Bacon

Also, holy fuck asari are so fuckin' ugly in this game. Ain't no way they would have been a galactic sex symbol with them stuffed squirrel cheeks. No fuckin' idea how you have Liara and Samara but then makes those. I mean, tbf, like 90% of the people in this game a butt ugly but it is fucked when bird women have better faces than the blue sex aliens.

Reminds me of the time my dog rolled in shit and her face was this color of green

I'm not even kidding. I may not continue ME:A due to the inability to save whenever I want. I am playing on insanity and I have already had multiple deaths that put me back minutes and having to hear the same dialogue every time. This is completely outrageous and I can't believe I had never even heard people complain about this auto-save only bullshit. You can't even quit the game when you want to stop because of this.

I did end up getting it to work. I'm having a hard time getting into it. It does not feel like mass effect, at all. What it feels like the most is Destiny but third person.

Oh I've been trying but I can't by some fluke I was able to get online for that image but I cannot go online because of this and thus can't activate my game or maybe I can do it offline but I don't know if I should take that risk

Well, fuck I had no fucking idea I owned all the games on origin. I'll keep the MELE on steam though just because I know it has all the DLC and shit. I don't think I own any of the DLC outside of ME1. But still. Crazy. And Origin still sucks all these years later.

Now I wanted to end it there for tonight but one last thing. Shepard and Mass Effect 4. I don't trust BioWare to pull off another series like ME. DA:I and ME:A (not yet played) both took the same kind of direction which I greatly disagree with. So part of me really never wants to see Shepard in Mass Effect again. I worry they will just ruin what I have achieved with my play-thru of this trilogy. However, I already want to play as Shepard again. I want him to continue. I want to see the game that proves I am right. But that's all I want to see. I don't want a new galactic threat to appear. I want the Citadel DLC but a whole game with Shepard kicking back, relaxing, and having a good time. I don't want a Mass Effect where you play as Liara or Garrus or whatever. I really, really don't. Mass Effect: Andromeda was a good direction to take, but "Pathfinder" and "Ryder" sounds like some kinds of porn fan-fiction. Picking "commander" and a "Shepard" was the right choice. It was choice that created a Leader. You need a character with titles like that. Witcher, Warden, Commander, God, Master, Chief, Spartan. These are titles with power. Pathfinder isn't. Pathfinder sounds like it could be the name of a shitty game. Ryder is just a mistake. It doesn't need to have meaning Shepard, but Ryder ain't it chief. Ryder is a gamertag from a kid who thinks it sounds cool. Whatever happens with Mass Effect 4, I just hope it is exactly what I want if it is going to happen.

I don't think I'm am going to be giving a big review but will say a bit more here now. For all the flaws the story has, it has just as many amazing moments. I find it far too easy to now forgive their mistakes and I mostly enjoyed all of my time spent on ME3. And the final act is pretty good imo. The space battle was probably my favorite space battle in of all media. It was epic, along with the final ground battle with the rockets. I didn't mind the final mission, I don't have much hate for it. It wasn't perfect, but some people are pretty harsh on it, and maybe it is objectively bad, but seeing earth like that had me rushing and using my Vanguard's powers to their fullest to reach their objectives to save it, like it mattered. It doesn't matter, but I don't mind being easily fooled here. There are the issues with the game. That earth still hadn't be fully lost is nonsense. Reapers are also too weak now. They are an ancient evil who gets bested by an alaskan bullworm and a mini-nuke. There are pacing issues through out the whole game and anything that isn't the MSQ just get's in the way, but you need to do them to get that high war score so Shepard can live. What in the world were they thinking with Kai Lang and the Dead Kid? The combat is great in ME3. Took a bit to get used to with the greater movement and faster combat, but once I felt it I really liked it. I went a lot more renegade in this series, but I just picked what I wanted. With ME1 and ME2 and cheated and maxed out my reputation so I could make Shepard into his own character. I didn't want to be some beacon of justice, but I didn't want to just be a dick. I cheated to make the games better than what it allows naturally. I didn't want Shepard to just be my avatar. I wanted him to be the character I view him as. And I think I succeeded for the most part. Some decisions I made weren't decisions I think were exactly right for the character. I never wanted to release the bug queen. But I did. I don't think Shepard would have though. I don't think Shepard would have saved the council either, but I saved them. Seeing my final war score I realized I could have mostly stuck to what I really felt was right. The one thing I could never do is betray Wrex though. I believe the genophage would have been better off not cured in an unknown future. It is hard to not see a galaxy on the verge of destruction with the major power being giant lizards with the tenacity of cockroaches. But Wrex is pretty cool. And Shepard would have cured it though so that's ok. Now, all these years later, it is hard to think of any of these games as bad or disappointing. When you go into it with a plan like mine you are getting the ultimate experience. What Mass Effect is all about. If While I said your choices matter, I didn't have any choices to make this time. While Mass Effect didn't properly plan out it's own trilogy, I did. I had to do it within the games limitations, but I planned it out better than marvel even could. I feel like I succeeded where BioWare failed by using their own game. After all these years, I have finally gotten what I wanted from Mass Effect. It is a flawed trilogy, but still a really great one.

