Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Saturn]

I will be annoyed if the Hammerhead comes out the day after i beat the game.

just finished up Garrus and Thane's loyalty missions.

I enjoyed punching the shit out of that guy in the interrogation

only got some sidequests to knock off before i do the IFF and endgame.

[inyandep]

-Zaeed is so cool. You don't have a whole lot of conversations with him, but he has a lot of stuff to say during missions anyway. Bring him along with you during the Archangel mission, since he gets some lines with the head of the Blue Suns.

excellent fakepost

[Disposable Ninja]

You're a fakepost.

I'm trying to decide who to romance this playthrough. I've already done Garrus, so now I have to figure out who to go after next. Jacob can wait for my racist Infiltrator lady, so that just leaves Thane and Kelly the assistant girl. On the one hand, Thane is deep and brooding individual.

On the other, Kelly is a girl and so is my Shepherd, and she puts on a stripper outfit and dry humps Shepherd's arm.

It's a tough decision.

[Misha]

just finished a playthrough, and I'm pretty pissed off that [spoiler]there appears to be no reasonable way to know who to pick for the missions in order to have no one die. It is seriously bullshit. Why would zaeed randomly die and not someone else I pick? Also the final boss fight was a little meh but overall i enjoyed the game.[/spoiler]

[TA]

just finished a playthrough, and I'm pretty pissed off that [spoiler]there appears to be no reasonable way to know who to pick for the missions in order to have no one die. It is seriously bullshit. Why would zaeed randomly die and not someone else I pick? Also the final boss fight was a little meh but overall i enjoyed the game.[/spoiler]

You have to pick people for their strengths.  [spoiler]Use pure tech people like Legion or Tali, and pure biotics like Jack or Samara, and not dabblers like Jacob or Miranda.  When it calls for someone to lead a team, use someone with good leadership experience like Miranda, or Jacob, or Garrus.  Zaeed is terrible so don't trust him with anything ever.  I went Legion to hack, Garrus to lead team two, Jack to do the biotic shield, Jacob to lead the second team two, and Thane to escort people, and lost nobody.[/spoiler]

Also getting all the ship upgrades and having everybody Loyal helps.

[Doom]

[spoiler]I heard that the ship upgrades are the most serious flat checks. Like if you don't have X, bam fatality.[/spoiler]

[TA]

[spoiler]I think there are some of those, during the cutscene.  Like, if you don't have good enough shields, Jack gets splattered, and stuff.  But there's also loyalty and choices in the mission itself.[/spoiler]

[Rico]

Bad at game

"Hey guys it's asking me for a biotic genius I'll send TALI!  WTF GAME WHY MY TEAM DIE???"

[Shinra]

is this game worth playing if you haven't beaten the first mass effect? I mean, can I just download a save with the options I want, read a summary of ME1 and get the same level of enjoyment? Because I was gung-ho about Mass Effect until the thirtieth time I had to land the fucking Mako on a planet and I've really had enough of that game.

[Rico]

The game is pretty well-paced and compelling, and the actual gameplay is better than ME1.  You may miss a few of the cameos, but most of them are done through the e-mail system anyway.

[Misha]

[spoiler]LOL I IS DUMB. My first time through, I sent Legion to infiltrate and used samara to lead the fire team because miranda said you should send someone with experience and she is like 1000 years old. Turns out the wrong choice was Samara, but if I'm trying to learn that through playing the game I would have NO IDEA because legion is the one who died. Then it turns out Garrus is immune to bullets but Zaeed is not. In the exact same cutscene they both get hit by a bullet as the door closes, but Zaeed dies and Garrus lives. Somehow I'm supposed to know that an alien with maybe a couple years of experience is better at leading a squad than a mercenary with fucking decades of experience in wars. It's not like I put tali in charge of a squad and grunt into the ventilation tube or something. I made reasonable choices and was punished for not being able to read the developer's mind.[/spoiler]

[Doom]

[spoiler]You didn't think Garrus was a total bad-ass? I've no pity for you, son.[/spoiler]

The game is pretty well-paced and compelling, and the actual gameplay is better than ME1.  You may miss a few of the cameos, but most of them are done through the e-mail system anyway.

[spoiler]Apparently you get to punch the same reporter in ME2, and if you didn't in ME1 but do in ME2, Shephard remarks "I should've done that in the first place!" :D

I'd like to think that in ME3, she shows up again with like, a Krogan bodyguard. So you can shoot him and then punch her anyway.[/spoiler]

[Misha]

[spoiler]You didn't think Garrus was a total bad-ass? I've no pity for you, son.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]A total badass who got his ENTIRE SQUAD KILLED[/spoiler]

[Doom]

[spoiler]That sucks for them. Guess they should have tried harder to be as awesome as Garrus.[/spoiler]

[TA]

It's probably worth the ten or so hours it takes to blow through the Mass Effect main storyline, to know what's going on in Mass Effect 2, which is quite good.  Those won't be a pleasant ten hours, but they'll be worth it in the end.  Maybe find and do the Cerberus side quests, too.  Don't land on planets you don't need to, the exploration is not worth it.

[spoiler]You didn't think Garrus was a total bad-ass? I've no pity for you, son.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]A total badass who got his ENTIRE SQUAD KILLED[/spoiler]

[spoiler]That wasn't his fault!  He got betrayed by one of his own!

The scant amount of story that Zaeed offers is that he's a loner because he's a worthless piece of shit, and his loyalty quest has him fucking everything up for no reason.  Of course he's not gonna be able to lead your team to lay out sufficient covering fire.  Samara even tells you when she joins that she's not used to working with anyone.[/spoiler]

[Doom]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQFF5crvydg

This one doesn't have time for your solid waste excretions. He's here to masticate small pieces of artificially-flavored polyisobutylene and engage in gratuitous violence... and he has expended his supply of artificially-flavored polyisobutylene.

ENKINDLE THIS

[yyler]

[spoiler]I'd like to think that in ME3, she shows up again with like, a Krogan bodyguard. So you can shoot him and then punch her anyway.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]Nah, you headbutt him and punch her.[/spoiler]

[Rico]

The absolute best joke cameo is Conrad Verner.  [spoiler]Your renegade action is shooting him in the foot, which drives him on a quest to prove himself, resulting in an Illium news broadcast about him trying to do some vigilante shit on top of a hoverbus and falling to his death.[/spoiler].

Absolute best no questions non-funny cameo is [spoiler]Rachni Queen, which was so good I had to seriously consider redoing my ME1 Vanguard[/spoiler]

[Norondor]

Absolute best no questions non-funny cameo is [spoiler]Rachni Queen, which was so good I had to seriously consider redoing my ME1 Vanguard[/spoiler]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes

I would have said it was [spoiler]The mother fucking Wrex[/spoiler] but no, you're right, i totally lost it when she showed up.

Also the only really unforgivable problem with the game is that -- endgame spoilers, but you might want it spoiled -- [spoiler] if you pick "we'd better hurry" at the very end, you will probably lose teammates, and if you don't, nobody dies! awesome, thanks a lot for that, CANADA.[/spoiler]

Also fuck whosoever dissed shotguns. They're awesome... on the best class, Vanguard. Combining a really deadly short-ranged weapon with a teleportation power is a pretty obvious choice in retrospect. Hell, i'm really pleased with all the classes, except Adept, which i kind of feel is the "bad @ game" class for people who want to cast magic missile.

[Kayma]

I would just like to give Norondor BIG UPS for that spoiler.