got into a great group for the N7 challenge thingie
Woo. Time to get a good weapon for once. And I'm level 19 now.
Holy shit, I just successfully completed a bronze solo run v/s the Geth on multiplayer. I wanted to post a screenshot, but I keep ending up with a black screen. Lasted 41 minutes.
[QUOTE=Dominicus;35167467]As far as I know everyone'll lose their free will.[/QUOTE]
[sp]Look at the Geth. Looks like they have free will to me.[/sp]
You know what? I'm all for despising the ending, but for the moment, I feel like thinking positively. So I'm going to list the things that I liked about ME3. Do not read if you do not like spoilers, obviously.
[sp]-It was really nice seeing all of my squadmates again, and seeing what they're up to. And I'm really glad that, despite the change in writing staff, they are still as we remember them, though some of them developed a bit, like Jack.
-Combat is the most fun it has ever been in the series. It feels a lot more involving and challenging, and the enemies always feel like genuine threats. And the weapon weight system is a really nice touch, because it allows more flexibility with each class. Also, there are WAAAAY more weapons here than in ME2, which is quite nice.
-That part where Grunt fights all of those rachni was fucking awesomely well done. Seriously, I got chills.
-Giant thresher maw vs. reaper. Holy fucking shit that was badass. And seeing Mordin die afterwards made the whole sequence really powerful. It was sad, but the way Mordin died was absolutely perfect.
-Good to see Wrex finally have more of a role in the ME universe. All he did was sit around in ME2. Though he does seem just a bit more aggressive than usual. Probably due to the stress of a reaper invasion.
-Another awesome fight was Thane vs. Kai Leng. I love how Thane manages to hold his own against Cerberus' best assassin, despite the fact that he should have been dead months ago. Leng would have been fucked if Thane were in peak condition. And Thane's death was EXACTLY how I pictured it. Very well done.
-Oh my god. The Asari councilor said "We've mistrusted Shepard before, and it did not help us". I think this calls for some kind of celebration. It's about damn time they started listening. Udina can rot.
-Making peace between the Quarians and the Geth felt amazingly cool. Sure, it resulted in yet another sad character death (rest in peace Legion), but it really gave you the idea that you just made galactic history. I'm sure this, along with curing the genophage, were moments we've been waiting for since we learned of these conflicts.
-Come to think of it, the character deaths I mentioned were all really touching, because they all died FOR something. Mordin gave the Krogan a future, Legion gave the Geth intelligence, and Thane... um... saved the Salarian councilor. Yeah.
-Fighting the reaper on Rannoch felt pretty damn sweet.
-At last, we can mix paragon and renegade without being punished for it. About damn time.
-The soundtrack is amazing.[/sp]
Those are all of the things I can think of right now.
[QUOTE=G71tc4;35167552][sp]Look at the Geth. Looks like they have free will to me.[/sp][/QUOTE]
Geth don't have individual free will [sp]until you upload the reaper code[/sp].
[QUOTE=Jackald;35167463][sp]The entire moral dilemma at the end of Mass Effect 2 reduced to 10 war asset points. See? This is the fucking shit i'm talking about with "your choices don't matter." We spent weeks arguing about which was the better choice, and it all boiled down to ten fucking war asset points. The biggest decision in Mass Effect 2 made the best ending 0.2% easier to get in Mass Effect 3.[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp] I think a better way to deal with the ME2 choice was that if you turned the Collector base over to Cerberus, most of the Cerberus enemies in SP would have better armor and weaponry, more health and could deal much more damage, but at the cost of having bad combat tactics as a result of indoctrination from exposure to Reaper tech. If you destroy the base, Cerberus enemies would have normal armor, weapons, damage and health, but their AI would be much more improved and as a result, their now-potentially deadly competence makes up for their typical stats. Other changes could be the number of Cerberus foes you fight, whether or not you're able to save Kelly, time limits on Cerberus-related priority missions like Grissom Academy, if the other SR2 crew members from ME2 would make an appearance as either fugitives on the run from Cerberus assassins or indoctrinated goons etc.[/sp]
Come to think of it, the whole war assets thing is kind of half-hearted, seeing as as a result of it, everything you do just leads to numbers gained, and the fact you have to play MP to get full assets, meaning if you just play MP you could easily ignore all the sidemissions in SP that give assets, kind of eliminating the point of them in the first place.
