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''Ever wondered about a carreer of a fortune-teller, or someone else, who makes predictions he has just made up himself? '' Hahahaha, I loled, that made my day, thank you! :D--SunyiNyufi 13:55, March 22, 2012 (UTC)

Hey, remember how we talked about Miranda becoming a Spectre in one of the threads? I just watched a video where a guy had an even better idea: after you kill Kai Leng at the Cerberus base, Miranda would take over, and she would turn the whole organization into what it should have been from the start, not a terrorist group but protectors of humanity, like the STG for the salarians. You should really watch this video :)

Sh*t, forgot to sign that pervious message *facepalm*

I don't think that N7 equals STG, because N7 is just (to quote this wiki) a “premier school for leadership”. But when I said that Cerberus with Miranda in charge would work like STG, of course I meant that the Alliance government would oversee the Cerberus operations, and that way they could do what they intended to do, jut without TIM.

Ah table-top RPG...haven't played one of those in ages... The story you outlined seems very interesting! Good luck with it! :) --SunyiNyufi 21:55, March 24, 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, you might be right about that N7 things, honestly I didn't think that deeply about it. I think the best solution would be then to take people, who worked for Cerberus because they wanted to serve humanity, and integrate them somehow. I mean Miss Perfect Genes would pretty easily get the N7 designation if she wanted too that's for sure :D

lol, I was just reading the Mess Perfect 2 comic updates like 10 minutes ago :3

Preferences hmm... well I think my favorite race is the krogan, mostly because they are like a cross between dinosaur and turtles, which somehow is really cute...though I don't exactly know why. And they aren't as aggressive as some characters make them out to be, especially Wrex, who not only is friggin smart, but apart from proposing to eat people who give Shep trouble, he is never really aggressive either. Then again as Eve said, he is a mutant :) Favorite character would probably be Mordin, not only because he is interesting, but also because Shep is able to seriously argue with him about the genophage without Mordin going “I hate you, I won't talk to you anymore!” like it happens sometimes in other games, and I liked how he slowly revealed that his constant “best option” talk was more for convincing himself than anybody else. But I generally like most characters, found Kaidan a bit boring in ME1, but he is really nice to have in ME3, in ME2 the boring one was Jacob. Though my main problem with him was, that every time I tried to be nice to him, it sounded like my FemShep wanted to rape him right there in the armory, which was really weird :/ Oh, and my favorite -or rather only- LI is Liara. I personally like nerdy people (since I am one myself :P), but I also felt that my FemShep is sort of a tease, who would just love to make ME1 Liara blush again and again, and then LotSB proved that Liara can be really cool too, so she is a perfect match for a cool Shepard imho.

Favorite class has to be vanguard! God, I love the charge ability! Makes the game less about shooting from cover, and more dynamic, especially with the cooldown bonuses in ME3, you can charge so much that you just become a blue blur on the battlefield :D But the charge+nova combo is a bit too overpowerd in ME3. It is fun, but it kills everything too easily. Same for heavy melee.

Hmmm, best moments in the three games... Talking to Sovereign on Virmire. That paragon interrupt to hug Tali in ME2. Telling TIM to go f*ck himself at the end of ME2. Curing the genophage. Liara's “gift” (which I still think was pretty much Liara knocking herself up without Shep knowing). Oh yeah and that “This is for Thane you son-of-a-bitch!” moment :D

How about your favorites? :) And also a comic, in case you didn't saw it already ;)--SunyiNyufi 14:02, March 25, 2012 (UTC)

About the Liara thing: I know she can meld without getting pregnant and all, but I think if she is Shepard's LI (or rather ONLY if she is the LI), this would be something she would do, because she has nothing left to lose at that point. I mean it is possible that both her and Shep die, so it doesn't matter. If only Liara dies, it still doesn't matter that she tried to have a baby, or rather even better that Shep doesn't know and it won't add to the grief. If Shepard dies, then Liara will at least have their child. If they both survived, it will be ok to tell Shep about it later, since she/he already talked about little blue children. So I think it would be a win-win situation for Liara anyway.

“Had to be me. Someone might have gotten it wrong.” ;__;7

Quarians are certainly interesting, and I liked their nomadic way of living in ME1 & ME2, and the Pilgrimage was also a rather interesting custom. Too bad that in ME3 they become a bit retarded and more aggressive, especially in those geth video footage from the past. Actually I like the asari now better, that we learned about their secret, because it makes them a bit less innocent and peaceful in my eyes. I mean still they obviously are way more peaceful than any other race, but the fact that they went against Citadel regulations...or more than likely imposed that rule on the other races while not comforting to it themselves... well played :D About the gender thing: it's stupid to call them females, since that is a term used by non-mono-gender species. Asari are asari. They have tits and rigid hair tentacles. Who cares about female or not? :D

Liara definitely made the biggest personal journey besides Shepard in the whole game. And yeah, I agree that she became a bit more sad and pessimistic. Less analytic and more emotional. Also a bit more tired of everything by the time of ME3. That's something I felt with Shepard too, they are both just very very tired, and they need each other (and also Garrus at one point), to pick each other up when they are down, so they can keep on going. Like there is that one dialogue where Liara talks about how she is still young and could see the whole cycle to end and the galaxy reset, and Shep says she should give up yet, then she asks Shep how the commander can keep going forward, and if they are in a relationship Shep says: “Every time the world is about to end, I think how mad you'd be at if I didn't do anything about it. I couldn't do it without you.” Moments like these are why I love ShepxLiara so much :) Tali is good too though, if I would be willing to ever play male Shepard I would most likely choose Tali as LI. Though I have to admit I think the possible TalixGarrus pairing is really cute too :D

Now that's an interesting reason to play sniper! :) I actually like sniping too in a lot of games, like in Fallout New Vegas, I love to use my anti-materiel rife to kill enemies who haven't even seen me yet. One shot one kill is definitely a very good feel. Even in Skyrim and Dragon Age Origins I played archers, who can one-shot pretty much anybody, even dragons lol. Also in ME games there is always some combo in every class that is really overpowered. What actually makes playing vanguard really easy is the fact that you are immune while you charge, and after charge you have full shields. So unless you charged into a banshee, who instant-kills you, you will always have time for an escape-charge if the situation gets hot.

I'm actually sort of replaying the game right know, with Kaidan instead of Ashley, though I'm totally cheating: tweaked the galaxy map scanning mechanics, so that one scan is enough to discover all war assets in the system :)

PS.: I love reading walls of text, gives me a reason to delay doing the dishes :D--SunyiNyufi 17:18, March 25, 2012 (UTC)

Every ShepxLiara romance dialogue is pure gold really. Even on Mars Shep manages to flirt with Liara: L: Shepard, when you were on Earth, I meant to see you, but... S: I would have liked that, but under the circumstances... I think I can forgive you. *killersmile* I don't remember any special dialogue in that Liara's project scene, but it's cute anyway :)

On sharing secrets, well she only shares them with Shepard, whom she trust no matter what. Hah, this reminded me of a quote from the info drone somehow: “The doctor reffers to me as Glyph 95% of the time instead of 'info drone'”. That was funny :D

On the quarians: I absolutely agree. The change regarding them is really big. They already tried to shift the opinion in the favor of the geth, while you talk with Legion. I mean I understand that the geth acted in self-defense, and it's nice that they portray that, but the whole argument is one-side, since they don't really show why exactly the quarians acted like they did, why they declared marshal law and things like that. I mean in wars like this it is very rare that one side is completely innocent, usually both side are guilty to a certain degree. But really the current admirals were just complete idiots. I mean in ME2 my Shepard took back a ship for them, something they were not able to do on their own, I even asked them not to go to war, since we will need their fleet...and then in ME3 they go to war anyway. Biggest facepalm moment for me in the recent past.

