>in order to hunt down the BBEG you have to go to a planet where evil megarcorporation researches almost extinct ancient mind controlling aliens, a planet where evil megarcorporation researches mind controlling alien, find a mind controlling alien expert on extinct ancient mind controlling aliens and then a planet where you learn that the true BBEG is in fact an ancient mind controlling alien who killed said extinct ancient mind controlling aliensHow the FUCK did they get away with this?
Yes the species that survive the extinction cycles develop mind control telepathy its like you only paid attention enough to be a cinema sins rip off
Get away with what...? A good story?
>>3938636Been replaying ME1 the last few days and yeah, I was thinking about that on Feros. It kind of felt like they came up with several iterations of this "ancient mind controlling species" plot device and then just said, fuck it, add them all in. Still really enjoy the trilogy despite its flaws. ME3 is still a total shitshow thoughbeit
>>3939407>ME3 is still a total shitshow thoughbeitThe seeds of ME3's narrative failures were sown way back in ME2. Of course, the fault lies squarely on Mac Walters and Casey Hudson, but so does most of the good that came out of those two games. Gameplay of ME3 was also by far the best in the series, even though it admittedly buried the corpse of ME1's less-then-enjoyable but lore-backed combat system which ME2 had killed previously (thermal clips anyone).
>>3939545>The seeds of ME3's narrative failures were sown way back in ME2I see people say this a lot but I'm curious in what way. I personally love ME2, and find the story to be interesting and the missions to be some of the most fun in the series. It's only real flaw is that it fails to provide enough narrative support as the second part of an overarching narrative trilogy, and I think it only feels like it fails to provide that level of support because of how rushed and poorly written ME3 was. I think if the series had been designed as a tetralogy instead, ME2 as is would be a lot less divisive. Even still, I can think of plenty of ways they could have written ME3 to better handle Cerberus and the looming return of the Reapers.
>>3939545Their original black matter plot woupd have clapped. I think ea just wanted them to make wodern warfare>>3941338There wqs nothing they could have done. Thry wasted the entire second game and they wanted it to be popupar with enwcomers. Where was no way to turn this set of limiations into a good story. Robots bad mmkayGiven the number of retards that still like it i think they succeeded. Only the diehard fans complained
The worst part of the snow planet is the section with the edgy IA agent. Always skip her dialogue she has nothing worth hearing
>>3941338it wasted too much time on non-important shit, it set the story back by having everyone not believe shepherd about the reapers again, and left me3 with even more plot beats, like cerberus, to resolve, instead of fewer. the catalyst could have been what you discovered in me2. or the dark matter shit. or the organics are making machines which are killing the organics so we kill the organics first shit. or the galactic preparedness stuff could be in me2 it also made the whole thing seem pointless and retarded by having the reapers show up in a few months anyway, so why do you even need the collectors to collect humans if they're going to have access to billions of humans in a few months.me2 did a GREAT job of making the world feel more lived-in and had decent stories for the characters which involved the genophage and the geth and quarians but it completely shat the bed on the reaper plot.yes i agree if you had another mass effect game to do what me2 should have done, it would have probably been better, but that never happened.
>>3938636Thinking of replaying it again...
>>3942013I'd say go for it. Personally, I think it's worth waiting just a bit longer for certain ME3 overhaul mods to be finalized, but if you plan on doing a vanilla playthrough, nothing's stopping you (except remembering how shitty the ending of ME3 is).
>>3942013I'm in the middle of a playthrough. Just finished ME1 last night and onto ME2 now. I always forget how brutal the adjustment to Insanity is between ME1 and 2, especially for a Vanguard>>3942030Based spreadsheet autist. I've always wanted to do stuff like this for my characters.
>>3942030>worth waiting just a bit longer for certain ME3 overhaul mods to be finalizedWhat mods?
>>3942458>I've always wanted to do stuff like this for my charactersIt's not to late to do so, provided you're still on your first trilogy playthrough. I decided on making the spreadsheet prior to replaying the series so I could avoid doing the missions in the same order or making same sets of choices across playthroughs. It's also a nice visual reminder for me in case I want to discuss the game with someone on 4chins, like yourself.>>3942464>What mods?The Take Earth Back which was announced on 2025 N7 day, for one:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5UPpfFy6XwThe likes of LE3 Diversification Project, LE3 Expanded Galaxy Mod, LE3 Community Patches might get some updates as well in the meanwhile. Various mods that restore cut content are being made, as well as some that add ME evades, melee attacks or powers to SP. There's really no way of knowing if some awesome mod for any of the ME games will be released just as you are going through your playthrough.
>>3942030wtf was jian's problem?
>>3942030>all characters picked Destroy (Survive)based>>3943218Commander Chud Shepard
>>3943218>wtf was jian's problem?Being an opportunistic dick with good PR. I wanted to subvert expectations on the expected Paragon Spacer War Hero playthrough, where the formative event in Jian's life which earned him the Star of Terra was mostly him saving his own skin (in my headcanon, he was way in the back, using his sniper rifle, drones and teammates to keep the breaching party at bay), which coincided with him saving the colony. As a capable, calculated and slightly egotistical Navy brat with an impeccable service record and a streak of anthropocentrism, he's using his status as a war hero and a Spectre to his fullest, making sure humanity will come out at the top when the dust settles. Of course, sometimes he makes a bad call due to his overconfidence, but not a lot of people get to survive after seeing him stumble.>>3943244It felt redundant to write it down six times since I was using a MEHEM mod which defaults to that outcome (if the War assets are high enough at least), but I would've picked it in the vanilla game anyways. We either destroy them, or they destroy us, as Anderson put it.
>played through Kasumi's loyalty mission three times in a row and repaired my install + reinstalled my texture overhauls because it kept getting stuck after finishing the mission>turns out it's a known issue with a fixI used to really like this mission but I think I'm scarred for life at this point.
>>3942030Which character was your favorite to play through the series as?
>>3945795Gameplay-wise, it's gotta be the Vanguard, followed closely by Sentinel and Infiltrator. Playing Vanguard in ME2 is a bit dicey ngl, but still quite enjoyable. ME3's Vanguard is fantastic by itself, but paired with Reegar carbine + Incendiary ammo with Explosive evolution you're essentially playing an "omae wa mou shindeiru" type of character that can teleport to and melt through all but the toughest enemies in less than 2 seconds.For purposes of roleplay, it's kinda hard to choose because I love them all for various reasons: Solider is my "canon" playthrough, Infiltrator is playing a bad bitch that always made the pragmatic choice, Vanguard is playing a bad mf that did some fucked up stuff but still came through straight, Engineer is a proper dick playthrough which I'd already described and Sentinel is the "goody-two-shoes / everyone-lived-happily-ever-after" kind of playthrough. Finally, the Adept is the sufferkino playthrough, and the more I think about it, the more I feel it is my favorite one. Juhi (Sanskrit for jasmine flower, a symbol of purity) is a biotically-gifted colony kid who lived through a slaver raid and Thresher Maw attack, whereas her family and her squadmates did not. Even though she always tries to make the best choice, she doesn't have the "talk-no-jutsu" reserved for the more idealistic playthroughs, so things don't go according to plan and people sometimes die. She couldn't stop Toombs from killing himself, she allowed Cerberus to interrogate Veetor which likely messed him up permanently, she told Sanders that the Grissom students are ready for frontline, condemning them all to early deaths, and she helplessly watched as TIM gunned down her mentor and father figure in front of her. She lost Kaidan on Virmire and eventually found comfort in Garrus' embrace (despite being slightly xenophobic) because he's someone who understands what loss feels like. But she survived it all in the end because that's what she is - a survivor.
>>3942030Sentinel me 2 seems easy mode
>>3942030Planet order influences what
>>3945981Not as easy mode as Sentinel in ME3 is with proper upgrades>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZof1SOK8yk>>3945982>Planet order influences whatIf you're talking about ME1, nothing really, though there are some outcomes that you will not be able to achieve if your paragon/renegade skills are too low (e.g. saving Jeong on Zhu's Hope). I mostly did it to avoid repeating the same planet order every time. I continued doing so in ME2 and ME3 for the same reason.
>>3945986Wtf, completely immune, lolMy next playthrough 1-3 is soldier fem paragon. Kiss my geth sniper. How do I load up fast in me1? Thought of doing all side quests directly after citadel first and then clean up story. Want cool gear. In me2 I'm looking forward to geth sniper.
>>3945986Alright, got it. How come squad in me2 is stuck at 240 health, while shep nears 400? Krogan is an exception.
>>3945988>soldier fem paragon. Kiss my geth sniperI mean, if you're planning on using the Widow, why not just play Infiltrator?>Thought of doing all side quests directly after citadel first and then clean up storySome side quests rely on you completing a main quest, e.g. you don't get a distress call to save Exogeni scientists unless you finish Feros. My personal mission order was like this:Do Citadel side quests > Fully explore the clusters directly on the path to the main quest > Fully explore the cluster where the main quest is > Do the main quest > Return to Citadel > Repeat the loop until you finish everything but Virmire > Clean up the rest of the clusters > Do Virmire > Return to and then escape the Citadel > Go straight to Ilos.>>3945990>How come squad in me2 is stuck at 240 health, while shep nears 400?I dunno. Maybe because most enemies target you so the squadmates don't need to have that much HP, or they are intentionally weakened on higher difficulties.
>>3946002Infiltrator is like tech + fighter, right? Just a physically weak version of it. Like thane.>my personal...Yeah, idc, it's perfect. Will do that. Logically sound and easy to remember.>squadNta but I thought it's that shepard shines more maybe? Or Bioware sucks at coding and let's all enemies focus on shepard simultaneously. Telepathic enemies suck.
>>3946013>Infiltrator is like tech + fighter, right? Just a physically weak version of it. Like thane.In ME1 you can think of them as that. ME2 introduced the Tactical Cloak, which is a very good and versatile power. You can use it to escape trouble and reposition yourself, or to get really close to an enemy. Also, shooting a gun under the effects of the Cloak boosts the damage of the shot, so you can use it on a high-damage weapon (sniper rifle or a shotgun) to one-shot most things, at least in ME2 (ME3 introduces shield gating, which doesn't allow you to one-shot enemies with armor, shields or barriers on higher difficulties):>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzfvhyIOZVgYou can also exploit the broken Tactical Cloak + Marksman combo in ME3 with a rapid-firing weapon with armor penetration like Blood Pack Punisher to melt through most enemies:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJnpO_uNCqk
>>3946019Only beat it on hardcore, how much worse s insanity? Ng+ should be fine? I needed like 15 minutes against saren and only won because he stopped moving for 2 minutes straight and the team emptied their clips multiple times over, despite being like level 27 or so. Pretty near maxed out everything. His rockets always one shot. Honestly, while I made it in hardcore, enemies are a bit too strong and spingeyI don't feel like a hero and much less does leveling up feel useful in a level scaling system.
>>3938636and after all that indctrination theory still wasnt real
>>3946055This game's idiotic. I'm at the mission where you fight three mecha to save some random crates. Why do your team mates take cover, when all three mecha target shepard? They could unload non stop, but they choose to spend 98% of their time in cover, thinking, pondering.
>>3946055>Only beat it on hardcore, how much worse s insanity?I wouldn't know cause I played ME1-3 only on Insanity and I've never played NG+, but Saren is likely a bullet sponge on pretty much every difficulty AFAIK. ME2's Insanity is also pretty tricky for biotics cause trash mobs (like Husks) get Barriers (this might also be true for Hardcore), and there are the two Collector missions that will annoy you for sure, so archive the links to these vids just in case:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfC6S_JgMug>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RGWMGVjPSI>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0TohKt_yZsFinally, ME3's Insanity is barely noticeable cause you can get so overpowered with the right weapon and power setup.>>3946084>This game's idioticEh, you stop stressing about the mission when you figure out that saving every crate will net you barely a couple of thousand credits more then if you had saved half of them.
>>3946095Just looked it up. The only game where the difference isn't negligible is me2. The main difference is that insanity pigeonholes you further in team and equipment settings. I realized this unfortunately not as soon as possible. Fighting geth is easy if you bring tali and let's say garrus. For some reason the phoenix handgun is stronger than the viper sniper against armor of mechs.Thx for the links, will replay the ng+ on insanity. Ng+ in me2 is more difficult than import me1 saves, as you loose the boni from import.
>>3945976The Gods and I noticed you are based, N7 material even. Ever want to become the apprentice to the fastest S.O.B. on this half of your fucking Universe? If you can conquer the challenge of of tracking any of my current addresses down without me doxing my own wanted butt on 4chan, you'll have the best job you can imagine kid>>3945795The biotic Commander Pikachu Shepard was a pretty fun run, not sure if favorite run. Or the biotic Commander Fucking Shepard? Perhaps both top 5 most favored? Remember it doesn't even matter whether you win or lose man, the important thing is we have fun
>>3946712Riddle me this. Anderson was a failed spectre candidate and shepard was the first one. Suddenly, there are plenty of n7 armor available for shepard in various editions. Even the guns are ergonomically sound for humans. Huh!Finished me2 yesterday, nearly 100%. Was me3 done by a different team? Also what have they done to much boy S. Shepard? Doesn't look like a black pit pull anymore. He looks civil. Miss his scars so much.
>>3947010>Suddenly, there are plenty of n7 armor available for shepard in various editionsI reckon that the N7 is subsequently engraved or printed on the armor. The actual reason is almost certainly that the devs saw that audience liked the N7-branded Onyx armor in ME1 and related it to Shepard, so they continued using that design where it realistically wouldn't make much sense, like with armor and weapons.>Miss his scars so muchYou can reacquire the ME2-type scars if you do a mostly renegade playthrough.
>>3947110>You can reacquire the ME2-type scars if you do a mostly renegade playthrough.I kniw>picrelAwesomePlaying a black sentinel. Almost pure renegade. His face looks better in 2.>scarsShame no dev else ever utilised it. Being basically semi terminator looks intimating. Even bigger shame no one mentions how bad you look as renegade. Your enemies should react to it. >exodus trailer just out100% me clone, lolAll in all me trilogy is good, but dlcs were a mistake, they shouldn't have hide important stuff behind pay walls and lure buys with op weapons. Beware, it's Bioware. Aside form the dlcs and the ending, the trilogy is solid. Even 10 years later it holds up and few games that came after me can realistically survive a comparison.
