Mass Effect 3

[TheLastOne36]

I heared she will have spiky hair in ME3.

Meh, don't want her on my squad.

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Anyway, so it from what I heard sounds like they are combining the Krogans and Salarians in one storyline. If so, that is upsetting. I was hoping we would have helped Wrex unite the Krogans on Tuchanka first, then deal with whatever the Salarians are having trouble with. Or maybe I assumed too much and they'll give the races their own storylines considering the picture of the planet of Tuchanka we seen earlier.

Any ideas/speculation on the Turian storyline?

 

[LightSpectra]

Anyway, so it from what I heard sounds like they are combining the Krogans and Salarians in one storyline. If so, that is upsetting. I was hoping we would have helped Wrex unite the Krogans on Tuchanka first, then deal with whatever the Salarians are having trouble with. Or maybe I assumed too much and they'll give the races their own storylines considering the picture of the planet of Tuchanka we seen earlier.

Their plots are inevitably tied together. The salarians invented the genophage and discovered its cure. They're also the ones responsible for destroying Saren's krogan cloning facility on Virmire.

Any ideas/speculation on the Turian storyline?

Possibly them not aiding the humans due to wanting vengeance for the First Contact War and Saren.

 

[TheLastOne36]

In one of the gameplay videos there was a picture of Tuchanka with 4 different presumable landable spots, which is an assuring sign.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Whilst playing today I had the thought... Wouldn't the Drell be well accustomed to the dryness of certain regions of Earth?

 

[Maniacal]

Yeah they would probably do just fine there. I don't know if the local inhabitants would be the least bit accommodating though.

Not too mention the invasion.

 

[LightSpectra]

We actually don't know much about the political climate of Earth itself, especially on a regional basis. They could be totally xenophobic there or welcoming of aliens.

Replaying ME2 to prep my save file for ME3. Decided to just skip ME1 altogether because I still have stupid sound glitches whenever I'm in combat or on the Citadel.

 

[TheLastOne36]

We actually don't know much about the political climate of Earth itself, especially on a regional basis. They could be totally xenophobic there or welcoming of aliens.

Replaying ME2 to prep my save file for ME3. Decided to just skip ME1 altogether because I still have stupid sound glitches whenever I'm in combat or on the Citadel.

You could always mod the save file so it would be like as if you've played ME1.

That is what I did. I've only had one playthrough through ME1, but I plan to have 4 ME2 saves(3 of which have been modded) to be prepped for ME3.

I don't consider it cheating as I basically just copy+pasted more or less the exact same decisions as my first playthrough, just with minor decision changes (such as saving the council or not or choosing Udina in favor of the Admiral) for extra variance between my saves.

 

[LightSpectra]

I just downloaded a save that had all the side quests done.

 

[Adam7Eight]

Where's the fun in downloading a save? I'm going to replay through both.

 

[Rub'Rum]

Where's the fun in downloading a save? I'm going to replay through both.

Sometimes when you have a backlog of 30 other games to play, things like this are rather attractive.

 

[LightSpectra]

Where's the fun in downloading a save? I'm going to replay through both.

Mass Effect 1's main quest is okay, but the side quests suuuuuuuuuck, in addition to my computer not running the game right for some reason. The only good parts about that game can be seen on youtube anyway, unlike Mass Effect 2 where the combat is actually fun.

 

[sophie]

Mass Effect 1's main quest is okay, but the side quests suuuuuuuuuck, in addition to my computer not running the game right for some reason. The only good parts about that game can be seen on youtube anyway, unlike Mass Effect 2 where the combat is actually fun.

I don't know, I found biotic stuff pretty fun in ME1. I liked being able to play call at the beginning of an engagement and have enemies wasted like clockwork as the powers and power combinations are executed perfectly. Then again, I don't think I've really played enough ME2 to contrast it with so my opinions don't really count for much .

 

[LightSpectra]

ME1 Adept is like playing with god-mode enabled, even on Insane mode (although the beginning of the game is pretty difficult). ME2 Adept is *arguably* underpowered (Dachs and I were discussing this before), at least compared to Soldiers and Sentinel.

 

[sophie]

ME1 Adept is like playing with god-mode enabled, even on Insane mode (although the beginning of the game is pretty difficult). ME2 Adept is *arguably* underpowered (Dachs and I were discussing this before), at least compared to Soldiers and Sentinel.

I'd agree with that. In ME1 once your powered up enough killing enemies was more of a chore than anything. I just found the biotic powers in ME2 to be lame, and once armor gets involved, essentially useless.

 

[LightSpectra]

The thing about that is biotics in ME2 (aside from Warp) only work after shields/armor/barrier goes down, and that's typically the hard part to begin with. So it's much more convenient to have a companion with Pull/Throw/Slam/Singularity and to manually queue it up after you breach something's defenses, and have Shepard with stuff like Adrenaline Rush, Charge or Tactical Cloak in order to kill the defenses to begin with.

 

[TheLastOne36]

What annoys me is that if I put a Shockwave to the ground nearby enemies with Shields/Armor/Barrier, it still effects them pretty well...

 

[LightSpectra]

So I was replaying ME2, and I've been intensely bothered by those two Cerberus crewmates in the Normandy lounge that are always on coffee break. I suspect... they are Reapers.

 

[mechaerik]

We have dismissed that claim.

 

[Thrawn]

ME3 to require Origin, not available on Steam.

 

[Rub'Rum]

Least surprising news ever.