Finally been playing Hal in ME3 over the last couple of days. Done up to the coup, currently at the Monastery. I've been running missions exclusively with James and Javik except for the few times you are forced to take Liara and I've heard several conversations that I've never heard before. J&J have some great banter together. It makes sense RP wise to take those two, they are the only two without a real job to do on the ship. Garrus is weapons officer, Liara is shadow brokering and dabbling at Prothean physics, EDI is the ship's AI.
I love these two, and I agree about the banter. I took them with me all the time on my last run. Funnily enough I didn't think I'd take Javik at all (I wanted to have Kaidan on the team), but it made sense to my Shep and I'm so glad I did because it was a fun experience
As on what I did today... Replaying Citadel Coup again. And again Got all of Vega's dialogue I think, but that's enough for today. Putting in ME1 now to continue with my new Shep (I fell asleep last time I played when listening to Tali's first conversation on the ship ).
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Finally finished reading a couple of novels I had laying around for about half a year (or longer; Mass Effect had consumed my life). Still deciding if I should continue playing the Mass Effect series or get into another game or two.
Here is what I want to do in Mass Effect:
Play NG+ in ME3 with my "canon" Shepard (default John Shepard, Soldier), but this time romance Kaidan as a male Shepard
Erin Shepard (formerly a Bulletless Soldier), NG+ in ME3 as a Pistol-SMG Soldier as I had originally intended her to be
Play another NG+ in ME3 as my original Vanguard, Kim Shepard
Play another NG+ in ME3 as my original Infiltrator, Ira Shepard
Play NG+ in ME3 as my Engineering Infiltrator, Jackie Shepard
Finish my Combat Engineer Jack Shepard NG+ in ME3 (cannot remember where I left off)
Want to play an Engineer in ME2 with Slam, so start a new trilogy playthrough; not sure whether to be an Engineer, Infiltrator, or Sentinel in ME1
Want to play an Engineer in ME2 with Stasis, so start a new trilogy playthrough; not sure whether to be an Engineer, Infiltrator, or Sentinel in ME1
Want to play as a honorary Quarian Female Engineer in ME3 (Engineer with Sentry Turret, Cryo Blast, and Incinerate, AP Ammo as bonus power); should be a female Shepard, will need to be a new Shepard starting from ME1; all my female Engineers are biotics; Not sure if she should be an Engineer throughout the entire trilogy; thinking I should make it an infiltrator in ME2 to try some new things
I am thinking I want to re-create my original Adept in ME1 (I kind of screwed up my original Adept), but am thinking I want to make her as a Vanguard with Singularity instead. If I go the Vanguard route, I think I want to do the three-playthrough route for the free Charm points so I max the combat skills.
I want to do a three-playthrough Infiltrator in ME1 so I can have the ultimate combat Infiltrator (which is essentially a Soldier with unlocking skills)
capn233 created some basic leveling guides for the Soldier, Adept, and Engineer in ME1. I am thinking I should help him out by writing similar guides for one or more of the Infiltrator, Vanguard, or Sentinel.
I also need to create a male Shepard that romances Tali in ME2 (have not done that yet); it can my Slam or Stasis Engineer.
I also need to a male Shepard that will romance Steve in ME3; I want this to be a new Shepard though. It can be my Slam or Stasis Engineer.
I also want to do some themed Suicide Mission playthroughs:
Pro-biotic
Anti-biotic
Pro-tech
Anti-tech
I can do three of these with my three new Shepards (the Slam Engineer, the Stasis Engineer, and the female Engineer/Infiltrator that will be the Honorary Female Quarian Engineer in ME3). That leaves me with needing a fourth new Shepard.
Decisions, decisions. HELP!
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I haven't played Mass Effect since that big post about ems. I have been playing Dragon Age Inquisition hearing Samantha's voice who is my femquisitor, James voice who is Iron Bull and Liaras voice who is Scout Harding
After being sidelined for a few months by playing other games and a move irl to a different state, I plan on wrapping up Sandra's (female paragon sentinel) ME 1 playthrough over the course of the next week or so.
I haven't played Mass Effect since that big post about ems. I have been playing Dragon Age Inquisition hearing Samantha's voice who is my femquisitor, James voice who is Iron Bull and Liaras voice who is Scout Harding
I can't bring myself to play Inquisition. It's familiar enough to the previous two games to be instantly recognisable (well except Leliana and Cullen) but I can't play it the same way (LMB+RMB to move and click to move for looting) as I did the others.
