Mass Effect Megathread: DING DONG BANNU edition - Games

ME3 (excluding the end) > ME2 > ME And this is from someone who played the original Mass Effect two months after it was released for PC.

I think ME2 is the best. ME1 is a good (but kind of sloppy) RPG with okay action, ME3 is mostly about action with considerably less RPG, and ME2 feels like a good balance. To me, the problem with ME3 (besides the ending, obviously) was the severe lack of side missions and dialogue options. That really cut down the experience for me.

what really boils my blood is people deciding a level < 16 is okay to play on Silver. God damn.

I prefer ME1 mainly because the story was just so damn awesome, ME2 is good as well even though some of the RPG shit was taken out, and ME3 was up there with ME1 [sp]until the ending happened[/sp].

[QUOTE=Saza;35169282]what really boils my blood is people deciding a level < 16 is okay to play on Silver. God damn.[/QUOTE] Uh... yeah! What a bunch of morons! ...Yeah...

I like how in ME, if you do the mission to rescue Liara last, she's been there so long that she thinks Shepard is a hallucination.

[QUOTE=Whatsinaname;35169308]Uh... yeah! What a bunch of morons! ...Yeah...[/QUOTE] I've been playing since Early Demo Access and never ONCE has having a silver game with anyone under level 16 has worked. I've seen level 10s go even with really good weapons and it just doesn't work dammit

[QUOTE=Saza;35169333]I've been playing since Early Demo Access and never ONCE has having a silver game with anyone under level 16 has worked. I've seen level 10s go even with really good weapons and it just doesn't work dammit[/QUOTE] I had plenty of games in the beta with people barely above level 10 in silver and it worked fine.

[QUOTE=JesterUK;35169320]I like how in ME, if you do the mission to rescue Liara last, she's been there so long that she thinks Shepard is a hallucination.[/QUOTE] Funny, I did her mission last so I assumed it was always like that.

[QUOTE=JesterUK;35169320]I like how in ME, if you do the mission to rescue Liara last, she's been there so long that she thinks Shepard is a hallucination.[/QUOTE] That is what I liked about her. She was quirky. Then I romanced her. Then I romanced her again in ME2 that one time. Then I did it again in ME3. Then Joker romanced her.

[QUOTE=JesterUK;35169320]I like how in ME, if you do the mission to rescue Liara last, she's been there so long that she thinks Shepard is a hallucination.[/QUOTE] Yeah. And then you compare that to her first appearance in ME3, in which she mercilessly guns down two Cerberus troops who were pursuing her.

[QUOTE=Ridge;35169205] ME2 is a good, maybe even great game, but really benefits from playing ME1 first [/QUOTE] Umm, duh? You really benefit from playing any the previous title of any game.

[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35169360]Funny, I did her mission last so I assumed it was always like that.[/QUOTE] Up until that playthrough I'd always done that mission first. I was really confused at first :v:

Nearly shat a brick when I didn't get my Commendation crate for beating Reapers on silver. Then I read the article again and saw the they don't unlock till the 20th. I almost flipped a table. It was funny because in the last couple waves, a vanguard on our team got glitched and was floating over some inaccessible area between to routes. So there was two brutes just staring at him when we were waiting for the shuttle. They did not even give a shit that we were unloading every bullet into their ass. Brutes must worship floating vanguards.

[QUOTE=Whatsinaname;35169374]Yeah. And then you compare that to her first appearance in ME3, in which she mercilessly guns down two Cerberus troops who were pursuing her.[/QUOTE] Well she did become the Shadow Broker. And she does it without your help if you didn't have LotSB.

[QUOTE=GetBent;35169396]Well she did become the Shadow Broker. And she does it without your help if you didn't have LotSB.[/QUOTE] Yeah. I love playing ME1 again and seeing how everyone was before ME3. It really shows how they've developed over the course of the series.

I have never died this many times in a row on any game before. The third station of the rouge ai moon base on mass effect 1. So many rocket drones that instantly kill us all. Auugghhh.

[QUOTE=jackattack;35169460]I have never died this many times in a row on any game before. The third station of the rouge ai moon base on mass effect 1. So many rocket drones that instantly kill us all. Auugghhh.[/QUOTE] And to think that AI saves your life many times in the future.

