
She was the fighter for life. And in the end she had to decide what the life she knows deserves to get. Or something like that.
Mhm, yeah, that sounds reasonable. Why not rebuild it? I mean, wouldn’t it even be possible to keep a backup of the program? The soul of a living being is way harder to catch, but why shouldn’t it be possible to keep what make an AI an AI? Just because we destroy the body it doesn’t mean the are like annihilated, right? And even if they where - which would be said, because bonds and all that - yeah, new AI could totally be build. And maybe even better ones, since the genetic life is aware of the problems and what might become of all that.
Anytime hug
Yep, the game somehow makes ppl think about it a lot. At least it did the same to me :]
And no, I don’t think it is about the suffering, but the emotional attachment. Like how they handle the situation and it’s touching and bittersweet and… such :)
Yes, they knew. I’m pretty sure of that. Nobody expected to go home after the big show down. Or none of them thought further then that. It was the end for them. And then Shep sends them away, because she loves her team so much and want’s them soooooo much to survive all that. To outlive her. To make her sacrifice worth something.
I know. I wish Shep wouldn’t die. But… just think about it: How would she get away from there? She is standing right next to the… uhm… the big thing that controls everything and makes boom to change all that is. How could she survive the explosion? Yeah, she already survived one death in space. Kinda. Gosh! Why not make another Lazarus project?!?
Mhm, a ridiculous explanation to buy a game for 100$…. Something like: it’s fun? Lots of hours long? I mean, considering the time you’ll probably spent with it. Imagine you bought books to humor you the same amount of time - real books, not ebooks, since they are cheaper and ruin my thought -, you probably would have to spent way more money on that to get the same hours together. So in fact, it is not thaaaaaat… ok, I’ll go hide somewhere and say no more :D
Man, I hate games, that constantly crash and make you go back and do things over and over. I guess it has no option to save in between, right?
I can’t recall which game did that for me (maybe it even was ME1), but I like saved every 10 min just so I didn’t have to replay everything. But it still sucks. It makes the whole gaming progress soooo slow and ruins the fun.
And yes, that sounds smart. Just get on with it. If you like the game enough you’ll read the books eventually :)
The only bundle that sounds more or less interesting right now is the cryptic one, buuuuuuuut I have played way to much HOGs recently (with the monthly and all that), so… nah. It’s sweet of you to offer, but no thanks :*
I’m sorry to hear that hug
The situation seems horrible familiar though :/
Hope you’ll get that sorted out soon :)
Yay! It sounds nice enough! Guess I should install it right away and join in. But. Games! So many of them! gnaws on the desk What to do now?
I think I might finish one of the ones I’m playing right now and then play Shadwen. It will be still pretty fresh for you by then, I think :D
Have a great weekend! (Yeah, it’s lunchtime on Friday, pretty sure I can already say that :D)
Same here :)
At this point I’m still salty about the ending and always will be, but it didn’t ruin the series for me in the slightest and I’m not mad anymore. Still sad it’s over but that’s to be expected.
Hah, it’s not like Shep has an endless ability to manipulate or intimidate people into getting what she wants! Definitely not a huge contributor to her success at all.
Despite the age, when you think about it, it does have some kind of appeal. He has a nice voice and you would be able to screw the only living Prothean in the entire galaxy. No one else gets to say that. But still, yikes.
Yeah, I’m not sure if this is the same with Liara but I noticed that Ash and Kaidan were easily changed. Like if you picked enough paragon choices around Ash she starts to come around just a little. I watched on youtube, if you pick renegade options regarding the council, Kaidan will eventually come to hate them too. This of course all gets abandoned in the next games when they become established characters, but it’s just interesting how you’re able to kind of mold them to your liking, maybe because they’re possible love interests?
And fun fact if you didn’t know: Kaidan and Ash have unused dialogue lines for romancing male and female shep, respectively. So I guess they were both originally intended to be bisexual, then they changed it last minute, then decided later on that Kaidan actually is bi but continued to go the straight route for Ash. Interesting!
But anyway you make a good point :) Every character really came into their own in ME2 onward. I’m not saying the characterization was in any way bad in 1, but it improved so drastically in the next games. It’s like they finally figured out what they wanted the characters to be.
That would be interesting but so weird, having such important characters like Garrus and Wrex die, and have them replaced by these no names that you have no attachment to.
Oh wow, who’s the placeholder for Mordin? I can’t see anyone having as big of an emotional impact as him because of how personal the genophage was to him, but I don’t know.
I can see the resemblance to Miranda there :)
Hah, I don’t blame you for falling for a scottish accent :) Sounds cute
Yeah I know :/ Picked the renegade interrupt there and it was just a regular old stab. Still very satisfying though.
Oh congrats! You close to finishing it? And nice job showing the restraint to not play ME :) I’m sure just talking about it with me is making you reeeaaally want to play it. But sadly you have to make sacrifices in order to complete your never ending backlog. That being said I will never not encourage a playthrough of ME.
Poor Shep, she doesn’t deserve the burden of having to make any of those decisions. But she sure took it like a champ.
Yeah, exactly. So it’s very possible that after the destruction or all synthetics, everything can be rebuilt back to normal sans the reapers, and there could be peace. Without having to merge organics and synthetics.
It’s definitely the emotional attachment, you’re right. It’s rare to find a game that makes you think of its characters as real individuals with depth and complexity.
Oh god that’s just so heartwarming and depressing :( Sending her family, the people she loves, away so they can’t get hurt anymore. If you’re going to sacrifice yourself for something, that’s the best possible thing to do it for.
It really would be near impossible to come back from that, but I guess she does live in one of the endings, so I’m going to go ahead and take that one as the canon one and live in blissful denial :) But seriously, if they want Shep back bad enough, well they brought her back from the dead once in worse condition, they could probably do it again.
It’s okay, I bit the bullet and just ordered it :) Not even with my own money but it was like a stab to the gut. This game better be good. But enough of the negativity, I’m still so excited!
Yeah it doesn’t seem to be a common issue (the crashing is, but not what’s happening to me) with this game. I play for about an hour, the game starts artifacting even though my temps are fine and then eventually it fills up the whole screen and it crashes. Looks exactly like this if you were wondering. It was doing this every like 5 minutes but I tried every fix known to man and now it’s only once every 30 mins - 1 hour. So a big pain and checkpoints can be few and far between but it’s overall still worth playing :)
Yeah I feel that :) I’m a compulsive saver so it’s second nature for me to do that but it definitely gets annoying at times. What’s great about ME1 is there’s no save limit!
Hah, I did warn you that they were mostly trash! But still, let me know if you change your mind :)
Oh it’s okay but thank you! I’m not going to worry about anything unless I have cause to worry. Got some bloodwork done today, so once those results get back I should have some kind of idea of what’s happening.
In Shadwen, just did a level where I tried to kill every single guard in the level. Doing that on its own isn’t difficult but it was the biggest pain in the world trying to avoid having the little girl see it. So if you play the game, unless you’re going for 100% I don’t recommend doing that.
But yeah, as long as you like stealth you’ll enjoy Shadwen. Just don’t be expecting a big story because there isn’t really one.
Thanks, and you have a great weekend too :)
Edit: Finished Shadwen, thank you again. Ended up being able to go the entire game without the little girl Lily discovering that Shadwen is a killer so that’s an achievement (literally)!
Believe me, you will never again get rid of the point where you are sad this game is over. NEVER! puts on a brave face and tries not to be sad :D
Well if Shep did, she would just be another Reaper, right? So maybe it is good she has limits to making ppl see things her way :D
Well it would not only be an one night stand, but also a…. mhm… really rare and unique one? Like one, most ppl can’t even imagine? Ugh, what ever. I like Yavik, but neither in that way or that much :]
Yeah, that is right. Both are not that settled in themself. But on the other hand they go the whole way with Shep and know what Shep sees and therefore understand why Shep maybe reacts one way or another. So maybe that’s why they go the same way?
I’m pretty sure though, that somebody told me once, that if you play the first renegade and suddenly change things and go paragon some of your crewmates wonder. I might be wrong. Since not only am I faithful to my romance partners, but also to my choices :D
I know. I heard about that. I even triggered the dialogues with Ash. They are a bit like: Oh well, maybe I am interested and like you, but noooooooooo, somebody told me not to like the same sex :D
Yeah, it was a last minute decision, that’s why they are still there. But I like the hint they’ve given with that. Because it makes quite clear they wanted to have it, but didn’t dare do it. And later on they are like: I don’t care, we just do it anyway! :]
The crew certainly has character in 1, but from 2 onward they really evolve into some way more clearly shaped ones :)
I’m pretty sure Wrex placeholder is this other Krogan you meet on they homeworld. His brother, cousin, what ever? think
And Mordins placeholder…. I think it was one of his students who also worked on the genophage buuuuuut I could be wrong O.o
It was not as intense as with Mordin but he had pretty similar thoughts as Mordin so felt similar responsible :)
I can’t imagine how it would be without Garrus! I guess Thanes placeholder could well be his son. But I guess I would have to try to see how it all works out :]
Miranda was cuter though <3
I actually finished W2 now. Surprisingly the last chapter was… way shorter? At least it seemed that way.
Now I’m conflicted. Will I replay it right now to see what Roche does and to get all cheevos apart from the insane one? I mean, that would again be like… 25h or something. It’s not THAT much, considering how much time I sometimes spent in other games, but it still is… a lot! Like more than one day. And That kinda unmotivates me. But putting it aside and getting later on back to it, seems horrible cough I guess I should just do it.
Oh, btw, the devs said something concerning all the complaints for 80 Days. But so far no solution -.-
It is depressing and sad. And the biggest prob I have with the ending, is the fact, that the normandy just flies off to some planet and crashes there. Then what? How will they ever get away from there? I mean, it’s not as if they avoided the change or anything, so what did the flying of change? They can’t use the jumping things any longer so they are literally stranded, right? sigh Sry, I don’t get that one. Where I am not so much frustrated about the other part, this one actually gets to me ;) :)
Yep, so from now on I totally believe, they can and will bring her back and we just don’t see it. And then they life happily ever after! There we go!
Ah, that’s alright. I’m super sure, you’ll like it!
Try to have really bad expectations though, it will always be better than that :D
Well, THAT just looks horrible! And there is nothing you can do about it? You just have to suffer through Mafia2 with interruptions that look that way? :/
Ah, Trash is not sooo bad. I probably have quite a few Trash games in my library and I sometimes enjoy playing them. As long as they are not too expansive, that works out :)
Yeah, checking out what’s going on is always the step to getting well :)
Congrats on completing it!
I will totally try to get 100%, because I like doing that :D
So killing I shall totally do :]
I mean, I already do, right? I kill my backlog and all that :]
I’m trying to fill the void by constantly watching ME videos and all it’s doing is making me want to replay everything. But no, we can do it, we can brave the ME deprivation for now!
Definitely. One thing I did notice with paragon though, sometimes Shep could be sickenly manipulative. But at least even her charm has limits!
Nah yeah I’m with you on that, ugh. He still has a nice voice though, but Shep is not going to sleep with a 50,000 year old 4 eyed prothean just because he has a nice voice. Javik is a good friend and absolutely hilarious but no more than that :)
Yeah their changes in opinion are understandable absolutely, but they get much more interesting as characters when they know what they want and stick to their guns.
Oh wow, that would be an interesting thing to test. Like if that applies to both a dramatic shift from renegade to paragon and vice versa. You’d probably hear things like “wow Shepard, dying really changed you for the better/worse”. That would take some dedication to try doing though and I can’t find anything online about it. Maybe I’m just not using the right search terms.
Yeah I noticed that too a little bit, like they kind of forgot to take out some of femshep’s flirty dialogue with Ash. They didn’t dare do a same sex relationship but were A-ok with doing an inter species relationship with liara :) Actually makes sense though, I can totally see people being more upset by gay relationships rather than alien relationships.
Definitely, that’s what I was trying to say. Like Garrus and Tali for example, the only ones that are in 2 for a long time, both really come into their own. They were already great in 1 but the characterization just improves so dramatically.
Wreave is the placeholder? Ohhh, that would be… interesting. Well, if you’re able to gather the evilness within you to kill off all of them, you’ll find out!
Wow, you liked it enough to play it twice? Or just want to see every major outcome? When you import your W3 save, just know nothing you’ve done is going to make a big difference. Just a few characters will either be there or not depending on whether they died. Whether you side with Iorveth or Roche is a choice that is imported into 3, but Iorveth is not in the game. No matter what you chose.
That’s a good point, never really thought about that.They knew they couldn’t avoid the explosion, the whole galaxy couldn’t avoid it. So what was the point of trying to leave, so they could land on some jungle planet and sing Kumbaya because they’re all merged together now? Did the mass relays really get destroyed (like why exactly would that be, what’s the point of doing that) or just damaged? Like they really didn’t make that clear. I can see why all that gets to you, now that you’ve mentioned it I don’t get it either.
Ok, I’m with you on believing that :) Ignorance is bliss in this case.
Yeah, but at least when it crashes, it gives me warning. I see the black triangles show up and I drive like a bat out of hell trying to get to the next checkpoint before the inevitable crash. Sometimes I get there, sometimes I don’t and have to do everything all over again :/ So, I think a good strategy from now on is just play one chapter at a time so that doesn’t happen.
Good luck, it’ll take at least two playthroughs since there are achievements for each chapter requiring you to either kill everyone or no one.
Damn it, I was going to start W1 today, but I have a feeling I’m going to go crawling back to ME if I do that. Plus I’m really not looking forward to the clunkiness of W1 again. I think I’m going to play it anyway but I can’t say I’m looking forward to it. Will download a bunch of mods to hopefully make life easier.
Actually, nevermind. Unless I really want to play it I’m just going to abandon it again. It’s just so old and so tedious to play. I want to get to W2, but I can’t do that without slogging through 1.
Oh god, I don’t think I would survive that! Yeah, so I avoid ME vids like… all the time :D
Yeah, she manipulates. Or is pretty persuasive? Yeah, well, she tries to get the results she wants :]
Well I could be wrong about the paragon/renegade thing. Since I never experienced it myself it is purely a second hand “knowledge”. And even with that it feels like I get something wrong here. Oh well. What ever :)
Again a thing to try out. Sometimes in the future :D
Right, though I’m not sure how an Alien romance is less provoking than a gay/lesbian one. (I don’t know where either is tbh.) Even more so, considering that Liara looks like a woman and it therefore looks like a lesbian romance, right? I mean, she is kinda not and then again totally is. Ugh, complicated. She was no gender. There we go. No, then she would not be a she. Oh gosh, that is a struggle :D
Right, Wreave it was.
Guess it would have to be another renegade on. Oooooor a Shep that hates men. Yeah, that would also work. Wait, lemme check if I have a fem shep woman romance left to do :]
Mhm. Samara/Morinth are the only ones left apart from Thane. Well that is not so good then. I could ofc go for a Kaidan romance, since I can’t kill him off in two, only in one, he doesn’t count into the killing males of in two, right? :D
No, I don’t like it enough. That’s the problem. But it has two different routes to go and achievements for that. So in that way I would like to do it. But… totally not at the same time. I started yesterday evening with it. But I try to get the “poker” achievement right now and I guess I might already be totally frustrated by the time I got that. So far no luck -.-
Yeah, I dunno if the mass relays are broken or damaged or I dunno what. But it most definitely looked like they exploded. And the Normandy looked like it crashed pretty badly on that planet.
Sry, if I now ruined it again :D
Ignorantly believing that Shep lives! Yay to that! :]
Man, that sounds super annoying. But maybe the one chapter per time tactic works out :)
Yeah, W1 looked super clunky and it just seemed super… uhm… yeah, probably also clunky :D
I’m not sure you really need to play W1 for W2. Like who ever you date in the first one, you’ll always have the same girl in the bed at the start of W2. It makes no difference at all! Not even if you sided with the elves or the flaming rose. It’s just… useless. So I still have no idea, why there is the option to import the save from W1.
How ever you decided: Good luck with it :)
I can’t! It’s either watch those or play again. The former is less time consuming.
Even if you are wrong, like that would be a really interesting thing to see and I hope it’s true. I’d like to test it out someday :)
I don’t know, that’s definitely puzzling. How is an interspecies relationship less controversial than a gay/lesbian human relationship? Maybe they thought they’d be less likely to lose buyers if they removed it but then you go back to why are people ok with one and not the other.
It’s so strange that though monogender, every asari we’ve seen is feminine. Like, that’s their culture but you would think there would be some outliers. The half Krogan bartender in Illium is about as masculine as asaris come. So weird to think that Liara could be a mother or father.
Or both, a renegade Shep that hates men and only cares about her female crew maybe? Samara’s a difficult one to romance though right, since she can’t be with you in 2 although she wants to. I didn’t know she was even an option in 3. Thane <3 You could romance him and still kill him off, but that’s awful!
Right, you could always kill Kaidan in 3 though but that’s not a very nice thing to do especially if you romanced him.
Fair enough, don’t push yourself to do it just for the achievements. You can always look up the different route if you’re curious. Like it sounds like way too much of a hassle, especially since you’re not in love with the game. But it’s of course your choice and I wish you luck if you go through with it :)
Very true, even if they weren’t completely broken they would take a really long time to repair, so damaged or not, the normandy would be more or less stuck. Damn. But you didn’t ruin anything!
Yep and at this point I’m stuck because I am bad at the game and for some reason he gets set on fire even when molotovs getting chucked at him are nowhere close. So I died like 10 times and rage quit, will go back to it eventually. And hopefully the game won’t act like he’s doused in gasoline and frolicking in the fire.
The only reason to play W1 is for the story which is apparently great. Everything else is just downright bad. I don’t need to play 1 or 2, but I feel like I can’t call myself a big fan of the series if I just skip 2 out of the 3 games because I don’t really care enough to play them.
Yeah a problem with Witcher is your choices from previous games don’t really matter at all. Which is why it’s so easy to just play 3 and be done with it and able to understand everything, especially since it’s entirely different now that he has his memory back (that’s not a spoiler right? i think he got it back at the end of 2). Almost everything can be explained by reading character entries or just using context clues. Like, the consequences within the game are very realized but it’s mostly isolated within that game. Like in W1 there is a certain important character that you can kill. No matter what you do though, they will be in W3 and they’re not even essential. It would have been easy to leave him dead and just change the questline slightly, but they didn’t do that.
Annnnnd I bought all the ME DLC. The stupid bioware points thing made it so I was 80 points off of getting the last DLC I needed, so I had to spend another $10 for those 80 fucking points. Now I can just waste the rest on cosmetic crap or save it for if I ever play Dragon Age.
Can’t believe I just spend $80 on DLC for a trilogy I spent less than $20 on in total.
So I hate myself now, but it was worth it.
And now I’ve decided since I already hate myself for blowing $80 on ME content, why not blow another $40 and buy Andromeda because fuck it, I already made one bad decision why not go for two? It’s installing right now.
But the later is more satisfying! nod nod
Ha, I guess I know what’s going to happen next ME wise for you :D
Yeah, I know. But since having a problem with same gender love is nothing logical…. being ok with Alien love instead isn’t either :D
Right. On the other hand bodywise everybody seems to fit into a stereotype. Like there are no super thin or a bit bigger ppl. They are all the same hight, weight etc. So that also applies to the Asari. Guess that would have been to much work to make them look totally different. So for us it’s mostly the personality that makes them seem different. Like this one Asari bartender seems super masculine. But who knows, she could still be the mother. It’s so funny really with them Asari :D
Mhm. I’ll think off something to get this one done :]
Well Samara is still better then dating Morinth. Because she kills you in the end O.O
And NO! I couldn’t romance Thane and kill him off!
Maybe I should do it the other way round. Play a male Shep who kills off all the women :D
I normally push myself to play games more then once for those Achievements. Some I like enough to do it happily and some… are a battle to go there again. Also I some when managed to put a game to the side and maybe get back to it at later point - yeah, I totally don’t believe that’ll happen, but we can dream and believe, right? Maybe I should just do the same with the Witcher. I mean, I played it once, won’t hurt to wait a couple of years to get back to it. Yeah, I’ll do that. Then I’m free to do something else. That’s nice :)
You’re right. If somebody ruined it, it was Bioware and not me :]
Well I hope they can fix the Normandy quick, otherwise Shep will live before that happens and wonder where her crew is :D
Ok, that sounds even more frustrating! Maybe you have to do it differently? I have no idea though. I never played the Mafia games.
But the moment I’m that badly stuck at a game I normally start looking things up, hoping I find an easier way :)
I didn’t like the story from W1 too much hide
Nope, that’s no spoiler :D
Although I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have it 100% back yet. Oh well, we know most of it and the most important parts I guess. Like why he died and lost his memories and all that.
Mhm, that sounds slightly disappointing. Even more so, since we know games can be different and remember things. But again: Not every game can be as awesome as ME - which is good. Because if every game was as awesome… well we could never get on, right? :D
Yay!
Ups cough
No, but really! I hope you will totally enjoy the DLCs! And also Andromeda! Just… with that one there where more complaints. Just be warned - again I liked it. But it also was the first ME game I had to play in Eng, since the German voices where horrible :D
Meow. I wanna play it! Oh right, I’ve stopped W2 now, so maybe I can find some time for ME :D
Very true, in the meantime I’ll have to keep myself occupied with videos and now Andromeda though :) Really hope it won’t take too long to finish, I need to be done with it by the time AC Origins comes out, hopefully a bit before that.
Samara would be a sweet romance, she deserves happiness and she never allows herself any because of her code.
I saw that in a video! I want to know who thought that doing it with an ardat yakshi would be something Shep could survive. Just because she came back from the dead once doesn’t mean you want to push that luck…
You could do that but that’s just as bad! Killing Tali, Jack, Miranda, that’s awful! But at least that’s a smaller amount of people I guess?
That sounds like torture honestly, but hey, whatever works for you :) Waiting on Witcher 2 sounds like that’s maybe a good idea though, especially since it’s a fairly long game and you didn’t absolutely love it.
Oh man, for the ending where Shep lives (or where someone makes a Lazarus project 2), she would absolutely tear up the galaxy looking for her crew. That might make for an interesting game!
I’m doing it right (there’s really only one way to do it that you can live through), I’m just a terrible shot with a controller in this game which really prolongs things, making it so the barrage of molotovs never. stops. coming. I’ll get it eventually :)
Well, by the time W3 comes around, which is not overly long after the end of 2 (I may be wrong but I think it’s about 6 months to a year) he has his memory back completely. It is a bit disappointing, I guess they deemed that character important enough to retcon what they had done before. But even so, what’s really great is how consequences are shown within the game itself. Like there’s one quest (not even a quest, just a minor event) where there’s someone who has been tied up and left to die. You can hear his story and either let him go or leave him there. If you think his story checks out and you let him go, if you stumble across a particular village you find out the man you set free is actually a terrible person and killed the entire village. Little things like that are what make the game great, and the same things happen with the main story (though like every choice based game, the base ending - not the entire ending that’s a whole different thing - is only affected by some dialogue choices in the last quarter of the main story). So when I rave about consequences, that’s what I’m talking about, not carryover from game to game.
You didn’t like it? Good to know, anything in particular that caused that dislike or was it just not your cup of tea?
I’m sure I’ll love the DLCs, I’m already dying to play the Citadel one but I’ll hold off until finishing Andromeda and then play the hell out of the trilogy again.
Yeah I’m trying to keep my expectations really low and what’s really difficult is trying not to compare it to the original trilogy. I played like 2 hours and constantly had to stop myself from thinking “I miss Shep” or “Shep would have come up with something better”. That’s hard when every time dead daddy is brought up, someone says he was N7.
Honestly with all the patches they’ve released, everything does seem more polished than what all those youtube videos showed on release. Especially the animations, which are still bad especially for 2017 standards (I complained about 3’s animations but some of these are actually worse). But mostly everything is not good, but passable.
My biggest problem (and it’s not very big) so far is why are all the asari so ugly? Like in the lore they’re considered to be beautiful by every race because they do some mind stuff so everyone thinks they have sex appeal. Which is partly why every asari in the trilogy was good looking. And then andromeda comes and they’re all ugly, even Avina.
The character creation tool was limited to say the least (and very difficult to make someone who didn’t look like something out of a horror movie) but I think I made do with what I had. Ryder basically looks like this but way worse. So like a Dollar Store Lara Croft knockoff. She looks a bit messed up from the side though which is unfortunate but there was nothing I could do to fix it.
Other than the ugliness of the majority of the characters the only thing I’m wary about is the exploration. But that’s not something I can judge until I actually get the ship and go exploring. It sounds like it’ll be a lot of mining for resources and doing inane sidequests (like a typical open world game) but I hope I’m wrong. I just have a feeling maybe ME worked better as a semi linear shooter, where the story could be the biggest focus.
So I really haven’t formed an opinion yet but I think if I continue to view it in an entirely separate light to the trilogy, I’ll enjoy it. And the fact that you like it also gives me some comfort in that fact :)
ooh, think you’re actually going to play ME now?
When is Origins coming out? Considering I nearly spent 100h in Andromeda before I completed it once (ok, I played a bit MP along the way, but still…).
Yeah, don’t ask me! I don’t even know how Shep could possible forget, that going all the way with Morinth might be a really bad idea. But maybe she’s just suicidal and we don’t know it? (Or in fact we might even know it, considering the missions she’s doing, right? :D) Like: Damn, you brought me back to fight against the reapers? Nope, I’m not doing it, I’ll just enjoy my time with Morinth. That’s the best way to go anyway. And such :D
Hmpf, I don’t think I can do it :/
Haha, yeah that actually sounds like a fun game: Shep on the hunt for her crew! As long as she doesn’t have to recruit a new crew to find her old crew and mingle with them along the way. But I guess that would just happen. Because otherwise it would be a pretty lonely journey :)
Sounds though. But the moment you work it out, it’ll be quit satisfying :)
As long as there are in one game consequences that is still nice. Also being able to make different choices is nice. I prefer those kinda games over the linear ones where I am only “replaying” it. Every time I play it, it would always be the same. Ok, so there still are games that offer some freedom, like how you approach or something like that. In Thief the story was pretty linear, but yeah, the way I could handled it was way freer (free-er? That looks stupid O.O).
But right after finishing ME I tried real hard to find games, that offer so much free choice. DA works in a way like it, but then again not at all, since every game gives you a new Maincharacter and new NPCs and all that. So, no development as in ME.
Well I dunno. I didn’t like Geralt so much. The story dragged on and on. Most of the time the game made me believe the main aspect about it was how many woman Geralt could bed… And I always kinda struggle with older games :]
I knooooooooow. It’s like. Shep would not stumble over her feet. Shep would know exactly what to do. Nobody would dare question Shep. I missed her all the way. On the other hand, it’s been a while since I played ME and I didn’t go directly to Andromeda. So I didn’t jump from Shep to Ryder. Still, I kinda expected a cool and though character like Shep and not a.. newbie :D
I know, right? It’s like every ugly Asari decided to sign up for Andromeda. Probably they where bullied at home and just wanted to get out :]
I try to seem them as the beautiful species and handle them that way, but still, there is something missing. Also I was a bit disappointed some species where still missing. Like even if this big thing is the main “ship” why are there only certain species on it and not from every some? But…. I guess you are not there yet :D
I was actually pretty happy with my Ryder and the way she looked. Although I had my problems when I tried creating her brother. That went… not so smoothly :D
Mhm, I mostly struggled with not knowing for sure which of the quests are main and which sidequests. Apart from that… oh… right. The awful missions with the randomness. That. Was. Horrible! Driving from camp to camp and hoping that finally there is the one thing you need to get the quest done. Luckily no main story, but still, as a wannabe complestionist I had to hunt them done :]
Yeah, they are separate from the Trilogy. Sadly even made by a different part of the company. But then… maybe it was better that way, because the other ppl probably would also miss Shep all the time :D
Sooner or later: Yeah. Right now I’m working on my games for the monthlies. After that, we’ll see :)
Origins will be out October 27. I’m not that far into Andromeda (finished a bunch of side missions and the first Eos thing) so it seems this will take a while. Looks like I’ll have to be even less responsible than usual in order to get it done before Origins. They released new gameplay for it the other day and it’s great! They’re actually listening to criticisms from the fans and I’m really looking forward to seeing what the final product will be like.
edit: ok it says i’m at 17% completion and have played for almost 17 hours. That doesn’t seem right at all, surely I haven’t been playing that long right?
