Mass Effect

[Night Fury]

I seriously love this game. I bought Mass Effect 2 on a whim and it's like the best game I've played on my PS3.

I just want to talk about it! I have a sexy female Shepard, and I'm currently trying to woo Garrus because human/turian affairs ftw man. She's also a paragon, but sometimes she's a renegade and takes no trout. She is awesome.

My party is usually Garrus and Kasumi but I used Jack and Grunt for the first time and.... not a bad team! I also like mining planets and throwing probes right in there.

Ooh hell yeah Mass Effect.

Tell me about your Shepard.

[Skyblade]

My Shepard is an Infiltrator. A stealthy lady with a Sniper Rifle. Few enemies see her coming, and fewer live to talk about her afterward.

She's also a Paragon, who fights for the good of others and avoids conflict when she can. Being an excellent diplomat, however, she also knows when to be tough and unforgiving (such as when dealing with Krogan). She's a nice character, but not a soft one.

She's also been romantically involved with Liara since their first adventure together. Intelligent, kind, but with the same fiery passion that Shepard has.



My advice to you: Purchase and play all the DLCs, especially when you get to Mass Effect 3, and do so before you finish the game.

[Night Fury]

Ooh, I think I may have made mine a Synergist actually, I forgot about that part.

[Shauna]

Shepard is a dick. No matter how many paragon points he has, he will always be a colossal dick. xD

I went with the first choices for everything because I was too lazy to actually customise.

[Ouch!]

Ooh, I think I may have made mine a Synergist actually, I forgot about that part.
Synergist? Do you mean adept? Or maybe sentinel?

My renegade Shep is a soldier. My paragon Shep is an inflitrator. I still need to beat ME3 with my paragon.

[CimminyCricket]

Oh. My goodness, I love this game. I started playing the first mass effect, I want to say around, a week and a half ago at this point and I started Mass Effect 2 on Monday. I was (and still am) a little put off by the fact that I have to go searching for ammo every fire fight rather than just having to let my weapon recharge. The lack of weapon/armour customization (barring mix matching stuff) is also a boner killer. The rest of the game though, is damn fantastic. I just found Wrex and DEM FEELS. D: I wish I could take him back.

My male Shep' is a Paragon Soldier with a mean streak. I usually use Grunt and the Assassin who, if I had a fem' Shep', I'd totally romance.

[Night Fury]

Ooh, I think I may have made mine a Synergist actually, I forgot about that part.
Synergist? Do you mean adept? Or maybe sentinel?

My renegade Shep is a soldier. My paragon Shep is an inflitrator. I still need to beat ME3 with my paragon.

Oh yeah! Sentinal! That one! :D

[Jowy]

Paragon Shepard resists the call of Miranda Lawson's ass since he's in a hot monogamous relationship with Liara T'Soni. Soldier seemed like the best starting class in ME1 so I just rolled my character over for all three games. Garrus never left my party because he's a total bro for life. Other partner was usually Mordin Solus or Legion...you get Legion too damn late in the game though. I had fun with the loyalty missions in ME2; Thane's was probably the best of the bunch.

Also TO AVOID SPOILERS! Later on in the game you'll be given the chance to select one of three weapons. The Sniper Rifle's the strongest of the three. Highly recommended you pick that one over the shotgun and assault rifle.

[Skyblade]

Paragon Shepard resists the call of Miranda Lawson's ass since he's in a hot monogamous relationship with Liara T'Soni. Soldier seemed like the best starting class in ME1 so I just rolled my character over for all three games. Garrus never left my party because he's a total bro for life. Other partner was usually Mordin Solus or Legion...you get Legion too damn late in the game though. I had fun with the loyalty missions in ME2; Thane's was probably the best of the bunch.

Also TO AVOID SPOILERS! Later on in the game you'll be given the chance to select one of three weapons. The Sniper Rifle's the strongest of the three. Highly recommended you pick that one over the shotgun and assault rifle.

Actually, you only get the advanced weapons for weapon types you can already use, and Lock's Sentinel can't use Sniper Rifles. Instead, she can learn to use a weapon class that she normally couldn't, or grab one of the advanced weapons for a weapon class she can.

[Jowy]

My mistake!

[Aulayna]

My Shepard is an infiltrator. She saved Ashley because I had to save the person who shared my name. She's a stout Paragon that never went the path of the Renegade.

That's about all I can say without spoiling anything!

[Ouch!]

I forgot that the last time we had one of these threads, Psychotic and I found out that we're the only people on this forum who don't prioritize a pussy Paragon Shepard...

