Your saddest Mass Effect moment.
Which moment in Mass Effect made you cry your man tears without shame?
>>332422117
Mass Effect 3.
>>332422181
This. The whole thing was just so bad
>>332422117
When I got to ME3 and realized that the series ended in the shittiest way possible.
>>332422181
This.
The end to ME 3 sucked ass, but the music was great.
Watching Shep flash back to his friends andAshwhile the sad piano played was great. Everything else about it sucked.
>>332422235
>>332422117
when i bought the third one from the shop
>>332422117
I never cried but end of citadel when Garrus said "best times of my life were on that ship, its been a good ride" then Sheps "the best" I held myself
>>332422492
Well, I fucked that up. But it gives me a chance to ask:
What was the exact, precise moment the game went to shit?
My guess: when the elevator starts to the Star Child at the end, after Anderson dies
>>332422117
I cried at this part
>>332422725
Maximum agreeance.
>>332422117
The ending.
Over half a decade of my life I dedicated entire evenings to three different playthroughs on 1 and 2. I was invested heavily in the story, the characters, and my hype was at sheer maximum come 3's release. I was psyched for the 14 different endings promised, wondering which ones I'd achieve through each of my playthroughts, intent on fulfilling what I thought to be the story-telling Mona Lisa of video games with all my decisions finally weighted against me.
And then I got this... I cried for a good long hour in disappointment.
>>332422725
When mass effect 1 ended
>>332422772
You just had to remind me.
>>332422772
Kek
>>332422117
That exact moment in your picture. That 'don't leave me behind' was the one Kaidan line with any emotion and it was a doozy.
Anyone who says that only ending sucked in ME3 is full of shit.
Didn't cry but Suicide Mission was pretty sad.
Legion got carried by the seekers, Zaeed died to save the crew and Mordin held the line.
>>332422772
Like a spit in the face.
Glad I didn't buy it and dropped it early.
I kind of lost all vested interest when Earth became the vocal point for no damn reason, and Anderson chose to fight some retarded guerrilla war against the reapers (and was actually somewhat successful at that, what the fuck?)
When Cerberus went from a small but well managed group to being the main antagonist out of nowhere (logistics, anyone?) rather than fighting actual reaper/indoctrinated forces, that's when I just stopped caring altogether and just enjoyed shooting people in space.
When Mr Anime Ninja rused me into opening his mocking email. Fucking cunt
>>332422725
Thats probably the general consensus but I felt that the entire earth mission was lacking, especially after playing ME2 where you could make multiple choices during the last mission
>>332422117
I cried when I realized I wasted sixty dollars on this shitty game.
>>332422117
Playing through the first and second game twice and then finding out that the third one was a steaming pile of shit (the beta). I actually cried and that was the day I gave up on getting exciting for video games coming out.
>>332423000
You don't deserve those trips
I've been debating getting the trilogy edition for PS3, just to play all the games constantly over a single platform.
>>332423180
>Buying a video game with day-1 content DLC
Your own fault pal, should've just joined that boycott.
>>332423256
I have the trilogy edition.
Pretty good.
>>332423256
Same, but i don't want to because im holding out for a PS4 collection. If its not here by the time Andromeda is out then probably.
>>332423242
He's right though, ME3 went full retard right from the start.
>Earth matters
>Cerberus are the main antagonist most of the game
>Kai Leng
>Etc. etc.
>>332423461
Good point.
>>332423256
Don't forget you gotta get all the DLC too, fucking rip off considering their age but damn important to have
Never? Nothing was that strong.
But every time I beat 1, and the other party members were found in the wreckage, but looking around can't find you, then the music builds, and you crack that smile... I get choked up there and feel a swell in my chest.
For some reason the character of Mordin really affected me. Lots of people are hurr durr this game had dlc and and ending I wasn't fond of but jeeze man
little cool scientist guy
savin' the world
>>332422181
I remember becoming quite depressed following ME3's ending. Through out the first 2 games and even the first half of the third I was really enjoying the lovecraftian space opera crap with the "You can't comprehend our motives" squid monsters.
Then it just suddenly became we're killing you so you don't make AIs which might kill you.
I was salty about that for at least a week and even now it pisses me off that a videogame did that to me.
Then I read the original story writer's ending idea before he was moved to tortanic and the saltiness intensified again.
