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Garrus played the same damn character he did in 1--the fact that I think he's boring nonwithstanding, this is too big an offense for me to forgive--and Tali is the total twilight factor for me, not to mention I feel like they destroyed her character in 2. In 1 I believed she was a strong, independent woman and some such, in 2 they demote her to being an insecure and weak little girl who seems like a little sister. I cringed when my first indication that she was going to be in the game was presented to me by listening to a recording of her saying she wished Shepard was there. *embraces for the shit storm to come at my way*

-Not human centric. Fuck that shit. -Romance option for girls which aren't juuuuuust 'on the inside' dealio. -Treading a little more into RPG-land now that they've got their core gunplay mechanics down, which is what they were focusing on nailing in 2 -Fleshed out consequences. I cannot for the life of me trust any developer to be able to deliver this, though. They have too many variables to work with, I just can't trust it'll be as good as it could be. I'd gladly eat my words, though. -More conversations--I felt like my party members in Dragon Age offered a loooot more dialogue and they were much more nuanced characters than anything ME has offered--with the exception of maybe Liara and her transformation/what she's like in the DLC. Also nobody in ME seems like a perosn. Seems like they were written so you think they're ~so cool,~ but I have trouble seeing them as people. -LESS MERCS GODDAMN EVERYONE IS A FUCKIN MERC -Shepard speaking less in questions and more in actual conversation -Better paragon interrupt options -Slightly larger inventory--weapons, armor, etc. At this point in 2's lifespan I am quite happy with my repertoire of choices for what to equip...but this was after purchasing all the DLC which came with extra weapons or armor. It's a real nice feeling to have to actually wonder what I should use at some point in time because I've got options -Don't make the Illusive Man your standard evil dude. I really, really want him to have nuance in his character and I want people who think he'd just straight up go crazy with power to be proven wrong--he just knows what's at stake and needs to get things done. IMO he's Shepard with a ton of money. Plus it makes for a much more interesting character. -No Garrus -No Tali I'm sure there are a million others. I'll post them as I think of 'em.

I did a really quick playthrough for achievements, and every one of my squadmates died, but Joker and I survived. So I know that having all your team die doesn't necessarily mean that Shepard dies too. I'm surprised you don't break off his entire upper body when he tries to pull you up and you both plummet to your death the end

we're all lawyers, retail, graphic designers...or rapists, apparently.

Every time you pause? What in the world? That's...not true.

You know, that's something I don't understand about how people play games. To me there is no 'paragon' runthrough or 'evil' runthrough. Like fuck if I'm going to decide how i'm going to choose things before I even know what my options are, i'm going to pick the most interesting one. Sometimes that's a 'good' options, sometimes it's not. And even like this, you can max out one of your bars so what's the point in limiting yourself like that? But, that's just how I approach things. Dynamically and fluid or GTFO. If I replay it's to play a different class, because I always pick what I want to pick the first time and i'm not interested in the other outcome. If I was, I would have picked it! And so far there has not been a single game that differentiates between options so much so that I could not reasonably guess what that outcome would be, so I don't see that changing anytime soon. Again, just speaking of how i approach things.

THIS. Even better, having a party member...that's Elcor, since the Hanar can't fight. That's what the Drell are for. And the elcor better be an actor in Hamlet, and he'd better have convo with Mordin to bring you some seriously hilarious theatre scene.

Considering what they did with the hammerhead in the DLC, I think your idea of taking the hammerhead to look for minerals is almost assuredly what they're going to do--they alluded to mineral scanning, in its current state, not happening again I believe and plus why else would they test that out? They're almost assuredly going to make you recruit some people but I sure hope it's not to the same extent: we already have a huge, great cast. Then again how do you accomodate to the people who won't have played 1 or 2? You KNOW they're going to try to accomodate them. The thought of having to do that again just okain irritates me in thought though, I don't want to feel like I'm starting over AGAIN. FUCK! And the other thing is, to what extent do they return characters from 2? Anybody could be dead. They can't write anyone especially in given this fact. Basically I have not even the slightest idea, even in speculation, of how they might do it. Given what Truffle posted in her presentation about hopes/goals for 3, and levelling and more RPG systems were definitely on their consideration set.

Wouldn't making sure that everyone dies also ensure your death (there would be no one to pick you up on the final jump). All that work for an ending you wouldn't be able to use? Also if there's characters worth having in a second title, it's certainly characters from the second game.

all this talk of smooch a girl has it happened yet

a wet blanket

now we know what happened to dreadnaught

how old/stuck in their ways are the people you have to pitch to

that sounds pretty awesome, pones, though i'm sure logistically/in practice it's probs not. who knows!

A BAH BOL

and there's people who play with this guy?

We've all seen your butt. But Gappoi has taken that to the next level. WILL YOU COMPETE?

xbl evening personality

how do you trend research?

too damn shy

oh well i'd count that as something--winning was the transgression

so there is literally no reason why he sent you hte hatemail? nothing in particular you did or tried? weird. dick!

no i know, i'm asking if you kicked his ass in the game. basically wondering why he would send you that message, what did you do? and when did he send it?

he's played them (ME) both already. he doesn't need to savor every moment again, unless he wants to--i was just speaking toward the whole idea of getting through the backlog.

naw ME's are both shorter you can speedrun through both in the time it takes to speedrun through just DA i think