“you say it like being innocent and peaceful is a bad thing:)” - It's not bad of course, just less interesting than having dark secrets :3

''“Well, at least they can share a romantic evening with a meal and beverages... You know, dextro-amino style.”'' - They can eat that turian chocolate Garrus got from Doc Mitchell :D

I loved the Phallanx in ME2! It was perfect for when an enemy was out of charge range, it was accurate, and you could kill anything with a couple of shots. Loved it. In ME3 I use Disciple (of course) and the Palladin pistol with scope. For some reason I don't like submachine guns in ME3, don't exactly know why though...they sort of feel different then in ME2. Lol, this “drones all over the place” reminds me of DAO. I played as a ranger, and turned Leliana also into a ranger, plus had a mod that added my mabari as a 5th party member. So my party during the siege of Denerim was: Alistair, Morrigan, Leliana + 1 bear, my dog, my character + 1 more bear. Nothing could defeat us! :D Had to change the bear to wolf inside the fort though, cos they always got stuck in the doors.

My Shepard would never trust the control ending... though to be honest, my Shep doesn't trust that stupid starchild either. I mean he is so full of crap really, and pretty much outright lies, since he says that destroy will kill you too, yet it's the only ending where you can have Shepard alive. And it is totally Shepard taking that breath, since the damn file name for that movie is End03_Shepard_Alive. So if it's not indoctrination then I just assume that the kid is lying, and pretend, this happens :D But to be honest, I highly doubt that they will “fix” the endings. I mean that most recent interview with Casey Hudson pretty much shows, that they still don't get what the problems with the endings are, or refuse to acknowledge it, which is worse. I bet they will use more space magic to explain things, and when the fans will be still mad, they will say “We did what you wanted, so leave us alone!”--SunyiNyufi 22:02, March 25, 2012 (UTC)

I agree with having “less interesting” characters like Bethany, because they really ad some stability to the cast. In that aspect I liked Jacob too, but he was a tiny bit too boring. I mean, if you want to ad a character who doesn't have personal problems that should be solved by the player, then at least have him/her tell us interesting stories or something. But I actually think that Bethany herself was a very interesting character, since as the (possibly) only mage child in the family, she felt responsible for her family having to hide and all. Too bad that my canon Hawke is a mage, so RIP little sister :( However I don't think that the same thing can apply to a whole race. I mean every race at some point in their history will have at least one leader that thinks like TIM, so government secrets are inevitable.

I used the Locust in ME2, and loved it, but...I dunno. It just somehow feels different... I really dunno why. Weapon weight isn't really an issue with the vanguard though, since one of your class specific skill upgrades is that you can carry more. With Disciple and Paladin I still have +200% recharge time :3 And for shooting far away targets Paladin with a scope is really good, it's kinda like the Phalanx was in ME2. Banshees... God were they scary when I first saw them :D Actually you can get up-close with them too, as long they don't use that blue aura thingy. I usually charge them, roll backwards, shoot them with shotgun, have Liara and Garrus take down the remaining barrier, charge again, use nova, roll back, charge again and so on :D

“Shepard can be alive after the "Destroy" option, but EDI is not present.” - Actually a lot of people said that EDI can be present after the Normandy crash even with Destroy, because the people who come out after Joker are your LI and your most used squad mate, and if you used EDI the most, than it's her. Nobody knows if it's a bug (like dead Tali showing up for romance scene) or intended.

“A question: is that picture... your work?” - Nah, found it on the net somewhere. I haven't gotten around yet to make a something about ME3, cos I'm too lazy to make room for the tablet on my desk :D

I saw one comment on BSN regarding that Omega-DLC possibility “Yes I would love to retake Omega with Aria, so that in the end she can starve and die on the station!” That's pretty much my opinion on it: any pre-ending DLC is pointless, if the ending stays the same. And I'm really anxious about what will happen with BW in April. That month will be about playing Witcher 2 Enchanced Edition anyway :)--SunyiNyufi 10:54, March 26, 2012 (UTC)

Yeah, Bethany was really nice in the DLCs, but then again, most characters are more interesting in DA2 DLCs than in the main game. This reminds me of something that happened to me: I recommended DAO to my best friend. She loved it, so of course she played DA2 too. Since I finished the game way before her, I tried to warn her that the end won't be very good. Then one night at 3 am I get a text message: “F*ck you Anders!” I laughed so hard :D

Hornet...is...the worst...SMG...EVER. Really. It's just plain bad. Banshees are nice enemies, cos except for Vasir, they are the only ones using charge, which is challenging and friggin creepy at the same time :D And yeah shooting them in that battle is really pointless, since you are just waiting for a sign to fire the missiles anyway. This reminds me of the brutes on Tuchanka, before you activate the hammers. I tried to kill them all, but they just kept coming...then realized, that I should have just ran past them.

I'm not sure about the flashbacks. For a lot of people it was Liara, even if you didn't use her, so it might be bug. Some flags are really messed up in ME3, for example if you don't have Ashley on the Normandy as squad mate, the engineers Gabby and Ken won't have any banter between them for some reason. Devs said it will be fixed in the patch, like the face import bug, but who knows when the patch comes out...

I never lack inspiration...only willpower and time :)

Well, I know that they will be adding new cinematics to the Witcher 2, will have a completely new epilogue, new quests, new locations and new characters. Also, it's really not “milking the franchise EA-style”, cos for PC users it will be available for free, like every other update. Really CD Projekt is one of the best studios right now, since they actually listen to the fans: no DRM, no lawyers going after pirates; people complained about not having a tutorial, so they added one etc. I really wish Bioware would do the same...not with the free stuff of course, EA would never let that happen, but they could at least listen and understand us *sigh*--SunyiNyufi 16:29, March 26, 2012 (UTC)

I don't think that Anders doing something was surprising, rather what he actually did...mostly cos I still find it stupid and counter-productive. And my friend's Hawke's LI was Anders, but she thought that killing civilians was something her Hawke wouldn't be able to forgive Anders, yet since she managed to get everyone in Hawke's family get killed, she sort of couldn't bring herself to kill Anders. She was really torn about the whole thing. My Hawke on the other hand by that time just wanted to get out of that damn city, so she took a last morale stand, supported the mages (but killed Anders), and then said “f*ck it”, and became a pirate with Isabela :D

Paladin does more damage than Carnifex though. I mean they are both good, but since I use my heavy pistol as a mini sniper rifle, Paladin is better. Besides I have so much credits in this game, that I dunno what to spend it on really. I mean, I could upgrade all the weapons, but why would I do that when I already know which ones I will be using anyway? Same with weapon mods. And armor sets are a waste of creds too, mix-and-match is way better, well at least for the vanguard.

