Open Bar: ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Blubberdick Chickenstrips. That is beautiful, Payne. 

[Payne]

Thank you.  Those two videos were certainly not my best commentary, either.  I really need to try not doing it live some day, and see how much of an improvement that is. 

It does remove the challenge somewhat, though, which is no fun.

I've not played ME3, or any of the mass effect games, but I like the in-the-moment commentary. I also want to buy the game so I can play it cause it looks cool, but I'm fairly certain my computer and connection would be a little problematic.

Depends, Mass Effect 1 was released in 2008, so your computer, unless it's really quite old, should be able to handle that.  Even ME3's shiny graphics are not that system intensive...hell, the main problem is putting up with Origin, EA's craptastic answer to Steam.

You only need internet for ME3 MP too.

Once I finish the Dragon Age playthrough (likely from about May onwards), I may do a singleplayer ME1 to 3 campaign.  Probably without player input though, just my choices.

Well, ME3 MP was pretty much what I wanted.

My entire life was shunted into weird new directions by playing Battlezone online a couple of years after it was popular - meeting some guys online that drew me to Edinburgh, so I'm always down for a decent bit of multiplayer. Plus, hilarious shit always happens to me in multiplayer games - it'd be amazing to randomly feature in one of your commentaries accidentally blowing my head off right in front of you for absolutely no reason.

"Oh my, that's alarming", you'd say. "I don't like that!"

And I would be shame, and it would be like old times^tm.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Don't you love it when your roommates take it upon themselves to 'fix' things. And tell you 'I just want to see something'. And then you get a migraine out of it.

[Cain]

Thank you.  Those two videos were certainly not my best commentary, either.  I really need to try not doing it live some day, and see how much of an improvement that is. 

It does remove the challenge somewhat, though, which is no fun.

I've not played ME3, or any of the mass effect games, but I like the in-the-moment commentary. I also want to buy the game so I can play it cause it looks cool, but I'm fairly certain my computer and connection would be a little problematic.

Depends, Mass Effect 1 was released in 2008, so your computer, unless it's really quite old, should be able to handle that.  Even ME3's shiny graphics are not that system intensive...hell, the main problem is putting up with Origin, EA's craptastic answer to Steam.

You only need internet for ME3 MP too.

Once I finish the Dragon Age playthrough (likely from about May onwards), I may do a singleplayer ME1 to 3 campaign.  Probably without player input though, just my choices.

Well, ME3 MP was pretty much what I wanted.

My entire life was shunted into weird new directions by playing Battlezone online a couple of years after it was popular - meeting some guys online that drew me to Edinburgh, so I'm always down for a decent bit of multiplayer. Plus, hilarious shit always happens to me in multiplayer games - it'd be amazing to randomly feature in one of your commentaries accidentally blowing my head off right in front of you for absolutely no reason.

"Oh my, that's alarming", you'd say. "I don't like that!"

And I would be shame, and it would be like old times^tm.

Well, the recommended specs are 1 gig of RAM, Direct-X 9, 15 gig on the HD and a 1.80 gig processor.

As for internet, I'm out in the middle of nowhere, using wireless which reaches a download speed of around 800 kb/s and I can host games no problem...when people actually join my lobby.

It may be better to wait for Mass Effect 4 if your computer isn't already up to that level...given the success of this multiplayer, which was originally made with minimal effort and not expected to be at all popular, the chances are they will put up a significant budget for the next installment of the game.  They may also actually get around to working several bugs out of the game, and balancing the weapons and classes properly.

Also, no friendly fire, thank God.  Well, except for locking people in the reactor on the Hazard Reactor map, and killing Possessed Abominations when they are next to people.  Having an all biotic team using Lash, Throw and Pull to throw the Abominations at each other is actually very, very funny...but most people I knew from playing the game are either playing something else now, or else waiting for ME4.

[Payne]

Thank you.  Those two videos were certainly not my best commentary, either.  I really need to try not doing it live some day, and see how much of an improvement that is. 

It does remove the challenge somewhat, though, which is no fun.

I've not played ME3, or any of the mass effect games, but I like the in-the-moment commentary. I also want to buy the game so I can play it cause it looks cool, but I'm fairly certain my computer and connection would be a little problematic.

Depends, Mass Effect 1 was released in 2008, so your computer, unless it's really quite old, should be able to handle that.  Even ME3's shiny graphics are not that system intensive...hell, the main problem is putting up with Origin, EA's craptastic answer to Steam.

You only need internet for ME3 MP too.

Once I finish the Dragon Age playthrough (likely from about May onwards), I may do a singleplayer ME1 to 3 campaign.  Probably without player input though, just my choices.

Well, ME3 MP was pretty much what I wanted.

My entire life was shunted into weird new directions by playing Battlezone online a couple of years after it was popular - meeting some guys online that drew me to Edinburgh, so I'm always down for a decent bit of multiplayer. Plus, hilarious shit always happens to me in multiplayer games - it'd be amazing to randomly feature in one of your commentaries accidentally blowing my head off right in front of you for absolutely no reason.

"Oh my, that's alarming", you'd say. "I don't like that!"

And I would be shame, and it would be like old times^tm.

