I just installed mass effect 1 and I don't know a single thing about the series.
What I'm in for, also what is best class?
>>343616718
A few things:
>Talk to everybody
>Your actions and words will be rated as "paragon" or "renegade", aka white knight or end-justifies-the-means. Don't blindly follow one path, choose what your Shepard believes in and make appropriate along the way
>Read the Codex, especially at the start. The game drops a ton of stuff on you in the opening scenes, knowing what is being talked about will help.
>Vanguard as a class. There is no other choice, especially ME2 and onwards. Best mixture of biotic (basically space magic) and combat classes.
>>343616718
For ME1 only the Soldier is a suitable class. ME2 and ME3 - Vanguard.
infiltrator
become invisible and let your pals do most of the grunt work while you pick off enemies with well-timed headshots for support
You're in for a shitty third-person shooter with a terrible story and several gameplay elements (vehicle section, all sidequests, any location that isn't tied to the main story) that are 100% unfinished and feel tacked on and completely unnecessary.
Jump straight to Mass Effect 2 if you're planning to play through the entire series. ME2 basically retcons ME1 entirely.
Adept is fun, ME1 is great with janky gameplay and ME2 is pretty good with better gameplay, especially for the Adept class. Infiltrator is OP in ME2.
ME3 might turn you off of playing games for about 2-3 months.
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>>343617442
Soldier is a very valid alternative to Vanguard in ME2 due to the extreme versatility and the andrenaline rush slowmo.
>mfw I have no face because using AR to hit 5 sniper rifle headshots in an instant or to rush enemies and rapid fire on them with my Krogan Shotgun was fucking amazing
>>343617501
(cont.)
And when you get to ME3, don't bother with the sidequests unless you're very patient. They took a lesson from ME1 and made them as bothersome as possible. Map design also took a lesson from ME1 (loading screen, loading screen, loading screen).
Go sentinel for that sickass tech armor in later games
>>343617743
Sentinel was definitely rad in ME2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPOg-SmxAuA
1: Sentinel
2: Vanguard or Infiltrator
3: All balanced, all the shit classes of previous games are fine now.
>>343616718
ME1 is the clunkiest but feels like an actual video game with at least a little depth
ME2 is dumbed down to shit and the missions are way too short and repetitive, at least the renegade scars look cool as shit and punching reporters is cool
ME3 seriously what the fuck? And what is up with those dream sequences?
Also get ready to sink in more than a 100 hours in all games combined, don't skip DLC.
>>343616718
I just steamrolled everything as soldier in all MEs
>>343617609
>>343617442
>>343618029
Vanguard might be a good class for killing shit really fast and close, but it's not very fun. Only ME1 has interesting shotgun mechanics.
>>343616718
You will have a lot of fun. Then you will play ME2 & continue to have fun. Then you will play ME3 & hate the series.
>>343618031
>ME1 is the clunkiest but feels like an actual video game with at least a little depth
Kek.
It feels like an actual bad videogame iwth an okay story, whereas ME2 felt like a more competent videogame with an okay story.
>>343618029
Wait, I may mean Adept and not sentinel. Infiltrator is also good in 1 because weapon mods make pistols and snipers insane.
>>343618095
If you use the reload glitch with the Krogan shotgun it's incredible.
Contrary to popular belief mass effect 1 is the worst of the 3.
Headshots don't register as headshots. Game is redundant and boring. It wasn't until 2 that the game stepped up its game play and it became enjoyable.
The people who tell you it's good are the same people who say morrowind is better than oblivion: man children stuck in the past
>>343617316
>Don't blindly follow one path, choose what your Shepard believes in and make appropriate along the way
This is not a good idea. Paragon and renegade both have exclusive benefits, neutrality comes with fuck all benefits.
They are sort of right when they say "morality is not good vs. evil in Mass Effect." but it's not "white knight" vs. "end-justifies-the-means" either. It's mostly "nice guy" vs. "asshole", a lot of the renegade options could be paragon options if not for the fact that Shepard delivers them by grabbing someone by the collar, drawing them close and the speaking in a menacing tone.
>>343616718
you can easily clear the game with any class, don't blindly pick vanguard.
Solider gives you buffs to the assault rifle and basically turns into into a death laser for you.
Using abilities in ME1 is both pointless and irritating. You'll just be playing a cover shorter for most of the game, so don't pick the 'wizard' classes.
Unless you want to be consistent for all three games. Then do whatever. The game isn't that hard.
