[ALL] Mass Effect General Discussion

[Maynard]

i know, im a bad boy...might i suggest a spanking

 

[JayDizzle]

 

[Maynard]

i never knew shep was a real guy..if i had known i would have picked fem shep

 

[killgod]

yeah he's some dutch model. it'd be awesome to be him, i'd walk around in a fuckin N7 suit all the time.




as for my ME adventure. Did all the citadel stuff, spent like 4 hours there. Then booked it to save Liara. Fight vs the Krogan was tough as always. Then cleared the whole cluster, finding 2 more planets to land on. Headed off to Feros, decided to clear the other cluster in the system before landing there, found another planet to visit. Had to track down the monkey who stole the data disc. The geth ambush was fucking intense, my first death on hardcore came here. 2 Destroyers (destroyers, already? I know there's always one on Eden Prime, but you kill it from a distance and he doesn't use it's full arsenal of ability)..anyways, 2 of them just rushed in and overwhelmed. 2nd attempt I found a side mining tunnel to backtrack down, used it as a bottleneck to deal with them, still wasn't easy.

Off to Feros to kill the Thorian Creature.

 

[JayDizzle]

Cdr. Shepard learns the difference between right and wrong:

 

After surviving the Tube of Doom on the way to rescuing Liara, then scooping her up to my Space Hooptie, it was time to start in on some UNC missions.

Anything from searching out distress calls that turned out to be a Geth trap (my rifle hurts just the same if I were surprised as well as tactically sound in the situation, stupid robots); finding out why Pro-Lifers can be found anywhere in the universe; getting coupons for Asari wares and services in exchange for Fraternal Assassination...

Much fun was had by all as I'm a huge proprietor of shooting things for gear, XP and Squad conversation.

...the added plus of working for the good guys is icing on the cake.

The latest mission I undertook made me feel a little uneasy as I fought my way into a facility where a local doctor was being held hostage by one Cpl. Toombs.

Given my history with this series, Toombs' apparent paranoia about shadow organizations named Cerberus (backed earlier by Admiral Hackett as he brought it up first but... the two of their testimonies would hold together even worse than my earlier claim of "SAREN IS BAD!!!11 REAPERS!!!11" with the Council) is well-founded.

Back to the story, canon-wise, Shepard still really doesn't know shit about Cerberus and being unable to talk him down with the ol' Paragon Easy Button, I had to put Toombs down.

I didn't want to but in this situation, if the Scientist has something to hide, someone's gonna beat it out of him sooner or later.

Doesn't make me feel better about it though, even if I was following orders.

 

[jms493]

Mass Effect related...

 

[padman59]

Mass Effect related...

I'm really interested in the Leviathan DLC after hearing Brad and Vinny talk about it, but I don't plan on playing any Mass Effect for a while.

 

[killgod]

Update on my ME1 session. Taken a couple days off but made srs progress.

Finished Feros. Raided the ExoGeni building and destroyed the Geth. Put a bullet in that prick Jong for being cool with the people of Zhu's Hope being mind controlled. Managed to destroy the Thorian without dying, a tough battle on regular difficulty, on hardcore was intense, many near death moments. Saved all the people's of Zhu's hope to impress Liara (in hopes she licks my vag), but FemShep really doesn't give a fuck how the job gets done, just as long as it does.

After Feros, we decided to explore a few clusters and about 20 systems. Landing on about 5-7 planets, cruising in mah Rover and kicking some geth dicks in. Some asshole setup a beacon to lead me INTO A TARP!!!!! But I diffused the bomb and destroyed the incoming ambush (on my 2nd go at it). Found some cool Prothean shit I don't know if I ever came across before ever, this weird floating orb that generates a bunch of text story to talk about some dream...and this pyramid that doesn't do too much, but was cool to stumble on.

Had a distress call to go save Admiral Kaohku, but those assholes at Cerberus left him to die in a prison cell filled with Rachni, so fuck him he's dead, but I got some XP and loots so whatever. Boarded a couple ships, found some dead dude with lungs on life support, then this crazy biotic bitch came out to stop me from ending it for the guy, but my Katana VI shotgun with hammerhead mods knocked her the fuck out. Liara wanted me to end it for the dead husk of a person, so I did, again, fuck me with your tentacles baby.

After a couple hours of random missioning, I then went back to the Citadel and turned in a few quests. Then was sent to the Earth's Moon to fuck up some Batarians, which is where I took a break. Level 32 for the group so far and lots to go. Maybe I could hit level 60 in one playthrough? I recall my first ever go was around level 55.

