You did pick the correct ending, right?
synthesis? of course
>>737983374I started every single ME game and gave up half way. True story.
mass effect sounds great to play until you remember it's a cover shooter
>>737983498EDI dying is the only reason destroy isn't the best ending.
>>737983631I think she'd be okay with it if it meant the Reapers ate shit.
>>737983374The only correct ending is not to play.
>>737983805Yeah there's a conversation where she talks about rewriting her self preservation protocols or whatever because of how repulsive she finds the Reapers own obsession with it so she'd definitely be ok with dying if it also means killing them.
>>737983498kek
>>737983374No, I picked the retarded synthesis ending because I was a sucker for third options. Lesson learned.
>>737983374Destroy for life
>>737985349Y'know if the different amino acids make their food poisonous to us and vice versa then wouldn't kissing a Turian or Quarian be just as dangerous for both parties?
>>737983374>and.and.andatrocious writing
>>737983374You mean stopping after 2? There's really no reason to play 3 at all.
>>7379860822 is worse than 3 in almost every single way.
>>737983498>that missing comma in the second pictureThis is why I can't get an erection from that shit.
>>737986126>ME3fag has entered the chatME2 is one of the best games ever made, and the pinnacle of the series. ME3 has>ugly jack>all better now jack>Liara as a main character again>inventory>worse character advancement>an evil twin>insanely long mission chains that never seem to end>worlds not worth going to>worse character art>worse animations>that kid nobody gives a shit about, but apparently le trauma>stupid ending, star child or not>kills Nyreen>Mattock is weak and gay, like youThere's really nothing worth playing 3 for.
>>737983498It's for the best. It's the only way to save everyone. basically, It's accepting the inevitable. The Reapers proved it, all advanced civilizations WILL eventually create a synthetic life form that WILL exterminate all organic life.
>>737986295Ok bro.
>>737985937We got a shot for that
>>737986295>ME2 is one of the best games ever madeYou should genuinely kill yourself console jeet
>>737986446The Reapers were just AI stuck in a loop.
>>737987101PChad, but you know I'm right.
>>737987213OG was the only good one. 2 had some gratifying character interaction, but completely failed at being a second act. Discarding all the groundwork 3 would need to have a shot at being a reasonable ending. To the point that they had to make plot DLCs because the core game didn't move the plot forward at all. 3 was an inevitable crash landing once they determined the Shepard story must end with 3.
>>737988176>Original gangsta (yo yo yo) was the only good one, shawty.There was no need to make a trilogy that revolved around the reapers. 3 didn't have to end the reaper threat, as it could have remained on the horizon. 2 was the best game mechanically and storywise. The missions were handcrafted and went from Point A to Point B cleanly. 1 had way too much inconsequential side shit (yes, you could skip it, but it's still padding that doesn't need to be there) involving empty square planets, 5 dungeon maps, and the occasional thresher maw or monkey. Even character missions boiled down to>"Shepard, I need you to click something or kill someone">go to square planet>find the one building>go through a short dungeon map you've done 100 times already>click or kill, depending on situation>"Thanks, Shepard! I feel better!"Loyalty stuff in 2 was pretty good, and actually involved decent story arcs.1 is not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination, but 2 was better by leaps and bounds. 3 is just insulting, ugly, and gay.
>>737988445>2 was the best game mechanicallyShit take. 3 was the only one with a semblance of decent gameplay. 2 was stupidly lopsided unless you play on normal difficulty or below, and the flow was always the same procedure of "Stick to chest high wall, wait until enemy is sufficiently attrited, advance." You can count on one hand the number of instances where you might actually be outflanked, and half of those happen in DLCs. 1 is fun as long as you ignore the fact that you can max pistol stats and hold autofire to win no matter what class or difficulty.>Loyalty stuff in 2 was pretty good, and actually involved decent story arcs.Yeah but they were just short stories which don't matter for shit in terms of the series. 2 would be a good game if it wasn't a full third of the series. As such it's unforgivably negligent.>1 had way too much inconsequential side shitNone of which you were forced to play.
>>737983374I like how this line felt the most in line with mass effects themes up to this point only for the game immediately after this line throw a hissy fit because you didn’t pick the original retarded endings. If you had near perfect war assets you should have had a victory ending from this, but no because this game was old BioWare’s dying cough as the infected new lung started to take over. Fuck this game.
>>737983374Yes, I did pick Destroy. Anyone who thinks Control or Synthesis are legitimate are fools. The core AI knew it's time was near so it came up with a plan to try and win. Yes it's risky, telling Shepard how to destroy it. But logically speaking, it would think Shepard would go for Control or Synthesis.