“We Infiltrators get sneaky-sneaky, and just walk between them giggling:)” - And vanguards are too used to punching everything to death :D I wish Shepard would act like a vanguard in cut scenes too. She would never just stand there and try to shoot Kai Leng. She would charge him, and then re-organize his face with a heavy melee. Would be priceless!

The war asset triggering is really buggy. For example the salarian fleet never triggers for me, even though after we save the councilor they are supposed to give us their whole fleet, yet I only have Kirrahe and STG between my War Assets... Though actually now that I looked at coalesced.bin there is no salarian fleet string at all...or it's just really late and I can't find it hehe. Generally though the war asset system is really flawed, because it's impossible to reach even 4500 EMS without multiplayer (unless you edit coalesced.bin, which could result in you being banned from Origin for modifying a game file), even though BW promised that we wouldn't have to play multiplayer to get the endings. Then again, they also said it won't end like Lost and we will get closure.

Btw those conversations on the Citadel can be weird sometimes. Like when there is that refugee who ask for his family to be allowed to dock, but the clerk says they have no room. If you support the refugee, Citadel supplies go down, so I wanted to try supporting the clerk once, and Shep basically said that if their ship won't go away, they will just shoot it down... I never reloaded the game that fast before :D

Haven't read the Witcher novels, since only one or two were released here so far, but I sort of liked the games. Even TW1 with it's horrible character animation, even worse voice acting, and weird combat mechanics...the will to see Geralt bang as many women as possible, kept me going :D But in the end the story was pretty interesting and nice. Same for TW2 sort of, it started out a bit rough (cos there wasn't any actual tutorial), but I liked the characters, especially the chemistry between Geralt and Triss was really good in the second game imho :)

Never played a LotR game actually. Don't really know why...maybe I had enough Tolkien already, since I read almost every book he ever published. Though I thought of trying out the online game once when it became F2P, but I'm not really into MMOs. The only MMORPG I'm looking forward to trying is World of Darkness (if they ever finish it that is) :3--SunyiNyufi 21:12, March 26, 2012 (UTC)

Actually anything you have mentioned would have worked better than blowing up the Chantry. Especially since public opinion about mages is divided, and a lot of people do think that the mages deserve better, however you won't be able to get them side with you if you blow up their friggin temple, that is in the middle of the city! I mean really, at that point even the nobles in Kirkwall hated the templars and were willing to work against them. But noooo let's go all terrorist, cos that's more flashy! About the civilians, while there might not be many in the Chantry itself (because for some reason it's full of templars, even though it never was like that in-game), the whole building explodes, so anyone in the court and the nearby buildings is most likely dead or injured at least.

All those gifts are for Ashley, but you can only give her one. If you have Kaidan, the only gift you can buy is alcohol. Makes no sense, really.

Kai Leng's plot armor is one of the stupidest things in the game besides the ending. Also he is a crappy assassin in-game. He could have shot the councilor from where he was without jumping down, he only needed a silenced pistol. Or if he wanted to do it by had so badly, he should have jumped down behind the councilor. These are like Assassin 101 lessons. About his actual character I don't know much, because I only read that prequel book for ME. But in the game he probably represents Cerberus' incompetence the best. He's task is to kill the council, yet he fails utterly, cos he is stopped by a terminally ill drell. Which btw he is not willing to admit to TIM, and only says “things didn't go as planned”. And really, have we ever seen a Cerberus project go right? I mean, in ME1 Shepard wipes out some project; in ME2 while they succeed in reviving Shep and having her kill the Collectors, Shepards pretty much steals the Normandy and the whole crew from Cerberus; in ME3 Shepard beats them every time except for Thessia, which I refuse to count as an actual failure since it is forced on me a friggin cut scene. So yeah, Cerberus sucks. Kai Leng sucks too. And how eats cereals in a house they just bugged?! (That's the only thing I remember from the Deception book storyline I read somewhere.)

I'm not playing MP either, mostly because if I wanted to play alien killing with my friends I would be rather playing Alien Swarm. And I still think it's stupid to have MP included in the final game of a trilogy.

“It's hard to survive, while Reapers are on the loose:)” - And then in the end it doesn't matter anyway, because apparently Mass Effect's big artistic message is “Life sucks and then you die”. Thanks Bioware, I already knew that!

Well I didn't take the Geralt thing seriously at all in the game, so it didn't bother me. Then again, I didn't read the books, so had no real connection with the characters at the point. And going for the lulz helped me through the tediousness of the game. My Geralt ended up with Triss, and I'm pretty sure he actually fell for her. Though I have to say Triss in TW1 wasn't that good, but I really liked her in TW2. Especially loved that conversation at the end if you go and save Triss, some Nilfgard people try to talk sh*t about her to make Geralt insecure, Triss asks him about that and Geralt just says that only an idiot would believe his enemy :D

LotR RTS lol. Doesn't make much sense, even though I like RTS games. Especially the Warcraft series. Oh, and Settlers! Settlers 2 was the game that helped me learn English words when I was a kid. Thinking back, it is funny how I couldn't piece a sentence together yet knew the word headquarters already :)

“it would take asari lifespan for us to start playing” - The it's time to become a cyborg, because I really want to play that game. I loved Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines way too much, I want an other game like that! “The logic... Where is it?” - It's right there with the “Yo dawg I heard you don't wanna be killed by synthetics...” logic. Oh yeah, and they don't ban you just from MP, if the ban you, you can't play SP either, which means that you bought something for $60 that will just sit on your shelf forever. Gotta love EA.--SunyiNyufi 09:37, March 27, 2012 (UTC)

“Poor Anders took it a bit too serious. He just wanted to help XD” - And sadly this still makes more sense, then his actual reasons :D

I don't think Kaidan has that many headaches... At least he doesn't really complain about them, and on his Citadel “date” he says he likes drinking beer, so I guess alcohol is ok for him. He is really nice in ME3, since he doesn't want to bang my FemShep anymore. Though he got really really scary after Horizon...his voice got deeper, and he sort of talked about killing TIM in a really dark yet joyful manner like some serial killer O_O

The biggest problem with ME universe is that lore and gameplay are a bit too separate. And characters have plot armors, even though they don't deserve it. The worst about this Kai Leng thing is that it wouldn't be so hard to make him better...or rather suck less. As you said, and modded omni-blade and biotic charges would have been better for him. Especially the charges, cos they are instantaneous and silent, which is perfect for an assassin. Also they should have lost those eye-thingies he had, and rather added TIM-like eyes for him, which would show very well that he is indoctrinated. And his assassination attempt on the councilor could have been written better too. Like: he tries to shoot her with a silenced gun, but she has strong shields that block it, and when she notices it, she screams, Shepard & co realize what's going on, and from that the same things can happen as in the game. Or if they wanted him to use swords only no matter what, then he should have jumped down behind the councilor, slowly creeping up on her, then have her accidentally look back while Kai Leng readies his sword for a swing, the councilor would scream, duck and use cloak again, Shepard & co notices etc. It's really not that hard to come up with logical ways to display the scenes as they want, yet Bioware misses it so many times it boggles the mind really. And that's the biggest problem with Bioware games as of late IMHO, they're not build up logically which leads to way to many plot holes and space magic.

