Mass Effect Megathread: Electronic Skills Still Too Low - Games

[QUOTE=Estolle93;39946616]Oh my god, I forgot how buggy the fight with Matriarch Benezia is. First time through, I got thrown into a corner and was just stuck there until I spontaneously died. Then, every time I crouched, Shepard would fly up like 5 feet in the air and be unable to move, eventually causing me to get stuck in the ceiling.[/QUOTE] My first fight with Benezia went something like that. I charged at an Asari, got stuck on a weird angle half-clipped inside of Garrus and Wrex whow ere in a weird grouping besides some crates, got hit with some blue stuff and fell through the floor with Garrus in tow. I was just frozen there with him, until after 5 minutes of trying to charge through the floor at people I couldn't target, I reloaded my save. Every time you charged in ME1, it was like rolling a dice. Quite often the DM would smile upon your misfortune and have you get stuck somewhere, or fall behind a railing, or miss a scripted trigger thing that fucked everything up. I wouldn't trade those experiences for the world.

[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;39946387]Was doing Thane's loyalty mission... after you run into the guy in the stock room, the game just stopped with the camera looking at the door, and a constant loop of Thane telling me to keep up with the turian. I'M TRYING THANE SHUT UP[/QUOTE] Happened to me once too. Restart the mission and try again.

They should allow you to save before making your choice at the end of ME3. if you want to see all three with your file you need to restart the mission, walk really slowly to Anderson and sit through 5 minutes of skippable dialogue, then another 5 minutes with the star child

[QUOTE=Tuskin;39947653]They should allow you to save before making your choice at the end of ME3. if you want to see all three with your file you need to restart the mission, walk really slowly to Anderson and sit through 5 minutes of skippable dialogue, then another 5 minutes with the star child[/QUOTE] Don't think that's needed, you're suppose to make a choice and stick with it and not go back and try each one to find the one you like.

Recently started playing the first one. About five-ish hours in. Any estimation on how long it'll take? (All three games)

Well Before the extended cut was out, there was no need as they were all the same basically...

[QUOTE=BloodFox1222;39947662]Don't think that's needed, you're suppose to make a choice and stick with it and not go back and try each one to find the one you like.[/QUOTE] Makes it harder to notice the limited palette of colours!

[QUOTE=Sjokoladeplate;39947755]Recently started playing the first one. About five-ish hours in. Any estimation on how long it'll take? (All three games)[/QUOTE] if you dont skip through dialogue and do everything plus all dlc it basically took me about 45 hours, 35 hours, and 35 hours respectively.

[QUOTE=Sjokoladeplate;39947755]Recently started playing the first one. About five-ish hours in. Any estimation on how long it'll take? (All three games)[/QUOTE] If you're doing every side mission and DLC then you'll be looking 30-35 hours in ME1, 40-45 hours in ME2, and 40-45 hours in ME3.

I finished my 1-3 playthrough. Chose green, I didn't wanna be a douche and kill off EDI after I fostered their relationship. Loved Liara4eva, Kaiden was a lot more tolerable than Ash, but I want to say is because he's more of a man and nominally more intelligent than Ash. Left Tali for Garrus since it's only fair, felt bad that there was no chemistry between Jacob and Kasumi. It's still weird though for the final battle how the Reapers could be hit head on with a combined force of all the species' ships.

[QUOTE=Tuskin;39946051]One thing I don't like about ME series, is since you can choose the first name, no-one can use it. So you're closest friends and LIs just refer to you as Commander or Shepard. Its weird.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Zezibesh;39874489]I just name my Shepard as Commander Everything thinks they're calling her by her rank and she thinks they're calling her by her first name, it makes perfect sense[/QUOTE]

Started to read some articles from Google's result of 'Why the ME3 ending was bad.' Now that I know, I wish I didn't have to.

I want to play through the trilogy again, even though it takes a lot of time. It just bothers me knowing what the ending is. Oh and Meer was better at least in the very end of the Citadel DLC. When he delivers [sp] "The best" line after his romantic interest comments on the best ride ever.[/sp] Way better than Hale's rather bored delivery.

I don't want to start ending argument controversy shit, bit I saw this and I felt better knoiwng that my feelings have been put in to much better words. Below this line is heaving Synthesis bashing. I picked Destroy and have stuck with it forever etc etc etc. [quote]Everyone always talks about how Synthesis is an ethical and moral nightmare, which is fair and valid and true and all, and also how it’s goofy and doesn’t even bother waving at any of the established rules of the universe, which is also true. But. Did anyone else think that using a machine built by people who had no idea what it was supposed to do to change the nature of all life in the galaxy at a cellular level was just extremely inadvisable from a practical perspective? I mean if one engineer screwed up one tiny piece of data, you could be permanently damaging literally every living being beyond repair. Because how is anyone going to repair the damage done by a piece of technology that’s so far beyond their level of understanding, even the Reapers couldn’t do what it did? Not to mention the fact that medicine, agriculture, and mechanics (at the least) have just been set back enormously because now all of the rules have changed. The first major illness to hit the galactic stage could very well be able to affect everything, from plants to people to vending machines, while doctors scramble to figure out how they’re supposed to treat patients who are made out of some synthorganic material that they’ve never seen before. And that’s while everyone’s still scrambling to recover from the massive expenditure of resources, the deaths, and the trauma from the war. I mean personally I think I would rather try and figure out a way to repair EDI and the geth - who were at least built with technology that galactic civilization can comprehend - than suddenly and irrevocably thrust a new definition of life onto the entire galaxy. Consider the civilizations out there who weren’t advanced enough to discover space flight yet. Imagine waking up one morning and suddenly your flesh is glowing, your plants are glowing, your car and your pets and your family are glowing, and none of your best and brightest minds have any hope of figuring it out any time soon. Every doctor has to relearn how to treat their patients, people’s senses have changed over night, all of your food has a glossy synthetic sheen on it - and that’s assuming that people don’t need to find alternate sources of energy, in which case, any civilization that hasn’t at least harnessed electricity yet is probably going to ‘starve’ to death. People would go insane. There would be mass hysteria, panic, religious crisis, the scientific communities would be freaking out, people would be pointing fingers trying to figure out what had caused it, who to blame… Man, it really is true. The more you think about Synthesis, the worse it gets.[/quote] Synthesis really does make me want to pull a knife on myself.