 

[jms493]

I am getting the itch to start the Mass Effect 3. I blew through 1 and 2 and just stopped.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

I'm really interested in the Leviathan DLC after hearing Brad and Vinny talk about it, but I don't plan on playing any Mass Effect for a while.

Do it. I actually really enjoyed that mission set. Still need to finish Omega, I had started it but getting caught up in everything Christmas related.

 

[JayDizzle]

Cdr. Shepard should never work in an Electronics Store:

 

Life's tough when you're out in Alliance Space, scoping out lowly rock formations and base gasses because your own future sci-fi military is too damn cheap to do it themselves...

Scribblings of long dead Asari, trinkets from Salarian book clubs (Note: I still have NO clue what the League of One medals are) and graffiti from Turian riff-raff are this timeline's baseball card collection.

...and here I am, staring at the skull of an ancient Tyrannosaurus Rex on some backwater hunting planet.

Shame I can't put it in the Normandy's Rec Room because that would be tits.

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A short time later, I'm told by Hackett that there's a set of Geth Outposts in Alliance Space that need to be wiped out so they don't advance any further towards important colonies.

Like Eden Prime. :facepalm:

After delivering the biggest shit-kicking to a set of robots in history, I get the location of their secret base and proceed to go Godzilla against a set of Destroyers, Tree Frogs and Snipers.

Found some scribblings that meant something to Tali (sidenote: I've got everyone the ship but I'm only taking Garrus and Liara with me because "Space Bros. Pt. 1" and "Awkward Fake Space Romance" are both going down this playthrough) so that happened to be a plus too.

Now to disarm a nuke (WHO THE FUCK HAS A NUKE ON THEM?! SPACE HANS GRUBER?!!) because the dumbass Alliance felt the need to continue the time honored tradition of preemptive strikes into the 23rd-24th Century.

Dicks.

 

[killgod]

You still with me Jay?

My latest romp was more of the same as the last. Explore, explore, explore....explore!

After dealing with the shit on Luna I decided to do something I've never done in ME1 (despite buying it)...Pinnacle station. What a shitshow this stuff is. Managed to defeat 9/12 records before having to leave for other shit, couldn't take it anymore. Some of those can get super frustrating (like Hunt ones, motherfuckers stop spawning but you need to kill them to add time, what kind of space voodoo is this?). I want to know what Ahern's Survival Mission is about, I'll have to return and slave away to beating those later in the game I guess.

I left Pinnacle and had a few clusters left to clean up, Hawking Eta, Voyager and then off to Horse Head where Noveria is. After dealing with some more side fuckery, avoiding any Thresher Maws along the way (except the one that emerged underneath me for an instakill, WTF), I'm ready to head to Noveria and fuck some Matriarch ass.

 

[killgod]

oh and this

 

[JayDizzle]

You still with me Jay?

I'm close to the end of Feros.

Going to try to finish that up tonight so I can drop my epically pun-titled update.

 

[JayDizzle]

That shit was Da Bomb, yo:

 

When we last left out intrepid heroes...

Cdr. Jay Shepard, Turian Bro-in-Chief Garrus and Azure Slimmy on the Side Liara were faced with the grave task of disarming a nuclear bomb out in the middle of nowhere.

Not because Space Hans Gruber was going to use it to kill a bajillion of the galaxy's best and brightest or at least get a shit-ton of Space Bonds from Space Nakatomi Tower.

Nope.

It was because the bastard "set a trap" in order to tie up the loose end that was Cdr. Shepard, war hero and savior of a colony that would have been otherwise doomed.

This motherfucker was basically trying to kill Arnold from Commando but in Space...

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What's funny about the encounter after I disabled the bomb was that I now had to eliminate a skeleton crew of nobodies at the bottom of the hill, including the guy that just tried to kill me via the Hiroshima Method.

Why bother using a bomb if you're gonna wait outside, "Just in Case"?

If I can disarm a 250 pound megaton warhead with ease, what makes you think I can't dust you next?

Boggled the mind up until the point where I killed said crew and was gently reminded that I killed the dumb S.O.B. as well in the firefight and couldn't bring him in for questioning.

Oops.

 

[JayDizzle]

Zombies Ate My Shepard:

 

It's off to Feros we go and we're almost immediately under attack by the goddamn Geth.

I guess no one heard of EMPs this far into the future yet so it's up to the tried and true method of Cdr. Jay Shepard and his loyal chums to put the fuckers down, Old School Style.

After cleaning up 20 million or so Geth (the exact amount is a little off but who'd be counting?), Shepard did his thing that most RPG protagonists do in looting whatever could be found, breach the personal space of everyone around him (seriously, "Personal Question(s)" as a dialogue choice might as well read "What color panties you wearing?" OR... "Hey, you hittin' that?" because I'd give a fuck otherwise if it were me), etc.

