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Mass Effect 3 |OT| Space Jesus Returns (tag all spoilers)
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Woah. How the fuck.
Thanks. I'll keep an eye out for him, maybe he'll appear on my next visit to the Citadel.
I agree with the others about character interaction in this game, it's the best in the series for me but my romance stuff with Ashley has been pretty light so far. Does it get better?
RadAndrew502
Member
That has been a valuable thing to do in every Mass Effect game. Especially after every "Main Story" mission.
Also, check your crew members out scattered throughout the Citadel and talk to them. Some interesting little characterization points occur. Especially with Joker.
Massive massive Tuchanka spoilers+ aftermath of the mission choices.
I cured the genophage + Mordin died singing, but checked youtube, anyone who choose to KILL Mordin+Wrex is a bad person in real life. Holy shit, always saw my renegade choices as a dick to my enemies not betraying closest friends. At that point you might as well rejoin cerebus at the start of the game if you could, or help the reapers kill everyone.
Ok, is anyone having problems with the game? it has glitched on me twice, one the screen stayed black after a cutscene and in the mission
I defended the airfield there were no more enemies for like 5 minutes I tought I had to look for a switch or something, I loaded a save and did it again and when I killed the last enemy it finally trigered the end of the sub-mission.
I have just started, 7 hours in, I never had this problems in ME or ME2...
to rescue the turian politician
I have just started, 7 hours in, I never had this problems in ME or ME2...
bengraven
Member
I did.
I can screenshot my progress if you want.
Edit:
OOOH, I was going by TMS, not EMS.
My military readiness is at 3570.
EMS is more like 1700. My bar is almost to the 2/3 mark though. Which should I be going with? People are saying 5k will get you the extra clip, but is that military or total readiness?
1. Can't import a save with dead Shepard.
2. Almost all quests will give you "War Assets"; the more you have, the better an ending you can get. You also have a "readiness" percentage which is controlled by multiplayer; this acts as a multiplier to your war assets. So if you never touch multiplayer, collecting 1000 in war assets will have an effective strength of 500.
See above; that percentage isn't actually a measure of how good an ending you'll get, it's a multiplier to your war assets solely controlled by multiplayer. You cannot raise it at all in singleplayer, to the best of my knowledge.
I've had ro restart a mission twice because events wouldn't trigger. 20 hrs in.
Sucks as I never had any glitches in ME1 or ME2 either.
CF_Fighter
Member
Spoiler on a certain ME2 squadmate meetup
Grunt, you magnificent, blood soaked bastard!
Psychoward
Banned
Great Rumbler
Member
Mass Effect 3 was really great...except for the ending.
Plain and simple: Worst ending since Lost.
Bonus ending spoiler:
'm not one of those who's complaining about Shepard and the love interest not hooking up at the end and having lots of kids or that the endings are necessarily "happy", my problem is that the final segment renders void all the choices I made across three games. All the truces I brokered, all the friendships I made, all the bad guys I took down, and all those choices along the way that were built up as being so important. And what is the final segment? A game show. You want door number 1 or door number 2? So long as I had a war rating high enough, nothing else mattered. It will always come down to the three choices and the same basic endings. There's no epilogue where I get to see the impact of my choies. There's nothing about what happens to all my friends and allies [except for that woefully inadequate bit at the end where the Normandy crashes on some deserted planet, yeah good luck with that shallow gene pool, guys.]. It makes a lot of my choices feel hollow and binary, like I'm just racking up war points instead of actually making any long-term impact on the game universe. And destroying the mass effect relays at the end? Come on, nobody wants that in an awesome scifi universe filled with detailed and complex alien societies.
Plain and simple: Worst ending since Lost.
Bonus ending spoiler:
Where the heck was the Normandy going anyway? And how did Liara get from the beam tower in London to the Normandy? I took her with me on that last run to the beam, there's a flash of light and everyone gets vaporized except Shepard. But somehow Liara is back on the Normady and they're shooting through some mass relay to who knows where. Uh...what?
bengraven
Member
If you could mean you could never do your spoiler, I felt like I had to. I was a bit worried about the tidbits of backstory and behavior of
Wrex that this might not be the best thing. It seemed like the Krogan were considering becoming a band of warmongers again with Wrex as their warlord. I almost didn't do it and even told Mordin not to go up because it was a trap and that I had decided to not cure it. He flew off the handle and made me realize how foolish I was being, so I said "okay, go up...and goodbye". Made the scene even sadder that I basically felt shame.
Afterwards you get the hint from the female Krogan that she will share power with Wrex and ensure they remain enlightened and not become mad warlords again.
Afterwards you get the hint from the female Krogan that she will share power with Wrex and ensure they remain enlightened and not become mad warlords again.
Where is this?!
It's in presidium commons, it a billboard on the wall that you can press multiple times to here the movie.
It's at 2 on the map I believe.
Yeah that's what I figured. And yeah, the extra clip is 4k /5k EMS, not MS.
therealminime
Member
So a quick mini-review that I think sums up exactly how I feel about Mass Effect 3, no spoilers.
The first 45 mins and the last 5 mins of the game are not very well excecuted. The opening is not well explained unless you really dig around the codex and the internet. They don't say why Shepard is on Earth, or why the Normandy is all different. I just think the opening level could have been handled better. As for the last 5 mins I don't think it is bad, it is just not what I wanted and not what I expected to have happen.
