You will never become spectre for the first time again
;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk8gVWOy7uo
>>285337103
You will never Mass Effect again :'(
This isn't a nice start for a thread, OP
Speak for yourself, i'm going for my seventh playthrough.
>>285337103
>you could have been a space cop
>me3 could have had a job board
>the normandy could have been a space police cruiser
instead we get rgb
>you will never be able to play or talk about Mass Effect again without thinking about how the good writers left, how EA raped Bioware and laid eggs in the corpse, how SJWs infected the studio and its games, how they bought reviews, and how the ending shit all over the previous games
fuck
FUCK
>>285337103
have yet to play it so i will
>>285337103
ME4 will never come close to what ME was meant.
>feelsbadman.jpg
>You will never play ME1 for the first time again
>>285337812
>you will never be able to talk about Mass Effect as revolutionary game in Sci-Fi
>>285338193
>the "Can I fuck it?" people will never leave
>>285337103
You will never play a ME game without stupid thermal clips and fully customizable weapons.
>>285337103
Fuck you OP, you forced my hand. Time to replay it again.
![yFc7S[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/u0Ed06C.jpg "yFc7S[1].jpg")
You will never become a Geth spectre for the first time again
(all bipeds share the same skeleton, you can mod whoever you want in)
>you will never see your pilot and reborn ship for the first time again as you prepare to journey the Terminus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXCM0lZxh4U
>>285338571
My job here is done.
:^)
What does /v/ prefer, Maleshep or Femshep?
Just replayed.
Wasn't as good as I remembered but ME1 is still a pretty enjoyable game.
I actually think 2 is the worst of the bunch.
Yeah the ending to the series is terrible and 3 has cringy moments but the earlier games weren't without them either. Mass Effect was always silly space opera.
The improvements to the combat from 2 to 3 were substantial enough to bump it ahead of 2 for me.
Also 2 is only a massive sidequest. 3 at least had something happening.
I loved how in the first game renegade Shepard had many kind lines and wasn't complete jerk
Why they changed it in the me2?
>>285338982
ME has a great premise and then 2 and 3 happened.
>>285338810
thank god, ME2 was ass
>>285339064
Because triple-A audiences and SJWs can't comprehend grey morality, only black-and-white. It would be too complex for them to understand.
>>285339064
Probably because they changed the system so that you didn't need to rack up the points to open the talent tree further.
2 and 3 allow mixing renegade and paragon more than 1 did.
>>285339064
ME1 Renegade was a badass motherfucker
ME2/3 Renegade is a fucking asshole
>>285339251
Best game in the series
>>285338982
I always thought of Mass Effect as a Military SF (Forever Wars) with Hard Sci-Fi elements from Star Trek.
Is not until ME2 that I begin to see a Space Opera element which completely took me out of the plot.
>>285337103
>have never become spectre for the first time
Feels good man
>>285339367
>describing the system to answer someone asking why they ruined the writing
>>285339474
>best
I can't think of any, ANYthing that I liked in 2/3 more than I liked in 1, even combat
seeing that corridor in front of me with perfectly placed covers in the way and sighing because I knew another boring-ass firefight was incoming is not my idea of fun
inb4 the vanguard is the only way to play 'argument'
>get ME2
>was alright, felt pretty gay and wasn't into the story/characters at all
>play ME3 on PS+ for 'free'
>it's shit
is there any chance I could enjoy 1?
>>285339251
>implying it wasn't the highest point of the series
Okay
>>285339810
Yes, the writing is leagues better and far more focused. The combat is completely different and by most accounts worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXLVFnl3WcE
>>285339234
>>285338982
Thanks God the guilty party has left Bioware.
http://blog.bioware.com/2014/08/07/casey-hudsons-departure-from-biowareea/
http://blog.bioware.com/2014/08/07/casey-hudsons-departure-from-biowareea/
For all of ME2's flaws, I couldn't help but enjoy the suicide mission.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsD2FjmLsw
>>285339964
"Hold the fucking lines!"
>>285339438
You're a bit biased for 1. It has its share of renegade assholery.
A lot of renegade options are "kill it" and being a stright out prick unless you pick other dialogue choices that might then open another renegade choice that isn't just shooting and barking.
It did the renegade best but it's not without fault.
>>285339964
What was he pointing at?
>>285340390
No, in the first game asshole options and renegade options were on different buttons
Just like paragon and good ones
>>285339781
>inb4 the vanguard is the only way to play 'argument'
But it is. In 1 play whatever but manguard is the only choice in the sequels.