Well, the recommended specs are 1 gig of RAM, Direct-X 9, 15 gig on the HD and a 1.80 gig processor.

As for internet, I'm out in the middle of nowhere, using wireless which reaches a download speed of around 800 kb/s and I can host games no problem...when people actually join my lobby.

It may be better to wait for Mass Effect 4 if your computer isn't already up to that level...given the success of this multiplayer, which was originally made with minimal effort and not expected to be at all popular, the chances are they will put up a significant budget for the next installment of the game.  They may also actually get around to working several bugs out of the game, and balancing the weapons and classes properly.

Also, no friendly fire, thank God.  Well, except for locking people in the reactor on the Hazard Reactor map, and killing Possessed Abominations when they are next to people.  Having an all biotic team using Lash, Throw and Pull to throw the Abominations at each other is actually very, very funny...but most people I knew from playing the game are either playing something else now, or else waiting for ME4.

I find online multiplayers are at their best when the game is a couple of years out of fashion. But, yes, maybe ME4.

And friendly fire is the best element of any game that has it. Otherwise it's like me playing my (incongruously and bizarrely) addictive F1 racing sims with the damage, tyre use and fuel use turned off.

[Cain]

This is definitely not balanced for friendly fire.

If it was, I'd play an Asari Adept all day long, casting Stasis on people and shooting them in the head with the Arc Pistol.  It'd be instant death, and terribly unfair (incidentally, that class and setup should be my next video, after the two I upload tomorrow).

But then, this was designed with only one game mode in mind.  It may be that the devs will introduce PvP...though a lot of people are not interested in it.

[Payne]

This is definitely not balanced for friendly fire.

If it was, I'd play an Asari Adept all day long, casting Stasis on people and shooting them in the head with the Arc Pistol.  It'd be instant death, and terribly unfair (incidentally, that class and setup should be my next video, after the two I upload tomorrow).

But then, this was designed with only one game mode in mind.  It may be that the devs will introduce PvP...though a lot of people are not interested in it.

I like a Co-Op game where you still have to be accurate and, yanno, good.

I will always prefer the satisfaction of taking down AI players to those who are merely human.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am learning that a good way to deter would-be suitors is to tell them "if you do end up Googling my name, I just want you to know that almost everything you'll find about my dad is lies, and I know that because I was told so to my face by the judge at the sentencing".

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I am learning that a good way to deter would-be suitors is to tell them "if you do end up Googling my name, I just want you to know that almost everything you'll find about my dad is lies, and I know that because I was told so to my face by the judge at the sentencing".

Also, because some asshole reporter had/has no idea how reenlistments work, if I recall correctly.

There's a certain type of reporter that tries to START their career by going for some poor bastard's throat.  Never fucking works.  So you get one guy smeared, and the other working the public interest desk covering flower shows until he finds a new line of work.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So, confirmed with H1N1.

But I'm pretty sure I beat that bastard.   My temperature has been below 100 for 20 hours now, and I can think again.

Also, I no longer feel like I've been circle-stomped by drunken boghoppers.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

So, confirmed with H1N1.

But I'm pretty sure I beat that bastard.   My temperature has been below 100 for 20 hours now, and I can think again.

Also, I no longer feel like I've been circle-stomped by drunken boghoppers.

I am glad to hear it. Thinking is good. Not feeling stomped is good. H1N1 is a bastard by all accounts.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So, confirmed with H1N1.

But I'm pretty sure I beat that bastard.   My temperature has been below 100 for 20 hours now, and I can think again.

Also, I no longer feel like I've been circle-stomped by drunken boghoppers.

I am glad to hear it. Thinking is good. Not feeling stomped is good. H1N1 is a bastard by all accounts.

It's like being sat on by Pagans.  You can't breathe, and everything smells bad.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

So, confirmed with H1N1.

But I'm pretty sure I beat that bastard.   My temperature has been below 100 for 20 hours now, and I can think again.

Also, I no longer feel like I've been circle-stomped by drunken boghoppers.

I am glad to hear it. Thinking is good. Not feeling stomped is good. H1N1 is a bastard by all accounts.

It's like being sat on by Pagans.  You can't breathe, and everything smells bad.

:P Speaking of which, Happy Yule!

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

So, confirmed with H1N1.

But I'm pretty sure I beat that bastard.   My temperature has been below 100 for 20 hours now, and I can think again.

Also, I no longer feel like I've been circle-stomped by drunken boghoppers.

I am glad to hear it. Thinking is good. Not feeling stomped is good. H1N1 is a bastard by all accounts.

It's like being sat on by Pagans.  You can't breathe, and everything smells bad.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am learning that a good way to deter would-be suitors is to tell them "if you do end up Googling my name, I just want you to know that almost everything you'll find about my dad is lies, and I know that because I was told so to my face by the judge at the sentencing".

Also, because some asshole reporter had/has no idea how reenlistments work, if I recall correctly.

There's a certain type of reporter that tries to START their career by going for some poor bastard's throat.  Never fucking works.  So you get one guy smeared, and the other working the public interest desk covering flower shows until he finds a new line of work.

Yep, and better yet, it was an AMATEUR reporter who was trying to kickstart his career by "outing" fake war heroes.

Didn't work out so well for him, it turns out.