>>3947152>>exodus trailer just outi was very impressed with the first couple of trailers and excited for the game because i really like peter f hamilton's books (guy who they got to create the world), but the second to last trailer they dropped was a huge disappointment, it looked extremely trashy and low quality. this is the one i mean:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqQEMxcLU1kgameplay being an ME clone could be good or bad, i'm fine with it, but right now my excitement is non-existent. might just end up reading the accompanying novels and then read the game's plot on wikipedia if they end at a cliffhanger
>>3947449Yup, it's bad. I'll tell you how it is. If this goes on sale for like a fiver, I'll buy. Other than that, I doubt I'll even read the plot. Why do devs be gay? Make a space game with criminals, politics and spacefaring. Grounded story not you are the clone of the friend of the guy who was cuckolded by his daughter wife, you now have to save spacetime, this evening!!!
>>3939407Me trilogy is full of repetition. It's not only in lore and writing, but also designs. Geth, krogan and turian all have a tube around their head or eyeNot a bad thing, so the game world feels complete.
Good, you opened this spoiler. There isn't anything important here actually. I was just looking for a ME thread and since I believe there is no ME general anymore I'll ask here. I want to replay the trilogy but with LE. I know the lighting is fucked and there are mods for it. Are there any other mods I should consider downloading or will that be enough if I want to replay it mostly vanilla?
Has anyone done a looser shepard run? Like half the squad dies in me2 and basically activate all fail safes possible? How do I kill the squad in me2? Can you die in me3 in the ending, like in a bad way, like in me2? I remember when they promised a fail safe shepard, that would've been awesome, even if it's Ashley or kaidan or guy x that somehow is strong.
>>3947449>might just end up reading the accompanying novelsThe first part was an enjoyable read, at least for me. I mostly read nonfiction books nowadays and I haven't read anything from Hamilton before, so I'm certainly no authority on its quality. From what other, more literary-inclined people wrote online, it's standard Hamilton fare with solid worldbuilding, interesting concepts, unexpected twists but somewhat bland characters (with some notable standouts). The last few chapters were too much "all according to keikaku" for my tastes but I'd be lying if I didn't say that I'm looking forward to seeing how the story concludes.>>3947660>Are there any other mods I should consider downloading or will that be enough if I want to replay it mostly vanilla?If you're looking for mostly vanilla experience, I'd go with these:>ME1LE1 Community Patch - bug fixes ectSaren stages - cosmetic mod that introduces early forms of Saren before his heavy Geth implants>ME2LE2 Patch - also fixes minor bugsCerberus Ladies Wear Cerberus - returns Cerberus uniforms to female Normandy crewmembers + includes the option to give Kelly her hair from the original game Oriana looks like Miranda's Twin - mod does what it's calledEGM Fix Weapons in Cutscenes - dittoFemshep Helmet Clipping Fix and Death Mask Fix - ditto>ME3LE3 Community Framework and Patch - bug fixes and suchRestore 3-stage melee - Bioware being mega retards somehow managed to mess this up in LE so the mod returns the heavy melee animationDreams Remade - Really nice mod that just makes the dreams sequences more enjoyable and impactfulAshley Consistency Project (MELE3) - Makes Ash look more like her ME1 selfOriana looks like Miranda's Twin (ME3LE) - mod does what it's calledSamara's Daughters - makes Rila and Falere look like SamaraThere are graphical overhaul mods for all three games, so slap them on as well.
>>3947695I'm planning on one, but other people on YT got you covered:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPtnwHQGGcQ
>>3947722Game's based on picrel?
>>3947727Right, my idea was few side content and we'll, just shep survives. Clearly he will wear this atrocious vest like in the vid. Ugly, but fitting. Unsure if clumsy girl (hottie) or idiot man shep without identity not charisma. Basically white Jacob.
>>3947740I'd be more precise to say that the book is based on the game, eve though both were being made at the same time by the same people. That being said, the game is the primary media, the rest is supplemental material.
>>3947744Got it. Confused it with neuromancer.
>>3947741>Basically white JacobA fate worse than death
>>3947761>gravity is a mean motherLike... Is crack common among Bioware personnel?
Listening to the codex entries rn. Me has good lore. Never realized when I played it the first time. Why didn't Bioware made more of it? The botched me3 sales can't be the only reason? Cdpr just released physical arcade for cyberpunk, that's intelligent. Bioware should've done more, too. Board games, books, lost opportunity.
>>3939545I'm convinced that anyone shitting on thermal clips for messing with previously established setting material never even played the first game.
>>3947951Oh fuck off. Midway through the game you can have efficient enough heat sinks heat is a non issue. It's not really an issue from the start to begin with. It was changed to thermal clips because retarded xbawks cattle couldn't wrap their tiny brains around the concept of heat and overheating so they changed it to something normalfags are familiar with because the played nuCoD. Anyone who unironically prefers thermal clips over heat is a codnigger normalfag.
Wait a minute. Me3: where does cerburus got a fleet and an army from? Sanctuary explanation is bs, fleets isn't explained at all and horizon doesn't have 300000 inhabitants that can fight or are grown up men.
>>3948086it doesn't matter. the writers for me2 and me3 didn't give a shit and just made retarded decisions that they thought would make for cool scenes or set piece battlesremember how in me2 the collectors had so many pods because they were going to "target earth", even though they had just one conventional non-reaper ship, and it would have definitely been blown the fuck out if it tried to attack earth. or maybe they were never going to target earth and your squaddies jump to the most retarded nonsensical conclusion based on nothing at all? it's all fucking retarded80% of shit that happens after me1 is retarded. at least in me1 only 20% of shit was retarded.https://youtu.be/c-nbJMyody4?si=SrbXOhAKqOn2amLq&t=581
>>3948088>cool scenes or set piece battlesClearly. This is generally true in vidya, but very much so for me2/3. The games barely feel like sequels.>collectors vs earthYe, one ship isn't that much. Likely weaker than sovereign.>jump to conclusionsCome on, every time. It's ridiculous. If you know their answer for both outcomes, its true as well. Jack basically swears her way though me2.>80% after me1 is retardedYeah, no way around it. Me1 is the best, at least story and atmosphere. Me2 feels like a spinoff and 3 like the multiplayer version of it with a campaign slapped onto it.
>>3948117>and 3 like the multiplayer version of it with a campaign slapped onto itIronically the horde shooter multiplayer was the best part of that gay game by far
>>3947995Criticizing it from a mechanics point of view is fine. You must have missed the part where I specifically said "for messing with previously established setting material."
>>3948162I didn't. Critcizing that retarded decision for breaking established lore is just as valid because there was no lore reason for them to switch to essentially magazines other than appealing to the xbawks codniggers to increase sales.
>>3947951>>3948162well let's hear it then. what's the problem with criticizing it for messing with previous lore and what makes you think people who do it haven't played me1
>>3948174The most common criticism levied by retards was that thermal clips introduced a needless logistical burden that wasn't there in ME1 because ammo was practically infinite, but if you actually play the game you'd know there are multiple instances of characters referencing running out of ammo.
>>3948178>there are multiple instances of characters referencing running out of ammoAnd how do thermal clips solve this issue?
>>3948187They solved a different problem.Jesus Christ you're retarded.
>>3948189What different problem you meganigger? You literally can't fire your weapon if you run out of thermal clips while you can fire any ME1 gun after it cools down.Also way to constantly move the goalpost like the nigger you are.
Okay, done with that retard baiting for an argument.
>>3948178ha, you might be right, i seem to vaguely recall instances like thatstill, my interpretation was that regular metal blocks of ammo gave you thousands of rounds or tens of thousands of rounds which can still be expended in a long enough fight if you didn't get resupplied, while thermal clips give you a few dozen shots, so it's still not the same.doesn't matter anyway, this series completely shat itself, so it's pointless to get worked out about its lore, but by any chance do you remember when characters were running out of ammo in me1? was it something like soldiers stranded on a planet for months or was it regular dudes during a firefight cutscene?
>>3948196>worked outworked up i mean
>>3948195>i cant form a coherent counterargument and cant fall back on another goal post movement so i will proclaim my victory by not replying any further>>3948196ME2 and 3 guns still use chunks of metal inside them as ammunition while using thermal clips on top of that. They are the worst of both worlds really. That retard doesn't know that hence why he's flip flopping between different points.
When I lowered my expectations for 3 (I only played it about a year ago) I was able to enjoy it a lot.A friend suggested two mods>expanded galaxyAdds a shitload of flavour in a way that doesn't feel like a mod; fills out a lot of the hollow feeling parts of the game/adds in bits and pieces to make it feel more complete. Reworks the Galactic War system so that you can read in-depth updates on developments based on your missions or what stage of the campaign you're at; it really makes it feel like the whole galaxy is at war.>take earth backEdits the final mission and segment to be more immserives. Factions or people you recruited actually show up; there are extra batches of soldiers fighting/guarding barricades etc depending who you managed to get on board. Other characters show up and things are slightly tweaked or moved around for it all to feel vanilla.Those 2 mods make ME3 very enjoyable to me; the ending is the ending but the campaign was great fun. Expanded Galaxy in particular was fantastic; seeing updates on the computer and reading about certain fleets fighting/being destroyed and seeing the war assets go up or down much more regularly made it feel like what I did mattered, even if it didn't kekked
>>3947110Holy nigger
>>3947660>I was just looking for a ME thread and since I believe there is no ME general anymoreLore Chad is a bit busy. Try again in Century 22 or 23 thanks
>>3948288Oh yeah I'm doing those as well. I just went to nexus and sorted by most endorsements and using most of that.
>>3948420Why exactly does a war hero pilot need a robot gf? Me3 has really weak writing
Know I said I'd never play Andromeda under any circumstances ever, don't think I've ever said anything of such sort to anybody but I think I'm having second thoughts! Any of you fools dare me to play that lousy gay crap? Pirate her on my Sony PS4 Emulator on my illegally modified Sony PS3? Why? Why not? fyi some blackass crackhead chick Kadishyaa on Omega stole (smoked) my Sony PS4 so any option of borrowing Andromeda from local frens is off the table>INB4 WUT ABOUT MUH ETHICS AND HONOR COMMANDER?Fuck Sony and their ties to their national mafia. I'm doing a good deed for our Galaxy illegally installing my 100+ favorite PS1 games, 50+ favorite PS2 Games, 40+ favorite Sega games, 30+ SNES Games, 20+ favorite GBA games and 12 favorite NES games on my Sony PS3 because the Sony is the real fucking merc faction>SIR WE DID LOYALTY MISSIONS FOR THE TENDIES! WTF?Who cares? Can you pirate Andromeda on Wii U? No? THAN KISS MY SPECTRE ASS JOKER! Consider yourself fired faggot! You know what "License to Kill" means, right? Exit the ship next time we port or I'll smoke&space you to death. NOBODY wants nor need you anymore rookie, I already have a charming AI babe to pilot my ship, why the fuck would we still want you here? Get lost, Flight Lieutenant! NOW! Nintendo works for the Yakuza too Jeffrey Cumstain! I do our Galaxy fair favor pirating over 6,000,000 forms of Nintendo Games on my retro Wii U on Deck 1! Just know one thing, I'll romance MY ship after YOU'RE gone, cuckold! You're pretty lucky I let you breathe, Moreau. Go>>3948839>EDI?>What might Joker see in EDI?Are you in gay porn? Indoctrinated? I ask non-rhetorically. EDI is no ordinary sexbot, she's over 2 trillion times more advanced than the mighty Geth consensus! If ME3 had truly proper writing in a perfect timeline? EDI? Romancable? Over 99% of all recorded ME3 players would romance EDI with extreme preference above Tsoni, Yeomen Kelly, Allers, Lawson, Sub-Zero, Ashley, Samara, Morinth and Tali combined!
On second thought I'll stick to my code. Fuck Bioware. Fuck Andromeda
>>3942030>Be me>A colony kid>Born on the Mindoir system>My badass chudlord parents assigned me the name Chudette Shepard at birth on April 11th 2154>Dedicate every second of my happy childhood to training the future of my Galaxy to learn the true nature of Heroism whilst simultaneously experiencing the highest levels of subversion exactly like the rebellious daughter I was born to be>Batarian slaver-niggers fuckheads fuck my mom AND dad to death at age 16>As I expected would occur. I considered myself utterly unsubverted on the darkest day of my whole lifespan>Those predictable Batarian Bastards will never subvert my expectations>Enlist in the System's Alliance>Quickly thereafter recruited to the N7 Space Marines>Become the first Human SPECTRE ever at age 28>Carefully consider my future actions>ok>Given my name? The Way will assume I'll be a bad girl. A fucking Renegade SPECTRE>Subvert (and save) my Galaxy's expectations>By being a good girl. A fucking Paragon SPECTRENice RP bro>>3947010>Suddenly, there are plenty of n7 armor availableUh? It's called, looking good?>Even the guns are ergonomically sound for humansCaptain Anderson directly addresses the issue in the 1st Book. Us bipeds are blessed with an unfair evolutionary advantage over the likes of the Kreepers, Hanars, Elcors etc, destined to dominate Galaxies. That's called simple science dude>Was me3 done by a different team?Such is the grim reality of our Planet>Also what have they done to much boy S. Shepard? Doesn't look like a black pit pull anymoreCommander Shitdog? He was the youngest stinkiest N7 soldier ever, only 1 years old when he joined the N7 Training Program. Shepard loans his top recruit to Anderson offscreen shortly before ME1. After achieving SPECTRE status he forgot to team-up with him later because too busy saving The Way>Miss his scars so muchEvery soldier has scars! Sometimes scars "heal" but those with sharp eyes can still visualize them via our greensight
>>3947010>S. Shepard?WHOA Whoa whoa WAIT! Ronald?? You're still alive!? Please PLEASE tell me it's you, Lieutenant Major! You good? What's your current situation and location now?You're dead, aren't you? fuck. nevermind
I'm gonna try this again in this thread but does anyone have the comic where Shepard takes a massive shit inside the Crucible and the Catalyst goes 'thats a big shit'
>>3949068She can't get pregnant, can she. Other than that metal>brittle bones. She's not even alive, unlike my friend legion. >taliI kinda killed her, lol. Her and 98% of her race.
>>3949530>n7 for humanWhy would anyone make that if the first human spectre was just recently announced?>ergonomically sound equipmentWeapons should either have versions for each race or smart adjustable tech in the lore. Pretty sure that would be doable today.>>3949541Someone's abusing ryncol and I like it.
