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

[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;51484105]so I finished a nice long, me1 play through recently and took the save over into me2 with the intent of doing a full run again I've only finished omega and I'm already considering putting myself on suicide watch[/QUOTE] Strange/funny. I'm doing the same thing and just finished Omega too, but I'm loving it. I've never done a renegade playthrough through all 3 games, it's been great.

Being Renegade in ME3 is pretty underwhelming. In ME1, you're a huge asshole with bad ass moments. In ME2, you're a real bad ass. In ME3, you're just upset.

[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;51484105]so I finished a nice long, me1 play through recently and took the save over into me2 with the intent of doing a full run again I've only finished omega and I'm already considering putting myself on suicide watch[/QUOTE] I've been working on getting the platinum trophies for all three for over a year now. I got it for ME1 in May last year, but the last trophy I need for ME2 is beating the game on insanity. That game is [I]rough[/I] on insanity. I wanted to kill myself after doing Garrus' recruitment mission. Fun fact: You can get the trophy for finishing two playthroughs in ME1 just by reloading your autosave before the Saren fight and beating the game again. It doesn't have to be a full playthrough to count towards the trophy. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25802995/ShareX/2016/12/2016-12-06_03-11-03.png[/IMG] [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25802995/ShareX/2016/12/2016-12-06_03-11-18.png[/IMG]

Funny that, I'm also doing an ME marathon (Or a MErathon). Mass Effect 2 has been a very trying experience, not because of the gameplay, but because the game really [I]really[/I] loves crashing and locking Shepard into a single orientation, which causes further buggery. [editline]6th December 2016[/editline] Also playing as a sentinel is nowhere near as fun as an engineer playthrough. After acquiring Legion, you can just keep sending out drones, which allows you ample opportunity to just keep shooting.

[QUOTE=Loadingue;51484450]Being Renegade in ME3 is pretty underwhelming. In ME1, you're a huge asshole with bad ass moments. In ME2, you're a real bad ass. In ME3, you're just upset.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I've played them all individually as a renegade, just not done the same save through all 3. It's been so long since I played any of them though that there's a lot of moments I'd forgotten.

In ME2 I feel like a lot of important renegade options were just you sticking up for Cerberus, which I didn't like. I also feel like it forced choices on you a lot for the sake of its own story - picking the human councillor and saying you recommended them even if in the first you actually chose not to recommend anyone, being literally told you have a long sour history with Cerberus even if you never met them in ME1, etc. I could write an essay on my issues with ME2, really. By comparison I could play the first through over and over.

[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;51486393]being literally told you have a long sour history with Cerberus even if you never met them in ME1, etc.[/QUOTE] I thought Shepard responded differently if you've never encountered them before at the beginning of ME2? Maybe without an imported save.

[QUOTE=Loadingue;51487278]I thought Shepard responded differently if you've never encountered them before at the beginning of ME2? Maybe without an imported save.[/QUOTE] when jacob tells you who he works for, you have the option to say you don't know who they are that's [I]when[/I] you get told you do

[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;51489175]when jacob tells you who he works for, you have the option to say you don't know who they are that's [I]when[/I] you get told you do[/QUOTE] But if you've actually met them before, don't you say something like "I think we've crossed paths a few times in the past" instead of "Never heard of them"?

[QUOTE=Loadingue;51491905]But if you've actually met them before, don't you say something like "I think we've crossed paths a few times in the past" instead of "Never heard of them"?[/QUOTE] Can confirm, that was my first playthrough. Then I thought "wait, who the fuck is that? How do I know about it?" I apparently don't remember seeing them.

It's pretty easy to forget they're in the game. Afaik they're only in the side quests for Admiral Kahoku.

[QUOTE=Vassikin;51492693]It's pretty easy to forget they're in the game. Afaik they're only in the side quests for Admiral Kahoku.[/QUOTE] You never see their logo or talk to any of them, so it's pretty easy to forget they existed (especially since they looked like all the other human enemies you kill, and their bases look like all the other bases)

I just know I'm gonna end up being a fucking Vanguard again.

