For those of you who can't wait, Emily Wong is currently tweeting the Fall of Earth, giving us a play by play from her vantage point in South California. It's framed as the normal communications systems going down right before the Reapers attack, limiting them to text-only communication.
Guess I know what I will be spending my first hour or two at work doing.
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OK.. With work interruptions it was closer to 20 minutes of reading but it was still kind of neat.
Guess I'd better hurry up and finish 2. All that's left is getting Legion and then I can continue with the rest of the story.
I got it all downloaded and prepped to go last night then promptly fell asleep like an old man... (In my defense I was going on 4 hours of sleep from the night before)
Just a quick note in the thread, remember spoiler tags! I'm guessing even saying this is unnecessary, but better safe than sorry. The thread is still worth reading while playing, or before playing, because we can talk tactics and abilities outside spoilers.
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IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
Never underestimate the healing power of a massive dong.
I'm going to wait until it's cheaper, the DLC available before release kind of pissed me off.
Same for me. I had first figured that I'd at least wait until the discounts just recouped the cost of the DLC, but now I might just wait for a bigger drop. Busy with Syndicate and SSX right now.
I should have waited, but I'm just gonna cut my food budget in half for the next month to recoop the loss.
I was considering doing the same if my OT wasn't as much as I expected. Then my roommate, who had agreed to loan me the money for it, just flat out bought it for me.
Apparently he was tired of me not taking gas money from him when I drive the three of us anytime all three of us need to go somewhere.
Now I just have to fight the urge to stay up all day and play(after finishing 3 remaining missions on my ME2 replay) instead of getting enough sleep for work.
I'm going to wait until it's cheaper, the DLC available before release kind of pissed me off.
I concur completely. I am still upset at the DLC fiasco but it is not entirely BIoWares fault so I will be purchasing ME3, just going to be farther down the line when it is cheaper. Besides I am swimming in various games at the moment so I really shouldn't add to the pile.
Game arrived about 2pm. I had finished my 2nd play through of ME2 in the AM, removed the ME2 physx driver & re-installed the new physx driver for ME3. It took an hour to install, do to various errors on the disk. Then, after alternating pausing/restarting the install with ejecting the disks over and over it was finally at 100%. As it finishes up "installing", I get a .cab error. Some googling, I figure out the game installs a bunch of extra files you need to delete to let it finish installing. I do so, it finishes installing.
Another 20 minutes to figure out how to redeem my code for the DLC that came with the CE & I'm off.
First impression: Everything got...prettier? Like, not just the overall graphics, but now Ashley's a model & my custom femshep's more glamorous. Enjoyed the first part, poor kid, & got through the next mission only to hit a game breaking crash at the end. (Although, Anderson shouldn't be on Earth since I made him the representative on the Council, WTF?).
Updating my game, hoping it fixes it. If you're having problems, check this link.
I dunno whats worse, the fact that I remember a time when games just generally "worked" at launch or that I'm now used to these types of issues & I pretty much expect it. I have resigned myself to struggling to get the games I buy to even work nowadays.
Edited, Mar 6th 2012 6:48pm by Omegavegeta
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"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Game arrived about 2pm. I had finished my 2nd play through of ME2 in the AM, removed the ME2 physx driver & re-installed the new physx driver for ME3. It took an hour to install, do to various errors on the disk. Then, after alternating pausing/restarting the install with ejecting the disks over and over it was finally at 100%. As it finishes up "installing", I get a .cab error. Some googling, I figure out the game installs a bunch of extra files you need to delete to let it finish installing. I do so, it finishes installing.
Another 20 minutes to figure out how to redeem my code for the DLC that came with the CE & I'm off.
First impression: Everything got...prettier? Like, not just the overall graphics, but now Ashley's a model & my custom femshep's more glamorous. Enjoyed the first part, poor kid, & got through the next mission only to hit a game breaking crash at the end. (Although, Anderson shouldn't be on Earth since I made him the representative on the Council, WTF?).