In ME2&3 all of the classes are fully viable, they just do different things. Look it up.
Have fun.
>>343617316
>>343617442
Vanguard in ME2 is terribly boring, and not really good unless you have energy drain which you won't until at the very end.
The 'best' class in 1 at least is probably soldier
The most fun class is easily vanguard, though less so in 1
>>343618147
Mad down anon.
Nobody's making fun of your SJWGOW in space.
>>343618245
this simply isn't true. In ME2 the game was far more balanced towards a few classes than in ME1.
>>343618231
>This is not a good idea. Paragon and renegade both have exclusive benefits, neutrality comes with fuck all benefits.
Don't listen to this idiot. What single-color simpletons fail to realize is that by mixing up renegade and Paragon, you get access to 95% of all Paragon choices and 95% of all renegade choices, and chances are that if there's one choice you can't do as a paragon you can do as a renegade, and vice versa.
Mix it up, actually roleplay instead of basing your dialog on colors like an idiot.
>>343618202
Still not very into it. I liked pistols in all the ME games and the standard fishgun assault rifle is sexy looking. The games aren't hard, so I just went for gun porn and what was fun.
I was also a huge Star Wars fag when I played them, so Biotics were interesting to me, even if they weren't fun. But it's been 4 years since I played a ME game, so it might have actually have been shit.
>>343617316
I picked vanguard but I feel that meele is a lot more dangerous than sitting in cover and burst shooting everyone. The snipers in the bomb defusing mission almost killed me.
>>343618392
>chances are that if there's one choice you can't do as a paragon you can do as a renegade, and vice versa.
nope, this is not true at all. hide this guy's posts, OP.
>>343616718
Infiltrator, just one shot enemies with your superior aim.Though gameplay in the first one is kinda wack story makes up for it I'd say.
ME2 is GOAT for being cozy as hell because even though the universe is on the line, you still have time to help crewmates out with their irrelevant problems.
I don't know why I like ME2 so much, but it will always have a special place in my heart for being possibly the most endearing "living in the future" simulator.
>>343618469
>nope, this is not true at all. hide this guy's posts, OP
Spoken like an idiot who didn't pick the speech perks and import his save into ME2.
I did not have a single conversation I couldn't either paragon or renegade, and the vast majority of the time I could pick both.
>>343618245
>Using abilities in ME1 is both pointless and irritating.
>I have never used Marksman, Immunity, or Lift.
>>343618392
Those 5% are the few major choices you make between games.
>>343618606
See: >>343618571
Those 5% are still available as one or the other.
>>343618571
if you put points into both charm and intimidate then you're going to be sorely lacking in combat talents and he's going to get fucking steamrolled in the last few levels. so stop spewing bullshit to him like a jackass.
>>343616718
>What I'm in for
a shitty shooter, an average RPG. uninteresting sidegames/systems.
pretty disappointing for "AAA" product.
>>343618463
Also is it normal that I already maxed my charm and intimidate skill in the first mission?
I feel that the game gives you level ups minutely, even just by talking
>>343618757
Or maybe you don't suck shit? I beat every game on insanity ME1 is easy as hell because enemies don't do damage worth a damn, and ME2 is just right.
>>343618392
>Mix it up, actually roleplay instead of basing your dialog on colors like an idiot.
You can't roleplay and mix it up at the same time unless you are playing the role of "nicest guy in the universe but sometimes I can be an absolute psychopath" like some sort of teenage edgelord.
It's rare that there is only a single path choice, you almost always have the choice from both, and if you try to balance them out you will find yourself not having a high enough score for either of them the further you get into the game. It's better to favor one path over the other, high paragon and renegade also have benefits other than dialogue choices.
>>343616718
Fun space adventures with your ayy lmao bros.
Also forgetting to save after 10 minutes of allegedly fun driving over 70° steep hills in your Mako
>tfw Mass Effect 3
No game has ever fucked me over to date. And that's not just because of the ending.
The semi-auto white rifle was fun at least and one or two character arcs closed out nicely.
>>343618857
enemies do massive damage on insanity and there's like five different types of enemies who can one shot you if you don't have heavy armor. no matter what class he picks he's going to need to level at least three combat talents on top of passive skills. so he should save the power gaming for when he knows what the hell he's doing.
>>343618870
>You can't roleplay and mix it up at the same time unless you are playing the role of "nicest guy in the universe but sometimes I can be an absolute psychopath" like some sort of teenage edgelord.
Or maybe you play "normal human being who treats his friends well and fucks over his enemies. Not really hard.