I wanted to keep a romance going through all 3 games and I kill Ashley. Tali is cute, but Liara is canon.

The One True Play-Through Reapers Die And Shepard Lives The Perfect Ending Man. What a fucking trilogy. 10 years have passed since the launch of Mass Effect 3. When it finally came out I wasn't ready to play it. I no longer wanted use the character I had started with. I just didn't feel the connection anymore and I made more than one bad choice that I wanted to change. For a long time I had wanted to get my character in order for Mass Effect 3, but it just never happened. Too lazy or something, I don't know. Still, I preordered the Collector's Edition for it and had begun to play it on launch day. I had gotten a third, or maybe even halfway through Mass Effect 3 when the news of the endings came out. It was on this very site where I saw the thread which reveled the three endings. Red, Green, or Blue. Your choices didn't matter. No matter what you did it all came down to that, three different colors. I had lost my desire to continue, to beat the game. But your choices DO matter! Sure the ending was a disaster, but for this one time it really is about the journey rather than the destination. That doesn't excuse what was done, but never have I cared more about my choices in a video game than I have during this current play-through of the Mass Effect Trilogy. This is even with knowing what was at the end of all of this. And that is why I don't hate the ending. Going into this I had a plan. The prefect run. Everyone lives and the reapers die. And I am not just going to be a Soldier. No. I'll be the crazy guy charging the battlefield with biotics and my trusty shotgun. And I did that. All of my plans worked out. There was never three endings in my mind this time. There was no red, green, or blue ending. There was just the ending. All I could do was destroy the reapers. That goal was set all the way back in Mass Effect 1. It didn't matter that BioWare tried to meddle with my plans. It didn't matter that they included some incredibly stupid cycle of violence between synthetics and organics that could only be ended through totally-not-magic mutilation of all organics. That just simply wasn't true. That was some nonsensical excuse that goes against the very thing Shepard has achieved. Geth and Quarians we reunited and set out to rebuild their world together. Joker and EDI loved each other, but it was Shepard who showed her what it meant to be alive. Peace wouldn't last? Says who? A senile AI who decided a long time ago this was the only way? Why would the cycle always happen? It gave no reason. It's ideals were flawed. It never even tried to let cooperation happen. It never even looked outside its own galaxy for a solution! All it did was create a cycle of suffering in its own little spot in the endless universe. I don't care what you say. EDI and the Geth are gone? Nonsense. We don't see them die. You say Shepard would destroy himself in the process? Well, look who was fucking wrong. Fuck you, BioWare. Shepard lives. He saved the galaxy and now he is going to fuck his blue alien wife for the next 100 years.

Of course. I just don't really count that because it was clearly content they cut to sell new copies.

DO NOT SHOOT THE AI CHILD

Man, I did the mirror match on insanity and fuck I had to play like a giga-bitch to beat it on insanity. I actually forgot to change my armor but it didn't matter. I had to fully give up my charge+nova+shotgun playstyle, but honestly my squad members carried me. They did so much damn damage compared to the team I was running before. I probably could have let them do it all while I hid. And I paused combat very often while I thought what would be my best move. This was a very fun challenge. I might learn to do it solo. And also, the citadel dlc was amazing. 10/10 content. Such a great send-off. I have a feeling this will sway my overall opinion on the game's ending.