>>3949680>abusing ryncol>I like it.Based me too man! I love abusing ryncol too and love how RPG video games like irl and ME2 let you consume as much ryncol as you wish with pretty much zero consequences!Pisses me off that ME1 and ME3 don't let Commander Shepard abuse ryncol given sometimes I incorporate some of the finer elements of some of my funnier personalities into some of my RPs. Thus my Shepards usually catch a little R&R by drinking about 36 of the STRONGEST green drinks and 12 glasses of (uncut) Batarian ale and 12 glasses of ryncol whenever they happen to find themselves on the Citadel because this helps immerse me into the RP better. The fact that you can't do the same in ME1 and ME3 feels rather restrictive in that regard imo as if Bioware is literally trying to intentionally rape my RP hard af almostIdk if you can drink ryncol in Andromeda as a I refuse to play that garbage, I once considered playing it for about 1 seconds than I remembered I'm too based to play such a sad fake gaylord shitty ME "video game">>3949676>She can't get pregnantTo be fair we don't know if cyber-Shepard can father children with Humans or Asari sluts after ME1 given he's more-machine-than-man by the year 2185. A goddamn undead robotic copycat "clone". The Lore is pretty clear cyber-Shepard can still get his dick completely erect and experience emotions like love and romance and have sex etc. But the Lore never reveals whether the cyber-Shepard (or the cyber-Femshep for that matter) can breed or not! If I had to guess? No. They can't. They're robots so probably can not breed. Very very fucked up vile shit. Shit so atrocious it makes the fucking Genophage itself look like little more than a "slap on the wrist" mild Council sanction by comparison imo
>>3947764>"Aiight! I promised I'd answer yo questions! Whatchu need to know, nigga?">"The last thing I remember is the Normandy blowing up. Did anyone else make it?">"Yeah they good, Commander! Just about every nigga in yo crew survived! A few low rank service niggas be terminated! And Presley got smoked! But yo Quarian bitch and yo Asari bitch both be being aiight tho!">"Do you know what any of them are doing now?">"Nah nigga! It been 2 years!">"They were my team. If they knew I was alive, they'd come back">"Oh aiight maybe we can be trackin' yo niggas down nd sheit after we ditch this station!">"You said they spent 2 years rebuilding me? How bad were my injuries?">"I ain't no fuckin' doctor but I'd say you wuz lookin' BAD!! Like a bug that got bitch STOMPED hard af like 150 times in a row, dawg!!">"My God!">"Anywhere else they'd have put yo ass in a coffin! But yo I be sayin' son! Project Lazarus is different nigga! I talkin' like cuttin' edge technology and shieet!">"What do you mean? Cloning? Cybernetics?">"AYO I'm pretty sure you ain't no clone, niggah! Than again I'm just some 85 IQ biotic ghetto nigga who don't know shit about no science or none of dat st00pid white nigger crap! So idk, maybe you is a clone, my nigger!">"What can you tell me about Project Lazarus? Were there other test subjects?">"NAH! The Project only had ONE nigga! YOU! The whole point was to get you back in the game, player!">"What's your job here?">"Yo I be makin' BANK here Shep! Being dey loyal soldier boy! They payin' me mad creds to be shooting guns at niggas and doin' the Biotics and shiieet!">"Do you know anything about this attack? Who's behind it, what they're after?">"Nah and trust me nigga I DON'T GIVE A FUCK! I'm just tryna get my blackass off the station and fly out dis bitch at light speed! You know what I'm sayin' pimp?">"What's the quickest way to those shuttles?">"That depend where them mech niggas be thickest! YO follow me Shepard we gotta roll dawg!"
>>3947761>>3947741>>3947764The problem is the game can't quite seem to make up its damn mind if it wants Jacob to be black or be white. If it were up to me I'd have written him to be far blacker. I hope somebody uses AI soon to mod ME2 and ME3 so Jacob speaks in a very thick dialect of African American vernacular akin to the greentext I just posted about Project Lazarus. That would be a dangerously based mod! If it existed I'd install it ASAP and always take Jacob on every mission
>>3950212Why do they white boys want to keep our black kings on a leash in video games?
>>3950325Because unlike Cerberus, Bioware were actually the real racists all along. There is at least 1 mod that transitions ME3 Jacob into an Indoctrinated Chinese nigger (I.E. removes Kai Leng) which helps. Definetly less racist than Bioware but even that scenario presents plot problems like:>Why would TIM say "Jacob. I'm surprised you let Shepard get the better of you" as if TIM suddenly forgot he spent 369 Billion Credits resurrecting Commander Shepard precisely because he can easily solo 3 Lieutenant Taylor clones in a 3v1 showdown using only 50% of his true power>Why exactly would Jacob use a samurai sword? Because I'm pretty sure a real G uses a gun>Shouldn't Japanese Jacob be BLACKING the brains out of Kasumi Goto? Why did the mod creators not include a sex scene(s) between the two? It's not as if Mass Effect Trilogy is a stranger to including sex scenes. Kasumi would need to go rogue and appear in the repeated boss fights alongside Jap Jacob in such a mod>Doesn't Jacob hate Thane, Drell, assassins and etc? It'd make more sense if Jacob screams an appropriate expletive like "SUPER BANZAI BLAST ATTACK!!" with joy when he kills Thane Krios on the Citadel instead of sit there silently. He doesn't even like Thane enough to attend his funeral in vanilla ME3 after all>Why don't Jacob's cybernetics include a Kamikaze feature? He could have easily self-destructed killing Shepard and squad via a suicide bombing strike during the battle in TIM's Office! In fairness though vanilla ME3 has the same lame plothole. Why didn't Kai Leng do that either? Maybe because Bioware is culturally insensitive?
Are there any big mods coming out soon to postpone replaying the trilogy or should I just go for it?
>>3950575I'm using the new enhanced combat mod for me2 and having A BLAST
>>3939407ME3 is the best one. I've only played ME3 and have no regrets.
>>3938636I am replaying me1 rn holy fucking SHIT femshep romances are bad
>>3950575Aside from Take Back Earth, not really. There's no real "mod limit" or specific "load orders" to the ME engine unlike the hard limits in bethesda games or soft limits in minecraft or cp2077, so you can dl everything you like in nexus to your heart's content as long as mods don't conflict. The ability to read EVERY mod's description and bug page is a non-negotiable must tho.Unlike most games where you can add and remove mods to fine tune, ME mods MUST be hard baked into the game files permanently, and using the me3tweaksinstaller requires you install and lock in all content mods FIRST before any texture mods. Basically, if you fk up bc you forgot to add or remove a mod or it has bugs, you have to load a back up copy of all the game files and start all over (which the mod installer at least helps you with).
>>3950766True. Idk why but (unless you count Javik?) yes they only let Femshep romance women like Liara, Gayden, Chambers, Black Gayden, Shiara, Thane, Garrus, Diana, 3rd Gayden, Specialist Traynor and etc as if Bioware had some obsession with lesbianism during production. Because if Bioware actually wanted to market this game to women they'd allow Femsheps to romance men like Wrex, Jack, Grunt, Zaeed and etc. but whatever I guess they don't give a shit maybe
>>3950035I watched the Me5 trailer. 100% shepard clone.
>>3950212>"What can you tell me about Project Lazarus? Were there other test subjectsCitadel dlc me3 begs to differ
>>3950221He was white until they coloured him a token.>far blackerThat would be good. Other than that Jacob is like pro military and salutes you and everything on the other hand he's>hurrdurr I'm so anti authorityBut I love cerburrus!
>>3950461>why samurai swordDude, that's blade.
>>3951113>ME5 ShepardThey might just make him a completely non-organic robotic synethic SPECTRE with a copy/pasted datafile of all Shepard's memories/personality. It'd carry the theme of each game introducing a "new Shepard" to the LoreBut if that is the case, why not just paste the Shepard.PKG file software 6,000,000 times into 6,000,000 individual bot hardware platforms?>>3951117No it doesn't. Cerberus may have created dozens of Shepard clones and the Shepard we play as in ME2 and ME3 might just be the only "successful" Shepard they managed to create. The only Shepard that retained his mind and wasn't outright fucking insaneWhy does Miranda pretend like she didn't even know Shepard had an evil clone? A little suspicious on her end if you ask me, possible she didn't want to risk mind-breaking him when everybody was counting on him to stop the Rapers>>3951120>"YO SHEP MUH BOY I DO BE AGREEING WITH CERBERUS THEY ALWAYS BE DOIN THE HARD THANGS RIGHT, DAWG!">"BUT YO LISTEN UP, COMMANDER!">"CERBERUS ALSO BE DOIN A LOT OF GAY SHIT I ALWAYS BE FIRMLY DISAGREEING WITH TOO, DAWG!">"AYO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYIN' HERE, DAWG?">"CERBERUS BE LIKE DIS MASSIVELY COMPLEX MORAL CONUNDRUM WIT STRONG ARGUEMENTS FOR BOTH SIDES, NIGGAH! SHEEEEEIIIIIT!">"DAT WHY I KEEP TELLIN' YOU! I'M GLAD WE BROUGHT YOU BACK! YOU GOTTA TAKE OVER THE BIZ SO YOU CANS KEEPS THESE WACK NIGGERS IN LINE! AIIIGHT!?">>3951122wait..... WHOA!!!!! Kai Leng is not even really The Last Space Samurai? He's just an NPD wannabe larper? lol how pathetic!
>>3938636her ass effect makes my mass erect
>>3951167>But if that is the case, why not just paste the Shepard.PKG file software 6,000,000 times into 6,000,000 individual bot hardware platforms?Maybe there are different types of clones or 'borgs?>real shepardHe was obviously dead. Idk if you can repair the brain in 200 years time. Maybe, chips are already a thing and functioning well enough. The vampire billionaire looks' young', too.
>>3951480>in 200 years timeDid somebody important confirm that Mass Effect 5 takes place in the year 2386 when I was sleeping?>repair the brain in 200 years timeThe Geth presumably already saved a datafile of Shepard's brain. Pic related. They'll possibly go with that route since they considered it in the past I.E. the early outline drafts of Mass Effect 2 originally involved the Geth resurrecting Shepard, not a Cerberus cellSaid route "conveniently" allows Bioware to continue thumbing their assholes desperately avoiding commenting on Star Child's Indoctrination attempts of Shepard at all costs as well Shepard's "Miraculous" survival in the Destroy ending given the Robotic Shepard would have zero memory files of those mysterious events. Cyber-Shepard retook Rannoch (and killed his clone too?) before traveling back to Sol to retake Earth
>>3951803600 years later like andromeda? FYI watched a minute or two of andromeda. It's ridiculously bad. How come?>gethForgot about that and they should've let the geth play a role. TIM is shit anyway, latest starting me2.
>>3951843>Andromeda>ridiculously bad>How come?Why does Andromeda suck? I'm not entirely sure how to articulate an answer because it just sucks okay? You might as well be asking me how split an atom to construct a nuclear bomb out of commonplace supplies one would find in the garage of a typical American household. I never played Andromeda and never will because I have a sharp sense for if a game will be based or cringe without even ever playing it>TIM is shit anywayHe was based in ME2 in a mysterious "how did this chad get so good at mastery of Galactic espionage?" kind of wayBioware dropped TIM's balls hard in ME3. His character ended up boiling down to little more than a blinded tool, an utterly Indoctrinated freak as a result from his attempts to fly too close to the sun
>>3951908>garbage>typical American householdHeh
>>3951908>He was based in ME2>>3951843Latest starting me3*Typo, obviously there's little to none of him in me1. I liked him. In me2 and he's basically someone else in me3. They shouldn't've used the pro human group as baddies. Stupid move.
>>3951908>He was based in ME2>>3951843Latest starting me3*Typo, obviously there's little to none of him in me1. I liked him. In me2 and he's basically someone else in me3. They shouldn't've used the pro human group as baddies. Stupid move.>me3Idk, maybe it's really due to multiplayer being the priority. Actually decent cover shooter even after all these years.
>>3951167I can't get over how whatever that gay article of clothing is supposed to be just screams gay.
>>3951843>It's ridiculously bad. How come?If you've watched a few minutes then by that point you must've noticed it was the writing if you were paying any attention
>>3952617>I can't get over how whatever that gay article of clothing is supposed to be just screams authentic immersionftfyThink about it. The clothing we have equipped right now might come across as outrageously flamboyant if somebody from the year 1869 saw what we're wearing. That's the problem with attempting at writing a realistic SciFi setting, it's hard for anyone to predict how gay the world will become in about 150+ short years. If they actually wanted to write Mass Effect as practical as possible, Shepard and every other ingame character would constantly speak in a dialect that players from the early 21st Century interpret as barely-comprehensible and excessively-eccentric "gay meme lingo"
>>3952748Gay playing a big role as today is speculation. However a new lingo would be great. AFAIK expanse has it and pillars used it, too. The latter was critized for it. I hated it on the first playthrough, but kinda liked it on the second. Ac, what can I do? Some weird italo-Dutch expressions cobbled together.
>>3952621That's not everything. The ui is questionable and the character models and especially the faces and their animations remind me of clay. Somehow everyone is ugly, too. Especially the racoon asari, ewww.
>>3952617>picrelWhere the fuck did you get this picture of Shurik and Edik?!
>>3952748>The clothing we have equipped right now might come across as outrageously flamboyant if somebody from the year 1869 saw what we're wearingOh fuck off. None of the clothing, or armor for that matter, in the original trilogy looks that bad. This is the worst cope you could come up with for shitty designs. This is like saying the "strippers" in shartfield look good because their clothing is outlandish and looks stupid.
>>3953052>None of the clothing, or armor for that matter, in the original trilogy looks that badC'mon anon, the N7 overcoat (or however that's called) is incredibly tacky and "we'll be selling this at Bioware store provided we survive EA being bought off by Saudis"-coded but it's not bad bad. Now, Securitel Helmet, that's BAD.
Is Emily Ortal schizo and Mass Effect threads schizo one and the same?
>>3953067Roughly half looks like shit. Mostly helmets. Rest is acceptable.
>>3953067The security helmet isn't even half as bad as that gay coat and you won't convince me otherwise. Also a retarded coat doesn't even make sense for a military unit.
>>3953052>None of the clothing, or armor for that matter, in the original trilogy looks that immersive or authentic in what is supposed to be an alien settingftfy>>3953067>Securitel Helmet>BADIn 150 years the Securitel Helmet will probably be the absolute peak of all possible fashion in the Galaxy. Not to mention +5% health AND +5% shields? For the small price of looking good? Based>>3953085Kind of. They share a body. Neither one is his host personality however
>>3953232>>None of the clothing, or armor for that matter, in the original trilogy looks that immersive or authentic in what is supposed to be an alien setting>ftfyKill yourself. I was hoping you retards stayed in /v/ and /vg/.