>>343618870
>and if you try to balance them out you will find yourself not having a high enough score for either of them the further you get into the game
Again, horseshit. Off the top of my head I can think of only a single choice I couldn't either paragon or renegade, the first interrogation option in ME2 (the renegade choice would have allowed me to skip the whole thing), but it wasn't an issue because the next option of the same conversation I could easily renegade away. Even the loyalty arguments were available, I paragoned the argument between miranda and jack, and renegaded the argument between legion and Tali.
The fuck's the point of playing a game with dialog options if you're gonna decide your choices by color from the start? May as well just pick a color at the start and have the game pick for you.
>>343619084
>enemies do massive damage on insanity
Not on ME1. They are horrid bullet sponges, but their damage is laughable even on insanity especially if your'e playing soldier, AKA "literally can't die" mode. What I did was hardly powergaming, it was my first insanity playthrough and second overall, I don't have the patience to play either ME game more than twice. Besides, insanity difficulty isn't gonna be an issue if he's "inexperienced" and "not powergaming", because he won't be playing in insanity if that's the case, so the extra combat skills are even less valuable.
>>343616718
It's not amazing. The universe is kinda interesting and they obviously put a lot of effort into their alien races to the point where it's probably got the most 'realistic' aliens of any popular space opera.
Unfortunately that's where the positives end. The combat is just awful, the dialogue gets tiresome (and often requires you to have read pages and pages of back story), and very few of your choices matter (besides increasing your paragon/renegade levels).
Basically you should drop it to the lowest difficulty so that combat ends quicker, and stick to either paragon (Lawful Good/white knight) or renegade (Chaotic neutral/asshole), otherwise your social stats will suffer.
>>343619286
if you're playing soldier then you have cheesy ass heavy armor and immunity so you aren't really experiencing what kind of damage they can actually do. and lots of new players gravitate towards the Adept class so he should know what he's in for.
Where can I get all 3 mass effects with dlc? Mass effect trilogy edition was a poor lie
>>343619286
If you aren't playing soldier you get one-shotted by half the shit thrown at you.
>>343618031
Haha what?
ME1 is indeed clunky as hell with bugs here and there (possibly patched by now), but the story is top tier and I still think it is.
ME2 fixed everything that ME1 was shitty at, but simplified the weapon and inventory system, for good overall. Story was up to a standard of the first ME.
ME3. Great game, took strong points of both ME1 and ME2, but hell the endings are a huge disappointment. I don't know about the DLC, as I don't care about paid shit that was supposed to be in the actual game.
>>343619454
If enemies on fucking INSANITY literally cannot kill me as a soldier I doubt they're doing as much damage as they should anyway, and again irrelevant because he's not likely to be playing insanity right off the bat. In ME2 at least enemies do kill you easy, but it's still perfectly beatable if you aren't a retard.
>>343619504
See above. Also, try not to get hit it helps.
>>343616718
Saren did nothing wrong.
>>343619286
>Or maybe you play "normal human being who treats his friends well and fucks over his enemies.
So you are a teenage edgelord then. Gotcha.
>>343619616
It doesn't help, it's the only way to survive.
>>343619669
Anon, if someone is trying to kill you you are allowed to throw them out a fucking window to their deaths no matter what batman or superman would say. Stop being a boy scout.
And your'e exaggerating about how "evil" renegade is, it's just "kind of dickish" the majority of the time. Like clint eastwood.
>>343619731
Seems like you got it figured out then.
>>343619645
He did everything wrong until ME3 said that "totally not instrumentality" was right.
Fuck your green eye shit, Bioware. I want to be literally tang, not that.
>>343619616
you sound like a person who's never played anything besides soldier. insanity is brutal on the light armor classes especially when you start fighting biotics. level 60 characters can get one shot killed. snipers, shock troopers, juggernauts, etc they can all kill you with one hit.
>>343619958
Thenstop playing shit classes
>>343619515
>ME3. Great game
Wow, I can't believe there are people who aren't disappointed at what happened to the mass effect series. As someone who claims to enjoy the story of mass effect one, I have a hard time imagining how you could endure the mess of shit that the third installment. It completely disregards any semblance of choice you may have thought mattered in the previous installments and almost completely ignores established lore. Honestly, the best part about Mass Effect 3 is the multiplayer.
>>343619669
>Doing wrong to those who do you wrong is edgy
Are you a fucking priest or something?