[Del Murder]

My ME2 Shephard was a Paragon Sentinel who romanced Jack (mostly by accident). I wished I could romance Katsumi because she was my favorite character.

I'm currently playing ME3 right now. My ME3 Shephard is a is about a 60/40 mix between Paragon and Renegade (the war is making him tougher). This time I went with Adept because my favorite thing to do as Sentinel was use biotics. Singularity + Warp/Throw = Goodnight. I decided to break it off with Jack and pursue either Liara or Ashley.

ME1 wasn't available on PS3 for some time but now that it is I might go back and play it over from the beginning as a truly bad ass Renegade Shephard. I'd also like to play Infiltrator and Vanguard.

[Skyblade]

Just a warning, ME1 RenShep is more "psychotic" than "badass".

[Araciel]

I like it.

My Sheppard is an idiot, but there's hardly a way not to be.

[Skyblade]

RenShep, especially in ME1, just swings way too wildly from position to position. ParaShep has a theme, a focus. But with RenShep, you get tons of contradictory positions. RenShep's only goal is to piss people off.

In ME2 and especially ME3, they did a much better job of making RenShep a more concrete and focused character. It's more what Renegade was advertised as in the beginning, the cruelty of doing a hard job, the cold equations. I mean, RenShep's still a jerk, but it just feels like their's an actual character there in the later entries.

[Jowy]

My ME3 Shephard is a is about a 60/40 mix between Paragon and Renegade.

you're gonna be extra mad by the ending then.

[Del Murder]

How so?

[Psychotic]

Look at all these paragon apologists.

It's a video game full of asshole aliens. You have to show them who is the boss by being the dick that smurfs those assholes. Renegade first time through or you're a coward who doesn't deserve to play video games. :colbert:

Played as an Adept. It's not bad but if I did shit again I'd probably do Vanguard.

[Jowy]

You'll need a maxed out paragon/renegade score to settle a "conflict" of sorts near the end of the game. It'll affect your total war assets if you can't make everyone happy.

[Night Fury]

So I had a good play on it last night and I picked up Samara the Justicar and I'm playing through the Liara loyalty mission.

I love this gaaaame! Did a lot of Renegade actions last night mind, I think my Shep is on her Period and she's taking it out on every fucker.

[Psychotic]

You'll need a maxed out paragon/renegade score to settle a "conflict" of sorts near the end of the game. It'll affect your total war assets if you can't make everyone happy.Yeah I think that sort of thing makes the whole system utterly pointless. I hate it when you get bonuses by being pure asshole or pure saint as it forces you to follow a path rather than take the action you'd pick in each individual situation. Props to Fallout for making Neutral an actual thing.

[Del Murder]

I thought ME3 doesn't do that because it uses a Reputation system rather than separate Paragon/Renegade systems?

[Skyblade]

I thought ME3 doesn't do that because it uses a Reputation system rather than separate Paragon/Renegade systems?

This is correct. Rep is far more important in ME3 than Par/Ren. Rep determines which answers you can pick, not Par/Ren score. My full Paragon can still make endgame Ren decisions.

It's ME2 that shafted you that way.

[Del Murder]

I read up a little bit about what I needed to do to get the 'good' endings, and it looks like you don't need to be 100% Paragon or Renegade to get the right options at the end. But you did need to use the Charm or Intimidate options each time you talk to the Illusive Man, which I don't think I've done. Oh well. Can always go for that next time, when I get the ME trilogy.

I also read that to get those readiness scores up above 50% you have to play multiplayer, and that those scores determine how good an ending you get. That sucks because I had no interest in the multiplayer part of this game and I'm probably pretty bad at it.

[Formalhaut]

I've never played Mass Effect, though I really want to get into it because I know everyone seems to be enamoured with it. Given that Mass Effect is no longer PC-exclusive, I guess I can get into the trilogy. Perhaps for my birthday I can purchase it.

[Jowy]

Hm, my mistake. I figured it was paragon/renegade as I don't recall having the option to go down the renegade path during the Quarian/Geth event. Multiplayer is pretty fun, Del. Essentially just horde mode from Gears of War. Just set the difficulty to Bronze and you'll only need to win a handful of matches to get your readiness high enough.

[Skyblade]

I read up a little bit about what I needed to do to get the 'good' endings, and it looks like you don't need to be 100% Paragon or Renegade to get the right options at the end. But you did need to use the Charm or Intimidate options each time you talk to the Illusive Man, which I don't think I've done. Oh well. Can always go for that next time, when I get the ME trilogy.