oh you've got to be fucking me
special starts in 1.5 hours
GOD DAMNIT I JUST DID A SILVER MISSION AND WE ALMOST DIDN'T MAKE IT
[QUOTE=Saza;35167485]got into a great group for the N7 challenge thingie
Woo. Time to get a good weapon for once. And I'm level 19 now.[/QUOTE]
Just watch. You're going to end up with the Crusader shotgun.
[QUOTE=Zezibesh;35167677]Geth don't have individual free will [sp]until you upload the reaper code[/sp].[/QUOTE]
[sp]And synthesis merges synthetics with organics, merging reapers with everybody else. I mean look at Joker and EDI's end scene.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Jackald;35167672]Very well.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7cq43qUxow[/media][/QUOTE]
The endings of Mass Effect, applied to Star Wars:
[sp]Luke is at the final battle on the 2nd Death Star. His dying father, Vader, tells him he can;
A. Take control of the Death Star, die, and save everyone, but all faster than light travel is destroyed and everyone is stranded on Endor except the Millenium Falcon which miraculously managed to pick up Han and Leia and crash lands on an unknown planet.
B. Destroy the Death Star, die (or maybe live), but all Wookies and droids die and faster than light travel is destroyed and everyone is stranded on Endor except the Millenium Falcon which miraculously managed to pick up Han and Leia and crash lands on an unknown planet. .
C. Merge the light side and dark side of the force into a super force, die, and faster than light travel is destroyed and everyone is stranded on Endor except the Millenium Falcon which miraculously managed to pick up Han and Leia and crash lands on an unknown planet.[/sp]
[video=youtube;owNtAkE0WWw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owNtAkE0WWw[/video]
Best combat song of the entire game. Hands down.
[QUOTE=ParoshWasHere;35168008][video=youtube;owNtAkE0WWw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owNtAkE0WWw[/video]
Best combat song of the entire game. Hands down.[/QUOTE]
I still like the part in "Mars" at 2:50-3:18 the best from the OST.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6UeKVJTvuo&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLCC3B3D17A3E9CA89[/media]
[QUOTE=G71tc4;35167793][sp]And synthesis merges synthetics with organics, merging reapers with everybody else. I mean look at Joker and EDI's end scene.[/sp][/QUOTE]
In fact, you have to be careful with the synthesis ending. [sp]Since there is no epilogue, there is no description on the extent of biology modification to the organism. Maybe Joker or Edi aren't even the same character at the end, since they all have a part of shepard in them. You can't take anything at face value since there's no epilogue. You don't put Reaper code into every being unless Shepard has Reaper code in himself, and no that's false. You don't merge the Reapers with everything else, You merge Shepard with everything else. Every species in the galaxy are forced to take this change of person. They won't be the same again - as a Paragon, you just stole the free will of everyone. Maybe one of those poor Children didn't want to be a perfect composite of machine/organic.
The Synthesis ending looks good on paper, but it's horribly intrusive to every being in the universe, since now everybody is 'connected'. Of course Joker and Edi would hug each other, this ending is granting them their dream (Even if they shouldn't know it.)
Anyway, I find it to be the most ridiculous ending. A wave of energy that changes the DNA of every organic so they are partly synthetic? A wave of energy that changes every synthetics to become partly organic? Isn't there like risk coming with mixing DNA where you shouldn't? Plus, you are making the Reapers win, congratulations.
The destroy ending is the best one - for the Reapers at least doesn't fucking win. Those bastards kills like thousands of billions of lives, caused massive genocide every 50 000 years, and you're going to let them win? Seem like a bad idea. [/sp]
Playing through ME3 again, just got past [sp]the fall of Thessia, I totally forgot how sad that mission is. Towards the end with the Asari squads being killed on radio by the Reapers, it hit me hard.[/sp]
[QUOTE=EXoDUSFLT;35168128]Playing through ME3 again, just got past [sp]the fall of Thessia, I totally forgot how sad that mission is. Towards the end with the Asari squads being killed on radio by the Reapers, it hit me hard.[/sp][/QUOTE]
The first scream over the radio made me laugh I have to say. It seemed like such a cheesy "death scream".