I didn't think being stuck with WASD would be as irritating as I've found it.
Way OT, but how come you can't adjust to WASD if you play ME?
Because Dragon Age isn't Mass Effect.
When playing Origins or Dragon Age II, I move the character movement with the mouse and control the powers with my left hand on the keyboard. I don't have to take my fingers off the abilities list in order to tell my people what to do.
It's a play style that works brilliantly for the first two Dragon Age games.
As to adapting , it's more a feel of alienation with the controls. This is clearly a Dragon Age game but I can't play it like I play Dragon Age games, I have to play it like Mass Effect.
And can someone tell me where LMB+RMB came from? I get click-to-move, but I didn't even know LMB+RMB was a thing until the whole DAI fuss came up.
First game I remember using LMD+RMB was Knights of the Old Republic, so the control scheme has been around for quite a while now in Bioware games.
Today in Mass Effect I've decided to leave Victus Jr. to think on his mistakes while I go and rescue a bunch of Krogan.
As to adapting , it's more a feel of alienation with the controls. This is clearly a Dragon Age game but I can't play it like I play Dragon Age games, I have to play it like Mass Effect.
This is the thing I didn't follow. If you didn't actually play Mass Effect, I can see how playing a DA game that plays like it's a Mass Effect game might be a problem. But since you do play Mass Effect.....
First game I remember using LMD+RMB was Knights of the Old Republic, so the control scheme has been around for quite a while now in Bioware games.
Thanks. So I've been failing to notice that this control scheme exists for a lot longer than I realized. Though IIRC NWN had something called a "driving cam" that works like I guess LMB+RMB works, except that I think you still hit W to move forward. Don't remember much since I hated it.
Hasn't anyone come up with a foot controller that could replace the WASD set up? I remember playing Oblivion on the PC and constantly wishing I could push down with my heel to back up and push down with my toes to move forward. I suppose if I had played PC games long enough I might have adapted, but it would still be nice to free up my left hand to focus on hotkeys rather than movement.
Polished up Hal's run of Omega today, went full renegade 'cause why not and I was surprised to see Aria kiss a male Shepard, I thought the kiss was exclusive to femsheps.
I did the Rannoch arc tonight. As I posted before I passed on the geth unit recovered from the derelict reaper to Cerberus, so Hal wasn't in a trusting mood. After rescuing Admiral Koris, the damned contraption suggested he upload into the geth consensus. Rich! We came up with a plan to take down the reaper base and it tried to chime in about the destruction of the geth but Hal ignored it and closed the briefing. (It's nice skipping the little AI lecture, didn't know that was an option as I always chose the investigate option when that came up). Turned out another reaper jr. was camping out, blew it to hell then disposed of geth-bot. Watched the fireworks as the geth burned up in the atmosphere. Back to the Citadel for show and tell with Tevos.
Here's what happened the last few days (was always too tired to write up anything in the evening and I didn't play much ME1 anyway except yesterday ).
After we had checked out the Citadel a bit more, going back to get Fist's OSD from his office in order to give it to the pretty Emily Wong, and talking to various people that asked for help, we made our way back to the C-Sec elevator. We were just about to leave this place when a krogan approached us. He wanted to join, but I wasn't sure, not the biggest fan of krogan to be honest. Too big, too violent. But... in the end I gave in. He seems to want the same, stopping Saren. Gonna keep an eye on him though. He tries any sh*t...
When we arrived at the Normandy, there was a big surprise. Anderson stepped down and I got full command over the ship. And the crew. I talked to them first and Wrex was untalkative, said I should go to the quarian if I wanted stories. Suit yourself, Wrex. The quarian was indeed very talkative, so I learned a great deal, but what I really was wondering is how she looked under that suit. Too bad I won't find out.
Afterwards we headed to the Artemis Tau Cluster to follow a lead, getting to Matriarch Benezia's daughter Dr. Liara T'Soni. We didn't know where she was though so we checked out the cluster's systems more thoroughly. We had a plea from Admiral Kahoku anyway, to go look for a missing recon team. When Kaidan, Tali and I got there we found the bodies, but also a giant Thresher Maw! We got that thing down quickly with the Mako's help and got out of there as fast as possible.
We also stumbled upon pirates and slavers in a complex (that was no fun at all, but one by one I got them down ). An asari was on the first floor, but we took her down. Someone called Dantius, and we learned she has a sister on the Citadel Embassies. Gonna have to let her know what happened.