>have high hopes for the endgame, expecting to use the allies and assets you gained in a suicide mission/dragon age:origins endgame type of way
>it's the most boring, anti-climatic stroll and none of your assets even appear in battle or have any gameplay bearing
>final boss is a horde fight
I'm okay with the extended cut ending, but the final mission is still absolute garbage.
>>332422117
When they announced a sequel
>>332422181
first post
best post
>>332423663
It fell flat to me due to how retarded the whole plan was
>Let's apply a delicate and unproven cure through an ancient AND exploding device, what could possibly go wrong!?
>>332422725
This. The game was still good for me up until this point. I honestly would have been happier if it ended without the reapers explaining their devious plan to kill you to stop future AIs killing you.
Fucking devious man.
>>332422725
When Shepard starts having PTSD over a dead kid.
Was incredibly cheap. The Mordin stuff was good though.
When ME3 released and I realized what a massive shitfuck it was.
Godamn just crush what little bit of youthful optimism I have you fucking cunts up in Vancouver.
Mass Effect 3 was a complete fucking trainwreck of a game and by far the worst in the series.
>>332423486
My bad, i thought he said "Anyone who thinks the ending sucked is full of shit.
When/If Legion dies during the suicide mission, and you find the Geth VI in ME3, and Shepard is just so happy Legion is back, but it's not Legion, as he's told multiple times.
"Legion!"
"This unit is not Legion."
"You're Legion today!"
I lost it. Happened on my first full play through.
>>332422117
I was so sad he had to die and it wasn't even due to getting shot defending someone or heroic shit like that, he died because of horrible writing.
>Shepard commander I have to go because Bioware says so lamo bye.
>>332423342
lol
>>332423242
Kill yourself, my man.
>>332424118
>''We saved the galaxy together, Legion! You were my friend, you trusted me!''
>''And then we died.''
>Shepard just shuts the fuck up and looks like he's going to cry
I'll admit, that was pretty nicely implemented.
When my crush Liara and my bro Garis get blown up right before the end of Mass Effect 3:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ycXol-6tw
9/10 game though.
>>332422117
When I didn't do the friendship missions or whatever in ME2 and 90% of the characters died. I still went on to play ME3 with that save too, so my entire party in ME3 was, Ashley, James, and maybe EDI.
>>332423342
>Buying a video game with day-1 content DLC
Not buying a big AAA game the week it's released means you will be spoiled by some asshole on internet. Also we could live the ME3's riot on first person.
>>332423000
Tell em, Anon. I can't stand people who say that shit. ME3 felt underwhelming as fuck, and the ending only made it worse.
>>332423663
I went with the salarians for Tuchanka, and it made for a superb story because of the drama but boy did I feel bad after that.
>>332422181
this. hunts me to this day.
What a shame this series had to be hijacked and destroyed by SJWs. It could have been a fun and semi-serious/semi-schlocky science fiction RPG. It instead turned into goddamn third-person shooter, gay pandering shitfest.
STEEEEEEEEEEEEVE
>>332423000
Kai Leng was an atrocious antagonist that felt completely out of place in the setting.
The Illusive Man and Cerberus took a nosedive in term of writing quality.
The back-and-forth lore about the protheans was clumsy and badly executed.
I'm all for "their world, their rules" but constantly changing them is confusing and kind of aggravating.
>>332422117
Anderson's last moment. Game should've ended there
>>332422117
When I realized my decisions weren't actually going to matter despite Biowares insistance on the contrary.
So about a few hours into the game at best.
I love ME3 hate threads. It makes me glad to see I'm not the only one who thought the game as a whole was shit.
>>332423000
Agreed. Wholeheartedly. I didn't even make it to the RGB ending because I fucking hated how at every turn, none of my decisions amounted to anything. Or any of the buildup from previous games.
>Suddenly Udina is councilor AND kind of a nice guy? But then oh wait he's indoctrinated too!
>Cerberus is now cartoonishly evil villains wish a massive army that the entire galaxy is having trouble stomping out
>Whatever happened to the collector base? Oh, it doesn't fucking matter, +400 galactic readiness points.
>Right out of the gate, instead of using Klencory or that superbrain planet or any other plot thread, or just having the galaxy pull together, they just pull the most explicit deus ex machina they can out of their ass.
>All the shit with day 1 DLC, the petitions against it, then responding only to the anti-gay petition as if all petitions were made by bigots
>Doesn't matter if your decisions are obviously paragon or renegade, either, because here's some neutral reputation points regardless of the decision you make.