[QUOTE=Feuver;35168090]In fact, you have to be careful with the synthesis ending. [sp]Since there is no epilogue, there is no description on the extent of biology modification to the organism. Maybe Joker or Edi aren't even the same character at the end, since they all have a part of shepard in them. You can't take anything at face value since there's no epilogue. You don't put Reaper code into every being unless Shepard has Reaper code in himself, and no that's false. You don't merge the Reapers with everything else, You merge Shepard with everything else. Every species in the galaxy are forced to take this change of person. They won't be the same again - as a Paragon, you just stole the free will of everyone. Maybe one of those poor Children didn't want to be a perfect composite of machine/organic.
The Synthesis ending looks good on paper, but it's horribly intrusive to every being in the universe, since now everybody is 'connected'. Of course Joker and Edi would hug each other, this ending is granting them their dream (Even if they shouldn't know it.)
Anyway, I find it to be the most ridiculous ending. A wave of energy that changes the DNA of every organic so they are partly synthetic? A wave of energy that changes every synthetics to become partly organic? Isn't there like risk coming with mixing DNA where you shouldn't? Plus, you are making the Reapers win, congratulations.
The destroy ending is the best one - for the Reapers at least doesn't fucking win. Those bastards kills like thousands of billions of lives, caused massive genocide every 50 000 years, and you're going to let them win? Seem like a bad idea. [/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]My point exactly, these bastards antagonized everyone for billions of years, massacred numerous worlds, killed Shep's allies, done horrible thing to civilized beings and during whole game the point was to kill reapers, so to spite that creepy little kid/ghost, I would say it's totally worth it. [/sp]
Something interesting I just noticed on my steam profile:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Interesting1.png[/img]
These are my completion times of Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 in the last week or so.
Mass Effect 1 only took me about 20 minutes longer to beat than Mass Effect 2.
[QUOTE=Mericet;35167761]Just watch. You're going to end up with the Crusader shotgun.[/QUOTE]
They don't give THOSE N7 weapons
These are the MP N7 rank weapons - the really good ones like the Javelin, Black Widow, Paladin, Sabre, etc.
[QUOTE=Mashak;35168149][sp]My point exactly, these bastards antagonized everyone for billions of years, massacred numerous worlds, killed Shep's allies, done horrible thing to civilized beings and during whole game the point was to kill reapers, so to spite that creepy little kid/ghost, I would say it's totally worth it. [/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]But Shepard! If you do this, you expose yourself to
-Death of the Reapers
-Death of the Geth (Innocent bros, now they have souls)
-Death of EDI (Yep, seems like a low blow to Joker. Plus, she was human by the end of the game. Seems unfair.
-And your own Death, because you are partly synthetic.
Yeah, why don't you do that kind of "You shouldn't do this speeches" to any other choice you little hypocrite fuck? Mind telling me that the control ending might get me controlled by the Reapers? No? Might want to tell me that the synthesis ending is going to corrupt all forms of life and probably destroy the free will of billions? neither? Welp.[/sp]
[QUOTE=EXoDUSFLT;35168194]Something interesting I just noticed on my steam profile:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Interesting1.png[/img]
These are my completion times of Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 in the last week or so.
Mass Effect 1 only took me about 20 minutes longer to beat than Mass Effect 2.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but did you get to level 60 in ME1?
God I hated that. You nearly get there on your first playthrough and figure, hey I can get 60 in this second playthrough. Then you are one level from 60 and it takes the ENTIRE third playthrough to get there.
Say what you will about the ending, but that scene with [sp]the soldiers fighting, and that music playing as the Reapers encroach on them before the color explosion hits[/sp] was beautiful. We needed more of that.