If it wasn’t for Sheps incredible will to live I would totally say that she’s got a death wish :) But nope, she isn’t James!
Lonely might be interesting though, a rogue Shepard doing whatever needs to be done to find her crew. Could end up being a very dark and different game, a completely different type of ME. But that’s just me wanting more of Shepard and not thinking about whether or not that could actually be good :)
Yeah agreed, nothing wrong with a linear story but if the game itself is linear too there isn’t much in the way of replayability. Now that I’ve played so many of these choice based games I have no idea how I had the patience to constantly replay AC games. It’s just the same thing over and over with no difference. I still love it and would do it occassionally, but now I can see myself replaying these choice based games (like ME) so much more often than before. ME is unique I think. There’s no other big series that I know of that has a voiced protagonist spanning through multiple games, letting you make choices that have a ripple effect throughout the entire series. The closest like you said would probably be DA (which only has a voiced protag in Inquisition right), Fallout 4 (which doesn’t have the benefit of that ripple effect through multiple games due to the fact that each Fallout game is largely solitary), and of course the Witcher (which is one of the closest matches but doesn’t allow you as much freedom in your choices due to Geralt being a character molded around books, has very real consequences but they don’t carry over to each game really). (and if you were wondering, in that case ‘freer’ works but it totally does sound weird!)
The story may drag on for you in a couple of areas (namely the Novigrad plotline and the very beginning of the game in White Orchard). Other than that everything moves at a pretty good pace, sometimes too fast (I have issues with the quality of the 3rd act). Since I haven’t played W2 I may be wrong on this, but in 1 and 2 he always seemed kind of dull to me. Partly because of his amnesia maybe? In 3 he has a lot more personality I feel, cracking jokes and making puns, being a sarcastic little shit. Especially when he’s around his friends, there’s some really lively moments. And some really tragic ones too, where you will see Geralt on the verge of a breakdown.
Well you can sleep with plenty of women in W3 too, but the main focus is on Triss and Yen (and a certain character you’ve already encountered in previous games in the Hearts of Stone DLC). Everyone else is either just a fling which you can turn down, or a literal prostitute. So there’s your fair share of banging but it’s not like in the first Witcher where I played 10 hours and I think I screwed 3 women? Gary’s a hoe but he’s getting too old for that now.
I’m not there yet but from the sounds of things it seems like all there is is the human, asari, salarian, turian, and krogan species. And many of those haven’t even arrived yet. I’m sure a few more species will be introduced but they explained that the Quarian ark didn’t set off in time. So no Quarians, Drell, Big Stupid Jellyfish, Volus, Elcor, etc. Just so many missing species!
My Ryder has grown on me at this point, I think she’s quite pretty and I’m proud of how much better she looks than the default. Bioware should totally hire me to create their characters (please no i would do a terrible job). Scott however, yeah I’m not going to touch his character creator with a 10 foot pole again. That was a disaster!
I’m curious, if you have any screenshots on hand you should show my your (main) Shep and Ryder! Unless that would be difficult in which case please do not go out of your way to satisfy my curiosity :)
Yeah I can’t say I’m a big fan of the 50 missions I got telling me to scan plants, animals, enemies, minerals, dead bodies that I can’t find, etc. Or the ones telling me to find this random thing with no quest marker for some reason. Unless I really love the game those are going to go uncompleted. My biggest issue right now is the amount of quests I’m having to leave incomplete for now because Eos still has really dangerous radiation in the outer areas :/ Just let me do all the side content at once, game!
All this crafting, research, development, diagrams, different types of loot, mining, sending teams on missions, cryo upgrades, access to literally every possible biotic, combat, and tech upgrade, being able to change between classes (soldier, vanguard, etc), no more in combat pause screen, it’s too much. Like I’m still so overwhelmed with it all right now.
I didn’t know that it was a different studio! I think I did read somewhere that the part of Bioware that created Andromeda has been dissolved into another element of Bioware and/or EA. Meaning I guess the higher ups were not happy with how Andromeda sold.
But anyway, I’m actually so far finding myself pleasantly surprised with Andromeda. Like I’m not attached to the story and characters yet, but I’m enjoying everything else for the most part (except for the fact that I can’t save during missions which makes me want to tear my hair out).
Well, always remember to play what makes you happy :)
October? Ah, then you’ll manage! Considering how fast you where with the others, I’m pretty sure :)
Haha, oh how I know that feeling! :D
“But nope, she isn’t James!” You mean Morinth or…. I dunno what you mean by that :D
Well it’ll either be pretty dark or more like a happy world galaxytour where everybody celebrates her as hero and wants to help :]
Yeah, in one way I get why you replayed the AC games that much, in another way I was right from the start super surprised. But yeah, I can’t judge really. I replay some games just because of cheevos others because of romance and some…. not at all! :D
Yeah, sadly I know of no other game, that is THAT complex. I would love too play some more like it… but yeah :]
Mhm, I think in DA2 it’s already with a voice acted mc, could be wrong though. Only played it once ;)
Fallout 4 is also a choice game? Didn’t know that! Even more reason for me to go back there and make it somehow work. (The games worked, my body refused though -.-)
You are right. It might be, that he’s lacking something because of his amnesia. Well, I haven’t given up on Geralt yet, so maybe we’ll even become friends before all this is over :D
I’m really curious to finally met Yen. I know that ppl are either totally on her team of absolutely against her and hate her. So yeah, I’m curious :D
Also, even if Geralt is to old for bed action, he would have to suffer through it with me :]
Yeah, that seems about right. Species concerning. And that’s the thing. Why are there only Human, Turian, Asari, Salarian and Krogan on the Main Ark? (Still can’t think of the name of that ship o.o) I would have thought with it being the new Citadel it would host some ppl off all the species that went on the voyage. But nooooooo, we again favor some. It’s always the same :] ;)
Haha, but luckily we don’t meet Scott that often. Guess in the next game(s) that’ll change though. But we’ll have to wait and see for that one :]
Already told you on steam: sadly couldn’t find any screenshots. I might even have had some, but since my old pc broke back in the day…. they might have been lost with that. (Got myself a laptop at that point and a bit more then half a year ago I got a new pc. Sadly I can’t get my me2 saves onto that one. Dunno why though -.-) But it would really be possible, since ME3 saves via cloud, that Shep should still exist, right? So if you’re really curios I could make it work ;)
The plants etc. are not that big of a problem. It’s more those quest that are not tracked and depend on luck and randomness. The ones where you have to drive around those camps and maybe you’ll get lucky and the thing you need. They KILLED me! Also that’s the main reason I’ve spent so much time in the game I guess :D
They don’t do anything big. So you don’t have to do them :)
Oh yeah. I know. I was soooooooo confused at the beginning. At the end I tried to make a more flexible Ryder. Sadly though with swapping of the different classes the abilities don’t change with it. (Maybe they changed that by now, dunno) That way it seemed pretty useless to me. But I would need to give that another try and see if it maybe works out differently. Like activating every passive ability. Well I did that anyway :D
I don’t really know though. Again a second hand knowledge :D
On of my best internet friends told me something about it. But he is also pretty unhappy with the whole Andromeda thing, so when ever we talk about it, he’s ranting. He even said there might not be a DLC or another game for Andromeda. But I refuse to believe that. So that’s that.
Right. Not saving. Hated that as well! Like: Do I have enough time to do this mission? Oh yeah, sure I do. And in the middle of the whole thing I finally noticed, that maybe not so much :D
So who do you already have on your team? :]
I try to do that. Not always so easy since some games only reveal it at some point if or if not they make me happy ;)
I hope so, it’s just seeming like Andromeda is particularly long. Took me all day yesterday to get through most of the ice planet (the name is escaping me right now). And I still have a bunch of sidequests there. It just seems like it’s going to take a while, and once school starts up again I’m going to have a lot less time. But October is a ways away so I’m sure I’ll be good, especially if I binge it every day :)
Ah yeah should have explained that. I think it was mentioned a couple of times in 3 that James is so reckless and fearless because he doesn’t care if he lives or dies. So not quite suicidal, but he definitely has a death wish. Like when he Kamikazied into that Cerberus shuttle.
Yeah I don’t know how I do it. That being said my recent playthrough of AC3 I think I’ve quit at this point because it’s just the same stuff over and over again, and some of it can be very tedious and time consuming. It’s easier to replay the older ACs because they’re quite short but the newer ones get stale so quickly due to the amount of time you need to put into them. Like, I’ve only played Black Flag through Syndicate once. Don’t know if I could bear slogging through 60 hours of Unity again or (as much as I love it) spending hours upon hours sailing to locations and doing missions that are still somewhat fresh in my mind.
What you do is much more productive and makes complete sense :) Replaying a game to see different outcomes or scenes or just to do some things you haven’t done before.
Well I haven’t played FO4 so don’t take my word for it. It seems to be like every other Bethesda open world game where you have choices but not really. Like Skyrim I guess? Like I know you have to pick between factions, some quests have different outcomes, and you can choose who lives or dies but I have no idea if the game has any consequences for what you do.
I’m glad you haven’t given up on Geralt yet :) I really hope you grow to love his character and his dynamic with certain very important people. It helps too that he is absolutely gorgeous in 3. I personally love Yen! I can’t see Geralt with anyone else, as lovely as Triss is. I can see why Yen rubs a lot of people the wrong way though. She can be very bitchy, orders Geralt around without telling him why, and is basically the complete opposite of Triss. But she always has a good reason for everything she does, and she would do anything for the people she cares about. And her relationship with Geralt really brings out a softer side in her. Unfortunately you only meet her briefly in the beginning, then spend a lot more time with her later in the story. So you’ll be spending more time with
triss and a few others first.
At least the default Scott is okay, but I don’t envy the players that wanted to play as a male Ryder. Not creating a hideous monster is a big feat.
No, really it’s okay! The curiosity isn’t killing me :) But I’m sorry you lost so many of your ME saves! Guess that means you’ll just have to play them again so you have saves on your new PC! Kidding but that is totally the rationale I would have for starting another ME playthrough.
I don’t think I’ve come across anything like that yet, but that sounds terrible! As much as it’ll kill me, with quests like those and all the random scanning tasks, I don’t see myself 100%ing this. But I’ll for sure do everything else that isn’t annoying to complete.
Yeah I’ve been reading a little bit on the ME reddit and there’s a lot of speculation that there won’t be an Andromeda sequel, or if there is, it won’t be released for years. And since they haven’t announced any single player DLC or a season pass, seems likely that there wouldn’t be any DLC. But I have no clue what to think of all that.
Meaning you have to manually switch powers every time you change profiles? I am not here for that, I would have thought it would be automatic. I’m trying to stick to an infiltrator playstyle, so I’ll be maxing out sniper rifles, assault rifles, and tactical cloak. From there I have no clue but I figure it isn’t worth wasting points on profiles and powers you’ll only use sometimes, so it’s better to just specialize and stick with it. It’s not like I’m playing on hard anyway so I don’t need to be too strategic.
Definitely. Just last night I was up until 5 playing this mission (the main kett base on Voeld) that just went on and on and on and I couldn’t save and it didn’t autosave. So if I quit I would have lost like an hour of progress. I’m thinking maybe it was a glitch that the mission lasted so long, because the enemies never stopped coming. I just had to turn on tactical cloak and rush to each objective, otherwise I don’t think it would have ended. So that pissed me off to no end. Is it really that difficult to just put in a quicksave button like every other game?
I think I have everyone, as no one is blacked out in squad selection anymore. I got Jaal most recently I believe. So right now I’m rolling with him and Vetra since they’re my favorites so far and I’m trying to decide which of the two to romance. Jaal seems to have a little more depth but Vetra is adorable and Turian.
I’ll add this though. One thing, probably the only thing, I truly love about this game is the character interactions. The crew constantly have chats with each other on the ship and when driving they have plenty of conversations together. I wish that was more prevalent in the original trilogy.
Understandable, it’s awful when you feel as if you have to force yourself to play through a game you no longer like :/
Oh right, I forgot to mention you return to every planet a couple of times, so don’t worry about abandoning quests. I did too at the start ;)
Btw: Will you show me a screen of your Ryder?
Oh right. Summer holidays will eventually be over, right? :/
I kinda forget that since no longer going to school. But yeah, I understand. And thought it might sound stupid and all that, it’s still good to keep an eye on the things you need to do for school. Games won’t run away from you, school is way faster over then you think ;)
God, I sound AGAIN sooooo old! hide
OH RIGHT! James and his crashing action! Think we get another of that in the Citadel DLC :D
Yep, I understand you. Sometimes I think about starting ACII again since I loved Ezio but… nope :]
But I’m still looking forward to the next games. And one day we might just get back to the AC games, since they are just good!
Aw, sorry, totally nothing to do with our talk: Tizio is sitting next to my monitor and cleaning himself. Hindleg up in the air and all that. I love watching him cleaning himself! <3
“What you do is much more productive and makes complete sense :) Replaying a game to see different outcomes or scenes or just to do some things you haven’t done before.” It’s even nicer if there are achievements for everything you do. Sadly bioware/ea didn’t think of giving us cheevos for every romance option -.- I’m totally for that! Don’t need a cheevo for doing the game on hardmode (though I would never have done it otherwise :D).
Ah, ok. Yes, that sounds fitting. And you are right, it’s kind of deciding things but… it’s different again, right? Although maybe not. Maybe it’s just my head who thinks it’s different. Because in the end you have to make a decision.
Btw. I have never finished Skyrim. I gave up on it at some point because it was constantly the same somehow. Everywhere I went I got loads of quests and never seemed to get anywhere with that -.-
Well Triss is also a bit… complicated, right? Especially in the first one I wasn’t sure what to think of her AT ALL! But I went with her since she was the first one Geralt rolled around in bed with. He might not be faithful, I kinda am. At least a bit :D Yeah, I know, I know, I made him jump in bed with every woman. Who am I trying to kid, really :D
The whole things sounds as if I need to play it twice. Once for Triss dating and once for Yen dating O.O
Well I’m pretty sure we can make something decent with Scott. But after I finished my Ryder I didn’t feel like he deserved as much time since he’s only the brother. I kinda regretted it later on. To think he now looks the whole story as stupid…. :] :D
Ugh. I know! It would make perfect sense to play all again. I lost my Miranda romance! And Garrus and…. literally EVERYONE I dated so far! At least for ME2. Three is all save and sound :D
No, I won’t do it. New one, yes, but not back to the once I already completed :)
On one of the last planets I did that horrible thing, I felt like there is an easier way to do it. But. Yeah, still stupid. Like at the beginning I sometimes avoided those camps since I was annoyed by all the battles going on. In the end you “just” have to take every camp you see while doing your missions. But it’s still. Stupid. And Annoying. And not really that important :)
You get some background info. And a bit bigger mission at the end and that’s about it.
I don’t believe it. That’s that! :D
As to season pass: There never where any for the first games, so I never expected them to release one for Andromeda. Can’t remember if they announced the DLCs for three (but they probably did and I was to occupied to notice), in short: so far I’m not worrying about anything. I might cry in ten years if there is still nothing new ;)
Yeah. Like if you switch to Vanguard your sniper abilities seem kinda… useless, right? But if you wanted Vanguard abilities you have to put them there EVERY time yourself. That seems awfully complicated. But maybe that wasn’t the intention behind all that. It might be, it’s just for the armor and stuff? Like as a sniper you don’t need extra protection against close combat? But I dunno. And I’m not sure I wanna try this one on hard unless I work that out :D
They definitely didn’t think the saving thing through.
As to the enemies. I’m certain they stopped coming at some point. No idea how else I managed otherwise since I was not running around stealthily :D
Aw, Jaal is sooooooo cute! In a blueish way :D (He’s also bulky and big, but his character is cute!)
And yes, Vetra was my first choice! And yeah… then I switched languages :D
I know, right? I stopped every time just to wait and see what they’ll talk about now! That was so awesome! Also they run around the ship and chat there with each other. That was just greatly made!
The only times that happened in 3 was in cutscenes as far as I remember. Like Liara talking with Yavik only happened in a scene. But oh well :]
Yep, that’s not nice :/
Right now I’m trying to beat all these HOG scenes and mini puzzles in Melissa K. and the Golden Heart. You have to beat them on time aaaaand have at least 90% accuracy for cheevos sake. Yeah, I know me. I’ll have to do that to let this one go :D
Have a nice weekend :) :*
Good to know, I did go back to Eos for Cora’s mission and was surprised when all these new things and areas popped up! I have to say I’m already getting a little fatigued by it all and seem to be enjoying it less as I go on, but hopefully that will change. It’s just kind of the same thing over and over again with a main story that doesn’t feel as impactful as it’s going for (like the big shocker that the Kett are stealing DNA from the angara, probably the biggest thing in the story so far, would have been a much bigger deal if they didn’t happen to look exactly like the angara in the first place).
Sure thing, here you go. Such a big contrast to my Shepard, who looks a little intimidating sometimes and all business with her high bun and whatnot. And then we have Ryder who just looks like a generally nice and easygoing person (or at least that’s how I’m playing her), who is really not equipped for some of the things she has to deal with. I’m glad I was able to make two very different characters, otherwise I would still be comparing the games and characters with each other.
Yep, I have a little less than a few weeks of this and then it’s back to college applications, testing, classing, all that good shit. And I actually do try to put school first! I’m lazy and tend to do the bare minimum but my grades are good and relatively easy to maintain, it’s the college stuff that I’m behind on. Don’t have any kind of skills, experience, or academic achievements that make me stand out so actually getting into a decent college may prove to be a bit difficult. And that’s on me.
And you’re not old at all! :)
They really are good, the more you replay them though the more glaring flaws you start to see, so keep those positive feeling towards AC while you can! I’m so tired of the series right now, Origins is the only thing really keeping me as an active fan of the series. If it’s not good then I’m done with AC. But I’m hopeful it will be amazing, the Black Flag team did a great job with BF and have a good chance of doing the same with Origins.
Aw that’s so cute, he sounds sweet.
Oh wow, an achievement for every romance option would be a nightmare for people that aren’t obsessed but feel the need to get every achievement. That would be like 3 playthroughs of 1 and 8 or 9 playthroughs of 2 and 3. I’d totally do it though.
No, I feel as if it’s different in a way too. Maybe it’s because of the nonlinearity of everything, the fact that any decisions you make hardly change dialogue, let alone the course of the story. I think I finished Skyrim? Like I honestly can’t remember as the main quest is such a small part of Skyrim. Like you said, you just get an overwhelming amount of quests everywhere you go and you eventually get sick of it as it’s more or less the same thing every time. Go there, kill these people to get this thing that the questgiver was too lazy to get themselves, come back and get some garbage reward, do it all again. Even the good quests consist of that same base foundation. It’s fun for a while but getting burnt out is completely understandable.
Yeah I totally didn’t mean to simplify Triss’ character, she’s definitely really great and interesting too. In W3 it’s particularly interesting to see her journey in Novigrad. You’ll see what I mean when you get there. Don’t quote me on this but Triss in W1 was apparently supposed to be a bit of a mix of Yen and Triss as they didn’t know what to do with either character. So I don’t know, but that probably means that particular version isn’t a good reflection of her character? But I have no clue.
It’s ok, the game practically wants you to hop in bed with every woman that offers so I don’t blame you :) As long as you don’t sleep with both Triss and Yen, it won’t affect any relationships you have. Maybe because those women sleep around too, maybe because they never find out, maybe they just don’t care. I don’t know.
My next playthrough I plan to romance Triss just to see the other scenes, but I don’t know if I can break Yen’s heart like that. So we’ll see. Luckily it’s just the two (main) romances so it won’t take nearly as long as it would with ME. They’re both lovely romances.
Well I guess in your Andromeda, female Ryder got all the looks, while poor Scott was left in the wind :)
As long as you remember the romances then you don’t need the saves :) But if you start to forget, hello new playthrough!
Yeah, that does sound really annoying so no thanks I will not be doing that. I think I have come across some of those quests at this point and they are not fun. I wish I had your patience!
Fair enough, maybe we’ll all be proven wrong and you’ll be able to say “I told you so!” A DLC where the quarian ark shows up would be amazing. I’m less worried about DLC and much more worried about the future of the series as a whole. It’s just become my new favorite series they can’t abandon it just when I’m falling in love with it! I don’t even care if it’s 5 years before they release a new ME, they just need to release one.
Yeah, that sounds… weird. And like a complete waste of skill points. It also seems really weird to play with a tech profile like Engineer and still be able to have a full loadout of Biotic abilities. Like what how does that make any sense?
Only reason I think it was a glitch was that they didn’t come in organized waves, there were a bunch of those and then the enemies just kept coming one at a time. Kill one, another took its place. So eventually that got frustrating. But that mission is long finished.
I love Jaal. Bringing him along on the quest to rescue the moshae just cemented that he’s going to be the one and only one I romance (Edit: Nevermind, banged Peebee and will probably do it with the reporter as well, oops. I’ll still totally commit to Jaal though). I accidentally flirted with Liam a bit too much, but I’ll just wait to do his loyalty mission after I seal the deal with Jaal. But Vetra is so lovely too <3 (even though she talks about her sister way too much) But I’ll stop flirting with her as I don’t want to lead her on.
Suvi definitely seems like a great option just for the accent, picking her was a good choice :)
I absolutely love it. It’s like they’re all kind of a big family. That’s something that wasn’t really present in the trilogy, not all of the crew members were close with everyone. Both kinds of dynamics are good though and seem to fit the tones of each game.
In 3 they did a decent job with it actually, it was 1 and 2 that were really lacking with crew members interacting with each other (except for the odd elevator chat or interactive area in a city). 3 had them hanging out together, talking over comms, that kind of thing. It was really nice to see but I still wish there was more!
Glad you know when to let something go, that seems way too difficult :)
you have a great weekend too!
I know. It was the same for me. Got a bit annoyed at quests popping up again all over the planets after a while. But it also makes sense since the… thingy starts to work and therefore the environment changes. Try to collect some quests though before you go back, or you’ll be doing it just like me: returning a thousand times, when you could have done it in… dunno, 2 maybe? :D
Yep, she looks different. But also nice :)
My Ryder was a white haired one with green eyes and white tattoo. Looked pretty exotic :D
Yeah, gaming is sadly no skill ;)
But I’m sure you’ll find a way to get there. Talking with you makes me think about going back to school myself, so I can get the grades I need to go to university. But as I said before, the thought frightens me at the same time.
Oh, I had no idea you where in that much of an AC conflict right now. Well, then I even more hope Origins will be a good one!
He IS cute and adorable and…. lovely and… fluffy and all that! :]
Right. Some ppl would hate those cheevos. But other ppl hate mp cheevos or hardmode cheevos or such, so why not give them something some would also like? :)
Yeah, the nice thing about Skyrim was the freedom. Go where ever you want, skill how ever you want, learn and do what ever you want. It felt pretty limitless that way.
Well if there was a mix of Yen and Triss in the first one (I didn’t notice, didn’t even know of Yen then), it would make a lot of sense. We are after all playing the game from Geralts perspective and even if he forgot all about Yen, he might still know subconsciously something of here and therefore mix both of them a bit together? That would make quite a lot of sense (to me at least :D). And when he slowly gets his memories back they again become more and more two ppl, so Triss changes. Maybe. What ever :D
Yeah. Also Ryder got sam, daddies memories, the crew and a ship…. Poor Scott is stuck in a cyropod -.-
Ha! I have a paper! And on this paper I have written everything down! Which class I have played, which end and most importantly who I dated! So all sorted :] :D
My patience… snigger I honestly wanted to abandon them. A friend of mine kind of made me do them. He appealed to my 100% completion conscience. So I was stuck ;)
Yeah, a next game would have more prio for me as well. DLCs are nice and can tell more story, but the main thing really is the game, right? So we want the whole thing :)
And I would love to be right about this :D
It may not make sense, but it offers you the chance to use the abilities you want to, never minding the boundaries of classes. It also has the disadvantage of not having the class supporting Ryders abilities. Like having bio and tech abilities but an active tech class. The bio will never be as strong. But it can still be useful :)
So more freedom to do what ever you like, HOWever you like ;)
Ok, that sounds bugged. And bugs we kill :]
sigh Jaal was sooooooooooo sweet. You made a nice choice there <3
(Yeah, me and Peebee did the same… ;) )
Liam. I’m prrrrrrrrretty sure he’s gay and you can’t romance him with your fem Ryder :]
Yes, they are! I mean, there is even conflict sometimes, but that is normal in every family, right? But it’s so nice to see them talking and interacting with each other and all that. I love it! Way more then I already loved it in the trilogy :)
I’ve let it go. Three games where just too annoying :D
I’m getting closer and closer to replaying Andromeda! bounce
Right, yeah that’s pretty much what i did, get a bunch of quests and then come back and do them later. So now I’m at 100% viability with every planet I have so it’s time to move on in the main story (I still have sidequests left but I’m so done).
Thank you! Compared to what your Ryder sounds like, she’s probably quite plain. Next time you play Andromeda send me a screen of your Ryder! Sounds like you make really interesting characters :)
Yeah, I’ll be fine but I am at a huge disadvantage. Where I live, the universities are extremely competitive and I can’t get into most good schools in my area as it is (if I had actually worked hard then things might be different but oh well). I’d like to stay in California where I have a support system, familiarity with everything, and career opportunities, but if I have to move to get to where I want to be I can handle that too. Who knows, maybe once I get into school I’ll have another relapse of debilitating depression and have to quit. But I need to at least try.
I can understand that fear, but if you ever gather up the motivation, latch onto it and try if you can. It’s scary but worst case scenario, you just don’t finish again. I’m sure you have tons of potential and if you choose to go back to school it could be really beneficial. And if you discover that it just isn’t the right path for you then that’s okay too. It’s certainly not for everyone.
Yeah, I definitely have AC fatigue right now. Abandoned my AC3 playthrough and I’m not going to touch another AC until Origins. But it’s still a series that’s near and dear to my heart, but Origins will decide whether it’s an old love or something that I’ll always be a fan of.
Sounds like a nice idea to me :) I’m never one to go out of my way for achievements but if they’re something I’d actually want to do, I may feel a bit more motivated to complete them. You’re totally right, you can’t please everyone so you might as well throw in a bunch of different achievements and see what sticks.
Definitely, that’s what made Skyrim so great. That and the exploration. You could be a sneaky archer, powerful mage, brutish warrior, so many different combinations and they were all fun. You’re making me miss Skyrim damn it!