Shepard "developing a personality" was shit as well. Shepard always had a personality, but you got to choose his/her values, and how you interacted with the world. And then ME3 comes along and has Shepard run his/her mouth off, with decisions fewer and farther between.
Everything at every turn said to me "you playing this game doesn't matter, because we already decided what will happen for you."
There's some good moments here and there, but not enough to even make it worth playing.Still mad
>>332425773
I think that's a universal opinion. It was so much worse because we played two previous games and had high hopes for the climax.
It was as if one hand had a bag with a million dollars and just before you reach it, the other hand disembowels you and calls you a faggot.
>>332425773
>Mass Effect 3 was 4 years ago
How time flies...
>>332425980
I just cringe when people write "The ending was the only bad thing about it".
Mass effect 1, pretty good game overall, thought it was well written.
Mass Effect 1 ending, amazing, glad to see my choices have paid off, wow can't wait to start 2!
Mass Effect 2, nonstop awesome, compulsively interesting story.
Mass effect 2 ending, my choices have led me to my unique ending, I'm sad for the dead, but amazing game.
Mass Effect 3, meh, writing could've used some touch ups, not all bad, some parts were of questionable quality.
Mass effect 3 ending, what have I just played
"It's ok Shepard, you are my friend, I understand."
stillmad.jpg
This right here is a big tearjerker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkmLN5lY8mw
>>332422117
Mordin's death.
>>332426134
Really at this point, I just want a vanguard game. The kinetic feel of bouncing between opponent to opponent was exhilarating once you got the rhythm.
Man if you think about ME3...what a fucking waste. What a fucking godamn waste. It should be a national monument to disappointment.
How shit 2 and 3 were compared to how promising the first one was.
>>332422117
Tie between the moment I realized I wasted money on ME3 or the moment I tried to replay the series and realized it was even shittier than I remembered.
>>332426303
It's MIIIIIIKE all over again
>>332426303
The only good thing about this is that the "STEEEEVE" shout was the only time Mark Meer showed a pulse in his voice acting. A brief pulse.
>>332426376
I genuinely did like how they wrote it in that you did have a choice to make Mordin live, but it made you feel like a huge asshole if you did.
Letting him die being the hero, or force him to live, letting the Krogan race continue with the Genophage.
Was good compared to how often ME3 took away your chance to make meaningful decisions.
>>332424020
>>332426520
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0uCWjQ6Og
>>332426720
That piece of shit worked on BG2? Really?
In what capacity?
>>332426720
>Destruction of the mass effect trilogy
>>332423063
That gif is like a decade old.
>>332426720
In your opinion /v/.
Who's the worst between Casey Hudson and Mac Walters ?
>>332425980
I always described it as the promised meeting under the moonlight with a beautiful maiden, your fated lover that you haven't seen in years,
and you walk into the dilapidated motel to find an oily, crusty, disgusting middle-aged fatso that bends you over and tell you in his uninterested, deadpan voice that you should be enjoying it as he takes a smoke and burns the cigarette into your back.
To put it simply, ME3 raped my experience of Mass Effect, and I can never go back without the anger and frustration once again welling up in me.
>>332426979
>Promising not to make the Mass Effect trilogy end like A, B, C instead he took it upon himself to make it end like R, G, B.
>>332427050
Casey by far.
He himself (re)wrote the fucking ending to ME3 for fucks sake
>>332427050
What's the worst between a dish of boiled shit with scallions or a dish of shit pasta ala genovese?
One wrote the ending, the other wrote Kai Leng.
>>332427198
On a single fucking notebook page. The plot point was "LOTS OF SPECULATION FROM EVERYONE :^)"
>>332427198
I thought they rewrote it together.
>>332427303
>liking a character that looks like it belongs in a Reboot episode
>>332427491
Corporate cucks came in at the last moment demanding the game to be released sooneror so claims Cucksey Hudscuckand he rewrote the ending right then and there.
>>332423000
!000% correct.
The story is a disaster from the very beginning. That "court" scene was absolutely atrocious, the only time the game pulled itself out of the pool of shit and mediocrity was Tuchanka (and even then only if you had Wrex alive, there is 0 impact otherwise).