Well if by best you mean having no difference between playing Easy or Insanity then I'd go for Soldier in 1 and Vanguard in 3. Not sure if there's any class that breezes through Insanity in ME2.
>>343618801
You might think you maxed out your charm/intimidate skills, but you only really unlock half of your skill advancement in the citadel. the rest you can only unlock by increasing your Paragon/Renegade score, and reaching the 75% required for either is almost impossible unless you play exclusively as a boyscout/heel.
>>343620007
they're not shit if you know how to use them. but i can't expect an immunity spammer to know anything about strategy.
>>343616718
I just finshed ME2, did the game pick my favorite characters to kill?, the only ray that penetrated the ship hit my romance option, that can't be random.
>>343620320
Well the third game was supposed to end the series, right? That's why you see a lot of consequences of actions done in previous games but not so much of actions in ME3. It wasn't a perfect game and story did get a bit of a mess in it but I did enjoy it, until I went "eh?" on the ending.
>>343620623
You can save every single crew member during the suicide mission by doing their loyalty missions and upgrading the Normandy, so apparently you're the one that fucked up.
>>343620623
>The following list shows, in order of preference, which crew member will die if you haven't upgraded a particular part:
>Heavy Ship Armor: Jack
>Multicore Shielding: Kasumi, Legion, Tali, Thane, Garrus, Zaeed, Grunt
>Thanix Cannon: Thane, Garrus, Zaeed, Grunt, Jack, Samara/Morinth
You're waifu a shit.
>>343620902
Dammit you idiot, use spoiler tag.
>>343620623
And you have topick a right team member for the task. If you picked wrong they'll die
>>343616718
>What I'm in for
Massive disappointment and anger when you finish the series and see the ending.
>>343621081
It's the journey that matters.
>>343620935
Fuck, i bought multicore shielding instead of heavy ship, i would give up all characters on that list just for jack.
>>343620902
yeah but only the ones i didn't get loyalty for seem to stay alive with a few exceptions.
Whatcha wanna do most anon?
You wanna be a long-range asshole? Infiltrator.
You wanna throw space magic around? Adept.
Rush em? Vanguard.
>>343621224
Minor correction:
Adept if you want to throw space magic around
Vanguard if you want to become space magic
>>343616718
>What I'm in for, also what is best class?
Through each games, in terms of being OP
>ME 1
Adapt, biotics really fuck shit up in this game.
>ME 2
Either infiltator or soldier. Soldier the best class at killing things, While infiltrator can skip large parts of the game.
>ME 3
Vanguard if you learn what nova canceling is.
On my first insane playthrough I died twice through the entire thingOne of those times being to marauder shieldsYou're literally invincible as long as you stay away from large foes that can grab you.
>>343620320
>It completely disregards any semblance of choice you may have thought mattered in the previous installments and almost completely ignores established lore.
It also introduces a character whose very existence causes the series' plot to collapse in on itself.
>>343621645
Atleast your waifu won't die.
>>343620327
A common feature of morally good protagonists is that they hold themselves to a higher standard. Not every protagonist is an antihero.
>>343621180
>>343621715
What does that matter ifI'm dead?
>>343621791
This... is actually accurate depiction of ME.
>>343618245
>I've never used Throw or Lift
Biotic abilities are way more useful in 1 than 2 and 3. 2/3 require you to burn armor and shields to use abilities effectively
>>343616718
Enjoy the series, spend time talking to people, and every once in a while read the planet descriptions. Some of them have some nice flavor.
As for classes; first game, doesn't matter. Mass effect 2? See pic.
I'm going to fuck Garrus
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>>343621897
Nova disagrees
Play renegade and revel in the actions of "Commander Richard Shephard, Space Dick".
You'll need to if you want to slog through ME3.
>>343616718
vanguard for biotic/shotgun berserk mode
just take your time. dont rush through it, its an experience you'll wish will never end. Stay a little longer on each planet, just drive around like you really want to see every inch of the sky from every corner of the world. hang out in the citadel, and just listen to the ambiance. Really just get a feel for the wonder of the future.
also
>femshep or no shep
>>343621930
>pick vanguard expecting a good mix between weapons and biotic
>it's literally kenshiro in outer space
Best class
>>343622094
>femshep
>>343622279
>your face when my femshep was a nigger
i got along with anderson reeeeallly well. we spoke eachothers language.
>dark brown skin with blond hair
>muh dick
>>343621930
As long as Vanguard is in, ME4 might actually be worth playing eventually.
>>343616718
Play just ME1, don't bother with the rest.
