odessasteps Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 I got up last night to play for an hour, ended up 2-1/2 i think. Just Doing mini quests on the Nexus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Same. Haven't even left the Nexus yet after 3 hours of gameplay. I'm also almost halfway through reading Nexus Uprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 Okay - I stopped last night when I reached the Nexus so this comment is for the priority mission before that Spoiler I always find it odd that they get a known voice actor to voice someone they kill off in the opening segment. I am assuming Clancy Brown will be all over the place as the game goes on. It would have also been nice if the leadup to the game hadn't been all YOU BECOME THE PATHFINDER..... SOMEHOW!!!! since you pretty much know what was going to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 These are general non-spoiler things just about the single player - I only died once missing a jump so I am kinda proud of myself. I did get stuck in some rocks during a battle though and killed that way. - I have watched enough wrestling that Ryder's wandering eye doesn't bother me at all - At one point I was in a dark place and I spun around and not Lucio was standing there like the God Damn slender man and scared the shit out of me and my wife. - I definitely fucking have no idea how I am gonna build my characters but I do know the first skill point immediately went into more health - Concussive shot is still fucking awesome 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Well, fuck. My dad's HD television in the Florida Room shit the bed so I deferred to the guest room like a proper son so that he could watch MSNBC and shake his fist at the sky. The guest room has a GE tube television from the eighties that will not die. I refuse to hook my console up to it out of foolish pride and because I don't want to squint at a screen the size of a postage stamp. Long story short, I played absolutely zero minutes of Campaign Mode yesterday. I did get to tinker with the Character Generator in length, so here are my thoughts: Bioware hates black people. I am not a kinky hair kind of dude, so the big fro and little fro annoy the shit out of me, and the bald fade is way too fucking bald and obviously styled by the old guy in the last chair of the barber shop that no one goes to because his hands shake too much and he never oils his clippers, so he sits in the back and reads the paper all day. Bioware hates facial hair. This is the future, guys, and nearly all of your moustache and sideburns choices are either fucking Civil War era or are circa 1970's Golden Age Of Porn material. Can a black man get his ME1 soul patch back? Does no one own a Mircotouch on this mother fucking ark? So far, I'm only good in my heart with the chin strap goatee and the full on Logan angular sideburns with designer scruff. This is the first RPG where I've actually considered going pup faced. I am distraught. Bioware also hates attractive people. How old is Scott Ryder supposed to be? If he's about Shep's age (late 20s to mid 30's) then why in the fuck do some of the custom character heads for men have fucking old man jowls? Why the fuck do the scars have better definition than the tattoos? Does everyone in the Ryder family have a lazy eye? There is only so much ugliness that you can blame on Frostbite. Since it seems to be damn near impossible to build a black dude in this game, I will probably take a page from The Expanse and Gunny Bobbie Draper, and make me a crazy ass ethnically ambiguous Kiwi looking dude complete with neck ink and the Wolverine (I have no idea what hairstyle would work best with that) and my twin sister will be the light skinned homegirl with the braided hairdo. Either that or I'll just bite the bullet, roll with a white dude, and play with Default Scott Ryder, but I'm definitely drafting a custom twin so that my female sibling does not look like a transgender member of the Gibson wrestling family. All this talk on other boards of of Concussive Shot being the bomb makes me think that I will run with Security on my first go around, although I will probably weasel out and stick with an Operative because it's all about Tactical Cloak.. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 The default Male Shepard wasn't exactly Fabio either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 For the record, while not officiallt stated, it's assumed the Ryder twins are early to mid twenties. Not disagreeing on the idea, but yeah, they are intentionally very young. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 2 hours ago, RIPPA said: The default Male Shepard wasn't exactly Fabio either The BroShep I made in the very first game was a fairly handsome dude and the ME3 engine rendering made him look even better. I am an Israelite slave in Egypt trying to make bricks without straw with this fucking new character generator. It is still Mass Effect, so I am sure that all be forgiven once I design myself an avatar I can live with and start adventuring. Given yesterday's tinkering, most likely my Pathfinder will look like a Māori which actually sounds pretty fitting. 2 hours ago, El Dragon said: For the record, while not officiallt stated, it's assumed the Ryder twins are early to mid twenties. Not disagreeing on the idea, but yeah, they are intentionally very young. Then they want you to play the defaults because some of the custom figures have droopy eyelids and fucking jowls. Apparently there are no black barber shops or male moisturizer products in the future. Where the fuck is the Clinque? None of the custom generated character heads look like a person in their twenties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 46 minutes ago, RIPPA said: not Lucio Welp, that dude's got a nickname now in my game. Spot on, old chap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 It took me about 2 hours to realize his name was Liam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyanide Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 33 minutes ago, J.T. said: Bioware hates black people. Fuck if I want to sound like a Gamergater type, but there is like one unambiguously white skin tone in at best (and setting up my female twin, I couldn't tell if that was supposed to be a white or Asian palette), with like at least a half dozen gradients for medium to dark brown. So, #checkyourprivilege. But no, the whole character creation is a joke; I don't know how you make something demonstrably worse in moving to the next generation of hardware. All the male hair styles across the board are ridiculous, using the same shitty textures they've had since ME1. How the fuck can you not have just a clean buzzcut, instead of some sun-baked patch of incipient hair loss? All the facial hair is absurd - I just want my Tom Hardy