ME3 should've just ended with you conventionally winning the war with a final showdown between you and Harbinger inside a Reaper as it mindrapes you the whole time
>>332427952
I would've been ok with something like "to whomever may be hearing this, we lost. Maybe you'll have more time to face what is to come etc."
But no, Bioware can't deal with going through with its "one reaper almost facefucked a galactic coalition, so brace yourself for the full brunt" scenario.
I don't remember a moment in the entire series I could say was sad, funny or clever.
I just liked shooting aliens, but the story was porno tier
>>332427171
That is a better metaphor. Have a YOU
>>332427952
You will take the synthesis ending and you will like it, shitlord.
Stop threading on my artistic integrity.
>>332427924
Gotta admit, Tuchanka with Wrex was the kind of quality I expected from the rest of the game.
>That extreme temptation to side with the Salarians because of their tactical and technological prowess
>But it would mean backstabbing the Krogans and being a huge dick
>Would do it if it was anyone else but Wrex, who I had faith in to not fuck it up once the genophage was cured
>Admit it to him in the shuttle
>"See? I told you we could trust him."
>>332422117
The whole series is kinda bad to be quite honest with all of the Heresy
>Humans collaborating with filthy Xenos vermin
>No Power armor whatsoever
> Humanity is seen as weak and stupid instead of a strong and expansive empire
>Antagonists are babby space squids that are planetary mexican lawnmowers that trim life every so often (Least Necrons have the decency to finish)
>No Dakka
>All Xenos races are generic and boring
>Hardly any vehicles
>You play as some dinkly little manlwt that uses Cover instead of one of the Emperors Chosen
Shit franchise.
>>332422117
>When that bitch Ashley shot my home boy Wrex
>Sending Mordin to save the planet
Almost had a catastrophe with Garrus in 2 at the end, but thank god I did his side mission. Miranda died, but that's ok.
>>332428293
>side with the salarians
>absolutely no "technlogical prowess"
>the only difference is paragon or renegade points
>>332422725
When Harbinger was introduced. What a shitty villain.
Also the entirety of Mass Effect 3 was bad except for very very small scenes here and there, the only one i can remember positively is the exchange with Mordin in Tuchanka.
When being Paragon means letting your friend die.
"Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong."
>>332422117
Realising the hundreds of hours playing the first two games an all the dlc meant fuck all an id been conned from the start... id bought mass effect 3 at midnight on release day went home fired it up played it for an hour went to bed.., read about the endings the 7 hours later and immediately took the game back to the shop and exchanged it.. i cant even listen to the soundtracks anymore its fucking dead to me, i'll never buy another bioware game again.
Reminder that Control: Renegade is the best ending
Let's share the best ME3 rage videos from the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M0Cf864P7E
Four years ago.
>>332428758
Less shit would be the term. It's still fucking atrocious and doesn't make any sense. Even William Burroughs writing his version of the Wizard of Oz with his feet would make more sense.
>>332428318
me is the beginning of the "dark age of technology" without waprfuckery, shitlord
after 10k years you cant even revive a man nor mass produce eldar weaponry or personal shield.
ugh, i cant even. it's fucking 2185, come the fuck on.
You know when I knew this game was going to be shit. The moment the Reapers just started showing up on Earth and shitting on everything.
I thought the Reapers were fucking massive but no they look small as fuck. Then it took the reapers what 200 yrs in game time to fucking wipe everyone out on Earth...the fuck. I can go do everything and still come back to a decent Earth.
I hope Mass Effect goes down as one of the most disappointing franchises in history for what they did to this shit.
Tear jerker....Mordin. I was able to save everyone in me2 so it was the first time someone died in game for me.
>>332428758
>letting a violent asshole have full control over an army of planet destroying warmachines
>thinking he's not going to go batshit insane at somepoint and do this whole shit over again.
The music for control basically says 'you fucked up'.
>>332429495
>it took the reapers what 200 yrs in game time to fucking wipe everyone out on Earth
the event of me 3 takes place in less than 1 year. reaper also dont want to destroy planet. they still need it to be habitable for the next harvest,
>>332429121
It's still fucking inexcusable. How dare they make Humanity like this, working with aliens. The Galaxy belongs to humanity, everything else that attempts to show resistance is destined for extinction or slavery.
>>332422117
"My xenoscience studies range from urban to agrarian, I am the very model of *BOOM*
>>332423675
What was his idea?