I have no insight on that sorry! Having not played the first two has really put me at a disadvantage with that. I could be lying about Triss being half Yen in 1, I’m really not sure! But I will say that Triss in 3 is apparently very similar to how she is in 2, so I suppose they figured out her character somewhere along the way. They weren’t able to do that with Yen and that’s partly why she’s only in 3.
After Andromeda, I think I’m just going to bite the bullet, watch and read some synopses of Witcher 1 and then just play 2. Then I can replay 3 relatively guilt free.
Poor Scott, really getting the short end of the stick. I almost feel bad for him :/ I imagine he’s going to be a bit jealous when he finds out his sister has all this cool stuff while he was having a nice long coma nap.
That’s actually a really good idea, so you can get the most out of everything when you replay it :) And it would also be great for going back and remembering all the good times you had in each playthrough.
Ok your friend is evil! But at least now you can say you 100%ed it so you don’t have to feel obligated to 100% your next playthrough.
Definitely. I think I already know the answer to this, but would you prefer a sequel to Andromeda, or for Bioware to just start fresh with a brand new entry leaving behind all of the controversy surrounding Andromeda?
Oh yeah I’m totally not complaining and it’s definitely a great way to give the player more freedom! But it doesn’t make sense for certain profiles to have access to all abilities. Not everyone has biotic implants. But still, as a design choice it’s not a bad one.
Thank you, I’m hoping his romance is good. He seems to be the most fleshed out character, especially since most of the stuff you do, at least so far, has to do with the angara. Maybe that will change now that I’m heading to what seems to be the base for the nexus exiles.
Nah he’s definitely not gay, I turned down casual sex with him and later on he referred to a small mission he had me do as a “date”. So even though he’s all set up to get brutally rejected I’m just going to wait to finish his loyalty mission. You know I didn’t like him at first but he’s really not as bad as people say he is. He’s a nice guy, he just needs to put a shirt on and stop making forced jokes.
Yeah Kallo and Gil, Peebee and Lexi, everyone has their arguments at some point. But they have arguments! And they converse and constantly change locations and it’s just great.
The trilogy could definitely take a page from Andromeda’s book in this case. Just imagine walking onto the Normandy and hearing the crew arguing about something trivial or plaything a game of poker. That would have been lovely. Didn’t happen nearly enough as it should have, but at least it happened sometimes!
Congrats! You already have a plan laid out for how you’re going to do things or are you just going to wing it?
Uh yes, she is a bit more… flashy! Definitely! Since they offered me the ability to make her that way, I certainly did :D
Scott got by the way the same tattoo only on the other side of the face. Because twins and all that :)
Ah that sounds though. So you would already have to leave for college? I can imagine that being a huge step and maybe throwing you back :(
Tbh I would really like to study abroad. I had it ten years ago all sorted out. Make my Abitur (the thing we get in Germany so we can go study - A-Levels I guess?) and then move to Great Britain. I used to be there like every holidays and annoy my aunt :D
Actually I’ve been there this spring - first time after four or five years. Time flies when being stuck in depression -.-
I keep my fingers crossed for you and AC Origins :)
Also for me, but I seem to be quite forgiving for game series I already like :D
Ups. Sry, didn’t mean to make you Skyrim homesick!
Didn’t even notice I did that, since I’m not that much of a fan :] :D
Ah, but you have played three. And I can only guess about that. Also that might not be the point behind the Triss thing in one, but an explanation I as player could live with :D
Yes, you should. We are talking so much about it, I think you should really give it a go. Even if you not play W1 but just read up or watch vids or what ever :)
And in that sense I should try getting my hands on W3. So we both have a Witcher goal :)
Uh yes. Yes, you are right. Scott deserves our sympathy. Also he deserves his sis to visit him every possible time - which I did because I feared I might miss something ;)
Sadly my notes are not thaaaaaat detailed. It’s more like a list. But I think the ones I liked most, sticked also the most :)
He IS evil! Atm he kinda tries to seduce me to go back to WoW, he always tries when he starts again. But so far I’m strong :)
I enjoy my time with the blaeo community too much. And blaeo comes with playing sp. Which I also enjoy greatly! I haven’t played that many games in quit a while :)
Gosh, you are really asking me?
But yes, you probably know the answer already. I want them to go on. Ofc it could get worse, but honestly I don’t think so. I think they can improve greatly and do something wonderful with Andromeda. They have created some nice characters which can only gain personality. Yes, Ryder might be a child compared to Shep, but children grow and we can grow with her and this new galaxy. Also I would be sad if the just abandoned that.
Considering they even asked the fans back in the day what the would prefer: A story after Shep or one before Shep. So there we have it and now I wanna know how this will go on :)
I know. I guess Sam makes all the difference? But dunno :)
Have you yet met Jaal family? Or at least a part of his family, since Angaran families are… huge :D
Oh, that is embarrassing! I thought of Gil when you talked of Liam! Ofc Liam is not gay! Gil more so :]
I liked Liam, but he is to… shallow? Like the jokes and all that. I didn’t feel getting that close to him. But then he never got the chance to get too close to Ryder. She was way too focused on Suvi. God, can you remember the first talk with her? I was squealing about her accent and Ryder offered just THE SAME REACTION! That was so fantastic and cool and….! <3
Sry :D
You really need to play the Citadel DLC :]
I will play a male Ryder.
I thought about doing first all female things, but talking with you, I was reminded of Gil and…. I have a heart for gay guys. And since my first fem Ryder had Suvi, I think I can totally go for Gil now :)
Oh right. I started being interested in Vetra, but then came this Reyes Vidal character along. And he was sooooooooooo tempting! Ryder nearly abandoned Suvi for him. But then didn’t :]
Edit: If you like to ad me on Origins: Ninglor03
Not for another year, me graduating early isn’t an option anymore but I still have to get my applications in within the next few months. It’s all very overwhelming definitely and I have done no research whatsoever. But things will happen the way they happen, as long as my lazy ass manages to get into a decent school and actually try for once that’s all that matters. Ugh, it doesn’t help that in itself is a false ambition because I truly have no motivation to do anything and see nothing in my future. But it will make my parents happy and hopefully help me to secure a career in… something.
ahhh studying abroad sounds wonderful. That damn depression, it really can be so debilitating. I hope you achieve whatever you strive for, whenever you strive for it.
Thank you! And it seems like we’ve established this: Keep a positive outlook and your expectations low and you may just love the game :) So I hope that forgiveness for any wrongs AC does will come easily.
Don’t worry, that homesickness lasted about two minutes until I remembered exactly why I stopped playing Skyrim, which would be what we talked about earlier with most of the game’s quest have you do the same basic thing over and over again.
Thanks for the encouragement, I think I will play it. First it was the books holding me back, then W1. But whatever, if I love the series as much as I think I do then I’ll get to them eventually.
Be sure to let me know if you do get W3, I’ll be so excited for you to play it :) I really think and hope you’re going to enjoy it
I’m doing that too, so far it’s always a wasted trip there but that’s better than missing an important coma conversation.
ooh WoW, that’s one that everyone seems to get addicted to. I believe in you, don’t give in to that wonderful time sink!
That’s a nice way of thinking about it. And look at ME1. The characters were a little more basic but in the next game they all grew so much. As did Shepard. The plot even became more important and heavy. What’s to say the same kind of thing doesn’t happen to Andromeda 2? Plus I read that the game seems to be designed with a sequel in mind, as a lot of things go unresolved (apparently). It would be a shame to just throw all that away and leave any loose ends forever untied.
A story before Shep would be really interesting now that you bring it up. So many interesting wars and events that you could see in game! That being said, as cool as that sounds doing something fresh and new (so after Shepard) is much better. You don’t have the history in the lore bogging anything down, so you get creative freedom.
Andromeda can only go up from here, I hope.
I haven’t met Jaal’s family, though I did hear him speaking to his mother. But we get to meet them?! That’s so exciting oh god I hope they approve of their relationship.
Definitely, like the guy really got the short end of the stick with the neverending cheesy dialogue. You can’t have a serious conversation with him. I guess you could rationalize it by saying the humor is a defense mechanism, but a defense mechanism for what exactly? There’s nothing wrong with him he’s just goofy and oblivious. Still a nice guy though with good intentions.
Don’t apologize for your fangirling! You are always free to fangirl around me. And that scene was really cute, in a totally cringeworthy way! Watching Ryder stumble over her words because she really likes Suvi (and her accent).
I’m really excited to play it! I really miss shepard, the normandy’s crew, and garrus (who I miss most of all, there’s no one i love more than garrus), so after Andromeda and probably a short break from ME I will be dying to play 3 again. Buying all the DLC may have been a bad decision but I don’t regret it one bit anymore :)
Gil seems like he would have a sweet romance. But you really can’t go wrong with Reyes. Just met him today and wow I love him (and the fact that he’s bi!). His accent is just… If Jaal wasn’t so great I would romance Reyes in a second. Gil, Reyes, maybe some of the female characters, your male Ryder might have a hard time choosing!
Sure, I’ll add you once I get on my PC. Though I like to avoid using Origin when I can. Obviously not an option in ME’s case though :)
Aw, sweetypie! That sound’s exactly like the thing that went on with me. (Although only after I didn’t manage Abitur because since then I knew what I wanted to do… more or less ;) ) I’m sorry hug
Do you have anything you would like to do? Any job you can at least imagine a tiny bit doing? I know it’s an awful decision, since there are soooooooo many things out there -.-
Thank you :) I hope and believe it will happen one day. And if only it is a little cat cafe with a cat museum inside it :D
Wait. Positive outlook and low expectations? I know I’m doing that, but that sure sounds contradictory :D
But since we both know, what we mean with it (and it also works out!), we shall just do that! :]
Glad to hear it. I would have been worried if I really got you to miss Skyrim that much, since I didn’t even praise it into heaven ;)
Yep, I will definitely let you know the moment I play it. Probably need to talk tons about it anyway ;)
Well apart from Sims WoW was the first game I spent hours and hours in. So I guess it will always be a part of my gaming world. Funny enough it always feels like coming home when I finally start playing it again. That sure doesn’t I won’t get super quick frustrated by it, but still, it’s home in a way :]
Yes, you are right. ME improved from the first one also a lot. Two was a bit to heavy on action/shooting, but they corrected that again. So nothing is ever 100% perfect, but every mistake offers a chance to learn from it and do it better. And since in Andromeda there where a few things not perfect, they have lots of chances :D
Right, there are quite a few things left open. But that’s to be expected by a game that is the first out of a series. So, yeah, they can’t leave us hanging on that cliff ;)
Yeah, I would have enjoyed a story before humanity joined but I guess that would have been too far off. I’m not sure, but I can imagine they thought more about the battle between humans and Turians with Anderson as leading character or something like that. (Experiencing why he didn’t become the first Spectre and that…) It never voted though since I said, that I would be happy with either and can’t decide something like that. So here we are and I’m happy :D
Oh man, I tell you! It was… intense! And I was all giddy although I didn’t date him.
Andromeda has so many nice romance options…. <3
Maybe…. ah, I dunno. He is a sweet guy. Nice and easy going. Yeah. Dunno. Gotta give him a chance, maybe that’ll make all better.
Haha, yes, it was cringeworthy, but it was exactly how I felt and that was sooooooooooo perfect. It was as if the game watched me play and offered me to react 100% like I would. I think that was the first point that made me fall in love with it. Ryder gave me the option to react just like I would react happy
I feel with you! I had this though choice: Andromeda or ME Trilogy (although it would again only have been 2 and 3). But. Andromeda was only played once so far, so the choice was not that though in the end :D
Tbh after writing to you I did start (first tried to take Ryder pics. It totally sucks with Origins though) my new Ryder. And I thought about Reyes. I might…. reconsider dating Gil. Not sure yet ;)
Oh man, I forgot to rename Scott. So yeah, I have a Scott Ryder. With stupid hair. I should have taken the braid. To late now :)
I have it running all the time, but I know what you mean. Also I think it is pretty stupid to have to use Origins. Just like U-play. Why can’t they just run with Steam and that’s it? But nooooo, they would like to be as important as Steam I guess :)
Thank you <3 I promise I’m not usually this mopey, only when it comes to me having to figure out my future. (by the way I looked up Abitur and I don’t think we really have an equivalent in the US. it sounds a little like just finishing your first two years of college, where you receive an associates degree that allows you to receive higher degrees, or in Germany’s case, go to college? Or am I completely misunderstanding.)
Originally, it was going to be animation, 3D modeling, that kind of thing. Maybe something in games, maybe something with CGI like in trailers or movies. I really enjoy that even though my experience with it all is from watching and following a whopping number of one tutorial video for Blender. Like if I actually had some kind of “dream” it would be to be a lead animator for one of those studios that makes cinematic game trailers. I just figure even if I enjoy it, it’s not practical as that job market is extremely competitive and not exactly well paying until you’ve really climbed up the ranks, which if I continue as I am, I would never have the ambition to do. So I quit that. So I’m thinking maybe nursing, I don’t have the interest, personality, or temperament for it but it will always be in demand and pay quite well.
It totally is contradictory :) I know you know what I mean but I guess just, I don’t know, don’t expect much but be pleasantly surprised when something happens that you like? And if something bad happens, just keep a positive attitude? I don’t know, but however you describe it, it helps!
Nope don’t need to worry about that. I think I’m done with Elder Scrolls (despite buying oblivion for some reason) until they announce Elder Scrolls VI. Then I’ll be all over that.
I hope so! It would be interesting to read your reactions as you go through the story :)
Ah that’s nice, I totally get that. That is me with the older ACs, part of the reason I can replay them a lot. When it’s one of the first things you really love enough to put that much time into, of course you’re going to have some kind of attachment to it!
Absolutely, we should have faith that they can patch things up and give us all the sequel we deserve, hopefully not too long from now, maybe in the next 3 or 4 years?
Absolutely, I’m not adverse to playing as a different species at all, but it seems like a huge part of what makes ME, ME, is humanity’s role in the galaxy’s events. So maybe that’s why they haven’t even entertained that idea.
That was exactly what I was thinking about, an Anderson game where you play as him in the first contact war could be great (though I thought I saw somewhere there were already comics or books or something describing this). Maybe it wouldn’t work as a full title, but maybe a very small kind of spin off game? I don’t know. But I definitely think going into the future was the right choice, so I’m happy too :)
I’m looking forward to that! I hope it happens soon!
Yeah don’t get me wrong I like him, aside from Cora though he’s probably my least favorite though. So no dates for him :) His thing with the car from Earth was really cute though and he’s just an all around sweet guy.
Yes, it was cutely cringey and totally seemed like the way someone might act (evidenced by the fact it was exactly your reaction too), instead of some smooth one liner. I just love how Ryder is such a huge dork when it comes to flirting :)
Fair enough, a second playthrough for Andromeda may give you some really interesting insight and you’ll absolutely find things you missed the first time around! That’s the beauty of replaying a game, rewatching a show or movie. You pick up on things you never noticed before and it makes the experience even better.
Protip, if you have an Nvidia card you could always use Ansel for freecamera screenshots and shadowplay for regular screenshots. Or of course add it as a nonsteam game and use the overlay as usual :)
Both good options, their romances do seem to be rather small though. But they have such nice personalities.
It seems like the default names are actually good though since they use them sometimes! It’s nice to hear them call you Sara and Scott, Scott. But hey, there’s always next time and that handy facial reconstruction suite on the tempest for you to do anything you want to Scott, good or bad (except rename him, oops)!
I agree, at least with Uplay you can still buy the games on Steam but then they still have to go through Uplay! Origins and Uplay aren’t bad clients at all, they do the job. But neither have the functionality and convenience of Steam. I just want all my games in one place is that too much to ask? Well, I mean apparently it is but.
Update on Andromeda, the quests never. stop. coming. I went to Kadara and everything that was on hold suddenly became no longer on hold, so I just got bombarded with about 10 very important and probably lengthy quests, on top of all the sidequests and busy work in Kadara. This is all going to take a very long time. So that’s my plan for today.
I keep switching in between really liking the game and groaning through other parts of it. But that’s not new, happens with every open world game. No one likes the repetitive crap but when you actually get down to the meat of the game it’s quite enjoyable.
Ah no, that’s alright. You can be mopey as much as you like! :*
Though that with the Abitur doesn’t quite fit. It’s the final degree at school. But we can go with that - considering how good it is - to every place we want. University, college, plain old learning a craft. We don’t have the college system really. Kinda, but not really. But it doesn’t really matter if that doesn’t make completely sense, since there are sooooo many school systems around the world and I’m until now not 100% sure I get the American system either ;)
So no worries :)
Oh wow, that sounds cool! But I can see how that can be a though job. It’s probably really competitive and therefore a lot of stress and pressure.
Nursing, huh? I know it’s an important job and I have huge respect for all the ppl who do it, I couldn’t fathom how well it works out though, if you’re not 100% behind that. It’s a real though on and you get to see a lot of things that get to you. But yes, on the other hand it will always be needed.
Mhm… gotta satisfy that Ameno cat ;)
That’s done - for now :]
Yeah, I guess that’ll always be the same with the first game a player was obsessed over.
Sry, if I’m a bit short tonight, I’m suddenly super tired and can’t seem to come up with that much to say. And nooooooo, I don’t wanna go to bed! :D
3 or 4 years? That already sounds…. rather long sigh But your probably right and it really isn’t thaaaaaaat long! Don’t even wanna think about the amount of playthroughs I could play for the first in that time… :D
It’s a book series of three books, as far as I know. I’ve recently read the first one. It was nice but somehow also wrong and… yeah, dunno. My sis in law doesn’t have the others though so I won’t go on reading it ;)
And yes, there is also a threesome of comics. I have read them. I can’t seem to remember what they where about. I think something with Liara and the Shadow Broker? Mhm. Not sure.
So a minigame would work for those players that wouldn’t want to read the books I guess. For the rest it would be a nice addition. A little filler :]
Cora wasn’t thaaaaaat bad. She maybe has an asarian stick in the…. ;) but apart from that she’s pretty ok. I think. I left her mostly on the ship though :D
That’s right. But it also makes the first landing on habitat 7 seem like it lasts forever. I wanna start with my ship and crew and all that! bounce
Right. I could use Nvidia for it.
Adding a non steam game to steam - I thought about it a couple of times. But then I mostly have open end games (at least for me) on Origins and if ppl on steam noticed how much time I actually spent on those - if I find time….. That would be surprising! :D
Small? Might be. Guess in that way Suvi was also a small romance. Well best to get the small once out off the way then, so I can focus in the future on the bigger ones :D
Sara and Scott are actually rather nice names. I wasn’t even that sure how to name him yet, but I started before I…. I just worked down the list on the left side and never thought about it and then it started and I was like: I forgot to name him! Nooooo! Well, though luck. Now I have a Scott!
And yes, it is nice, they actually say Scott Ryder not just Ryder which they use to do when you name them.
Yeah, I would also like to have my games all in one place. Adding them as non steam games would be a start ;D I should just do it ^^
I know! They just come and come and come! But. Believe me, there is an end. I have actually seen it!
Andromeda sure feels massively huge though.
In that way ME was better. It already had a free feeling to it, but it was not that immense.
And I also struggled between liking it a lot and hating it a bit. Mostly because of those quests that kept on coming. And these random quests. Yeah. And the returning over and over to planets and having AGAIN quests. Yeah, but apart from that… :] :D
I think I’ll really go a bit earlier to bed. Those new neighbors that remodel parts of the house somehow don’t pay attention to ppl who sleep longer. Meh. ;)
Have a nice evening with Jaal!
Right, I think I partly understand the concept? That sounds nice I think. The American school system is so weird that I barely understand it half of the time, and it seems quite different to everywhere else.
Yep, I’m no artist either, I don’t have the imagination for it. I can try to pursue it nonetheless but my pessimism is telling me it’s a waste of time and it would never go anywhere.
Exactly, I don’t think it would be ideal at all. But that’s the only other thing I feel as if I would possibly be good at.
And no worries at all!
3 or 4 years is a long time, but 2 seems like it isn’t enough for them to truly perfect a sequel, especially since all that controversy likely caused them to rethink many of their plans for it. They need the next one to be incredible, if that takes them years then so be it.
Right, not how you pictured things in your head? I could understand how having this vision of how things work and then suddenly a book tells you that’s not how it happened might be a bit weird.
Oh yeah Cora’s fine, she’s just kind of there. Maybe she’ll get some depth aside from always talking about her days as a huntress in the next game :)
Oh I’m sure. That first landing is lengthy the first time around as it is.
That’s what fake offline mode is for :) If I don’t want anyone to see that I’ve been playing the same game for 14 hours straight I always pretend to be offline to save myself the embarrassment. I also have my math teacher on Steam (strange I know, I offered to send him a gift on steam since he’s my favorite teacher) and I would rather him not see how much time I spend obsessing over certain games.
I mean that’s just a guess, they could be just as big as what seem to be the big romances like Jaal and Peebee. I really don’t know.Nothing wrong with small though as long as it’s a good romance :)
yeah, Scott and Sara are nice! At least you weren’t stuck with a Harold Ryder or something.
You should, it’s very convenient! I do it for the overlay, I seriously can’t live without that thing.
It’s so massive it’s overwhelming, I thought I could see the end and now all of this! I’m excited to do all of those loyalty and ark quests though.
ME’s linearity really worked for it, especially with the plot it didn’t really feel like something that could be entirely open world. But it still allowed you to do things more or less in your own order and explore the odd world for some side mission. I like to think of Andromeda’s exploration as what ME1’s would be like in 2017, so kind of lackluster. The Nomad even handles about as well as the Mako. At least the graphics are really nice. But that’s another side effect of trying to create something new, it may have some kinks at first. If the next one is open world, I’m sure the exploration will be better and hopefully less repetitive and pointless.
Definitely, every time you go back there’s someone new that wants your help with something! I believe you when you say it all eventually comes to an end but I don’t think that’s happening anytime soon. And not to mention I have a couple of bugged quests that I’ll never be able to turn in :/ So that’s annoying.
The biggest thing Andromeda needs to learn is quality over quantity. Focus on a smaller number of side quests and make them feel like they matter.
Also I tried to add you on Origin and maybe I’m just blind but nowhere on your profile was there a button to add you, sorry!
Have a good night, and thanks, I will!
The only thing I really hate about the system is that there are only two attempts for it. And I so freaked out over all that, I got sick and stepped back and even had to contact the ministry so my second attempt would still be available in the future.
So HOW does the American system work? You have to go to college and get certain degrees so you can go to university, right?
Mhm. How old are your grandparents? Do they have a kind of… problem? Like my granny had dementia and I couldn’t handle it A BIT! But then again she was my grandma. Might still be different with strangers :]
Couldn’t you volunteer at a elderly home and see how that works out for you? Obviously not now but maybe during the next holidays. We had to do things like that for school. I learned that working with blind, old ppl worked for me - also they somehow liked I was German and told me lots of things about Germany back in the day. Not so much about the war but more the times they visited it. That was a real nice surprise :)
Huh. Yes, that makes sense. So I guess I should be willing to wait longer. Better late then never or such :]
Yeah. Like Anderson just can’t be a young guy :D
No, that worked. But it’s somehow the things how they happened and the interaction between Anderson and Saren. Mhm… for me it was conflicting. Also the book in German wasn’t thaaaat good written. Maybe just a translation thing, but could as well be the book in itself.
But I noticed the game saving in between such lengthy missions. Though I couldn’t save it did that for me. So next time your on a long mission, just quit after those blue arrows on the right side of the screen appear. ;)
Oh man! Yes, I can totally see why you don’t want him to notice that! On the other hand it’s super cool to have a teacher who plays games!
It’s like having a teacher who plays in an official coverband of a pretty popular band! :D
You are probably right though. Comparing the things I encountered with Peebee (and I didn’t date her!) to my romance with Suvi…. the later was short. So the two guys might just be the same. I guess the bigger romances will be the one with your actual teammates. And neither of them is that. Man, why is there no “big” gay romance? -.-
I mean, Vetra and Peebee are both available for women. Mhm. Again this unfair romance world! :D
Harold Ryder! :D
I think I might have started new with that one. Which I could ofc have done anyway, since I noticed it pretty quick, but it didn’t bug me that much :)
Yes, now I can take proper screens and show you both my Ryders! happy
ME never felt that linear too me, since I could choose the order in which I wanted to play the missions nod
Making Andromeda more open world though changed the whole thing a bit. And yes, again a thing they can learn from and make it better next time. Wait, next time we already know the planets we have now, so… no need for tons of quests there, right? But then again we have to go to different places and… yeah, more sidequests. Also hopefully more significant ones and yes, different. Oh, I liked the Sudoku part in the faults :]
Ok adding on origins: Open your friends… ehm… bar/menu/dropdown bar? There should be something like “search for friends” and behind that an icon with a person and a plus. That should do the trick :)
Had a….. ehm… disturbed night. Lots of cats going on and waking up to early and all that. Hope you had a good nights rest :)
Oh yikes that is scary. Like so scary you can fail just from the fear of failing. At least you have a second chance still, and it isn’t just a one chance and it’s lost kind of thing. But still that’s definitely terrifying.
Basically, you go to school, and after your 4 years of high school you get a diploma. Generally once you graduate you immediately head off to college after summer holidays. Apparently Americans don’t like gap years. You can go to a community college for two years, get an associate’s degree, and stop there. Or you can do the same and then transfer to a 4 year university where you can then eventually get a higher degree (think masters, doctorate, etc. though some of these may take much longer than 4 years of course). And this is basically because those first two years are not spent focusing on your major, it’s more for the essential classes like math, english, science, etc. and your chosen major takes a bit of a backseat. So just another two years of high school, just a bit more difficult. This is a small relief for people like myself that don’t know what they want to do, as they still have another two years to figure it out (though, and I suppose this depends but, you’re pressured to decide as early as sophomore year of high school). You can also go straight to a 4 year, which is what a lot of people do if they can afford it (I don’t know if it’s like this in Germany, but tuition is insanely expensive and you have to pay for everything) and what I plan to do. The process is more or less the same, you just don’t need to transfer. So then you get your degree in whatever, graduate, then that’s it. More or less.
They’re fairly old, only have my dad’s side left. But my grandfather is in great health (late 80s and he’s still winning awards in ocean swimming competitions) and my grandmother, while generally doing well for her age is apparently also developing some kind of dementia. Unfortunately they live overseas with the rest of my dad’s side of the family, so we aren’t close. When my other grandfather was in hospital I took it pretty well, we weren’t close either but that isn’t the point. Though I wasn’t doing any of the work, I had no trouble being around him despite being able to visibly see a decline. But just because I was around for my grandfather’s death doesn’t mean it’s something I’m experienced with. Probably won’t be until someone close to me dies or gets very sick. Anyway, I believe I have to be 18 to volunteer in a place like that, but it’s certainly an option I’ve considered. Being able to do something helpful and hearing all the stories they have to tell would be fascinating!
Ok Anderson is Shep’s space dad and I can’t imagine him as anything else, let alone a young soldier, so I get it now :)
Yeah I have to say, they did a good job with the autosaving for main missions! Thank goodness.
It is cool, but yeah I definitely don’t want him to see that I’m a big slacker. I’m not taking math this year because I don’t have to, but I enjoyed the time that he was my teacher. Me and a few others liked to tease him about how he liked to watch League of Legends twitch streams while we were taking tests. I’m hoping since I’m in his good graces, he’ll write me a stunning letter of recommendation for college :)
That’s unfortunate, just because they aren’t squad members doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be just as viable for a romance! They should get equal treatment, but I suppose if you’re going to have a nice lengthy romance, you have to go with a squad member :/
That’s great, I’m always happy to see that kind of thing so you can always share as many screens as you want with me!