stubble, goddammit. No facial feature options aside from just adjusting what your preset face is rocking. And unless I missed something major, apparently you can't change eyebrow color? And it isn't automatically linked to your hair color selection, either? Other major gripes from my couple hours played last night: One of my great loves of the ME series was the power wheel - that beautiful respite from the chaos of conflict that let you stop time, survey the field, and coordinate all your attacks. And evidently that has been sacrificed at the altar of BUT JUMPPACKS and MORE SHOOTBANG. Holy shit I was braced for the worst when I heard crafting being bandied about so much, but they are really just going full bore in recreating ME1's inventory management issues, huh? And somehow jamming it together with the ME3 multiplayer consumables system in the process. Good lord. Lesser issues: The last name conceit worked with Shepard, but the fact that you have a famous father and also a twin along for the ride sure makes the endless barrage of Ryder with no disambiguation just sound silly. I get that with a bunch of voice actors you can't just jam in a bunch of preprogrammed first names like any sports game from the last decade, but the fact that your twin gets referred to by their default first name while you're just "Ryder" does strain credulity. All that said... it's still Mass Effect at the end of the day, and I can't wait to see where it all goes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 36 minutes ago, Cyanide said: But no, the whole character creation is a joke; I don't know how you make something demonstrably worse in moving to the next generation of hardware. All the male hair styles across the board are ridiculous, using the same shitty textures they've had since ME1. How the fuck can you not have just a clean buzzcut, instead of some sun-baked patch of incipient hair loss? All the facial hair is absurd - I just want my Tom Hardy stubble, goddammit. No facial feature options aside from just adjusting what your preset face is rocking. And unless I missed something major, apparently you can't change eyebrow color? And it isn't automatically linked to your hair color selection, either? Yes, apparently in the future the Vorcha have controlling stock in Hair Cuttery and the Batarians have bought out Biore. And no, you can't change the style or color of your eyebrows. You have to find a custom head with the style of eyebrows that you can live with and work around the facial features of that particular model. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 Yeah - in this future - I think there are far higher priorities than getting your hair done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 I can finally save! Thank Fucking Christ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 33 minutes ago, RIPPA said: Yeah - in this future - I think there are far higher priorities than getting your hair done When etiquette, hygiene, and proper hair grooming go away, the rest of civilization cannot be far behind. Let's not go back to the times where the main cargo item on an exploratory vessel was smallpox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 Why do you think suddenly everyone is going to be all EDWARD JENNER AND JONAS SALK WERE FULL OF SHIT!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 2 hours ago, RIPPA said: The default Male Shepard wasn't exactly Fabio either He was Mark Vanderloo: Who was also the inspiration for Zoolander. Ben Stiller heard about Mark Vanderloo and thought "A male model with a stupid name, what a great idea for a movie!". As opposed to his other famous characters of a gym owner with a stupid name, a newlywed with a stupid name, a famous actor with a stupid name... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 8 minutes ago, RIPPA said: Why do you think suddenly everyone is going to be all EDWARD JENNER AND JONAS SALK WERE FULL OF SHIT!!!! Maybe because it is easier to design a character that looks like he grew up before Jonas Salk was born than it is to design a character that lives in a future society? There are mutton chops in this fucking game, but there is no soul patch. What is this? Who coded the Character Generator? The President of the fucking Mongols biker gang? I can put a bloody scar on my face. Is there no Neosporin in the future? What the fuck kind of cryo pod am I in that my wounds don't heal over the course of a six century space voyage? Where is the fucking medi-gel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Well, in ME2 they invented something that could heal all of Shep's facial scars instantly and permanently, and then didn't tell Garrus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 46 minutes ago, AxB said: Well, in ME2 they invented something that could heal all of Shep's facial scars instantly and permanently, and then didn't tell Garrus. 1. I was under the impression that gadget only worked on Shep's synth-flesh. 2. I thought Garrus elected to keep his scars out of a sense of Turian machismo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Took me almost 5 hours to realize that the cool looking eye tattoo that I gave my Ryder apparently goes all the way around her skull and down the base of her neck (and God knows how much farther) - which gave me way too much enjoyment of imagining her teenage rebellious years before cryo-freeze where she shaved her head, got deep into some crazy future techno music scene and got a full head tattoo before finding her path (ugh, sorry). I feel like I'm going to just be doing tasks aboard the Nexus until they pretty much force me to leave because everything is so damn pretty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert C Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 My female Ryder is still going through her goth phase, with the electric purple hair and over the top makeup. Her dad looks like Arthur Ashe. Male Ryder is fairly close to Enter the Dragon era Jim Kelly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 My in-game dad looks like the evil record executive in The Five Heartbeats. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 it is officially a Bioware game Priority Mission: Go from Point A to Point B Immediate next Priority Mission: Go back from Point B to Point A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 15 minutes ago, RIPPA said: it is officially a Bioware game Priority Mission: Go from Point A to Point B Immediate next Priority Mission: Go back from Point B to Point A No, it will be a Bioware game when I am on a mission and there is something tucked away on some obscure part of the map that I don't bother to search that I need for a mission I haven't done yet. Then I rage and swear and start all over again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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