We finally found Liara on Therum. After getting rid of countless geth on our way, we entered the dig site and got to this blue beauty pretty quickly. We found her trapped, and after getting her out of it we could leave this place. Unfortunately some krogan and a few geth stepped in our way, but we killed them and got back outside before the whole place collapsed.
I talked to my crew once more and bonded with both Ashley and Liara. Kaidan made some comment about Liara, but hey, I saw her first! Just kidding, I like Kaidan. I'm sure he wouldn't try anything anyway. Told me about a special someone from his time at Jump Zero.
We headed back to the Citadel and when we got out, Rear Admiral Mikhailovich was waiting. I was being nice, but he really got on my nerves quick. Insulting the Normandy and just complaining in general. Which I made a comment to when he returned and told me he's not satisfied. My patience was wearing thin and fortunately we were done with him now. Gonna go look for this Nassana woman and tell Kahoku what happened.
Some pictures:
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When I left the Council, Kaidan had decided to stay in mid-air and flail his arms, it looked too funny
Creepy smile ahead!
Oh well, Liara seems to faint. Maybe from the smile? Or Shepard welcoming her with open arms?
Mh-mh, I guess I can imagine what you mean by "open door".
Ashley and Shepard bonding. With more creepy smiling
Woah, Shepard getting right to it! Williams, you better watch out.
Oh myyy, that krogan on Therum again. Died 4 times. What's even worse is that I almost had him on the first try, it was sooo close.
Also it was the first time I jumped with the Mako when the Thresher Maw spat acid and it was sooo easy Thanks to RedCaesar for that great tipp (found it accidentally on Youtube when looking at one of capn233's videos, hahaha).
And that conversation with Mikhailovich after returning from the ship was hilarious, fit my big mouth Shep perfectly, hehe.
Mikhailovich: Commander, I'm not happy.
Shepard: Sounds like a fairly common situation.
Mikhailovich: Commander, I suggest you secure your mouth. It's going to get you in trouble.
I also finished Vega's dialogue for the Citadel poker thingie, I had forgotten that when you catch him at a bad time when first talking to him, you can return two more times and he will be in top form again
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Last night... Cole "Renegayde" Shepard went to Cronos Station, then to Earth to save the galaxy.
First, Cole had a romantic night in his cabin with Kaidan, just before their raid on Cronos.
Then the two of them and EDI raided Cronos Station together, finding out more about Project Lazarus, the Illusive Man and EDI herself on the way, Kaidan comforting his boyfriend when he worried about being an advanced VI instead of the real Shepard.
The three of them consulted with the Prothean VI Vendetta together, only for the Illusive Man to interrupt the trio, and then Kai Leng came along to fight because Cole had stolen his outfit and he wanted payback. (I'd finished the Armax Arsenal Arena challenge as Cole and he got the armour as a reward. )
But alas, Kai Leng failed to kill Cole, wrecking the Illusive Man's floor instead. He tried to stab Cole, but Cole stabbed him with an Omni-blade before he could even get close because, "That was for Thane, you son of a ******!"
Afterwards, Cole spoke to Vendetta and realised that the Citadel was the key to activating the conduit, but the Reapers had moved it to the Sol system.
Cole and the Normandy crew then sped off to Earth asap, and the Battle for the Galaxy began. Cole, Kaidan and Garrus fought through hundreds of Reaper footsoldiers together, only for Harbinger to ruin that with his Reaper beam of death.
Luckily, the trio survived, but Kaidan was badly injured and Garrus had to carry him back to the Normandy. Kaidan and Cole told each other "I love you" before Cole ran off, towards the Citadel beam.
Cole, battered and badly injured, just about made it to the beam, and so he went up to the Citadel, where he found both Anderson and the Illusive Man at the control panel.
Cole shot the Illusive Man, and Anderson spent his last minutes with Cole. Cole expected to die along with him, but the Catalyst brought him up to his domain instead, and made him choose between Destroying the Reapers, Controlling the Reapers, and Synthesis between organic and synthetic life.
After thinking it through, Cole chose to Destroy the Reapers, for that was what he came here to do. Control was hypocritical in his eyes, and Synthesis made him uncomfortable - forcibly changing the DNA of trillions of people seemed wrong to him.
So the galaxy was saved, the Krogan were reborn, the Quarians had to rebuild their home without the Geth, and everywhere, all the organic civilisations were slowly rebuilding and restoring everything back to their former glory.
Commander Cole Shepard was nowhere to be found, presumed dead... or so everyone thought.
