That is a party that will make me think killing Thresher Maws on foot was funner. I mean seriously, partying with Joker, EDI, Liara, and James? Sounds like hell.
In my last game, Jack, Cortez and Traynor were the only ones dancing in the kitchen. They had a pretty good conversation.
In my last game, Jack, Cortez and Traynor were the only ones dancing in the kitchen. They had a pretty good conversation.
It's not the same, said Jack.
Done plenty of "lonely" playthroughs with my psycho, aptly named, character Pixeldeath. But I prefer to mix things a bit by being a complete selfish douche:
Do as I say, and you might survive another 2 seconds.
Give me any amount of credits, and you're OK in my book.
Never mess with my friends. If anyone kills them, it shall be by my hand, or with my blessing.
Do anything else and you're dead.
In ME1 keep the smuggled goods from the hanar Opold, then upset the krogan Inamorda, leave and come back to Noveria so that the krogan will then be waiting for you there so you can kill him and his goons.
One of the best moments is during Garrus loyalty mission:
Pretend to worry about Garrus, and his issues: "This isn't like you, man."
"What would you do if it happened to you, Shepard?"
"I wouldn't let it change me, buddy."
Then go all out paragon on Sidonis: "Hey dude, I'm the only thing standing between you and a bullet in the head."
After a few lines of dialogue with Sidonis; change my mind and let Garrus take the shot.
Sidonis gets a really surprised look on his face with a perfectly matching voice: "WHAT?!"
<Boom><Splat>
Betrayal repaid.
"Thanks for the help, Shepard."
"Dude, I would've done the same thing." No one messes with my buddy Garrus 
That surprised reaction by Sidonis is one of the best ones in the entire game 
I propably spend way too much time on getting information out of Elias Kelham in any playthrough, but messing with EK is just way too much fun. There is also quite a lot of different dialogue you get if you start mixing the different options.
Elias didn't like the idea of being sent to a turian prison camp, I wonder why? 
There's also those tiny things that always make my day:
In ME2 the two krogan talking about the fish on the presidium, and they mention how I got the previous Council assassinated.
Udina's reaction to killing the Rachni Queen in ME1:
"I don't know what's funnier: Seeing the Council's reaction when you told them that you found a species they thought were extinct, or seeing their reaction when you told them that you killed them all again."
And then I like to go paragon on Udina, and telling him that I'm not some kind of crazy monster. "This isn't a game Udina, Shepard is trying to save the galaxy." 
And one more:
Udina: "What the hell is wrong with you? Are you trying to start an interstellar war?!"
Fast forward to ME3, and I got the krogans to go all out war on the turians 
About half of the main cast die in my canon play through. I'm just going to stick to major deaths in main missions and not minor ones.
Name:John Shepard
Class:Soldier
Origin:Earth
Psych Profile:Sole Survivor
ME1
Kaidan died on Virmire
Kirrahe died on Virmire
Rachni Queen killed on Noveria
Balak killed after some light torture
Council killed by Geth
ME2
Let Garrus kill Sidonis
Left Jacob's dad to be killed by Hunters
Let Miranda kill her childhood friend
Abandoned the workers on Zaeed's missions in order to kill Vido Santiago
Let Mordin kill Maelon due to his inability to control his emotions and his guilt, leading him to act irrationally, a trap Mordin himself fell into in Mass Effect 3, data saved
Tali Exiled
Heretics re-written in Legion's loyalty
Samara killed leading Fire Team 2
Jack killed by Miranda failing to hold Biotic bubble
300k Batarians die in Arrival(RIP)
ME3
Jason Prangley killed by Cerberus, sent other students to the front lines, ultimately leading to their deaths
Break up with Miranda, leading to her death
Kill Rachni Queen clone
Sabotage Genophage, leading to the eventual extinction of the Krogan. Kill Mordin for the same reasons I let him kill Maelon.
Thane killed by Kai Leng
Killed Falere
Killed Omega civilians by shutting down reactor on Omega
Killed Wrex on Citadel
Abandoned Quarian civilians to save Admiral Koris
Side with the Geth on Rannoch due to inability to achieve peace, Quarians destroyed, Tali commits suicide, Legion die's uploading Reaper code
Miranda killed by Kai Leng
Killed Kai Leng
Shot Illusive Man
Originally chose Synthesis as recompense for all the things that I had done and all the lives I had taken, then later changed to Control since the benefits of Synthesis could eventually be achieved that way, without the need for green eyes.
