More ME3 thoughts: ~26h in
1. Being FemShep was fun in convo with Wrex and the lady krogan.
2. While playing with my FemShep I realized that one of the first things Mordin says is also one of the last things Mordin says... "Someone else might have gotten it wrong."
3. Prediction: Kai Leng is basically evil Shepard. N7 and very dangerous. Will probably almost kill Shepard in a cut scene.
4. Thoughts about the Citadel attack-- I don't like what they did with Udina. I enjoyed how Shepard and Udina totally hated each other but ended up being allies at the beginning of this game. I don't like him suddenly turning out to be a bad guy after all. I never thought he was evil... just a politician. I hope we find out something later that explains what happened, because it really seemed contrary to his character to be working with Cerberus.
5. After watching my husband play through the end of act 1 (Cerberus attack on the Citadel), I legitimately do not want to bring Kaidan on the Normandy. I'm wondering if there will be negative repercussions if I don't bring him along. Game-wise these things won't matter, but story wise I would never bring him along. He outranks Shepard which makes me nervous to have him on the ship, and I don't know how Shepard is supposed to trust him to have her back when he obviously doesn't trust her.
6. I liked that when I brought Liara and Garrus with me on the mission to get the lady krogan both of them got to talk to Wrex and it didn't just choose one or the other. It's fun to get the old gang back together.
7. Prediction: Calling it now--Zaeed is going to go down with Jessie.
8. Going to an Ardat-Yakshi monastery! Totes going to see Samara or her other daughters here.
9. w00t Samara is here at the monastery! As expected. I'm interested in meeting the daughters. I wonder if they look exactly like her the way Morinth does?
10. How many depressing last love messages will Shepard have to deliver? Gotta give the developers props though. It's effective.
11. OMG Asari husks are fucking terrifying! In a good way, lol. I love seeing all these husks of different species!
12. Oh hell no, Samara. The code is fucking insane. I hate that Justicar code. Samara, you are one crazy bitch.
13. At work, but my husband just texted me that Jacob's got himself a girlfriend. Interesting!
14. EDI asked about the meaning of life. EDI cracks me up!
15. "Where are we going?" "Somewhere we're not supposed to." Always fun. ILU GARRUS
16. Shepard and Garrus are bro-ing out. It's cute. Can't wait to do this with my FemShep!
17. Another joke about Shepard's lack of dancing ability! Whatever, I love the Shepard Shuffle. It's a classic.
18. Oh lawd, EDI is swearing now? She is too funny.
19. Apparently Miri is lonely and just wants to chat since apparently she doesn't want any help. I want to ask her where the Illusive Man is located. She's been there, I think.
20. LOL Jacob is having an oops baby in the middle of the reaper invasion. Try not to die!
21. Prediction: Shepard and Miri will cross paths on some Cerberus-related mission, probably the big one at the end of the whole Cerberus subplot.
22. Aww... Shepard and Liara's BFF scene is so cute. These little scenes are really sweet. It makes the game feel like it has so much more depth.
23. Actually, these scenes are making me worry a little bit that all your friends are going to die.
24. Did Vega and Garrus just have a badass battle? Garrus wins hands down, James. Archangel, bitches.
25. LOL Garrus called him Jimmy! "Sounds like a pole dancer on Omega."
26. TALI!!!!! She's an admiral now!!! Love scene now?
27. She wants to "talk" in private! Also, loved this: "For the record? Still totally worth it!"
28. YAY Tali in the cabin. But she's all sad... :(
29. Tali and Shepard just did the horizontal tango. Damn it, in my FemShep game I've had Garrus since the beginning and I haven't been able to screw him yet! No fair!
30. Oh my god. Greatest thing ever! Shepard and Tali flirting VERY obviously in front of EDI and EDI just calls them out on it and tells them she knows they had sex. So many lulz!
31. Han'Gerrel is played by Loghain, I should have expected betrayal, lol.
32. Everything is backwards. My friends are now my enemies and my enemies are now my friends. Not everywhere of course, but these things keep happening and it's screwing with my head!
33. We still have the problem of the fish-shaped assault rifle being in Shepard's hands in every cut scene.
34. WTF this digital server thing is freaky as fuck. Do not like the pod thing! And the inside of the world is so weird!
35. "Why the gun?" "We wish to provide familiar equipment." "Thanks... I think." lol. Shepard doesn't know whether to be slightly offended or not.
36. Watching the quarian/geth scenes is fascinating and sad.
37. Sweet. Geth troops! Rachni and now geth. That's going to be hilarious when they show up. People are going to freak out!
38. "How did you get geth primes to work for you?" *shrug* "They volunteered."