I've done two of the three DLC packs and they aren't that good. Omega fits really well after the attack on the Citadel but the content is otherwise bland. The outcomes are irrelevant, but I am sad I didn't go full paragon or full renegade. If you go full good guy you can the pull a great bad guy action by killing the boss yourself. If you go full bad guy you get a nice scene with Aria. I mean, the dialogue you get if you don't go full paragon or renegade is also really great and is probably one of the best things someone has said to Shepard, but it doesn't feel as rewarding. It makes the DLC feel rewardless somewhat. Like, if you were playing an Engineer I think the DLC would be worth it, but I just feel left out that I didn't get any class specific actions. Leviathan just has no place in the story. The missions aren't that good to take as much time as they do and there is no good spot to do this DLC in the story. Do it early and the characters have to act dumb cuz they didn't know this info when the game first launched. Do it late and you end up putting the end of the galaxy on the back burner. The organic reaper's existence gives lame answers and also confuses me as to why the human reaper was a thing when this DLC says that all reapers take the form of the first reaper, Harbinger. Maybe it is because humans, Shepard, are powerful and the reapers need that but the game doesn't really say. At least not yet. And man, the Leviathan's are totally magic. They offer no reasonable explanations for their telepathic powers that literally let them take down a reaper in flight from the ocean. Sure, they give some bullshit answer of Quantum Entanglement Communication, but it feels like a fake answer BioWare put in the game so people wouldn't ask. Now I assume the intelligence it the star child thing and I do wonder what it has to say and if this DLC will be relevant, but the DLC wasn't worth the ending. Game needs one last DLC where I kill the last of the Batarians.

That would have been great. What is important is giving a personal connection to the bad guy who is actively fighting you. Doesn't matter if he works for TIM or not. Their animosity feels empty. Kai is honestly no different than the hundreds of faceless Cerberus soldiers Shepard has kill along the way. He is just some guy.

bye

yeah it p-good i just watched it this year not my favorite show but worth the watch for shore

The ending cutscene to the thessia mission was really good. It is just a shame this Kai Lang character is some rando who sucks balls. I don't care if this shitter was in some book or whatever, this was a very bad call. There have been so many characters that could have been repurposed into an indoctrinated tool for Cerberus. Like, wow! Imagine if the person who you left to die on vermire was used in place of kai lang. Would it make sense? No. But has Cerberus been shown to magically revive the dead? Yes. Man I hate making critiques like that as I hate it when youtubers do it but fuck, man. Almost anyone would have been better.

Can't wait for jello pudding pops to make their return with him! For real tho, I had thought he had gotten free and then still died. Didn't know he was still alive.

Crazy how much attention people give this Taint guy.

I sure have I do so often

Andromeda was only 5 bucks... Might as well play them all.

Man, like BioWare fucked up. ME3 should have actually been the second ME and ME2 should have been ME3. Mass Effect 2 is almost totally irreverent to the overall plot and the major carry over plot points all happened in ME1 anyway. All me2 did was make it clear that a Reaper invasion is coming and soon. The actual details with the collectors and shit don't even matter. Usually this kinda stuff is pretty pointless to post about but like, here is a new timeline of events. Mass Effect 1: Shepard must stop Saren only to learn of the real galactic threat, the Reapers. Along the was he counters various labs run by the pro-human terrorist organization Cerberus who are performing strange experiments but they are otherwise unimportant. Mass Effect 2: Reapers invade. Shepard must gather a galactic army and also deal with Cerberus who are sending out mutated forces in an attempt to stop Shepard from destroying what they might be able to control. Ultimately, Shepard dies but not before destroying the Reapers with the help of Prothean Weapon. Mass Effect 3: We see Shepard's last stand to destroy the Reapers, where he gives up his own life to do so. Years pass and suddenly Shepard awakens. Found by Cerberus, Shepard has been resurrected via Cerberus' Lazarus Project to take on a new threat who has been abducting entire human colonies. Shepard is no longer trusted due to his ties with Cerberus who's meddling almost let the Reapers win. So, Shepard forms a new team and gets some help from a few of his old friends. Shepard learns that a contingency plan set up by the Reapers has the Collectors, a reaper-mutated race of Protheans, harvesting humans in order to create a Human-Reaper Hybrid. The Illusive Man, the leader of Cerberus now wishes Shepard to stop. This new form of Reaper has just been what the Illusive Man was looking for. Shepard tells him to fuck off and destroys the human-reaper. Finally the last of the reapers plans are gone. Mass Effect 4: The Illusive Man found a way to build the new reapers. But not just human. Shepard must take down the IM. And well, it doesn't really have to be like that but it actually really bothers me how unimportant everything that happened in ME2 was. Maelon could have cured the genophage. Wrex would have the same role. Garrus would end up going to Omega after Shepard died. Liara could still be trying to save Shepard anyway she could and that would have led her to giving Cerberus his body. The geth conflict would work out nearly the same as well. Virmire Survivor would be giga butthurt in the new ME3 and that would instead be resolved in ME4. Overall pointless to talk about and my ideas are far from perfect, but yeah.

Huh. I just noticed Mas Effect Legendary edition is on sale for 15 bucks on steam. I know I'm about finish the games, in the next week or so, but I think I might buy it on PC now so I can have it forever. Plus, as much as I have enjoyed my time with it, I wish had I played it on PC. Edit. You know what fuck it. Bought.