I also read that to get those readiness scores up above 50% you have to play multiplayer, and that those scores determine how good an ending you get. That sucks because I had no interest in the multiplayer part of this game and I'm probably pretty bad at it.

Not quite, Del.

Due to the flak they got about the required Multiplayer (including the Better Business Bureau agreeing there was false advertising for the game when BioWare had specifically stated that they wouldn't require players to play multiplayer to get the best endings), they patched the ending requirements.

First, the Extended Cut free DLC drops the requirements so that the assets you collect across a multi game save should be enough to get the best ending (I think it was the DLC, it might have just been a patch though), and then the other DLCs add in even more War Assets to make it easier (and you should play Leviathan at least, it makes the ending much more tolerable).

Also, about your interactions with the Charm/Intimidate... You don't actually have to do that to get the best ending. You need to do that to get an extra scene before the ending, however, and it does mean that you need more War Assets to get the best ending. Essentially, it's a way to drop the required War Assets for the best ending by a few hundred points.

[Del Murder]

Ok, thanks! I like to collect the war assets and do plan on playing the DLC scenarios so it shouldn't be a problem for me.

[Freya]

I have a Paragon Infiltrator Femshep who is in love with the super fine Kaidan Alenko :3 I could never romance Garrus. He was too much of my bro. We did bro things together. Wait I doodled this once...

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/053/b/1/bro_time__by_lekana-d4qn2x7.png

Garrus, Wrex and I all the way on the first game.
Garrus, Miranda and I on the second (I wanted her biotics)
Garrus, Liara and I ont he third (again biotics!)

We sniped the shit out of everyone!

[Aulayna]

Del the multiplayer is a lot of fun. I was going to avoid it as I thought I'd be terrible at it, and I was at first xD I was hugely taken back by just how fun the multiplayer is. If you've done any of the N7 missions those are the standard multiplayer maps and on Bronze difficulty you won't have too much of an issue even if you're absolutely terrible. If you've got Voice Comms turned off multiplayer is just essentially single player anyway except the other 3 characters are being controlled by people and you have no idea if they're yelling "you suck" or not - though in all honestly I hardly ever hear people say anything let alone actually insult anyone. Give it a shot, you might be as surprised as I was.

[Del Murder]

Ok I'll try it. Definitiely with voice turned off since I don't need some kid in a basement yelling at me after a long day.

[Freya]

It's great to play with people you know so you can actually yell at them and it not be weird. Like while yelling at steve is much like yelling at a 13 yr old from a basement who is screaming profanities, it's just a bit more satisfying to do so when it's him.

[Quindiana Jones]

I really enjoyed exploring planets in the Mako, and customising weapons and armour. Great fun, and greatly mourned in the other games. I found ME3 really boring and poorly made, and I actually struggled to get through it. Damn shame, that game. :(

First time I played the first one, I went with the Commando. I didn't enjoy it, so got rid of the game pretty quickly. Months and months later, I bought it again after forgetting about my first time round, instead opting for an Adept. Low and behold, I was able to use assault rifles with him! Best. Thing. Ever. I went for a Barrier specialisation, which was so much fun. Infinite Barrier, plus being able to attack things in Statis = awesome, especially when combined with an infinite range, permanently cool assault rifle. :smug:

My Shep was the standard male one, because the customisation options made you look bloody awful! As for my team, I went with Bruce Campbell and Garrus in the first game, with Garrus and Miranda in the second. Essentially, one Tank, plus Garrus. There must always be space for Garrus. Always.

[Night Fury]

Garrus owns man.

Garrus ftw.

[Loony BoB]

Me: Male/Soldier/Paragon
ME: Ashley & Wrex (and sometimes Garrus)
ME2: Grunt & Miranda (and sometimes Garrus/Jacob)
ME3: Ashley & EDI/Vega depending on who I'm fighting (and sometimes Garrus/Jack/my tears over the lack of a Krogan squad member)

Basically I'm all about the soldiers for the most part.

[Quindiana Jones]

"Sometimes Garrus"? Somtimes Garrus?!

You disappoint me.

[Loony BoB]

I prefer frontliners that can take a lot of hits. When I used Garrus I would get tired of him getting himself killed. I'm rather aggressive in most of my FPS games, and I like my team to act similarly. I also like having the love interest in my main party, so Miranda/Ashley got those roles.

If Garrus was a Soldier class, I'd probably have used him more often.

[Quindiana Jones]

Psh. Psh, I say!