I really like it when the absence of a person changes a plot or mission, that it isn't just them being gone. Grissom was mentioned and with Jack it is a fun mission and without her it's much much darker. And the salarian replacing Mordin, he is great! Everyone should have one PT with him. Shot the poor thing and I felt like a absolute monster, but I just couldn't leave Wreav in charge of the Krogans. That was a great PT, my poor Shepard killed the Salarian and faked the genophage cure, she lost Tali and the Quarians because she thought that she would be able to make them stand down. That fake paragon-save really got me too.
Being able to lose people changes the tone of the PT, it ads replay value for me. Well, if the loss affects the story in. Some small way or that you get a new interesting conversation.
Have to agree; I think Wiks is the most well-done 'Biff the Undertudy' of them all. When I did a renegade playthrough recently, I did the same as you and shot Wiks and faked the cure. Lost Tali and the quarians too, but Tali and shep never really got along throughout the triology, especially after shep gave the other admirals all Rael's geth data. I know she was thinking, "You wouldn't give me the geth data back in the day, and now you're just handing this data to people you don't even know?" ... made it worse by destroying all the geth and EDI in the end. 
After discovering Wiks, Mordin pretty much turned into a standard death for me 
I have saved Wiks more times than saving Mordin, not becasue I shoot Mordin, though I have, but because he dies during the suicide mission.
I call this playthrough, 'I'm Commander Shepard and you will die' playthrough.This is a playthrough(only did it once) I did shortly after Citadel dlc came out.
ME1
when doing any side missions that can lead to the death of anyone I killed them all
kill Fisttalk with Conrad so he shows up in ME2
when scanning the keepers kill Chorban, Here's how
on Feros kill all the colonists and Shiala
I didn't help Rita's sister, Jenna
Noveria--have Anoleis and Gianna Parasini kill each other. Here's the video to do this. Kill the Rachni Queen
On Virmire, kill Rana Thanopolis and let Kirrahe and Kaidan die. Keep Wrex and Ashley alive
Kill Balak in Bring Down the Sky dlc causing the hostages to die
let the council die
ME2
On Omega make the Batarian drink his poison. Let the Patriarch die fighting the killers. When going to recruit archangel, let the kid join the mercs only to watch him be killed by Garrus a few minutes later. On Mordin's recruitment misson don't give medigel to the Batarian and when you encounter Mordin's assistant, kill the Batarians.talk with Conrad
let Jack kill Aresh on her loyalty mission
let Garrus kill Sidonis on his loyalty mission
have Jacob's father die at the hands of his crew
let Mordin kill Maelon and save the data
On Samara's recruitment mission kill Elnora
On Thane's recruitment mission, don't give medigel to the salarian, push the merc out the window and on his loyalty missionkill Joram Talid
Jack, Kasumi and Thane killed because of no upgradesGarrus died closing the door
Jacob was carried off by the swarmers
Sent no escort for the crew. They will die
Mordin killed as 2nd fire team leaderMiranda and Grunt killed fighting the terminator
After the suicide mission, kill Zaeed during his loyalty mission
Samara, Tali and Legion live to be in ME3Do the Arrival dlc to kill 300,000 Batarians
ME3
have General Oraka killed
let Jondam Bau (the salarian spectre) die
don't talk to the female student on Grissom. She will die from her woundsConrad Verner dies because Jenna isn't there to help
Sabotage the genephage by shooting Paddok Wiks in the back. Don't do Turian Bomb causing Eve to die with other Krogan. Later on kill Wrex on the Citadel.
the Salarian Councillor dies because Kirrahe and Thane are deadlet Captain Aaron Summers kill the prisoner
on Rannoch pick the Geth(I could've made peace) letting the Quarians die and watch Tali commit suicide. Legion dies uploading the code.
let Anne Bryson die
shoot Brooks in Citadel dlc
let Samara kill herself and then kill Falere
let Oriana(Miranda's sister) and father die. Here's how to.
don't talk to Ashley when she's in the hospital, then shoot her and she will say "she hopes you go to he**". Here's the video. If you want to make it more interesting kill her while wearing Cerberus armor.
