Mass Effect universe discussion thread

[Ouroboros]

Since this thread seems to be about the games as well, anyone knows whether there is any way to make ME2 more challenging than insanity? I was recently thinking about another playthrough, but it is rather easy for my liking.

Use a save editor to hack in Kasumi, pick her as one of your teamates and someone else you actually want to use as the other. The game will then bug out, pop up an error message, and then proceed let you play missions with just that other someone apparently. So you'll only have 1 ally instead of 2.

I recommend Garrus for buddy cop movie fun.

[Stewart5]

As for ME, I would like a background book with weapon and ship diagrams. As a keen military auff, it's that sort of thing I like. The ships also seemed really cool, but you didn't see them enough. More, I say!

[Xarn]

Use a save editor to hack in Kasumi, pick her as one of your teamates and someone else you actually want to use as the other. The game will then bug out, pop up an error message, and then proceed let you play missions with just that other someone apparently. So you'll only have 1 ally instead of 2.

I recommend Garrus for buddy cop movie fun.

Nice find, but I think it is more about the atmosphere of having one teammate (I would really like to be able not to take any of them with me, playing a lone wolf character instead), rather then making it any harder.

On a side note, this is the sort of thing that has always bothered me in games... You have some really important (country/world/planet/star system/galaxy/universe-saving important) mission, where you are going to go up against the standart scifi/fantasy superior enemy (which in fact is so weak, it tends to stop being funny after a while) and you have some completely arbitrary team limit about people you can take with you.
So when you go into that derelict ship or another, where you more or less know are tons of bad guys, you only take TWO(3/4/whatever) teammates from that supposedly all stars team you spent the game assembling, instead of taking the whole friggin team, and thus having a backup.

[gotthammer]

re: the load time increase in DA:O
Didn't they 'fix' that in a previous patch? (which I think also added more issues, too.... )

re: needing a new PC
well, the 'problem' w/ PC gaming is that even if you have a new/decent rig, that's never a guarantee that the game will run flawlessly.

[DigiFluid]

Re: patching, I can't really speak to that. I bought DA via Steam, so I'm totally oblivious to when it updates.

[gotthammer]

ahh. we have Steam, too, but I tend to avoid it for my games (for one thing, I like 'physical copies', and I think I only have 2 games, E:TW and DoW2, that required Steam). I personally don't like the service *shrugs* (probably the sometimes slow login times on my end)

DA:O is at version 1.03. (the patch was required to install Awakenings, so if you have that installed, then it's there)

[Xarn]

re: the load time increase in DA:O
Didn't they 'fix' that in a previous patch? (which I think also added more issues, too.... )

Did they? BRB, downloading :-D

re: needing a new PC
well, the 'problem' w/ PC gaming is that even if you have a new/decent rig, that's never a guarantee that the game will run flawlessly.

Well at least new OS revision doesnt take away my ability to have multiple OSes and do whatever I want with the rig. (Sony, I am looking at you.)

[DigiFluid]

ahh. we have Steam, too, but I tend to avoid it for my games (for one thing, I like 'physical copies', and I think I only have 2 games, E:TW and DoW2, that required Steam). I personally don't like the service *shrugs* (probably the sometimes slow login times on my end)

I can't remember the last time I bought a (non-console) physical copy of a game. Digital download is the way to go.

Admittedly, Steam sucked when it first came out. But it's come a long way since then; really very solid these days.

[gotthammer]

hmm...Kasumi DLC tomorrow. I wonder if it's worth it...
$7 isn't much, after all...

Maybe I'll finish my long-overdue ME1 playthrough first.

edit:
re: digital copies
I dunno...I still like having the physical packaging. *shrugs...and pushes around the small pile of games near him*

It's one of the reasons I prefer to go for collector's/limited editions of games I like (and even games I took a 'risk' on, and disappointed *sheds a tear for Tabula Rasa, Age of Conan, Hellgate: London, and, most-disappointing of them all, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning* ).

[DigiFluid]

You can get deluxe/collector's edditions of games digital too. I know my copy of Dragon Age is a Deluxe

[gotthammer]

You can get deluxe/collector's edditions of games digital too. I know my copy of Dragon Age is a Deluxe

yeah, but those don't come in a nice, wooden (or tin) box.
(got a mug w/ the deal, too. the 'cloth' map was ugly, tho'...)

[StargateWatcher]

No! At least not the main story because that would lose much of the point of the Mass Effect games. The games universe is so dependent on your own actions and the choices you make that the state of the galaxy and the status of characters in two different peoples games can be totally different. You just don't get that in film or tv.

what about a DVD w/ a choose-ur own-next-scene feature? prob wouldn't fit movie budget givin that many choices (kinda like a choose-ur-own-adventure kinda thing--btw if u pitch this idea successfully to a movie producer, be sure to split ur pay 50-50 with me, lol!!)

got this idea b/c thought u were talkin bout a fixed-plot novel then realized in thius spec post, ur talkin bout a movie

[Atlanis]

to tell you the truth I don't think the Illusive man is human cause he said to sheppard "you and every other human may as well be dead"

[Stewart5]

And his eyes....his eyes!

[gotthammer]

I wouldn't read to much into it...
If that's supposed to mean anything, I'd sooner think that he's arrogant to think that he's better/'above' other humans...

re: eyes
I kinda wished that the 'Paragon' Shep could also get 'glowing' eyes (I don't really remember, but weren't there visual 'indicators' in Knights of the Old Republic if you were on either end of the Dark Side/Light Side of the Force thingy?).
Methinks the med bay upgrade could have been implemented better...