Infiltrator is the best class in ME1, don't let plebs convince of anything else. Sniper rifle + tech is too good.
Play the first one to completion and then stop because it's all down hill from there.
>>343622454
>>343622460
ME2 has objectively better gameplay.
>>343622454
>>343622460
ME2 didsome thingswrong. It's still a great game, though.
You're in for the first one being the only good one.
Also Adept, Adept is by far the best class.
>>343622626
>objectively
It has better gameplay
3 has even better gameplay, but fucks up in a lot of other areas.
2 is the over all most balanced with everything.
When it comes down to it, ME 3MPis the best.
>>343617442
>only the Soldier is a suitable class
Except that it's much worse in every way compared to Adept, Sentinel, and Vanguard.
Biotics are so gamebreakingly overpowered in the first game you have no reason not to run a Biotic Shepard, Kaiden, and Wrex as your party at all times.
>>343616718
Get the rich achievement asap for Spectre armor.
Vanguard is amazing, especially in the sequels when you get charge.
>that one vanguard fight in Mass Effect 2 DLC
>charging each other, then finishing the fight by knocking him off the skyscraper after you take down his shields and armor
Best part of the entire series.
>>343622279
Mark Meer's """performance""" in the first game is fucking terrible, FemShep is better in every way.
>>343617489
>>343617743
Spot those who didn't actually
play mass effect 1
>>343622969
>in later games
Second post at least did
>Basically Cheating Tier
Adept
>God Tier
Vanguard
>Great Tier
Sentinel
>Meh Tier
anything else
>>343622936
His goofy acting is what makes it entertaining. Femshep is just forgettable.
>>343623040
soldier + immunity you don't need any squadmates it's easily the most overpowered class. adept is garbage until you get singularity and stasis to a respectable level.
>>343623115
Lift alone is broken as shit.
Throw and most of the others are still useful.
>>343623082
femshep is forgettable in the sense that THAT IS THE FUCKING POINT. if you recall, shepard is just a small pawn in a bigger game of checkers. even if this pawn can get kinged at every second because fuck yeah space america! Its a point that hes no better than anyone else.
>>343623082
His acting wasn't goofy though, it was just insanely bad and wooden.
At least Femshep fucking tried to inflect a little fucking bit and put in some sort of emotion.
>>343617316
In ME1 Adept is actually better than Vanguard.
Vanguard is only godly starting with ME2.
>>343623279
singularity is much more overpowered than lift and stasis is for freezing biotic enemies and snipers.
>>343623336
>Its a point that hes no better than anyone else.
>The first human on grounds of becoming the first human spectre because hes badass
>No better than anyone else
>>343616718
I like mass effect, but the classes are kinda the same. of course, one class has a pet and the other a nice body armor, but still, all classes played the same like the classes in destiny.
>>343623385
>vanguard goldy in 2
Hes FUN. But he's hardly godly.
Soldier and infiltrator get through areas faster than he does, sentinel is tanky as fuck.
I'd say he's on a tie with the engineer and maybe better than only the adept.
Its a different story in 3 though.
>>343623337
And that's why she's boring and forgettable.
>>343616718
its just a typical boring bioware shitty copy paste game, except this time they made the setting dull on purpose and not just an effect of their terrible fucking game making. do yourself a favor an avoid the entire franchise, its puerile shite for normies. bioware hasn't done a single new/improved thing since kotor so you may as well just play that and be done with it.
>>343623609
He's godly because he's the funniest class in the ME2.
And in ME3 he's both the funniest and one of the strongest.
>all these people saying the later games had better combat
Jesus I hate mellinnials.
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>>343623878
Pretend there are no sequels or you'll regret it
>>343623878
>people will fall for this
>>343623878
Fuck off, the combat is vastly improved in the later games.
ME1's strong points were the story, atmosphere and dialogue. The combat was below average even for its time.
mass effect 1 has points for charming/intimidating enemies. since you are going to want to be full paragon/renegade (whichever you choose) in these games, you're going to want to invest in whichever your choice is asap. if not, you'll miss out on dialogue options in first game.
also while its true that ME3's ending is shit and disregards essentially all of your actions, what you've done before that matters. I didn't hold the line. I forgot about that until i got to the 3rd game and I regret that decision immediately.
iirc the easiest way to get yourself loaded out on the best gear in the first game was buying the most expensive shit you could afford at one item stand and then selling it just a few feet over. rinse and repeat until you get the highest tier armor and weapons
>>343616718
is mass effect 3 good besides the ending? i just started it and besides being hideous sheper runs around holding his gun in front of him with no way to lower or holster it why would bioware do that? its really distracting and irritating
>>343624115
Not really. Many people say that the ending is the only issue, but I disagree. Basically, combat is the only thing ME3 excels at.