1 stil has the best combat though and fuck Bioware for completely changing it and not fixing and developing it.
>>285340496
THE LINE
>>285340654
END OF RINE?
>>285337103
>you will live to see more terrible Mass Effect sequels
You will never meet Vigil for the first time again
;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukPN7tB_plY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWhBe20a4Gs
>>285340764
DING DONG BANNU
2 is like they just redid 1. Still going around assembling your team. They should have just kept making ME games where you assemble teams but never quite reach the finale.
>>285338871
For a serious playthrough? Femshep.
For random fucks? Sheploo.Random fucks = Tali or Miranda.
>>285338871
maleshep, I like roleplaying as a male in RPGs
femshep's voice isn't sexy or cute, but her voice is fine, but her model is hideous
this is the Shepard I played 6 years ago, and I've failed to replicate his model last time I tried, but I'll probably try again and when I do it I'll replay ME1
>tfw playing through 1 and 2, then ME3 giving my save file transfer the middle fingerreminder that ME1 was released in 2007
>Sovereign is too strong. I'm sorry. It's too late for me. Goodbye, Shepard...thank you
I want a game where I can play as racist Turian
>>285342638
you'll never, ever have a character like that by neoBioware
>>285342638
The only good thing that could come out of Mass Effect anymore would be an honest action shooter of Garrus' exploits on Omega.
Nothing interesting happens before the games and they can't place a game after the ending.
Or they can but it would be even more of a fluke than the ending was.
>>285342832
They even did indoctrination.right
>After Saren shoots and kills Nihlus, we see him brooding in his chair and looking pretty sullen before he learns that Shepard thwarted his attack — so he was acting pretty broody even though he thought he'd succeeded. He seemed pretty much a sociopath when he killed Nihlus, and he starts chucking things around in an obvious tantrum, and yet for the rest of the game he seems to be a pretty calm, if determined person, right up until the end when he shoots that keeper. So that seemed a little strangely out of character. Later on, we see that when he's indoctrinated, his eyes glow blue, and they stop glowing when he fights it. Replay the game, get to the scene where he meets Nihlus, and you'll see that his eyes glow blue when he shoots Nihlus. It especially further explains why he sounds desperate and even a bit pleading when he talks about researching and fighting indoctrination.
>>285342638
Your best hope in neoBioware is a racist Turian with a ninja sword killing everyone without questions and trolling his enemies via mail.
>>285343424
Someone please post the screenshot of that fucking email, it's like something a 15 year old would write and is the perfect example of Bioware's trash garbage writers
Is it accurate to assume that people who prefer ME1 are fans of KOTOR and fans of ME2 are not?
>You will never take the reapers seriously ever again
>>285344119
Why would this be?
Kotor is more of an RPG than ME2, yes, but you can enjoy different genres.
>>285344119
Yes.
KOTOR and ME1 fans want some good space opera.
ME2 fans what "CAN I FUCK IT?"
>>285344119
Fans of ME2 are fans of Gears of War.
>>285344119
I have never play KOTOR and still enjoy ME1 over ME2 by 20%.
>>285344675
Because ME1 is very reminiscent of KOTOR, and people who like ME2 didnt like the RPG elements in 1 or the "clunky" gameplay
Honestly the clunky gameplay is a huge fucking nitpick, it has some problems but its not nearly as unplayable as ME2 fans would have you believe, I would take ME1 gameplay over ME2's any day
>>285345109
Weapon upgrades were fun as fuck
My pistol overheated after each shot, but it was more powerful than sniper rifle
>>285337103
Don't fucking remind me.
I had such high hopes for the franchise. I was so fucking excited for 2. Fucking why?
>>285345642
EA and the wider audience.
>>285345642
I got burned on both Mass Effect and Dragon Age, but DA2 was honestly a much worse disappointment than ME2.
>you will never see a version of the games with the original plots
>>285346130
It's not like the reaper's motive would not make any sense at all because it still kind of does, a little, but it's just such a fucking lame conclusion because its execution and presentation are stupid.
The point was wiping the slate clean of spacefaring species to ensure organic life as a whole perserveres, but the technology to spacefare is also the technology that creates the artificial life.
It leaves the plothole of why would the Repars leave the technology behind in the first place if it would just eventually lead to AI as well and its surpassing.