No I agree, it’s linear but it doesn’t feel like it. Like, everything is so open ended and you have so much freedom but at the same time you’re being guided in a set direction in a really smooth way.
All we can ask for is that they can, like you said, recognize what they could have done better as well as listen to the criticisms and learn from them. Then hopefully we’ll get that kind of quality side content that we want. But yeah, maybe you’re right. The repetitive stuff has already been established in this game (the vaults, outposts, viability, etc) so maybe there’s hope that things will be different next time :)
Not going to lie, I do not like the Sudoku parts, I did about 4 or 5 before getting bored and deciding looking it up would be much quicker.
Oh yeah I did all that, found you and everything just fine. I just couldn’t see an add button anywhere. I am either completely blind or something with my profile is preventing me from adding someone. If you want to try, my username is kelsocharlie.
Complete side note, Origin is now selling Andromeda for $20 on sale which is just my luck of course. If I had just waited a week! Too bad I’ve played way too many hours to request any kind of refund.
Aw, that sounds… annoying. Gotta love it when your cats just won’t stop bothering you at the worst times!
Thanks, I didn’t but that was entirely my own fault for completely losing track of time :)
It is scary, yes. And since everything scares me…. well, there we go :]
So you basically have to go to “higher” places to get better. From High School to Community College to College and then to University?
Yeah, the money. In Germany we have Bundesländer (States) where you have to already pay for entering Uni and there comes living and things you need for your studies on top of that ofc. So studying is never really… easy to afford. Guess that’s why only the richer used to study. (Which is stupid because money doesn’t necessarily means brains :] )
Alright, that is probably a good start then. I had trouble seeing my grandparents suffer, the closer I was to them the more problems I had with it. (But I also suffered when we had to put our dog and cat down. Guess I’m just really sensible.. ;) )
Sure, not every place would like to have teens around I would guess. Never occurred to me though, since I had to get places as teen already. But trying things out when turning 18 should still be enough time to figure out what works, right? :)
He sounds really cool though! :D
Would be easy to favor such a teacher! That’s one of the moments you can actually see they are also “only” ppl. Took me a lot of time to see teachers as human beings :D
Would be pretty cool if he wrote a recommendation though! :)
It starts with them not having that much appearance, right? Like on planets they don’t normally show up - only in cutscenes/character related missions maybe. And they don’t have that big, if any at all, loyalty missions. That way they are already “smaller”. But yes, I think Gil is basically Suvis counterpart. She only for girls, he only for boys. But he is cute. It worked instantly with Scott and him :]
Also I found the remodeling station! That’s new! So Scott can now go and shave his beard ever morning :D
I tried taking screens. Didn’t work out. I’ll try next time not playing on windowed, maybe that helps :)
The thing I liked least about the Sudokus was the searching for the glyphs. Jumping around like crazy on the blocks until I finally could scan things -.-
For me solving the riddles mad it feel like I’m actually working on solving this riddle a bit. But I see how not everybody likes it ;)
It somehow involved a bit more clicking. I’ve sent a request. Should work now :)
Ah, nooooooo! That’s is…. stupid, annoying, a shame! I’m sorry :(
(Also, why do they sale AC games? WHY???? -.-)
Oh yes, I know THAT problem! Me last night: I will only talk with my ppl on the Tempest and then go to bed. An hour later: Just this one more……. :D
Oh, before I forget I’ll start this off by saying I’m sorry if my replies start to get a little less frequent. I’m already having to do things for school, as well as applying for jobs again (I need the school credit) and some more outside stuff. I’ll be busier, but still not too busy to play a game a few times a week (but it is why I’m nervous I won’t be done before October) or reply to your messages :) I’m only taking 4 classes after all.
Pretty much, yes. But community college isn’t necessary, you can go straight to a uni and get the same education. College/University is more or less the same thing, only real difference is that uni offers masters and doctoral degrees and I don’t think most colleges do. So your hierarchy of schools is basically on track.
Right okay, so pretty much like America then :/ Education should never be restricted behind the barrier of endless expenses and tuition fees, it’s such a shame.
I think that’s a normal reaction to have, no one wants to see something or someone close to them in pain. God, now that you mention it if I had to put down my dog or cat, it would be devastating.
I think it’s less of a ‘we don’t want you’ kind of thing, and more of a legal issue. For the same reason I can’t work at pet stores, volunteer at an animal shelter or center that has a community service program for ex cons. Being a minor, if something happens to me it would be a much bigger shit show than if I was legally an adult. And I suppose a lot of places just don’t want to be liable for that.
Yeah he’s a chill guy, the kind of teacher that you can easily talk to but without losing any respect for him as an authority figure. That’s a difficult balance to strike. I just found out today that he took another job so I’m glad that I was in his class for two years, and decided not to do math this year. I’m still going to hunt him down when I want that recommendation though. I’ll even ask through steam if I have to :)
I suppose you’re right, it’s kind of like Kelly Chambers or Diana Aller’s romance, they never leave the ship and only have a few conversations with you so their romances are quite short if you compare them to Garrus’ or Tali’s.
And that makes sense, they both even have red hair and interesting accents (though Gil’s is only interesting because he’s surrounded by american accents mostly), that’s enough to draw a comparison :) Nice that your Ryder and him are getting along though!
It’s nice I keep forgetting about it! Maybe I should give my Ryder a little more flair, like purple hair or something, I don’t know.
If the steam overlay isn’t working (which is common for Origin games), there’s a pretty easy fix. Have steam run as admin, and make sure the game exe is set to run as admin as well. With Origin completely quit, launch the shortcut through steam and it will open Origin, which will then start the game. Voila, your lovely FPS counter and screenshot ability will be there. If it’s working but you can’t take screenshots then I have no clue.
Definitely, it’s especially annoying when you can see it but your scanner is just out of range :/ Those jump jets are seeing a lot of use. Fair enough, I can see how it would be more satisfying to solve the puzzle rather than scanning the glyphs and just activating the tower.
Hm, I didn’t get anything so I’m almost certain it’s an issue on my end. I’m not planning on playing any MP anyway and we’re friends on steam and uplay so I think we’re ok :) Don’t want to make a simple friend request into a huge hassle on both ends, it really should just work.
ahhh I know! I was mad but you know, it happens. If it was $60 down to $20 I would have died though.
Hah, so I guess that means you’re enjoying your 2nd playthrough so far? To be fair, talking with the crew is one of the best parts of the game, no wonder you got sidetracked :)
Yeah, I thought something like that might be going on, since our postings became less regular. But that is all right. I’m always happy to see that huge block of writing that basically indicates you replied happy 
Someone dug that smiley our for me and I simply love it. So have to share it! :D
There is a movie with Tom Hanks, where his character returns as an old dude (older really, he is not OLD old xD) to college to finally have something education wise in hands. I always liked that thought. It’s like our Abendschule (Eveningschool) where you can get as an adult your Abitur or school degree. But he didn’t, he… learned something to get a qualification for a better job or something like that. Yep, I’m right now wondering if we have something like the college. I know we have schools where you can learn the “dry” part of some job schooling - in Germany we still have the job training mostly by applying to a place and training for up to three years and then you are a qualified person in that field - with work experience in the holidays. So a bit like it I guess? But it’s more spread and stuff.
Never thought it would be that difficult to compare/explain schooling/job education places :D
Yeah, Education should not be a question of money. Luckily we have it here that the state offers financial help if the parents can’t support the child adequately.
Oh right. The security side of things. Should have guessed that :)
Aw, but I guess he will be missed greatly by the students! Cool teachers like that are always missed once they leave!
Yeah, but I can’t exactly say which accent he has. Some kind of British I guess? Yeah, can’t say :(
Ha, I thought about that as well, but they are soooooo…. sooooo much. I dunno. I might give it next time a try but first the color and then a fitting hairstyle. In the end Ryder is bald O.O :D
Ok, I’ll give that a try :)
Thank you :)
At first I was super annoyed by the jump sets, now I kind of struggle thinking about going back to ME and play the game without them :] :D
Oh yeah, have it at the magical 75% (magical, because it’s normally the number I’m willing to start buying games at ;) ) and I would die as well! ;_;
I am indeed! And I noticed that knowing what will happen and where to go and all that, makes it faster to get done with a planet. First time on Eos I spent AGES running around without knowing which way to go, this time I just start and tada! Nearly done :D
Actually nearly finished Eos in a couple of hours this time. Got just one mission left… had to quit though, it was really bedtime :D
How are you getting along, now that everything goes a bit slower?
Thank you for understanding, I just wanted to make sure you knew that I’m totally not blowing you off :) I promise I will try to keep the ranting about school to a minimum. I always enjoy our chats too, and also that emoticon is adorable.
Right, that sounds kind of like getting a GED (seems a bit like what your Abendschule would do from your description) or simply just like you said, going to college to get a qualification for something.
It is surprisingly difficult! It’s probably not even that different, I am just very bad at explaining things.
That’s good at least, we have financial aid here too but it usually does more harm than good when people graduate college only to be tens of thousands of dollars in debt from student loans.
At first I thought he sounded a bit Australian, but I don’t think so (being from Australia it’s embarrassing how often I am not able to tell the difference between an Australian and British accent). But he’s not like Miranda who has a very distinct Australian accent. Like I think I would place my bets on him being British too, kind of in the middle on the spectrum between cockney and posh sounding. I’m horrible with accents though so I know nothing.
Bald Ryder? Oh goodness that’s… i don’t even know.
Let me know if it works! If not I can see what else may help you.
Oh man I was thrilled when ME3 introduced actual jumping, even if it was just contextual. One of my few complaints was how little freedom of movement you had, like you’re a badass supersoldier that can’t jump, stab someone (until ME3), dodge, or climb a crate. I giggled every time I got swarmed by husks and was forced to lightly elbow them to death. I would have been happy with just regular jumping in Andromeda, but hey the jump jets do the job too. This is weird but the sound they make annoys the hell out of me though.
Just makes me wonder, since all their tech is from 2183 and the jump jets are clearly as widespread as thermal clips, you would think that they would be widespread across every major military organization. Maybe even required. Obviously the reason for this is because gameplay but so many things would have been so much easier if you could jump!
My number is usually $20 max if it’s a relatively new release that I really want. If it’s not then it’s less than $10 or there’s no way I’m getting it, even if it’s like 85% off. ME and AC are clearly exceptions here what with me spending $80 on DLC and $100 on a game that’s not even out yet (I’m sorry I’m still hung up on it that’s just so much money).
Maybe the lesson here though, is the best and safest time to buy any game is during the major sales :) Anytime between those sales and you run the risk of buying something at full price then immediately getting screwed.
That’s great, you could end up loving the game even more now that you aren’t stumbling around like a headless chicken (not that you ever were but i think you know what i mean). And you know everything that’s going to happen so you can make all of the right decisions!
You mean with Andromeda? If so, then yeah, now that I know what I’m doing and which quests to do and which ones not to bother with so things are getting a lot more streamlined. Enjoying the combat a lot more as well now that I’m not stopping to fight everything that attacks me. The main and large side quests are getting good too, I’m very interested to know more about Garson’s murder and this benefactor that caused it. It seems like it’s important but also not considering they’re hidden behind a bunch of seemingly mundane collectibles. That being said I still have a looong way to go and my progress is starting to slow way more than I’d like due to lack of time.
Ok you’ve already read this but I’ll add in an edit anyway: If you didn’t already know and you want a gay romance, Jaal is romanceable (i don’t think that’s a word) by both male and female Ryder now! It was included in some patch.
That’s so considerate of you. Thank you :*
“It is surprisingly difficult! It’s probably not even that different, I am just very bad at explaining things.”
Well in that case I’m just the same really :]
Oh yes, you can also get some money from the banks, extra cheap for students or something - and basically you may repay the state the money you get while studying, but as far as I got it, you don’t have too? Yeah, not sure. (As with most things. God, is this absurd, that thinking too much about it already freaks me out? -.-)
Australian? Nah, I don’t think so. British on the other hand, I do think so :D
But I’m also not that good with it, so I cant say if it’s from north or south or east or west or even a certain town!
Ha, no, I wouldn’t do that. But sadly I’m not that happy with those coloured hair. It’s a bit to much for my liking. I wish they offered the chance to colour the hair as in Sims 3. There you could pick a colour (like for the eyes or make up) for base, tips and all that. That was pretty nice :]
I know! It was so awesome to suddenly move more freely then in ME2!
Well maybe the Andromeda initiative had some scientists who worked again on other things. Like Alec Ryder with his AI program and the ppl who worked on the Tempest, maybe there where also some who worked on some combat usable things?
I would normally say: it’s around 600 years in the future… but then it isn’t, right? It’s actually ME tech but only at a different “now”, so not different at all.
Uh… soooo confusing! :D
Well, everybody has a system with which he/she allows him/herself to buy things, so that’s fine :)
And yes, it is a lot of money. But you’ll probably also get a lot of gametime out of it, so I think it’ll be worth it :]
Yeah, sales are normally the best option. It’s just a question of willpower. Can or can’t we wait for a sale? xD
Oh, I’m not sure if there even are right choices! O.o
But yeah, I’m certainly not running back every couple of minutes because somebody on a finished planet asked me too. Because of one quest or something! No, I am not, Bradley! :D
Yep, sry.
Ah, that sounds good then! Yes, the murder was interesting - I just now noticed with starting the game, that Tann said something about her dying from the Scourge, which is really funny. So he apparently has no clue about that incident. That makes us wonder, why he doesn’t or is he lying to the Pathfinder? Or is this even mentioned at a later point and I just forgot it? Questions over questions!
Yes, Sara is indeed a bit… cyber :D
I tried making her look a bit male. Short hair and all that. In a way she seemed more masculine then Scott with his fluff hair (don’t know how else to describe it :D)
I have no idea where the Blasto shirt comes from though! My fem Ryder didn’t have it (shame, ea, shame!) but for him it was just there! It’s only really irritating seeing him on Aya with that outfit :D
Not absurd at all, I get horribly anxious whenever I have to think about a career, expenses, taxes, college, everything like that.
Yeah after listening to him talk today, he is absolutely not Australian. It’s funny that every Angara has either an Australian accent, something like a Nigerian accent, and then something else that I can’t place. For aliens from a different galaxy they sure share a huge amount of similarities with humans.
That would be nice, the problem with Andromeda’s hair is for the most part it’s all one solid color which isn’t usually how people’s hair looks unless it’s unnatural. The option to put in some highlights, root color, whatever, like in Sims would be really cool.
I mean maybe? Like I’m willing to suspend my disbelief because they’re games and they probably didn’t have jumping because they didn’t want the player going somewhere they’re not supposed to. You would really think, after a massive battle at the citadel if you come up with some not illegal revolutionary technology, you’re going to share it with every military out there. Speaking of, everyone in Andromeda still thinks the geth are the enemy which is soooo sad. They’re so oblivious about everything, especially the reaper threat that was the reason they all departed so hastily.
I think so too :) I mean already I’ve way surpassed 40 hours in Andromeda so that’s less than a dollar per hour. Not bad.
My method is to pick a few series that you just love, and let those ones be the only games I’ll buy at full price. So for me, that’s AC, ME, and Witcher. And they aren’t releasing another Witcher anytime soon. As much as it hurts me my other favorite series can wait until they’re at least 25% off :)
Fair enough, you have to make sure going to that planet is going to be worth your while, with at least a couple of decent sidequests and newly available ones. Otherwise why go?
I get the sense that he isn’t lying, he may know more than he’s letting on but I don’t think he knew about the circumstances of her death, but maybe he knows about the benefactor. Just not who they are or what their motives are. He was wanting to keep everything hush hush after all, but that could be because he doesn’t want panic from the masses again, which is perfectly reasonable. I accidentally stumbled across a couple of spoilers for Andromeda and one of them was that this plot point was never resolved (that’s disappointing, it was the most interesting thing in the whole game for me so far), so you didn’t forget. Just another thing I guess they’ve left for the sequel maybe?
Modern and slightly masculine, it’s a cool look. And Scott’s got choppy layers for dayyyyys.
I think it must be a deluxe edition thing that was maybe patched in? I certainly don’t have it or any other extra outfit aside from the leather jacket.
So I sealed the deal with Jaal and it was adorable. I was still torn between him, Vetra, and Reyes but ultimately decided that Jaal already had feelings for Ryder so he was the most obvious option, and his mother wants to bake Ryder a pie so that’s a big win! So I highly recommend him for a romance, even with male Ryder (I’m sure it’s probably the same for both genders). Then I played one of Reyes’ missions and I don’t know why but I absolutely love that guy. Small romance or not, I’m banging him next time.
The willpower it’s taking me right now to not replay ME3 is so massive, like everything is screaming at me to play it but I can’t and shouldn’t. But I miss Shep, I miss the crew, the gameplay, the atmosphere, I even miss that garbage jogging animation. Annd I am going to end this rant before it even starts.
Hope you’re having a nice weekend!
EDIT:
https://www.masseffect.com/news/mass-effect-andromeda-update-from-the-studio
Damn, sorry Ninglor. This sucks. I don’t want to jump to conclusions but this doesn’t bode well for the future of MEA as a series.
Ok, I really think I’m not that good with accents :D
I might get a feeling whey they are from, maybe, but that’s about it. And yes, they do. I think it is kinda adorable giving them a specific accent, because it gives them a kind of region touch. Yeah, that sounds strange, I know. I mean like for example Tali had a Persian accent, right? And her homeworld was sort of… dry and all that? (Ok, not only dry…) but it seemed fitting - to me at least :D
But I liked how the hair moved a bit. It was no static mob on her/his head :D
Then again. Sims is from EA. ME:A is now also from EA. That’s a bit of a shame :|
Yeah, you are right. I would absolutely share everything to try give the live in our galaxy a chance against the reapers. And if that means sharing jump things, then I’d share jump things :D
Game wise it might not have worked out because they would have had to build a way more open map. In ME it’s all a bit more restricted. Then again I also jump around in the vaults and that is also limited space. Ah, well, guess they just wanted to give us something new :]
Yes, you are right! I also suffer a bit because of the genophage, although the Krogans in Andromeda seemed to be more resistant? Kesh said something about that at the start. Not quite sure. But it’s so many things really. Things Shep corrected and they still think occurred or at least are that way!
But somehow the Andromeda initiative, although it’s totally pro live and not just pro humanity, reminds me a bit of the safe humanity goal from Cerberus. Like Cerberus was willing to do everything possible to give humanity a better chance and the Andromeda initiative even build arks to get ppl away and to an untouched place.
Maybe… the reapers stopped the late arks though? God, what if they never turn up, because they got kidnapped by the… uhm… enemies of the second game :D Although Shep would have in that case stumbled over some massive abandoned ark, right? Yeah, so that’s not the case. Ok, they will turn up in the next game. I’ll just believe :]
Yep, there are some games one simply has to buy as soon as they are released, never mind the cost :)
I guess I’ll at least wait for a loyalty mission to pop up, before I’ll go back. Those made me return a LOT last time… ;)
Mhm, maybe he really didn’t know. Considering he is… what, the ninth in succession? Or something like that. But then again that would definitely speak of bad organization if they couldn’t hand down all the information they had :D
Well, who knows. I guess it will all be explained at some point.
Man I so want to see how the planets evolve in the end. Like they want to plant things and all that, that bound to change the planets appearance, right?
Yeah, I guess it’s because of the super, special, extended, what not, edition. I’m just intrigued, why my fem Ryder didn’t get a Blasto outfit or something similar to it. Or the go out dress Shep had :D
Oh, I know. I haven’t met Reyes with Scott yet, but I simple loved him last time. Sadly I tried to go with the woman on… that planet, so I couldn’t stand behind his plan. And that was the end of that romance. One day though!
You’ll get a pie from Jaals mom(s)? Aw, that’s so cute! <3
His romance is bound to be so touchy and cute and adorable and… sigh
Ok, so if we don’t want to go down the missing ME lane… I will not even start ;)
Lots of playing actually. Since it’s raining mostly. And I’m worn out. And tired and simply feel like lots of gaming. Sadly no ME:A so far though. I mostly play Hunipop right now. I kinda wonna get rid of it or something :D
Hope your weekend is enjoyable and nice with sunshine and all that! :)
Ok first things first: NINGLOR OH MY GOD THEY RELEASED A CINEMATIC TRAILER FOR ORIGINS (here) YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW EXCITED I AM
Definitely, accents are always a good touch. Who wants a game where literally everyone, including the aliens, has either an american or english accent? Quarian’s accents were so interesting, like you said with Tali some had like a Persian kind of accent, others sound British like Admiral Zen I think, and then you had other quarians on the complete other side of the spectrum like Kal Reegar who sounds as American as you can get. I suppose those accent differences have to do with being part of different fleets?
I think you’re right, it’s because of how restricted things were in the OT. Like it isn’t open world so they’d have to create so many invisible walls. It might have worked in ME1 with the open planets, but then it’s not necessary at all because the Mako is a beast that can jump with the best of them. Plus they’d get complaints about only allowing jumping in certain areas.
Yeah, from what it sounds like, the initiative is searching for a cure, and Krogans, since it’s 600 years later, are already starting to become immune to the defect which is increasing their birth rates. But yeah, it’s so infuriating sometimes, they have no clue about the geth or the genophage, the majority probably don’t even know about the reapers and a lot of the ones that do may still believe they’re a myth.
Right, I can see how you feel that. Like it doesn’t seem like that’s what Garson’s goal was, but as we know she was just the face of it all. Especially since we also know that the benefactor freaked the hell out when he figured out the reapers were coming, it would make sense for them to rush to get a bunch of the races off to another galaxy before the milky way’s inevitable destruction. My first thought was that the benefactor was the illusive man, but he wouldn’t have bothered with sending nonhumans on the arks at all, and it seems like the benefactor came with them on the arks? But that’s pure speculation.
I guess we’ll find out if the reapers got the late arks in one of the books and comics they’re going to release instead of DLC :/ I can’t believe they’d resolve such an important plot point in a book. Well, yes I can but it was such a good opportunity for DLC.
I mean, Garson was at the top and she was kept in the dark. So you make a good point, he’s so low on the totem pole, how much would Tann know really? And if he knows something, how do we know that all the other leaders don’t know something too? And why they’re keeping it secret? Ahhh so many questions!
ooh yes a dress would have been lovely, and something nice instead of the leather monstrosity that shep had :)
He’s just so charming and manipulative but it’s just so great. I almost sided with Sloane too, not because I thought she was better but because the way Reyes was going to kill her was disgusting. No honor whatsoever. If I had the option to shoot her myself I would have taken it. But objectively speaking despite the fact that you can’t trust him at all I think he’s the more benevolent leader, the lesser evil.
It’s not too late, you can still decide to romance Jaal and get that pie!
I’m sure you miss it just as much, if not more than I do :)
I get that, playing a game for hours on end just to get it over with. Even if you’re enjoying it!
Thanks, it’s lovely out but I’m going to stay home with my games :) There’s a sense of finality to it, the last weekend I have where I’m able to ignore my responsibilities.
OMG! bounces around That looks so good and cool!
I tried watching a German version, sadly the singing/speaking is not synchronized. He has such a deep voice, that I have a hard time understanding him :D
Guess so. Which is just as cool. I mean, ppl on earth have different languages, accents and all that. The quarians originally had a whole planet so they gotta have that as well. And it might just have stayed alive with them being together on ships for a long time. So yeah, I think it might have to do with that :)
Ah man, I can imagine Liara sending them a update box after all the fighting is over. It might get astray or lost though. So that would be useless. But still, she would totally do that :D
You’re right. He seems like the Illusive Man just with being “nice” to all life. And it would absolutely make sense for him to go along on the ride. Like why the hell bother with all that if he stays behind and might just get killed by the reapers? But if he is on the way - who is he? Or is he still sleeping, because basically nobody knows who he is? Though I can’t see that one happening. I guess he will be one of the not obviously influential ppl but he’s pulling strings. I thought for a second about Reyes, but that doesn’t feel fitting. I guess he would be way older. We don’t have many older ppl there though, right? At least not humanwise. Can only think of the doc right now. Ha, and that is again so stupid, why would it have to be a human? It might just as well be an asari or turian for all we know, right?
But with Garson being the official leader I guess it would be more likely for him to be a human as well. It is super bizarre though how it’s always the humans who pull off things like that… Just saying :]
Well it sure is a way to get the loyal ME Fans to reading books and comics :D
Isn’t it more likely for the other leaders - especially Kesh - to know something? At least those who already had their position when the arks started. But then they wouldn’t know a thing at the same time because it was all hush-hush and big secret. So. Yeah. I can totally see nobody knowing a thing about anything. And man, that is such a bad sign. There is definitely something going totally wrong in this whole initiative :/
Yeah, I didn’t like Sloane. She was so….. soooooo…. SO! Well, you know. But he wanted to just shoot her. Couldn’t go with that. And he didn’t tell us who he was, so… Ryder felt super betrayed and - since she is no fan of behind the back killing - she stopped him and helped Sloane. Also…. I don’t know if I would have had the willpower to abandon him for Suvis sake otherwise… :]
You’re right. I just now got Jaal as my personal Angaran on board, so… all is open! happy
I… miss it a lot!
I’m even thinking of playing my Liara romance again. This time in English though. I think I might set the whole game to English since I enjoy ME:A with the original voices and accents and all that very much! And… hearing Liara with her real voice…. <3
Not done yet, but I completed it once :D
Ha, yes, I totally understand that notion! Hope you enjoyed your hours :)
Have a great start in the week! :*
I’m having like an overload, in the span of like 12 hours they’ve released story trailers and official new gameplay and interviews and there’s just so much! It’s exciting but very overwhelming. So the cinematic trailer is just the tip of the iceberg (and as far as I know no other trailer has leonard cohen’s deep voice singing in the background so you should be good!).
Ohh I hope so! And yeah, even if she new it would almost definitely get lost she would still send one over :) That would be so great to see, them receiving one of her time capsules or something, detailing Shepard’s numerous heroics, solving almost every problem across the galaxy. I imagine both Ryders would be really angry that they didn’t stay and fight.
Yeah it’s a complete mystery, if this person panicked so much about the reapers and had this much control over the project there’s no way they wouldn’t come along for the ride. They could be asleep or pulling the strings, they could be someone we’ve spoken to or someone just hanging out in the nexus in some secret location like TIM did. If we’re going to take a guess though, you’re probably right in that it’s almost certainly a human. Most asari didn’t take the reaper threat seriously, krogan have their own priorities, them being a salarian or turian is more likely than the other two but I don’t know. You’re right some old guy seems like the best theory maybe?
And yeah, Bioware absolutely has a bias towards humans. Like they almost unintentionally write them as this superior race, or at the very least, one that is a lot more impressive and smart than it actually is. Or like, downplaying the abilities of other races to again (probably unintentionally) raise up humans. You can’t say that the turians, who have everyone enlist in the military at a young age, wouldn’t have come up with the “advanced tactics” that the humans brought to the table. Like in the games the turian’s strategies are pretty much revealed to be ‘get a huge amount of people and send them at full force into the enemy.’ They’re better and smarter than that. Even without the benefits of AI that humans had. Sorry, this turned into a bit of a rant but this is one of my few pet peeves with this series :)
Hm, in a perfect world important story details for game series’ would not be placed in some book or comic, but I’ll take what I can get.