Minutes later, after solving the personal problems of the beleaguered folks of Zhu's Hope, I spoke to the leader Fai Dan about why everyone's acting so strange around me.

Metagaming and prior knowledge of situations just like this in the movie clued me into some sort of mind control going on here.

In-game questioning amounted to... "Why would anyone leave Zhu's Hope? Sure we're dying by the truckload to robotic murder machines but this place is fuckin' AWESOME!!!11"

Not believing in his bullshit, I head out to the ExoGeni building to figure out why the Geth are killing everyone...

...and promptly get goaded into finding the daughter of an ExoGeni employee who works for the biggest Corporate Cheesehead ever.

I figured I help just-in-case I'd get something out of it and the search was on!

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An hour later and I hear from said daughter that the Corporate shitheads of ExoGeni were privy to a mind-enslaving plant known as the Thorian, yada yada, and now it was time to return to her mom and get some answers from Corporate Cheesehead.

Cheesehead didn't make it through questioning (not enough Paragon Brownie Points and I have the entire bar full to the brim) but everyone else lived.

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As a reward from my good deed, I was gifted with knockout gas grenades that would counter-act the Thorian's power over the good people of Zhu's Hope instead of my original plan of gunning down whomever was in front of me.

Lucky them.

A few grenades later and all I had to do was murder half a dozen space zombies...

 

[JayDizzle]

Shepard vs. The Army of Darkness:

 

Cdr. Jay Shepard, his lovely blue assistant Liara and Space Bro Numero Uno Garrus were now tasked with bring down the biggest goddamn weed in the known galaxy.

As much as it would have been fun to sift through all the stems and seeds to get to the good shit and smoke a fatty, Shepard knew work came first and with a solemn heart, the Away Team of the S.S. Normandy proceeded to gank a shit-ton of slimy zombies and Asari clones.

The clones being the weirdest part because as a personal side-mission of mine, I saw no benefit in killing what could essentially be a space factory that could produce an army of hot space bitches to do my bidding.

Since there's no option for that in the game (I'm sure nobody would have minded but Ashley but she's on the ship and I'm on the planet, boots on the ground and eyeballing some sexy green space temptress.

There's always the Renegade Playthrough.

...back to the story at hand:

Shepard, Liara and Garrus cook up a plan to prune the ugliest vegetable alive from Zhu's Hope and manage to do so despite more resistance from the evil hordes of space undead and a few more green space bitties.

I tell ya, I almost shed a tear as Liara force-pushed, er, used "Throw" to dispatch the lovely ladies.

Afterward, another member in the long line of space elves known as the Asari, Shiala, was saved by me and my crew after we downed the Thorian.

In return, she "gave" me the Cipher or basically a cheatbook to figured out what the hell the Prothean Beacon showed me on Eden Prime.

I then let her go to help out the good people of Zhu's Hope because as most knew already or where about to know...

If she fucked up again, I wasn't above adding more notches to my rifle.

 

[JayDizzle]

Cdr. Shepard, Space Bachelor:

 

Singing the praises of a job well done, saving a human colony from certain doom courtesy of a few well-placed shots, it was time to debrief.

Cdr. Jay Shepard, still reeling from getting his mind DP'd by Shiala, let Liara do the same for no apparent reason other than it'd be neat to be the first Human View-Master...

After the Asari mind-meld, the crew was sent back to their respective areas on the ship, never to be seen again unless I felt like seeing if they had anything else interesting to say.

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Not a minute later, Ashley and Liara come storming in like the last episode of a dating reality show.

"Shepard, enough fooling around. Which of us is it going to be?

"Me or the blue lady-on-the-side?"

So I chose Liara and let Ashley sulk in the vehicle bay because the fuckin' game doesn't understand that I'm a firm component in the Space Polygamy debates and support harem culture.

Now I'm "stuck" with a sexy Space Elf that keeps informing me that it's a life-altering decision for me to stick it to one such as herself. :cmpunk:

On the plus side, afterward, I sold all my excess armor and gear that I was never using so now I have over a million credits to spend and I'm on the Spectre Black Card List.

This gon' be good. :lesmug:

 

[jms493]

OK so I have decided that this is my next game to conquer. I went over to Xbox.com to see what I need to download before I start out on this journey.

Well here it is


Mass Effect 3 by jms493, on Flickr

This might take a while....:hazard:

 

[JayDizzle]

Don't forget the recently released, "Omega" DLC as well.

The MP DLC is pretty much maps, map variants, extra guns and dudes/ladies to unlock to use online.

Which you'll need to do as nobody plays vanilla ME3 MP anymore to my knowledge.