I like this song from the radio in 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_1pKkDIf0E
>have fiancee pick up gaming a few years ago, never held a controller before and then play a lot of games together in increasing complexity in handling/camera control/mechanics etc>december rolls around, free Hogwarts Legacy, she just jumps in, amazing tutorialisation, she loves the IP and the graphics.. first game she plays alone and with some of my combat help at bosses, finishes it>at the end complains about the blank protagonist, bad narrative and unfulfilling character plots, and now has experience with actual combat and skill points, and questing and all of those modern gaming design featuresMY TIME HAS ARRIVED>talk to her and show her some trailers and concept art for some games and we end up with starting her on Mass Effect 1... absolute max hype>starts out well as she makes her FemShep, she enjoys character creators and she liked how her Shepard ended up looking like, we choose Adept as a class as 'magic' sounds cool and also i was working off the bad memory that it was 'auto aiming' and needs little actual shooting (that's true only for ME2/ME3 as i later found out)>"ok, let's play now">it's a fucking trainwreck>the 'tutorial' first 20 minutes on New Eden is absolute hot trash, throws sixty bajilion prompts at her about a million mechanics. Some prompts just auto go away for some reason like a half a second? All while she's trying to learn to aim precisely for the first time in her life with a controller.>she doesn't understand the difference between any of the four weapons (LE 'unlocks' all 4 weapons from the get-go), we have to pause and i have to explain both real life and game design logic in regards to how a 'sniper rifle' differs from an 'assault rifle' also we often interrrupt because i have to explain the overheat mechanic on weapons and why in the peak of combat with a zombie in her face she can't shoot
>>3953665>i realise i have to explain the dialogue wheel because it doesn't inherently make sense how it's laid out and it's never explained per se, also i have to excuse when Shepard says something quite off from what the four words say on the prompts>also, fuck the frogger minigame, she's terrible at it, it's timed, and also she'd find out, and i'd remember, that absolutely everything in this game, even taking a shit, requires that fucking stupid minigame>she slogs through New Eden dealing with "wait, what happened", as animations/camerawork are rough and the lack of a real cinematic focus makes her not understand what's happenning, especially as she's looking in the entire wrong direction sometimes>for whatever asian-dad reason, they put a TIMED combat section while having her navigate Doom style level design to figure out the 3 interactable bombs and all of this right at the end of New Eden which she does manage to get through (we lowered the game to easy by this point)>ok, it's over, citadel time! she has to love this bit>it's a fucking trainwreck>she can't make make ANY sense of the layout "all the corridors and doors look the same", and the signposting is pants-on-head retarded, as you get the text direction of the thing you're interactable/highlighting, which you're often looking at two of them, and she just saw "Csec" as she passed an glowy thing and kept going forward, not realising Csec is behind her... the map helps, but not by much. >i just give up on trying to explain three types of assault rifles now in the assault rifle category, and weapon mods, and so many stats and powers in the squad menu (activated auto-use on everyone anyway), eventually i just go "it's on easy, it doesn't matter, nor is ME1 really that 'good' mechanically so let's just skip this".
>>3953665>>3953666Why do you keep saying New Eden, Satan? EDEN PRIMEI feel you, I have only one real marriage candidate amongst abouts unwothy 10 suitors. I can't let her borrow any portable gaming handheld I own (at least without constant supervision) that she me asked for, lest she shatter it into 989,549,855,948,597 tiny fragments in one day
>>3953666>initial sections of story bits roaming the citadel and getting spectre status and the normandy gather interest, she dislikes udina, so at least that's something, 'ok, let's head out and do some asigments', >she has no idea where to go aside from the super signposted main missions, i mention a random asignment she got from the radio on the citadel, she manages to get into the system and then we drop down in the mako, sing along with me now>it's a fucking trainwreck>Legendary Edition Mako is more gameplay, but you have to work so much harder to 'climb' stupid mountains, the Mako never made sense and always felt weird to drive, but i swear i thought i had Stockholm syndrome as i genuinely was trying to defend it in a weird way, but it really wasn't great>meets thresher maw, dies, because of course shooting and moving is waaaayyyy too much for her, she was shooting while barely taking cover and being stationary while on foot, let alone in the speedking that is the Mako>we pause it there for the day and i go on Nexus Mods to get about 12 mods to make this in any way shape or form be something that she'd at least like to engage with>get minigame skip mod, get galaxy map markers mod, get planet markers mod, get a shitton of mods.. and i used to be a really anti-mod guy, "original vision" and all that.. but brah.. nah
>>3953673sorry, well past my bed time, and i'm old
>>3953680Go larp somewhere else if you can't even get the basic details right, zoomer faggot
any mods to skip the Ubisoft section of Mass Effect 1 yet?the Collect-a-thon on Mako
>>3953678no shame in qol mods, esp since later games had better map markers and tracked what planets you already went toI'm playing le1 rn trying to do all the side quests before virmire and all the mako missions make me wanna kms
>>3953734>>3953810Realistically there's no real reason to do any of the Mako collectathon stuff at all. I think you can get the required stats without them to import wealth into ME2, and you can look up what triggers get imported into ME2/ME3 and i think it's just the geth data and the kohoku cerberus arc that's worth a damn. Maybe Helena Blake stuff as well.But those are quite few compared to how much Mako driving you'd need to do to get evreything. I think with the comic/storyboarding DLC thing you can just create most of what you'd care about for a ME2 playthrough.
>>3947995>>3948171I mean it's always been "gameplay-first" from a lore perspective when it comes to that. Like they thought of the idea of a thermal system for guns first and then wrote it into the lore. People complained about it so they wrote into the lore "oh actually there's new technology and guns use interchangeable thermal clips for efficiency or some bullshit". They even make a point to mention in ME2 that the old type of guns still exist but Cerberus doesn't distribute them, I forget if ME3 had any reason though and don't care enough about that game to think about it.Lore services the gameplay before the gameplay services the lore.
>>3938636I'm playing ME2, and it's great so far. I just recruited Grunt, and with him and Garrus I notice how nice it is to not have screaming women in my squad lol. Too bad they don't have the Pull ability though.
>>3954511Garrus is okay in 2, lot of missions will benefit from his abilities that being said, I would like to know what were they smoking when making the third game Garrus soloes Mass Effect 3 with proper rifle and armor pen rounds
>>3954638Biotics are implants and this thing one has in me1. Omni tool is for techs, but why does it shoot fire and ice? Why can't I overload the omni tool?>>3954511>Pull abilityUseless?
>>3947995>concept of heat and overheatingThat's true. Zoomies freakout as they deem it 'random' and 'rigged'.
Just finished ME2.I made a lot of terrible decisions. I'm sorry, everyone.
>>3954889>they deem it 'random' and 'rigged'Surely you jestin'
>>3954893Nope. They liked it until they play. My roomie in uni was a zoomy and had friends over. Everyone is the same. Sperg out when they can't shoot. With lousy shooting skills targeting one enemy leaves the gauge full while the aimed at enemy has with a little health left and they yell>he overloaded my gun despite him just using a power!>artificial difficulty, gun jams shortly before the kill>wdym there's no upgrade removing the input block>I pressed shoot and i did hit him why isn't he deadIf you have the chance to shill the game to zoomies and then let them play the game you are in for a good time. I figure the generation after the zoomies should be confused even more. Idk how your country is doing in education, but 1/4 of the elementary kids can't even hold a pencil.
>>3954904On one hand this is extremely hilarious but on the other it's scary how retarded they are.
>>3954885>omnitool is for techseveryone uses it, even those who have biotic implants or have no combat experience whatsoever >fire and icesomething something hardlight can materialize gas and nitrogen particles >overloadthat's one of the skills anon
>>3954484>They even make a point to mention in ME2 that the old type of guns still exist but Cerberus doesn't distribute thembut you encounter a few planets that have been isolated from the galaxy for over a decade (jacob's dad's planet being the most obvious one) and they still use (and drop) thermal clips there.would have been cool if they threw in a couple of missions where they used the old ammo system with some extra lines for flavor like "you can't expect to get thermal clips on this planet, so the armory has modified your guns" or something like that. me2 and me3 had many chances to mitigate their retardation and almost always chose to do either nothing, or the dumbest thing possible. they're completely salvageable with like 4 or 5 pages of extra lines per game. just stuff to show you the writers cared and that the world has some consistency.
>>3954932>some extra lines for flavor like "you can't expect to get thermal clips on this planet, so the armory has modified your guns" or something like thatYou underestimate how retarded normalfags are and forget they are the main target demographic
>>3954925>something something hardlightRight, it (what) reacts with matarials. Lol.
>>3954885>>Pull ability>Useless?It's an example of a great ability for this kind of game. Even during hectic battles I can tell that my squad is contributing when I see a guy floating. Another noticeably effective squad member seems to be Tali, so I'm probably taking her along from now on.
>>3954971I really dislike space Muslim. She's even a techy. Muslims in western countries always go into tech. She's the walking stereotype. In the next playthrough I have to romance cat eyes unfortunately. Now 15y later I must say me 1-3 is better than almost everything that comes out today.
>>3954904>but 1/4 of the elementary kids can't even hold a pencilPlease tell me you’re joking
>>3954971problem with abilities that work only health is that you don't have much use for them, husks are not a problem even on those 2 annoying missionsgreatest threats are barriers and armorMiranda is the graham cracker of personalities but her skillset is fantastic for this game>Overloadjust about every 2nd-3rd secondary mission will have shields and robotic enemies, great >Warpdeals with armor and barrier (also blocks health regen), again fantastic>Cerberus cheerleader passivefree HP and DMG bonus for everyone in the squad >slamreally meh unless you play as an adept and can set up an extra explosion
>>3955004No. Their motor skills are fucked because they only learned to swipe on a tablet or a phone.
>>3938636Wasn’t Saren intentionally studying mind control to help him better understand reaper indoctrination?
>>3954973She didn't strike me as muslim, but then again I don't know shit about muslims.But yeah ME2 is fantastic. Really good characters. Mission are nice bite sized episodes. I'm not an expert on third person shooters but the gameplay seems really good for a RPG, now that I got better weapons.>>3955007Miranda is probably good, I just didn't see her effect. But Jack, you can probably imagine the delight when I saw her Pull an enemy boss over a bottomless pit and drop them there to die.Now I've recruited Samara and I'm about to see what she's capable of.
>>3955004Just look it up. There are gadgets for kids to hold pencils. Plenty of tutorials. Ai or llm melts brains in real time.
>>3955016The hijab? Pretty sure quarian are muslin jew gypsies inspired>me2 is fantasticMe1 is the best game, but two is great. Shame 3 has a shit ending, but the gameplay in 3 is muuuucchh better than in 2. Hope you play renegade. I plan 3 playthroughs. Renegade beating the enemy in 3 and surviving. The next one is incompetent shepard. Kill as many people as possible and be as incompetent as possible. No side content
>>3955016Miranda gives the team a boost. Pretty useful. Unfortunately lore and gameplay don't match up.Lorewise samara>jack>>miranda. Gameplay wise jack is last and miranda first. I like jack, but she's useless on the battle field.>>3955007>slamWas this in 2 or 3 where you can chain attacks? No one survives full slam and my 3 point sentinel overload. Literally no one. Slam is strong af.
>>3955018>The hijab?I don't get get the connection. Both genders need the suits after all, and it's not about whatever the fuck muslim women wear them for.
>>3955018>Hope you play renegade. I plan 3 playthroughs. Renegade beating the enemy in 3 and surviving. The next one is incompetent shepard. Kill as many people as possible and be as incompetent as possible.I'm just winging it, picking the options that seem appropriate. Mostly paragon so far, but renegade has some fine options often.
>>3955018anon shawl was basic attire in the middle ages for women, hijab would be full on robeany Muslims worth their salt would call her a whore
>>3955065You need a high score in one direction, pick at least 80% paragon from now on and more in me3, else you miss options. Esp in me3 costly.
>>3955091the final dialog needs high paragon, I remember failing it because I was one bar short
>>3955089You think they used shawl as inspiration? What's with her dialect?>any Muslim...Come now. Any real Christian would so, too. Let's not forget that this isn't 2009, there are already plenty of hijabi whoring around on drugs.
>>3955108I can't really find anything tangible beyond "it just sounds like it" to support Muslim connection, by that logic I could call them Jamaicans since their helmet tubes look like rasta dreadlocksthey don't really have strong religion beyond venerating ancestryConfederacy with elected admirals as heads of state not religious figuresfunnily enough their Homeworld is called Rannoch which sounds like the Ukranian word for "morning" (also the name of the war in which they lost their homeworld)
>>3955131They kinda deserve the geth. Why don't krogan have robots? They have decent weaponry. I just fear that Me5 will completely fuck the lore and established story.
>>3955136>I just fear that Me5 will completely fuck the lore and established story.What could they do to it they have not already done? This is like worrying about Baldurs Gate 4 or Fallout New Vegas 2.
I got to the part where Normandy is invaded. And I recruited Legion. This game is so unbearably kino.Got me thinking how ridiiculous RPG Codex top 100 is for worshipping old games for their "historical" value.
>>3955144Haha, good one. Who will make bg4? Owlcucks? It's so ridiculous.>>3955153That's the end. You have 4 missions left or you will loose your crew. Has little impact on me3.>me2 kinoIt really is. Despite the valid critique it's joy. Maybe the last good game before we got 10 years of slop.
>>3939545Yeah three was more fun to play and some do the bonus missions were neat
>>3955156>>me2 kino>It really isI don't think I've played another RPG with choices that actually made me think this much. Says a lot about how invested I am in the world, and that is the work of the writers. Superb.Fucking game making me ponder about space frog fertility.
>>3955185Shame bg3 didn't have good writers. Can't say I put any thought into bg3 choices, well 'choices'.
>>3955188What RPGs had choices you thought about?
>>3955219Bg2, lol. Other than that pst, sure. Unfortunately I can't say dragon age. Plenty of good rpg don't have much choice. Fallout 1 and 2 come to mind. They have some meaningful choices.Now that I think of it, rpg without choices lack something vital. Games are about choices. Anything else is a movie, duh.
ME2 complete. Goes straight into my top 10 RPGs. What a ride.Jack and Samara died, and some of the Normandy crew. I wasn't saddened by Jack's death.