Just leave every planet alone and if someone in the tens of thousands of years happens to come up with AI go in and annihilate them then.
>>285345898
It really is. ME2 is still bearable, a feat I can't give to Dragon Age 2.
I heard the game was supposed to be an expansion to Origins but EA butted in.
>>285337103
>Spectres were made out to be the hottest of all shit in ME1
>it means absolutely fuck all in the following games
no, bioware, this shit is not ok.
>>285347618
Original reapers plot had nothing to do with AI and was about raising ideal race for their goals
Asari came close but weren't good enough
Won't the rest of the Galaxy be a little fucked if the leviathans come back into power?
>>285348270
Not really, as long as people stay away from the crystal balls they should be fine
>>285348119
Yeah I know the AI isn't the original. That's why the ending is such a trainwrek.
Karpyshyn was out and that derailed it.
I don't know why Mac Walters didn't consult him on what the overall story arc would be.
Or maybe he did and just ignored that shit and slapped his own ideas in.
>>285339367
>2 and 3 allow mixing renegade and paragon more than 1 did.
>2
>the game which screwed you over for not always picking one option
>allowing you to mix them
For those who don't know, there was no static paragon/renegade point you needed to hit to access paragon/renegade conversation options.
It was all calculated by how many potential points you could have earned at that point, and raised the cost accordingly. Meaning that picking too many of the wrong choice would likely screw you out of a squad members loyalty.
>>285338568
Annoying thing is clips could have worked in tandem with the heat mechanic of the last game as a limited use consumable for instantly purging heat.
That combined with the customization 1 had (and three to an extent) could have made a huge slew of shit more viable.
>>285348270
Who cares. ME3 is not canon.
>Literally finished ME3 less than 40 minutes ago
>Go on /v/
>See this thread
Fuck you I just spend 10 days practically marathoning the trilogy and by god was it worth it.
I wept when Legion died, and I wept more at the end of ME3. I don't care what you think, but I like the series, even if ME3 only becomes good thanks to the various DLC's I.E Citadel or Omega.
I'll miss the gang so much, until next year when I play them again. ;_;
>>285348270
>Space aboleth, original character DO NOT STEAL
>ME4 to be set in a new area of space, most likely with new aliens
They better use some of that old Quarian concept art for their new aliens
>>285348837
They were mentioned in one planet description in the fucking first game
or it was reaper ship
>>285348870
None of that dlc makes ME3 good, you just have bad taste.
>>285349119
it was probably a reaper ship, but which planet?
>>285348870
Citadel is fucking great, I've just been replaying it and bought that DLC, absolutely no regrets, way better ending than ME3's actual ending.
>>285348270
Yes. They can debilitate a capital ship reaper with just their minds and from a huge distance away. Any foot soldier that gets near it can be immediately put into a trance state and either be forced to kill their allies or die while in submission.
They can also travel through space without the need of ships, so they have either a ridiculously resilient biology, an intense amount of biotics, or both.
>>285349119
you're thinking of the beings of light.
That's nowhere near an explicit mention
>>285348870
I'm sorry anon but your taste is SHIEEET!
>>285349139
Citadel is fucking fantastic, eat shit. :^)
>>285349257
I'd prefer it if the Citadel DLC was the actual end, but it makes for a good final goodbye to the crew as well. I spent 3 hours today just replaying the party and changing up the moods and stuff for the party itself, just to hear the banter and all.
Guys what has become of this industry İ was too young too unserstand and remember the 90's but for me the golden age of gaming was 2006-2009 maybe 2008 .
The beginning of the xbox 360 was fucking great .
>>285349454
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xvzuAQe4PU
>>285349306
>>285349226
Fucking found it
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Jartar
Good thing someone made wiki with all this shit
ME1 wasn't that great.
>>285349454
>wins because a helicopter came in and saved his ass
>gloats about it
thats like being the worst player on the team and then bragging when you get carried to victory by more skilled players
>>285349680
It was better than its sequels though.
>>285349607
Oh I had mercifully forgotten this already.
>>285337103
All Bioware games use the same formula, so yes, you will.
First you're nobody, then you enter the secret club (become Spectre, Jedi, Grey Warden, Inquisitor etc.), then you save the world.
Hnnnnnng to play Mass Effect for the first time again. It was like playing Kotor but with the mechanics of a third person shooter. Same could be said about the sequels but it just wasn't the same.
Just something magical about the first one.
>>285338086
What are you talking about, I have the physical copy and the product key still works. Just replayed it, still pretty good. Fuck the mako though.
