Mass Effect Megathread: He said "I should go." Do I sound like that? - Games

[QUOTE=Loadingue;52022840]Why couldn't they just go with "all the Reapers die" or something similar and that was it, you live with the galaxy you have shaped.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=JeanLuc761;52023385]I think they were trying to avoid a cliche ending; unfortunately, that kind of ending is cliche because it's satisfying :v: My headcanon is that the Catalyst destroys the Reapers, Shepard passes out, fade to white. Fade back in, the entire squad is in front of a huge memorial, camera pans over all the important characters we lost throughout the trilogy. One last conversation with the squad, then they exit the building. They all walk down a set of stairs as the camera pans upwards, skybox showing the Citadel in Earth orbit, fade to black, credits. Cliche as hell, but I would have been perfectly satisfied with that.[/QUOTE] Replaying OT for the first time in a long time now, installed quite a few mods, one of which removes Young Anakin from the vent and the dreams, and I was [I]shocked[/I] by how much more of an impact the kids death has by simply [I]not[/I] interacting with him at all. Also have MEHEM, EGM and Citadel DLC post-credits, and it is just about a decent send-off game, despite Kai Leng and all the railroading. (Rachni, Cerberus and Collector base, looking at you.) As for the original ending, I personally think the Task Manager (ctrl+alt+del) is bullshitting to save its own ass. Destroy is the way to go there, imo. It more or less says: "I'm the Big Bad." (Which is a let-down in and of itself.) It [I]is[/I] the Reapers, which Shepard (the Player) should know by now is not to be trusted at all. But the entire ending makes no sense anyway, there's no use analysing it any more than it already has been. I don't think they could have fucked the universe more if they'd tried. [QUOTE=JeSuisIkea;52023941]I wish they went with a new game coinciding with the original trilogy. I remember someone pitching a gritty noir Mass Effect game taking place on the Citadel at the same time / right before the OT and I thought that sounded awesome.[/QUOTE] Any recommendations on any good fics/headcanon out there? Individual stores like that, retelling w/o Catalyst/Crucible, heavy AU, idgaf. I've read some, but it is [I]pain[/I] shifting through the bad.

The only reason I wouldn't choose Destroy is because I didn't want to fucking annihilate the Geth after saving their and the Quarians asses from war. And I couldn't do that to Joker. :v:

[QUOTE=torres;52024139]Any recommendations on any good fics/headcanon out there? Individual stores like that, retelling w/o Catalyst/Crucible, heavy AU, idgaf. I've read some, but it is [I]pain[/I] shifting through the bad.[/QUOTE] Sadly I never got into the Mass Effect fanfic scene so I couldn't tell you.

[QUOTE=torres;52024139]Any recommendations on any good fics/headcanon out there? Individual stores like that, retelling w/o Catalyst/Crucible, heavy AU, idgaf. I've read some, but it is [I]pain[/I] shifting through the bad.[/QUOTE] Not sure if that's the kind of thing you're looking for, but every ME2 fan should enjoy [I][URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5753454/1/Interstitium"]Interstitium[/URL][/I]. It's kind of a character definer and universe expander, you might say. The guy basically takes every person of importance in ME2 (and a bit of ME1) and retells (imagines) some scenes that are part of their backstory, or scenes that canonically could take place during the setting of ME2. It's very well-written, very interesting, and 97% faithful to canon and ME spirit. The remaining 3%, he'll leave a warning for the readers. Scenes covered in this fanfiction: - Shepard's burial (which was purposefully played low-key by the Alliance); - Mordin dealing with the Blue Suns on Omega; - Miranda's childhood, how her relations with her father deteriorated and how she met the Illusive Man; - How Zaeed rose through ranks as a mercenary and was betrayed (which was never shown or explained clearly in the official comics, pfffft) - A lot of Quarian backdoor dealings that shed some light on the environment Tali grew up in; - The development of EDI as an AI (which tore my heart); - A lot of character scenes on the Normandy, usually heart-warming, sometimes hilarious, sometimes a bit dramatic; - And a shitload more of every character you can think of. The best thing is that it doesn't conflict with the official comics despite having the same purpose (adding depth to the series characters's backgrounds) and I don't even know how he did it since he even wrote most of this stuff before some of the comics were released. Anyway, great read for every ME2 fan as I said. If you liked the characters, you'll like this. Why can't Bioware just hire these people?