Actually instead of an MP you know what I would like to see? A Mass Effect MMO, but not like SWTOR, rather something like what they are trying to do with World of Darkness, where you could actually roleplay characters who are not necessarily soldiers out to save the world.

I know Geralt will be looking for Yennefer, and that he was/is his true love, one of the reasons why Triss was worried what will happen once he got his memories back. I will be interested to see how it will play out in TW3, cos I still think that Geralt loves Triss, maybe not as much as he loves Yennefer, but will still care for Triss, so who knows what will happen. Yennefer also has amnesia, so she might not even recognize Geralt at all. It's complicated :D

Never played table-top WoD, cos most of my RPG-friends like tolkienesque fantasy better, and we have a very popular table-top game here in Hungary called M.A.G.U.S., which is written by Hungarians, so it's pretty much the game everyone knows how to play :) Or we play free-style, without any rules really, just for the fun of it. Had some really wacky adventures like that, in of them a friend of mine played a dragon, who was made out of chocolate, something attacked us, my friend tried to breath fire on the enemy, but the storyteller said that since it was a choco-dragon, it's head melted as a result XD--SunyiNyufi 21:30, March 27, 2012 (UTC)

OMG, you need to watch this! XD--SunyiNyufi 22:19, March 27, 2012 (UTC)

Well, Kaidan doesn't really have time to become twisted, since he says that just before the Cerberus base mission, but still, I was pleasantly surprised by how nice and not-boring he is in ME3. That's why I'm currently replaying ME1, where I will save him at Virmire. If you can forget about ME3's endings (which is a hard thing to do, but still possible), playing ME1 again is a joy really. It's fun to see how Shepard just randomly assembles the team, and they don't yet know that their friendship will be larger than life. Though it's also a bit weird to see Garrus as a more insecure and naïve guy, who looks up to Shepard. Also, the Mako! God I missed the Mako soooo much! Cos even though the driving mechanics are the worst thing ever, driving it feels like doing space rodeo :D I also missed Adrenalin Burst ability, and the fact that there is no global cool down, and don't have to use thermal clips. However not having Inferno ammo kinda sucks... But still, it's really fun :3

“In Kirkwall you can use blood magic right in front of a templar and... nothing.” - Exactly what my problem was with DA2, though actually there is a mod, that gives the mages a button for melee attack, so I could actually roleplay that I only used Hawke's magic if it was outside or at night, or if I planned to kill everyone present there :D And yeah, I agree with you, it seems that Bioware really tries to go 'mainstream', which means that they makes thing more 'shiny' and appealing, but it will lack depth. Which I think, is a pretty stupid policy in the long run, because people who are actually invested in your games are more likely to buy other games from you in the future. Then again, EA really doesn't seem to be on the top of long term plans.

“The Reapers are coming, everyone […] has to contribute just to survive.” - Of course, I don't really have a problem with rping a soldier in ME, since it would make less sense if Shepard was just a scientist, and it is established from the moment you start ME1, that it will be a story about a soldier trying to save the world :) But as you said in a post-ME MMO people don't have to worry about saving the world that much anymore. And when I say post-ME MMO, I mean a universe where the mass relays exist. Honestly without those there is no sense in making another Mass Effect game, since you can't really explore space anymore. Unless the game starts so far in the future that the mass relays are rebuilt already, but if they do that then destroying them was pretty pointless. And yeah, I know my ideal MMO is pretty much impossible. That's why I like text-based online RPGs better. In those I am allowed to play an inexperienced, agoraphobic elf, who can't fight at all, since she is a musician, and while she can do some bard-magic stuff, at the first sign of violence she would start to scream and run away :D Ah, good times!

“Role-playing a soldier isn't just shooting stuff.” - Too bad Bioware sort of forgot about that in ME3. Really, why I love many aspects of that game, after playing a bit of ME1, this last game really doesn't seem like a role-playing game. The dialogues are so lacking in options, it boggles the mind really. I mean, I can understand that in ME3 the stakes are high, so you don't get a neutral “I should go.” option in situations, but the fact that you basically just choose in what kind of manner the dialogue should go instead of actually choosing what to say is just sad...really. I mean, on Earth, when Shepard gives her speech to the others, you can choose like twice on the dialogue wheel from two options. In ME1 after becoming a specter you choose at least three times, and you have at least four options. This is just sad...

“But I'm still not comfortable with Geralt supposedly loving one person, and sleeping with a dozen of others. I object to it morally:)” - Same here, I sort of stopped going after other women in TW1 once I gave Alvin to Triss, and never cheated on her in TW2 either...which might not be Geralt-like, but hey he can change too, right? :)

Nah, never tried GURPS, but it seems similar to MAGUS mechanics. Sadly nowadays we don't have much time for table-top RPG, unless it's summer, cos then me and my friends always go away camping or something for at least 3-4 days :) All we do now is play Munchkin most of the time.

Awww, thanks! :) *is eating a birthday cake while writing this*--SunyiNyufi 07:28, March 29, 2012 (UTC)

Well on Mars even Kaidan asks if you still have Cerberus ties, but the talk with him upon seeing that almost-husk Cerberus soldier is different a bit: he still says things like “that could be you for all I know”, but if you choose the paragon option, Shep says something like “well I would say we just need to give this some time, but I doubt you will change, you were always stubborn hahaha”, and Kaidan goes “look who's talking!” and they both laugh, while even the paragon option is friggin depressing with Ashley. Also when you visit Kaidan once he wakes up in the hospital, he totally says “I was right about Cerberus, but I was wrong about you Shepard, I'm sorry.” and after that the Cerberus subject is pretty much dropped. Well not entirely, but Kaidan never really accuses Shepard again, and even during the coup he says that he is confused, and Shep has to admit that drawing a gun on a councilor doesn't seem right. I always bring Garrus with me for Rannoch... then again, my choice of team is always Liara-Garrus...

Yeah, without mass relays the ME universe sucks, and setting a new game in a too distant future sucks too. On the other hand while a new ME game set in the First Contact War or sometime in the past would be interesting, that wouldn't exactly be an ME game, cos it can't even have the pretense that your choices matter... As you said, we will wait and see.

I was part of a really big Hungarian online text-RPG community, had to leave when the admins went full retard, and started to restrict the number of clans and groups in the game, for which they tried to make up with a brand new world description and new cities...too bad that the guy who wrote the world description had no idea about the actual game. And was also friggin stupid. He built a really big dwarf town around a mine filled with dangerous gasses, where is the logic in that?!