[QUOTE=EXoDUSFLT;35168194]Something interesting I just noticed on my steam profile:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Interesting1.png[/img]
These are my completion times of Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 in the last week or so.
Mass Effect 1 only took me about 20 minutes longer to beat than Mass Effect 2.[/QUOTE]
You must have skipped quite some sidequests, no?
[QUOTE=Jackald;35168181]Only problem with the [sp]destroy ending is that it potentially strands everyone. With the control ending, rebuilding the relays is less problematic and with the synethesis ending... well who fucking knows, thanks to the lack of an epilogue we have no idea what the ramifications of being hybrid beings means. Do they eat? Do they sleep? Do they have the reapers' knowledge? We don't fucking know, the game reveals nothing.[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]I don't think anyone should choose the control ending. You've said yourself to the Illusive man that you can't control the Reapers, they control you. Do you really expect trying to manipulate a few millions ships that are made of billions of year of history is a good idea? Plus, the Reaper fucking lives again, and that's just horrible. Plus, in the wrong hands, this kind of power could easily be extremely dangerous. Imagine TIM controlling the Reapers? yeah.[/sp]
[QUOTE=GetBent;35168230]Yes, but did you get to level 60 in ME1?
God I hated that. You nearly get there on your first playthrough and figure, hey I can get 60 in this second playthrough. Then you are one level from 60 and it takes the ENTIRE third playthrough to get there.[/QUOTE]
Haha, fuck that.
[QUOTE=EXoDUSFLT;35168194]Something interesting I just noticed on my steam profile:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Interesting1.png[/img]
These are my completion times of Mass Effect 1 and Mass Effect 2 in the last week or so.
Mass Effect 1 only took me about 20 minutes longer to beat than Mass Effect 2.[/QUOTE]
It should not only take you that long to beat them.
It should take much longer.
[QUOTE=Dominicus;35168252]You must have skipped quite some sidequests, no?[/QUOTE]
Admittedly, yes I skipped a few of the generic annoying ones.
[QUOTE=Ridge;35167805]The endings of Mass Effect, applied to Star Wars:
[sp]Luke is at the final battle on the 2nd Death Star. His dying father, Vader, tells him he can;
A. Take control of the Death Star, die, and save everyone, but all faster than light travel is destroyed and everyone is stranded on Endor except the Millenium Falcon which miraculously managed to pick up Han and Leia and crash lands on an unknown planet.
B. Destroy the Death Star, die (or maybe live), but all Wookies and droids die and faster than light travel is destroyed and everyone is stranded on Endor except the Millenium Falcon which miraculously managed to pick up Han and Leia and crash lands on an unknown planet. .
C. Merge the light side and dark side of the force into a super force, die, and faster than light travel is destroyed and everyone is stranded on Endor except the Millenium Falcon which miraculously managed to pick up Han and Leia and crash lands on an unknown planet.[/sp][/QUOTE]
B would be the obvious choice if it weren't for [sp]the fact it kills the wookies[/sp]
[QUOTE=Dominicus;35168252]You must have skipped quite some sidequests, no?[/QUOTE]
I remember quite well my playthroughs
ME 1 : 70 hours 100% (Without DLC)
ME 2 : 50 hours 100% (Zaaed/Hammerhead)
ME 3 : 30 hours More or less 100% (Without DLC, all journal entries done.)
[editline]16th March 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Rebi;35168271]B would be the obvious choice if it weren't for [sp]the fact it kills the wookies[/sp][/QUOTE]
Well, that's the only big problem with the Destroy ending. [sp]You kill the geth for no fucking reason. And let's not forget the Mass Relays.[/sp]
[QUOTE=Jackald;35168249]Yes they are:[/QUOTE]
No Valkyrie? :(
[QUOTE=Feuver;35168273]
Well, that's the only big problem with the Destroy ending. [sp]You kill the geth for no fucking reason. And let's not forget the Mass Relays.[/sp][/QUOTE]
[sp]Well the Mass Relays are gone in every ending aren't they?
And Paragon doesn't necessarily mean not sacrificing the minority for the good of the majority.[/sp]
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