>>332425878
you forgot
>Somehow Rachni survive even though I killed them off in 1
>>332429947
I was very surprised when they cut him off
>>332422772
>The literal, ACTUAL final words of the Mass Effect trilogy was "Downloadable Content"
>>332422117
>>332430315
> The final boss was Marauder Shields
>>332430138
>people let the Rachni live
>characters ingame tried to guilt-trip you because you killed the queen of a species that almost wiped out the galaxy and tried to chew your face for breakfast the whole level
>the council tells you about how Spectres deliver results their way but can't fucking miss an occasion to second-guess you like a backseat driver
Seriously, the game was flawed from the start, and that's just the rachni part.
When Mordin died and I realized I'd have to play the rest of that shit game without his banter.
>Oh shit we wrote the Reapers destroying all these planets at the very start of the game what are our main characters supposed to do to keep the pace of a normal Bioware RPG?
>How about we send them to the Citadel again and have them keep coming back for a huge chunk of the game with no sense of urgency whatsoever as the potential final army grows smaller and smaller by the second?
>Brilliant!
>How about we
Game should haave just ended with you telling the Catalyst to fuck off.
https://youtu.be/5yyxaT8M15Q
>>332430474
> Expecting meaningful grey areas in a Bioware title
You will take your goody twoshoes and evil asshole and you will like it.
Game went to shit when the elevator to starchild happened.
Some mods to make the game better:
- Remove kiddo from dreams
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/362/?
- Remove entire catalyst part (rest is destroy with geth/edi alive)
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/265/?
- Extends the galaxy maps with more systems/places from previous games, reworks war assets, adds some nice new events you can take part in (evacuation of thessia etc)
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/350/?
- Allows you to play citadel dlc as an epilogue of sorts, optional since less dramatic than the war but works as a way to celebrate victory and a sendoff to the characters
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/2/?
I got more but those are pretty much essential to make mass effect 3 anything but a steaming pile of shite thanks to the ending.
>>332430474
The Queen never even touches you. The fuck you talking about? Nigga shut up you haven't even played the fucking game
>>332430852
>p-p-promise my children aren't evil we were just being controlled!!
>now if you could remove your hand from the big cyanide button and release me because I said please
>what? The Rachni wars? N-n-never heard of it sempai
The more the queen talked, the more red flags were sprouting in my mind.
Mass Effect 2
>>332430474
Queen was not aggressive in mass effect 1.
If you kill her, letting the clone go in mass effect 3 has big negative consequences because the reapers have control over it.
If you saved her, then letting her go again has more positive consequences. This was foreshadowed in mass effect 2 when she pledges to help you through an asari on Illium.
>>332431204
A general isn't actively trying to smash your face, but if his soldiers try to kill me and they have a history of putting the galaxy at risk, you can bet I'm not giving it a chance of doublefucking me when I have more pressing matters at hand.
I wasn't *that* familiar with Bioware writing, so the queen pleading for her life sounded more like a slimy getaway like most villains would do.
"Please, I had no idea about all this, I am innocent". Then you proceed to release the villain "Hahahahaha, you fool!" etc.
Betraying Wrex in 3
You dont turn on bros like that
You just dont
>>332423128
I'm pretty sure it's implied and outright stated that humanity had become the dominant force in the galaxy by then.
>>332422117
>Shooting beer bottles with Garrus
>Liara's final present to you
>Seeing Legion dying
>Seeing Mordin dying
Hold the back the feels
>>332422117
>Your saddest Mass Effect moment.
WhenEAkilled theMass Effect.
I cried a lot.
>>332432230
You weren't forced to you doublenigger.
ME3 was a mess but Tuchanka was actually very well done.
What would the best ending be?
Synthesis sounds like the most logical one.
>>332422117
>SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>332435337
The ending where everyone dies in the suicide mission at the end of 2
>>332435337
Control and synthesis become more illogical the more you think about it, and worse is that you essentially let the reapers win.
Destroy is the only option. Heck even refuse is better ending than synthesis and control.
>>332426161
This hit me the hardest.
He was the very model of a scientist Salarian.
>>332435276
>that whole segment of "WE WUZ KINGS N SHIET IT WAS THE EVIL SALARIANS THAT TURNED US INTO MONSTERS"
yeah no.
all these valid reasons are just reigniting my anger at how they fucking handled the series, I replayed ME2 about a dozen times, I couldnt even finish a 2nd me3 play through cause of that feeling that youre just wasting your time.