>>285349607
>Implying I ever romance Tali
As if I'm a pathetic weeb who gets off on shy, insecure girls with a nack for engineering.
>you'll never touch down on Ilos again
anyone know what this was about? I waited 3 fucking games to know what happened on that weird temple
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Eletania
>>285337103
Test
I love Mass Effect 2, and I still do. It's an amazing fucking game. At the time when it came out, my only real problem with the game was that it didn't have enough weapon variety, and some of the RPG elements got dumbed down. Some. But other than that the game was a huge improvement over Mass Effect 1 (which I love equally.)
I don't recall ME2 getting constant hate from /v/ when it first game out. There was hate, there's always hate for every game on here. But not THIS much. I think the big reason why people look at ME2 in a negative light these days is because it's story was a major contribution to why ME3 failed so fucking hard. Admittedly, ME2's story is my 3rd problem with the game, that I didn't have until I played ME3. On it's own merits, ME2 has a decent enough story, but it's two biggest strengths were it's character development, and how it had a much more fun tone than the other two entries.
However in the grand scheme of the trilogy's story, the story of ME2 was a giant fuck up. They could've kept the Collectors and have them serve as the antagonist faction, the way the Geth did in ME1. But the writers without question, should've developed the Reaper storyline more, and actual began to develop the way we would beat them. If the Reapers could've been beaten conventionally in ME3, it would've came off very hamfisted. However if in ME2, the story began to establish that the Galaxy was advancing their weaponry, or devising a Superweapon that would disable Reaper barriers, so that we could fight them conventionally, then ME3 would've been a lot better off.
Instead because the idiots ignored the Reaper storyline in ME2, they wrote themselves into a corner. And so we had the Crucible, Star Child, and "The Reapers cannot be defeated conventionally" being said constantly.
>>285349758
Its story aspect is.
ME2 has a better cast and much more interesting interactions. That's what I like the most in games.
I didn't play ME3 so I can't comment on that.
>>285344119
Nope. I love both games for completely different reasons, but slightly prefer ME2. I never cared about the romance stuff either. If it makes any difference I liked KotOR2 more than KotOR1, but enjoyed TW1/TW2, Deus Ex and VTM:B much more than those games. They offered a much better roleplaying experience.
>>285344741
Romance? pfft BioWare started that shit in KotOR. That was the beginning of their downfall. Dragon Age: Origins is the premiere romancing game anyway, not Mass Effect.
>>285344767
False. Gears of War has boring art direction, no biotics, no cheesy one-liners and sick burns, no space adventures and no character interaction whatsoever. I haven't even played it, but I can tell just by looking at the cover art.
the bottom line/reason I like Mass Effect in the first place is that no other game has filled this niche the same way ME does. The world design/Aesthetic/Alien/character design is way too far ahead for something to suddenly start competing with it. They've stolen all the best parts of Blade Runner, Star Trek, Star Wars and the small goofiness/drama of Firefly. BioWare had it way too fucking easy. They still do, thanks to the Mass Effect IP.
>>285349980
It has no bearing on anything, its just a thing you can do
>>285349969
So who are these guys anyway? are they statues of the ones who came before the Protheans?
>>285349680
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mi2NKZ37YE
I actually didn't mind the combat in ME1 too much. Sure it was a broken piece of shit but throwing down a fully upgraded singularity and watching shit fly everywhere was fun as fuck.
>nostalgia over an absolutely fucking trash game
Lmao go jerk off to your shitty fan made vidya porn with that blue bitch and Captain Sheephard
>>285350459
A Protean thrall race. At one point, all species under their rule were know/treated as 'Protean'.
There are a lot of great things about Mass Effect 3. The gameplay is easily the best of the trilogy, and I love the Citadel DLC so much. It's writing and ending however is what fucked the game up.
I've always hated the saying "It's about the journey, not the destination." Yeah well if you're gonna repeat the same journey over and over again, wouldn't it be nice to know you're not gonna get kicked in the fucking balls again? I loved the journey in Dragon Age Origins, but I like the destination better, because it leads to the best parts of the game. The Landsmeet, Battle of Denerim, and those multiple endings.
ME3 could've had a fantastic destination. Imagine if the final mission had Suicide Mission mechanics, but on a Galactic scale, and then following that was a conclusion with multiple satisfying endings.
Fuck that "it's about the journey" bullshit. The journey and the destination should BOTH be good.
