Mass Effect Monday

[waiwode]

One cool part of the Stay-cation? Time to get down with some serious hours of Mass Effect.

So that's been pretty cool.

But it's time to take a break, go for a walk, and then concentrate on Pathfinder stuff.

Doug.

Comments

[waiwode]

Yeah, I did that too. Everyone does that.

I am missing a saved game from when I scraped my hard drive where *everyone* but Shepard dies on the Suicide Mission in ME2. (Liara & Ashley weren't there, so they make it). I desperately need to find a similar saved game (or play ME 2 again) to see how radically everything changes when everybody you know is dead.

I am so fouling pissed at the game right now. I will try to do this as spoiler-free as possible.

I('m)/ (think I'm) poised to take the final mission, the "Suicide Mission Stage" if this was ME2. Everyone is just hanging around. So you go talk to people. And everyone's all "it was a pleasure" -- you can even get on the holo-phone and talk to people who aren't present. In case you wanted Zaeed to sing you a song.

Standard response in situations like this? Talk to everyone.

Except there are some doors that once you pass through them you can no longer return. The one person I haven't talked to? My paramour. Where was she? I dunno. In some previous room I can't go back to. Great. Better load my last save.

Except the game hasn't let me save in something like 45 minutes, it's just rocking the autosave, and the last autosave is on the wrong side of that door. FFS! Of all the people I'd want to chat with -- maybe she'd be top of the list?

For someone who likes story, it's a pain in the ass.

Doug.

[gislebertus]

Not everyone apparently pulled off the geth/quarian thing, if the pissing and moaning I've read online is any indication.

You lost everyone in the suicide mission in ME2? I can't imagine a world without Garrus or Tali.

Speaking of Garrus, the little bromance moment shooting bottles off the top of the Presidium has to be my favorite moment so far.

Off to attack Cerberus HQ and start the end. . . .

[waiwode]

I played ME2 four times. Three times and then I lost all those saved games, then basically the first time all over again.

First and fourth was Samuel, my main Shep. Paragon.

Second was my fem-Shep, and I tried to make her Renegade, but ended up half and half.

All of the above were ME1 & ME2 characters.

Third was my cruel and unkind attempt to achieve something. I started in ME2, "rolled" a fem-Shep, and forced myself to stay Renegade.

Further, I did 0% of the loyalty missions.

Further, I dicked around after the crew were captured, ensuring their grisly demised.

Further, I purposefully chose all of my leaders/scouts/team-mates for the Suicide Misson unwisely.

Further, I rachetted the difficulty up for the Suicide Mission.

Only my boy Zaeed survived, I didn't have time to send him to scout the acid vats, or go test air-lock depressurization, or anything. The tough old bat probably would have survived anyway.

And I let Cerberus keep the Reaper Base, of course.

My goal was to have one ME3 game with the worst possible set-up. To see how badly I could screw myself over in the next game.

Unfortunately the saved game was lost in a moment of blind deleting and arranging during the great programming update of 2011.

Doug.

[waiwode]

Also: "My name is Garrus Vakkarian, and this is my favourite spot in the Citadel" was completely awesome.

Doug.

[gislebertus]

I think I am going to have this gun bronzed.

[gislebertus]

So all your poor choices resulted in an additional poor choice in real life. There's a certain symmetry to that.

[waiwode]

Curse you, dreaded irony!

Having already played it "to win" there was a certain vicious thrill playing it "to win by the skin of my teeth".

Doug.