You may be right, with almost all of the higher ups dead and replaced with backups of backups (Tann, Kesh, etc) there could be no one left to know anything. And then that gets you thinking, was that on purpose? Did this benefactor use these people because they were necessary, then disposed of them when they became replaceable? Could be a long shot, I don’t know. But it would certainly permanently disguise the identity of the benefactor. Whatever happened, everything is very shady so yeah, something’s wrong :/
Cool idea for a sequel though maybe? The initiative shows its true colors and Ryder’s forced to turn against it, maybe start an organization of her own. I don’t know.
Yeah, I would have loved an interrupt to shoot her and not give Reyes the satisfaction of a kill like that. Then chew him out for being an asshole. It’s less skeevy than pretending you’re going to kill someone in an honorable way, all the while you have someone else lined up to do your dirty work. The betrayal is understandable, but there were so many different ways he could have killed her. Like sniping her the second she walked into that cave rather than making a big show of it all. But they couldn’t do that because the player has to make the choice right?
Whether you romance him or not, he’s such a bro <3 I take him everywhere
Ahh a Liara romance is definitely on my list too. After replaying 3 for Garrus and then 2 for Thane, then 3 again for Thane in the citadel DLC (seems like that DLC in general will be difficult to decide on when to play it. too early and characters like Kaidan and Samara may not be there? But play it too late and Mordin and Thane could be too dead to be part of it. like it seems impossible to be able to get every character to be in it). Maybe then a full trilogy playthrough with exclusively Liara. As long as you can understand the english (which it seems like there will be no issues there!) the voice acting is generally pretty great. I don’t know how she sounds in German, but Liara’s voice may take some getting used to, but maybe that’s just me. It’s not bad, just odd. And it changes from 1 to 2 even though it’s the same VA. But again, it’s not bad at all!
Thanks! I’m already busy but at least last night I managed to slog through a bunch of the crap Andromeda throws at you every time you get to a new planet. That will make things easier later on. At this point I think I might be getting close to the end? Have some big side quests to finish up and then I’ll head over to Meridian once everything is done. I honestly hope I’m at the end, it’s not a bad game and I’m liking it, but I’m also kind of over it you know? At the same time though I’m just starting to get attached to the characters…
You too :)
Ha, I already was ok with it, I just wanted to make sure I understand it all, which I didn’t completely. But he has an awesome voice! <3
That would be sooooooo much bragging though. Like: Haha, we have Shep who can do EVERYTHING and you’re stuck with a baby Ryder! Which would be awesomely funny and mean of her. But she so would do that, when all has settled down a bit. The moment everything is rebuilt and they realized what they have or don’t have after all that. And since we’re not allowed to import our safes it would be the basic idea. Not the indepth decisions. No idea though how they would handle the genophage since… you can just leave it and say screw you. And also the Quarians and Geth. Aaaaand basically everything. Ok. So there will be a mail more like: Hey, btw. we had a visit from those crazy machines called the reapers, who wanted to reap us. Luckily we had Shep up our sleeve and got rid of them - or maybe not. Dang. Just an email with: REAPERS COMING!? Unless we all die at the end off two, then ofc not even that :D
Sry, this got out of hand :D
Old guy, right? Like…. the DOCTOR! O.O
I like it on one hand. But on the other hand it seems rather illogical. For example the Asari seem to be rather similar to humans but then they shouldn’t at all, because they get sooooooo much more older. Shouldn’t that make them at least a bit advanced? Ok, so they are mostly the best biotics. Until we stumble over Jack, Miranda and now Cora.
And yes, the Turians seem to be superior considering war and tactics. It might be, there are some who are not that good, but the majority should, right? I feel like every race should have it’s perks but somehow we don’t get to feel them too much. On the other hand it might just become all more and more the same at some point of evolution? Maybe there is no other way to evolve? And the differences turn out to be minor. But that is also not the case.
Meh. Again to many bizarre thoughts in my head :]
Well they could totally make a choice book. But. They wont. And yes, you are right. In a perfect world there would be a game for more info on a game and not a book to fill the gaps :D
Maybe the exiles did the right thing in the end. Only with them all turning out to be the bad guys who are killing and stealing and all that. Also: Who made the background checks on the ppl to enter? Why not leave criminals at home?
And nooooooo, I’m not complaining, I’m just questioning things. I still like the game :D
Well I heard Liara, since there are voicerecords in Alecs room, right? That made me thing about trying it in English, since there was no way I’d recognize her.
Btw: I want Quarians and Drell in Andromeda! ;(
Yep, sounds as it your way closer to the end then before!
And I know how you feel, was just the same for me around that time ;) :)
Well, it’d totally be bragging but if they survive the reaper threat they deserve to brag all they want! It’s not Ryder’s fault that Shep was more than willing to martyr herself (like this is me reading into things way too much, but I feel like by the time 3 came around this self sacrificial bullshit crossed the line from that to her being practically suicidal, jumping at any chance to sacrifice herself for the greater good, even when it wasn’t necessary. Like saying her mental state in 3 is fragile is an understatement. But this is a whole other topic and I should stop ranting in parentheses this is such a bad habit.) and basically become space jesus, I don’t think Ryder is quite willing to go that far just yet.
Hah that made me laugh, you’re right it would have to be ridiculously vague. “Hey guys it’s Liara, your favorite blue doctor. So the reapers came, but Shepard is taking care of it. She’s either doing things really diplomatically or killing anyone who stands in her way, I don’t know because I have to keep things vague in order for it to apply to every situation. So she died probably even though it’s possible she isn’t dead but now we’re either about to die too or we’re just stuck on some jungle planet. Who knows.” That’s probably worse than Liara not sending a message at all!
Well, he’s the only old guy in the game so your theory is perfectly valid :) The doctor it is then! Unless maybe, it’s Ellen Ryder because even though it makes no sense it would be a hell of a plot twist. Or it could be the space hamster.
Exactly, like even the human biotics are equal in skill to asari biotics, even though the asari have stated multiple times that humans can’t even compare. But then you have Kaidan using the exact same biotic skills as the absolutely legendary Samara (and he’s a sentinel, not even totally focused on biotics!), Cora literally being an asari commando.
I don’t know, it’s just like for a game that is all about finding success through embracing and taking advantage of differences (sans the ending which completely destroys the core themes of the game), unique skills for each race sure are downplayed. Except for humans. Like I’m not complaining at all it’s still wonderful as it is, I just wish that these differences were even more explored, that the Turian’s military expertise was brought into play, the salarian’s knowledge and smarts, the asari’s wisdom and biotics, etc. It was there but they missed an opportunity to really celebrate each races’ strengths and weaknesses in both the trilogy and Andromeda.
That’s true, they did have the right idea. Like yeah, most of the exiles are the way they are because they got some degenerative disease in cryo that caused them to err towards violence and impulsivity, but they see the initiative as a threat and maybe that isn’t irrational. They still should have done background checks, surely there are people like Sloane who are more prone to the disease. Maybe they knew about the possibility of this disease, but because they were forced to rush the project because of the reapers, proper screenings and studies weren’t completed.
Right, yeah! I’d imagine playing the trilogy in english may be a different experience, a good way to bring some variety into your playthroughs :) You’ll fall in love with Garrus’ voice. ooh and Kaidan’s voice, that was like 75% of the reason I romanced him in ME1. So gravely. And I’m getting off track again.
Ugh, me too! Especially Drell, we came across like two throughout the whole series, Thane and Kolyat. I want to know more about their culture and relationship with the Hanar! And the Quarians, maybe in Andromeda they could finally find a world where they don’t have to wear their envirosuits.
Complete sidenote, I was not expecting to see full on alien sex when I romanced Jaal! I figured that like with Garrus, it’d just be some really sweet scene that was also kind of a cop out (maybe they didn’t want to animate it, maybe they thought it would be too controversial, i don’t know). But nope, really sweet scene that led to full on alien softcore porn. Nothing wrong with that but I was really surprised by it, especially compared to how tame even the human scenes were in the trilogy.
I got really far last night, I think I really am almost done. The only sidequests I have left are the tasks I’m not going to do, and a couple of slightly larger sidequests that I don’t feel like doing (nothing important though). Also had to abandon the newscaster’s quest because it turns out I am forced to cheat on Jaal with her so screw that. So unless I get sidetracked with another important sidequest that pops up out of nowhere, it might just be a straight shot to the ending.
(by the way please tell me if you get sick of my mass effect rants, I know they’re completely dominating our conversations lately!)
I’m glad you got it working!
I like your sara, very cyberpunk :)
And your Scott is like a male version of Suvi almost which is really cute, and oh my god a Blasto tshirt!!
Reply to the other post obv :D
Yeah, I guess we can agree on Shep being a tiny bit Borderline.
Btw it was not Sheps fault she died in two. Those Collectors just popped out of now where and baaaaam dead.
As to her willingness to sacrifice. We shall put a blanket of silence over that one ;) :D
Yeah, writing it made me laugh as well. It just became so…. absurd, there is no other way then to laugh really :D
I thought of another version. Or two to be more precise. One could be sent before all the shit goes down. “Mayday, Reapers coming, We’re all going to die! Should have come with you -.-“
Second: “Hey folks, so we had a visit of those reapers, but that’s over now. We’re rebuilding everything. No idea what happened to Shep though….” Gosh, I should really stop with these Liara letters. They are not working out for EVERY situation! Because you can say screw you to the kid and keep on fighting - guess we all now how that ends, right? :(
Yeah, no more letters from our fav blue girl!
Ellen Ryder doesn’t work out for me. A. Because she thinks she’s dead, right? I mean like, she really thought she would die. And if it was her Alec would have known about it. Which he didn’t. Yeah. I forgot my B. Never mind then.
The hamster is a good idea though. (Just remember those nasty mice in Hitchhikers guide through the universe….) But then that one is pretty unstable since we can kill him off - but guess nobody does that, so that’s safe again. Also maybe we can’t kill him just would like to and in the minute we choose to do it, he turns into a “biotic god!” and game over Ryder!
Yeah, no. I don’t believe that one either :]
Oh Kaidan was also a badass one? I now he was pretty good with biotics but somehow I didn’t have him on the radar with being overpowered as human.
Maybe there are those few strong humans though, because biotics are still real new to humanity, right? So they still have to develop. Like with Jack. Obviously it is possible to enhance the abilities/power. And since we are always part of a super special elite force, we get the best there is, right? That’s why we always stumble over those overpowered humans. But. Why not take an overpowered Asari with us? They have to be even better then an overpowered human….. :]
Coffee is empty. Brb
Ok, found it :)
Maybe it only appears that way, because we play the game out of human perspective? I mean, you are totally right. We don’t get the perks out of every race, but then not every race might be willing to work to the best with the humans? Not even send the best they have? But then…. all out crewmates would be second rate. That’s really a shame. And also… irritating.
That would then as well work for the Andromeda Initiative (wanted to call it AI right now and then thought - nope, that one is not working :D), since the best might not even think about something as stupid as abandoning home and wander off to a maybe certain death? I mean, nobody can say for sure that they would ever arrive to start with, right? But then, we have at least one specter aboard, right? The Turian security boss was a specter, wasn’t he? Not sure right now.
Oh right! I totally forgot about the negative effects! Yeah, they definitely played a roll in all that as well. But then the good guys don’t turn into that bad ppl, so there already has to be something in them that just get’s enhanced. Which means: Bad background checks! :D
Well, I might just fall in love with all of them all over again sigh I will be broken by the end. And probably have to start a completely new list with dates I’ve played in English :D
Yes, you are absolutely right! I mean, I was sooooooo excited when I stumbled across the first female turians and salarians (which are really difficult to recognize. I might even be wrong and never have seen any females or the female salarians where there all the time, like the salarian counselor I always thought it might be a female, but dunno), but no such luck so far with Drell. Only two of them and most definitely no female!
I don’t really… ehm… like the Hanar toooooo much. (Yes, Scott still wears his Blasto outfit! :D) But I would definitely like to know more about them and their relationship with the Drell. (I kinda miss we never visited Hanar homeworld with Shep….)
It would really be nice for the Quarians to have a home where they can live without the masks. But in the end that should work with every planet, shouldn’t it? They just have to get accustomed with it, right? At least that’s what I always figured. It will definitely take a time, but in the end….
Uh, alien soft porn with Jaal? I like the idea cough
I can’t even remember right now how much there was going on with Suvi, but I guess it also had to be a bit more then the things we got to see with ME 1-3. Which was btw not much compared to Witcher or other games :D
What? But… then you led her on, didn’t you? I didn’t have the struggle with the newswoman O.O
And that’s great! The end is near! So no more worries about not finishing it before Origin, right? :D
No, sweety, that’s alright. Rants can also be discussions and I’m happy with that, since there are things that don’t work out to well aaaaand since a new perspective on things helps working things out. Uh, that where a lot of “things” in one sentence :D
Oh yeah it’s not Shep’s fault she died the first time, it’s Joker’s. (don’t kill me I am kidding)
Hah, I guess the poor members of the andromeda initiative will never get closure because of the curse of the lack of canonivity… cannonness… ? I don’t know. If I was Ryder seeing those messages would kill me, it’s surprising how little she cares. Like I don’t want to say she doesn’t care, I’m sure she does a lot. But that kind of information to have no closure on, it’s a big burden.
You’re right, I wonder if there’s a sequel and she wakes up, if she’ll be mad. She had seemed to really accept her death, she could be angry at alec for robbing her of that peace. Or maybe she’d be happy I don’t know! But yeah, I know it makes no sense whatsoever but if the circumstances were different it might be pretty interesting :)
I believe it, it’s the perfect cover. Posing as Ryder’s harmless pet, only to actually be the one who made everything happen. An antagonist with non-antagonistic goals, but nonetheless a terrifying being that needs to be stopped. Ryder is getting too close to finding the benefactor’s identity, so the hamster is forced to take desperate measures, like you said, going all biotic god on Ryder. But now who will feed him? Just one of the benefactor’s many problems.
Oh definitely, as far as gameplay goes Kaidan is overpowered as hell, I don’t know what it is but he’s like a god. And apparently he actually becomes significantly better with his biotics after almost dying in 3. He learns abilities like Reave, much to everyone’s surprise I suppose because of his L2 implant’s limitations? So maybe mentioning him was bad as he seems to be an outlier among humans, especially those with L2 implants. But I mean yeah, like you said of course we get the best and brightest, so it isn’t overly far fetched :) (but still kaidan should pale in comparison to those OP asaris we also have on the team, but I’m not complaining!)
I’m sure that’s part of it, as well as the fact that the writers, being human and only being able to gauge events from a human perspective, are going to be a little biased towards humans.
Right, that’s definitely not the smartest thing to do.So something must I know that the turian pathfinder Avitus is a former spectre, that might be who you’re thinking of, the wiki doesn’t say anything about Kandros being a spectre (yes I looked it up, I was curious!).
Ah I’m excited for you! There are so many talented VAs.
No, I think you’re right that the salarian counselor is female. I’m pretty sure they referred to her as ‘she’ in ME3. But it’s still difficult to tell them apart sometimes, they look so similar and sometimes the male salarians sound a bit female. And then turians, it was so great to see females in Andromeda! I don’t think there was a single female turian in the OT.
I agree with Shep, they’re kind of big stupid jellyfish sometimes. But their relationship with the drell is so interesting. But aside from that they’re just… hanar.
Right, maybe it would be even easier for the quarians to adjust to Andromeda’s planets? The remnant vaults basically purified entire worlds, that technology could be harnessed for the quarian’s benefit.
I ended up recording the scene because I thought it was just going to be some really cute date scene or something. But nope, now I have a somewhat explicit alien sex scene saved on my computer. It was like a scene from the witcher, that’s a good comparison. It was all very tame in ME1-3, I suppose they wanted to leave things to the imagination (or the fanfictions maybe)?
Yes I absolutely did lead her on, but I told her that I may be in a relationship by the time her documentary ended, and she said that she would understand if I was. And then suddenly the dialogue is all lovey dovey and I can’t back out. Totally my fault, but there’s no way I’m cheating on my main LI and the worst part is Keri makes it a point to mention that the LI isn’t around before you cheat. She “understands” Ryder is in a relationship but that’s ok, she’s going to be your side girl instead of your main one now. Ugh, this entire thing was a big blunder on my part, next time Ryder won’t flirt with everything that moves.
But yep, I finished the other day! I’m glad I finally finished it (and with 2 months to go until origins so you were right, I didn’t need to worry about that at all), don’t feel empty or anything, just slightly irritated that the whole thing is clearly set up for a sequel and there are so many loose ends that need tying up. Speaking of a sequel, I thought this not-really-news might make you happy if you haven’t already seen it (here). But anyway, overall I was able to keep my expectations in check (meaning, incredibly low) so I was pleasantly surprised with some of the game. Still has a lot of pretty big issues though and I can’t see a replay coming anytime soon, but overall a solid slightly above average game with some really good moments mixed in.
Well don’t worry, it’ll die down a little now that I’m done with everything. Although I could immediately start ME3 again… But, school has officially started and I need to prioritize that over my new favorite game and well, everything else. But I’m still always down to talk about all things mass effect.
sorry if this response is particularly incoherent or i missed something, i’ve been very slowly writing this for like a day
Joker killed Shep!!!!!!!!!
Well our Prodromos Mayor said something nice about that: “We stay out of ppl grieve.” So there we go. Nobody will ever talk about this non existent closure :/
That just got to be sooooooooo strange! Imagining you’ll die and then you don’t but get transported 600 years into the future into a different galaxy? I guess I would soooooooo freak! Also to top all off: Instead off you being dead your husband is. You can’t even kick his butt for doing that to you. Even if he maybe saved your life. That is a pretty mean move from Alec. And a gesture of love. But still. She’ll either totally embrace the second chance or… I dunno, get lethargic over it?
Ok, in the future I will totally try killing of this hamster! I’m now super wary. I’ll keep on feeding him though. Don’t want him to go berserk on my ship!
Maybe our Asari are not OP? No. Nonono, that doesn’t work out. At least with Morinth/Samara we get some real good ones along. Good in sense of strong biotics. Urgh. MAYBE it’s all just imagination? Maybe Shep imagines her human biotics to be as strong and since we play the game from her point of view, we’ll never know if it is real or not? Like with the maybe indoctrination in 3, since we are Shep, we don’t no for sure and all that.
Far fetched. All right :D
Yeah, we definitely need an asari write for the next game, that’ll balance things out way better :] :D
Well… uhm, somebody was a spectre. I’m pretty sure ;)
Oh, btw: The love situation with the turian patchfinder… it melted my heart! <3
Yeah, it is difficult telling them apart (do you say it like that?). Since they bodies look all the same. And also voice is not always the best indicator. But we meet some fem salarian on the nexus and she wears makeup - it could ofc also be a trans male. Complicated :D
No, you are right. We don’t meet a fem turnian. Unless of course we play the Citadel and the Omega DLC :]
Yep, I’m on Shep side concerning the hanar. Another great story going on with that on the Citadel. We actually meet blasto. And imagine, somebody is NOT impressed by him :D
That is a good point really. The planets should be pretty much reset to default mode. That should at least make it an easier start for the quarians.
Did I mention, I’m excited to see how the planets turn out to look like? Especially the iceplanet! And ofc Eos. It’s like Dune, I expect it to turn into a totally green world!
Oh you naughty thing! :D
You not even have normal porn, but alien porn on your pc! :D
Fantastic giggle
Honestly I thought about going romancy with her, I’m now glad I didn’t. I might do something like that sometimes. Get a sidetrack romance to get them all done in one. But since I decided this Ryder is gay, that’s even more of a reason not to do it :]
And considering I still have three lovely options, that’s enough of a struggle already :D
Yay! Very nice! So now we’re both waiting to get on with it! Somewhere in the future!
Also thank you for sharing the link, I didn’t notice it. As I mentioned before, I’m not good with keeping myself updated about things like that :)
So now I’m happy and feel confirmed and… yeah :]
Ok. Main focus on school. That’s a solid plan. And then Origin will happen and you can break the only school routine :)
So I guess it will more likely be something small to play now? Something to net get soooo emotionally connected?
Ah, no worries, love! :*
As I said, I’m always happy to hear from you :)
Hope you’ll have a lovely weekend!
Hah, if that Joker was flying the normandy he would have crashed it into the citadel the second he got his hands on it!
Ugh, that lack of closure makes me mad, but ultimately the mayor (and you) is right. It would probably be for the best that no one ever knows about it, as much as I would want Ryder to shout it from the rooftops to try to get some answers.
That would be so disorienting. Like she would probably be crazy for a few days and think that she’s dead and that was the afterlife or something. At least I bet that’s what my reaction would be. You’re right though, once she gets adjusted she could either be grateful for the second chance or completely shut down. Especially if she finds out about what happened to Alec and the milky way. But yeah, Alec had no right to take away her death but he did do it out of love and hope that a cure would be found. Maybe that will be a big part of the plot of the potential sequel.
You could always interrogate it, dangle a carrot (or whatever hamsters eat) in front of its face and don’t let it have it until the benehamster tells you what he knows.
Ahh i don’t know, maybe we should chalk it up to it’s a game and they didn’t want humans to be completely useless in gameplay in comparison to the other races? For tech and combat skills sure, humans can excel in those fields. But biotics? Their equality in that field is a biiig stretch, maybe we can say it’s for gameplay purposes or that (and I think you mentioned this before) Shepard and her crew are the best at what they do and are outliers in their skills.
Speaking of the indoctrination theory, after looking that up I really don’t see how it holds that much weight. Like maybe I’m missing something because everyone else seems to think it works but I just don’t think it’s a valid theory… I don’t know though like I clearly haven’t put as much thought into it as some of those theorists have.
I believe you! But the turian pathfinder is the only one I can remember.
Oh me too, it was so sweet! I so wanted him to be alive and for them to have a nice reunion, but what happened was heartwarming in its own way. And convincing Avitus to take up the job of pathfinder in his bf’s honor, just lovely.
Yeah that’s grammatically correct, at least I think it is. Grammar is not my strong suit. Ah it is difficult, especially since we don’t really know how gender identity works with salarians. Are they like humans where sex and gender is different, or do they solely identify via the sex at birth? Something to think about definitely.
Ahhh there are female turians in those DLCs, that’s great!
Oh my god we meet blasto?! Ok I need to play the citadel DLC asap. If Shep calls blasto a big stupid jellyfish I can die happy.
I hope so! They deserve to live in a world where a suit rupture doesn’t mean certain death. I guess we’ll find out once they release the comic or book or whatever they’ve decided to do now.
Yes it would be so great to see the planets in a sequel and see what they look like! Seeing voeld with some actual vegetation and no kett, eos and the krogan planet turning into lovely lush worlds, and kadara probably getting dangerously jungle-y.
Hey, at least it’s not weird tentacle alien porn or something! It’s just… badly but also not that badly animated video game soft porn… I’m not deleting it :)
I don’t envy your decision, they’re all good options! Jaal’s a sweetheart, Gil’s a sarcastic idiot in an endearing way, and Reyes is Reyes. All wonderful.
We can certainly keep hoping! As far as Andromeda goes they can only go up from here :) Soooo much potential, I can absolutely see why you’re so hopeful now.
Well like I said I’ll continue to let you know if something noteworthy happens then, but I doubt we’ll be getting any more big news for quite a while. But still you never know!
Yup, I’m really not that busy with classes (I usually take a full day to do literally everything so I have the rest of the week off), I’m only taking 4. It’s more the college stuff that’s keeping me busy. When Origins releases I don’t care though, I will drop everything and play the hell out of it, consequences be damned :)
I’m thinking some smaller stuff yeah, so I can get myself caught up on all the shows I abandoned this summer too, and once second semester rolls around I don’t care about school anymore (will hopefully already be accepted into a college by then) so I’ll kind of let myself do what I want at that point. Though I may start Witcher 2 since I got myself up to speed on 1’s plot. Whoever was able to play through the entirety of W1 without giving up, I applaud them. Because my god that game is old. I don’t know how you did it.
By the way, I could probably google this but I want your opinion. When i inevitably do play the OT again, should I replay 2 before 3? Because it seems like DLC characters like Zaeed and Kasumi play a reasonably large part in the citadel DLC and I don’t want to miss out again by playing on a save without those characters. I’d make all the same big choices as my original playthrough but I can live with that.
Good to know, likewise <3
And you too!
Well, if THAT Joker flew the Normandy, the first thing I would have done as Shep: bind him down on my bed. Ehm… cough looks totally innocent
Sadly even shouting from rooftops won’t help Ryder on her quest for answers though :(
I sure hope so! I mean, the game basically ends with us knowing mum is aboard AND alive! If that is not mentioned in the next game…. The kids are just as distant to family as Alec was. Which I don’t think they are, so that would be super strange. They might go out hunting for some way to heal her though. Otherwise she’ll just be woken up do die, right? That would be even meaner.
Benehamster giggle
Not feed it and make it spill infos for food! I like that! Buuuuuuut…. Ryder refuses to obey :/
Alright, we’ll rest the case and leave it at: Having the best humanity has to offer :]
Yeah, I dunno. I’m not so much into the indoctrination theory. Maybe because I refuse to believe it. Maybe because it doesn’t make to much sense to me. So I can’t help you that much out with understanding it ;)
But it’s basically about seeing the boy every now and then and hearing the Reaper appearing sound and all that. Well, what ever. I don’t believe it. My Shep had full control up till the end. Because if she was indoctrinated there would have been no choice, right? Yeah, that’s what I think :]
It’s like not only do we have a romance next to our MCs but also, a gay romance! That sooooooooo melted my heart! happy
Ok, it didn’t end to happy, but having it in there shows us how much progress the world made, right?
For some stupid reason I imagine the salarians laying eggs. Don’t ask me why, I just do. Also I don’t believe they give milk to their babies, so the females have no breast. So they basically just look the same with minor differences.
I might be totally wrong and this is all totally different. But yes, that’s how I see them :D
Yep, you should dig your Shep out again and play at least the Citadel DLC! nod nod nod
I’m suuuuuuper forwarding that!
Aaaaaaah, I wanna read those books NOW!
Sry, but thinking and talking about it, makes me super impatient :D
Exactly. Voeld will have water all over. And Eos and what ever the Krogan planet is called, will have green planet everywhere and Kadara will be a jungle, that’s cool :D
Yeah, no, thank you! I don’t even wanna think about a Blasto romance porn :D
Haven’t played in days though. Somehow always something happened and stopped me from starting it. Maybe tonight. Maybe not. My dad has vacation and he wants to see some more Star Trek obviously, so I’m happy to do that :]
4 classes sounds not too stressful. Which is good :)
I hope college wont get to much either!
And yes, I think you can absolutely do that. Oooooor work like an hour or so on stuff next to Origin. That shouldn’t be thaaaaaat much, right? ;)
I like how you can just decide for yourself when and how much you work - you can, right? Or do I imagine things totally wrong here? :D
Oh, that sounds sweet. Catching up with shows is a great idea!
W1? Ehm… yeah. Lot of breaks in between really :D
Which is basically the same I did with W2, but for different reasons. Mostly because other games for challenges, monthlies or what not came in between. But I gotta say, I was also glad to not play it in one big rush :]
Ok, I cant tell you what you should do, but I can tell you, what I would do! I would always play 2 before I play three. I mean, there are already so many things to decide in one, and with two there are even more. By not playing that, you get the default setting - or you got yourself the DLC for the quick intro thing, then you can decide for yourself, but still. It’s just not the same.
Also I enjoyed 2. Apart from the horrible scanning, but yes, I very much liked it! So I will always do that happy
I would probably also replay one, if it was not that looooooong and old ;)
So much for now!
