[ALL] Mass Effect General Discussion

[Maynard]

your explanation of events is amusing.

i finished up Virmire and now off to Iios. should be close to the end of the game. not doing any side missions

 

[JayDizzle]

100% ME2 complete in just under 38hrs.

Went into the Omega-4 with the ship fully built and everyone but Zaeed/Samara loyal. Their missions didn't go how they wanted, too bad eat dicks you fucks.

I took too long getting their (cause I wanted to use Legion in a variety of situations), the whole crew but Chakwas died. She's pissed about it.

Mordin ate a rocket to the face. Dead.

Legion was swarmed by the seekers. Not sure why cause he's a fucking robot, but dead.

Samara died getting the Doc back to the ship. Useless bitch, just one person.


I honestly have no idea how in my first ever run through that game, not a single person died.




Kinda pumped to play ME3 since I've only beaten it once and hardly recall it. Although this run has been intense. 70 or so hours put in so far...madness. My 1-3 renegade/insanity run probably gonna be a long while in the future.

As a reminder, you doing ME3 on XBox or Playstation?

MP's gonna be important if you want the super special awesome ending...

 

Shep lives

 

[Maynard]

i dont want to read that spoiler. but i want the super awesome ending...what dlc do i need? i think i have all of it for ME3

dont you have to do some online missions though to gain support of those other systems or something? i remember something about building up the % of support but its been so long i cant really rememeber

 

[JayDizzle]

To finish my write-ups of my ME1 exploits (so I can get back to playing ME2)...

Putting Two and Two Together (Pt.1):

 

After leaving Kaidan to die horribly on Virmire, I had some downtime to think about the next objective.

Saren had to be stopped but I now knew it was going to take more than just my ragtag team of mercs, weirdos and non-descript dudes holding my stuff for me.

I needed the Alliance and the Council to help me out on this one.

Hackett owed me a few favors for clearing out some riff-raff on local backwater planets and I figured that while I was shopping for new gear and thumbing my nose at the Council, I'd give him a call.

Unfortunately, all I got was a face-full of bullshit and my ship taken away from me; Turns out in politics, it's a lot easier to say local space pirates and buggy robots did it than an intergalactic space monster and the guy who's job I took over has given his last fuck weeks ago.

....

After hearing how the Council dissed me and that our very own Ambassador Udina turned his back on the mission so he could get a seat at the table, my boy Anderson cooked up a plan:

He'd sneak into the Control Office to unhook my ship so I could go kick Saren in the ass and I'd owe him one.

....

As the compliment of the S.S. Normandy left the Citadel docking station to Ilos (to shorten this convoluted story, I found out where Ilos was off the grid through finding out that the Mu Relay was what Saren used to get to it), I couldn't help but think how much ice Anderson would have to use after
breaking that fuckhead Udina's jaw with his fist. :smug:

 

[JayDizzle]

Putting Two and Two Together (Pt.2):

 

I had to say that Ilos was no picnic to land on after airdropping what must have been a million times on a million other planets.

Joker flying the Normandy ensured that I always landed on the surface to go to work but this shit was ridiculous... it was like trying to parallel park an H2 Hummer in a Japanese Smart Car parking lot.

Doable but there's always a better option.

Nevertheless, Cdr. Jay Shepard, freshly-boned Asari bookworm Liara and the People's Bro, Garrus got onto Ilos a-ok.

The mission: Find Saren while he was still combing the surface for the final key to unlocking his master plan...

...

Much gunplay was to be had in the ruins of a Prothean colony world and while I gave no fucks about how many bullet holes were in the architecture (I blew up half a planet before), Liara had some reservations.

Some driving was involved too as the Mako showed why it was the premium battle vehicle in the fleet as I melted countless Geth along the way with laser fire and cannon shots.

But all of that paled to what we saw and heard next...

...

As I spoke to the VI currently holding me and my away team, I got to finally hear about the End Game Saren had been searching for.