Synthesis was never even an option for me, I didn't consider it for a moment. Just sounds stupid as all hell. The reapers were taking organic material and turning it into these psuedo-synthetic constructs, how is synthesis any different? To me it just sounds like finishing the job for the reapers. I mean, the entire point behind resisting the reapers is refusing to let something else choose your fate for you. Organic life wants to choose what happens to it, not have some synthetic beings dictate its fate. Synthesis does exactly what Shepard has been fighting against from the start, it removes people's ability to choose their own fate with nothing but, "Fuck you, this is what is best for you," as an explanation. Hell, I consider control a more viable solution than synthesis. But I'll always pick destroy because the star child could easily be deceiving you, like a genie giving you wishes but turned them around so they suck balls. Destroy is the only option the star child is actively against, which to me says it's the right thing to do. It's the damn thing controlling the reapers and you're going to trust it? Just screams stupidity to me.

Or you could accept (spoilers)[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohMoPNZxmus"]this[/URL] as the one true ending. EDIT: After watching this I realized how awesome the Mass Effect series would've been with HL2-quality facial animation.

[QUOTE=IrishBandit;39948721]Or you could accept (spoilers)[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohMoPNZxmus"]this[/URL] as the one true ending. EDIT: After watching this I realized how awesome the Mass Effect series would've been with HL2-quality facial animation.[/QUOTE] Hell no! I could never [sp]romance Tali.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Marden;39948812]Hell no! I could never [sp]romance Tali.[/sp][/QUOTE] I couldn't find any other good videos of that scene.

[QUOTE=IrishBandit;39948847]I couldn't find any other good videos of that scene.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;37v9Ulf7qP4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37v9Ulf7qP4[/video] Ignoring the non ME1/2 default femshep and scars. "Best times of my life were spent on that ship." Dammit, Garrus. Really made me a little sad at how everything had ended with that final scene.

[QUOTE=CorporalRoss;39947786]if you dont skip through dialogue and do everything plus all dlc it basically took me about 45 hours, 35 hours, and 35 hours respectively.[/QUOTE] How could it possibly take you 45 hours to beat ME1?

[QUOTE=Whatsinaname;39949132]How could it possibly take you 45 hours to beat ME1?[/QUOTE] My main character ended up having a total of over a hundred hours played on him, because I was a completionist and it took forever to reach level 60.

[QUOTE=Whatsinaname;39949132]How could it possibly take you 45 hours to beat ME1?[/QUOTE] To be fair, I remember my first playthrough of ME1 taking around 55. Then, prior to the release of ME3, replaying the series again, ME1 took around 40 and ME2 around 25.

[QUOTE=BloodFox1222;39947662]Don't think that's needed, you're suppose to make a choice and stick with it and not go back and try each one to find the one you like.[/QUOTE] That's exactly what I did...

[QUOTE=DeeCeeTeeBee;39949161]To be fair, I remember my first playthrough of ME1 taking around 55. Then, prior to the release of ME3, replaying the series again, ME1 took around 40 and ME2 around 25.[/QUOTE] But how? ME2 has always taken me much longer than ME1, and I don't rush either of them.

[QUOTE=IrishBandit;39948847]I couldn't find any other good videos of that scene.[/QUOTE] The one with [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxzKKFejGL4"]Thane[/URL] is the best in my opinion, and note I've never romanced him but I still think it's the best of them all.

[QUOTE=Wiggles;39949198]But how? ME2 has always taken me much longer than ME1, and I don't rush either of them.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/sKoHUCS.png[/img] :v: [editline]17th March 2013[/editline] That's I think three playthroughs of ME1 and two of ME2.

Well, haven't played for a while. Time to go see my Gypsy Waifu. How much left of the game roughly if i'm going to see the quarians? No dlc.

[QUOTE=jackattack;39949312]Well, haven't played for a while. Time to go see my Gypsy Waifu. How much left of the game roughly if i'm going to see the quarians? No dlc.[/QUOTE] Which game..

[QUOTE=Wiggles;39949198]But how? ME2 has always taken me much longer than ME1, and I don't rush either of them.[/QUOTE] ME1 still stuck to the Bioware rpg formula. Intro mission, 4 main missions, a call for help and one big finale. Shorter than ME2's format. [editline]17th March 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=mobrockers2;39949330]Which game..[/QUOTE] 3

Well you have to get past Tuchanka, then the Citadel, then finally you get to Tali. She gets left out of 2/3's of the game.