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[Mass Effect] Operation Beachhead Next Weekend. Fun in the sun? MARK SPOILERS
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Backloggery. It's totally updated again, I swear!
I think the only way for me to be satisfied is to just sacrifice Wrex in ME1 so I can at least allow Mordin to live in ME3. Maybe I'll let Ash kill him so I have one more reason to let her suck nuke.
Battlenet ID: MildC#11186 - If I'm in the game, send me an invite at anytime and I'll play.
For me, Shepard worked real hard to make sure everyone was comfortable aboard Normandy in my game. Approved of Tali and Garrus' weird cross-species thing at the end. Helped Traynor fit in, checked in on Liara, made sure Javik wasn't trying to enslave everyone every few minutes, helped Cortez over his bullshit. She's an ENFP, what can I say? Sometimes it was a bit much for me, but that's who this Shepard was. The Omega-4 Operation really changed her in my game. She went from a person who would have watched the council get nuked a hundred times, who gladly sacrificed Ashley and Wrex to finish a mission, and who had 0 qualms with working with Cerberus if it meant shooting many robots and their bug-faced servants to really learning that those dark decisions will stick with you forever. Everyone onboard Normandy in ME2 was proof of that - Mordin, Legion, Thane, Grunt, Jack. Every last one of them. And she resolved that every last one of those broken-hearted, deranged psychopaths was going to come back from the other side of that relay. And she did it. Against all odds.
So ME3 rolled around and now all it was...I don't know, man. It was regret. It was Thane's dying prayers for her that sealed the deal. I mean, I'd decided to help Mordin cure the genophage because, ultimately, what the salarians and turians had done wasn't any different than what the Reapers were doing. What the quarians had done before them with the geth - subvert and control another, possibly superior race to preserve some ideal that may not deserve to stick around.
And all I could remember was that the reason the krogan would be dangerous now was because an idiot like Wreav was in charge, and that was Shepard's fault. She was a different person then. She killed Wrex. If nothing else, she owed it to the rest of the krogan to give them the shot that Wrex would have.
Everything that has been said here.
You can find almost all of the excluded tracks on youtube if you search for them. I was amazed that they didn't include the Virmire assault music in the OST. That's maybe the most recognizable music of all of ME1 for me, tied with the Vigil theme (which they did include).
this is just a++
The most incredible thing for me is still that "Vigil" is embedded in the machinery sounds in the war room. Every now and again when I was in there I always almost, but not quite, felt like those chords were there. The really awesome thing is that it also really drags out the intro chord - like the whole room is sort of "waiting".
Seriously, Mass Effect's music really deserves a whole slew of awards, especially 3's. The music that plays during
Edit: Reading those brilliant posts above me, I guess I'll summarise the go with my Shepard(s). (Warning: Wall of text+Spoilers)
Then rolled Mass Effect 1, wherein I was like "Time to just act in the moment, see how I feel." and soon I began to realise I was pretty much a pure paragon. I realised it was less good and evil like KOTOR and more nice guy, arsehole. I liked nice guy, so I eventually ran through 2. I supported Ceberus the entire time, keept everyone loyal, lost both Garrus and Samara. I honestly thought Cerberus would be on the level in 3 if I was buddies with them. Sadly, that wasn't an option.
Then rolled around 3. I was the best damned paragon anyone's ever seen. I maxed out my paragon status, sadly I lost Mordin, Miranda and Legion in the process, but God damn they died for good causes. I nurtured EDI and Joker's relationship, I helped Cortez through his issues, I cured the Genophage, I chose the green ending. I was the best damned paragon ever. Never did my will falter, I knew what I had to do, I was the spearhead as Hackett called me, I was the only one who could save the galaxy and I was happy to do it. Even in my final moments when I sacrificed myself(A life given back to me from the illusive man, a cruel twist of fate having to put him down) I knew I was doing it because it gave the galaxy the best damned chance possible as the soldier I was.
Next up is my Female Shepard renegade. I knew I wanted a less definitive character. I was going to run a pure renegade, but instead I opted for a slightly more paragon mixed renegade sentinel. I wanted her to be unsure of her place, to know she was following orders but often question why? To do whatever her heart desires. I grabbed a save off of Mass Effect Saves.com and rolled her into ME3 just a few hours ago. I decided that after watching Earth burn, after watching that child die, after her sleeplessness because of him, she'd had enough. She was sick and tired of questioning why, she was tired of the orders. She was going to kill the Reapers for what they had done, and she was going to do it in the most ruthless fashion she could. Losing her parents when she was young changed her internally. She'd been grappling with that for years, but now it was finally time for her to come out of that shell and embrace her true self, the most powerful renegade in the galaxy. Nothing was going to stop her.
I might update later with how this run goes.