[Freya]

http://2.media.dorkly.cvcdn.com/70/34/7732f9a0dd070b978aa023f95acf1456.jpg

[Psychotic]

I also read that to get those readiness scores up above 50% you have to play multiplayer, and that those scores determine how good an ending you get. That sucks because I had no interest in the multiplayer part of this game and I'm probably pretty bad at it.The multiplayer was one of the most fun multiplayer experiences I've ever had. It's really well done and addictive.

As others have said, it is best with friends. There are plenty of EoFFers who can attest to this having experienced the majesty of my Krogan decked out in bright pink armour teleporting in and headbutting everything from Cerberus Troopers to Banshees to death, all while alternating between roaring and laughing like a madman.

[Del Murder]

Ok, who wants to play with me? I'm on PS3 if that matters.

[CimminyCricket]

I should be on ME 3 by this weekend and we can try :c)

[Quindiana Jones]

Credit to ME3: the multiplayer was really well done. I only played the demo, and even with those limitations it was excellent,

[Ouch!]

That the ME3 multiplayer was so good is the only reason I didn't ragequit on DA3 in advance when they announced it was getting multiplayer.

[CimminyCricket]

The multiplayer is fantastic. I played it for 2 1/2 hours before I realized I was going to miss the Super Bowl.

[Iceglow]

Mass Effect Multiplayer? Hellz Yes, was really sceptical at first and not in the slightest interested, got playing it with Paul and Dan and fell in love, got to abuse Kaycee sometimes too made it more fun. :D

[Jowy]

I am always down for Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, even though I am average and don't have any sweet characters yet. dabrowskitron on xbox live!

[CimminyCricket]

I'm sending you a friend request.

[BusterBlade]

Very glad this thread exists cause I just finished ME1 last night and downloaded ME2.

My Shep was basically a mobster in space. I ran with the biotics class cause shotguns are MANLY. I extorted anyone I could for funds to properly and made sure to pave way for a new galaxy where Humans were in control in order to gain as much influence as possible.

The game was really fast I felt but mainly cause I didn't have the patience to drive the Mako around every planet in the galaxy just to get a few new guns.

My main crew was Wrex and Tali. I played on Veteran difficulty so having Wrex and his immunity ability was perfect getting a few extra seconds of a meatshield during awkward situations. Tali handled Decryptions, Hacking, Electronics and First Aid, and also knew how to wield a shotgun meaning maximum awesome outputed. Me and Wrex would go biotic ape shit while Tali just squatted in corners firing her shotgun from 50m distances...

GOOD GAME. LOOKING FORWARD TO ME2.

[Jowy]

No more stupid Mako funtime in ME2, B^2, so that's a plus for you. Have fun with the second one! My personal favourite in the series.

[Quindiana Jones]

The Mako sections were one of my favourite things about ME1. I sorely missed exploring planets in 2. :(

[CimminyCricket]

Started the third one a few days ago. So far my biggest disappointment is no longer being able to walk into the ladies' restroom. What a let down.

[Wolf Kanno]

Been playing through ME1 as part of the Trilogy pack on PS3 and so far, I really like the game. I probably spend too much time dicking around than playing the story but oh well... I'm mostly going renegade, though I don't play up the "humanity is #1!" cause a true manipulative bastard is freinds to no one but themselves.

So Male Shep with his default look cause its easy on the eyes and games with character creation generators usually don't work out well for me, I am still not sure which was worse, my down syndrome spartan in Demon's Souls (I seriously regret selling the helmet that covers his face...) or the fact I subconsciously created Keanu Reeves (Bram Stoker Dracula look) in White Knight Chronicles. So yeah no messing with faces this time around...

I am a Soldier class cause Shep just seems like that's how he would roll, though if the sequels gave me a chance to re-roll my job, I might take one of the Mage type classes cause not having Tech skills really limits my party options.

I like most of the cast so far, even if Liara is a bit odd and far more forward than I thought she would be. Wrex is probably my personal favorite because he talks and acts like an adult version of Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.

Shep: Come on, I'm sure you've got some interesting stories.
Wrex: Well there was the one time my race fought the Taurians and they used a bio weapon that is now going to make my species extinct...
Shep: I should go now...

Tiara gets the most love of my party, partly because I really like her but mainly because her high Tech skills makes treasure hunting much easier. Sadly Wrex and Bruce Campbell get the least field time since they are pure fighters in a game where 90% of all treasure has a password code to be opened, and I was raised in an era where you need to grab every single coin, ring, and shiny treasure you see on the screen even if its not exactly the smartest move...