after saving the Volus Ambassador take the Volus fleet and ignore the Turian colony
don't talk to Steve, he will die in London
don't do the From Ashes dlc
let TIM kill Anderson
pick destroy causing the robot to fry along with the Geth
At the memorial scene I had Samantha, Joker, T'soni and James in attendance. I had over 3100 ems, so femshep isn't dead. On the wall I had both columns filled with names(48) and Anderson in the middle(49) and Kasuni and Zaeed were dead and their names weren't on the wall giving me 51 dead
I did a new game plus with the same charcter, but I went for low ems. James and T'soni were killed on the beam run(ems 1750-1900) and femshep dead when picking destroy. The memoral scene only had Samantha and Joker present. On the wall I had 50 names(including femshep) and 4 names not on the wall giving me 54 dead
If your ems is below 1750 the doors to the Normandy don't open.
That's what I did for that playthrough. Of course I could've done it different ways, but I'm content with this playthrough.
this is the best walkthrough ever. and to think Anderson will still say that Shep is atn icon for the people of the galaxy is just LOL
I just finished a trilogy run to see about killing more than what I did in the playthrough that I posted on the 1st page. I was able to.
Xenia Shepard - Earthborn/ruthless/engineer
ME1
let Toombs kill the scientist and he will kill himself
when helping Dr. Michel with her problem, kill the blackmailer
when helping detective Chellick, kill Jax and his 2 thugs. This will have Jenna show up in ME3 to save Conrad if he is alive
kill Helena Blake
kill father Kyle and his followers
kill Darius during the UNC Negotiation mission
before killing Fist, kill the 2 workers
talk with Conrad so he shows up in ME2
when scanning the keepers kill Chorban, Here's how
on Feros kill all the colonists and Shiala
kill Jeong
kill Dr. Ross and the 3 mercs during the exogeni facility mission
Noveria--have Anoleis and Gianna Parasini kill each other. Here's the video to do this. Kill the Rachni Queen
When going to Lorik Qui'in's office, kill the two guards instead of letting them leave
kill Inamorda and the 2 krogan thugs during the Noveria smuggling mission
let the leader kill chairman burns and kill the leader and thugs
On Virmire, kill Rana Thanopolis and let Kirrahe and Kaidan die. Keep Wrex and Ashley alive. Also kill the salarian prisoners
kill Charn and then Kill Balak in Bring Down the Sky dlc causing the hostages to die
let the council die
ME2
On Omega make the Batarian drink his poison. Let the Patriarch die fighting the killers. When going to recruit archangel, let the kid join the mercs only to watch him be killed by Garrus a few minutes later.
On Mordin's recruitment misson, kill the 3 district guards, don't give medigel to the Batarian and when you encounter Mordin's assistant, kill the Batarians who will kill the assistant
N7 mission Javelin Missle Launcher. Choose to save the spaceport and let the people die
talk with Conrad or tell him to get lost and he will die
let Jack kill Aresh on her loyalty mission
kill the 2 krogan bodyguards and let Garrus kill Sidonis on his loyalty mission
let the girl get killed and have Jacob's father die at the hands of his crew
on Tali's recruitment mission, take your time destroying the Colossus, Kal'Reeger will die
kill the sick Krogan in Mordin's loyalty mission
let Mordin kill Maelon and save the data
On Samara's recruitment mission kill Elnora
let Niftu Cal, biotic god, die
On Thane's recruitment mission, don't give medigel to the salarian, push the merc out the window and on his loyalty missionkill Joram Talid
Jack, Kasumi and Thane killed because of no upgrades
Garrus dies being sent in the vent
Jacob was carried off by the swarmers
Sent no escort for the crew. They will die
Grunt killed as 2nd fire team leader
Miranda and Tali killed fighting the terminator
Mordin killed holding the line
After the suicide mission, kill Zaeed during his loyalty mission
Samara and Legion live to be in ME3
Do the Arrival dlc to kill 300,000 Batarians
ME3
don't bring Allers on the ship, she will die onboard the SSV Shasta
have General Oraka killed
save Jondam Bau, the salarian spectre, letting the Hanar lose their homeworld
don't talk to the female student on Grissom. She will die from her wounds
Ensign Prangley is killed because Jack died during the suicide mission
Conrad Verner dies because Jenna isn't there to help if her mission wasn't done in ME1
Sabotage the genophage by shooting Paddok Wiks in the back. Don't do Turian Bomb causing Eve to die with other Krogan. Later on kill Wrex on the Citadel.