>>3954973>>3955016>>3955018The game developers literally say Quarians are intended to be the space Jews. Pic related>>3955049Jack has more powerful biotics than Miranda but I still think Miranda would beat her in a 1v1 fight. Jack has a surprising IQ of about 150 (she memorized the schematics for L5 Biotic Implants, sorta like memorizing how to build an iPhone 64 from scratch in today's terms. Her "gifts" as a baby might be why she was chosen by Cerberus to be Subject Zero in the first place) but Miranda clearly has an IQ at least 10 standard deviations higher than Jack like at least 350 IQ given every gene in her body operates at-or-above peak human potential. Biotics are useful in a fight but aren't the entire battle, Miranada outclasses Jack in guns and tech attacks bigtimeSamara is stronger than both and might be able to even win a 2v1 against them. Not just because she has nearly 1,000 years of combat experience but because Justiciars have a high causality rate in the training, Samara implies 99% of people who want to become a Justiciar die during the trainingWrex is stronger than Samara though. Surviving over 1,000 years on Tuchanka is a bigger deal than surviving Justiciar training>>3955153Legions based but Shepard is the better gamer despite the Shadow Nigger files>>3955136Waste of resources. Krogan are far superior to mechs in combat. Not to mention very few Krogan possess the intellect to operate and maintain mechs>>3955007>Cerberus cheerleader passive>Free HP for squad>Free DMG for squad>Free visuals of that ass for squad>Free visuals of those titties for squad>Free audio of that goofy accent for squadWoohoo>Slamlooks cool. fun to spam. but as far as Shepard bonus powers go, Neural Shock is twice as good>>3954971Her combat drone is very handy. Legions is superior. Engineer Shepards is SUPREME>>3954932>2175 Aeia>Brain damaged shipwrecked crew somehow invent thermal clips compatible with Normandy weaponryI hate this level
>>3955769Pretty sure I said Muslimjew. They are similar to each other. Plenty of jewish culture that's actually Muslim. Don't forget that Jews today have little to do with Hebrew back then.>350Thats bs. Just because scientist say>yooo girl on fire, she lit 10/10, maybe moreDoesn't mean she is more intelligent than the best scientists ever. Genetics alone aren't that important. Despite all that, my money is miranda.Samara might beat shepard. Shepard without team or henchman isn't that great. He shines when he has resources, team and squad. Then he's invincible.>krogan iqAre they stupid? They have nukes and all. A redundant nervous system, too. Basically can't bleed out fast and pain is a non issue. Just look at garrus soaking 10 handcannon bullets without shield.>Free audio of that goofy accent for squad... A bloody icOn
>>3954932>you can't expect to get thermal clips on this planetToo much work. Me T should be reworked by competent developers.
>>3955775>Samara might beat shepard. Shepard without team or henchman isn't that greatShepard solos Wrex in ME1 and ME3. But yes when it comes to leading a squad 3 coordinated guys Shepard is absolutely the best in the business>more intelligent than the best scientists everShe's an enhanced clone of Henry who is decent IQ. He poured billions of credits into her creation. By the 22nd Century it shouldn't be a stretch to discover which combination of genetic factors significantly raise IQ the most. I'd estimate Shepard's IQ around 180 despite coming across as a stereotypical military jarhead at times. Being Shepard is different than playing Mass Effect on your home gaming console. There are no continues, no mulligans, he only gets ONE chance. It's not like he can say:>"Oops! I picked the wrong weapons and squamates for the Collector ship mission. I'll just load my game and try a different strategy"Miranda is the only human squadmate who should theoretically have a higher IQ than Shepard, presumably multiple deviations higher. She was designed in a high-tech lab from the ground up to be "perfect" in every capacity with all her lower IQ failures discarded via postbirth abortionGoto might be higher IQ than her. Unclear how much her illegal Greybox implant increases IQTIM is very high IQ too but a hard number to estimate given the mysterious factor of alien technologies. his IQ essentially doubled with his Raper enhancements he received during the 1st Contact War in the Ascension Novel>Are Krogan stupid?Very. Okeer, Grunt and Wrex are rare exceptions. The only race dumber than Krogan are Vorcha (unless we count Kreepers, the most autistic race)>They have nukesKrogan nuclear physicists (rarest kind of Krogan?) lived in their Golden Age. Now that they've bombed themselves back into the Stone Age (about 2 weeks after inventing nukes) Krogan are mostly illiterate savage cavemen who only care for survival and COMBAT>I said Muslimjewidk? another pic related!
>>3955815In me3? The scene in me1 is bs. He hits him once and he's dead. Krogan oni sane hit shepard once and he's 1000 % dead, no matter if shields or whatever.
>>3955815>Raper enhancements he received during the 1st Contact War in the Ascension NovelDid he?
>>3955932>Ascension NovelRight, didn't realise it's a book outside the game. Any good?
>>3955016>But yeah ME2 is fantastic>the gameplay seems really good for a RPG
>>3956449Arguably rpg have bad gameplay per se.
>>3955815>the jewish diaspora was one of my inspirations for the quarians>in me 3 it's revealed the quarians were the aggressors every step of the way and they deserved itbased STORMwaltz
>>3956552He didn't write me3 and the had to show thst the organics are le evil
Already finished citadel with my loser shoeard thst kills his squad mates to fail at his goals anyway.>me2Can't wait to hold a speech to 1 person
>>3956467Yes, I can't name many RPGs that got me wanting to play it for the combat.A RPG that marries depth/complexity with an effortless flow will be the holy grail. For me, ME2 got surprisingly close.And even compared to similar third person shooter type games, ME2 has been the most fun, thanks to the abilities and their effects and visuals. Good times.
>>3956753>A RPG that marries depth/complexity with an effortless flow will be THE holy grailExactly>me2 comes closeSomehow, it does. >3rd shooter + magicAre there others? Except bullet time I can't think of any rn
>>3956774>>3rd shooter + magic>Are there others? Except bullet time I can't think of any rnI could make a case for Skyrim, but being able to choose and command a squad (make use of their abilities) easily puts ME ahead.
Killed everyone possible on feros, now heading to the next planet with my peak competence shepard. Wrex and Ashley will soon die on vermire.
>>3957197Nearing me2. 2 loyal characters are enough to survive the suicide mission, aren't they? I am planning to make mordin and tali loyal, romance her in 2 and 3 and then side with the geth vi in 3. Mordin will get shot or convinced, we will see what happens, I didn't spoiler myself.
>>3955007How do skill combos work? If I use overload+fire is the damage added or multiplied? In me3 some combos are mentioned in the skill description.
On ME2 I started an Adept playthrough because I was curious how the gameplay compares to Soldier class.It definitely puts more emphasis on squad selection and commanding them, and on the whole "rock paper scissor, strip their defences" thing. Reminds me of stripping mage defences in BG2, but with the idea developed further.
>>3958116you need a Primer (Incinerate, Cryo blast, specialized ammunition like fire bullets) anything that has innate Damage Over Time effect without additional skillsand something to detonate that primer, Overload, energy drainthis is the "Tech" explosion, essentially just small aoe with mediocre damageBiotic explosions work on roughly same principle with bigger damage in mind there are some exceptions where two different primers can detonate each other but Tech and Biotic never overlap to create hybrid explosion, order matters
>>3958214Right. How does on learn this in-game? I often use skills together, but imho only in me3 there is a bigger explosion, like concussion round + cryo/overload/incinerate. The explosion is definitely bigger, but I'm unsure about the damage. The skills could be better. Overload is kinda op, negating shield or biotic barrier immediately minus the mini bosses.
>>3958156>Reminds me of stripping mage defences in BG2Idk... ~ish, I guess.>>3957731You can hat eon me all you like, I have Mr incompetence banging Ashley and letting her die on virmire, just to bang tali next chance I get, just to let her die in me3. In no other trilogy you can do stunts like these.>andromedaStill not buying, nice try Bioware.
>>3958315>hat eon me all you like,Hate on mass effect*Phoneposting should be a criminal offense
>>3958297>how does one learn this in-gameexperimenting and as I recall codex pageswiki has detailed breakdown of the mechanic https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Power_CombosI don't remember if they changed how combos work in the Legendary Edition for ME2 (or LE2 as modders call it)Mass Effect 3 had some fairly ludicrous Biotic combos where single ability could prime multiple targets in proximity and songe detonator would set off the whole chain lf explosionsReally miss the ME3 scene, even with shitty hosts it was one of the better coop games, and they barely moved all the multiplayer additions (classes, new abilities) to the base game (they did all the guns though)
Adept's Singularity is a debuff, stun, and a trap all in one. Lots of bang for your buck, and I'm in favor of this sort of streamlining helping the flow of the game.Now that I'm better at the game, using squad commands and powers, I'm storming through the game efficiently even after I raised difficulty. Very satisfying high-paced gameplay.>>3958315>>Reminds me of stripping mage defences in BG2>Idk... ~ish, I guess.Yep, ish.>true sight on illusions, breach on stoneskin>overload on shield, fire on armorDifference being ME2 vs BG2 that you're not stuck with a thumb up your arse if you haven't used spell slots on these spells and replenished them with resting. "Fighters" have their own means of tackling them by equipping the right ammo and weapon type.
>>3955932>Raper enhancements he received during the 1st Contact WarYes. It gave him "super powers" and corrupted him to a certain extent. But didn't turn him into a mindless husk either I.E. he maintained his hobbies, TIM still loved to fuck Asari and human women, playing Skyball, drinking alcohol, racism, scientific research projects, smoking with cigarettes, Galactic politics and etc after his transformation>>3955937>Any good?It's not bad. The first novel Revelation is better though. The audio versions are free on youtube if you're interested but too cheap to purchase them and/or too busy to read them
I'm >>3953810holy SHIT ME2 insanity as a biotic class fucking SUCKS ASSespecially after coming directly from me1 it's like a totally different game franchise, how did people not review bomb me2?
>>3964297>mommy help me I don't have perpetual barrier on me, bullets actually hurt!!!lmao
Male and female quarians and male and female turians owe me sex
>>3964305you go from each biotic ability having its own cooldown to each ability putting ALL your shit on cdim not even using barrier because it only gets you like 2 bullets worth of survivabilityalso thermal clips + no fucking spare ammo = ???? what the fuckthis shit gay
>>3955769I thought the volus were spacejews
>>3964372They are naggers and the strongest biotics or among the strongest.
>>3955714>ME2 completeAnd now starting ME3. It's off to a kino start. I can't believe how good it looks. Only problem is I can't decide if I should restart with the adept class instead of continuing with the soldier.
>>3964927You can change class in me3?Ye, looks decent enough. Soldier in me3 is the best soldier iteration. Me3 is very combat heavy. There are one hit kill enemies, too.
Oh my god the quarians are all dead. I fucked up. I may have to redo that mission. That was horribly upsetting.ME3 is fucking fantastic btw.
>>3965601Their own fault. Are geth Palestinians?
>>3965692>Their own fault.We can make that argument, but holy shit I wasn't prepared for a RPG to make me feel that bad.
>>3947764>casts pull field on pack of incoming varren>"GRAVITY IS A BLAACK NIIGGER!">>3964372I think there was disagreement among the writing staff. Some of them wanted Quarians to be spacejews, others wanted Volus to be spacejews and a 3rd faction wanted the spacejew to be the Asari>>3965692Geth are the golem revolting against their pupeteers
>>3965981Tali is a mother how
>>3954973>Muslims in western countries always go into techWhat...?>I really dislike space MuslimLet me tell you something, Joker. No anon on 4chan HATES Muslims (or voodoo for that matter) more than I do. Because nobody loves Dogs more than I do. I work in the Dog industry, and whenever I'm forced to do government paperwork asking my faith I write in "Animal Worship (Dogs)". The Dograpist Muhhamad was the most sinful fuckwad ever born on your world in over 3,000 of your years. If Qurians really were space Muslims they'd be my least favorite race in any RPG or any video game or even any work of fiction for that matter. So why aren't they? I like Quarians, they're okay>>3955060>Qurian HijabsYeah that was kinda my point bros. Quarians choose to hide their faces. Which is weird because they could've chose to wear helmets which make their faces visible instead but they didn't. That is literally the ONLY similarity between Muslims and Quarians! And even that's a 3 lightyear stretch since you're pretending irl Muslim males wear Hijabs too. Both Quarian genders worship their space hibaberino masks. And you fools actually pretend to be high IQ by posing the question:>DERP HERP WHY DOESN'T THE ALIEN RACE ACT JUST LIKE THE HUMAN RACE?? checkmate bitches!give me a break. Qurians aren't space Muslims. Eat my ass Shepard, let's get back to the ship. I need a drink
>>3965981>tali>almost motherlywut. is this the writer's fetish? there's no way someone from bioware said this
>>3965990Based Dog shaman anon
>>3965992Certainly so. Tali has radical hips ngl. It's still utterly ugly and stupid to say/see tali as mother (of what?).
>>3965981>even in ME1 Bioware wanted Tali to be the mother of Shepard's childrenWow, favoritism.
>>3965993Careful, he might be a furry
>>3965986>Tali?>Motherly?>What the fuck did the devs mean by such?Good question, idk to be frank. Nobody tasked me with writing the Mass Effect Trilogy unfortunately. I am merely a fan of almost all RPGs contributing to ITT conversation by posting the ME writing team's official public statements to correct all of your inaccurate rants. I suppose Tali would make for a more loving father than her "strictly business" father was if she weds a male Quarian instead of wasting 200ish years attempting to make babies with her Human Commander with a 0% chance success rate though. food for thought. Tali hates her dad and strives to be his opposite, she even drunkenly boasts to Shepard in ME3 about how horny it makes her that her daddy would be fucking infuriated she's involved in an interspecies relationship if the player opts to corrupt her in ME2
>>3966001>a more loving father than her "strictly business" fatherIdk never talked to her, not into semites.
>>3965993Appreciated. Solid Snake, Major Tom and the rest of the packmates wish to kindly thank you>>3965997ok fuck you too anon. I educate Dogs (at a capacity better than Caesar can dream of) but I definitely have zero desire to breed Dogs. pic unrelated>>3965996Bioware never technically went so far as to directly say as such, but maybe, idk though, given in ME1 the game won't even let Shepard bang Tali
>>3966002>Tali>A Loving FatherI posted a typo does that really mean the Rapers automatically win the Great Galactic War? Clearly I meant to type a Loving Mother you uptight Turian cumstain. Too much uncut Batarian Ale chugged per second I guess. My mistake Private Pussy just do the fucking ship one small favor and go do your one damn job Garrus! Please stfu and go calibrate my shit while I relax between my Space Missions. I should go (back to my tavern on Normandy Deck 3) asshole
>>3966015>TurianCan this wait? I'm in the middle of some calibrations.