[DK]

IIRC in the later games you can change Shepard's class if you want to. However I ran Soldier on my male Shepard and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, particularly in ME2 where the wide variety of weaponry available made it stupidly fun to play, and also in 2 and 3 Shepard gets the ability to eventually pick one of his team mates skills and use it himself even if he's not a biotic or whatever. Soldier Shep + Domination = oh yes.

[Del Murder]

I think Soldier appeals to those who are more used to traditional shooters.

You can change Shepard's class and even his/her look in each game. I went with Sentinel in ME2 and I really liked the combination of tech and biotic powers. It makes you a real jack of all trades and allows you to pick your squad mates pretty freely. I really liked blowing things up so I went full biotic and picked Adept in ME3. It's fun to clear entire rooms without firing a shot. :D

[Freya]

Liara freaked me out in the first game. I was all talking to kaidan and just got liara. I talked to her a total of like two times. And then I go to kaidan and he was like "so.... do you have the hots for liara?" and i'm all "what? urm what?" "Yeah cause she totes said you did" So I go talk to her and she confesses her love for me. I'm all "BITCH I JUST MET YOU. CREEPER" She comes off far too strong in the first game. I like her the most in the third but the first she creeped me out xD

[Ouch!]

Liara is the easiest romance in ME1 as a consequence of you having the option to obtain her relatively late in the plot. As such, the progression to romance is shorter.

[Shauna]

I was trying to romance Ashley, because everyone hates her (not that I find her any less awful, but whatevs) and the Liara romance hit me like a wall. xD I was so disappointed when I got blue alien sex instead of horrible racist sex.

[Wolf Kanno]

Liara arrives late in the plot? Is the main campaign really that short?

[Freya]

No it's more of you have a choice of where you go and when. So you can either get her right away after you leave the citadel or you can wait to get her very last.

[Wolf Kanno]

Yes, but the quest to get her unlocks with two other story missions, I am curious that after those three missions, does the game unlock the last set of missions? Ignore all the side missions you can do in between all this. I'm just trying to gauge how many "main story missions" there are.

[Del Murder]

Just look it up on the Mass Effect wiki.

[Freya]

After you complete two of the three main missions, virmire unlocks. You could actually completely miss one. You need liara though to get to the conduit. Then you go back to the citadel then you go to the conduit and yeah then you're near the end.

[Wolf Kanno]

Finished Mass Effect 1, moving onto Mass Effect 2.

[Jowy]

Incendiary Ammo is your friend.

[Wolf Kanno]

I am terribly disappointed that Mass Effect 2 does not accept my Mass Effect 1 save at all... The whole point of getting the trilogy was getting the "full Mass Effect experience" and apparently Bioware and EA couldn't be bothered to make a fully compatible MA 1 and 2 for PS3. I am pretty pissed off about this...

[Del Murder]

What?? That's messed up. Kind of turns me off from buying the trilogy now. Having played ME2 and ME3 I was going to enjoy actually taking a character through the entire series but this just ruins it.

[Psychotic]

I don't know what WK's problem is but I was able to take my Shepard from ME1 all the way to ME3.

[Wolf Kanno]

Psy, you own the X-Box version, this is the PS3 version...

[Jowy]

I don't know what WK's problem is but I was able to take my Shepard from ME1 all the way to ME3.

I wasn't...from ME2 to ME3 I had to do a complete facial restructure as the one from the first two wouldn't properly import. Made a new one from scratch. :aimmad:

[Wolf Kanno]

Okay, time to retract my earlier statement, it turns out you can import data from the first game but it helps if you actually download the updates and patches for ME2 first. My Wi-Fi sucks so only half my place gets a constant signal and unfortunately the room that has my HDTV and PS3 gets next to no signal so I didn't download the patches until I realize that might be the issue. So it looks like everything is fine again and Mass Effect Trilogy is back in my good graces. :D

Time to start Mass Effect 2!

[Del Murder]

Oh good! And yeah this was all about the PS3 version since ME1 wasn't originally released for it.

[Freya]

It's such a good series for the whole character experience. Being able to have that one guy go through where all your choices affect things. so I'm very glad the ps3 doesnt have an import problem. I've been recommending it a lot to people at work.

[Night Fury]

God dangit!
Played some Mass Effect 2 last night, and completed Miranda's loyalty mission - no problem!
Get back to the Normandy and she and Jack are kicking up some fuss so I had to go and sort it out. I only had two options - side with Jack or side with Miranda. I chose Jack - now Miranda hates me and won't even speak to me. >.<

I need to get her loyalty back otherwise we're all just gonna die when we go fight the Collectors. Goddamn you Miranda!

[Aulayna]

I kicked Jack to the curb and told her to sort her trout out. :cool: Then despite not being loyal she saved our asses during the Collector Base as the designated biotic.