However, every single thing between the 45 minute mark and the 31 hour 55 minute mark of the game is absolutely the best Mass Effect has been to date. It looks fantastic (the lighting engine and sky boxes makes it), it plays great, the dialogue between the crew members is absolutely superb, the places you go and things you do are phenomenal and exciting. There are actually heartbreaking moments during the game where I felt real emotions. It has some truly epic moments in it and well as genuine emotion, except for a few somewhat try hard sequences where you are
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There is still nothing quite as enjoyable and engrossing as a Mass Effect game and I still want more games set in the universe.
The first 45 mins and the last 5 mins of the game are not very well excecuted. The opening is not well explained unless you really dig around the codex and the internet. They don't say why Shepard is on Earth, or why the Normandy is all different. I just think the opening level could have been handled better. As for the last 5 mins I don't think it is bad, it is just not what I wanted and not what I expected to have happen.
However, every single thing between the 45 minute mark and the 31 hour 55 minute mark of the game is absolutely the best Mass Effect has been to date. It looks fantastic (the lighting engine and sky boxes makes it), it plays great, the dialogue between the crew members is absolutely superb, the places you go and things you do are phenomenal and exciting. There are actually heartbreaking moments during the game where I felt real emotions. It has some truly epic moments in it and well as genuine emotion, except for a few somewhat try hard sequences where you are
dreaming
There is still nothing quite as enjoyable and engrossing as a Mass Effect game and I still want more games set in the universe.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Sorry in advance, guys, but I can't think of another place on the board to ask this:
Does the PSN version of ME2 still include all the DLC? Lair of the Shadow Broker, Kasumi, Genesis and the Cerberus Network?
Does the PSN version of ME2 still include all the DLC? Lair of the Shadow Broker, Kasumi, Genesis and the Cerberus Network?
I agree 100%.
On my Renegade play through now and that is not a renegade choice, that is an ASSHOLE choice. I don't think I can do that when the time comes.
However, Mordin dies too if you fake the cure? I thought he lives but then you're forced to kill Wrex ..
On my Renegade play through now and that is not a renegade choice, that is an ASSHOLE choice. I don't think I can do that when the time comes.
However, Mordin dies too if you fake the cure? I thought he lives but then you're forced to kill Wrex ..
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Shepard lives
I don't think anyone would have minded if it was just a drawing or something. Something like that fan drawing of the space waifu.
It's just really lazy--this is something that thousands of people who long to
smell her sweat
Liara
firehawk12
Subete no aware
That's EMS. In the single player game, you can only get ~7000, so you need either to play online or play the iphone game.
4000 is the minimum you need though. 5000 only guarantees you see the "best" end if you choose to do so.
Haha, that scene was brilliant. GIF could get some mileage too.
Psychoward
Banned
And then you realize all N7 missions are copy/pasted from multiplayer, or vice versa.
I really enjoyed that area too.
Shame it lasts for like 2 seconds and takes place in a tiny area. Isn't this the area that's relevant to some petty side-quest on the Citadel with that guy on the phone? I found nothing on what he was looking for in this area. :\
Yeah, me too. I always look around the N7 areas, aswell.
The Librarian
Banned
ColonelColon
Member
Psychoward
Banned
Like, they even have the ammo crates directly from mp.
I get that it's the same area for story purposes, but come on.
I'm not playing multi-player, so it doesn't bother me.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
:S
I was exciting to play through this game to see how
Tali
Really? Fuck sake. Back I go.
Good thing we can buy the side-quest stuff if we miss them.
The Antitype
Banned
Ugh.
Tried a second play-through with Femshep.
Can't do it. Too weird having that voice say the lines I'm used to coming from a guy. I do wish you could have longer hair for male Shepherd's though. I have medium-long hair, and would love my Shep to as well.
Maybe mod the PC version?
Tried a second play-through with Femshep.
Can't do it. Too weird having that voice say the lines I'm used to coming from a guy. I do wish you could have longer hair for male Shepherd's though. I have medium-long hair, and would love my Shep to as well.
Maybe mod the PC version?
So what's up with bonus powers in this, I know how you get them, but do they keep across different character saves, just new game+ (if that exists, I assume so) or is it just once per playthrough?
The PS3 version has all the DLC besides Arrival, Costume packs and some weapon packs.
So yea, from memory as long as you buy new you get the Cerberus Network pass which nets you the Genesis/Firewalker/Zaeed, and with the game comes Kasumi and Shadow Broker.
The PS3 version has all the DLC besides Arrival, Costume packs and some weapon packs.
So yea, from memory as long as you buy new you get the Cerberus Network pass which nets you the Genesis/Firewalker/Zaeed, and with the game comes Kasumi and Shadow Broker.
Always check the Spectre store after finishing a mission, items for sidequests that you missed picking up tend to show up there.
Interesting. I didn't know this. Thanks as I'd rather not have to waste time returning to Benning.
bonesmccoy
Banned
Thanks, Corris. Much appreciated!
Speaking of Arrival, I didn't play that DLC, so no reference to what happened during it in Mass Effect 3's beginning is a bit jarring (I did educate myself on the story of it though, so I wasn't completely in the dark). If I were to start a fresh game with no save, would it cover it in comic form like Genesis? Or how does that work?
oh thank god, I was worried I might have missed something like this in a recent mission.
Do the mods/armor pieces you missed there also show up on citadel stores?
Also, I didn't see anyone answer this last time so I'll ask one more time-does the CE alternate appearance pack cover all of the game's squadmates or just Kaidan, Ashley, Liara and Vega?