>>7379897383's gameplay sucked mainly because of how weaponfu (the Mattock) is nerfed and gay. It also adds the super melee bullshit and makes the aim less precise.>pistolNo.As for "you control the buttons you press" regarding 1, when the main arc is 6 hours or so, you're kind of forced to do the side stuff to get your money's worth.And 2 being a third of the series isn't 2's fault. They should have just James Bonded it and made it "Shepard's Wacky Adventures" in each game. That's a fault of the writers making 3 suck, not 2 somehow influencing that. I didn't make my psycho ex cut herself by breaking up with her. She did that on her own. 2 didn't make 3 suck. It did that on its own.There's really no point in 3 where I feel like I was having fun.
>>737986126Fuck no. ME2 has plenty of problems (and even set up ones for the sequel) but ME3 fucked up pretty much all the major set ups in the two previous games in the most unsatisfying way possible outside of maybe Tuchunka
>>737988445>2 was the best game mechanically and storywise.In what fucking way? ME1 was clunky but instead of expanding on the interesting systems like planets and RPG loot/skills bits they pretty much abandoned them entirely in favor of some linear cover shooter bullshit. Also killing off Shepard only to bring them back seconds later in the beginning was one of the single most retarded creative decisions that caused all sorts of problems down the line.
>>737990660>because of how weaponfu (the Mattock) is nerfed and gay.Meanwhile, I was shredding cunts with it on Insanity because I slam fired that thing
>>737990891It's still gay. Just because you can sweep with a broken broom doesn't mean it isn't broken.
>>737983374Yeah, I picked the only canon choice, Destroy, since Shepard breathes at the end.>but the synthetics!do you actually believe that thing was telling the truth? it was clearly bullshitting you.
>>737983374>tfw just did a playthrough of all 3 with the gay garrus mod and JAM/MEHEM/CEM modsbest playthrough yet>>737985937worth it
>made the ship a sexy robot so the cripple pilot could fuck itWoke
>>737983374Yes, I became an AI god.
I got the Mass Effect collection thing on PS5. Is it the original trilogy and is it a good way to experience ME?
>>737983592Cover is almost never necessary in 1 and 3 because Shepard becomes stupid OP very quickly.
Yes, MEHEM
>>737983374The full dialogue sequence for the refusal ending is so kino it's unreal.
>>737986295Black Widow.Javelin.Multiplayer.
>>737992478If I want multiplayer, I'll play Space Marine 2.
>>737983498Cute
>>737992553Space Marine 2 doesn't have a Geth Infiltrator.
>>737983374Yeah, there's literally no reason not to pick Control
>>737988176But the gameplay of 2 is far better than 1.
>>737993153The story was better as well. 1 was a pretty good game, but 2 was everything a Mass Effect game should have been. It went through the same arc Star Wars did.>Episode 4: This is pretty cool. I can't wait to see what happens next.>Episode 5: HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS IS ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIES EVER HOLY FUCK I NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN>Episode 6: George Lucas must be senile.
>>737992976Nobody gives a shit.Mass Effect is simply not a MP franchise.If you want MP, go play CoD.You've ruined enough SP games already.
>>737993528>he doesn't have 10k frags in Final Fantasy 7
>>737987213Absolutely, unfathomably B-B-B-BASED!
>>737993483ME2 barely has a plot, and what little plot is does have is a disconnected filler arc.
>>737993557Based?
>>737993553Fuck off with your disingenuous bullshit.
>>737993613>I can't shoot: the postTry learning to shoot, gunlet.
>>737993602
>>737993669Great. Go play CSGO.
>>737993714>play a game for third worlders>because I want to select things from menus and watch videosImagine thinking you're a gamer. You're just gayer.
I got into a multi-hour argument with a friend over the endings.I debated that Destroy is the worst ending because you are simply proving the Reapers right, that organic and synthetic life can never coexist without one trying to destroy the other, its even more clear if you pick that ending after saving the Quarians and the Geth.Worst part was his defense of Destroy didn't have any meaningful counterpoints, he simply likes it the most because its the only one where Shepard can live since he needs his happy ending and refuses to accept a heroic sacrifice.
>>737993153They're both pretty bad in different ways. If you're already inured to the weirdness of early PC FPS games 1 isn't too crazy. If you're console peasant ME2 is probably much more familiar. I give 1 the balance because you don't have characters like Jack who become completely useless on high difficulty.
>>737993758>because you are simply proving the Reapers righthow do you figure that?reapers culling advanced organic life because they can't get along with synthetics.but also stopping reapers proves their point making their position unfalsifiable the truth is that their hypothesis is retarded and they have been meaninglessly carrying the cycle over and over. the reapers are the problem to synth orgranic relations and their ego is too great for them to realise that they are the problem. destroying the reapers is an acceptable solution
>>737986295>me2 is one of the best games ever madeHoly cope. How do we tell him trannies?