Updating my game, hoping it fixes it. If you're having problems, check this link.
I dunno whats worse, the fact that I remember a time when games just generally "worked" at launch or that I'm now used to these types of issues & I pretty much expect it. I have resigned myself to struggling to get the games I buy to even work nowadays.
Edited, Mar 6th 2012 6:48pm by Omegavegeta
Granted I did the Origin install, but I've had 0 issues with installing or drivers, running whatever the current release if from nvidia on a 250 GTX in both games this week with no issues. Maybe older cards work better? (Assuming your running something newer) Also been playing 12 hours today without a single crash/bug/frame rate issue (I'm screwed now though ) Heck even load screens are only up 2 seconds on average, haven't had time to read a single one yet. I'd type more but hooked, told wife I'd see her after I take back earth... she mumbled something about papers?
Honestly, it's not surprising. There are just WAY too many PC configs out there to deal with. Horrible, debilitating bugs on consoles are harder to stomach, at least where it has to do with hardware. But devs have no control over PC components, and there's way more variety in systems now than there was even 5-10 years ago. I can think of 5-8 different types of CPU structures, before we even begin to think about the differences between chips using that model. And I'm sure there are more.
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IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
Never underestimate the healing power of a massive dong.
Selecting "repair install" by right clicking on ME3 in Origin did the trick.
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"The Rich are there to take all of the money & pay none of the taxes, the middle class is there to do all the work and pay all the taxes, and the poor are there to scare the crap out of the middle class." -George Carlin
Mine fired up right away and I immediately began sucking at being a vangaurd. Hmm is that my vangaurd charge button? *Charge into a swarm of mobs Oops, I only have a pistol right now and there are 5 of them. Splat. Also was the camera always this close to the character in the other games? I don't remember but having just suffered through the bad camera for a while in KoA I can't say I am liking the camera atm.
It's coming back to me now. I don't have any of my old saves so I just chose the options that seemed close to what I did and so far there are no bad surprises like: "Hey buddy you killed the council!" Like what happened without my saves at the beginning of ME2 no matter what I chose. I could probably find the saves I need to match my stuff online, might do that next play through.
For now I'm just rolling with it. And next time I rebuild my rig I will save my saves, maybe. >.>
Shojindo, I'm guessing you aren't too far. In that case, you can still get a save file to use. Click Mass Effect 2 in the top-left corner, then 3 Fem shop options on the right, 3 on the left for Male Shep (Paragon, Renegade, Mixed). After that you choose your LI in the center, and it'll show the relevant saves' choices in detail.
IMO, it's worth doing, since one of the things I'm most excited about is seeing what happens according my choices. And default Shepard is an *******.
And, if you don't want to use someone else's Shepard, you can recreate your own using this.
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IDrownFish wrote:
Anyways, you all are horrible, @#%^ed up people
lolgaxe wrote:
Never underestimate the healing power of a massive dong.
Shojindo, I'm guessing you aren't too far. In that case, you can still get a save file to use. Click Mass Effect 2 in the top-left corner, then 3 Fem shop options on the right, 3 on the left for Male Shep (Paragon, Renegade, Mixed). After that you choose your LI in the center, and it'll show the relevant saves' choices in detail.
IMO, it's worth doing, since one of the things I'm most excited about is seeing what happens according my choices. And default Shepard is an @#%^.
And, if you don't want to use someone else's Shepard, you can recreate your own using this.
So I found a save with most everything correct to my First Paragon Vanguard play through on the first site. Then I oppened it in the Gib Editor to confirm the settings and make a couple of minor changes. Recreated the ME2 save folder and dropped it in. The save had default male Shep face, but when I imported the save it allowed me to change it in ME3 to the same guy I had. So no need to mess with the phase morphing out of game.
Pretty slick really. I'll let you know if I run into any issues during play.