>>285337103
You will never bone Garrus irl
>>285350680
So why do they have statues then?
Seems kind of odd to have statues of one of your thrall races, and only one of them, especially at a research facility
>>285350310
>Gears
>boring art direction
>>285350459
Original proteans, before they were changed into more humanoid ones in the me2 and 3
>>285350041
ME2 was a vast improvement in gameplay, my main gripe is that in terms of story it doesn't progress the plot.
>End of ME1
>"THE REAPERS ARE COMING, WE NEED TO STOP THEM!"
>Start of ME2
>"Forget the reapers for a second, we need to stop the collectors!'
>End of ME2
>"OKAY, THE REAPERS ARE ACTUALLY COMING NOW!"
The only thing you get from ME2 are the side characters, otherwise it's Mass Effect 1.5
>>285349632
What was the name of that one gas giant planet that had those enormous rectangular shapes that retreated below the cloud layer when scanned?
>>285350041
ME2 gets a lot of flak because it was the beginning of the end.
Everything bioware became later hated for started there.
>removing mechanics instead of repairing them (Planet exploration, the mako, the inventory system)
>dumbing down mechanics for casuals (RPG mechanics, shooting mechanics)
>becoming worse at expressing a coherent plot
>overusing single aspects of a character instead of developing them more thoroughly (Most ME2 companion quests, with notable exceptions)
>not thinking things through (having 11 characters, all of whom may die, 2 of whom are DLC, and trying to claim they'll all be important in the following games)
>not following through on prior promise/potential (consequence of choices in ME1 were already glaringly superficial as early as ME2)
>mfw Mass Effect 4 starts with Shepard waking up and retcons ME2 and ME3 as simply being a bad dream and improves upon what made ME1 so good
>>285350853
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Ilos
Ilos was the homeworld or colony world of the Inusannon, the race in that picture. The statues were probably something the inu built as social statues and the Proteans just ignored them when creating their facility.
>>285350930
>vast improvement
no, it really wasnt
>thermal clips shoehorned in for absolutely no reason
>universal cooldowns
>way less abilities
>shields block biotics completely
>no weapon mods
>planet scanning
>>285350459
>>285350680
>>285350853
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Inusannon#Inusannon
Javik says that the planet was completely dead when the Protheans found it, but still had the ruins.
>>285350856
looks like Naboo from Star Wars
>>285351120
>retconning the best game in the series
>>285351478
>retconning the games that ruined the series
ftfy
>>285351081
What's wrong with characters being able to die? What's wrong with 2 extra DLC characters when the game didn't feel like it was missing any characters in the first place? Them not being important in the third game was the third games fault. It was their fault for introducing NEW characters in Mass Effect 3 after dedicating an entire game for gathering new characters. ME3 has no effect on ME2.
>>285351120
>more "THE REAPERS ARE COMING"
No thanks.
Just start a new story, and make sure I can choose to be an alien.
>>285349934
>Fuck the mako
>being this much of a gay
>>285351120
ME2-3 were just a sitcom in the universe
>>285351120
>hey Garrus
>what, Joker?
>I slipped some Red Sand into Shepard's food and he's tripping absolute balls... Wanna listen?
>sure
2 hours later
>so let me get this straight, The Reapers had a small yet incredibly technologically advanced army at their disposal, yet Sovereign had to resort to the geth?
>I know, man
>And Cerberus expected Shepard to help him, despite the fucking horrifying, not to mention mind numbingly retarded, things we all saw them doing?
>I'm more trying to figure out about how the fuck they changed from a renegade black ops unit, to a small group of cells, to a fucking army
>still makes more sense than the Reapers having an AI in the citadel, yet needing the Keepers to send the signal, and needing Sovereign to manually fix it.
>Joker, Red Sand is one helluva drug
>>285351478
2 is indeed the best overall if you look at it as merely the sum of its parts but 1 had the greatest potential to grow as a series and deserves the most praise
>>285351571
>ME2 not being leagues better than the first
>>285344119
>>285344741
>>285344767
I like ME1, ME2, KOTOR and Gears of War.
What does that tell you?
>>285351881
>>285351638
Nothing.
What's wrong is seriously expecting me to believe that Bioware, even 2010 Bioware, would put any significant effort into 2 characters most people would likely never see, and 9 characters who may well never see the light of day.
Don't try to pin this on ME3. the characters were never going to get any limelight no matter what happened, and it's pure naivete to have seen 11 expendable characters as anything other than a gigantic red flag.