I don't mind voiced protagonists, especially in Bioware games, since while I dislike their male hero voices, they are always spot on for females for me. And I'm in love with Jennifer Hale's voice. Or with Ali Hillis' voice...or Claudia Black's... or Alix Wilton Regan's voice (my God, Traynor had the sexiest accent in the whole game!)... yeah, I'm really into voice actors. But yeah ME3's dialogue system isn't as bad as Skyrim's or KoA's (← worst dialogue system ever), but I still think that they should have left us pick our choices more often, since even Paragon Shepard get angry from time to time. And they should really work on what that dialogue circle actually says. There are still times when I have no idea how Shepard will react, cos that one word synopsis isn't accurate. They should do it like in Deus Ex Human Revolution, use a one word description, but when I leave the cursor there it would show at least a short sentence Shepard will actually say. Or at least don't autosave after conversations.

Munchkin FTW! :)--SunyiNyufi 14:13, March 29, 2012 (UTC)

Liara/Tali is also a good team, I just like Garrus a bit more than Tali. The sit-back-and-watch mission for me in ME2 is always Legion's loyalty mission, cos I take Tali with me, and they both hack the geth and release drones, so even as a vanguard I don't really need to charge at the enemy :D

Yeah...First Contact War was a bad example. Hmm...what about Skyllian Blitz? Everybody likes to shoot batarians. And if you had a War Hero Shepard, you could import his/her face into the game and play as him/her. Otherwise you play as somebody else. But then again, if they did this, they would need to do the other service histories too...

Dwarf Fortress is an exception not the rule :P

Oh yeah, I know all their names, I just thought I shouldn't list the whole Mass Effect cast, cos that would make this wall of a text even longer :D I really liked Traynor's character, he is a sort of nerdy science girl with a great sense of humor and a sexy British accent, and she could have been a potential LI for my FemShep, if there was no Liara (though honestly I can't really imagine ME without Liara anymore). And Traynor gave me a really great role-playing opprotunity: you know when she comes up to Shep's cabin, and she goes on about the shower and then chess...well since I haven't locked onto Liara at the time (which in itself is stupid though), my FemShep offered her to take a shower, which Traynor no doubt thought was flirting, while my FemShep thought that it's just a reward for her excellent work. So Traynor showers, and leaves the door open, talks about hot date and stuff, and waits for Shepard to jump in; meanwhile Shepard tries to guess who Traynor's date is, and tells her to keep her posted about it :D My FemShep is totally oblivious to subtle flirting, especially is she herself isn't interested. Sort of the same happened with Thane in ME2, when he said in his very sexy voice “I never talked to anyone besides my family...your my only friend, Shepard”... “Well then it's time for you to get out of this room an make friends!”... “I shall...consider it.” I had to laugh every time when I get to this part :D Seems like in ME universe everyone wants Shepard! :D

But back to Traynor, yeah I found her a more interesting character than Cortez or Vega. Though the guys were good too, I especially liked how they would playfully tease each other, but Cortez was a bit too emo, and Vega was a bit too bland. Also when he tells Shepard about that mission, that went wrong, he says that there was a Cerberus agent working FOR the Collectors...doesn't really make sense...

I think DE:HR's system would work even with a circle. I mean it's not like they would need to put full sentences there, so there most certainly would be place for it no matter what platform you are playing on. And since you would need to have the “cursor” on the option for the half-sentence to appear, people who would like to go with the stream-lined conversation, could still do that, since they would need to just no wait and click it.

You know, re-playing ME1 made me also aware of the fact that while the combat isn't that good and the game is glitchy as hell, it is still a better PC port than ME2 or ME3. Which is really sad.

PS: Dat feel when you play the rogue VI assignment on Luna, and now you know it's EDI! :3--SunyiNyufi 10:16, March 30, 2012 (UTC)

I don't think having Shepard as an NPC during the Skyllian Blitz would be good, because all 3 games make it very clear that it was Shepard alone who was able to keep Elysium from getting overrun, so if he/she was an NPC that would mean, you don't get to play the hero, which is not advisable in video games since that's like looking at things from the side lines. It would feel like DA2's ending, where you are thrown into a conflict, can't really choose anything, and everything goes sh*t anyway. I was listening to an Escapist podcast yesterday, in which they mentioned some sort of good ideas about future ME games set in the past, like you could play a Justicar who tries to keep peace in asari space, or a C-Sec agent investigating some murder cases on the Citadel etc. While these obviously wouldn't be as big and important as the ME trilogy, they could be still interesting.

Well Samara doesn't sort of want Shepard if you make the move, though I would really never do that, because in this I can really feel the age difference. Cos you know while Liara is technically older than Shepard too, she really acts more like a young adult in her early 20s, and Shepard is 29 at the beginning of ME, so it's sort of ok. Samara on the other hand feels old. Kasumi lusting after Jacob was a nice touch, and I was kinda sad that they didn't get together. And I feel sorry for everyone romancing Jacob. I mean, in ME3 if you romanced him, he is just terrible. Of course it's a bit realistic, cos as he says “was I supposed to wait forever?”, but damn you Jacob, it's only been 6 month! And you already got your gf pregnant, which means that you didn't even wait 6 month! But naming the kid 'Shepard' is funny :D

“So, does your Shepard rewards her subordinates with some food and water, when they do an excellent (good doesn't count) work?” - C'mon, you know that's not what I meant :P Especially cos it's not like Traynor doesn't shower otherwise, she just get's the opportunity to have a nice, long, hot shower in a “big” bathroom, as a reward for giving Shepard 2 missions. I mean, I rather give her that than buy her a new toothbrush... it's not worth 6000 credits.

"Ok Garrus, you torn an Atlas mech apart with your bare hands, you may have a meal now, but only a small one" XD – Could totally see that happening between Shepard and Garrus as a joke XD

In Vega's defense, we have no idea what actually happened, so he might as well just be stupid, and not understanding anything. We will find out what happened in ME: Paragon Lost anime...if I will ever watch it that is. Oh God, Allers... I sometimes totally forget she is on my ship at all. I mean, she is kinda useful due to the interviews you gave her, but her in-game model and her voice are sooooo bad. I mean, one would think that since Chobot works in the media, she can read breaking news with enthusiasm, but no, she is more monotone than Meer. And she is a very good example how Bioware is not that good at making humans based on real people (except of default ManShep). She really is just friggin ugly. Worse than Miranda, who actually got prettier in ME3. It's funny though that Liara and Samara are based on RL people too and they look really good. But back to Allers, I think she was a waste of resources, and yeah Emily Wong would have been a much better choice, and also simpler to do (since she already had a model and all that), so they could have spent more money and time on things like say... not making Tali a badly photoshopped stock photo.

Other characters I liked: Kal'Reegar was really cool (and then they killed him in a damn email); Kirrahe is funny and “Hold the line!” is one of the best quotes ever :D Also loved Bailey, mostly for his voice, same with Wrex. Seriously listening to Wrex is like massaging my ears! Doctor Chakwas is also really cool, and one of the few characters who sticks with you no matter what... Which reminds me RIP navigator Pressly ;__;7 And there are really a dozen more characters who are really good, actually there are only a very few I really don't like: the council especially that friggin turian councilor (that's why I always let them die), Balak, that stupid VI on Noveria (USER ALERT! USER ALERT!), and there is this one turian NPC on the Presidium who bumps into you every friggin time if you go to the financial district with rapid transit. Every. Time. I wish I could just shoot him.