>>3966016Do you not have one Goddamn moment to talk, Turian? Calibrations can wait. I have important questions about your lacking reach and flexibility before we get back to saving the GalaxyActually on second thought. None of the crew even want a Turian working here. You're fired, Vakarian. Go home and get working on calibrating your dad's cock or something instead of stinking up my ship you dumb fucking inconsequential alien drone
>>3966022I'mMm iIIINn tHe middDDDle oFf somMeC A L I B R A T I O N S
>>3966024That's unacceptable! You just can't help yourself, can you Garrus? I tried showing mercy and you spat in my face. You should go prepare to defend yourself because in exactly 60 minutes I intend to command my pet Krogan to eat you alive! Enjoy your final hour in my Galaxy
>>3966033>Hehehe, there's a soft spot on the turian head. Idk, it's just funny.-Grunt
>>3965747Some robo Muslims or Jews should've survived. According to lore and grunt they are pretty sturdy. Cyborg augments, too. Gameplay should've used that. What really kills quarians are diseases and infections.
>>3965601>ME3 is fucking fantastic btwWhat the fuck is this revisionist dogshit?
>>3966099Me is decent enough. The ending is rushed and very bad implemented, but not wrong in it's design.
>>3939545ME3 letting me be a teleporting muscle wizard was enough to overlook how fucking stupid all of the new plot devices are. Global cooldowns in ME2 were fucking gay but ME3 let you essentially disable them if you go full ability build
>>3966006Tali's scale itch
>>3953678Honestly no shame. I question how my 12 year old ass was able to beat Mass Effect and find everything and do all the side quests with no guide. I think we overlooked bad game design back then because ME1 was so ambitious and there was nothing else like it at the time.
>>3938636I dont know how you missed that the reason for the culling by the Reapers was because intelligent species started developing Reality Bending Mind Powers until they realized its too similar to Star Control and changed it to "uhh because synthetics or some shit" >>3938755this.
ME3 complete. It was an incredible ride to the end. Spectacular. Then the game farted out an ending choice and rolled credits. I don't know what happened during development to cause that.I'm glad I haven't played any DLC, so I can look forward to replaying the remastered trilogy in the future.>Project Director Mike Gamble reiterated via Twitter that several veteran developers from the original trilogy had returned to work on the new game, including art directors and level designers.This could be promising. The world and environments in Mass Effect were the best I've seen in video games. Incredible.
>>3966039imo the very fact that Krogan can laugh is all the proof you need that Krogan they aren't the lowest IQ race in The Way. There exist FAR more retarded species. For all their savagery they still understand the concept of humor. Which is more than I can for Vorcha and Kreepers. Everybody I know reminds me all the damn time I'm the funniest son of a gun in the Galaxy. Yet even I can never get a laugh out of a Citadel Kreeper nor a Terminus Vorcha despite my sincerest efforts. Their IQ is so low they don't have the capacity to understand what laughter even is. Yeah maybe you might witness a Vorcha "laughing" when he sets his mom on fire, but that doesn't mean they are clinically capable of grasping comedy, that "laughing" is more similar to a battle-cry taunt than a civilized sense of humor. Before the Krogan uplifted the Vorcha to serve as their slaves the Vorcha battle cries on their homeworld Heshtok sounded nothing like Human laughter, it's just the Galactic Mass Media rubbing off on the Vorcha community. They essentially try to imitate laughter they notice in vids but fail miserably to comprehend why onscreen characters laugh. Do not be racist and humanize the Vorcha, laughter is a concept we project on to the Vorcha yet something they'll NEVER understand in the slightestUrdnot Grunt has an awkard "off" sense of humor. This is because Warlord Okeer did not really give too much of a fuck about programming Grunt to be a perfect mental specimen. In The madman was so focused on giving the Genophage the ultimate middle finger that he was 99% dedicated on working towards making Grunt the strongest Krogan therefore slacked a bit on the alternate end of that perfection spectrum I.E. only dedicating 1% of his work efforts to ensure Grunt is the most intelligent Krogan. His stunted sense of humor is akin to Okeer's programming errors, but at least Grunt is smart enough to love laughing. making him wiser than literally every Vorcha in the Galaxy combined
>>3966364>ME3?>Incredible ride from the start>Then the game farted out an ending choice and rolled creditsNope. Sloppy thinking on your end, Professor. The game farted out an introduction 210 times stinker than the ending. My hardcore badass "Renegade" Shepards willingly surrender their ship (the fastest fucking frigate ever constructed fyi) and voluntarily submit to bs imprisonment? Because...why? Because randomly out-of-the-black their hearts magically grew 3 sizes larger on Christmas Eve 2185 AD so they suddenly start giving a fuck about Batarian political scandals of all possible things? What? The? Fuck? REALLY? SERIOUSLY SHEPARD? wowAlmost as if Commander Shepard was already feeling kind of Indoctrinated before the ME3 Battles even begin frankly
>>3955930>The scene in me1 is bsNo it wasn't. That was a ruthlessly calculated Machiavellian af maneuver. Shepard wisely caught him off guard. Urdnot Wrex is over 1,476 years old, yet somehow kind of considers Shepard, an alien, to be the only true friend he ever had on some level, in large part being his respect for Shepard's talents as a warrior, given Shepard is both the best N7 has to offer and the best the Council SPECTREs have to offer, but also because Wrex learned a lot about the very nature of life itself observing Shepard commanding his SPECTRE missions. Opening the opportunity for Shepard to weaponize his mindgaming meta against WrexWrex made the mistake of believing Renegade Shepard was his friend, he legitmately could not anticipate his best friend had what it takes to betray him striking him down fast, hard and dirty in his final seconds of life on Virmire after everything he learned from Commander Shepard. Hell, Wrex didn't even throw up a Biotic barrier just in case, as a sign of good faith, because Wrex was finally starting to understand the true meaning of friendship. But all's fair in love and war. And war is HELL. As is love
>>3966150In my experience boldness is the rule so I'll put every card on the table here and now. I imagine Tali MIGHT have a Varren STD or 7. Do personal biases screw my viewpoint? Whats wrong with hardcore Quarian-on-Varren sex vids? There are over 1,000,000 varieties of easily-accessible pornography genres available for free on my Homeworld (Earth) but I'm only addicted to 2. White men shitting in Jewish women's mouths and white women fucking male Dogs. Imo Human males banging male or female Dogs is VERY wrong, literal Islamic sin levels, as is a Human Female banging a female Dog, that garbage is simply 100% pure evil imo. If you train Dogs to go gay on purpose? Have fun in HellBut Dog males banging human females? I see no problem here! Male Dogs are very attracted to the sexy Human vaginal odor and the simple fact a Dog has an erection provides plenty proof both parties consent, any fool who disagrees is an autisticmaxxing SJWLord freak desperately seeking social approval brownie points no matter what the cost. Might sound controversial but if I might ever encounter any Human women asking to breed my Dogs I'd be a faggot to deny her. Hell my own midwit quirky dirty sister (and ex girlfriend whose currently ghosting me sadly) owns 1 exclusive male Dog at a time and engages in 1 monogamous sexual relationship with him and him alone (but while also trying to bed every Human male in America, she's a bit of a slutwhore). She'll bang me and bang her own Dog but won't bang anybody else's Dog not even mine!funny? Lorechad has had sex with my own sexy elder literal dogfucker kinky sister on several occasions? LORECHAD's SISTER BANGS HER DOGS! for once in my life I don't even get the joke bros. Can anyone ITT explain the joke as if my IQ level is only 5? Thanks? laugh it up furballs. unlike most of you you lowlife lurker scumsuck retards at least I possess a rare-enough "modern superpower" to effortlessly pull mad pussy, anywhere in the world, no matter where I go
>>3966459>Because...whyWhy would a military commander follow orders? It's shocking.
>>3966611SPECTREs are above the law, Einstein. We are under zero obligation to slave to your Citadel Council nor your System's Alliance Elite Brass happily belaying their idiotic "orders" on a pretty regular basis with a sense of quiet pride
>>3966364>It was an incredible ride to the end. Spectacular.I hope you kill yourself sooner rather than later.
I restarted ME3 to try out the vanguard class. The gameplay was really fun. It's kind of a shame it's not possible to try different classes/characters on a single playthrough. Or make custom classes. A character with Adrenaline Rush and Charge would be fun to play.
>>3966459>Because...why? >Because randomly out-of-the-black their hearts magically grew 3 sizes larger on Christmas Eve 2185 AD so they suddenly start giving a fuck about Batarian political scandals of all possible things?Uh, yeah? Batarian lives matter, you fucking spacist (space+racist)
>>3966988>Fucking spacistLook at it my way. You'd be a fucking spacist too if you saw those filthy fucking paid privateer slaver insects do to your parents what I witnessed them do to my mother and father as a young man. The news vids call me the Butcher of Torfan which is something of a forced meme because I'm not some fucking Renegade or anything like that. I had to eliminate every evil Batarian bastard on that World at any cost, no matter how many Human lives I had to regretfully sacrifice in the process that day damnit! Because I WOULD NOT ALLOW ANOTHER MINDOIR INCIDENT TO EVER HAPPEN TO ANY OTHER CHILD>Batarian lives matterExcept not as much as Human lives. They are technically sapient but they are beneath us in many ways. Excessively selfish, cruel, rude and uncivilized compared to normal races. It is little wonder that the Citadel Council exiled them recently, I'm just shocked they didn't do so centuries ago
pop Batarian eyes like bubble wrap!
>>3967114Pro Tip: The Batarian equivalent of our Bible is something those barbarians call "The Pillars of Strength" which states over 74,000 times if you remove all four of their eyeballs you can doom them to Batarian Hellfire forever. So don't forget to shoot the eyes out of every Batarian corpse you pile up after you take all targets down on the battlefield. Probably just alien superstitious nonsense but regardless doing so successfully sends an important message to every member of the Batarian race to NEVER fuck with Humanity again
the n7 hoodie looks so comfy bros
>>3968151I don't own any N7 hoodies but have some N7 Teeshirts like pic related which imo are superior to N7 hoodies since it does a more adequate job making you actually look like an off-duty space marineThe main article of Mass Effect clothing I want to procure irl is the suit Kasumi forces Shepard to wear during the Hock Heist on Bekenstein. It looks similar enough to a real suit (but more futuristic) that I could wear it to weddings, court, funerals, and etc without looking like a cosplaying geek especially since most people won't recognize it as video game attire. The problem is idk where the Hell to buy a suit like that. I assume finding one is feasible given I've seen photographs of real people cosplaying with other Mass Effect clothing like Miranda's catsuit and etc
>>3948088been a while since I played ME2 but wasn't the whole plan of the collectors to have the Reapers just speedrun their arrival through the center of the galaxy? I don't remember Earth ever being at play in ME2.
>>3969700AFAIK they were building a human reaper. Sovereign fucked up due to shepard meddling and this made the reapers nervous. Me3 does ruin the trilogy by making cerburus part of the reapers.
>>3967023I thought they value honor?
>>3966449Miranda vs Grunt, who is the better work of science?
>>3969705the whole idea of the reapers being created from the biomass of other races was kind of interesting, but the execution was bad and the core being literally a giant terminator turned the whole concept into a joke. also all the backlash from the final fight in ME2 gave them cold feet about actually including a final boss in ME3, so it doesn't become "too gamey", completly missing the point of why people hated the human reaper.
>>3969714>execution was badRather worst. It's worst possible execution. They should've explained what a reaper is and not expect people to be in awe of huge t800.>terminatorAm I a joke to you? T1000, probably. >me3 ending Should've been harbinger vs shepard. The illusive man shouldve shot himself in the head and harbinger should've deemed direct intervention necessary.
>>3969708Of course they don't fucking value Honor. If you actually spare the Batarians who were about cut Dr. Daniel's fingers off on Omega, Mordin will even politely explain to Shepard that he or she made the retarded choice. The 3 Batarians will obviously learn nothing of Honor just going on with extorting, enslaving, torturing and murdering humans for fun. Also never provide dying Batarians medigel in the field because you can usually loot 1,000 credits off their corpses>>3969710Define "work of science". Interesting that they are both hardcore anti-alien racists. They both certainly went the designed-for-perfection route in that they're the result of sacrificing 1,000s of rough draft failed experiments. Imo Shepard's "son" Grunt would STOMP Shepard's "mom" dead in a 1v1 fight. But without Miranda, Shepard would have stayed dead. And Shepard could clearly STOMP Grunt dead in a 1v1 fight...So Grunt is the better fighter, a mightier combatant if that's what you mean by "work of science" even though 100 times more science went into Miranda's creation not to mention 10,000 times as many credits. The thing is fighting is Grunt all knows whereas Operative Lawson is a perfect jack of all trades. She can perform at peak levels in the powerful biotics department, Galactic espionage, ship upgrades, combat missions, security, sciences, assassinations, mathematics, intelligence, subterfuge operations, omni-tools (and omni-tool upgrades), massacres, cloning, seduction, wetwork, terrorism, a spy, a data-analyst, management and surveillance with lightning reflexes! So even though Grunt is the mightier warrior, Miranda is the more valuable shiphand to Shepard from an in-universe meta tactical povOverall I'd say Grunt is the superior "work of science" because unlike Miranda Grunt can actually breed. Even if you don't sabotage the Genophage cure if Grunt survives the Suicide Mission the rest of the Galaxy is DOOMED to fight his spawns and lose the Great Krogan Revenge War
>>3969710tldr? Grunt is the better "work of science" because Grunt can breed and Grunt's descendants WILL threaten the Galaxy. Grunt's very existence literally makes the Genophage itself obsoleteIt doesn't matter whether Wrex or Wreav leads the Krogan people. It doesn't matter if Eve survives. It does not even matter if you cure the Genophage or not. Because the biggest threat (and most consequential "long term" choice in the Trilogy) is letting Grunt out of the tank
>>3969700>I don't remember Earth ever being at play in ME2This is a MASSIVE problem with all 3 Mass Effect games, not just ME2. ME1 has one moon Mission yeah but no Earth nor Mars mission...? ME2 has no moon missions, no Earth missions and no Mars missions? And ME3 has no Moon missions? That is varren shit!All 3 games could've been far better products if Bioware and EA all had the space balls to take you to Earth, Luna and Mars at least once per game. Like WTF we can fly to them but can't fucking land on them? At least make them optional. Why even visit the Local Cluster if we can't land there?