39. Daaamn, Garrus, that man can calibrate. Gotta throw in one of my GV jokes: Garrus Vakarian can calibrate a weapon so well that it needs a cigarette afterwards.
40. LOL. Ash has a hell of a hangover. Gotta laugh at that.
41. "I could get Joker to sing to you over the comm..." "I hate you." "I hate you..." "Sir." This is fun... maybe I should kill Kaidan off sometime so I can keep Ash.
42. Even Ash wants to hang out with Shepard on the Citadel! Everyone is babysitting Shepard. It's kind of cute, actually.
43. "Keelah Sa'lai" means "By the homeworld I hope to know someday." Filing this away.
44. Adorable scene with Shepard and Tali. It's sweet to see how happy she is to be there.
45. Tali said "I love you" to Shepard!
46. Well, Shepard, you just killed a reaper. Without a giant thresher maw this time!
47. OHGOD the reaper is talking
48. Okay, the're hinting at what I've been waiting for... an actual reason for the reapers to do what they do.
49. Goosebumps. "Legion, the answer to your question is yes." The ME1 music along with Legion sacrificing himself... tears.
50. "I bet you say that to every guy who gets you a homeworld!"
51. This whole Rannoch scene is the first thing that actually made me tear up.
52. Commander Shepard, fucking superhero.
53. The geth are helping rebuild on Rannoch. It's pretty amazing!
54. Where is my kuwashii visor? I really want that back. My Shep is a sniper, after all.
55. Prediction that I'll never know if it comes true: There's gonna be a religion built around Shepard one day.
56. "In Legion's last moments it said 'I' instead of 'we'." EDI STOP IT YOU'RE MAKING ME CRY
57. Huh. found the Elcor homeworld.
58. May I just ask... wtf is Ashley's alternate outfit?
59. Elcor: shoulder mounted heavy weapons. Best thing ever.
60. Joker and EDI playing hot-or-not in Purgatory? Not exactly something I'd expected in my ME3!
61. "You're a crappy commander." "You're a crappy commander..." "...sir." I am so killing Kaidan off on my next playthrough! Ash is fun.
62. Miri, you better not be playing me. I don't like giving her access to Alliance anything.
63. "This may save a few worlds. Thank you." So casually!
64. A prothean beacon... inside the statue?
65. Holy shit. A prothean. Sort of.
66. Oh.... that asshole is here. The Illusive Man too, sort of.
67. Damn it, I wanted to know more from the Illusive Man about what he was up to.
68. The last scene on Thessia was incredibly sad.
69. Shepard is seriously going to lose it. This is horrible.
70. We're finally going to get the Illusive Man. Finally.
71. Prediction: Anderson is definitely, definitely going to die. Possibly to save your life. Definitely in a super dramatic way.
72. It's incredibly freaky to see the reapers covering the galaxy map the way they do now. Finally going after Cerberus. And for whatever reason, Horizon. It doesn't make a ton of sense to me, but whatev. I don't like Horizon though. The name of the planet is completely associated with the Ash/Kaidan fight there.
73. Miri's sister! Miranda's going to be here. This is going to be a crazy mission, I bet.
74. The Illusive Man is indoctrinating refugees. Shit.
75. Miri's left a message... Getting scared. "Cerberus, reapers, and Miranda's crazy father."
76. Why the hell would Cerberus want to make husks??
77. Well, that question just got answered. To study how the reapers communicate, apparently. They want to control their people that way, maybe?
78. Trying to figure out how reaper indoctrination works. So they can do the same thing, I presume.
79. May I just say again, I really really love the heavy melee attacks.
80. Finally. Miranda's going to help you get to the Illusive Man. I've been waiting for this!
81. At the end of the mission, Shepard's last words are almost the same as the first time he/she was one Horizon. Just thought I'd mention it.
82. I'm finally going to get to kill the Illusive Man. Been waiting for this one!
83. Oh lawd, Tali's drunk. Straw = emergency induction port. ILU Tali!
84. "Keelah, she was such a bitch."
85. Tali has daddy issues.
86. Yay, Garrus's family made it!
87. The Citadel becoming significantly more crowded as it goes makes everything seem more "real". It's a good touch.
88. Ka'Reegar died saving Palaven. :( This Shepard romanced Tali, but I wanted him for Tali in my FemShep game.
89. Huh. I guess the Illusive Man's window was really a window and not just a display.
90. Finishing game tomorrow... SO EXCITED! After that, I can't wait to continue my FemShep play of the game. There were so many great Garrus moments even when they were just bros, so I'm really eager to see how that goes with the romance added in.