I guess I can almost wish you a good start into next week :D
Hope you had a lovely weekend!
I enjoyed the sun quit a lot. Together with my baby cats. So, I had a nice weekend :]
First, I’m really sorry for the late response!
Hah, I’d do that with both Jokers. Just have to be gentle with one of them :)
ahhh, all of the most interesting plotlines have just been left unresolved it’s so infuriating!
All we can do is speculate but how could they not go searching for a cure? Even if they weren’t close, it’s their mother. But you’re right, they both seemed to really be attached to their mother, moreso than Alec so it’ll probably (hopefully) be a major part of the plot. ooh I hope in the next game, whichever Ryder you aren’t playing as could be a squadmate.
Well it doesn’t make sense to me either, and not because I refuse to believe it :) So maybe both of us are missing something, but it really seems like the only way it would make sense is if you took the extended cut out of the equation. Even then, I don’t know. The way I see it, space boy is a metaphor for all the people she’s lost. In her dreams she’s chasing after the boy, but it’s the voices of the dead that are haunting her. The boy just shows how helpless she feels. I’m not sure whether he was always a figment of her imagination or if he was real and died on the shuttle, living on in Shepard’s nightmares and manifesting as the catalyst. Either way it’s not nearly enough to make me buy into the theory, even if it is a fascinating idea. I feel like an indoctrinated Shepard could choose control or synthesis, there are weird things about the ending that don’t entirely add up, but I chalk it up to bad writing. I don’t think it’s as deep as the theorists want to think it is (if it was Bioware would have absolutely made it more clear, it would have been really ingenious to end things that way), they just screwed up the ending and we have to accept that.
They do lay eggs, so that isn’t stupid :) I don’t know much but from what Mordin said, they don’t have a sex drive but males are required for fertilization somehow. But they definitely lay eggs, I’m almost positive.
I may actually give them a read when they come out too, or at the very least read a summary. I just HAVE to know what happened to the quarian ark. So I get your impatience.
Definitely, we have to see all of that in the sequel. Otherwise we wouldn’t get to see what all of our hard work did!
Aw well I hope you don’t lose motivation to play it! But spending time with your dad sounds more important and interesting, so enjoy that time while you have it :)
It is! And they’re all easy ones too, aside from chemistry which will be a bitch to maintain a good grade in.
We’ll see, as for right now I’m not even thinking about that , just the application process is stressful enough :)
In all seriousness I won’t abandon important work just to play Origins, my guilt would just make me not enjoy playing it.
I get a lot of freedom, yeah. I used to be able to get ahead in my classes but that’s not allowed anymore so I do have to stop when I get to a test. I have to take those in person and on a set date.
Ugh, sounds awful. Everything about that game is just ancient, even compared to other games released around that time. Even with breaks… I don’t know slogging through all that is a big feat.
I started 2, I’m honestly not loving it. I don’t like the combat or the mechanics. Everything is so clunky compared to 3 and a lot of other games, but I guess that’s what I get for not playing a series in the proper order. Side quests aren’t that fun either. Can’t make any judgement on the story yet or which path I should pick but we’ll see. Geralt is definitely less, I don’t know, expressive without his memory. I’m glad he’s looking to get it back though. But I do see what you’re talking about with him being a bit dull. But anyway, playing it is just making me miss mass effect, like if somebody told me to abandon it and go play mass effect I’d do it. I might do it anyway.
Right, I wouldn’t quite get the default as I would just do a NG+ for my current ME3 save, which used my save file from ME2. But I really want to see those characters! And since the only way to really do that is replay 2, then I will happily do that. I loved 2 as well, still can’t decide if it or 3 is my favorite. I would replay 1 as well if I wasn’t happy with my decisions, but I can’t see myself, say, saving Ashley, killing the rachni queen, and abandoning the council so there’s really no point if I’m just going to do the same thing as before! Plus it’s very “ looooooong and old” :) (seriously though, if you do get a hankering to play it again that mod I linked you a while back will enhance your next replay so much so that it looks better than 2 in some areas. it won’t help the gameplay but at least garrus won’t look like a pixelated ant) But anyway, I have no problems with replaying that lovely game so if that’s your advice then I’ll take it :) I’ll modify the paragon/renegade system in the files too so that I have maximum points on both ends, allowing me to actually pick renegade options without being afraid that dialogue will be locked out later. Should spice things up a bit.
Speaking of, which is your favorite of the series?
Sounds wonderful! I had an alright weekend, saw some family visiting from overseas which was okay.
And I guess I can wish you a good middle of the week, since it’s like Wednesday where you are :)
No worries. I’m not going anywhere :)
Uh god, I’d be soooo scared with our pilot Joker! “Sorry, was that a bone our did the bed creak just now?!?” ;)
Yes, that would be super cool, if Scott (or Sara) joins us. Damn, now I’m even more regretting his looks :D
Also you are right. I can’t see how they wouldn’t go looking for a cure. Even with hunting down the creators and fighting off the Kett aaaaand activating vaults, they just couldn’t just not do that.
Ok. So, I’m not sure AT ALL what this boy is. Is he even there to start with? Maybe he is just a hologram or Shep is imagining him - but then why does he look exactly the same at the end? It could also be ofc that the reapers can somehow look inside her and just use the image of the boy. But yes, in her dreams he certainly is representing her fears and losses and all that.
As to the end in itself: It’s the second version. They published the game with another ending but… offered us this one. I can’t really remember the first ending though. Mhm. Yeah, no idea. So it indeed seems a bit rushed and shallow compared to the rest of the whole game. On the other hand, there would probably never have been a perfect end that seemed reasonable. So what ever they did, there would always have been some kind of complaints, right?
Yep, I got a bit sidetracked here ;)
“The salarians are amphibian haplo-diploid egg-layers; unfertilized eggs produce males and fertilized eggs produce females. Once a year, a salarian female will lay a clutch of dozens of eggs. Social rules prevent all but a fraction from being fertilized. As a result, 90% of the species is male.
Salarians have photographic memories and rarely forget a fact. They also possess a form of psychological “imprinting”, tending to defer to those they knew in their youth. Salarian hatching is a solemn ritual in which the clan Dalatrass (matriarch) isolates herself with the eggs. The young salarians psychologically imprint on her and tend to defer to her wishes. During the hatching of daughters, the Dalatrasses of the mother and father’s clans are present at the imprinting. This ensures the offspring have equal loyalty to both, ensuring the desired dynastic and political unity.
Salarian sex drive and reproduction differ from that of humans, with Mordin Solus claiming that it is not hormone-based. Reproduction is more of a necessity and salarians do not seem to desire sex for pleasure. They are, however, attracted to the asari, and one salarian notes that “even humans find the Consort irresistible.” “ (I wanted to put that in quote….. but I dunno how -.-)
So I guess that solves the question :] :D
Na, I think the motivation is still there. I just priorities other games right now. IF I get to play any :D
It’s actually rather rare, so I enjoy it.
I enjoyed chemistry a lot up until the tenth… uhm… school year? After that everything started to fall apart and suddenly some topics didn’t make sense to me anymore. Sadly mostly the science classes. But oh well, it’s not as if I need chemistry on a daily basis, right? :D
I guess the guilt would stop me from enjoyed it too much as well nod
Well, if you can’t work too much I guess you have to really do something else on the side. Like gaming xD
It’s a kind of relieve to know you’re not enjoying it either. That certainly means I’m not totally off the tracks here :D
Some point in between I actually did enjoy the second and then not and so on. A lot of ups and downs. And a lot of stupid sidequests -.-
PLAY MASS EFFECT! It’s just better! :D
I tried doing things different once. So in that sense I’m still happy about my renegade Shep. She really made me experience the game differently. And suffer a bit while doing it. AND appreciating my good Shep way more :D But I’m always struggling to just go for the response that feels most natural. I tend to stick with good or bad. (Yep, got again sidetracked :D)
Don’t think it’ll happen anytime soon for me to replay the first. Considering the romance options are also super limited… yeah, no. Have way to many things in the other games to do, to laze around in the first one. And as you mentioned, I would really change a lot in the first game. It would mostly be something like Ash or Kaidan. Depending on who I wanna have later on and that’s it really. So not that much of a reason to go back there :)
Although the ending in three is lacking a few things, it is my favorite. The focus in two was a bit too much on the fighting aspect for me, it felt more actiony whereas three got back on track with the story elements and they did that pretty awesome, even if it’s deep and dark and suffering all over. Maybe especially because of that :]
So yes, three is my favorite. But I understand how you sway between two and three. Two IS also great!
Overseas is Australia?
Which is… oh man! That seems sooooo far away. And it is, when I think about it really :D
Ha, by now its Thursday morning - really 1am. After Wednesday I always feel like I’m heading straight up to the next weekend :D
But nope, I won’t wish you a nice weekend, that would be super bizarre at this point. Hope school was enjoyable though :)
Doing it with EDI must be so difficult for him, she’s so… metal and he’s so fragile. But they’re made for each other so I’m sure they worked it out, with Mordin’s help of course :)
Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll be able to customize both again in the sequel. If not maybe he can just permanently wear a helmet? Definitely, it’ll be a priority. I bet it’ll somehow involve the Jardaan as well.
Yeah they really should have been more clear about that. I don’t know which one is worse, the boy being the catalyst the whole time or using Shep’s conscience to create the catalyst as this formerly real dead boy, possibly to break her emotionally (as we’ve talked about she’s pretty damn close to going off the deep end for the entirety of 3) or knock her off guard or something. Or maybe the kid isn’t real, but Shep thinks he is, like a hallucination. The reapers play with this to again, break her, make her feel more guilty, and make her lose hope. Or maybe the reapers have nothing to do with it until the catalyst scene, and it’s all shepard’s psyche doing it for most of the game (I feel like this might be most likely?). Or maybe if you want to go back to the indoctrination theory, none of it is real and shep is imagining everything. Like whatever it is, the boy isn’t there to make us emotional towards his death, whether he’s real or not he’s the symbol for shep’s guilt and emotional turmoil. I feel like they ruined that by turning the boy into the catalyst.
The dreams are definitely straightforward enough, you’re right, but I have no clue about the real world stuff.
EDIT: Okay I don’t know if you’re even interested in all this (I mean it did happen 5 years ago), but I did some research so here’s a quote from the wiki and from some guy at bioware. So basically scratch most of what’s in the previous paragraph.
The Catalyst’s voice is partially formed from Shepard’s memories, so his/her voice is part of the speech.
I never noticed that before! But that proves that the catalyst is only in that form because it was formed that way from her memories.
When Shepard encounters the Catalyst during the closing stages of the war, it chooses to represent itself as a translucent projection, taking the form of a young boy the Commander saw killed during the Reaper invasion of Earth.
Now THIS implies that the boy was real in the beginning of the game, despite the few oddities suggesting that he isn’t (like no one noticing him aside from Shep and him making no noise when disappearing from the air ducts). Why the catalyst decided to take this form, I do have a theory. Maybe it does go back to the fact that the boy is very obviously a symbol in Shepard’s mind and the minds of the player. It could have picked a dead squad mate like the virmire not-survivor or a love interest. It could have picked someone shep cared deeply about, but instead maybe it picked this random boy because this is what ultimately broke shepard, what made all those feelings of guilt and stress and whatever come crashing down. This is what Shepard saw as a physical form of everything she blames herself for. He’s a symbol that a dead squad member could never be, because they’re already a part of this boy along with a whole bunch of other people and things.
So I think the big take away here is that the boy himself is insignificant, even his death is relatively insignificant, but what he became in Shepard’s mind, what she created, isn’t. That’s why the catalyst chose that form.
I’m reading into this too much again aren’t I?
It still wouldn’t have been good but I honestly think it would have been better if the game just ended with Shepard taking her last breaths next to Anderson, watching as the battle rages on. Maybe if you have a high EMS the last thing you see is a reaper going down and the normandy doing some heroic shit, low EMS and you see an entire region getting destroyed and the normandy getting hit. It’s not good but it’s less of a trainwreck than space boy’s ending. I don’t know. Maybe it isn’t. It probably isn’t. I can’t come up with something better but I’m sure someone has. But I’m going to stop now before I start ranting about the ending for 10 paragraphs.
Oh wow I had no idea there was a different ending originally planned. Wonder what made them decide to scrap it. I may look it up later, maybe it was better than what they ultimately decided to do. I mean yeah, they could never get a perfect ending but they could have done an ending that wasn’t a big mess in dozens of different ways. Hmm, I guess I am still salty. I thought I was over it but maybe i’m still mad :/
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Huh, well there you go then. That’s interesting stuff. :)
Yeah it’s completely useless, unless you plan to do something sciency in which case it’s still probably useless since it’s a high school science class.
Yeah, and I get your frustrations and dislike now. I mean the only things I’m truly enjoying are the main story and the graphics. The combat, UI, sidequests, weird stealth sections, the lack of fast travel, almost everything else is just not that fun. Like 3 has a few tedious things but this one, everything’s kind of tedious. I really am loving the main story so that’s why I’m going to continue, otherwise I would drop it. As it is I’m playing on easy and using guides to find sidequests just to get everything over with as quickly as possible. As much as I adore Witcher 3 I care more about the mass effect universe now. Can’t believe you got me into a series that immediately became my favorite thing.
Yep, and I swear I’m not going to do that next time. 3 was so liberating since it didn’t matter whether you chose paragon or renegade, you’d still have both persuasions open to you. But yet I still did mostly paragon things. It’s so hard not to just stick to paragon or renegade but picking the natural response is absolutely the best way to go about it. Though surely your renegade shep was probably pretty fun at times :)
Absolutely, and if that’s the case and that’s all you want to change, you could always just use a save editor or something rather than waste another 50 hours of your life. Better to waste those 50 hours on 2 or 3 and do new things that you haven’t done before
I’m between 2 and 3, but I think I’m leaning towards 3 as well despite the ending. Everything is a masterpiece up until the last like 15 minutes. I definitely agree, 3 has that advantage of really delving into the deep dark elements of ME and the characters. It strikes a good balance between all the story elements and gameplay while also managing to tie up a lot of loose ends. I mean, 2 is good the way it is but there were so many opportunities to flesh out the story and all that potential just doesn’t really get realized. If it weren’t for the stellar characterization of the side characters, the game really wouldn’t be all that amazing. Totally off topic but I will always hate that Shep’s death is just glossed over. The only person who is even phased by it is the Virmire survivor, funnily enough. Their reaction should have been Shep’s but she doesn’t even seem to care about any of it. She gets upset and you see her doubts in one small scene in 3. Just pisses me off. But anyway, 3 also gives the gift of the citadel DLC, which I don’t even have to play to know is incredible. 3 definitely seems like the better game narrative wise, I can see why it’s your favorite :)
Yep, from Australia. It’s definitely a long flight, from where you are it would probably be a full day’s flight almost. Sounds like hell and I enjoy flying.
I feel that, up until Thursday you feel like you have plenty of the week left, then all of a sudden you don’t and you sometimes have to scramble to get things done :)
Thanks, it’s actually alright so far, as far as the in person meetings go. I guess I’ll wish you a good middle/end to the week then :)
See, that’s even more reason to go for the synergy ending!
But I’m pretty sure, that EDI is soooooo controlled, she can take real good care of Joker :]
Uh yeah! I’ll shove a helmet in his face, every time he tries opening his mouth! :D
What about the option that the catalyst is just some sort of… light and Shep’s mind makes it look like the boy?
But yeah, I also think that he might have been there and died right at the start and he just symbolizes, how Shep failed to prevent everything and safe every soul in this galaxy - which is a pretty heavy burden! Even to think she is capable to do that!
No, I don’t think you read too much into it. And besides, they probably left that open for interpretation and imagination. So… nope, not to much! Also it seems quite reasonable to me :]
Didn’t know that either. BUT if the voice is made from Sheps memories, then it would absolutely make sense, that the image is as well!
A reason to maybe not take an adult: Kids are supposed to be inoccent, right? So in that way Shep was not able to safe an innocent being? Also maybe to make her more vulnerable and therefore more likely to choose a way the catalyst/reapers prefer? Maybe? Dunno.
Nooooooooooooo! That would not have worked (for me!). It would mean that all the struggle to build this stupid thing was in vain! And that there is no way to stop them! Which doesn’t seem to logical. There always has to be a off switch to machines, right? God, I mean, why build the shit without thinking off a way to stop it if anything went wrong? But then again, the quarians didn’t either….
You HAVE to play the Leviathan DLC! Just saying :D
Uh, it sucked. The players rioted! And bioware obeyed and provided a different ending :]
That’s all I remember about it ;)
Ah, right! Thank you :*
Yeah, I guess it more or less. And the theoretical discussions I sometimes find myself in… well, they are just that, so they don’t really matter either :D
So how far are you? Finished the first chapter already?
There are only three, so that works at least out, but still. It… takes a while.
Also for me the game was pretty difficult, even if I only played it on easy. Can’t imagine how that works out on hardcore. Don’t want to, either! :D
Oh yes, she WAS fun. And badass. And mean. But everybody expected her to be that way, so that worked out as well :D
Yep, you are absolutely right. I’d rather waste away my time with ME2 then go back to one. Sadly, but it’s just the way it is :)
Ha, yeah. It’s like they either didn’t realize how dead Shep really was or… they just don’t think about the fact she’s returned from the dead. I dunno, it seems a bit strange how little a role it plays. But then… wherever Shep goes enough shit happens, so maybe they just never find time to wonder about it that much :D
Also: Yay! For liking three most as well ;) :D
I like flying as well, but that long? It’s hard to imagine. My longest flight so far was to America. And I can’t remember it a bit :D
So today is FRIDAY! Weekend ahead! Also new monthly out - that’s basically why this reply is so late as well, had lots going on mentally to prepare the monthly ;)
Have a good start into and a good weekend!
I’ll try to make my parents visit my bro and his wife (god, that still sounds so strange!) :)
I’m just going to go ahead and believe with the destroy ending, she gets rebuilt :) Otherwise choosing that ending next time might be too hard. But you’re right, EDI could probably be super precise and gentle where any other race couldn’t be. So once again, perfect for each other.
That’s definitely possible, that it doesn’t choose specifically to manifest as the boy and it’s all Shepard’s doing (since all the wiki says is that it chose to represent itself as a translucent projection, it doesn’t specify whether the form it took was caused by shepard or itself). Either way I think it has the same effect and meaning on Shep herself, though if it isn’t the catalyst’s doing then there’s for sure no intentional emotional manipulation on its part. But absolutely, that burden she feels, she’s been feeling for years and that added up with the guilt would break anyone, even the most strong willed person in the universe.
I’m not sure if I mentioned this before but I feel like this proves that the indoctrination theory isn’t true? As it proves that the catalyst is very real, meaning that Shepard couldn’t have possibly been imagining everything.
Ok good :) I know sometimes I tend to find one topic that I just obsess over, research, theorize, then get way too excited and go off on a tangent, and I’m sure it’s not always coherent, glad to know at least I made some sense this time!
It’s definitely all up to interpretation but I’m happy to have at the least found out that the boy was real in the beginning.
Definitely! So if, say, Anderson was up there instead then the catalyst might appear to look and sound completely different.
That reasoning seems valid if the catalyst decided to portray itself as the boy. If it was all Shep then it doesn’t make sense, though it would still have the same effect on her, like she’s unintentionally manipulating herself?
Oh yeah it would probably be a super unsatisfying ending, like what happens if you shoot the boy except there would be a chance that everyone doesn’t die. But at least it avoids space boy and all the other stuff. But no I totally wouldn’t be happy about it either, I don’t think anyone would be. Maybe we should look into that happy ending mod that everyone seems to love so much :) Maybe it’s better than my bad ideas and what’s already there.
I will play it I promise! As soon as I’m done with witcher i’m going straight back to ME.
Alright, so one of the possible endings was basically that organics were using dark energy (used in biotics and mass effect stuff like the relays) and it was rippling the space time continuum. The reapers didn’t like that, so every time they got too advanced with using dark energy and biotics, they went and wiped everyone out whenever that started to happen. They also thought about the reapers wanting to use asari and prothean’s biotics to prevent this end of the universe but it never worked so they just continued to harvest and turn more species into reapers to slow the destruction of the universe. I feel like that’s way worse than the ending we got and it somehow makes even less sense, maybe we should be grateful for what we ending up getting. But this was scrapped early on before the leak that apparently (?) showed the original ending.
I found what was supposed to be the leaked script (here, I think it’s legit since it was uploaded in 2011) but from what I could get from it, the ending wasn’t super different to the final endings at all, except ‘becoming one with the reapers’ may or may not be the same as synthesis. Only big differences is the catalyst is called Guardian, and there are variations with what happens in the scenes before Shep makes her final decision.
(if you don’t want to bother reading this, it’s more or less the 3 main ending combos)
CONVERSATION:
Once Shepard reaches the top of the elevator he begins a conversation with GUARDIAN where all the mysteries of the universe are revealed.
ACTION:
Shepard must now make his final decision - to control the Reapers, to destroy the Reapers, or if they had a perfect game to become one with the Reapers.
CUTSCENE:
The DEVICE docks with the Citadel, Shepard leaps off the edge of the platform becoming one with the Reapers.
CUTSCENE:
The DEVICE docks with the Citadel, Shepard places his hands into the control mechanism and gains control over the Reapers. Earth is destroyed, and the Reapers leave.
CUTSCENE:
The DEVICE docks with the Citadel, Shepard destroys the tubes resulting in the Reapers being destroyed. Earth is also Destroyed.
CUTSCENE:
The DEVICE docks with the Citadel, Shepard places his hands into the control mechanism and gains control over the Reapers. Earth is okay, and the Reapers leave.
CUTSCENE:
The DEVICE docks with the Citadel, Shepard destroys the tubes resulting in the Reapers being destroyed. Earth is devastated.
CUTSCENE:
The DEVICE docks with the Citadel, Shepard destroys the tubes resulting in the Reapers being destroyed. Earth is okay.
CUTSCENE:
The DEVICE docks with the Citadel, Shepard destroys the tubes resulting in the Reapers being destroyed. Earth is okay. Shepard survives.
But at the end of the day it really seems like they had no real plan for the series and were just writing as they went along with no real idea for the ending. Made for a wonderful story before the ending, but there was just no way they could have come up with an ending that wasn’t a bit crap and didn’t have inconsistencies. At least the extended cut seems to have made a lot of things better than they were at first, and they didn’t need to do that. But they actually listened to the fans which is great :)
Yep, I ended up siding with Roche, though it was a hard choice since neither are great (I understand why you can’t but I wish you could have chosen a neutral path). Roche however is actually in 3 and he really comes through and helps Geralt when he needs him most, where Iorveth isn’t mentioned and the scoiatel barely exist (he was originally planned to be in 3 but there’s a large amount of scrapped content). Yeah I admit… I’ve died a couple of times. That Kayran took a few tries. It doesn’t help that either the swords do little damage or the enemies are just damage sponges. Who’d you side with?
Sounds great except for having to treat your squad like crap and making some of those awful choices in 3. Other than that renegade definitely seems deliciously fun.
I’d only really do a full trilogy playthrough again if I changed Shepards. Like if I did a renegade playthrough, maleshep, or drastically changed femshep’s appearance. It feels wrong to play as a different shep and not go through the whole journey again.
Yeah, like Garrus was pretty distraught by her death and that was part of why he quit his spectre stuff and went to wreak havoc on omega. Tali was pretty upset too. Then they meet again and it’s just “hey shepard I thought you were dead, oops. i’ll join you even though i have no way of knowing that you aren’t an evil clone, indoctrinated, or being controlled by cerberus.” If they were skeptical and joined, it would be understandable that they eventually see that it’s really shepard but they just accept it right away and aren’t even that emotional about it. Chakwas and Joker don’t question it, Even Shep seems so sure that she is who she was before she died. Kaidan/Ashley are the only ones that are like “hey what the hell Shepard.” The blind faith is just so ridiculous.
I think so at least! Still prefer 2’s missions though.
Wow nice, I don’t normally participate because I can’t commit to anything ever but conveniently, some of those games on your list just happen to be what I’m playing right now, or are about to play :) This gives me some incentive to actually finish Mafia 2!
And happy weekend! Your brother having a wife is strange?
Oh and the quarian book has been delayed to december 5, I think the comic has also been delayed.
Well I was always kinda worried EDI would just be eliminated if I choose the destruction. But then again I never thought too much about them rebuilding stuff if they really wanted to. But since we decided they will rebuild Shep eventually, they will also rebuild EDI. There we go.
And then she and Joker can go all lovey-dove and life happily ever after! :)
Somehow I can’t see it happening that Anderson gets to the upper platform. But don’t ask me why. I mean, he did come as far as Shep, maybe he didn’t sacrifice as much on the way, but in the end we don’t know that for sure. He just had a different journey. So yeah. But… he is not Shep. He doesn’t have that drive. He certainly doesn’t have the player controlling him :D
Mhm, that all doesn’t seem right. You said they changed that though since it leaked? Man, I really can’t remember what went down with the first ending. Just that a lot of ppl where really pissed. So now we have that other one. About which still a lot off ppl get pissed :D
There is a mod for a happy ending? Yes, I confess, I’m really not big into mods. My brother kinda forced me into getting mods for Cities and such things, never even got one for Skyrim. I just… somehow don’t do it. And even less, if steam doesn’t offer it on a silver plait. Which it doesn’t for ME3 :D
Yeah, I wanted to side with Roche. But since I played W1 and tried to shape Geralt in a way, I’m comfortable with - and that involved siding with the Nonhumans - I couldn’t turn my back on them in 2. So Iorveth it was far me :)
The Kayran was horrible! Even when I figured out how to kill off it’s legs, I was too stupid to run up and finish it off, so I got killed again! And had to play it AGAIN! Honestly, I was about to quit that whole thing, because it just didn’t work out for me -.-
Well I didn’t treat the special one like shit. But you’re right. It’s like you’re going on every corner the mean way. Felt super wrong. And I will definitely not do that so soon again :D
Yeah, I know. Maybe they never even thought about the possibility of Shep being Cloned? (I certainly didn’t :D) And maybe they were just so desperate and sad about loosing here, they were willing to accept EVERYTHING just so she’d return to them? Also for the aliens the Cerberus thing…. would also be a pretty big thing. But they where not that big on alien fighting then. While for the Alliance they where already the bad ppl, right? So Ash/Kaidan had that info and where extra pissed, I guess.
I was really happy to see your name appear there! I’m glad you participate. Also it really works nicely for you, with ME and all that :D
Yeah, they married two months ago. It’s still all super new and fresh… and therefore bizarre :D
They where like… ehm… a lot of years together already. Guess near to ten years? So I should have expected it, but yes, it’s basically still super new :D
What? They already announced the books aaaaaand delayed it? And I noticed neither :D
I really should pay more attention :]
Have a great start in the week :)
There you go. High EMS destroy ending only really kills the reapers, everything else can be rebuilt and Shep can recover :) I guess there’s a reason they left everything up to interpretation, you can just undo all the bad stuff!
Yeah it’s definitely a little weird, but so are a lot of things like the normandy being able to fly in during the beam run and let Shep say her tearful goodbyes while everyone else is getting hit by a giant laser. But no, you’re right Anderson is something special but he wouldn’t have made it to the catalyst and if he had he might not have been able to make a choice.