What would be a better motivation for the reapers?
>>285352008
You clearly love video games. Have a wonderful day anon.
>>285352043
Played ME1 recently?
>>285348870
fag
>>285352219
We don't need to know their motivation. It's beyond our comprehension.
>>285352219
nothing the player would ever find out.
Once you ascribe a motive to those whose motives are supposed to be unfathomable, the entire thing falls apart.
It would be like finding out that Azatoth wants Earth because it's a neat disco ball.
>>285352414
this
>>285352414
winner
I am obligated to post this in every ME thread I see.
>>285352332
I'm in the middle of playing it right now
It's miles better than 2
>muh mako
exploring planets is completely optional, and driving from point A to point B isnt that time consuming, unlike planet scanning which is basically mandatory if you want ship upgrades
>muh clunky gameplay
2's gameplay was smoother but overall worse
>>285351638
>what's wrong with characters being able to die?
Nothing, but Bioware wrote themselves into a corner they weren't clever enough to get out from.
>>285352332
Not him but yeah, replayed the trilogy recently. Well got to 3 and quit due to it being intolerable, but good enough. 2 was a pretty clear step down in most regards.
>>285351189
>thermal clips shoehorned in for absolutely no reason
having/not having thermal clips never made a difference though. Infinite ammo vs no infinite ammo. How did this affect anything? Literally no one praised this aspect about ME1.
>universal cooldowns
They weren't FFXIV gcds, and they allowed you to use your abilities more often. It was still possible to set off your own combo even with the gcd.
>way less abilities
Nah, not true. What, speccing into charisma? Fucking lol. ME2 has more combat abilities than ME1. The additional abilities ME1 has are artificial stat dump passives.
>shields block biotics completely
easily remediable with correctly spec'd squad mates
>>285352219
>no explanation is ever given for the reaper's motivation, or Shepard tries to comprehend it through TECHNOLOGY and gets a huge fucking headach/trip like in 1
>eventually beat the reapers in galatic battle somehow
>epilouge shows all the races living happily
>the slideshow then decends into some spooky shit as news reports of really fucking weird anomalies, black holes, entire suns blowing up start being read.
>Leviathians have suddenly disappeared.
>ME4
>>285351774
No, fuck you, it wasn't fun no matter what your nostalgia goggles tell you.
>Barren landscape
>Rough terrain which is a pain in the ass to traverse
>Fighting turrets is pepper machine gun, shoot missile, weave, repeat.
It didn't give you any rewards, was all bland aside from the main mission mako missions, and and ridiculously tedious.
>>285352624
The cooldown system of ME1's gunplay was actually slightly interesting. It wasn't exactly better but it was less generic.
The entire Reaper plot partly ruined the series, they should just be left to eternal slumber after ME1, since their alarm clock got wrecked. Just leave them as some lovecraftian horror that could enslave and kill us all if it ever woke up, if being the codeword here.
Then you could have episodic spectre space adventures the next games in the series.
>>285352474
>ME3 seems like it might be bring back some Sovereign to the reapers, so I'm hopeful
>hopeful
god I hate bioware
>>285352474
I bet he was the eternal rage guy
>>285352848
If you were planning a trilogy then reapers as the overall threat could work.
If the Collectors weren't so inconsequential, and their defeat actually unlocked some kind of crucial macguffin that's important for ME3, then the series would gel together much better.
>>285352624
>being this fucking deluded
You cant even fire without thermal clips despite the guns working almost exactly the same, they just wanted an excuse to make it more like Gears
Universal cooldowns are fucking annoying and pointless, coupled with biotics magically being unable to go through shields now makes being biotic kind of a pain
Having passives is better than gutting them out for the sake of "streamlining"
>>285339474
>>285339889
Shitpleb GOW dating-sim fans GTFO
>>285339970
I've heard there's still one cancerous nodule in there. didn't catch his name though.
>>285341836
Fuck that.
>>285344119
I appreciated KOTOR, though it felt a bit dated when I played it a few years ago.
KOTOR2 looks like it has a lot in common with ME2, turning shit to 11.
>>285348870
You got shit taste bro.
>>285349226
If he's talking about leviathans from ME1, those are living, biological spaceships. One was found in a crater & taken by the Batarians, who deny its existence.