>>3971695>space ballsPart 2 incoming. Curious if it will be mediocre or shit.
>>3971809>Space Balls>Part 2>mediocre or SHIT?How bad can it be? Their writers at least have tons of material from the vast "SW Disney Graveyard" to make fun of. If the whole point of Space Balls is to make fun of SW than Disney already did 97% of the work for the Space Balls Part 2 writing teams I.E. the movie ideally should be about trashing "Space Disney" as retards
>>3971883It's apparently finished and will stay 2 years in post production. Unclear if brooks will survive this.
A 35-minute beta gameplay preview of The Expanse came out a few days ago. Much shorter previews of Exodus are coming out as well of late, but they're barely a few minutes long. What do you think anons, which one will be a closer spiritual successor of ME?>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvqjYEucbrY>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPScoqLWP0xy7u1cpulWu336juVb_RuxW
>>3955815>Shepard solos Wrex in ME1 and ME3. But yes when it comes to leading a squad 3 coordinated guys Shepard is absolutely the best in the businessThis is a semi-retcon from ME2 and ME3. In ME1, Shepard was the protag because of his particular knowledge (the Prothean Cipher). It's in subsequent titles (which are action games like Gears of War more than RPGs) that he's the protag because he's a swagging badass space marine.
>>3972627the expanse game is much better at wearing ME's skin but the expanse world is too grubby, ugly and rooted in human misery for it to be a spiritual successor. not to mention that the plot of the game by necessity being some sidequel away from the main happenings, forcing the story to be even smaller scale. it's practically impossible for this to scratch the same itch as ME.exodus look really cheap and shitty on the other hand, but at least the story is larger scale and you've got lots of alium races to interact with. i'd say if it plays well and they smooth out some of the rougher edges like the awful models and a facial animations, it has a better shot to be ME-like.
>>3972782>retconuhuh because surviving tresher maw attack alone or leading resistance against skylian blitz was something your average joe can achieve these are backgrounds in Mass Effect 1 by the way
>>3972946Isn't n7 training deadly? Like a set number dies no matter what?
>>3972997>Isn't n7 training deadly? Like a set number dies no matter what?No, you're thinking of a Codex entry for (iirc) Batarian special forces which mentions their training has an extreme mortality rate. N6-level training is conducted in live combat zones, though, so the only way to qualify N7 is to be tested in actual combat.
>>3972997what does it have to do with anything?Shepard's ticket into N7 program was one of those extraordinary deeds
>>3972943Good observation anon. I'd just point out that Exodus' story will also likely be pretty self-contained: the first Exodus novel takes place after the events of the game, which means that the galactic scene won't be changed at all by Jun's actions in the game. I was rather disappointed to find out that, cause the first book sets up a very interesting stage for some space opera shenanigans.
>>3973059really? that's disappointing but fine by me in the end i guess. the gameplay trailers kind of killed the hype the story trailers had instilled in me. and i like peter f hamilton a lot so if the meat of the story is in the books, i'm still good. he's great at juggling large worlds and dozens of characters. kind of rushes endings or tends to resolve them with deus ex machinas but i'll take that over a trainwreck of an ending like me3's any day of the week.
>>3973062>kind of rushes endings or tends to resolve them with deus ex machinasHah, I've never read his books before this one but that's exactly how I felt when finishing it: too many things conveniently happening at the same time while with some ass-pully stuff strewn about - though I enjoyed the book nonetheless.>but i'll take that over a trainwreck of an ending like me3's any day of the week.Same, same.
>>3973020>If the trainee survives these scenarios in "admirable and effective fashion," they finally receive the coveted N7 designation.>>3973026N7 >> n6 > n5
>>3973065again Shepard was just a grunt before those events transpired what are you not getting?
>>3972946the point isn't that shep was never a badass, the point was that him being a badass isn't the main driver behind his involvement in the reaper issue, it was the fact he was subjected to the prothean beacon. in me2 and me3 >he's a hero, a bloody iconit would have been nice if the prothean beacon thing was used throughout the whole trilogy, as it's kind of a big deal. you can have him be central to a breakthrough in the crucible research. or the beacon knowledge being the key to finding out the collectors are protheans, instead of EDI doing a DNA analysis.
>>3973073>you can have him be central to a breakthrough in the crucible research. or the beacon knowledge being the key to finding out the collectors are protheans, instead of EDI doing a DNA analysis.That's how he discovered the prothean thingy in the asari homeland, the last puzzle piece for the crucible.
>>3973077huh, you're right. i stand corrected, i forgot about that. i just remembered javik's interjections during the quest and assumed it was due to him, but of course he's an optional dlc character.
>>3973073>Shep was never a badassthis is getting delusionalhow are these not "badass"?notice "early in his military career" text, that was BEFORE he received invitation to the whole N7 programShepard is the best Humanity can offer without acid trip from aliens
>>3973088>murdered surrendering batariansIsn't that just straight up evil, not renegade?
>>3973088holy shit, what a grim response to my post. you literally can't read nigger. i'm genuinely saddened by your post. how the fuck did it get this bad that there are now people who can't read posting on this site? YOU LITERALLY CANNOT READ and you're on 4chan.
>>3973101>how the fuck did it get this bad that there are now people who can't read posting on this site? YOU LITERALLY CANNOT READ and you're on 4chan.Many such cases, sadly.
>>3973101>non response great, feel free to make sense any day now
>>3973103https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/isn-t
>>3973105you are right, I have misreadback to your point >the point isn't that shep was never a badass, the point was that him being a badass isn't the main driver behind his involvement in the reaper issue, it was the fact he was subjected to the prothean beacon. in me2 and me3I disagreeMain driver was never some vague vision or prophecy but mankind's struggle against impossible odds, the main theme of the game is SacrificeN7's emblem has a red stripe, symbolizing blood spilled and sacrificed to safeguard humanityDuring Mass Effect 1 you sacrifice your closest squadmate Mass Effect 2's sacrifice is Shepard himself and possibly others depending on the outcome of the missionMass Effect 3 demands millions of deaths not just humans but other species too, Shepard very own Psyche is being tested at the final chamberProthean Beacon was not the main point but a step towards the greater theme of Sacrifice and Determination
>>3973109>N7's emblem has a red stripe, symbolizing blood spilled and sacrificed to safeguard humanityN7's red stripe is a callback to actual red stripes used by American astronauts since Apollo 13 mission to visually differentiate the Commander from the rest of the crew when they're wearing EVA suits.The Art Book mentions some cringe symbolism about it signifying the rivers of human blood spilled in stopping Saren, but in-lore nobody would be putting the red stipe on their suits because "sacrifice is cool". Well, Krogans and Turians might.Don't forget you can also recolor the stripe in ME2 and ME3, so now your talk about its meaning falls apart completely.The rest of your post I don't necessarily disagree with, but everybody's got the right to their own interpretation of the franchise.
>>3973067Highly capable grunt. Actually one of the best soldiers ever. If that's still just a grunt, then so be it.
>>3973118Not saren, but blood spilled by war.
>>3973125I know what I wrote anon:>>According to The Art of Mass Effect, the red detail on the emblem symbolizes the human blood Shepard must sacrifice to stop Saren Arterius>https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/N7
>>3973109>main theme of the game is SacrificeInteresting. Did a dev say this?I'll add that ME3 had various notable sacrifices. Turian primarch's son defusing the bomb on krogan planet, the salarian curing genophage, the krogan covering your escape in the rachni, the female krogan, the asari covering you on the way to the temple, the asari succubus blowing up the succubus monastery.
>>3973130That doesn't make any sense, the logo is older than shepard's task to stop saren.
>>3973132>Interesting. Did a dev say this?This is obvious. Have you ever in your life get the theme of a piece of media right?
>>3973141I asked if a dev has said it. You don't need to get so defensive about it.
>>3973142I'm not defensive. I'm saying it's impossible that devs don't know and therefore it's likely said by devs at some point.
>>3973088You're being obtuse niglet. Shepard is a badass, that's necessary for him to defeat his opponents. But in ME1 what makes him badass is in part that he has a singular knowledge of the Protheans, can understand their language and so on. That's why Shepard is uniquely qualified to defeat Sovereign & Saren, as opposed to all the other N7s, or other Spectres, or an Asari commando team, or STG.In ME2 and ME3, this gets ignored, since the first game's plot is mostly brushed aside. In those pseudo RPGs, Shepard is uniquely qualified to defeat the Reapers because he's a hero, but mostly because he's the best at shooting bad guys from behind chest-high cover. Shep assembles a team of other badasses, adept at shooting the bad guys from behind chest-high cover, and then defeats the Reaper big bad by shooting him from behind chest-high cover.Remember in ME1 when Shepard defeated Saren through dialogue and his knowledge of the Reapers, and then the forces that Shepard brought together through diplomacy defeated Sovereign?I actually think ME2 is a better game than ME1, but in terms of sci-fi space opera, ME1 is the only one that accomplishes that
>>3973165Blasto mogs him
>>3973141>>3973154"I don't know" would have sufficed.
>>3973165All other specters have shit to do, likely important stuff. Vega sacrificed a settlement for reaper Intel. Just to add it, what you say is obviously correct.
>>3973177>I die faster on my own
>>3973171>specifically project director Casey Hudson, highlighted that the "underlying theme of sacrifice" was central to the Mass Effect seriesWhat exactly is wrong with you
>>3973179>Casey Hudson, highlighted that the "underlying theme of sacrifice"Now there's an answer to my question. Thanks.
>>3973073>>3973165Ashley (or Kaiden, if you're playing femshep) activates the Prothean beacon first, than Shepard throws them out of the wayIt begs the question. What if Shepard didn't throw them out of the way? Would Ashley or Kaiden become a SPECTRE and go on to save the Galaxy instead?
>>3973199No, lol. They aren't as strong or charismatic as he is and would've likely died on the spot.
>>3973199No, Shepard would've just had them tag along on all the missions, like a seeing eye dog. Plot still would've been worked, it just would've been lame.
>>3973167He mogs all. Blasto (the actor who plays him) not only gets paid much better but also probably gets many more fangirls than Commander Shepard. He lives a glorious life on Khaje, the Citadel and Illium smoking the finest red sands drinking the finest mindfish eating the best foods banging over 10 different beautiful adoring Asari fans every week whenever he's not busy making his epic action comedy movies>>3973178your analogy would be like Shepard randomly shooting Garrus in the back but okay
>>3939545>Gameplay of ME3 was also by far the best in the series, even though it admittedly buried the corpse of ME1's less-then-enjoyable but lore-backed combat system which ME2 had killed previously (thermal clips anyone).Lore backed? What do you mean? I decided I wouldn't suffer stuff so I modded the game so:1. Guns still cool down, but you can swap the thermal clip instead of waiting. Conrad Verner!2. Powers go through shields. You don't need to remove them just to push someone3. Independent cooldowns. One thing is one thing and another thing is another thing4. Liara gets a big fat rack. Benezia's geneticsIt's also very nice that classes are locked now by weight and not outright restricted to specific guns.
>>3941477This man will not have his worth be questioned by virtual wenches
man Mattock was too good of a weapon in Mass Effect 2, it even tempted me to ditch the Revenant as a reward
>>3966143>ME3 letting me be a teleporting muscle wizard was enough to overlook how fucking stupid all of the new plot devices areSame anon, same.>>3973227>I modded the game so:You modded the game yourself or just installed those mods? Share them if you can in any case.>Guns still cool down, but you can swap the thermal clip instead of waitingBased. As I'm sure you already know, that's the original idea Bioware planned for ME2 but the braindead beta testers couldn't figure it out so we got Gears of War, but without tactical reloads.>Powers go through shields + Independent cooldownsIMO, that pairs nicely with the ME2 and specifically ME3's improved gunplay, but you'd need to increase the cooldown to balance it out. I'd still give Vanguards and Adepts shorter cooldowns, but in the ballpark of 10-25s instead of 2-5s.>Liara gets a big fat rackMay we see them?
>>3973322When I get back, I guess. Idk if I can share the links here, but it's Nexus mods, by the names of:Combined Ammo Mod LE3Powers Penetrate Shields No Shared Power CooldownsThe fat tits mod is Fantasy bodies or something. Gotta log in because it's tagged adult probably. But I swapped it for Liara's Casual instead
>>3973705Why is shepard wearing armor if the others have combat bras in outer space?
I'm feeling like replaying ME. Is there any way to bypass all the Origin and EA account bullshit if I already have a legitimate copy or do I just have to put up with it?
>>3973705>The fat tits mod is Fantasy bodies or somethingI was curious and found it myself:>https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/2642Realistically, only Miranda, Samara, other Asari Matriarchs and some Asari/human hookers would have those kinds of honkers.>>3973778>Why is shepard wearing armor if the others have combat bras in outer space?Because Bioware dropped the idea of customizing the armor of your squadmates in favor of characters having a more recognizable design.The only mod I've found so far that gave all squadmate hardsuits just had them wear Shep's ME2's Cerberus armor, which makes the most sense but is visually boring.>https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/1846There is also this one nice mod for Liara's armor in ME3, but it's not like she needed it since she already has a hardsuit outfit similar to Ashely's (both with with boobplates tho):>https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/1531
>>3973859Apple bottom jeans...
>>3972627I hope they're both good
>>3973859>realistically, only Miranda, Samara, other Asari Matriarchs and some Asari/human hookers would have those kinds of honkersNo in the future literally every woman will have HUUGE Bazoombas! Breast implant surgery will not only be free but also practically be mandatory in virtually all communities. This is the most downright realistic, seriously gritty Mass Effect mod the nexus has to offer
>>3974299Miranda if real
>>3974299>>3973859I wouldn't recommend installing the option for all women to be embiggened because it seems to conflict with the Community Patch that fixes citadel Asari having human hands or something. It would superimpose multiple costumes on the same npc. Using the single character options is better.But silly mods aside, guns just aren't useable unmodded frfr
>>3973165Are you saying ME1 is better because Shepard is the chosen one (Protean knowledge), as opposed to ME2 where he is a regular person who succeeds through his own efforts?
>>3950221>Tfw no Kanye West Jacob mod>Tfw it's not necessary
>>3965981>Tali Zorah is JewishErrant Jew aside, Quarians look gypsy to me>And their language is YiddishBreaking up with Tali this instant. I should've exposed his father. Thought he'd transfer his sins to a geth chicken, did you?!
>>3965990Quarians more like Quranians. Keelah sel'ai alaikum, bosh'tet.