I’m probably not 100% correct, but from what I gathered was that dark energy ending was considered but scrapped pretty quickly, and the pre extended cut ending (which seems to be almost exactly the same as that script I linked with just some minor differences) is what made everyone so mad. I can’t bring myself to watch it but it seems like it was very lacking and left too many things up to the imagination. And all the extended cut did was have the same base endings, but they added enough to give people a bit of closure. But again I refuse to watch the original so I don’t know for sure, you probably know better than I do.
Yes, it’s apparently very well done. Mods aren’t that necessary, especially for ME whose mods are mostly just minor things that make things more convenient or texture overhauls. That being said those tiny mods can help you save soooo much time (one removes the minigames from ME2 and lets probes deplete a planet of resources in one go so you don’t have to spend a few minutes on each planet looking for just the right spot. there’s another one that drastically shortens loading times. not essential but amazing). There are however a couple of mods for ME3 that restore cut content and conversations (in your final conversation with anderson you can talk about settling down and having a family :( ), or add in fan made content which is pretty cool. But I’m also biased because I really like using mods.
Fair enough, I can absolutely see the rationale in siding with either. And why anyone would side with the order of the flaming rose in the first game is beyond me, so nonhumans or choosing the neutral path seem like the right thing to do :) From my understanding Iorveth also turns into a decent guy as the story goes along. Ultimately probably would have chosen him if Roche didn’t have such a nice voice and it wasn’t so obvious that the “canon” is Roche’s path, since despite being a bro he’s wayyyy too nationalistic for my taste.
That’s exactly what happened to me! Died once or twice trying to get all of its legs off and then when I finally did it I bumbled around like an idiot, not realizing I could run up the collapsed bridge to finish it off. So the sorceress electrocuted me for some reason.
I think you’re right, I mean Garrus had resigned himself to death until Shep came to save him. At that point he probably didn’t care if she was real or not, just that she was there. Tali may not have joined immediately but I guess she just had faith that this Shepard was the right one. It’s sweet, albeit super naive. After just playing horizon again Ash/Kaidan really are dicks in that scene. They have reasonable arguments on mars but here it’s just blind hatred towards cerberus and because of that, Shepard. On horizon they aren’t questioning Shep herself, just her motives, justification for joining cerberus, and the fact that she didn’t contact them. They’re angry but still irrational. So they’re just as bad as Garrus and Tali, but just on the other extreme.
Yeah, I only participated in one before and that was over a year ago. So the convenience of this one was very appealing, and you worked so hard on making it so of course I’ll take part! Even if it’s just a couple of games.
Wow, congratulations to your brother then :)
Yup! I can’t totally remember the details but the comics may have already been released and I think they focus on Kandros? Not sure though. All I know for sure without looking it up is that the book is definitely delayed. I’ll try to keep you up to date and let you know if they release some important content.
You going to buy that coloring book? Looks fun!
Also guess what? I got a call for a job interview! As long as I don’t royally fuck it up I might have a job!
Hope you’re having a great week so far :)
OMG, look at that: ME colour book <3 :D
Oh god. Seven days. I’m sorry. I thought of this every day and put it aside. Again, I’m sorry. I feel like I’m getting bad at this right now. It’s starting wearing me down, not this talking with you (!) but more this weekly updates I do for blaeo. I love them, but… urgh, it drains me. And I hate that and… urgh. So here we go :)
First off all, I hope you had some great days - the storm didn’t affect you, right? I just know it reached Florida, but one can never really say if things wander off or something.
We have this shitty weather today - not as bad though! - and somehow I slept nearly all day long. Yep, the lacking sun is really getting to me. I might be going right into a early winter depression and - again - I hate it ;)
Yeah, the Normandy landing right next to the beam and not getting shot from the skies. I know. And I know they did that so we wouldn’t loose team mates and feel really bad about it. But still it’s… it doesn’t make too much sense. And it doesn’t work out too good either. But still, it safes our beloved crew! <3
I think it’s good to avoid certain things. Like watching there original ending. Since I can’t remember it a bit… that probably says something as well about it :D
Oh a mod for scanning faster? That actually sounds like one I would indeed enjoy :D
Guess I will look into it, the moment I come around playing it again happy
But since I didn’t even make progress with ME:A atm, that’s probably a while :D
Yeah, I dunno. Maybe there are players who… can stand behind the thought of humanity first? I dunno. I tend to think that gamers are open minded and liberal, but I guess we also have black sheep among us, right? ;)
Although I gotta confess I helped the flaming rose dude when I first met him. Because I said Geralt is open and willing to help everybody and not judge and all that. In the end that might have been a mistake - or not. Don’t even wanna know what would have happened if I had killed him off. The rest off the flaming rose might be really pissed if I did :D
Yes, Iorveth turns into a decent guy. Though it was kinda difficult for me to side with him, since he worked with the Assassin and that felt so wrong. But yeah, that’s how things go.
Ha, you’re the second person to say that about Roches voice! I liked his voice, but… no, not a voice to go crazy over for me ;)
Btw you mentioned the sale for W3. I had a look at it, but didn’t feel that tempted yet. I might have noticed my 75% rule. Didn’t feel like bending the rule for W3 o.o ;)
Yeah, Garrus and Tali are just believers and Ash/Kaidan haters. There we go. That’s how it is :D
But I kinda understand the later. They apparently had a few run ins with Cerberus and all in all C. never made a good impression on the Alliance, so yes, I would also freak if I suddenly met my former commander/captain/teammate suddenly being on the wrong side. Still. It’s not Sheps fault only C. was willing to rebuilt here sigh
How far are you, btw?
Ah, that’s ok. Monthlies are after all no obligation, right? They are totally free and only thought as a motivation help of sorts :)
I had a look into it, when I ultimately found the colour book, and think I saw a comic book. I’ll get it at some point, but has no high prio for me right now.
About the colour book: I would love to. But I know how I am with those kinda things: I suck. I mean, I love doing it and enjoy it and what not. But I tend to not make room for it and if I do I think ages about which colour to take. So…. not sure yet :D
Oh man, that’s so cool!
What kind of job? And…. how will that work out with school? Or is it only for holidays?
Have a great rest of the week! :*
Nonono it’s okay don’t apologize! Always take your time :) Weekly updates sound like a huge hassle as well, as fun as they may be! I update so rarely and when I do it takes me ages to write. And I don’t even format things like you do, you put so much effort into them, so what you’re doing is definitely cool but I can see why it’s tiring :)
(by the way I’m very sorry I don’t comment on your updates, I do read them but I only ever see them if I deliberately go on your profile to check them out and by that point your posts are at least a few days old usually or I just don’t have anything remotely interesting to say. but always feel free to talk about your life or the games you’re playing with me! even though I would still probably have nothing interesting to say. boy i sure am great company)
Nope, no effect at all. I’m on the other side of the country so it’s all good here.
That sounds like heaven! I would be happy to switch places with you, it’s been so hot and dry lately.
Exactly, I’m willing to accept the strangeness of it all since it’s better than watching your crew die.
I’ll watch it eventually, maybe it will give me some new appreciation for the extended cut ending.
Whenever you decide to play the trilogy again let me know and I’ll send you links to some of those mods :) No progress with MEA, just busy or don’t feel like playing it?
I suppose, it’s especially weird though since Geralt isn’t entirely human, you’d think at the very least you wouldn’t want to help people who are against your kind but ¯\(ツ)/¯ Geralt may be a helpful guy but I doubt the order of the flaming rose would help him unless they benefited from it. You do come across them briefly in W3 and they aren’t happy with you. Probably because you killed their crazy leader.
Yup that sounds like the witcher, picking between crappy options and hoping you chose the right crappy option that gives you a slightly less crappy outcome. But at least it seems Iorveth isn’t so bad then, despite the initial crappiness.
Oh everyone loves Roche’s voice, I don’t know what it is but I just melt when I hear it :)
Right, if I’m remembering right it was still like $25 or something which is nothing to scoff at. Though I’ve never seen it cheaper than 50% off (why heavily discount it if it still sells well?), if you wait long enough it might just go down to 75% at some point.
I feel awful I completely abandoned Witcher 2 the second I started ME2. I finished the first chapter and it just left my head completely. I knew that was going to happen but I did it anyway. It’s okay, I’ll go back to Gary once I’m finished. I hope. It’s not that I don’t like it (well I don’t like the gameplay but that’s okay), I just love ME2 a lot more.
Yeah I definitely get it, I mean Ash and Kaidan are alliance through and through, Garrus and Tali aren’t (Tali has plenty of reason to hate cerberus but obviously saw some reason when Shep explained things, instead of getting emotional). To see your commander, this person who was the epitome of the ideal alliance soldier with firm values and beliefs, team up with a terrorist organization and not tell you that they’re alive, I can understand why you might be hurt about it and feel betrayed and more than a little suspicious. I like that in 3 they (or at least Kaidan, don’t know about ash) actually express their gratitude that cerberus brought Shep back, and recognizes that cerberus isn’t full of awful people, that even the illusive man had good intentions at first. Some nice development there!
I’m somewhat far in, I’ve received the IFF mission but recruited everyone as soon as I could this time around so I still have a heap of side missions and loyalty missions to do. Plus Overlord. And then when I’m done I’ll still have the other two DLCs to do! So exciting, all this new content waiting for me. Makes me sad that Legion’s recruited right before the crew gets kidnapped, I would have loved to have spent more time with him this time around. I romanced Garrus again and it’s just so cute I can’t get over it. And I love that Kasumi commented on it. As much as I love Kaidan I think that’s my “canon” romance :)
At this rate I’m probably only going to finish one game but that’s better than nothing! So I’ll set my goal for this monthly to finish at least ME2, that way I can feel some accomplishment by the end of the month (you know, instead of feeling accomplishment towards doing all the important things I need to do, hah). Do you think you’ll be successful with the theme this month, or because you’re actually managing the whole thing that you might not finish all your games?
Coloring books are supposed to be relaxing, not make you stress about which colors to choose! Maybe you can just color in all the asari and you’ll only have to choose between various shades of blue! Embrace your inner child and I don’t know, color outside of the lines with unrealistic colors or some shit. Never mind I have no clue where I was going with this.
It was a job for Walmart (big department/grocery store) stocking shelves and boring menial shit like that. The interview went fine but I probably won’t get it since there are other candidates and I’m a minor and a student, not a great combination. No big deal as he wants me to work 40 hours a week anyway which would probably kill me on top of school. “part time job” my ass. But if I do get a call back I’ll accept it in a second. Meanwhile I’m not holding my breath and am continuing to apply elsewhere. I’m mostly just happy I had my first interview and (even though I can barely call it an interview, it probably lasted 10 minutes and he literally asked me one question) didn’t completely make a fool of myself.
Thanks, you too <3
Aw, it’s nice to hear, you read my stuff. Guess there are a lot of ghosts running around, but that is ok. I know off some ppl who probably will say something and I know off some ppl who read it. It makes me happy. That’s enough reason to do it :)
And I guess I was not honest - with me mostly. The writing was not the real thing that stressed me out - but I only realized that a bit later. Thanks to doing this ceramic painting thing, I might get the opportunity to work with the lady who runs the shop and… yeah, I’m freaking already, although nothing is remotely set. She wants to expand and would need ppl to work with her, but doesn’t even know if she’ll get the funds and therefore if anything will happen at all. But I AM already stressing out over it -.-
Yeah, so back to normal updates and happy about them :D
Very glad to hear, you didn’t get hit by it! (The hurricane ;) )
Oh yeah, that would be nice, if you could tell me about the mods. But no time near right now. I’m hooked on sims on the side, so nooooo time for ME shock ;)
Yeah, I know. I don’t get Geralt. But it’s extra hard understanding somebody who has no idea who he is, right? :D
Guess at some point they will reach the 75% and I’ll be happy. And until then I have enough games to keep me company :]
I would abandon W2 anytime for ME! In fact I would do that for most games, if I really wanted to play ME, I guess :D
So although I want to play it, I don’t want to play it that bad atm. Which is also ok xD
Mmmmmmmmh. I am honestly not sure about Ash. But since Kaidan says something like it, she’ll probably do the same, right? I mean, they are not meant to be THAT different. At least in things they do. Obviously they are totally different, but the main actions still are the same. So she probably would also have been grateful and all that :)
I know that you have by now finished ME2, so: YAY!
And I’m also happy to read you’re that excited about the bonus content. How did you like them in retro perspective? Kasumi was great, right? :D
I actually managed to finish some games. Compared to the HOG month though… yeah :D
No, I’m happy about the progress. I’m fighting one VN that’s getting longer and longer atm. I have completed the main two parts, but they added a couple of extras and they turn out to be way bigger then I ever thought! O.o
But I’m sure I’ll get that done before the month is over as well. Unless I get into a complete struggle with it, but that’s not THAT likely :D
Ha, yeah, you are completely right! They should! nod
My mum had a great idea about it. She said I could use the book to get some of the drawings on my ceramic painting. And I’m suuuuuuuper excited about that idea! So maybe I will not paint the book after all. Or maybe not right away anyway :D But I ordered it at a local bookshop - since we want to support local bookshops, right? ;) :]
Walmart is known here ;) Guess thanks to series and such :)
But yeah, I can relate. I wouldn’t be too thrilled about that as well and on the other hand it’s still a job and an opportunity :)
40 hours is a lot next to school though, I guess. Never did a real working week, so… uhm… not too sure about it. But it sounds a lot to somebody who would never manage that much ;)
I hope it’ll work out, how ever you decide (and they obv :] )!
So yeah. Sunday night, right?
Have a great week! happy
So sorry for the belated response, I didn’t mean to worry you! I plan on continuing to bother you for as long as you’ll let me :)
Of course, I may not know much about the games that you play but I enjoy reading your little anecdotes and going ons in your life, especially your cat stories. PS those mugs are really great (the plate thingy too)! If you’re into that kind of thing maybe you could set up an etsy or something, I think you’d get some buyers.
Freaking out about that is completely understandable but that sounds like a wonderful opportunity :) I hope it works out for you! You hear anything back about that yet or still waiting?
Hah right, seems like these last few weeks have just been one giant shitstorm for North America. Lets hope things calm down again soon, I’m so sick of hearing bad event after bad event happening on the news.
Absolutely! I downloaded a bunch for 3 and the extra content is so great, and I managed to find some hair that’s not the worst thing I’ve ever seen. Like I could put up with the terrible hair for one playthrough but I just couldn’t go through that kind of trauma again.
Ooh sims, that’s one really big rabbit hole you’ve fallen into! Sims is that kind of game where you won’t play it for months or years on end but then you pop it in and you can’t. stop. playing. Plus it can be fun to get a little sadistic sometimes, removing doors, ladders from pools, that kind of thing :)
It’s more than worth full price, so if you manage to get it at the magical 75% that would be an absolute steal, good luck! But anyway, just so you know it’s a million times better than the other 2 in the trilogy, I can understand your not-quite-dislike of geralt and those games now, they’re really not anything spectacular.
Maybe so, it seems a little out of character for Ash to sit down and ponder about moral ambiguities, thinking about everything is more Kaidan’s thing. But I have no clue.
Yup! Hardcore mode was surprisingly really easy with some irritating exceptions, which gave me the courage to play insanity for ME3 (which is even easier, surprisingly. vanguard really is as overpowered - and fun - as people say it is). I’m kind of proud since i’m rarely good enough at a game to play on hard. You ever play insanity for any of the MEs? But anyway yeah, the bonus stuff was great! Loved Kasumi and Zaeed is like the sociopathic grandfather you never knew you wanted. Overlord made me sad and angry (nice to see David is doing well in 3 and Archer is wracked with guilt), and Arrival was incredible and such a good end to things. Shepard’s arrest makes a hell of a lot more sense now as well. Absolutely worth the ridiculous amount of money I spent on it all. And now I’m past the half way point in 3, depending on how long Citadel and Leviathan are. Once I’m done with 3 I guess I’ll be finished with ME for a while. That’s really sad, but I need to stop fueling my obsession. Like replaying a game 3 times in the span of a couple of months is kind of weird.
Very nice, glad it was a successful month for you! You did a really nice job hosting it all as well.
ooh that is a nice idea, good on your mother! you can paint ME related ceramic things to your hearts content :)
Yep, well I don’t need to decide anything because I never got a call back. So I didn’t get the job. Can’t say I’m heartbroken since it sounded like a shit job, but that just means the search continues! That’s the real pain, applying to a bunch of different places. For now I’ve stopped trying in order to focus on my college applications, but once that’s done it’ll be back to searching.
Must be Sunday evening for you now, right? So have a lovely start to your week :)
Yay, Char is back! hug
And I just started worrying, so everything is alright. Also I guess quite a lot happened oversea :/
Hope you are alright and everything goes fine for you and your family :)
Ha, cat stories. Good cue. Still didn’t come up with one for my next update. Guess I might have to distract everybody with cat pics :D
Mhm. Never thought about it. Well, yes, I thought about going into some creative area, but with ceramic - didn’T think of that yet. But guess I’ll just go one for the moment with the present projects :)
Nah, nothing so far. She still has to sort out things with some company’s and the bank - always about the good old money -.-
Yeah, me too. I mean, I try avoid news a bit, but even I noticed what happened :/
Hope it’ll get better soon :)
Oh no! We don’t want hair trauma! That would be just horrible! shock
Ha, yes. The sims hole. That’s exactly what happened to me. I even told my brother I want the next addon for my B-Day. We’ll see if he does that :D
More fuel to my sims playtime! happy
Yeah, Ash is not as deep as Kaidan - thinking wise. But she definitely has her moments as well ;)
Yep, played on the hardest setting. If that is insanity, then I did that nod And yep, you are absolutely right. It got easier with the more difficult it was, which seems… a bit ridiculous, but there we go :D
I am so glad to hear you enjoy(ed) them that much! The DLCs where some real awesome additions they gave us! And yes, the batarian dlc made some thing seem more understandable.
Aw man, if I raise my head the sun is shining in my face. That is so nice. I soooooooooo miss the summer already sigh
Thank you very much. Glad to hear it. Although it didn’t feel that nice. I was way more into the HOG monthly :D
Ha, and I already have plans for it! I think I’ll make some coasters. I always wanted some GoT related, but ME would be even more awesome, right? I just have to think about a way to do it right. Like getting a thin layer of cork to glue to the bottom, that way I could just use a tile. She has those but I don’t think she has any coaster think I’ll have a look around next time I’m there.
Ah, that sounds better. I don’t think it would have been the right job for you anyway ;)
But yeah, looking for a job is a bit annoying :/
Good luck with that! hug
Afternoon still, but yes, close enough :)
Thank you, to you too! Have an awesome week!
I’ll try not to go MIA for that long again :)
Yeah everything’s good, though today one of the wildfires is getting a little close for comfort. If the winds shift dramatically in our direction we’ll have to evacuate. But that’s very unlikely and I’m not worried about it.
I read your update, looks like you delivered with the cat photos. And oh my god, Tizio and Ameno are adorable!! My cousin has a Ragdoll and she looks quite similar, is that the breed your cats are? I can’t believe you ate their treats! And congrats on getting the new Life is Strange, you’ll have to tell me how you like it when you play it :) I mean it looks great despite the lack of time travel.
This just reminded me I should probably type up an update or I’m going to forget what games I’ve played. Didn’t realize I haven’t updated in 3 months (that means we’ve been talking for 3 whole months!).
Well, good luck. I hope it works out, seems like it would be wonderful to be doing work that you genuinely enjoy and have a talent for.
I hope so too. I’m so tired of seeing shooting after shooting, people suffering from disasters, and the US not doing anything to change things.
ooh, do you have most of the addons already? The only ones I ever owned was the Katy Perry one and the pets one, I was totally missing out.
Yeah my theory is maybe it’s easier because since everything is a bullet sponge now except for Shepard and Co, playing on insanity you’re forced to actually think of tactics in order to take things out as quickly as possible. Once you figure out what works, battles go quickly. On normal you have a false sense of security and charge in unprepared, because it’s normal mode and you’re practically a god, what could possibly go wrong? Then surprise you’re dead because you didn’t stop to think about anything.
I’m almost done with 3 now. Omega was an ok DLC, Leviathan was amazing, and I just started Citadel but it’s already the best thing I’ve seen in my entire life (though thanks to accidentally seeing youtube thumbnails, I know Shepard has an evil clone, normandy gets stolen, and Brooks is bad somehow). After Citadel all I’ll have left to do is brave the ending. And cry, probably. At least Shepard will live this time.
Also you need to stop me because I’m thinking about doing a renegade trilogy playthrough after finishing 3. Probably with the same Shepard because I’m weirdly attached to her and can’t imagine playing a different Shep (except for default male Shep, but his voice acting bothers me). AC Origins is coming up very soon so I’d really only have time to play ME1, so it wouldn’t be so bad since 1 isn’t fresh in my mind anymore. How did I get so obsessed? Like it’s embarrassing.
Oh I didn’t know you liked GoT, I love that show! Though I suppose, so does everyone else :) Both ME and GoT coasters sound reaaally cool.
And thank you!
Fire? Oh yeah, I guess it’s that time of year again, right? It’s so strange how in different parts of the world different things occur regularly. Guess for us it would be the storms coming from the seaside(s). But apart from that we are pretty lucky mostly. Oh, right, we have a moor close by and if it’s getting real hot in the summer we are sometimes unlucky and have fire there as well. Which is really horrible to put out again -.-
Yes, the are so super adorable! Sometimes I can’T get over how cute they look! <3
Tizio is a Ragdoll! :) Sadly I didn’t know any personally before or I would have tried getting two Ragdolls. Ameno is a Holy Birma (guess they are called that in Eng anyway :D).
Erg, me neither. I will NOT repeat that one! No matter how nice they smell :D
I’m sooooo super excited about LiS! But I am super unsure if or if not I shall wait for it to be completely released :/
Wow. Three months? That’s cool! It’s so nice to find ppl online you can talk so easy and nice with! <3
Looking forward to your next update btw :)
Mhm. Well I hope something (good!!!) will happen soon.
Ah. No. So I only get the big addons, not the accessory packs. That is too much money for me :D
And yes, I have all of them for three - even more reason to play it again, I guess. But right now I’m playing more Sims 4 and yeah, in November there will be Pets out. Funny how they always release a pets addon. But guess that’s what ppl want all over. I still want a Hobby addon like they had for Sims 2, buuuuut there was none for 3 so the likelihood of having it for 4 is rather slim I guess :/
Yeah, guess that makes sense. Also you pay way more attention to things in the battle, upgrade more and all that. So yeah, it’ll be all about using skill and such. But it was real fun doing that kinda challenge! And even more succeeding in it - although I gotta say, I hated the Reaper Turian right in front of the beam before you get ported up and the shit ends and all that. He was soooo super tough too shoot. At least for me :D
Yeah, Omega was not THAT awesome, but it’s the first female Turian you get to see and at that time that was super exciting! :D
Also for me it bugged, as far as I remember, so I was a bit annoyed by it.
Oh man, Citadel is the best! <3
And yes, loosing Shep is always a reason to cry, so go right on, nobody will think less of you because of that :)
It’s not. I totally get it! I did the same. Played it again and again. I mean, look at me. Even years later I am still obsessed about it and still going back to it every now and then - though by now it is a bit easier to keep my hands of I guess :D
Well, why not create new Shep. Even if it’s a fem Shep again, going all renegade might be nicer with new looks, right? ;)
Luckily I liked the male Sheps voice, but then I had the advantage of having two languages to pick from :D
But yeah, don’t get too attached! There will soon enough be the new AC game! Maybe you can spent a bit more time with the Citadel DLC so you don’t really start anything new yet? Dunno if that is a valid option for you, just an idea - also I don’t know how quick you’ll be done with it, so… erm.. yeah :D
Honestly, I like the books way more! And ever since the series changed more and more from the books, I struggled more with it. But I am still curious to see how the next season is going go be (yeah, didn’t see it, though most ppl already did :] ). As for coasters, I would most likely do some pretty “plain” ones with the coat of arms and their slogan and such. Faves not so much, since they not always work out with what I have in mind from the books and mixing that, would be a bit too difficult for my liking. That’s way easier with ME! Since we already have the looks and can work with them just like that :D
Hope you had a nice week yo far! hug
Yeah it’s a really big issue in California right now, just fire after fire and they’re struggling to keep up with it all. But yikes having the possibility of that happening so close to where you live sounds scary.
Both breeds look so pretty and elegant <3 And so fluffy! They must be great to cuddle with. Did you get Tizio and Ameno from breeders?
ooh yeah, forgot they’re episodic releases. If you do wait I’m sure it won’t take too long, since I think there are only 3 episodes and they’re about to release the second ep if they haven’t already.
Yeah, this kind of thing happens so rarely with me because I’m actually the worst and rarely keep in touch with internet people (and real life people honestly). So you’re special :)
Aw that’s nice, don’t hold your breath though! It’ll probably be at least another month before I write up an update. I haven’t really finished many games anyway (because once I started ME I literally dropped everything else), so not much to update.
ooh sounds fun though, even if you don’t have all the content! Is the pets expansion the one you asked your brother for?
Ugh I am NOT looking forward to that damn slow motion showdown with the marauder. I had a bit of trouble with that the first time too, I’m sure it’ll be a million times more difficult on insanity. But definitely, other than that the extra difficulty just makes everything so much more fun!
Oh yeah, Nyreen! She was cool, wish she didn’t go and blow herself up. Like the first female turian you meet dies like an hour after meeting her. It was fun to go back to Omega as well, even if the plot surrounding it wasn’t the best thing in the world.
I didn’t realize how long Citadel was. Like all the story missions were back to back and didn’t take long but now there’s a whole new area to explore, all your squadmates meeting up with you, and what I’m assuming is going to be a fairly long party. And a combat arena! I’m going to spend more than a few hours just on that wonderful addition. Everything’s just so great with this DLC. The banter between the whole squad was soooo entertaining and Wrex was a squaddie again!! I missed that old grandpa. I felt really bad for the clone, despite being kind of evil, her actions and attitude were understandable. And then I just haaaad to spend 15 minutes doing all 183 interrupts in order to beat James’ pullup record (and I will suffer through it again every. single. playthrough. damn my completionism). And the tango with Garrus!! If the DLC was just that one scene I still would have considered it money well spent. Like I can die happy now.
Okay, fangirling over, sorry about that! I got excited, I was so hyped for this DLC and it actually exceeded my expectations. Thank you for talking me into getting all the DLC <3
That makes me feel better :) Like you still enjoy it, but you aren’t dying to play it all the time. That means the impulse to play and replay, then replay again will subside eventually.
But with the DLC to finish, the ending, and the inevitable post ending depression still to come, that’ll take quite a few days and I wont have time to start a new playthrough before Origins (which will be out in 12 days oh my). And I haven’t had time to play anything in almost a week (ugh, i’ve had - and still have - painful amounts of schoolwork). So I guess ME will have to be put on pause until I’m finished with AC. Which is probably a good thing! It’ll give me time to plan out a new playthrough as well. This current Shep will always be my “real” Shep but I’m sure I could make a new femshep, or get used to Mark Meer’s voice acting. I really want to romance Tali (and especially Miranda and Jack since they’re my favorites but they’re secondary to Tali since they aren’t ME3 squaddies :( ) so I might be willing to put up with it. Or if I do another female Shep, it’ll kill me to not romance Garrus but I could do Liara this time, maybe I’ll like her more if I do that (the citadel DLC has her growing on me). And she’s romanceable in every game too! Ooh and I could do a full renegade playthrough or I could do paragon to the crew, renegade to everyone else. Or paragon in ME1, then after being brought back from the dead, full renegade. The possibilities are endless! I just have so many ideas and I’m legit more hyped about my next ME playthrough than I am for AC. Okay, I am so sorry I just went on another tangent I got way too excited again sorry. I’m done now I promise.