Then she in ME3 she thanked me for kicking her into line :3

[Night Fury]

I read up online that I need to get my Paragon level higher, I think it's at about 80% though! Oh well, just gotta be nicer then I can woo old Miranda back.

Oh Auly, I'm scared. I don't want all my lovely peeps to die in the big battle! :(

[Jowy]

lockharted: don't rely on Miranda for anything then.

[Night Fury]

Goddamnit! Just did the suicide mission and it was only Miranda who died! Will have to do it again and make sure she doesn't so I can get that lovely trophy. But still! Urgh! Miranda :(

[CimminyCricket]

I ended up with Zaeed and the black dude dying. I wasn't really affected by their deaths to be honest. I was more worried about losing Jack, Mordin, Thane and Garrus. I didn't put them any where near pain. Except for Jack. She was my biotic shield. xD

[Night Fury]

I used Samara as my Shield and sent Legion through the tunnels, then took Legion and Miranda to the fight at the heart of the base. If I play this mission again I'll leave Miranda in the bunker and take someone else. Maybe she'll survive then.

[Quindiana Jones]

Miranda dying seems like a pretty sweet ending to me!

[CimminyCricket]

I was afraid of having Samara dying so I didn't use her. I didn't realize it'd be super easy for Tali or Legion to make it through the tunnels, so I chose Jacob just in case he did die. xD

[Skyblade]

Most of the choices are fairly obvious. Tali and Legion are the tech experts, they do well in the tunnels. Jack and Samara are the biotic masters, they do well in the shield role.

Team leadership also has a few choices, but they aren't as obvious. Most of your team are loners, so they don't handle groups well. So choose someone with experience leading a team (Miranda led Lazarus, Garrus led his squad on Omega, Tali led a team on Haestrom, wait, Tali doesn't work. Um, Jacob hasn't led anything in his life, but works anyway).

And don't bring anyone who's not loyal with you on the final battle. Things will go bad.

Oh, and if you send someone back with the crew, send Mordin, he's the most likely to die while you're killing the boss.

[Night Fury]

I used Kasumi as my expert, which I didn't really like as I do like using her in battle - in fact she was my most consistent team mate throughout the game. I love her shadow strike. I later used Legion, even though I got him soooo late in the game, I'd like to have had him for more of the big missions.

I will have another attempt at this tonight and let you all know how it goes. It's looking like I'll do this;

Legion in tunnels
Garrus as team leader
Samara as biotic shield
Kasumi as escort
Thane and Legion in last battle

[Wolf Kanno]

Time to start Mass Effect 2!

What part of me posting I just started Mass Effect 2 and playing it for the first time do none of you get, put some spoiler tags on your comments... sheesh...:(

[Night Fury]

There's not really anything majorly spoilery! Anyone can die and anyone can live.

Also, I just replayed the last mission and we all survived! SCORE!

[Goldenboko]

I don't know what WK's problem is but I was able to take my Shepard from ME1 all the way to ME3.

I wasn't...from ME2 to ME3 I had to do a complete facial restructure as the one from the first two wouldn't properly import. Made a new one from scratch. :aimmad:

This was due to an initial bug on launch which has been patched since then.

[Wolf Kanno]

There's not really anything majorly spoilery! Anyone can die and anyone can live.

Also, I just replayed the last mission and we all survived! SCORE!

I didn't know any of that, and I've got people telling me how to keep everyone alive now... I haven't even recruited everyone yet and I now been told I will have a scenario where I can lose everyone. That's not a spoiler how?

[Night Fury]

There's not really anything majorly spoilery! Anyone can die and anyone can live.

Also, I just replayed the last mission and we all survived! SCORE!

I didn't know any of that, and I've got people telling me how to keep everyone alive now... I haven't even recruited everyone yet and I now been told I will have a scenario where I can lose everyone. That's not a spoiler how?

Oh :( I never played the first so I assumed it would have just been the same way in that game

Sowee Wolf Kanno :(

[Formalhaut]

We can just erase WK's memory. :p

[CimminyCricket]

Well, aside from the telling you how to keep everyone alive there's not too much being spoiled. Browsing through the achievements/trophies of the game tell you that you're going to end up having to save some people.

[Freya]

Here's a tip for you,WK, just do everyone's loyalty missions before you go through on the end thing that you'll not know til you play xD Just talk to everyone and do their mission and you'll be okay :D

[Ouch!]

There's not really anything majorly spoilery! Anyone can die and anyone can live.

Also, I just replayed the last mission and we all survived! SCORE!