>>343616718
>What I'm in for, also what is best class?
Many fags don't know but the Adept is seriously the best class in the game as long as you do a playthrough of it after using the soldier. That way you can use any one gun you want on the class. Snipers are very OP in the game and it's good to use it on the adept or any other class.
Sadly the vast majority of shitters use soldier only.
>>343620320
only faggots actually give a shit about the story and lore of terrible Bioware games. If the gameplay is good, its technical well made and writing is serviceable thats all that matters
>>343624115
The combat and character interaction is good. Everything else is a step down from the previous games.
>>343624208
This is because most people don't really critique these games without bias. To them it's just a fun space soap opera game where they can find gf/bf and do "cool" missions.
>>343624336
>>343624208
Pretty much this yes. It has a couple good parts here and there that aren't combat, but it still pales in comparison to the previous 2 games in any other regard.
That said, that's also why the multiplayers so good, because it has fuck all to do with plot and just utilizes the fun gameplay.
>>343616718
ME1 is great, the gameplay is not really that fun at first, and the two first areas are kinda boring at first, but then the game really takes of, took me 2 tries to get into it, second try i just forced myself to complete the first level, and then i was hooked.
Mass effect 2 has better gameplay, but the story seems to change in a direction that's not as pleasing.
Mass effect 3 is pretty much like ME2 with refined (simplified?) gameplay, they tried to make it epic, but the world seems kinda shallow compared to the two other games, the ending is also anticlimatic, but it's not a bad game.
>>343622626
>>343622661
It's not a bad game, but I don't think it's good, especially in comparison to the first one.
The story does nothing for the series. In fact, it's almost a complete rehash of the first game's, now with 100% more EDGY. And for all the supposed improvements of the gameplay, what they really did is just eliminate everything that was bad about the first one instead of just fixing it like they could have. Don't like the inventory system? Don't worry, there is no inventory now! Don't like the vehicle missions? No vehicles! Sidequests bland and boring? Gone!
It was Bioware's first shameless cashgrab.
>>343623878
1's combat was only better than 2, 3 was the best it got.
>>343624295
Say what you will about Bioshit, but Mass Effect 1 had a lot of people intrigued as hell just from flipping through the codex.
Big shame that they were decent at world building but couldn't tell a good story.
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>>343624257
>Sadly the vast majority of shitters use soldier only.
Yes pic related
>>343624612
>only 4% played on Insanity
What the fuck.
>>343624582
Isn't that Bioware's like thing, good world building (or creating an interesting setting) and then shitting it up with their 14 year old writers?
>>343624718
Muh intended difficulty.
Most people on /v/ play on normal too.
>>343624612
>64 percent let Garrus win,
Homos and bads play mass effect new at 11.
>>343616718
3 FUCKING ENDINGS
>>343624612
>survival rate for each squad member
>kaidan 17%
Lol
>>343624749
People debate that Dragon Age's setting is generic, but I liked it at first. I wasn't familiar with the Witcher, so just elves being impoverished, high fantasy, literal niggers was interesting enough to me. The fade, Circle of mages and how apostacy and blood magic worked was also interesting.
But goddamn, did they fuck it up.
>>343624749
I enjoyed the story in ME1.
Not really in 2 or 3, and it became romance simulator was horrid.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS
>>343624924
False. One ending with 3 different colors.
I remember being an indoctrination theorist. I also remember being a biodrone. Dark times.
I want to replay the MEtrilogyagain but I always get put off.
>awful gameplay in 1, dude rockets lmao
>vehicles
>the plot of 2
>everything about 3
>>343624947
Kaidan is such a fucking faggot, i know a girl who has had a major fucking crush on him since ME1.
>>343625054
The only thing putting me off from completing the trilogy after my first run was all the fucking DLC, the price is absurd.
>>343624612
>almost 50% use soldier
>moralfaggotry near 65%
>64% didn't meet the best character
This is why I'm glad I stopped with the second game. This series was never meant to appeal to me to begin with. It's meant for absolute faggots.
>>343625193
You know this shit exists with any game right? Most people that play vidya are scrubs.
>>343625154
I would fuck the shit out of Carth and I would let Kaiden fuck my boi hole raw. Fucking fight me.