overload the reactor killing thousands on Omega. Kill Oleg Petrovsky
the Salarian Councillor dies because Kirrahe and Thane are dead
let Captain Aaron Summers kill the prisoner
pick the geth. The Quarians will die. Legion dies uploading the code.
let Anne Bryson die
shoot Brooks in Citadel dlc
during the N7 fuel reactor mission, do not send help to Capatain Riley. She will die
let Samara kill herself and then kill Falere
let Oriana(Miranda's sister) and father die. Here's how to.
don't talk to Ashley when she's in the hospital, then shoot her and she will say "she hopes you go to he**". Here's the video. If you want to make it more interesting kill her while wearing Cerberus armor.
after saving the Volus Ambassador take the Volus fleet and ignore the Turian colony
don't talk to Steve, he will die in London
don't do the From Ashes dlc
let TIM kill Anderson
pick destroy causing edi to fry along with the Geth
At the memorial scene I had Samantha, Joker, Liara and James in attendance. I had over 3100 ems, so femshep isn't dead. On the wall I had both columns filled with names(48) and Anderson in the middle(49) and Kasuni and Zaeed were dead and their names weren't on the wall giving me 51 dead
I did a new game plus with the same charcter, but I went for low ems. James and T'soni were killed on the beam run(ems 1750-1900) and femshep dead when picking destroy. The memoral scene only had Samantha and Joker present. On the wall I had 50 names(including femshep) and 4 names not on the wall giving me 54 dead
If your ems is below 1750 the doors to the Normandy don't open.
I estimate that 17 315 105 died plus all the random mercs that were killed throughout the trilogy
I just finished a trilogy run to see about killing more than what I did in the playthrough that I posted on the 1st page. I was able to.
I estimate that 17 315 105 died plus all the random mercs that were killed throughout the trilogy
I just thought of how all of your squadmates die except EDI, and you chose synthesis. She will be the only one to understand how to feel but she can't feel with others because they are deceased.
But then, James and Liara can only be killed by harby beam if you have low EMS, and synthesis can only be chosen if you have high EMS. Dammit Bioware, I had a great idea...
Not really, I have chosen 0 EMS Synthesis, but this requires PC HAX!
Not really, I have chosen 0 EMS Synthesis, but this requires PC HAX!
I just finished a trilogy run to see about killing more than what I did in the playthrough that I posted on the 1st page. I was able to.
On Virmire, kill Rana Thanopolis and let Kirrahe and Kaidan die. Keep Wrex and Ashley alive. Also kill the salarian prisoners
You can also let Rana live. Then you get an email in ME3 which talks about how Rana is indoctrinated and killing some ~5 people and herself.
You can also let Rana live. Then you get an email in ME3 which talks about how Rana is indoctrinated and killing some ~5 people and herself.
Yep. Just wanted to mention that even if you use gibbed for ME2 to set the plot flag that she died on Virmire, she will still be there in ME2. The only way to kill her and keep her dead is by importing a save from ME1 directly.
You can also let Rana live. Then you get an email in ME3 which talks about how Rana is indoctrinated and killing some ~5 people and herself.
I know. I could also let the workers die in Zaeed's loyalty mission, but I didn't. I chose to save the workers and let Zaeed die.
Hey themikefest, I've been looking at your list of things for ME2 and have worked out how to get the different people killed in the suicide mission, except for Garrus. You say he died closing the door, but I don't see that anywhere in the suicide mission flowchart. I actually can't work out at all how to kill Garrus without killing someone else first. I remember the scene where he gets shot closing the door, but his armor saves him - is this where he can die? If so, how?
Hey themikefest, I've been looking at your list of things for ME2 and have worked out how to get the different people killed in the suicide mission, except for Garrus. You say he died closing the door, but I don't see that anywhere in the suicide mission flowchart. I actually can't work out at all how to kill Garrus without killing someone else first.
Have him go through the vent. He will die regardless if he's loyal or not. That is where he's trying to close the door and ends up killed
I remember the scene where he gets shot closing the door, but his armor saves him - is this where he can die? If so, how?
It sounds like he was loyal and since he's the 2nd fireteam leader, he will always survive in that situation. If he isn't loyal, he will die.
