Is it just me or did they make Ash look a LOT like Miranda from ME2?
I also find that the animations do not look as smooth as ME2. Watching the cutscenes, they look like they were produced by Gerry Anderson.
Yeah, you get essentially two “stops” before you get to go check the Normandy out, talk to the crew, etc.
I think they really messed up on Ashley in ME3. Not awful as such but like Ash in the intervening time had a little plastic surgery done. Some collagen injections, a boob job and so on. Nothing big, just enough though to take her from a nice, natural beauty to some idealized, 16 year-old male exaggerated ideal of beauty.
IMHO of course.
Don’t know why, but I ended up playing more multiplayer today than single player. Got my Quarian Infiltrator up to level 18 and all the “Galactic Readiness” stuff up to 100%. I wonder if that decays over time?
Well, I feel like I’ve been misled now that I realize the robotic dog I got with my Collector’s Edition is not actually a companion I can take with me on missions, but I guess I just wasn’t reading closely enough.
On Shepherd’s appearance – as I said I was getting different looks in the face modeler and in the Squad screen than in the game itself. Well, since I have exited the game and returned, the face in the Squad screen now matches the face in the game itself. Some unknown screwiness has ensued.
I am excited to run around talking to everyone. You only get this chance once where getting up-to-date on everyone is exciting and not a chore to be taken care of before moving on. The whole Battle Readiness business looks exciting and puts some crunch behind the epic feel. I also like the darker tone in general, although if I have to do a lot of missions-by-flashlight, I think that may get old in a hurry.
Wait, what?
You can’t beat single player without playing multi? Is this for fucking real?
From what I understand, playing all the multiplayer material makes it easier to get the better endings for the single player game, but it’s still possible to get them by playing single player only.
EDIT:
Cite from a Bioware representative on the company’s forums:
(No story spoilers at all, but I’ll put it in a spoiler box just in case)
The relationship between single and multiplayer works like this:
[spoiler]Progress of the war is represented by a few variables. There’s your Total Military Strength which is the sum of all the War Assets you’ve unlocked through quests, etc. This is multiplied by your Readiness Rating to get your Effective Military Strength. Presumably, the ending of the game will be affected by how high your Effective Military Strength is.
Readiness Rating starts at 50% and AFAIK the only way to raise it (within ME3) is by playing the multiplayer. However, there are an absolute ton of War Assets out there that you can get. I’m less than 20 hours in and have already had my Effective Military Strength bar maxed for quite a while (with a bit of multiplayer under my belt, granted.) Bioware stated that multiplayer was not necessary, so my guess is that there are enough Assets out there that you can max your Effective Military Strength even with a Readiness of 50%.[/spoiler]
I think it does; it drops 2% to 3% from yesterday. However doing one map can restore 3% to 4%, so it’s not a big loss. It could be random too, and if I am not wrong, entirely server-side.
You can beat it without having to play multi-player just that if you don’t you need to finish lots more war assets (your final war assets is modified by the readiness factor, so I guess for end-game, as long as you have enough numbers, it add up).
I guess the plus points is that you can let entire worlds go to hell and still have enough war assets to push through, if you plays lots of multi-player.
Ok some questions:
I tend to save worlds (Hannar, Rachni Queen etc.) over saving individuals. I think both add to your war assets, but will there by any change in the storyline. So far I have let the Spectre agent died to save the Hannar, and Grunt’s company died to save the queen; do I need those individuals’ help again, or were it be abstracted as just a number?
Okay, rage quotient has been reduced. Thanks folks.
I sure hope that playing tons of multiplayer means I can triumph without releasing that insane (and insufferable) Asari, or assassinating the Turian General because I try to role play consistently and that’s just not cool for my Shepard.
This is speculation, but anyone else think the catalyst required for the Prothean device will be Shepard?
There are paragon alternatives to getting the merc to work with you that does not involve bloodshed or releasing a psychopath.
Son of a cunting bitchfaced monkeylicking assheaded… all the saves that I thought I had on my flash drive, transferred over from my old 360, are nowhere to be found. All my goddamn data, lost.
Is there any way to download someone else’s playthrough for 360 and use it, and is there a well organized site somewhere where you can search for romance choices, side quests, etc…?
Goddamnit!
Thanks!
The organization system for their saved games is ugly though. Just looks like they’re in random orders with partial descriptions for many.
Aye, just had to sort through them to grab a clone of my 100% goody two-shoes German Shepard and it took me a while. Someone should put them out of their misery and make a check-box based system. Though I should speak quietly - I am very grateful for their site and all the effort behind it.
It definitely does, fairly rapidly. I’ve had it drop by 3% twice in the last 18 hours or so.
I’d recommend just slowly proceeding on those quests to see how they go.
Because as long as you’re cool with accepting Aria’s deal, you do have other options on those.Specifically, talk to insane Asari and you’ll see another option besides releasing her, and talk to the general to find out how you can deal with the situation.
Yeah, checkboxes would be awesome.
But… blargh. While it’s a good site, damnit, I spent time crafting the exact Shepherd I wanted. They have ones which are close, but not perfect. I’m just going to get my ME1 and 2 discs and replay them on easy to burn through a couple Paragon playthroughs real quick. I’ll do Renegade some time later.
My Shepard face didn’t import because it originally came from ME1 so I decided to recreate it and I have determined that it is impossible for me to create a Shepard face that doesn’t look like she has some Chimpanzee DNA in her ancestry. But dammit, my Monkey Shepard is going to save this Galaxy by gum!