>>343624986
These games have some pretty cringe voice acting and lines.
>>343617959
I think doesn't look very good, tho. It kind of looks like shit.
>>343625302
This series is such a story and lore heavy series though. Although I guarantee the reason why 2 and 3 were made the way they were was to appeal to those pleb scrubs you mentioned. EA had a huge influence on bioware going to shit and the series lost over half the people who worked on the first game.
>>343625302
Don't forget that most people who buy games never even finish them.
>>343624474
I don't think you played ME2
>>343625769
This one baffles me the most. Especially with RPG games.
Vanguard master race! ME2 is ok. 3 is trash. Ignore it's existence.
>>343616718
None of your choices that carry over in the sequels have any significance.
Also get ready for some comfy fun with the Mako.
Also if possible install the game to an SSD because there are lots of loading screens.
>>343616718
i love this picture so much... maybe one day we'll have, like, dimensional tear and both Shepards will be best buddies or something...
>>343616718
A transitionary RPG with elements of oldschool and modern ARPG's thrown together somewhat awkwardly, but with a fantastic look, feel and sound with amazing writing to smooth things over.
I reccomend Engineer if you don't mind using Pistols the entire game, Pistols are extremely good, and once you hit midgame the Engineer becomes a fucking walking nuke, by endgame you're a god on the battlefield.
>>343616718
Cute Krogans.
Wrex best husbando.
>>343628839
A best.
>>343616718
ME1 is a typical Bioware RPG a la KOTOR but spruced up a little and with some interestingly fucky combat. The lore is nice, the characters are a bit bland, and the exploration is criminally underrated.
ME2 is the prototypical "cinematic" game but that actually becomes a plus when it's as well written as this. It basically ignores ME1's grandiose plots and turns into a character driven heist story. Treat it as standalone and you'll enjoy it significantly. Though the gameplay is more typical TPS at this point, it's super fluid and has a lot of unique class-specific abilities and party member mixing and matching is still essential.
ME3 is infamously inconsistent, especially at the ending which disregards everything that comes before it. While most of the game is mediocre, it has a few glimmers of brilliance, mostly when it actually considers what happened before in ME1 and ME2. It's worth a playthrough regardless of what /v/ says, just don't get too hung up on the ending. Gameplay is basically ME2's again but less novel.
Watching the effective military strength meter go up bit by bit for trivial stuff you did in the past was neat
>>343625042
When the most hopeful theory fans have about an ending is "It was all a dream," you know the writers fucked up.
>>343617316
>>343626714
that picture is horribly stupid
>>343630880
your mom is horribly stupid lmao
>>343629761
Infantophiles, please go
>>343631116
He is the perfect specimen.
>>343630142
>>343631176
That's not Garrus
>>343631116
It's like the reverse of that "1000 year old woman who looks like a 12 year old" trope. I wonder which is worse. I know I'd rather fuck Mileena, who has an adult body but is only about five years old or something, instead of a 1000 year old loli.
>>343622626
>objectively
You don't know what that word means, because ME2 had shit combat. It also had a shit story, mostly shit characters, and was entirely pointless in the end.
OP, just play the first game, and ignore anything else.
>>343631176
That reminds me: I always thought it was interesting how to an asari, being called a "pureblood" is an insult. That's the only time I've ever seen that. In literally every other story I've seen, it's a compliment or a boast.
Does every side quest in this game eventually revolve into gay sex?
Why does every crew member end up wanting to fuck me?
>>343633350
>/pol/tards get offended when you mention that diversity is a good thing
>asari thrive on diversity and are literally perfect
It's like poetry.
>>343633350
It's a very shallow way to give depth to their society imo
It's just stupid that society so advanced and progressive and shit somehow still has a prejudice against people who were born a certain way because... reasons.
>>343634150
>somehow still has a prejudice against people who were born a certain way because... reasons.
But they explained why it was. Because asari benefit from mixing, it introduces traits from other races into their own.
>>343616718
You're in for a mediocre piece of shit with one of the most boring soundtracks in the history of video games and shitty ass animations that make the whole game feel like another Bethesda abortion. Oh, and color coded moral routes.
>>343634368
>Because asari benefit from mixing, it introduces traits from other races into their own.
That's still retarded, they're not respecting people's choice on who to love and have children with and are prejudiced against asari who had no control on how they were born. It's Bioware going "See, they are not so perfect after all huh? Don't their prejudices remind you of our own society? So deep"
They don't even have a central governmental body, why would they care about their race's strenght?