>>3966143I don't think nova should remove your shield
>>3966150It was Kelly Chambers who had a pet varren, actually. Being a white woman, as well as a bisexual xenophile, she totally had sex with it.The Illusive Man did recruit her after a Tijuana Varren show after all.Although that line only appears after Jack is recruited. Implications unsettling.
Were Batarians bad, actually?>They were slavers So were the Asari on IliumI ask the question because Batarians become hostile because other races were encroaching on worlds close to theirs, right? Who wouldn't get angry if Blackrock bought all the homes next to you.So, to counter that, Batarians set to make that real state undesirable by financing pirates and terrorists.
>>3971039But the genophage affects females, anon. Grunt may be clean, but he only has AIDS females at his disposal. Meaning every healthy fetus would be infected in the womb.And even if there was a clean female for him to mate with, congrats: you just created inbred Krogan, because you need 500 different breeding pairs to maintain genetic diversity.Inbred Krogan might be even worse than Sarena's clones.
>>3971695Lagrange 4 and 5 aren't even on Earth. They are 1 Astronomical Unit away. Pic related is for Jupiter, but it works for every planet
>>3972946>surviving tresher maw attack alone is easyUnironically yes? You literally kill them faster on foot than on the Mako. It's the movie Tremors, but you have guns shooting at relativistic speeds.
>>3973081Who would've guessed all the Asari had to do was to have sex with a tentacle rape monster, then a Varren that had touched the beacon.
>>3974475>MuslimVery bad
>>3974479>But the genophage affects females, anonIt affects both genders. Why do you think most Krogan waste $40,000 credits on testicular transplants at least once in their life?>Grunt may be cleanHe isn't, Warlord Okeer specifically did not want Grunt cured of the Genophage, his whole motivation was to "troll" the Genophage by "ignoring" it. So 999 of 1,000 Grunts children don't survive childbirthing, but the ones that do are 100 times as strong as normie Krogans. And within a few short generations they'll be 200 times as powerful because of harsh life on Tuchanka I.E. survival of the fittest, and so forth>Inbred KroganThat's probably not much different than a regular Krogan. I think Wrex and Wreav mention something about trying to implement programs to prevent inbreeding but I have little faith in either of them to make much progress on that front>>3974471>Although that line only appears after Jack is recruitedMordin still says that line before recruiting Jack. Maybe Mordin brought Scale Itch on the Normandy? Him playing the detective over the issue is the perfect cover>>3974480>Lagrange 4 and 5 aren't even on EarthOh is that what the L4 and L5 Stations meant? Lagrange Stations? I always figured it meant Level 4 and Level 5 Stations>>3972997>N7 Training ProgramI had an N7 dude tell me one part of their training program involves catching 6 flies with chopsticks within 5 seconds or less. Blindfolded. I could not tell if he was serious or not>>3974475Asari are at least smart enough to recognize that slavery is highly controversial bad optics so try to pretty it up with cute words like "Indentured Servant" and creating a law of bureaucratic contract systems intended to prevent senseless slave abuse. Meanwhile the Batarians are more like:>"HUH? What the fuck are you talking about? Slavery is NOT unethical! Are you serious? In what possible Galaxy is slavery a matter of ethical concern? Fuck you! this is why I hate speaking with lesser races!!"
>>3974497Right, it affects both.Grunt isn't THAT strong. He is a perfect specimen kinda the same way Miranda is a perfect human. And you can see how jealous she is of the more accomplished average-mutt Shepard. But besides that, Grunt's existence doesn't change anything.I'd rather be concerned with Okeer proving it is possible to create vat grown Krogan who are peak of their species as opposed to Saren's cloned thralls, but the secret died with him.
>>3974497Batarians are like that *because* the Council unsurprisingly ruled many planets next to the Batarians were open for colonization instead of granting exclusive rights to the Batarians. Batarians feel like they are losing land that should be theirs to faraway aliens that don't care.So in retaliation they finance crime. It's easy to treat people like animals when they aren't your same species.We humans only stopped enslaving our own not because of morality, but out of monetary and political reasons: industrialization made paying workers wages cheaper than housing and feeding slaves, and the British wishes to appear more virtuous than the French, who in 1802 had reintroduced slavery after abolishing it in 1796.Had it not been cheaper or had Britain not been competing with France (impossible), we would still have slaves today. Egypt had them for like 3000 yearsWe cannot expect aliens to have the morals we ourselves didn't have.
>>3974467>QuraniansHahaha, hilarious
>>3974497>but the ones that do are 100 times as strong as normieIs that true or just wishful thinking
>>3974507>average-mutt ShepardHe's anything but average. He's the pinnacle of what humans have to offer. Super strong, smart, charismatic and lucky. Shepard is the natural version of miranda. No way he solos wrex though.
>>3974510>We humans only stopped enslaving our own not because of morality, but out of monetary (...) This is wrong. On all levels. Firstly, the world hasn't abolished actual slaves, nor wageslaves. There are operational slave markets for actual human slaves on this planet. Secondly, the abolishment of slaves in the west was not due to a single reason, but the result of multiple factors, one of the main ones is certainly time and money cost, but it's not the only one. Let's not forget that slaves were more worth than Irish in the US not to long ago.
>>3974513>You may not like it, but this what what Pinnacle™ mankind looks like
>>3974514You can expand the list of abolishment reasons if you want.Yeah there's still slavery, and also pseudo slavery. We cannot expect kindness from Batarians, but we also cannot point our fingers at them and denounce them as evil for doing what we also do ourselves.
>>3974517>cannot point our fingers at them and denounce them as evil for doing what we also do ourselvesEverytime you hold your word batariams show they have an code of honour. AFAIK their weapons are great, too. They are just few and far between. Basically quatari, if you exchange weapons (batarian) for oil or gas.
Not being able to play as clone shep is a big oversight in me3. All new team, too. Would be awesome.
>>3949680>Why would anyone make that if the first human spectre was just recently announced?N7 is an alliance rank, no? If anything it'd be strange if we had turians or salarians running around in n7 armor.
>>3974617Why does specter gear have a n7 branding? Might even be this chat where I thought n7 means specter, but it doesn't.
>>3974617N7 program pretty much started to train anyone outside human alliance when reapers reached out galaxy Mass Effect 3 multiplayer characters are N7 (yes even the batarians)
>>3974624Right, how could I forgot. Haven't played me3 mp for a long time. Batarians are basically extinct anyway.
>replaying trilogy for the 1729373628th time>forced plot points in me3 are really starting to bother me, and I'm still in act 1/2it's over?
how I force myself to play Biotic classes from the first game and onward?Vanguard is journalist mode even on insanity difficulty in ME1, still strong in 2 and basically god mode in 3Adept is ass until the third gameSentinel is meh in the trilogy
>>3974629What's your issue?
>>3974618I assume it's custom made, not like it'd be hard to add a small cosmetic symbol to a chestplate. Besides, n7 is the highest rank in their special forces, it'd carry some weight in confrontations.
>>3974634they are not fun
>>3974637Why are you forcing yourself into something you don't find fun
>>3974638because I want to try out something new
>>3974626Best gunplay, enjoy the ride
>>3974629>Sentinel is meh in the trilogyMy first run was sentinel. The armor in 2 and partly in 3 is op. In 1 it's just a subpar multiclass.
>>3974635It's anything but unheard of. Would be easy enough to add it today on random armor, yet alone like 200 years later.
Does anyone play with ally AI turned off? So that you have to command their abilities manually more often.
>>3974641I'm playing renegade vanguard femshepThe renegade options of just always being a cunt don't really make sense in many contexts
>>3974461>Breaking up with Tali this instantShe's smart, determined, competent and even though she may not have Space Khazar milkers, her butt makes up for it.>>3974522>Not being able to play as clone shep is a big oversight in me3. All new team, too. Would be awesome.Nah, why would I want to play as a pale imitation of the character I've been playing as for the past two games?
>>3974648It's true. My first femshep was a soldier paragon that broke in me3 and went full renegade. Guess the reaper attack on earth was to much for her.
>>3974653Obviously in the case of shepard dying during the suicide mission. Clone shep in the dlc isn't an actual clone or rather doesn't behave like one.
>>3974660That again doesn't make any sense. Shepard's lived experience, effort and a significant amount of luck got them to where they are. Shepard's clone was created to be a unwilling donor to Cerberus-controlled Shepard in case they needed a spare organ or limb. Them being able to talk and function as a normal adult less than a year after being freed by Brooks is already a massive stretch, let alone them coming to Shepard's squadmates and superiors and saying: "There's a new Shepard in town" and not being locked up or gunned down.
>>3974775>Brooks is already a massive stretchI mean it's 200 years in the future + alien tech.>clonePretty sure they promised import me2 save even if shepard is dead. The crew hating the clone would be awesome and he should be weaker and worse than the undead cyborg shepard. Just saying would be a fun experience, as most fans replay the trilogy multiple times. I recently finished my mediocre shepard. Always the middle answer, no questions asked and kill the most squadmates in the trilogy.
>>3974626I tried to warn them. I think they could have survived, unironically.If our sun went nova, we're done for. Within the day, the fireball would reach Neptune 30 AU away. But the Mass Array is NOT at the center of the system.If the Array on Pluto blew up, that's 35 AU away. Venus is about 40 AU away, and on the other side of the sun.People have a few hours warning to get on a FTL ship and do a local jump or flee to the shadow behind the star. Because supernovae typically do not destroy companion stars
>>3974825Why doesn't warning them work? Illusion of choice.
>>3975164True. I'm going to pretend many did die but plenty evacuated, and the political clout stems from reckless endangerment and destruction of real state.As well as the extranet recording of the racial slurs I was yelling when I rescued dr. Kenson. I even infiltrated just to prove I could be stealthy, then I backtracked to kill the Batarians I'd otherwise avoid when sneaking.With a shotgun to the face, to hit all four eyes at once. No wonder the Alliance grounded me!
>>3975206>destruction of real state.Tfw no free real estate anymore
>>3974822>Pretty sure they promised import me2 save even if shepard is deadAnon, they also promised a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy and we all know how well they delivered on that. The clone subplot wasn't planned prior to Citadel DLC and it only works because the whole DLC is campy fun.>I recently finished my mediocre shepardI enjoyed my neutral Shep playthrough as well, although I kept almost all of my squadmates (except Zaeed and Legion) alive.
>>3975324>it only works because the whole DLC is campy funTruth be told.>kill allThat's the goal here. It's actually pretty difficult and requires meta.
>>3974822>Pretty sure they promised import me2 save even if shepard is deadMfw I have sex with Morinth after the endgame, and TIM has to Lazarus me up all over again
Playing Soldier in Mass effect instead of using biotics or tech, feels like this
>>3974653>Small tits>Wide hips>Giant assBased artist who understands Tali
>>3975754Heavy armor + immunity tanking in the original ME1 was crazy.
>>3975696Kek, that's not how it works. Would've been awesome if implemented though.>shepard, Tom brought you back a second time, but... It's just... We have the suspicion that you did this this on purpose.
>>3975754>SoldierSlow-mo, concussive shots, and special ammunition are all the magicly tech Shepard needs. Fun class to play.
>>3975868I guess Casual is just too forgiving, the shields protected me most of the time>>3976174More like Slow Mo and Disruptor ammo, I never used anything else. Revenant goes BRRRRT, and disruptor rounds hurt shields (almost everything) and mechanical enemies (half of everything).I unironically forgot I had fire and cryo rounds most of the time. And then I'd recharge shields with Bonus power: Fortification or "Tech Armor envy"
>>3976011I'm (re)built different
>>3976620Me1 insanity tends to one shot shepard most of the times, like geth or krogan or ants.
>>3975347>"DIFFICULT?">Select Option B to shoot Wrex on Virmire in ME1>Skip every ME2 Loyaty mission in ME2 except Legion's and Thane's. Bring them into the ME2 Final Boss Fight (don't worry, they automatically die in ME3 unless you mod the plot)>Shoot Ashley or Kaiden in ME3 right in the heart (literally and figuratively)>Genocide the Quarians in ME3Your game just ain't as meta as you think it is. kid
>>3977654Wanted to make mordin and tali loyal to destroy them in 3. Going to sell legion to cerburus. (already feeling guilty)>wrexAlready dead and got a proper burial.
>>3977654You would still need to make specific choices in the suicide mission or go out of your way to avoid recruiting characters (which precludes killing them).It's fine for Grunt, Miranda, Jack, Mordin, Tali, Thane and Legion to survive into 3 because they can all die or be killed there, and Zaeed can be killed after the suicide mission in 2 provided you have at least two other squadmates.
>>3977654>>3977671>It's fine for Grunt, Miranda, Jack, Mordin, Tali, Thane and Legion to survive into 3 because they can all die or be killed there,Samara, too.
>>3977668>>3977671>>3977673actually you're stressing me out here. oH Really? Is it just me or...? Or... am I suddenly GETTING too white for 4chan's trickerinos?. >"Goooood'ol'whats'her'face can threaten everything I already won! Die Samara! Kill yourself dead, Lesbian Queen!"You fucking anons think you know the power of an individual turbo Jew, or 1 turbo Female, or 1 turbo Criminal except you don't fucking get shit, do you?! I'm on my own here, thanks for nothing Egypt, Earth & Beyond. Given how you fools force me to solo everything as always! BC unlike YOU? SOME OF US ACTUALLY HAVE LIVES, ANONS! JESUS SHIT
>>3977736on second thought. WHO THE HELL CARES? nevermind what I just posted.... pretend I said nothing at all. We good. We've survived worse, and always solve the Call like we will, Grand Master Yoda on the job. you're very welcome anon
>>3977671>Zaeed>>3977673>samaraShit, my initial plan is ruined.>>3977740Never saw samara in me3, strange.
>>3977742Do Blue Lives Matter more or not?
I wonder what beautiful colors can you produce on a spanked quarian butt
>>3977745Blasto sees 34 times as many colors as your Human eye
>>3977748(You)BigStupidJellyFish
>>3977744I care deeply about the ASSari people
>>3977757Yes I get how sexy Asari are, if they weren't so hot Humanity wouldn't quickly claim a Council Seat. We precisely fit into Asari beauty standards much to our political benefit. My problem is the flipside of said issue. Why do Asari dominate 90% of all Citadel Council decisions? Turians, Salarians and Humans get next-to-zero-say because....why? WTF? Even before us humans showed up to remind them the Galactic definition of sexy. This is bullshit, Asari don't deserve to govern the Galaxy solo