“As far as I know about ME1 development, primarily it was developed for PC.” - But wasn't it released for Xbox like half a year before the PC version? I'm not really sure, and it's certainly too early for me to actually look it up. But yeah ME2-3 aren't that bad PC ports, but I really missed being able to press J and go right to my journal. Not that I would want to go to my journal in ME3, since it's crap.

"If only you knew, what will happen in a couple of years, you wouldn't be sending those drone swarms and erecting those annoying barriers":) - Haha, or: “How about you don't try to kill us with poisonous gas, and I will let you shag my pilot 3 years from now on?” :D

And of course once again I forget to sign my message...not that it matters much at this point but still :D--SunyiNyufi 07:06, March 31, 2012 (UTC)

I never really meant that Shep did the Blitz alone, but I think it was Shepard who rallied and lead the militia and then held off the ground forces with a turret (I don't really know if I remember this correctly), long enough for the navy to arrive. But yeah my Shepard also has a “I'm just a soldier” attitude. And if you think about it while Shep is certainly a capable person, she is extremely lucky in all games, and in ME3 things can only go as smooth as they do because Shepard already knows many important people. Luck and connections.

You know what always bugged me about that Tela Vasir conversation was (besides the fact that I usually kill her by pushing her off the map yet she is always there) that Shepard can't say “I'm just fucking using Cerberus, but I plan to betray them and steal their ship and crew as soon as I can!”, because honestly, my Shepard pretty much planned it from the start. I mean it is pretty obvious that most of the non-squad crew are decent people (also mostly former Alliance) who signed on for saving other and working with Shepard. The only two people who were actually Cerberus were Miranda and Jacob... and well also EDI, so make that three. Jacob pretty much told Shepard that he doesn't care about Cerberus, just wants to do good, Miranda is in your debt after her loyalty mission, the only liability was EDI, who if really necessary could have been shut down I guess. So yeah, my Shep totally played Cerberus :D

“there are a lot of kids in the Galaxy named after Shepard.” - I think it was in one of the Escapist's podcast too that they talked about calling Shep “THE Shepard” in the grandpa cut scene, and one girl mentioned: Well yeah, since Shepard means hero in krogan know and they have lot of children, the galaxy is probably full of Shepards, so you have to be specific that you talk about THE Shepard, not the guy next door. :D

“Now, if Shepard had a hot tub in his/her quarters... Wait, Normandy is not an asari ship.” - hahahaha XD TBH it took me like 2 play-throughs to notice the bathroom in ME2 at all. Same with your “room” in ME1, never really went there, except for the obvious pre-suicide-mission sex scene :D

“Paragon Lost (Renegade Won?)” - lol :D I think it's made by different people. At least I'm certain that it will be a traditional anime and not a CGI one. I want to watch Dawn of the Seeker in Japanese first, because Cassandra shouting ONORE BULODO MAGEY is just way too funny!

My problem with the Tali image is (besides the fact that I could make a better photoshopped one in like 20 minutes or so), that it's sad that Bioware didn't make an original design. I never romanced Tali, but I still think she deserved better. Also she has a lot of hair... I wonder how she can keep it clean under the helmet... do they have a built in hair washer or what? Cos if they do, I totally want a suit like that :D

I don't really let the council die, because I hate them (though I do), but because at that moment in ME1 my Shepard has no idea if even the fleet will be enough to defeat Sovereign, so she decided that the fleet should focus on Sovereign, but I chose the middle dialogue option not the totally renegade one. And I think making some clearly renegade choices makes a usually paragon Shepard more interesting, and shows that not everything Shep does turns out good. In ME2 I killed the heretics too. Btw, all that stuff you said happens pretty much the same way even if you let the council die. Only exception might be that the salarian councilor thanks you for allowing her to get that position. And probably the conversation after Mars is a bit different, but it can't really be that much different, since you still have to get the primarch and cure the genophage and go to Thessia.

“gave him/her all the power and resources (I like the stuff from Spectre Requisitions in ME 1 and 3) and all that.” - To quote Mordin: Council Spectres based on salarian STG. Better funded of course. Didn't have to buy our own gun heh. :P “But he's just too shy to ask for an autogpaph. He admires you silently:)” - He should admire me from afar, or he will get a gun shoved in his face like Conrad!

The Joker-EDI romance... was so weird for me at first. I mean, I supported them of course, because that's what my Shepard would do. But I really did feel uncomfortable when EDI started to ask about how she could force Joker into a relationship. I'm pretty much over it now, and taken a “hey love is love no matter what”, but first it was like yikes. Shepard-Joker would also feel yikes to me, cos I really just don't see them like that. Then again I never really saw any real attraction between my FemShep and Garrus either, while everybody else says “best romance ever!”

Females are handled so badly in this game. I mean sure we get to “see” krogan and salarian females, but for God's sake they are the friggin same body models in different cloth! Actually in retrospect the council's chambers in ME1 could be full of salarian females, cos they are wearing the same type of cloth that dalatrass does, and most of them don't speak. Turian females can't be shown, because Bioware still couldn't decide which is canon: that they have fringes (like Garrus says in ME2 if you romance him), or they don't (as shown in the Evolution comics). Bioware is not into continuity.--SunyiNyufi 16:20, March 31, 2012 (UTC)

Sure Shepard is charismatic, like every other Bioware PC really. But luck is still a big factor. And talking people into doing something they might not have wanted to do is not that hard. Then again, I'm a wisard with words :D

Well yeah, Sepctres do have blood on their hands, that is obvious. However I disagree with Vasir on the scale: bombing a whole building killing countless civilians, just so she could take out one person as a favor for an information broker is way over the top. Sure, Shepard isn't clean either and hand the make tough calls before (else she wouldn't be an N7), but my Shepard still actively tries to minimize the bloodshed as best as she can.

I disagree with Cerberus using Shepard, because my Shepard when she has the chance she does sabotage Cerberus all she can. She shuts down project Overlord, uploads encrypted Cerberus data to the Alliance, blows the Collector base up. The only Reaper tech you actually recover is the IFF, which only lets ships go through the relay... which btw really bothers me, didn't EDI say that she could integrate the IFF because she was made using reaper code? So then does Cerberus have lots of ships with reaper code, because they clearly took things from the destroyed base... damn plot holes. Also for Cerberus actually being to get pieces of the base, I blame the Alliance (well I actually blame Mac Walters), because they lock Shepard up, and most likely don't do shit about... well anything really in those 6 month. They could have gone after Cerberus, or confirm the Collector base's location (since they were investigating it according to James), and secure it. But noooo. Let's not do anything, and then when the reapers attack just ask Shepard without telling her what is going on of course, and expect an actual plan from her even though 2 minutes ago she was just in her room reading the book version of Veania... I hated the start of ME3.