It's is terrific. it's what this is all about. Not about the lack of puppies or waifus, not about nerds not being able to understand such a finely-crafter, artistic ending.
EDIT: And yeah, ME needs to win all sorts of awards for it's music.
Yo guy, this is really very good!
Also, Kai Leng...
No points in Fitness
I thought he was well enough done
also one of these days I'll finish a gold game on glacier
one of these days
do you lack faith, brother?
or do you believe?
who is meant to use this thing? It's damage seems okay and charging it up is handy/amusing, but it weighs more than most of my ARs.
do you lack faith, brother?
or do you believe?
Also Salarian Engineer is at least borderline overpowered due to how enemies react to Decoys like an impassable road block.
and the base pistol upgraded to level 6.
I haven't unlocked a single pistol.
I agree with what the video says principally but not in execution and detail.
Also, ironically, your ending to your video was just as bad as mass effects. Perhaps that was intentional.
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3 manned cerberus gold on the communications post level with a Sinfiltrator, Humangineer and Asdept.
2 manned gold up to wave 9 with an asdept and sinfiltrator.
I do believe my epeen is bigger.
*flex* ;p
synthetic ending's p dumb for sure, but i dont know what youre talking about with the other two endings - you really think a massive infodump about the exact mechanisms of the destroy/control endings would have helped? cause im pretty sure that wouldve been terrible as hell. man sheps exhausted and dying and talking to what is p clearly a crazy as hell ancient maybe-machine-maybe-not hologram dude, theyre not exactly about to get a blueprint out for you and tell you whats going on. under the circumstances i def dont want all the invented tech details, what good would it do?
i sure didnae get the idea that we were supposed to (let alone told to) replace our attachment to the characters with attachment to ~organic life~ either. maybe its implied by the catalyst avatar (but cf 'crazy as hell', above) but not by the game.
the central conflict thing? man we're not told from the start that the reapers are trying to kill everyone, we dont even learn that reapers exist for a couple more hours and we dont learn that sov's a reaper til virmire! you even detail this in the next part of the video and it says p much the opposite of the what you just said! also um the main weak point of this section is that you say that the goals suddenly been changed from 'stop the reapers' to 'resolve the conflict between organic and synthetic life' but uh all the endings stop the reapers and most of them prob wont do anything to resolve the conflict between organic and synthetic life.:
- control the reapers, they go away, they have been stopped! will there be organic/synthetic conflict? who knows, maybe?
- destroy the reapers, they blow up, they have been stopped! will there be organic/synthetic conflict? if we build synthetic life again then who knows, maybe?
- synthesis, well, this is p dumb and i dinnae really ken whats up here and im no certain anybody does so fuck it
i agree to that the crashlanding scene is terrible as hell and makes v little sense wrt how the hell did the squaddies get back on the normandy, for sure. and the funny thing is the vid disnae even touch on the buzz aldrin sting post credits which might well be the worst thing about the ending, voice acting was gash, 'the shepard' is fucking cringeworthy etc.
but aye, overall i dinnae like it much, sorry
Shepard: How are the legs? Still tired?
Leng: You're still slow, Shepard!
Shepard: I'm only slow 'cause I'm not running!
You ran at the citadel! You ran at Thessia!
Leng: Shut up!
Put all this stuff in spoilers, please.
Agreed.
By ME3, my Shepard is tired. The fight is slowly but surely being kicked out of her. She's seen her warnings ignored, and she's deeply, deeply bitter. Meanwhile, she no longer thinks of herself as just a marine, no matter how much she protests to Vega that she's just a marine - she believes that it'll all come to her and what she does. She believes that if she falters, everyone in the galaxy is doomed. She puts on a brave face. She knows the words to say. She's not going to intentionally compromise her principles. But at the end of the day, she's going to make a lot of ruthless decisions.
My Shepard went from pure Paragon to mostly Paragon to about half and half.
I loved that dialog.
I went Damage & Shields/Damage & Shields/Chain Lightning and it worked fine
I don't know about the other upgrades but I hear Shock and Rockets make the drone's behavior kind of funky, and the exploding effect is basically useless so I'd rather it be able to maybe survive a couple more seconds and distract things.
This random system is just draining....
I too was hitting the glass ceiling - but I kind of attributed that to class burnout. I've been having an absolute blast playing the Salarian Infiltrator, and having unlocked the Raptor I'm all about the MP again.
I'm hoping that Bioware releases a new type of Pack that is just rares, it's seriously about time already. Make them 100,000 credits or something, but give us a better chance at something we actually want..
He seems like the sort of character that the writer thought was really cool, but nobody else did or does and it just comes out as cheesy because of it.
And now I'm disgusted with myself because I kept telling myself I wouldn't discuss anything but the multi.