>>737990753ME2 to ME3 is similar to TFA to TLJ in NuWars.In both cases the preceding part slashed the tires and threw a load of rakes in the footpath, but the sequel didn’t have to step on as many as it did.
1>3>2People who say 2 is the best are terminally buckbroken trannies who think trudging through molasses is good gameplay
>>737994175>>737994320>I CAN'T AIM! PLAY THE GAME FOR ME!
>>737994320Very true
>>737992478Valiant was awesome too. ME3 gunplay was legitimately decent.
>>737993753>because I want to select things from menus and watch videosso you don't want to shoot things eitherthen why are you bringing up MP?
>>737994737I didn't bring up ministers of parliament.
>>737993602Tell me about Banes
>>737993925Thank god for mods, simply giving her warp and charge made her a near constant in my squad
>>737994804Ah! Playing the crazy card. Do whatever you want.
>>737993153>>737993483this is some really weak ass bait
>>737995430>cowadoody>chest high walls>I'm a faggotThis is you.>>737995206Raising Cane's?
>>737983565The gameplay is bad in all 3 so you didn't miss much. First one at least had decent and engaging plotlines, but it's nothing amazing. it all just gets less interesting and more boring as the series goes on.
>>737994571lol I beat mass effect 2 on legendary without dying one or two times. The game makes you sprint unimaginably slow and you can only kill the hardest enemies with the grenade launcher/special weapons. You don’t even have the ability to stop elites in their tracks until the first collector mission when you can either max out Armor piercing ammo/get your bonus class weapon. You also have to bring the right companions for cryo bust/warp. It’s not hard at all but just annoying, the enemies shuffle sideways faster than you can sprint forward.
>>737993483No taste.
>>737995678>lolI can just ignore the rest of that post, "lawl."
>>737983498For me it's Rigid3D
Shepard is canonically gay
>>738001973Tali is his canon wife (especially now that Saudis own EA and burqas are mandatory).
>>737995678There isnt any sprinting. The game just shakes the screen while you are "running". You move at the the same speed.
>>738001973>Commander Shepard is straight by choice.Gaming truly did end in 2012
>>738002252I thought that was only the first game.
>>737986295ME1 is one of the best games ever made.ME2+ME3 are basically the same game; generic cover shooter #36485
Did my second run of Mass Effect last month, I was 13 years old in 2012 when I first played the trilogy.I loved it and now I feel empty and haven't been capable of playing a game since. Liara my beloved, when will I see you again?
>>738003418ME1 is very good, if incredibly short (and length is added by what's arguably shit).ME2 feels like it's one solid run from beginning to end, adds a bunch of good characters (and sidelines the worst character ever), and improves the shooting mechanics.The worst thing about ME2 is the probe stuff, and that's still not bad. I usually look at another screen while doing it and fire probes based on controller vibration.Everything feels more concise, like they didn't run out of ideas, nor that they had too many ideas and no intelligent way of including them.Tali is romanceable, and she's best girl.All the recruitment and loyalty missions were enjoyable.The Mattock is my weaponfu, and I used it constantly after picking it up on Omega.Mass Effect 3 was a disaster. I'm not going to be hyperbolic and claim it's one of the worst games ever, but it's the worst of the trilogy easily, and it's not close to being good. Everything awesome about 2 got ripped out and it became an ugly mess of shitty shooting mechanics and really long mission chains.I was actually forgiving and said I liked 3 things that were all DLC: the apartment party (which is the very end of an ungodly mission chain involving an evil twin), Taking Back Omega (I still quite like it), and Leviathan (only the end is worth a shit). It's just a poorly written, poorly designed, and ugly game.
>>737983374i had no idea what side was what, its not like there are labels or something. You just have to guess and pick something at random
>>738004285>Incredibly short>Average length is 18-20 hours>ShortThat's hardly short, but it's not mind numbingly long. Spiders attempt at a BioWare style RPG in Greedfall was around 45 hours and that shit didn't need to be stretched out that far. Mass Effect 1 at 20 hours is long enough for what it is.
