{"id":17147,"date":"2012-09-07T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T20:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=17147"},"modified":"2012-09-07T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T20:09:31","slug":"mass-effect-3-ep11-toilets-and-fatalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=17147","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect 3 EP11: Toilets and Fatalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jnyBNZWRIc0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jnyBNZWRIc0'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>You know, I spent like five minutes going on about how they negated the decision in Mass Effect 1 where you chose to kill the Rachni Queen or set her free. However, I&#8217;m remembering now that the first game had this same problem. There were still sidequests in the game where Rachni showed up.  So the game let you make a decision and then ignored it. Here in Mass Effect 3, it really does take into account if you saved her or not. It&#8217;s superficial, but its there. So, Mass Effect 3 fares better here than I gave it credit for. In fact, for this decision it fares better than the original. <\/p>\n<p>The Space Quest 2 toilet scene I mentioned looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><table   class=\"\" cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='center'><tr><td><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/spacequest2.jpg' class='insetimage'   alt='spacequest2.jpg' title='spacequest2.jpg'\/><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Not as crazy as I remembered it. If you&#8217;re an old-timer you&#8217;ll remember this section as one of the most legendarily obnoxious bits in adventure game history. As you walk down the hall, you encounter an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H._R._Giger\" title=\"Swiss surrealist H. R. Giger on Wikipedia\">H. R. Giger<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xenomorph_(Alien)\" title=\"Alien (creature in Alien franchise)\">Alien<\/a>. If you let it get close to you, it kisses you and walks away. Then, hours later when you&#8217;re at the end of the game, a larvae will burst out of your chest and you&#8217;ll die. If you didn&#8217;t happen to have a save game pre-kiss, you&#8217;d have to start the entire game over. No, adventure games didn&#8217;t &#8220;die&#8221;. <em>They were executed for their heinous crimes against fun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>The talk about the Slenderman was a reference to the fact that Chris had been playing the free indie game <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parsecproductions.net\/slender\/\" title=\"Slender: The Eight Pages\">Slender<\/a> before we began recording, and as a joke he was pretending that he found the game to be brain-meltingly scary instead of not scary in the slightest. He was very good at pretending this. He pretended this very hard, all evening, without ever breaking character. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) You know, I spent like five minutes going on about how they negated the decision in Mass Effect 1 where you chose to kill the Rachni Queen or set her free. However, I&#8217;m remembering now that the first game had this same problem. 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