I didn't mean, it meant hero, but Wrex says it will, once you cure the genophage :)

“but in ME3 one of the bathrooms is inaccessible by the opposite gender” - Obviously because Javik doesn't get the separate bathroom thing. We don't want him to walk in on our primitive women when they are taking a shower :P

About the council... I dunno. I always felt that in that situation politicians aren't really that important, and possible galactic extinction is. Then again, my Shepard would willingly defy orders when they told her to protect some councilor in exchange of hundreds of civilian lives. Differences in character. This human-only council... I heard about it, but it never came up in my game, since my Shepard was mostly Paragon, so they say that it will be a “human-led” council, which I guessed would mean that humans get a spot on the council, and get more say in things, since they pretty much say that the other races are scared and begging us (especially Shepard) to lead. Turned out in ME2 that I was sort of right, except that only after 2 years humans don't have any real influence in the council anymore, so I felt that it really didn't make much of a difference whether they live or die. Sure aliens are a bit more racists on the Citadel, but tbh that makes Citadel visits in ME2 more interesting. Also I always figured that no one would actually be openly upset about the humans for not saving the Council, since in the end they did save the galaxy, and at that time had the largest fleet, and continue to have a much larger fleet in ME3 too actually (your Alliance war assets outweigh the turian ones by far). But I really think that this is a situation where really isn't a right or wrong choice and it all depends on how you interpret the situation and your own Shepard character. In that aspect it's kind of like the decision whether to save Amaranthine or Vigil's Keep at the end of Dragon Age Awakening. Both choices make a certain sense there too.

In ME2 EDI says that their relationship with Joker is platonic. I was totally fine with platonic. I was not fine with EDI being very clear about wanting to bang Joker. But as I said, I got over it. What still bugs me is that EDI pretty much walks around the ship naked. I mean, I know it's not really naked, but it still feels like naked to me, so I always make her put on some alternative outfit if I take her on a mission.

“Aren't salarian females stated to be permanently residing on their planets?” - If you let the council die, the new salarian councilor is female. So you can never know... maybe they are female...maybe they are not... there is only one thing that we know...that they used to eat flies :D--SunyiNyufi 20:05, March 31, 2012 (UTC)

I never expected TIM place all his bets on Shepard, so yeah the “I don't need you” talk is understandable...it's still sad to think that if the Alliance was not full of idiots, then Shepard just would have gone back to them without working for Cerberus, and everything would have gone better. Also I still feel deep down that Cerberus is just a bunch of incompetent people who get lucky sometimes and have a lot of money to buy fancy toys. Even ME3 couldn't change my mindset about this. Oh and I think I read somewhere that TIM's station is moved every time an outside agent leaves, so Miranda can't really know the location (even though it is clearly next to that super nove thingy that was present throughout ME2, and which turned blue in my ending, yet in ME3 it's blue-red once again).

“with this logic, Liara shouldn't understand the separate bathroom thing either.” - And you don't know how many times people talked about this in 4chan ME threads. Really it comes up quite often. Also big revelation: Normandy SR1 doesn't have any accesible bathrooms gasp :D

My logic “against” the council that what if we “waste” several ships saving them, and we only needed a couple of more ships to kill Sovereign...actually I'm pretty sure Garrus says that exactly at the end. Then Liara goes “a sacrifice for the greater good, I hope it's worth it”, so none of my squad mates was really against letting them die, and those squad mates were a turian and an asari (which I still find extremely funny). So yeah, since in that situation my Shepard isn't sure about how many ships they would need, so she decides to focus on Sovereign. Not because she wants humans to lead or anything, but because she thinks that's acceptable (and also because I think it makes the game more interesting). For the councilor post she promotes Anderson, because she would never ever trust Udina with that post. Thank you Mac Walters for my choices not mattering once again!

Hmmm... I think I will check the war assets point to see, which one of situation gives more, but only after sleeping a bit. It's almost 1:30 am here, so making sense of the coalesced.bin would be kind of hard right now :D

Loved that conversation between Liara and Garrus! He is such a badass! :D I think my favorite kill in all of the games was when a krogan was charging at me, Mordin already took down his armor, so I also charged, he flew backwards, landed on some crate, bounced off to the side from that then over the guard rails and fell down into the deep. I swear I heard a “boink” sound in my head while watching that, and had to giggle.

“I cannot unread this... Now i can't think any other way :D” - You're welcome :D That broodmother thing is stupid. What comes next? Deleting pictures of dwarves cos it's offensive to short people?

PS: I found this on the internet today. I would give Bioware all my money, and would even forgive the endings, if I could do it!--SunyiNyufi 23:40, March 31, 2012 (UTC)

I completely agree with your rant about Cerberus. Stupidest villains in the series really, and they are not even that challenging... well except for the turrets that I sometimes fail to notice and the suddenly I'm down to half health already.

“About Liara and the bathrooms... I was mostly kidding.” - Everything on the internet is serious business... :D But yeah of course she would know. You should read some other 4chan theories about the asari. There is this one guy, who always posts about how asaris have hidden penis like genitals... But besides things like this, Mass Effect threads there can actually be pretty interesting. It also works as a support group to help others get over the endings, and I'm not kidding with that. If you post in a thread that the endings left you depressed and you don't have the will to play video games anymore, at least a dozen people will reply with “I know how you feel” “We are with you bro!” etc. And they regularly have actual argument about the setting and the endings...like whether or not you can reach other start systems using on FTL drives.

''“Maybe it's the explanation why Shepard has such strong will? XD”'' - hahahaha XD

I don't really have that much of a problem with Udina suddenly being councilor. My problem is that unless you read the books, it's not explained why, and you don't even have the option to ask why. I mean, sure there is like one sentence about Anderson going back to the Alliance in the Codex, but that's really not enough. One other thing that bugs me is also that in the beginning of ME3 Shepard already knows James, while the player won't unless they read that one shot comic about James. But then again, that one shot doesn't explain shit either. Frankly I think that in a franchise like ME they shouldn't do books that are set after or during the games. They should be like the first book or the Evolution comics, prequels. Except they shouldn't suck like the Evolution comics :D

Manguard is the best, have you seen “Vanguard: A gentlman's guide” chart? Easiest and most fun strategy for ME2 imho. But really, being a Manguard is not just about what biotic powers you use during the fight, it's about your Shepard willing to do extreme (and silly) things :D

Finished my ME1 replay btw. It was glorious. Why does Shepard look so good in the Onyx armor? Being able to drive a Mako again, was so fun! The only thing I missed was the charge ability. But I guess I'm okay without it as long I get an actual boss fight. Also DAT music! Have to listen to ME1 OST again!--SunyiNyufi 16:16, April 1, 2012 (UTC)

“I don't need support, I need normal endings.” - Well for now you will only have the “support group” as an option, because honestly, if BW had planned an ending DLC they already would have told us, and if they are making an ending DLC right now, that will still take several month. Btw I still hold on to the fact that 4chan really isn't as bad as people say... well /b/ is, but there are special retards in every community. It's just my personal opinion :)

''“we read the books, done our homework, and know the universe better, then some of the writers. And as for newbies, they don't really need to explain this stuff either, because newbies do not care.”'' - You know that's probably the most sad thing about the whole stuff. This “ME3 is the best place to start the series” shit. It doesn't make any sense! I mean, sure there are people out there who start with ME3 (though I would say they are the kind of idiots who think the Fallout series started with Fallout 3), but wouldn't it be in the best interest of EA and Bioware to make a compelling enough story, so that those people will buy the other two games too? Shouldn't they goal be to make the newcomers interested in the whole series, so they can roll out all kinds of different editions with all 3 games included in them? It just...doesn't make any sense... not even as a business decision... Also James' character doesn't get explained like at all in the one-shot. All we get from that is, that he is pro-Shepard, and can kick batarian ass... then again James doesn't have much real character beyond that...