>>332436039
I don't remember that at all.
>>332436039
>I didn't play the game
The Krogan only find themselves in a remotely stable position if you do everything right.
>>332427028
how would you know
Whenmy gundidn't havea thermal clip
>>332436039
You fucked up because that's not what happens in the happy ending.
>>332436393
>>332436481
>>332436630
I'm not talking about the ending.
There's a part where you are on a truck/apc thing and you drive through ancient krogan ruins, with like pyramids and statues and shit. And the Krogan female says that A LONG LONG TIME AGO the Krogans were all peaceful and capable of creating beautiful things and a load of shit.
>>332430113
>Universe is dying due to Dark Matter/Energy
>Reapers were literally Lovecraftian, but were actually the Greater Goods
>Reapers harvest life into new Reapers to create a Reaper intelligent enough to solve the problem of Dark Matter
>Humanity was noted as having a high potential to be the Reaper that could solve the problem
>ending would be Shepherd deciding to either let the Reapers harvest humanity to create the massiah Reaper or to destroy the Reapers and hope that the races of the galaxy can solve the problem themselves
It was ALOT better. I dont know why the ever-loving-fuck they didnt go with this.
Shepard pre ME3
>elite commando who has litterally killed hundreds to thousands of beings by that point
>sees war atrocities all the time
>still a badass
ME3
>sees random kid die
>gets ptsd
fuck this game, if it were a cute loli I would have cared but they had to use a kid that looks like he screams about fucking everyones' mom on voice chat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9-dLzzQuVM
>>332436716
Yes, and? The Krogan nuked themselves into oblivion and all of their achievements were reduced to rubble. The Salarians had nothing to do with any of that.
>>332437069
Guess who gave them the nukes
>>332422117
When I started ME2 and realized that they had fucked the series up irredeemably
Didn't even touch ME3.
>>332436953
He stated how some 'higher paid' dumbshits had ideas they thought 'were cool' even though it didn't make any sense, but were forced in the game anyway.
Fuck I hate how this world works.
>>332424020
>tfw the first time I played I didn't even understand the way the ending choice was set up
>assumed that you just ran into the distractingly bright beam and somehow decided after that
>got shithesis ending on first playthrough, didn't understand why
>>332437069
>>332436716
I hated that shit, it was such a transparent lazy move to pull at your heartstrings so if you cured the genophage you'd felt like "it's ok because the krogans weren't always bad!" this shit happened with pretty much every major decision in the game so that there never was a bad decision.
Shit game wouldn't replay.
>>332436953
No it wasn't. There was noting Lovecraftian about the Reapers in that ending and it makes them look even stupider than they do in the original ending.
>hurr durr Dark Energy is killing the galaxy
>hurr let's make all emergent life dependent on technology that worsens the problem
>instead of actively working to solve the problem, we'll routinely wipe out *everything* until something comes along that might just fix things
>let's never explain this to anyone until we're already on the cusp of defeat
>hurr being obfuscating fucktards makes us Lovecraftian
Bioware never again
>felt more attached to my blank-slate multiplayer characters than the character they introduced in the story, except javik
I still can't believe they thought that roided hispanic was a better choice for a squadmate than a krogan or batarian.
>>332437176
They developed them themselves.
>>332423985
>When Shepard starts having PTSD over a dead kid.
this
because of the arrival dlc you become a mass murderer on a galactic scale and if you're renegade you're even worse and don't give to shits about anyone dying, hell even the squad mates potential deaths were just brushed off in me2
then this shitty kid comes around and dies and shepards entire world is coming down
>>332422117
So many points OP.
This is my favourite trilogy of all time. I really don't get the hate for the ending either. I liked it. You're character literally became a galactic legend, (the old man talking to the kid about the Shepard). The game gave you a fair amount of choice, but why are people so obsessed with how this effects the end? The more immediate consequence of the choices you make in the game are what makes it interesting. It doesn't HAVE to have an effect on the ending. The ending is what it is. I get that the game was somewhat sold on the premise of choice, but get over it. The games were amazing.
>That charge towards the Queen Thresher.
>>332437647
Jesus fucking christ. God fuck EA. Fuck Bioware
>>332438258
>(the old man talking to the kid about the Shepard)
>kid
It was a dwarf anon
>>332438258
Because the entire theme of Mass Effect is facing impossible odds and beating them.