Engineer 4 lyfe. Although Andromeda doesn't have "classes" this time around.

Still can't believe that they tried to justify Cerberus as the main villains in 3, they just suck

surely an army THAT big would have been discovered sooner or later people don't just stop talking to their friends and family about their new jobs and people don't just disappear like that

I hate how over the course of 3 games Cerberus go from a fringe group of extremists, to a massive NGO with a shit ton of money and the ability to make revolutionary advances in science, to a massive private army with enough military proficiency and capability to attack the highest ranking officials in the universe on the most heavily defended space station in the universe and get away with it

[QUOTE=Vassikin;51492693]It's pretty easy to forget they're in the game. Afaik they're only in the side quests for Admiral Kahoku.[/QUOTE] There's three quests for them, Kohoku only gives you two, so conceivably if you did everything you'd still 'know' them, I think it's a 'creeper' lab mission and it only says Cerberus if you read all the crap inside the base.

There's also a mission where they're shipping Rachni around a few planets, though that might have been one of the Kohoku ones, I forget. With how much reusing stuff they did with Cerberus I wouldn't be surprised if they were a late addition entirely

[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;51502365]There's also a mission where they're shipping Rachni around a few planets, though that might have been one of the Kohoku ones, I forget. With how much reusing stuff they did with Cerberus I wouldn't be surprised if they were a late addition entirely[/QUOTE] I also wouldn't be surprised if Mac Walters was the writer who wrote them in 1. He's always been their biggest fan.

what i hate the most about pretty much every sci fi story is how fucking monocultured every other alien race is [editline]9th December 2016[/editline] ifol TIMMY created cerberus to ensure that humanity would stay on top, who's to say there wasn't an asari faction dedicated to keeping everything technologically advanced under wraps so the asari could stay the most advanced civilisation in the galaxy?

the matriarchs were doing exactly that though

I'm willing to bet all the species are to some extent or another.

[QUOTE=lintz;51503368]what i hate the most about pretty much every sci fi story is how fucking monocultured every other alien race is [editline]9th December 2016[/editline] ifol TIMMY created cerberus to ensure that humanity would stay on top, who's to say there wasn't an asari faction dedicated to keeping everything technologically advanced under wraps so the asari could stay the most advanced civilisation in the galaxy?[/QUOTE] That's what the regular asari were doing, they didn't need a faction. Everyone else did have a faction except volus and elcor, and krogans pretty much had a faction per every other clan/ day of the week Turian: separatists, loyalists Geth: Heretics, 'Homewardens' Batarian: Loyalists, Terminus Freespacers/Pirates/Mercs Quarians: fuck robots the verb, fuck robots the adverb Krogan: Urdnot, Weyrloc, Female, Blood Pack, Unaligned Drell: Pro and anti compact

It only took four years but I finally did it. [img]https://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-toot.gif[/img] [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25802995/ShareX/2016/12/2016-12-12_12-53-25.png[/img] [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25802995/ShareX/2016/12/2016-12-12_12-54-48.png[/img]

So my brother's downloading ME1 on PC via Origin, but I hear the PC port's not very good. Anything I should recommend for him instead?

[QUOTE=RikohZX;51529404]So my brother's downloading ME1 on PC via Origin, but I hear the PC port's not very good. Anything I should recommend for him instead?[/QUOTE] PC port doesn't have any glaring technical issues to my knowledge, having played trough it.

The scroll wheel works in menus, and pressing J opens the journal, thus making the PC port of 1 far better than 2.

The biggest issue I can think of off-hand is that Garrus' face texture is [i]extremely[/i] low resolution compared to everyone else. There's a handful of fixes but it's been ages so I'm not sure which one is the best to use. [t]http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/20/19681/Garrus_Face.jpg[/t]

I'm pretty sure JeanLuc released a texture mod for ME1 to fix Garrus' face. I know he did a lot of texture work on ME2.