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This is the thing I didn't follow. If you didn't actually play Mass Effect, I can see how playing a DA game that plays like it's a Mass Effect game might be a problem. But since you do play Mass Effect.....
To flip it. I wouldn't want to play a Mass Effect game with the schemes from the first two Dragon Age titles either.
Each series has their own feel and the controls are part of that, so just transplanting one to the other just doesn't work for me. How you interact with the world in a game is important.
Even further off topic:
Hasn't anyone come up with a foot controller that could replace the WASD set up? I remember playing Oblivion on the PC and constantly wishing I could push down with my heel to back up and push down with my toes to move forward. I suppose if I had played PC games long enough I might have adapted, but it would still be nice to free up my left hand to focus on hotkeys rather than movement.
There are foot controllers with rebindable key options, I see no reason that they couldn't be set to WASD.
Anyway to say in Mass Effect I had to make a hard choice between a company of Krogan warriors and saving the Rachni Queen. Ah what the heck I've cured the genophage, so there'll be a lot more Krogan to replace them soon.
To flip it. I wouldn't want to play a Mass Effect game with the schemes from the first two Dragon Age titles either.
Each series has their own feel and the controls are part of that, so just transplanting one to the other just doesn't work for me. How you interact with the world in a game is important.
I guess I just don't think of the series a game as being relevant here. DA:O is no more relevant to DAI's controls than Skyrim is.
To flip it. I wouldn't want to play a Mass Effect game with the schemes from the first two Dragon Age titles either.
Actually I would love a retro remake of the trilogy in the Baldur's Gate-Dragon Age 1-Pillars of Eternity style, not to replace the core series but simply because it would be fun to play in the MEU using a deep tactical model and with a detailed, branching dialog tree.
I started haelstrom then got killed trying to set up an arty screen shot - as I had turned off the ui I had no option but to alt+f4. Didn't have the heart to start again.
I started haelstrom then got killed trying to set up an arty screen shot
To die for your art.
ME2 Joline Shepard
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Just got back from the suicide run. I had been close to Miranda, so ruling with my heart & not my head I let her lead the 2nd teams.
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I took Jack with Kasumi and I, to avoid drama. Unfortunately my loyal Salarian friend didn't make it home. When we returned I was interested to see if Kasumi thought I had done the right thing in destroying the collector base, so I went to speak with her. All she said was "The engine room...Wow, just how genetically modified is she."
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On a side note. I am doing my 2nd run through the LOTSB & both times it has crashed, just after I entered his ship. (It's fine after a reload) ME2 is usually rock solid, I don't remember it ever crashing anywhere else. Has anyone had it crash there? Or should I just uninstall/reinstall the DLC?
I could never figure what the point of using the engine room was.
As for the actual topic here, I'm just about to wrap up what's going to be my last run for a long, long time. Checking off some boxed including finally finishing an Ashley romance. Ontarom tonight, a Citadel trip for a shooting party with Garrus, and then it's endgame time.
As often happens with me, this Shep started Renegade but drifted much more Paragon in the third game. I think it's from going P with so many of the minor interpersonal chats. Anyone else have this happen?
This mission is really left hanging. Their is a germ of a story here which is left completely unanswered (a hangover from the dark energy plot maybe?) Either way it just seems to serve no purpose. There is no explanation as to why the Geth are so keen to get Tali, no explanation about the sun, no follow up from the data.. very strange
The actual level is fairly dull once you are past the sun gimmick, the art direction (concrete! woo!) is really bland. The only Quarian architecture we ever see and it is like a 1960's Eastern European housing estate. Way to go Bioware
What was annoying was finding out the Geth infinite spawn when fighting the Colossus
Reegar just annoyed me this playthrough. Seemed such a walking cliche
Jacob's remark about saying hello to the a.i. is good in two ways - one for the death stare Tali gives, and two for the fact it gives some colour to Jacobs character
The Tempest is my favourite weapon in ME2
I'm also noticing just how short a lot of the ME2 missions are
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Jacob's remark about saying hello to the a.i. is good in two ways - one for the death stare Tali gives, and two for the fact it gives some colour to Jacobs character
Ya, it's a good one. Originally I thought he was just being careless with his words but it became pretty clear it was a troll to respond to Tali's bitchyness, and a well done troll. Jacob's finest hour.
Got all of Vega's dialogue I think, but that's enough for today. Putting in ME1 now to continue with my new Shep (I fell asleep last time I played when listening to Tali's first conversation on the ship 
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