[QUOTE=GetBent;35169480]And to think that AI saves your life many times in the future.[/QUOTE] It took me bloody ages before the coin dropped and I realised [sp]EDI[/sp] was that AI.

I don't wanna play ME3 anymore. I read about all of the endings and now I don't want to get to that point. It seems like a real downer.

Mass Effect 3 finally completed. It's true that the 10 last minutes were absolutely horrible. What were they thinking? Also needing to play multiplayer to get Combat-points for the best ending, is just ridiculous.

[QUOTE=jackattack;35169460]I have never died this many times in a row on any game before. The third station of the [B]rouge[/B] ai moon base on mass effect 1. So many rocket drones that instantly kill us all. Auugghhh.[/QUOTE] Rogue. Sorry, I just hate seeing rouge all over the place. I wonder if you get the video in Mass Effect 3 if you did'nt do the Luna Mission.

[QUOTE=Sickle;35169511]I don't wanna play ME3 anymore. I read about all of the endings and now I don't want to get to that point. It seems like a real downer.[/QUOTE] You should play it, the game itself exluding the ending is really good.

[QUOTE=Sickle;35169511]I don't wanna play ME3 anymore. I read about all of the endings and now I don't want to get to that point. It seems like a real downer.[/QUOTE] Friend of mine has the same problem. And to be fair, I cannot blame you both. I was honestly pretty down (relatively) for a week. ~900 hours of playing the trilogy gone to waste in 10 minutes.

[QUOTE=Sickle;35169511]I don't wanna play ME3 anymore. I read about all of the endings and now I don't want to get to that point. It seems like a real downer.[/QUOTE] I just beat it two hours ago. I've sunken into a momentary depression.

[QUOTE=Saza;35169333]I've been playing since Early Demo Access and never ONCE has having a silver game with anyone under level 16 has worked. I've seen level 10s go even with really good weapons and it just doesn't work dammit[/QUOTE] as long as you know what you're doing you can start silver games at level 10ish

[QUOTE=jackattack;35169460]I have never died this many times in a row on any game before. The third station of the rouge ai moon base on mass effect 1. So many rocket drones that instantly kill us all. Auugghhh.[/QUOTE] Walk into the main room, then back out. They'll all stop in the hallway and you can pick them off one at a time. [editline]16th March 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35169601]I just beat it two hours ago. I've sunken into a momentary depression.[/QUOTE] I thought so at first. But I'm not angry, or depressed. I'm just disappointed.

[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;35169601]I just beat it two hours ago. I've sunken into a momentary depression.[/QUOTE] :( I felt terrible when I finished it, I probably would have lost some sleep over it if I hadn't stayed up till 6 AM playing. [editline]17th March 2012[/editline] [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzYLTbQQEZQ]This video[/url] cheered me up a lot though.

[QUOTE=Whatsinaname;35165275][sp]Doesn't really explain the sheer stupidity of the whole Catalyst thing. Why is the Catalyst in the form of the child Shepard can't stop thinking about somehow? And his reason for the reapers is incredibly self righteous and dumb. "Organics will always go to war with synthetics, so I made synthetics to kill organics so they can't make synthetics that will go to war with them". What in the fuck is that? That is no justification for repeated galactic genocide. And what's more, I made peace between the Quarians and the Geth, ultimately proving him wrong anyway. And my Shepard didn't think to bring this up? Nope, he just went along with his bullshit plan to end the cycle.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]The catalyst created the reapers to create controlled genocide. He was protecting organics from themselves, because the Reapers stop them from complete self annihilation. That's what the point of it was. You're not seeing far enough into it. I understand it's still kind of an oddly simple reason for it, but it is "for the greater good" sort of thing. Saying that "so you use machines to kill people so machines don't kill people" is your defense against the Catalyst's reasoning is a bit short sighted.[/sp]

[QUOTE=revan740;35169759][sp]The catalyst created the reapers to create controlled genocide. He was protecting organics from themselves, because the Reapers stop them from complete self annihilation. That's what the point of it was. You're not seeing far enough into it. I understand it's still kind of an oddly simple reason for it, but it is "for the greater good" sort of thing. Saying that "so you use machines to kill people so machines don't kill people" is your defense against the Catalyst's reasoning is a bit short sighted.[/sp][/QUOTE] [sp]It just seemed really odd that Shepard would just "accept" this and just go along with the choices given when s/he never just accepts anything.[/sp]