[QUOTE=Killjoy;52024269]The only reason I wouldn't choose Destroy is because I didn't want to fucking annihilate the Geth after saving their and the Quarians asses from war. And I couldn't do that to Joker. :v:[/QUOTE] If that hadn't been a consequence shoehorned in, I doubt there'd even be videos of the other two options. Hyperbole, but you get my point. Control doesn't overtake the Geth or EDI, just Reapers, yet destroy fucks them all. The ending can't even manage to stay consistent within itself, which is what I meant by Task Manager bullshitting to save its ass. Although even if it was honest, I like to think the Geth and Edi could be reawakened with minor trouble. Shepard didn't die as "promised" in destroy after all, clearly Task Manager isn't omniscient. Mac Walters got his speculation, I just doubt he wanted this [I]kind[/I] of speculation. But if he's director of ME:A, it at least means he's been delegated to the Montreal team, or the "C-listers", as someone called them. [editline]28.03.2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Loadingue;52024575]Not sure if that's the kind of thing you're looking for, but every ME2 fan should enjoy [I][URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5753454/1/Interstitium"]Interstitium[/URL][/I]. It's kind of a character definer and universe expander, you might say......[/QUOTE] Sounds like a good read, and I haven't even heard of it. Shame on me. Been looking for a more character focused story. I've mostly read re-imaginings of the setting, such as [URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9271192/1/Transcendent-Humanity"]Transcendent Humanity[/URL], [URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11098732/1/Mass-Effect-End-of-Days"]End of Days[/URL], and [URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10636239/1/A-Dark-Dawn"]A Dark Dawn[/URL], stuff like that. I like the ME universe, and I like it when authors [I]properly[/I] throw something new into the setting, and manages to keep the story interesting as well. I would honestly have loved to see a ME game where a civilization didn't use eezo at all, and how that might change things. Dunno if that's in Andromeda? But I'll definitely take a look at Interstitium, thanks for the tip. [QUOTE=Loadingue;52024575]Anyway, great read for every ME2 fan as I said. If you liked the characters, you'll like this. Why can't Bioware just hire these people?[/QUOTE] Well, based on what some people have been saying about ME:A's writing, they did, just not the good ones.

Are the multiplayer leader boards not working for anyone else? They don't show any other names whether I'm in global or friends.

[QUOTE=Del91;52024666]Are the multiplayer leader boards not working for anyone else? They don't show any other names whether I'm in global or friends.[/QUOTE] They said they disabled the leaderboards since there was some bug in attaining challenge points

anyone solved the [sp]'puzzle' on that h-47c vault? it looked simple enough but the switch marked one never turned on and the fucking observer wouldnt follow me to the other end of the room so i could activate another console. i still managed to activate the vault without doing it so i guess it was just for an item, but i'm still pissed for not being able to solve it when it was so obvious[/sp]

So 10$ the [sp]Benefactor[/sp] is Cereberus

How the smeg do you get Milky Way Research Data? Only reliable way I can find is the Lab Technicians' cryo pods.

[QUOTE=Hatley;52024708]How the smeg do you get Milky Way Research Data? Only reliable way I can find is the Lab Technicians' cryo pods.[/QUOTE] Planet scanning. Random item scanning on planets. Apex Mission crates (Just use the App).