What the fuck is even the difference between a pure asari and a "hybrid"? The game says they're different but they all look the same, the only difference is that purebloods have a chance in being born a succubus.
>>343634929
The very few cases you got to know what race was the other parent, you could notice the effect it had on them. Like that one bartender that was a krogan's daughter, and she was crude and headstrong.
Also, you yourself said it, there's a chance purebloods will be born as succubus and end up potentially causing hundreds of deaths. You get to see it firsthand, hell you can get killed by one if you feel like it. Pretty sure that's enough to leave a stigma among asari. There's been worse cases for much less irl of people being discriminated from birth, so why do you find it strange that the ones that actually do cause harm produce a similar reaction?
>>343619515
>I don't care about paid shit that was supposed to be in the actual game.
just a friendly tip - pirate and play all the DLCs for ME2 and ME3, you will love them trust me. Especially ME3 dlc, holly fuck they are fun
>its a my first Mass Effect game was Mass Effect 2 therefore Mass Effect 2 is the best game thread
>>343619354
>The combat is just awful
why? I loved the combat, one of the best 3rd person combat i've seen, especially in 2 and 3. Biotic powers are awesome too
>>343616718
avoid ME3 like the plague. its total ass and will make you regret even playing ME1/ME2
>>343635407
>best 3rd person combat I've seen
jesus christ its literally a clunkier gears of war. do you even play video games regularly? I can think of at least 3 other games on the spot that handle better than any mass effect
>>343625193
>This is why I'm glad I stopped with the second game
kys autismo
>>343619354
ME1 was the best ME game in the sense it felt like you were playing an actual RPG.
ME2 and especially 3 were casualized.
2 is the best in terms of quests and the sheer amount of shit there is to do plus it had the best DLC's and characters.
3 was dogshit.
>>343617316
who here /regular old soldier/?
>>343616718
Only in ME1 do classes actually make a difference
The more you progress down the series the less significant classes become
>>343625302
>>343635627
biodrones detected
mass effect was fucking shit after ME1
>>343635749
3 had it's moments, but it all went to shit in the ending.
>>343616718
Vanguard is the best class
>>343616718
Protip: either go full paragon or full renegade
Being "neutral" won't get you anywhere
>>343624612
>Vega 16.8%
Who?
>Kaidan 1.5%
Probably the only people who let him live...
>>343635620
ok name them: and i mean strictly third person shooters that also have some form of magic/ranged like Biotic powers.
>>343635938
how THE FUCK DO YOU KNOW ??? you JUST said you didn't play it till the end. you FUCKING autist. Form your OWN opinion idiot ! And he calls others 'drones', as i said - KYS
>>343624612
>82% played male shepard while 18% played femshep
I fucking knew it
all those femtards saying BUT FEMSHEP IS MORE POPULAR THAN MALESHEP or spouting "its 50% playing maleshep and 50% femshep"
why cater to these fucking feminsits bioware? there's your fucking proof right there that the screeching hambeasts barely play your games. If it was 50/50, or even 60/40, sure but a paltry fucking 18% percent.
"Girl gamerz XD" my fucking ass
remember the good times?
I played Engineer from the start of 1 through to the end of 3.
Interestingly, Engineer is the only class that gets a class specific line and quest outcome in one mission in an ME3 DLC.
>>343636453
>that tali photoshop
even after all these years it still hurts..
>>343636369
At least 3/4 of those 18% are men.
>>343636369
I played femshep just because the review I read of the first game at release (which iirc was by Tim Edwards of PCGamer UK) said that Jennifer Hale's voice acting was significantly better than Mark Meer's.
And he was right. Mark gets a lot better in ME2 and 3, but in 1 he sounds like an amateur they dragged off the street.
>>343636769
That too. How much of that 18% is just guys playing as femshep.
Yet bioware feels the need to cater their games around such a fucking microscopic portion of their players.
>>343625192
Not only is the price absurd but it's effectively insulated from ever being on sale, too, because it uses Bioware/EA Funbucks instead of actual money.
I guess every now and then the funbucks themselves go on sale, but I still wound up paying more money for the DLC for 2 and 3 than I did for the base games of 1-3 in the first place.
>>343636453
>Investigate
Every time
>>343616718
>ME1
Please return to us anon and tell us howblandyour experience was.
>>343617316
>Vanguard
>not soldier
Kill yourself man
>>343616718
I hope you like elevators
How can they make it good?
ME would've been better without an overarching storyline.