On the wall I had 50 names(including femshep) and 4 names not on the wall giving me 54 dead
This makes me sad.
This makes me sad.
Did you look at the playthrough I did on this page? I was able to kill more than what I did in the playthrough on the first page
I think I had only 1 preventable death [well if don't lump in the "destroy" ending deaths] in the trilogy and that was Miranda. I wanted to warn her several times but I guess I didn't select the proper option to warn her when the game wanted me to Oddly I'm OK with owning my mistakes as it gave me "good feelz" when Shep got to say goodbye to Kai Leng.
I was also OK with the emergency induction port ... perhaps silly but oh well.
My "tragic Paragon" Catherine probably lost the most people, and she also lost pretty much the entire quarian race. The idea behind her character was that she was principled and altruistic, but couldn't always see her way to the "creative" solutions available through the blue dialogue choices. The extra deaths weren't because she herself chose to kill somebody but because she wasn't able to gain control of the situation.
ME1:
Kaidan - bomb
Wrex - shot by Ashley without Shepard's permission - Shepard chewed her out and avoided speaking to her for the rest of the game)
ME2:
Garrus - non-loyal and escorted the crew
Samara - non-loyal and with Shepard at the end
Kasumi - in the vent - a non-loyal crew member (can't remember who now) was leading the first fire team
Also of note: Miranda was non-loyal because Shepard sided with Jack, and Tali was non-loyal because Shepard exposed Rael's experiments
ME3:
Mordin - curing the genophage
Thane - defending the councilor
Jondum Bau - b/c Kasumi isn't there when confronting the hanar ambassador
Legion - uploaded
Koris - rescued his crew instead
Tali - Shepard sided with the geth when push came to shove
Miranda - died in the confrontation with her father
I definitely noticed that things had a slightly more harsh feel to them at times in this playthrough. For example, Catherine told Miranda, "Pout if you want to. Or go call the Illusive Man and complain to him," and Miranda responded, "I don't pout, and I can't call the Illusive Man every time you screw up." At the asari monastery, Falere yells "you couldn't save my mother!" when she runs away, and Joker's ME3 comment about "pretty soon it'll just be you and me left" had a little more bite to it considering how many crew members had in fact died. Catherine also never really reconciled with Ashley, letting her go work for Hackett since I skipped the Paragon speech option in the scene after the coup.
^
You could have killed Garrus, Kasumi and Samara even if you had them loyal, the game makes it very easy to do. Miranda and Tali can also easily be killed in ME3 even if they were made loyal.
On topic
On my main save
ME1:
Kaidan dies on Virmire(He wasn't a hot girl)
Rachni made extinct(though I doubt they're fully gone. The Proteans thought they had wiped them out, and lo and behold)
Left Council to die(Sov was about to open the relay, I had no choice)
ME2:
Jacob died in vents(he volunteered)
Jack got taken away by Collector swarms after Miranda failed to hold biotic bubble(Miranda deceived me about her biotic ability)
Samara died leading 2nd fire team(her cleavage prevented me from making good decisions)
ME3:
Mordin shot after I sabotaged the genophage(Poor fool let his emotions get the better of him, I released him from his grief)
Thane died after saving councilor( RIP Thane, I'll see you soon)
Legion died uploading code(RIP old friend)
Tali commited suicide after I chose the Geth over the Quarians(Took me completely off guard when I first saw this happen. I was staring at the screen with my mouth open for several minutes afterwards)
Wrex got shot on Citadel(Javik told me not to indulge the selfish requests of the Krogan, so I just took his advice )
Miranda died on Sanctuary( To be honest, it was a sort of karmaic justice for deceiving me about her biotic ability in ME2, which lead to Jack's death. It was sad though, that legendary ass is no more. Wait....isn't Oriana Miranda's genetic twin and therefore perfect as well? Hold on a minut-)
Javik commited sucicde after the events of ME3(Left me legit shook when he told me, but I understood his decision. It's a far better ending for him then the other nonsense. Javik writing a book? Come on now)
For me it was one where I left only Miranda and Thane alive from ME2. I did not help Miranda save her sister (not that this mattered). I let the timer run out on Thane's mission, so Kolyat killed Talid, but I managed to get to that final room on the catwalks and sock that one guy in the gut right at the buzzer.
... then both of them got killed by Kai Leng in ME3.
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