"Drift, just under 1500k" Apparently that's a good thing. Why? Stop asking questions and go zip up your jumpsuit.
In terms of Jacob, this is a relatively common take. He was a chill guy in ME2 and in my opinion has the most interesting loyalty mission. But at the end of the day he’s just a normal guy. Which is fine, because they Kaiden and by extension Ashley cool characters. But it feels like from the start they were kinda shafting him. He doesn’t really do anything interesting in either game. He has 0 defining character moments. In ME3 it’s not much better, he becomes a leader and has a kid. Which on paper sounds cool. But he’s the only character (aside from technically Kelly I guess) whose romance cannot be continued. I like to think it was time constraints but the truth just seems to be the devs didn’t really care about him. If you unironically romanced him I can definitely see why you would dislike his character though, Devs could’ve just made it so he only has a child if you didn’t romance him. Overall he really just needed more dialogue. Im sure if you dig you can learn some stuff but he’s literally just a guy with a terrible father. That’s it. You can’t even really have a conversation about what happened to his dad after meeting him in ME3. I just feel like they couldn’t pick one path for him and properly flesh him out. And sure, every mass effect game has its own set of problems. But Jacob was probably the squad mate treated the worst.
The paragraph about Kelly will be bit shorter, but I think reducing her to sitting by crates with PTSD was a bad route to go. Her being scared by the events of ME2 makes sense. But from what I understand you can’t even see her if you didn’t have dinner with her. At that point I don’t see much a reason why she shouldn’t be pursuable. Especially considering Femshep can romance Traynor. But I think her main problem was that we mainly learn what Kelly thinks of other people. Not what she thinks herself. She definitely deserved a side mission similar to the Squadmate’s loyalty missions so that we could actually learn more about her. But overall I think she was done marginally less dirty than Jacob-at least most people think positively about her.
IMO 600+ year time jump is a bad idea. A big part of what makes ME universe so appealing to me is that it’s only like 100-150 years from our time and that is also what makes it stand out amongst other sci-fi franchises. I want to see a direct aftermath of the reaper war be it as Shepard or a new MC(although I’d prefer Shepard). I think it’s very easy to bring Shepard back even with a time jump because of the Lazarus project he is not a normal human and his longer life span can easily be explained using it. Having Andromeda being set in a completely different galaxy with new character was fine for me. I liked the game. But for Milky Way I want to see an aftermath.
I remember when they talked about ME3 in the radio, how the endings were controversial and caused outcry among the fans.
I was somewhat miffed, but never was I truly upset about the endings.
The older I get, the less I dislike them actually.
So, to those who are still angry about the endings of ME3; What would you have wished for?
Please try to be somewhat specific. Wishing that "your choices mattered more", or "the endings should have differed more" is vague as hell.
I love these games. For a long time I used to do an annual replay of all 3. Its been a while since I have, and it's been a... rough month or two, I thought playing through some comfort games might be good for me. Plus, I never got around to playing all 3 on insanity.
I'm right at the end of 1, and it just never hit me before that Saren is basically just foreshadowing the Green ending!
Like the title says I'm sure to a lot/most of you that's not new information. I noticed just as it was being said, and thought it was fun and wanted to share it with someone 😅
Damn. I'm kind of happy I stopped playing them on a semi regular basis. Replaying this time brought a lot of the magic back to it.
>!By focus I mean, who should I keep!< (Why isn't spoilers working?)
Either way, Ashley is gonna end up with one and Kaidan with the other. This isn't for romance reason, this is more for "who has better chemistry with the other" kinda thing?
The MaleShep I'm doing was an unfinished playthrough before I started again, I'm finally getting back to it. The FemShep, I wanna see what she's like in comparison. Hence why I'm doing both. They're both gonna be Pagon - I have no interest in full renegade.
So yeah, Ashley and Kaidan - who should be assigned to which Shep in my playthroughs?
The dynamic between them is so good, Wrex the brute and Garrus the goody two shoes, plus you'd expect Wrex to be super aggressive in nature but seems pretty chill in fact. I'd expect the conversation to continue like his:
Wrex: "For real though, killing them is so much easier."
Garrus: "Putting violence first doen't make us any better."
Wrex: "Well it got me this far."
Garrus: "That could have been us."
Wrex: "Gotta have some thrill in life mate."
Garrus: "I'll pretend I didn't hear that."
P.S. No spoilers please, lol.
The Reapers are a flawed creation that cannot exist without organics yet present themselves as superior. They're trapped in an endless feedback loop where they scrounge up new data into a vast, limitless aggregate, but are unable to solve the problem they were tasked with solving because they've gorged themselves so much that the knowledge is too vast to comprehend. They have no ability to self-reflect or change, and are doomed to repeat the same pattern without understanding the inherent fallacy in their thinking. This loop is only broken thanks to the determination and vision of a single individual learning to share their experiences and draw out the best in others instead of stay within the status quo.
This is all oddly prophetic, as it echoes data scraping and how desperately big companies and AI supporters prop it up as a miracle and not an inconsistent and unnecessarily costly technology. And how it encourages a mindless mediocrity in how people act and speak as data is made into a dull aggregate sum. Casey Hudson was forward thinking about this element, execution aside. The new game has a good opportunity to better explore what the endings presented to us, because with the geth likely playing a big part, we're probably going to see them building their future as Legion talked about instead of taking it from organics like the Reapers did. It can make something that was handled poorly and revamp it into something that feels consistent instead of out of place.
I basically asked what I needed in the title to get some traction and get some tips from more experienced people than my newbie a$$
Who should I romance in my playthrough as a male Shep in ME2? I usually romance Jack but I want to switch it up. Otherwise, I'm gonna be a creature of habit and go with her
We begin the long-awaited second round of the weapons tournament! We've got two fan favorites going head-to-head right off the bat. Which is your preferred pick? Comment below!
Looking for feedback from those who have tread this path.
This might be a disaster, but I have been running table top RPGs like D&D, Call of Cthulhu, and Shadow Dark for more than a decade with often (or at least sometimes) great results.
My players are, as far as I know, completely unexposed to the Mass Effect universe so I can steal plot points whole sale.
My plan
1 steal as much of ME1 plot as I can
2 the players would be a team I am tentatively calling Project Shepard. I have not decided if I will have Commander Shepard take on a role like Anderson or just keep Anderson.
3 use Call of Cthulhu 7ed as the basis since my players are familiar with that. Shields and implants gives a good rationale to make the game far less deadly.
4 I am undecided if I should open up other species to the players.
5 find a spoiler free wiki, or cut and paste from the wiki
Is it a good thing if i go to the final mission with 4434 war asset or i need more war asset ?
I’ve been trying to mod Mass effect on my steam deck for 15+ hours over the last 4 days and I just want to know if anyone has actually successfully done it just on the SD bc I need some positive news if I’m gonna keep going
So this is my first playthrough and my dumbass thought the asteroid x57 text on the system didn't mean anything and because it doesn't show the DLC mission on my journal i thought that the DLC would be outside the main game and today i finished the game only to realise that the DLC was in the damn game also i locked my self out of a couple of missions because i didn't know you get locked out of Citadel after Virmire so what should i do, should i start an earlier save and play the DLC and do the missions properly? Also i couldn't do Garrus and Wrex's side missions because i guess i didn't talk to them enough.
Man I wonder what the shape of the council room reminds me off
First time going through outer worlds (which already feels like Mass Effect and Fallout had a baby) and had to do a double take when I heard this npc speak. Looked it up and I was right and now I will be getting every npc to speak for…reasons…