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Jartar
Am i the only one who thinks that ME had absolutely TERRIBLE rpg elements and although ME2 crippled them too much, basically removing any build variety within a class, overall it was a more enjoyable experience because they actually put some thoughts into classes and overall gameplay?
>almost no galactic evil bullshit, actual world building with multiple very atmospheric hubs
>huge fucking team with fun recruit and loyalty missions instead
>handcrafted side missions with atmospheric stuff like trying to get the info from crashed spaceship on a verge of falling or navigating a misty maze by activating a set of relays
>mfw charging into the group of enemies as a vanguard with pre-charged geth shotgun and murdering fucking everyone
>>285352826
>rough terrain
the mako could climb fucking mountains, this is a shit argument and you are a shit person
if you didn't enjoy ramming geth armatures and seem the crumple like giant cows then you're a huge faggot
Maybe I wasnt paying atention, but do they ever explain what the fuck made the sun grow old?
>>285353350
no, it's a leftover plot point from the script they scrapped in favor of ME3's bullshit
>>285352592
>>285352621
>shitty menus and inventory management
>larger than necessary skill paths
>less variance between character classes
>repetitive environments/sidequests
>Mako combat
>>285353271
>huge fucking team with fun recruit and loyalty missions instead
Lol, almost all loyalty missions were same shit:
>Shepard stopping some one from killing someone in the most dramatic way possible
Only krogan mission was different
>>285353350
the original plot before they decided to ruin it
>whole galaxy being invaded
>earth being wrecked
>throw party
hmm
>>285350310
I liked me1 the most but holy fuck I love my gears
>>285353350
The original plot was that using ME technology caused time to distort, effectively making the universe age faster than it should, which is why the reapers do what they do.
But it was scraped and turned into shit.
>>285352592
It only recently struck me how little variety ME2 had in enemies.
Biotics did fuck all but fire the odd warp, Engineers likewise with immolate/drone and the rest were just varieties of armoured/shielded hired gun and the odd drone/mech.
Melee attackers were a joke too, since they went off your shields and could be easily blasted away. Someone in melee range was a big fucking deal in 1, since they bypassed shield and prevented you from using your weapon (hence why that fucking battlemaster was such a bastard)
Contrast this with Geth, CQB Geth, Geth Collosi, Geth drones/snipers, charging Krogan, Battlemasters, biotics of every flavour, rachni, rachni spawn, husks, thorian creepers, turrets, Saren, and soldiers that actually used the skills you had access to.
Lot harder to mow down enemies when they froze you, knocked you off your feet, overheated your weapons, drained your shields and went invulnerable.
>>285353349
Ramming them barely does any damage on insane you dingus, and the damage they shoot out with their turret makes it not worth it.
>you'll never live in a world where EA didn't acquire Bioware, and ME2/3 were made by the original team according to the original plot
>>285353271
>actual world building
ME1 had tons of world building
>huge team
most of them overlapped and were pointless
>handcrafted sidemissions
I'll give you that one, some of them were interesting, although hammerhead missions were literally garbage
Reminder that we will NEVER get the adventures of cyborg Shepard and Legion.
>you will never Faunts again and experience the hype for the rest of the series
Why live?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUKiOcV1SSc
>>285353724
ramming knocked all enemies outside of turrets off their feet, allowing you to do whatever you wanted to them while they were on the floor.
It was also satisfying as all fuck.
>>285353350
dark energy or some leftover Protean tech used by the geth.
Seems the Proteans had the tech to blow up stars.
>>285353271
no, Codex is full of people like you
don't worry
>>285353715
>Battlemasters
>Soldiers who overheat your weapons
No wonder they butchered it from me2
Wide audience would cry and throw tantrums
>>285353582
The new plot wasn't much better.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-06-19-ex-bioware-writer-discusses-dropped-ideas-for-mass-effect-trilogy-ending
>>285353724
>being a retard
>tfw have still never played Mass Effect
>barely have any idea what it's about other than it's set in space
Should I do it?
>>285353859
We will NEVER get beards
I hate it when people complain ME2 meant nothing to the overall story. It set up tons of shit and characters that 3 just threw out a window. Basically only Mordin's plotline got any significant payoff, which involves him doing a complete turn on his views from 2, even if you agreed that it was necessary the whole time.
>>285353838
>Writing by Obsidian and Drew
>Gameplay by a mix of old BioWare and some Platinum sprinkled in.
>Music by Sam Hullick (maybe Jesper Kyd as well)
>Level design by Deus Ex-era Ion Storm