I didn't know any of that, and I've got people telling me how to keep everyone alive now... I haven't even recruited everyone yet and I now been told I will have a scenario where I can lose everyone. That's not a spoiler how?
It was the main draw of the game's marketing campaign before launch and is stated flatly in the first couple hours of gameplay (and multiple times thereafter). Mass Effect 2 is a about your crew going on a suicide mission. Anyone can die. Even Shepard (in which case you can still "beat" the game, but will not be able to import that data to ME3). It's not just being dramatic when the characters talk about the chance for failure.

[Wolf Kanno]

Seeing how I've ignored all info about Mass Effect up until now since I couldn't play the whole thing, my statement still stands. Not to mention that in a genre known for fake outs, its hard to take "suicide mission" as being serious. My real beef here is that I'm literally seeing unmarked spoilers about completing the mission.

[Jowy]

Try not to stress; It's all about the journey and not the destination. That's why we play RPGs!

[Night Fury]

Playing ME3 now.

So far;
Like it, excited to be back on the Normandy... but it's so scary and doomy and those Reaper Brutes are hardcore :(

[CimminyCricket]

If you're playing xbox we can multiplayer so you can get a better ending :c)



mostly because i want to play with someone xD

[Del Murder]

Played multiplayer for the first time today. It was pretty fun. Was a human Adept and I got my ass handed to me for a while since I was so gimped but after a few levels I got better.

[Madame Adequate]

There's not really anything majorly spoilery! Anyone can die and anyone can live.

Also, I just replayed the last mission and we all survived! SCORE!

I didn't know any of that, and I've got people telling me how to keep everyone alive now... I haven't even recruited everyone yet and I now been told I will have a scenario where I can lose everyone. That's not a spoiler how?

Well, in fairness, the premise of saving/dooming people was the subject of their entire advertising campaign back before ME2 came out...

[Del Murder]

Yeah, only the strictest (like cave-dwelling strict) folks would consider that a spoiler. Of course, WK may be one of those people so let's just be respectful of posting spoilers here, within reason.

[Wolf Kanno]

Well, in fairness, the premise of saving/dooming people was the subject of their entire advertising campaign back before ME2 came out...

I had no interest in the next gen systems at the time the game was released and until I care, it don't exist to me and I don't actively seek out info at all, this thought process extends to anything in my world view. :p

Though to be fair, my issue was less about the heads up that shit was going to hit the fan and more about the "let me tell you the solution to the problem". I'm not completely bothered by spoilers unless its stuff that sucks the fun out of the game and getting the heads up on how to solve a puzzle bugs me, especially one that has story significance.

[Night Fury]

Okay. So I completely lost my shit at ME3 last night.

I was at the Grissom Academy and yyeeeeey Jack! She got way hot too. WAY HOT. And like, all these hard as fuck battles kept happening, and I'm like what the fuck is going on - yeah there should be some difficult combat but this is ridiculous. I went to the difficulty setting and it was auto-set to the hard setting! I don't mind the fighting bits, but it's annoying when it's just relentless and I'm pressing the "GET IN COVER" button and she just doesn't and gets shot or some shit. So I'm trying it on easy, and if that's still annoying, I'll be switching to narrative. Stupid game. I died like 8 times before I lasted that battle.

[Aulayna]

Played multiplayer for the first time today. It was pretty fun. Was a human Adept and I got my ass handed to me for a while since I was so gimped but after a few levels I got better.

See! It's surprisingly good fun right?

[Psychotic]

Human Adept is possibly the worst class (well, it's up there with the worst) so I'm not surprised Del.

[Quindiana Jones]

To be honest, Kanno, saving everybody is the easiest and most obvious "puzzle" in any game ever made. You'll do it just by enjoying the game and using the tiniest fraction of common sense.

Killing everyone; now, that takes some serious cock-up-ery. :smug:

[Wolf Kanno]

I don't know Quin, you don't know how badly I screwed up the protection of Alexandria mini-game in FFIX. I'm sure if it worked with ME rules not only would the death toll be high, but I would have lost most of the Pluto Knights.

I have now decided that the Quarian/Geth debate is the equivalent of the old Northern Ireland debate where there are no clear sides and trying to discuss it with any relevant people will get your ass chewed out by even the people you are siding with. Geez... Tali just about chewed my head off in her loyalty mission to the point where I kept my damn mouth shut when talking to the Quarian leaders. It was really annoying because one of the bigger assholes on the Admiral Board probably has the best, if not the most unpopular view on the conflict, and I honestly felt like anytime I even thought about agreeing with him and put the cursor on that dialogue option, I could just feel Tali giving me the evil eye... :stare:

Its sad when going to the Krogan homeworld and dealing with their political drama feels like a break from controversial subjects. :eep:

[Freya]

Don't worry WK, more Quarian Geth fun in ME3! :D Death glares will continue. Don't you worry!