Goodness gracious I’m obsessed.
And I’m sorry in advance, I’m probably going to freak out a bunch about Origins too when the time comes. At least it’ll be a change of pace, instead of me relentlessly yelling at you about ME it’ll be about a different series for once!
Oh, this season was great. So much happened, like it really feels like things are leading up to the end. Though since you’re more into the books, I have no clue if you’ll be happy about the direction they’ve taken things in especially if you already disliked the changes. I know the earlier seasons apparently followed the books’ plots pretty much word for word, but have since had to make up new material after they ran out of book material. They’ve certainly strayed from being a series focused primarily on conspiracy and political intrigue, with the fantastical elements as more of a side plot. It’s done a huge turnaround at this point in the show. However there are a couple of really big reveals that are definitely going to be a major element of the final season’s plotline. That’s all I’ll say without spoiling anything for you. It’s still a really good show that you should totally watch! Just not quite as good as it used to be.
Hope you’ve had a lovely weekend <3
Ha, I thought I might better answer you before my inbox is showing me loads of new comments because of update and all that ;)
I’m keeping my fingers crossed and hope for the best - concerning the fire!
Yeah, can be a bit of a problem. Mostly when some idiots decide to have a smoke in there during the heat of summer or something. And it’s constantly smoldering (man, I’m right now super proud of myself! I had the word in mind but looked it up just to make sure and: It was the exact right word! And I really don’t use smoldering THAT often :D) under the surface and therefore quite difficult to put out and all that. But luckily we don’t have that every year and it never turned into something big and problematic. Guess we have good firefighters :)
Yep, both from breeders. Up till now we always had some common street breed, but I wanted certain attributes, mostly character wise. So I started looking into breeds and what was characteristic for them. And yeah found those two, but was a bit put off by how big Ragdolls get. Now I kinda regret I didn’t focus more on them, since Tizio is simply the most adorable cat I know. Ok, not quite true, I have once in my life met a cat, that is so special and unique and purrfect, that no other can reach that level. But since he had to be rescued as a baby he has a real different relationship to human and was just a super cat. I would have stolen him, buuuuuut since he was in England and I would have had to take him with me on a plane and all that… yeah, I didn’t :D
I guess it’ll happen soonish. I like the first LiS that much, I simply don’t want to wait that long :]
Yep, you are special for me as well! At some point I always slack of - and yes, I was worried in between I might loose sight with you as well, but then I pulled together and wrote because I really wanted to and I like writing with you. So there we go. Same right now, don’t want to loose sight over the new replies, so I’m doing it now :)
I’m happy to have found so many nice ppl through blaeo and I can see that I will keep some - and you are definitely among them :)
Ha, that’s quite ok. I’m happy to wait. We have a saying in German. Something like: “What takes long, turns eventually out good” and another one: “Good thing wants/needs to take a while”. So there you go ;)
Yep, the pets nod I like my sims pets! Somehow I always end with something similar to a Ragdoll, even before I had a Ragdoll! :D
Aw, but I am sure, you will eventually beat him as well. I mean, I managed to kill him, so will you. As far as I remember you “just” have to shoot him twice, which makes this a real bitch cough Might take some tries, just don’t give up, you’ll get it. I believe in you and Shep :)
Yes, Citadel is HUGE! And awesome! Starting from the demolition of the Sushi Restaurant to the dates with our team mates. I LOVED IT! And yes, Vega just had that one coming! And Liara with the Piano! <3 And Jack, and Garrus, and…. <3 Aw, man. I loved it! sigh I mean, if I didn’t already love the whole game, I would play it only for that DLC again :D
You are super duper welcome! I’m thrilled to hear you don’t regret it! happy
Yeah, but. Remember how you replayed AC again and again, which I couldn’t? Maybe you’ll be different about ME…. Just saying! innocent smile
Ah, I know it might be though getting used to a male Shep, but you get the nice ladies, that are only available to the male Shep, soooooo maybe it’s worth getting used to him and suffer a bit, because I can’t imagine his voice will kill you the whole game. He just has to grow on you at some point, right? At least I really hope so. Guess I was really lucky with his German voice. I kinda liked that one ;)
Yes, you are. A tiny bit. But that’s ok. I think you might be in good company with that obsession ;)
But I sure hope you’ll still enjoy Origins a LOT! Really excited to read your opinion about it while playing. So keep me posted about it! :)
Well up until the 5th season they still stayed pretty close to the books. Yeah, there where slight differences, but things you could oversee most of the time, that was ok. Then they suddenly started to make bigger differences and it started to annoy me. I have a real big problem with that. It’s like you get two versions of the same thing… but they are not the same, yk? I have to set my mind to accept they are different and that’s sometimes real difficult - guess that might also be a reason why I had trouble with the ME book, dunno.
Like I’ve seen Legend of the Seeker. It’s a pretty short series and probably not that great. Still I enjoyed it and had fun watching it. So I thought why not read the books. Notice this fact: There are two seasons and… so far ten books! Thick books! Once I started reading the first book I realized how horrible the series was. All shortend, the characters horrible and flat, the story totally different at certain places. And MAN, the writing was awesome! (Ok, there are better writers, but I enjoyed it A LOT!) So I tried to see the series again. I couldn’t. I could just not enjoy it any more. It took me real long to accept that although it is kinda the same it is not at all. It’s like the humorous little brother or something. Which is sad, because so much get’s lost. And now the same kinda happens with GoT. I know it’s still great, but at the same time they are starting to shorten things. Certain twisted things are left out to resolve the story. I just sooooo much hope Martin is not getting influenced by the show and keeps on writing the way he did so far :]
Yep, sorry, there are certain things one better leaves untouched :D
So for me is already Monday 1 am. Have an aaaaawesome week! Don’t let school stress you out :)
Ah don’t you just love people who don’t have any common sense whatsoever :) You would think people might realize that having a smoke it a hot, dry area could end very badly but nope.
That’s fair enough, and ragdolls are lovely! They certainly live up to the name too. ooh tell me more about this Super Cat! I’m intrigued and it sounds like you really loved this cat. (also cats are the best and i am always happy to talk about them)
Well whenever you decide to play it, you are welcome to rant about it with me, I won’t be buying it any time soon so I can live vicariously through you :)
Aw I’m honored you decided I was worth keeping in touch with :) I’ve totally been slacking with how long I’ve been taking to respond but I like writing you too so thankfully I eventually get it together and type up a reply.
Right, in english we have “good things come to those who wait,” so that sounds very similar! Though it probably won’t apply to my future update, more like “lengthy rants and opinions no one asked for come to those who wait”
This time around i actually got the marauder on my first try! Each shot i got off was a headshot, it took almost an entire clip to bring him down (I think) but it was so satisfying to watch his entire head get blown off in slow motion. I felt so proud considering how irritating it was the first time around!
Sooo, I finished ME3 last night. Finishing Citadel was so sad, the last bit of new ME and I finished it. And it was so perfect too, just absolutely lovely in every way :( Then came the actual ending and I totally cried like a baby, especially during the goodbye scenes and at the very end when Garrus refused to put Shep’s nameplate on the memorial wall because he knew she was still alive. They are going to find each other again and retire together and adopt a bunch of little baby krogan and no one can tell me otherwise damn it! Also cried when Edi came up when Shep started remembering the most important people in her life (and when joker stepped out of the normandy without EDI, i’m so sorry jeff!). Just a lot of crying in general. And I thought maybe since I knew what was going to happen with the ending it wouldn’t have been as bad, but I just hate the ending even more now (does not help that i was an idiot during the final battle and died at least 10 times before I realized how much of an idiot I was, so i was already pissed). Like, I can’t deal with having to talk to fucking space boy again. This ending was better but only in the way that it was slightly happier, all the bad crap was still there. Next playthrough I’m for sure downloading one of those ending mods so I can just pretend that the entire shit show that is the scene with the catalyst just didn’t happen. I don’t know it’s all still raw I’ll be over it by like tomorrow but for now I am mopey.
It’s just so sad, my Shepard’s story is officially over. No new content, nothing new to experience. Like I’m dead inside right now, first time around there wasn’t this sense of finality because I knew I was going to play again but now she’s done, nothing more to do with her character. This Shep is always going to be my canon Shepard, any subsequent playthroughs won’t be the same because they aren’t the “real” Shepard. But again I am being mopey and melodramatic and as depressing as it is I’ll be over it soon. Did you feel the same with your first Shep?
Right, well I’m done with constantly replaying AC, don’t think I can stomach replaying any ACs for a long time. So, progress! And I’m happy to play 1 again right now but I just can’t do the others again so soon, especially 3 (too emotionally draining to do all the time honestly). So this break will be good! I’m glad I don’t feel the urge to immediately start the entire trilogy all over again, means I’m kind of at the point you’re at, my obsession is still there but not quite at the level of pure addiction :)
Absolutely! A lot of people do complain about how Mark Meer, despite being a great VA had a very flat performance with Shep. I reckon it was on purpose to make Shepard more of a blank slate, but I don’t have to like that creative decision. Meer’s voice acting in 3 is great though so I’m sure I can handle two games worth where it’s not my favorite thing in the world. It would absolutely be worth it just to romance Miranda/Jack/Tali.
Oh I’ll keep you posted whether you want me to or not! I’m ridiculously hyped despite the fact that I’m completely burnt out when it comes to AC. This is new and so very different to the other games and it’s just what I need to be able to get back into the series again (I hope). My expectations are unfortunately high but we’ve been burned lately so they’re not too high. But if it’s garbage I’ll be very disappointed.
Aw what a shame! :( So understandable though, books absolutely do offer so much more detail and information than TV shows and movies and so I guess it’s by design that the books might be better quality than the shows or movies. I can see how that would totally be irritating if a book series you absolutely love comes out with TV series that everyone adores, but they just keep straying further and further away from the general plot and what you love about the books. Like what’s real, the book’s plot or the show’s? Lines there get pretty blurred when the book hasn’t been written yet. It’s still a great show but I get your hesitation to watch it, especially lately when they’ve taken a hell of a lot of liberties with the plot.
Too late, school always has me stressed out, though it hasn’t been too bad this week :) How has your week been?
OMG, I let a discussion loose, so now I try to be an exemplary user (which includes FINALLY replying to you!) :)
Na, come on! Don’t we all just want to smoke in a real dangerous environment? Adrenaline and stuff!
Supercat was called Octo - because in Eng cats have nine lives and he already lost one as kitten. He was a (from me) so called Cow-Cat - yk black and white patches. And he had no tail, since he ended up in wire as a kitten and they had to take his tail off to rescue him. Ever since he loved vets. He’s the only cat I know that is REALLY happy to go there. Walks out of his box, rubs up to the team, purrs and all that. But he was also super friendly and cuddly and… just adorable! It’s like he knew what humans did for him and he was so super grateful for that, he just seemed to love everybody. Also he was pretty ok with other cats. Ah, I dunno. I loved that cat :]
So I picked LiS for the sg monthly. It is already on my prio list, first I will finish the last game for the Challenge Me! though and theeeeeeen I can play it! :]
Thinking about it, I kinda would like to go back to the first one. It had some really cool things about it and such. Ah, but I don’t think I will. I know me :D
Well if you do play one of the alternative endings, please do tell me about it. Like if it’s worth or such and how that really works out. I somehow can’t imagine how they did that. They would have to… I dunno re write the whole ending? I dunno. Just can’t wrap my head around it o.o
Mhm. No, I didn’t feel that way about my Shep. Well, kind of but not that much. I played two already twice with her (I think?) and three also twice. But I had the “advantage” of not having three published when I started with ME. So I had to replay 2 with other Sheps before it was released and therefore didn’t do the whole thing in one go with one Shep, yk? So although she was super special for me, I had a break in between and it wasn’t that though in the end :)
Soooooo, do tell me a bit about Origins! bounce Because although we have chat a bit, I have no clue and… you are supposed to keep me updated about being hyped and all that :D
So gogogogo! :D
Luckily there are other examples as well. Books that are just super bad and they make a real good show out of it! So I’m not saying, that Vampire Diaries is the best Show ever - actually I couldn’t finish it for what ever reason - but after starting it I wanted to see how the books are. And… it was horrible. The worst! And I even got three books in hope it might get better but… nope.
So we not only have books that turn into great but different shows, but also books that turn into crap shows and crap books that turn into good shows! Massive! :D
But yeah, for GoT I guess I have to work that out in my mind and then I can keep watching the show. But right now I’m a bit struggling. Luckily it wasn’t released in public TV yet, so I’m fine :D
So, apart from a friend telling me she’s having a baby in half a year, everything is pretty normal at mine. I did some excessive painting over the weekend - my hand still hurts from all that! :( And yeah, I’m happy and excited about my friend! And also down and sad - but I told you that already, didn’t I? The good thing: She allowed me to talk with my mum about it, so that’s great, I can finally get it a bit off my chest ;)
Sorry again for taking this long - and even more so after I promised to write. But with being so creative over the weekend I had a bit of a problem wrapping my head around English. So that didn’t work out too much :/
How was your weekend? Hope you enjoyed your time :)
Have a great week! hug
Looks like I dropped the ball a bit on this too! I had this on my mind for a while and then I completely forgot, I’m so sorry I’m the worst. Absolutely determined to keep in touch though, I’ve decided I’m going to try my best to keep in contact with the people I talk to from now on, I’m always the person that stops talking first and I’m not going to be that person anymore! :)
Aww Octo sounds like such a sweetie <3 And such a clever name too. What happened to him?
Have you started LiS yet? The first one was so great, I’m sure you wouldn’t regret it if you played it again, though maybe not much point since the new one is a prequel of sorts. Maybe you could get the full experience by playing Before the Storm, then playing LiS again? Or just play BtS, it all sounds good!
I will. I downloaded the most popular Alt ending mod, apparently you either like it or you don’t. It’s very clearly a mod as they create custom scenes, dialogue, and images (so I’m sure it’s not seamless in some areas) and the ending is all sunshine and rainbows. The whole ending part with space boy and the 4 choices is cut out entirely. I don’t love that concept but it’s worth a try at least once! Then there’s some other ones that I’ll try on another playthrough, where you can play Citadel after the ending and mentions of being in the middle of a war are removed so you can pretend it takes place after the ending, and a couple of much more minimal ending mods that keep the original structure but just add/remove a couple of things.
Right, that makes sense :) I have to say I thought I’d feel a disconnect between my first Shep and my current one, but I almost like my current one more. Playing as mostly renegade (lots of paragon too though - I don’t like being a dick to the crew or being rude for no reason) has been so much fun. I also like her look a lot more than my first Shep, it’s a little more unique. I’m starting to feel some fatigue and have other games to play so no new playthroughs for me for at least a few months (I swear if I start talking about another playthrough before the year is over you need to hold an intervention for me) but I would absolutely play with this Shepard again, maybe do a “perfect” playthrough.
By the way, I’m currently at 3 now and you’ll be happy to know I romanced Liara in every game! I know how much you love her. Her romance is giving me some new appreciation for her character, so although I still don’t love her, the romance is adorable and really helps flesh out her character.
Ooh and I played some of the MP, that’s a lot of fun as well. I think I’m going to get into that soon.
Ok enough about ME, onto Origins. I have no clue how I feel about it. It’s really fun and the story, which I’m not far in on, is okay so far (surprise it’s another revenge tale, who’d have thunk) but I’m just not feeling it. Like I have no motivation to play it, and it’s not just because I like ME more. Everyone else seems to love it though, and it’s definitely a good game. The attention to detail, exploration, world building, are all incredible. The side quests are hit or miss for me but some are very fleshed out and well done. So it did live up to most of my hype, like I’m not disappointed. But I guess that it just hasn’t clicked for me yet, probably partly due to the fact I’m still a bit tired of old AC, I’m determined to finish the game no matter what though. Maybe once I get further in the story it’ll be better.
So there’s my first opinion, we’ll see how much changes as I progress more! At the very least, it’s a good quality game that had a lot of care and passion put into it, which is more than I can say for some of the other more recent entries.
Hah, so I guess the lesson here is trying to replicate a book’s content in the form of a movie or show never works the way you want it to, but sometimes that can work in your favor :)
It’ll be waiting for you when you’re ready! I’m surprised you haven’t accidentally come across any spoilers though, it’s so easy to just be scrolling down your twitter feed and then boom GoT spoiler out of nowhere. They’re everywhere so watch yourself!
Any updates on how you’re feeling about the situation with your friend? Or are you still having some mixed feelings (which is totally understandable). I’m glad you were able to talk to your mother about it though, I’m sure that helped a lot.
It’s been a month, again I’m really sorry, so I’m sure some things have changed since you sent this message, what have you been up to?
Hope you’re doing well!
Gosh, I kept pushing and pushing and pushing this away and I don’t even have a real reason for it. Human exhaustion? Might be the most likely explanation but still not fitting. I’m sorry drop
I’ll also try doing better! :)
So by now I have indeed played Life is Strange: Before the Storm. And I love it! You might have read my review about it, but if not, no prob. So, we don’t have the camera action going on as with Max, but that makes sense, because Chloe is not into Cameras, right? Instead she is totally into talking ppl into doing what or how she likes things. That was a fun function too :D
Most off all I liked though, how I am able to make her and Rachel be a couple <3 I never was really sure about Chloe, but this one made me certain she is in love with Rachel. Sure, there are still some things that doen’t seem to make sense or work out, but oh well, right?
Some ppl complain though how you can’t say no to Rachel, which yeah, is right, but I didn’t mind, because I didn’t feel like saying no. I just though about how Chloe seemed to be in LiS and… she would never have let Rachel down on her trip to freedom. So there we go, I had no reason to say no to her :)
Guess by now you have the alternative endings through, right? Any new thoughts on that?
Also: Liara! <3
I understand how she seems not THAT likeable, but since I didn’t feel any closer to the two humans in the first game, I dated her and that’s how you settle on your favorite I guess? Although my sis in law was totally into Garrus and you can’t date him in one. In the end everybody is cool, right? :D
And the MP is awesome! Gotta do that soonish again. Banshees and Cerberus Bitc… erm… I didn’t write that :]
Anyway, killing them is fun :D
I’m sorry to hear, you are not that into Origins. Is it by now any better? I sure hope it is :)
Guess it has a positive side of not using Twitter that much then? You get not GOT spoilers :D
Also I’m right now a lot into Doctor Who, so I don’t even have time to get spoiled :D
My feelings towards the friends baby is fine by now. I’m excited and happy for them - although I can’t imagine how different everything will be the moment it’s there. But man, it’ll be soooooooo different!
Anyway, I’m happily knitting and Overall for the baby. And once that is done I will knit a set of bonnet and jacket thing. Yep, I’m super into it. And I super hope it’ll be a girl, because you can make way cuter things for girls, right? :D
What have I been up to? Well, Christmas is done and so is Sylvester. So right now I’m trying to start my new year a bit differently with opening an online shop and selling ceramics o.o
I’m sooooooooooooo scared! Never mind. What else? Oh right, I try getting a new Doctor with whom I wanna try getting officially unable to work, so I might finally get some support from the government. We’ll see how that works out. But both things totally chicken me out right now -.-
Apart from that, I’m recovering a bit from 3 weeks with my dad. He had holidays and… well, that long stresses me a bit out. Although it wasn’t too bad this time. Maybe because I tried explaining to him, that I am not like others and I can’t do everything just like that. I think it made him think about the whole situation a bit differently. So that is nice :)
Oh, and I want to get back to writing. At least a bit. A friend of mine contacted me, how she is back to writing in a Forum and how fun time was and stuff. And before I know it, I’m creating a character myself and will write! happy
So yep, that much from me. How are you doing? How have you survived the holidays? ;) :D
Have an awesome year 2018! cuddle
Don’t apologize, always take all the time you need :) By now this is a bit late too, I only remembered to check BLAEO after you send me that message the other day so thanks for that!
I did not, but I have now! Your cats are the absolute cutest, by the way. Right, so no camera stuff and no time travel. Ahh I’m so glad you can make them get together! It always seemed to me like Chloe was head over heels for Rachel, whether she wanted to admit it or not. And I can get why you might be a liiitle mad at Max after seeing everything from Chloe’s perspective: Her best friend just abandoned her out of the blue, it’ll be interesting to see firsthand how it affects her and her ability to trust people.
I’m so going to buy it in the next big sale. I can’t wait!
Okay so the alternate endings. So this is the one I tried. This one is the most popular one, and the one that changes the most about the ending. The starchild is gone, actually the whole ending choices are gone as well. Everything is the same up until after Anderson dies, and then there’s a scene where the crucible works perfectly and then Joker rescues Shepard. Some of the scenes afterwards are similar, but are ordered differently, have different music (like the suicide mission theme instead of An End Once and For All), or have things added in by the mod authors. But the best part is the very last scene. You know how in the original ending, the whole crew is standing and mourning Anderson and Shep, and the love interest puts Shepard’s name up on the memorial wall? Yeah, that doesn’t happen. Instead, Shep is there with the crew in the scene, and she puts up Anderson’s name on the wall, and Shep and the love interest hug. It’s wonderful and done very well. The mod as a whole, I don’t know. As lovely as a happy ending was it did feel like a bit of a cop out to me to just have Shepard rescued so easily and when the mod added in lines or their own scenes, it was very obvious and it took away from the general experience. That being said it’s sooo impressive and worth a try at least once, and maybe every time after that if you really like it :)
Next time I’ll try this one out. Instead of entirely changing the ending like the other one does, it keeps the memorial scene I just talked about and only slightly changes the extended cut ending. So it’s different but a lot less jarring. You can even download a version that’ll use the destroy ending, but entirely skip the conversation with the catalyst. That one sounds nice.
Yeah I won’t lie, even after romancing Liara I’m still not overly fond of her but I do like her a bit more :) But absolutely, you don’t exactly have many options in 1 so it has to be one of the two, might as well pick Liara. I think I remember talking with you when I played ME1 for the first time, debating whether to romance Kaidan or Liara and being so indecisive because I didn’t really like either of them! Oh how the times have changed. Now I love Kaidan. But I love Garrus more :) I’m still totally bitter you can’t romance him in 1. But yeah, (almost) everyone is great and you really can’t go wrong!
Well hey, if you ever end up playing it again and want someone to play with just let me know :) I’m not doing it anymore either since I finished ME3 but I just know I’ll be back. Killing those Cerberus …. Boshtets is just too fun to pass up.
Ugh, that’s actually a really hard question. I’m so conflicted by Origins. I think I’m mostly disappointed, but I also don’t dislike the game. If I did I wouldn’t have finished it. Like, it’s a really good game! Most people really like it. But I thought the story was disappointing and not very good (they straight up dropped the modern day plotline that you’re used to, with Juno, and replaced it with, well… nothing important enough to mention really), the sidequests were either great or super boring, the open world activities got repetitive after a while, and the gameplay got stale. And to me, it’s pretty clear that they tried to mirror Witcher 3, which is fine, it’s a great game that a lot of developers have drawn inspiration from. But they didn’t pull it off. But I’m in the minority opinion on most of that. I still technically haven’t 100% completed it since I need to play the DLCs, if they’re really good maybe I’ll change my tune a little but I’m not hoping anymore. So yep, just my final opinion is that I’m super conflicted.
Oh Doctor Who? Are you watching all of the seasons? If so that must be taking you a while, that show is like 40 years old!
Aw that’s great I’m glad you’ve come to terms with it :) And yes! I hope you get to knit lots of lovely little baby clothes, that’s just adorable.
I think things are going to go well with your ceramics shop. Seems like it’s going to be a lot of fun to run too :) I’m so happy for you! What a great way to make a little bit of extra cash, doing something you were already doing, and enjoying too!
Ah I’m glad you’re trying to work everything out, with your doctor, your dad, the government, whatever. Sounds like you have your hands full :) Even though it’s nerve wracking it’ll all be worth the effort though, I’m sure.
Ooh you’re a writer? That’s nice :) What kind of things do you enjoy writing?
I’ve been pretty good, thanks! I finally got around to applying to colleges, and I’ve already been accepted by a few. I did start planning a gap year with my friend since i love to travel and haven’t been able to do much since I started high school, but she backed out so that’s unfortunately off the table. I would 100% be murdered if I did it by myself. So I think I’ll just go straight to school after graduation. So I’m going to have to figure out my major, and then get a job so I can help pay my tuition. So that’s where I’m at right now! It’s a lot of pressure and I don’t love all these life changes but I’ve been done with school for years now, it’ll be a relief when this chapter of my life is over and I can hopefully move on to better things.
I hope your year has been great so far! <3
I’m happy you like the witcher 3
one of us! One of us! ONE OF US!
I gotta ask as it's in completed did you 100% it? Cause I'm having troubles getting through me newgame+ playthough. I missed a few story achivements cause I didn't want to spoil anything by looking at guides and need the death March cheevo etc. This is a list of pretty big titles!
Yes, I did 100% it but keep in mind that I don’t generally take achievements into consideration so I actually only have about 80% of the achievements unlocked. But if you want to get all the achievements I think you may have to spoil a few things for yourself. Maybe if you tell me about a few you’re still missing I can try to give you a spoiler free way to obtain them? Since I think I did get nearly all of the story related achievements.
The DM achievement is not nearly as hard as it may seem! I played the majority of the base game with DM (didn’t get the achievement because I started on Just the Story) and it really wasn’t too difficult. And I’m not very good at the combat. Biggest tip I can give you is to spam Quen, and if you’re a sign build (which is apparently very underpowered on NG+) then Severance + the enchantment that causes alt Yrden to spawn glyphs wherever it hits an enemy = unstoppable god. The icy aard is also very helpful. If you’re not a sign build, then decoctions and potions are going to be your best friend.
I know it’s quite huge! Took me a while to finish everything, especially with my post Witcher depression.
*sorry I meant I played through first time around blind and now I’ve spoiled myself for achivements on the second playthrough
stuff like in the DLC at the party I didn’t make a speech so I didn’t get the achivement for doing everything at the party or curator of nightmares achiement or the one where you kill the king…
and I played the main game on Blood and broken bones switching to DM when I found it too easy and once or twice to a lower dificulty to play around.
so yeah its not as hard gameplaywise. (I played through most of the main game hoplessly overleved.
right now I’m playing with icy aard and it was incredibly over powered when I started using it but slowly died down. also I’m looking to change my build near the end because ice/aard does shit againsed the wild hunt >_< what annoys me is that at the start I did absolutely every single quest (cleared all of vellen/novegrad) and collected a ton of random stuff including like 15-20 each of the large mutegens and when you start a newgame+ you lose all of them.
so now I’m thinking of changing my mutation but I can’t and I don’t feel much like farming. But I had trouble with the final boss the first time around cause I didn’t really have any fire type stuff so I was using an unupgraded igni and a bunch of tier 1 bombs.
Ah sorry I misunderstood!
Yeah I was overleveled in the game as well. I must have been 10 or 15 levels higher than the recommended by the end of the game, and level 70 once I finished the expansions. So, ridiculously overleveled. I honestly found HoS and B&W to be really difficult in some areas though and I had to go down to blood and broken bones and even story and sword sometimes. But the base game is mostly easy no matter what difficulty you play on, with a few exceptions.
I read somewhere that you can transfer mutagens over if you put them in your stash before starting NG+, I haven’t test that myself but if that is the case it’s probably a glitch, but definitely something to keep in mind.