He had all the pieces to get to the Citadel, a place where I thought I was just shopping for my new pants and socks but in reality was a FUCKING HOMING BEACON FOR THE REAPERS.

Here the story was telling me that Saren was taking over the minds and hearts of the willing (or not so much) in exchange for total servitude and now I see that the fucking ship he was on was fucking with him.

The goddamn thing was a Reaper and now he was gonna get on the party line and call his boys over to assfuck the place where I called home.

Needless to say, I was a wee bit pissed.

And what made it worse? Saren was already hauling ass to the Citadel while I was stuck trying to put the damn VI on shutdown mode.

 

[killgod]

As a reminder, you doing ME3 on XBox or Playstation?

MP's gonna be important if you want the super special awesome ending...

 

Shep lives

I noes the spoiler.

360 for me.

 

[padman59]

i dont want to read that spoiler. but i want the super awesome ending...what dlc do i need? i think i have all of it for ME3

dont you have to do some online missions though to gain support of those other systems or something? i remember something about building up the % of support but its been so long i cant really rememeber

If you do everything (including those Citadel fetch quests), it's possible to get the best ending without playing co-op. It's probably easier to get a high enough war asset total with the DLC.

 

[JayDizzle]

If you do everything (including those Citadel fetch quests), it's possible to get the best ending without playing co-op. It's probably easier to get a high enough war asset total with the DLC.

I did everything but still didn't get the very best ending.

This was including the MP at the time which I'll have to do again once I get through 2.

Not that that's a bad thing. :shifty:

 

[Maynard]

finished mass effect 1 - 19 hour. full renegade. Saved Ashley, Saved Council and Elected Udina. This is the opposite of the 3 choices i took the 1 other time i played this game.

got a different endning too

 

didnt fight Saren this time. Saren and Shep had their talk where shep tries to convince Saren to stop helping Sovereign. Saren cant shake the mind control and thanks Shep for the realization and Saren killed himself. After a few cut scenes, Sovereign took over Sarens body and it was him i fought

 

[JayDizzle]

A Failure To Communicate:

 

The End Game was here staring me in the face and I had a bone to pick with Saren.

Garrus and Liara volunteered to shore up the away team as we left Ilos on a one-way ticket to the Citadel via Mass Relay...

Shit was cool as fuck too because we had to make the jump via the Mako.

...through what I had thought was a Relay statue on the Presidium. :baby:

........

After some hard charging through the Geth contingent Saren left for us, we finally caught up to the bastard as he was setting things up to let the Reapers into Citadel Space.

A hundred-million hojillion Space Cuttlefish were set to take over and it was down to me to stop him.

Words were shared, glares were exchanged and in the end, I put two in his computer like I said I would back on Virmire.

Felt good considering.

..................

After that bit of business, Sovereign, now without back-up, was still going to fuck up as much shit as possible since nobody had a weapon equivalent strong enough to take him out.

Luckily for the Council, after all the bullshit they fed me, I chose to sacrifice most of the Alliance Fleet to the giant monstrosity.

Didn't like it but as a one to do things "for the good of the many," I knew that the giant mass grave I chose to dig would mean I'd get some favors down the line.

Hopefully.

..................

In the end of this story, most of the galaxy was still in one piece, my crew got a couple of medals that meant fuck all and anyone that wasn't dead yet lived happily ever after.

For now.

 

[Maynard]

christ man. just recruited archangle - the mission was super tough for me to complete. i died like 5 times in various location. finally finished it but it took me about 2 hours of real time. fuuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

[CCBrink]

christ man. just recruited archangle - the mission was super tough for me to complete. i died like 5 times in various location. finally finished it but it took me about 2 hours of real time. fuuuuuuuuuuuuu

If you had that much trouble with that mission, just wait till the Horizon mission. Collectors gonna :kg:

 

[JayDizzle]

If you had that much trouble with that mission, just wait till the Horizon mission. Collectors gonna :kg:

When you get there Maynard, be sure you have Jack or Jacob with points in Pull from their power skill trees.

Makes it a lot easier.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

100% ME2 complete in just under 38hrs.