I would have vastly preferred it if the Catalyst really was supposed to act as an anti-reaper vessel, and your options were
>escape and live +consequences of what occurred in the game
>fight and suffer great losses
>fight and suffer little losses at your own death
And there was no catalyst involved. The catalyst robbed the player of the option to make their own ending and give Shepard any agency whatsoever.
>>332428318
wh40kfags are cancer.
>>332438258
>implying just the ending was shit
The entire game was dog shit and i will never understand how anyone could've possibly liked it. From the very start it started raising red flags for me, all the reapers looking the same, the ptsd, the literal deus ex machina. It just gets worse from there, shit like the Geth allying themselves with the Reapers, the Quarians going full retard, the fucking ninja who sends you hate mail.
God just go fuck yourself, the entire game was shit and i don't even want to think about it anymore.
>>332438258
I agree, the ending was great.
I knew I was in for some shit when I saw the running animations at the start of ME3. It was all downhill from the beginning.
>>332424612
>9/10
This is wrong
>>332422117
After I finished the third game and I realized that Bioware is dead an buried and no amount of delusional Biowarefagging will ever bring it back to it's formal glory.
>>332438790
then why are you still in a mass effect thread?
>>332422117
Didn't play any of these pseudo-RPG call of duties desu.
>>332439381
Literally nobody cares about what games you havent played.
>>332424612
>that inexcusably shitty audio
Amateur as fuck but they got away with it.
>>332422117
The second I learned that that ME2 completely fucked up the ammunition and weapon mod systems. Oh, and the character redesigns.
>>332425878
>the EA shitstorm
How the fuck did they get away with that?Because they did, you know. Everyone forgot.
>>332437512
>hurr durr Dark Energy is killing the galaxy
Dark Energy was already highly dangerous i.e. adepts that could rip apart reality.
>hurr let's make all emergent life dependent on technology that worsens the problem
They probably used the technology and started to realize it was fucking them up pretty badly before they could do anything about it.
>instead of actively working to solve the problem, we'll routinely wipe out *everything* until something comes along that might just fix things
That WAS them actively working to fix it. They kept harvesting in an effort to make what was essentially demigod geniuses.
>let's never explain this to anyone until we're already on the cusp of defeat
Would you let you entire galaxy get wiped out on the off-chance they weren't lying? They probably tried and failed, so they just do it now with overwhelming force.
>hurr being obfuscating fucktards makes us Lovecraftian
This one I can't really defend.
Here's your (you).
>ME2 companions
Diverse cast of characters composed of different races with interesting background stories.
>ME3 companions
A mexican and a robot.
>neo /v/ actually likes me2
>>332422725
When I realized I only had 2 dialogue options for an entire cutscene
>>332439682
Anon, why did they make the shooting bad and the customization worse? Why do they hate us, anon? Why?
>>332423000
Pretty much, yeah. It took a lot of effort to fuck things up harder than they did in ME2, but they managed it.
Not saying that ME2 was actually bad, but they missed out a whole lot of what made ME1 fun.
I was so hyped for ME2. It was one of the rare games I've ever pre-ordered.
I wanted it to be good. ME1 was godlike and I had played it several times in anticipation.
Then ME2 was a generic piece of shit cover shooter garbage with a story that went nowhere and all RPG elements removed.
I'm still mad.
Kai Leng was the stupidest thing in the series?
Why not just an opposite team of commandos?
>>332425773
>tfw basically started coming on /v/ to rage about this game
4 years of posting shit about the same game and I'm still fucking angry.
>>332431632
The Rachni Wars were started by Sovereign if you didnt pick up on that. He fucked them up with the indoctrination in an attempt to weaken the galaxy for the Reapers return.
>>332439943
robot with cameltoe if I might add, christ EA
>>332422117
>Getting invested in a ME plot
They're like fumbling paper mache robots trying to emulate plastic people their awful scripts and talentless VAs. Feel embarrassed.
>>332441038
Not going to complain about that one, afterall the model was probably free to download somewhere and EA just changed the textures a bit.
>>332441038
>put tits on everything, men only buy things with tits on them
>but boss, it's a robot
>PUT TITS ON THE ROBOT
>>332431181
>ME3... I'm hopeful
Poor fucker.
>>332422117
The moment when i realized just how shit the third game is.