>>738003418ME2 is alright. A lot of things about it feels unique still. Not a lot of places feel like Omega in games, and there's still a lot of flexibility you get out of the Dialogue Wheel.People talking about how Witcher 3 is so good, but honestly few games contain RP segments as satisfying as the Good Cop Bad Cop interrogation with Thane over multiple playthroughs. I've played all 3 games around 10 times and I still find new paths through that scene.The last time, I reattained Spectre rank but I didn't have the renegade to use "I'm a Spectre". I didn't use interrupts, and kept picking fun Renegade lines. Then the lawyer shows up when you're out of time, and you can pull an interrupt on him by taking your gun out.>Guns are illegal on the Citadel!And then I could say a renegade line>Spectres are above the law. Tough shit.And then he has to give in.ME3 is the anomaly in my book. It reduced every choice to a "score" point in a menu screen. And there's almost no moment in the entire game where there's any flexibility in the dialogue trees. it's all completely railroaded where the scene moves forward as it always will, and you just pick granular decisions to boost whether you get face scars or you're a good boy, or pick the Charm/Intimidate of your preference when they appear.The choices sorta don't matter in ME3, they're completely meta like in Mass Effect Andromeda, where the writer has already decided what Shepard will do, but you just get a token gesture to pick something with flavor. I get that ME1/2 are largely the same, just 3 granular Paragon/Neutral/Renegade options per dialogue wheel, but I swear they have more flexibility than just that, and more often than in 3.There's a few options relating to romances and the heat of the Tuchanka/Rannoch portions where Paragon or Renegade carry more significant weight, but other than that ME3's dialogue wheel was reduced to nothing, even compared to ME2.
>>738004285ME2 is literally shit compared to 1 idk what to tell you manYou can't even crouch lmao
>>738004721Mechanically ME1 is the jankiest of the 3 and definitely filled with a lot of "work in concept" ideas that frankly should've been given another go around. Biotics were gamebreaking both for the player and the NPCs. Hearing "MIND OVER MATTER" on repeat constantly in some of the side missions as you helplessly get thrown around by enemy biotics on any difficulty was obnoxious. All enemies just defacto getting immunity to become bullet sponges, with Krogan getting a full heal then activating immunity wasn't better. You had the super cannon sniper build with explosive shots, hyper accurate infinite firing assault rifles with cold rounds, Indestructible soldier builds, Sentinel being both confused and getting the leftover skills from tech and biotic classes. It was a really good rpg, but a shit third person shooter.
>>738004619The main game is about 10 hours long. This includes no extra planets, and they tell you what planets to go to in order to progress the story.
>>738004858Being able to craft multiple builds that break the game is unironically a good thing. It's fun and encourages multiple playthroughs.ME2 removed the overheating mechanics in favor of "thermal" clips, they made grenades act in the same generic way they work in every other game, they removed weapon customization, they removed traversal options, they removed free roam on planets and the stupid car you could drive around.I don't think I've ever been more disappointed in a game as I was with ME2. They stripped away any aspect that made the game unique in order to appeal to the masses and it worked.
>>738005363You didn't have any traversal options in ME1, you could walk, run, sprint (poorly), and that was about it. If you mean the physics defying Mako, I don't remember ever being wowed with a vehicle that would occasionally take a turn too hard and veer off course at a whim. Though it did have the amusing feature that if you whittled down an enemy to near death, got out, then shot it with any gun you got the full XP and not the reduced XP killing with the Mako gave you. Getting to max level on playthrough 1 was possible thanks to it. As for lack of weapon customization, yeah, that did suck to remove, but they tried to give the actual powers more customizable options but went halfway with it. Only 2 paths at the end, and most weren't that impressive that there wasn't an obvious "best choice" for each one. Still disappointed at that, with the only major improvement being the gunplay and the guns themselves actually having noticeable difference other than a model change. It was the point where BioWare tried to actually put more thought into the action gameplay and make it good.
>>738004721There's a mod for that. Same goes for holstering in 3.
>>737985937No, it's a bit more nuanced than that, and specifically for Quarians. They have the whole "I've lived in my suit that has medical systems built into it, and had extremely little exposure to anything that would train my natural immune system." thing going on. Consuming the conflicting proteins can range from doing nothing, to giving you the shits, to some kind of allergic shock. Tali getting the space croup from boning Shepard comes down to her having to leave the sealed environment of her suit.
>>737983374Yes,I downloaded the MEHEM mod with Citadel Epilogue.
>>738006772>mods
>>737983374Control > Destroy >>>> Refuse >>>> The ending people who shouldn’t be allowed to vote picked
>>738004285I think the DLCs for 3 are genuinely great all the way through. It makes replays of it tolerable, considering most of the base missions of 3 are nightmarish slogs of painful setpieces.>>738004681I wanted to disagree, but after thinking on it, I can't. 1 and 2 had leeway in choices and roleplaying because the story wasn't finished yet. 3 has to railroad the player into a specific outcome regardless of what happened previously, hence the arduous setpieces.
>>738007089Of course a faggot nu-male would be opposed to mods.
>>737983374Yes. Destroy. The silent words of Brion Gysin Hassan I Sabbah
>>738009801>I mod my games and my genitals