[QUOTE=Hatley;52024708]How the smeg do you get Milky Way Research Data? Only reliable way I can find is the Lab Technicians' cryo pods.[/QUOTE] when you start visiting planets with [sp]the exiles[/sp] there are tons of milky way tech to scan 90% of the time my research rewards from apex are milky way too for some reason

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;52024700]So 10$ the [sp]Benefactor[/sp] is Cereberus[/QUOTE] I read an interesting theory on Reddit (can't remember where) that hypothesised the geth

I have one major criticism of this game so far and it's the performance issues how the fuck do you make a game that looks comically fugly at close range and yet literally turns into a slideshow on occasion when I'm talking to someone. come on now. as for the game, it's overall kind of fun

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;52024700]So 10$ the [sp]Benefactor[/sp] is Cereberus[/QUOTE] Considering that it's likely that [sp]Cora is the Illusive Man's Daughter[/sp] that seems likely

Never been a massive fan of ME but I liked the first one. Thus far I'm really enjoying the game. There is a lot of content and it's quite a lively game. I'm somewhat astonished by the amount of dialogues and characters in this game, it's overwhelming. My biggest gripe thus far is the save system. The autosave function is really unfair and it's annoying to go the menu all the time for manual saves. Furthermore I'm playing on hardcore which is nice but during various missions you have to replay entire sections if you die and the game is quite tough. Wish saving was a bit better, it's infuriating at times.

Man, Turian Soldier is a good time if you've got the Revenant.

[QUOTE=Hatley;52025002]Man, Turian Soldier is a good time if you've got the Revenant.[/QUOTE] That sounds like my Turian Soldier from ME3. I'm just disappointed that this time around the only difference between the Human and Turian Soldier is now just a single skill. Even their health and shield values are the same, and the only major variation I've seen in either of those is for the Krogan classes. And furthermore, I really dislike the little backstories made up for each class as opposed to just a general description of that class's background, and how the human classes all share the same head. Giving all the human characters full face helmets was central to Mass Effect 3 multiplayer's design for the duration of its multiplayer support, because there's a much greater diversity of human heads than there are in the alien ones, which in turn still got classes with helmets. I don't like seeing an exact clone of my Human Engineer sharing cover with me like his backstory left out how he has up to three identical siblings who came with him to Andromeda.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;52024700]So 10$ the [sp]Benefactor[/sp] is Cereberus[/QUOTE] I would recommend reading this after you're near end game or post. [sp]http://i.imgur.com/jRLLtZB.jpg I found this on that rescue mission to get whats her face.[/sp]. Sorry for the poor quality, I'm playing on a toaster. [sp]I think the Benefactor is already a galaxy travelling alien before coming to Andromeda or maybe the kett(?) alien met them in the milky way.[/sp]

driving on [sp]the asteroid[/sp] is so fun with stability off you can do some sick jumps and doriftos (and now i want a radio for the nomad with the possibility of custom tracks so i can listen to some eurobeat while i drive) always great to see your companions freaking out when you jump over the smallest gaps too i can see it and multiplayer taking all my time on ME:A after i beat the game

Seems my brother's getting consistent memory leaks and/or crashes in MP with the Human Female Vanguard with jumping, biotic abilities, etc. on what he describes to be the "frozen map", and it was semi-consistent with any biotics on the desert map too. This a common problem?

do you guys think that we'll see ryder again? or is bioware gonna do a dragon age and have a totally different protagonist?

[QUOTE=PILLS HERE!;52025540]do you guys think that we'll see ryder again? or is bioware gonna do a dragon age and have a totally different protagonist?[/QUOTE] They're considering either having them star again or just do different protagonists going forward, only thing they're sure about is that it's not a trilogy.

What the fuck is with Bioware and not including storage chests in their games? They usually get patched in, so why the hell don't they learn to just include them from the start?