“And it's good to be a ME geek :)” - Yes it is, but once again, trying to create a story that realize on another story that has many variations, is asking for trouble. It could be handled right of course, like that comic where Liara recovers Shepard's body, because that was very limited, focused on the story, and clearly avoided anything that had to with choices. The books and other comics don't do that, which is sad. Though I have to admit my utter disgust for video game related books right now comes from the fact that Kotor2's Exile was killed like a bitch in one of SWOTR novels, and it still hurts a bit. I really loved that character. Loved her way more than Revan, even though the ending to that game was crap too.

“It's like a Cerberus barbecue!” - hahahaha :D Singularity is great really. Especially in ME1, since if you have it on max then basically the whole room gets swallowed up by the blue storm of death. My favorite thing in ME3 (well besides charge+nova) is to have Liara use warp on someone, then I charge the enemy, and BOOM! Biotic explosions ftw :D

Yeah, will start an ME2 play-through soon, but right now I'm kinda busy watching Battlestar Galactica. Never watched the show before, don't know why... Well it probably aired here in a bad time slot back in the day, and I was probably too busy with school stuff... Anyway, had I watched the show, I most likely would have found the Joker-EDI relationship less surprising in ME3 XD So yeah, ME2 comes after that...and after updating my blog post...and doing some gardening... God, I have so many things to do tomorrow!

I like the music in all three games really, but I think the ME1 music had the best futuristic feel to it. The other two, while great, are more like music for epic heroic tales. Also nothing can beat Spectre Induction or Vigil's theme. Man when I hearing Vigil's theme always makes me think of how great ME1 was, how epic it felt beating it for the first time. How shocking some moments were... or how the 'explicit' sex scene everyone complained about was actually artistic and tasteful and only showed some sideboobs :D--SunyiNyufi 17:00, April 2, 2012 (UTC)

I read that Muzyka stuff, and “clarifying” and “closure” doesn't mean new ending for me. I think it really just means, that they will add more cut scenes, where characters talk, and you still don't have anything to choose as Shepard, and they maybe add a text-roll epilogue. Completely new ending is unlikely, because of the “artistic integrity” bullshit you mentioned. Which really many people use as defense for Bioware, comparing ME to a Mona Lisa, and saying “you wouldn't ask Leonardo to change her smile just cos you don't like it”, but if I had to look at the Mona Lisa for over 100 hours, and loved it, only to suddenly realize that her mouth is painted on with poop, I certainly would complain. Artistic integrity is no excuse for making an illogical ending, and that's something BW should learn. Too bad that they are smug idiots.

“I'd call it a blatant lie, but nowadays it's called "advertisement".” - What I don't understand, why put it in your advertisement if it's very obviously a lie and is so extremely stupid? They could have done fine without it, they should have just constantly used the phrase “re-take Earth” and “war”, and ME3 still would have gone gold before release.

''“Now, video games are different. They are more virulent and mutable.”'' - Yeah, I agree with that. I still think that if they made a really epic story, most people would still play through the first game even if it's slower and the combat is worse. Then again, for me the combat in ME1 was great really. No cover hugging, just running and gunning and using biotics. Especially towards the end, because I had the Master Barrier ability already, so nothing could kill me at all... well except for the biotic enemies at one compound who kept throwing singularity at me, so I didn't even had the chance to fire my gun lol.

“So what's to explain?” - You know, after thinking about it, James isn't really my problem. What I actually wanted to see and have it explained was how Shepard gets arrested. I mean I know that they do it because of Arrival, but still. Was Shepard able to dismiss her crew before it happened? Or were others also taken in custody like Gabby and Ken, or just only former Alliance soldiers? What about the team, when did they leave the Normandy? I mean Miranda and Jacob would have gone to prison too, but somehow they managed to run away. Seriously, after the start of ME1 there should not be any parts of the story where we don't know what Shepard is doing. I mean look at the ME2 prologue, sure we don't see what's actually happened in the last month, but we know Shepard is hunting geth. Then Shep dies, and time passes. It could have been done similarly with ME3: have cut scene where Shepard talks with Joker and says “ok, everyone who wanted to go, is gone, you can tell Admiral Hackett that we surrender” and then Anderson comes aboard and takes Shepard into custody. Shepard gets locked up, time passes. It's really not that hard to do. The only thing “against” this is, that if you play in action mode, it could be seen as a too long cut scene, but since you only have to watch it once, I still don't think that would be a problem.

“But still, don't you think, that ME-verse would be lesser, without "Redemption" or "Retribution", which follow the game's timeline?” - As I said before, Redemption is a good example how you can handle things like that. The plot is very focused, it avoid every possible changes to the galaxy Shepard could have made. About Retribution...I did not read it. However my general problem with it is that it's another chapter in the Adventures of Kahlee Sander & David Anderson. Seriously it just would have been better if it's not Anderson. I mean I understand why it's him, but it still negates a seemingly important choice Shepard has to make.

“which philosophy is closer to perfection: Infiltrator's victory with a single shot, or Adept's victory without firing a shot?” - That's a really good question. I many games I like to one-shot people, because it's really cool, and makes you feel badass and all that... but then there are games where playing without shooting anyone is more interesting and challenging. Like sneaking around and using silent take down on people in Deus Ex: HR or Alpha Protocol. Now Alpha Protocol despite all its flows was a game where choices and consequneces were done perfectly.

“ME drawn quite a lot of inspiration from it, I'm sure you'll recognise familiar concepts:)” - Well yeah...only watched the first season so far, but the similarities are very obvious. Though after watching it, I wish Shepard had to make more serious choices in ME3. Like what I read somewhere before release, but never happens in game: the Normandy finds a really small colony world which is occupied by reapers, who have already turned most of the colonists into husks, and Shepard has to decide to either try to save the remaining few colonists, or nuke the colony from orbit, killing the survivors and all the husks too in the process. That would have been a choice I would have liked to make in ME3.

“BTW, do you punch her?:)” - No, never. My Shepard would never do that, because it's way better to just walk away. Shep doesn't really care about the press, but she wouldn't actively try to make herself look bad. But I really liked that reporter lady in ME3, cos if you don't do the renegade interrupt, she basically breaks down, and you can see that this time it's really not about the story, she is just shocked, angry and desperate at the same time.--SunyiNyufi 08:51, April 3, 2012 (UTC)