Went into the Omega-4 with the ship fully built and everyone but Zaeed/Samara loyal. Their missions didn't go how they wanted, too bad eat dicks you fucks.

I took too long getting their (cause I wanted to use Legion in a variety of situations), the whole crew but Chakwas died. She's pissed about it.

Mordin ate a rocket to the face. Dead.

Legion was swarmed by the seekers. Not sure why cause he's a fucking robot, but dead.

Samara died getting the Doc back to the ship. Useless bitch, just one person.


I honestly have no idea how in my first ever run through that game, not a single person died.




Kinda pumped to play ME3 since I've only beaten it once and hardly recall it. Although this run has been intense. 70 or so hours put in so far...madness. My 1-3 renegade/insanity run probably gonna be a long while in the future.

Its all about who you have doing what, and also having their loyalty missions done.

 

For example, your biotic shield has to be Samara or Jack. Both powerful biotics, doing it with someone like Miranda would be bad. When you send someone along the pipe, send someone with tech spec, I sent Tali. When you have to hold the line, pick the tough guys, and not anyone squishy. I am sure there are a couple other things I missed, as I haven't played in some time.

 

[Leftwich]

At some point i'm going to get this for PC.

 

[killgod]

20 hours deep into ME3 now. Broke the 100hr total threshold for the trilogy. Madness.

Just finished the 3rd part, chose the Geth over the Quarians. Quarians are asshole scum every time I see how they treated the Geth. No way I can ever side with them without intentionally playing a renegade role. I thought I had the right setup to get the rare option for them to co-operate so neither dies, but not this time

Off to Thessia now. Kind of looking forward to this being over so I can get on to my next gaming task...Skyrim.

 

[jms493]

impressive KG

 

[killgod]

Its all about who you have doing what, and also having their loyalty missions done.

 

For example, your biotic shield has to be Samara or Jack. Both powerful biotics, doing it with someone like Miranda would be bad. When you send someone along the pipe, send someone with tech spec, I sent Tali. When you have to hold the line, pick the tough guys, and not anyone squishy. I am sure there are a couple other things I missed, as I haven't played in some time.

Yeah I never read wiki's, or try not to, to spoil things on me. Not sure why people do, I love exploring a game's every nook and cranny myself. I thought Mordin would be a legit choice for that task, but in the end it was cool to experience Wicks playing his role in ME3. And again with Legion, I figured Miranda woulda been okay since she kept bugging me to go, having the "new legion" in ME3 brought up some new dialogue as well.

Definitely think fun is taken from this game if you know what to pick, I just go with my gut and see what happens.

impressive KG

6 weeks is pretty crazy for this task. Writing entries on the stuff was helpful to push along, once I got into the "more fun" components to play it wasn't really required, and ME3 is still fresh to me. Will do that with other titles to help move me along, I'll definitely need it for Skyrim. Couldn't get past 50 hours in either of my two plays in that.


I can recall doing additional ME2 playthoughs after it came out and pausing at spots, thinking "shouldn't there be an NPC to talk to here?" multiple times. Crazy how many people carry over from ME1 to 2 and 3. Probably 30+ people you can interact with, most just minimal conversation, some lead to very short side missions with XP/Credits/Mods, but still add a great deal to the overall story. If you played the games on their release dates, you really don't get the same connection when you do run into those NPC's cause you don't really remember the emotion of the previous mission they are attached to.


Really hope the movie pans out well. Actually hope it's a trilogy, not sure how you stay true to the story in one movie here. Too much story to tell.

 

[jms493]

Yeah I never read wiki's, or try not to, to spoil things on me. Not sure why people do, I love exploring a game's every nook and cranny myself.

Some peeps dont have time to explore every nook and cranny. Sometimes in the essence of time I need to push things along by looking something up. Mass Effect 1 and 2 though...didn't need a guide or a wiki. Skyrim on the other hand...I had to look some stuff up.

 

[killgod]

I guess if you have to rush, you have to rush. Not sure why you need to rush a game though?