[QUOTE=torres;52024607]Sounds like a good read, and I haven't even heard of it. Shame on me. Been looking for a more character focused story. I've mostly read re-imaginings of the setting, such as [URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9271192/1/Transcendent-Humanity"]Transcendent Humanity[/URL], [URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11098732/1/Mass-Effect-End-of-Days"]End of Days[/URL], and [URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10636239/1/A-Dark-Dawn"]A Dark Dawn[/URL], stuff like that. I like the ME universe, and I like it when authors [I]properly[/I] throw something new into the setting, and manages to keep the story interesting as well. I would honestly have loved to see a ME game where a civilization didn't use eezo at all, and how that might change things. Dunno if that's in Andromeda? But I'll definitely take a look at Interstitium, thanks for the tip.[/QUOTE] I can definitely recommend [URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7160279/1/The-Siege-of-Shanxi"]The Siege of Shanxi[/URL]. Exactly what it sounds like, and with a damn good author. It starts off a little slow and shaky, but it develops into an epic, beautifully detailed Red Storm Rising-esque war story. Just recently completed. I haven't read the comic covering Shanxi though, so I don't know how much it diverges from cannon.

[QUOTE=Loadingue;52024575]Not sure if that's the kind of thing you're looking for, but every ME2 fan should enjoy [I][URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5753454/1/Interstitium"]Interstitium[/URL][/I]. It's kind of a character definer and universe expander, you might say. The guy basically takes every person of importance in ME2 (and a bit of ME1) and retells (imagines) some scenes that are part of their backstory, or scenes that canonically could take place during the setting of ME2. It's very well-written, very interesting, and 97% faithful to canon and ME spirit. The remaining 3%, he'll leave a warning for the readers. Scenes covered in this fanfiction: - Shepard's burial (which was purposefully played low-key by the Alliance); - Mordin dealing with the Blue Suns on Omega; - Miranda's childhood, how her relations with her father deteriorated and how she met the Illusive Man; - How Zaeed rose through ranks as a mercenary and was betrayed (which was never shown or explained clearly in the official comics, pfffft) - A lot of Quarian backdoor dealings that shed some light on the environment Tali grew up in; - The development of EDI as an AI (which tore my heart); - A lot of character scenes on the Normandy, usually heart-warming, sometimes hilarious, sometimes a bit dramatic; - And a shitload more of every character you can think of. The best thing is that it doesn't conflict with the official comics despite having the same purpose (adding depth to the series characters's backgrounds) and I don't even know how he did it since he even wrote most of this stuff before some of the comics were released. Anyway, great read for every ME2 fan as I said. If you liked the characters, you'll like this. Why can't Bioware just hire these people?[/QUOTE] Just started reading this and it's fantastic, highly recommended. Can also recommend just about all the stories that [url=https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2289288/ElectricZ]ElectricZ[/url] has written. Tomorrow's Dawn, Second, Friends like These, and For Tomorrow We Die are easily some of the best ME stories I've read.

I just got a pretty shit bug. I currently need -1,045 AVP to unlock the next cryo group. Oh well, I got all the good stuff already.

[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;52026121]Just started reading this and it's fantastic, highly recommended. Can also recommend just about all the stories that [url=https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2289288/ElectricZ]ElectricZ[/url] has written. Tomorrow's Dawn, Second, Friends like These, and For Tomorrow We Die are easily some of the best ME stories I've read.[/QUOTE] Friends Like These, is that one with the restaurant? Because that was one of the funniest things I've ever read on the internet related to ME. Synopsis for the curious: [sp]Halfway through ME2, Shepard goes on the Citadel and sneaks into a restaurant alone just to order a pizza, which he's forbidden to eat because of his Cerberus post-resurrection diet. Garrus (and then Tali), worried about him, confront him about all this secrecy, right as he was about to eat the delicious-looking pizza. Hilarity ensues.[/sp]

[QUOTE=RichyZ;52026527]Ngl i think im only gonna fuck vetra this playthrough because all other squaddies have fucked up monster faces[/QUOTE] "I want to fuck the rock / bird hybrid monster woman on account of monster faces"

Vetra so far is one of the best in regards of character writing, IMO. She and Jaal are extremely fun!