[Wolf Kanno]

I was afraid of that but I figured I would have to deal with the Geth one way or the other. Its only annoying cause I really like Tali (Trying to romance her in this game) but I can already tell that relationship is going to come to an impasse when it comes down to the wire on the Quarian/Geth issue. :eep:

As I said, I have yet to find a good reason for the Genophage to be an issue, and kind of feel the Council races are being dicks about this. That might change in this game but who knows.

[Freya]

Dude I hate the turian council guy when he was like "reapers"

http://t.qkme.me/36jhvv.jpg

[Wolf Kanno]

Ah the Council...

I let them fry in my ME1 file.

Course if I had known what would happen, I probably wouldn't have made that choice,. but they kept pissing me off...:mad2:

[Del Murder]

Just beat ME3. What a great game. The ending was a bit disappointing and I can't imagine what those who saw it first without the Extended Cut felt. From what I read it was pretty abysmal. That didn't detract from the experience much, though. The entire game was about tying up loose ends and saying goodbye, and it's hard to put an exclamation point on it in the final scenes.

My main gripe was the three choices at the end didn't make any sense. The whole game centered around the theme that the universe isn't black or white. Yet the final choice was exactly that: Destroy the Reapers and all other synthetic life, let them all live, or combine them all into one 'super race' (that makes no sense). I wanted to destroy them from the beginning, yet I also spent a lot of time in the game driving the point home that the Geth and EDI are different from the Reapers. That was the whole point in the game. Reapers=bad sure, but not all synthetics are bad. I was disappointed that my choices from before didn't matter in the end and I ended up destroying them all, because the other two choices (Shephard controls Reapers, or the ludicrous synthesis option) really made no sense in the context of the game. I would have liked to see my previous choices in the game affect the final choice in the end rather than it just be based on the readiness score.

Second gripe: There was no final boss. Just a final wave of enemies (which was pretty crazy). RPGs are always at their best when there is a 'big bad' to fight and I was really hoping to go up against Harbinger at the end. But there was nothing. Not even a final fight with the Illusive Man.

[Freya]

Here you go to address that last point Del


To address the lack of a boss, the very last enemy you face is a Marauder. Not just any but Marauder Shields. There is a whole fan theory thing about him. He has artwork and comics and everything. The thought is he is actually Nihlis from the first game.
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[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Human Adept is possibly the worst class (well, it's up there with the worst) so I'm not surprised Del.

Lies. It is not the worst. Are the other Adepts in the class better? Yes. But if you use it right, it is a good crowd control. I am currently enjoying my Awakened Collector Adept. Sadly, he has no dialogue or catch-phrases. I sorta hoped in a Collector fight he'd all of a sudden go "ASSUMING CONTROL!" and then you turn on your teammates and kill them all. :D

[Aulayna]

Just beat ME3. What a great game. The ending was a bit disappointing and I can't imagine what those who saw it first without the Extended Cut felt. From what I read it was pretty abysmal. That didn't detract from the experience much, though. The entire game was about tying up loose ends and saying goodbye, and it's hard to put an exclamation point on it in the final scenes.

My main gripe was the three choices at the end didn't make any sense. The whole game centered around the theme that the universe isn't black or white. Yet the final choice was exactly that: Destroy the Reapers and all other synthetic life, let them all live, or combine them all into one 'super race' (that makes no sense). I wanted to destroy them from the beginning, yet I also spent a lot of time in the game driving the point home that the Geth and EDI are different from the Reapers. That was the whole point in the game. Reapers=bad sure, but not all synthetics are bad. I was disappointed that my choices from before didn't matter in the end and I ended up destroying them all, because the other two choices (Shephard controls Reapers, or the ludicrous synthesis option) really made no sense in the context of the game. I would have liked to see my previous choices in the game affect the final choice in the end rather than it just be based on the readiness score.

Second gripe: There was no final boss. Just a final wave of enemies (which was pretty crazy). RPGs are always at their best when there is a 'big bad' to fight and I was really hoping to go up against Harbinger at the end. But there was nothing. Not even a final fight with the Illusive Man.

You can also just tell spacechild to do one and shoot him to get the 4th, just as generic, ending :cool:

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

I just played the Citadel DLC. OMFG ALL THE FEELS.