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  1. Ergo_Prologue on Chapter 16 Mon 30 Mar 2020 05:38PM UTC

    The tech classes are very fun~

    As clunky as combat can be in the first game, it felt like you could chose your play style to be ability focused, marksman focused, or team strategy focused. The later games lost this in favor of streamlining the combat to be more intuitive as a third person shooter, which was better for cultivating a fanbase and selling to a broader audience. A sadly necessary sacrifice in game design!

    Going back over the first game, looking at the different pathways they have to achieve illusion of choice, really made me appreciate the design decisions that went into the script. It’s so carefully and thoughtfully constructed.

    I hope my story can satiate at least some of your longing! I can’t play video games at the moment, so this is my way of replaying my favorite game. <3

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    1. BladeMidnight on Chapter 16 Tue 31 Mar 2020 12:54AM UTC

      It’s definitely a great way to relive a favourite and make tweaks to make things more logical in some sense or another. God I wish instead of Andromeda they gave us another game... or gave me my personal dream of playing as a Suit rat so I can kill racists easily! >:3 that or a Krogan, I’m just really interested in playing the alien races tbh

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      1. Ergo_Prologue on Chapter 16 Tue 31 Mar 2020 01:41PM UTC

        An origins style mass effect game; can you imagine? :D

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        1. BladeMidnight on Chapter 16 Tue 31 Mar 2020 08:55PM UTC

          God yes I can, and it sounds fabulous. A tech krogan throwing a turret at a geths face before charging in head first... yes please, all the while an team of oddballs like... a tanky volus follow you into battle

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          1. Ergo_Prologue on Chapter 16 Wed 01 Apr 2020 08:38AM UTC

            I'm planning the scene at Chora's Den and its... its round. It's so round....howw ooh no.
            There's a voice line in the game that's, "surrounded by enemies everywhere!" And for the longest time I thought it was Kaiden shouting it and panicking. My friend and I still meme about it. That voice line is how I feel about Chora's den.

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            1. BladeMidnight on Chapter 16 Wed 01 Apr 2020 12:41PM UTC

              Who’s actually shouting the line...? Eh. Sounds like something Kaiden might do... tbh never got attached to him or Ashley, but that’s just me

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