>>332422117
When I found out you could romance Kaidan instead of Steve. Steve has the better personality but he's romancing Kaidan felt more satisfying especially because it was held of for 2 games
Also the Citadel DLC because it felt like a more appropriate ending to the game than the disaster we got
>>332441038
Well, she was designed for infiltration so of course they'd make her anatomically correct
The overarching narrative falls apart in Mass Effect 2. It was somewhat unsalvageable from that point onwards. The main plot point, namely that idea that reapers regulate conflict between synthetics and organics, takes one of many themes and makes it the central theme - It feels like a sub-plot just magically became the main plot point of the entire game.
As a result, there's no foreshadowing about the reapers' true purpose in 1 and 2 either, it just springs all of this on you out of nowhere.
The dark energy ending was a bit hackneyed, but at least it made the Sovereign's claims that the humans "couldn't understand their intent" somewhat believable.
>>332422117
Mordin dying. One of the best characters in the series. Only emotional moment in 3.
Say what you will about ME3, butshooting Mordinhas got to be the saddest moment in the whole trilogy.
>>332423985
>When Shepard starts having PTSD over a dead kid.
This was the first telltale sign. By the first nightmare sequence i had concluded that playing as an actual renegade shepard was not an option in ME3 and uninstalled the game.
That time Mordin yells "I made a mistake!"
He always tried justifying the genophage but that's the time he finally ad,it's he regrets doing it
>>332443453
>the first nightmare sequence
god who the fuck thought that was a good idea
On paper I guess it can be effective if done right, but it was just an annoying, painfully slow sequence that didn't feel right at all.
>>332422772
FUCK
>>332422117
If a movie or a video game made you cry then you have a chemical imbalance and you should see a doctor.
>>332422117
When I killed Saren in Mass Effect. I knew I'd never get a sequel.
>>332438938
>That's a big shit
Aside from the ending, Mass Effect 3 was about as good as it could have possibly been.
Mass Effect 3 had to make up for ME2's plot being pointless and not advancing the plot from the first game. Not only that, EA only gave BioWare two years to make ME3, when they had 3 years for ME2 and weren't under EA's boot for ME1.
>>332447452
>Mass Effect 3 was about as good as it could have possibly been.
By ignoring most of your choices in the previous game (or making them irrelevant +50 good boy points)?
By having shallow gameplay?
By having dumbed down conversation options?
By having those retarded "I overheard you talking" fetchquests?
By having Kay fucking Leng?
Yeah sure is as good as it could have possibly been.
>>332428479
There were lots of good moments in Mass Effect 3.
Mordin's "I MADE A MISTAKE!" scene. It's good whether you go renegade or paragon. Probably the best scene in the game.
The Kai-Leng v Thane Krios fight. The bitch way to handle that would've been to had Thane win and Kai barely escape with Thane succumbing to his illness after. Instead, they let Thane get shanked and died. So we got a pretty cool fight between top assassins without nostalgia interference.
Speaking of "who would win?" scenarios, watching the Thresher Maw lunge out of the ground and take down a Reaper was outstanding.
Garrus and Shep broing it up at the top of the Presidium and taking shots with the sniper rifle. Top-tier friendship.
The final scene with Legion too. "Does this unit have a soul?" Which was even better with the scenes earlier in game where you got to see the history of the Geth and the first ones asking about their souls. Both on a personal and species level, it was touching.
And I'm a sucker for Grunt's last stand too. Running straight into the horde, firing shell after shell into them. Then using the shotgun as a club, and finally when stabbed numerous times and have it pulled from him, taking to using his fists and pummeling them to death before being overwhelmed. He is Krogan.
>>332422725
For me it was after the fifth turret sequence in an hour, or when shepard had several conversations with squadmates several feet away with zero player input or the camera even shifting to indicate they were speaking to one another, or after the seventh vaguely worded sidequest randomly was added to my journal/completed by walking around and eavesdropping, or when the game made me have sex with Liara, or the unwinnable chase scene toward the beginning, or Priority:Thessia/Rannoch/Earth
>>332423643
That's why I can never get back into it. It's such a shame that the game costs less than $20, but the dlc will set you back close to another $100.
>>332430626
You can do that with the extended cut. Shepard is just like "I'm not gonna choose". So everyone dies, but Liara left the beacons that the next cycle find or something like that. Kinda neat, but I was so fucking disappointed when I did it.
