Mass Effect General- /meg/

The entire purpose of the Citadel and relay system is to incentivize civilizations to stay in a predetermined lane, as such.

You have a technological marvel custom built to be the core of a space faring community, and a vast form of space travel that would take an incredible amount of time to explore on it's own.

Humanity are just the unique kind of impatient and stupid that they look at that, already be rapidly expanding beyond their actual ability to support and defend their assets, and still think "eh this is kinda boring, what about that place way over there centuries of travel away?"

>stout and firm MTs

Tell me more.

If cancer had a list

>repost because the thread ended but I'm going to say my rant anyway

I won't spend any money on 3, period.

You don't understand what a betrayal ME3 was. How dejected I was when I first realized how shit it would be.

I was hyped for ME1 prior to release and pretty excited to get into the series back in those days. To be there from the beginning and see the ride through all the way to the end. I played through ME1 and ME2 many many times and argued passionately about the lore and morality for years.

Only to have it all cast into the trash bin at the end. The things I loved about the series, the ideas, characters, sub-plots, core gameplay mechanics, and themes, the PAY-OFF... all of it just thrown away in a terrible game with a terrible story and indefensible ending.

Via the very nature of the Mass Effect series, in which its most defining feature was that you would make decisions in each game and the effects would carry-over into future games. A system which made you feel like your run through the whole story was unique to you in that way... It is all retroactively ruined by ME3 and its terrible story, assets system, and ending. There is no point in replaying any of it now knowing that the import feature won't even lead to satisfying window dressing for ME3.

The whole series is shit because of 3. I hate it and I hate the people who made it. To some degree I even resent the people who played it.

Mass Effect was one of my favorite series of all time, one of my favorite settings to immersive myself in, and ME3 took it away.

Liara is pure garbage, that much is correct

Am I the only one who wishes ME:A had open-world space combat? You'd fast travel to a new system, but once you get there it'd take a few minutes of real-time travel through the system. You could go silent-running and stealthily make your way straight to your objective, go prospector and try to find rare new metals in asteroids, or if you're lucky (or unlucky) you'd engage an alien ship in combat and if you took it down you'd potentially get cool new alien tech in the form of salvage.

>Why is our cycle the first to come up with the idea to travel to Andromeda before the Reapers invade?

How do we know that is the case? I wouldn't be surprised if we find evidence in Andromeda of past cycles that sent similar expeditions.

The real question is why were the Protheans the first to throw a real wrench in the Reapers' plans with the Conduit and the beacons? (which Sovereign itself couldn't use)

In even being able to fight the Reapers we were just lucky to have come after the Protheans who are the ones who really made it possible.

The Crucible shit likewise is just luck.

Also, you are probably putting a lot more thought into this than the writers for Andromeda have.

Really there is no reason for conflict between galaxies. The distances are too great and what you can find in one galaxy you can find in another. It just isn't worth it as civilizations separate galaxies might as well be in separate universes.

>every DAY
wow, how cleanly and proper

ME2 was just as bad and your previous choices mattered even less.

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No, ME2 was not nearly as bad. The worst sin ME2 did was not advance the main story. It was a dud but it didn't retroactively ruin anything. Don't get me wrong though: the warning signs were apparent with ME2 and I said as much at the time. I argued for a long time that ME2 was setting us all up for disappointment in ME3 because as far as narrative and design was concerned with was two things: poorly conceived and a total waste of time.

In terms of choices, again, ME2 could at least offer that there was still one more game to really lay this stuff out. Mind you, as I said, I saw the warning signs and I called the game out over it.

At least ME2 kept the dialog wheel. At least sidequests were usually treated with an actual conversation with an NPC. Even some choices from ME1 were rewarded, perhaps only, with a dialog with a returning NPC. That stuff does little to game-play but it is nice in a ROLE-PLAYING-GAME.

However, for all of ME2's flaws at least it didn't rape or ruin the lore with excessively stupid ideas, or ruin any characters (too badly), and at least there was still one more game to do. The series could have been saved from embarrassment and near destruction if 3 had been written and executed intelligently.

It just needed a story that was a little less dumb and an ending that wasn't an ass-pull.

Thanks for the blogposts

What's your Reddit name?

The more important question is how cuddly is she?

Plastic, leather, and sweat.

t. bootyblasted Cerbie fanboy

>At least ME2 kept the dialog wheel.

So did ME3

>At least sidequests were usually treated with an actual conversation with an NPC.

So did ME3. There's just less of them.

>Even some choices from ME1 were rewarded, perhaps only, with a dialog with a returning NPC. That stuff does little to game-play but it is nice in a ROLE-PLAYING-GAME.

ME3 rewards more choices than ME2 did

>At least ME2 kept the dialog wheel
Dialog wheel was always shit. Half the "choices" in ME1 actually had the EXACT same response under different positions on the wheel.
>Even some choices from ME1 were rewarded
Same as ME3? Except they actually had impact on the story arcs(Tuchanka and geth/quarians).
>it didn't rape or ruin the lore with excessively stupid ideas
Yeah, like Shepard dying, "ah yes Reapers", Cerberus suddenly becoming vigilantes, Council sending a Spectre into Terminus systems, geth/heretic split, the human reaper...

>thread overrun by talicancer

going to come back in 6 hours to watch another 50 kaidanpics then

ME3 had an amazing story except for the last 10% of it which was so bad it was like the video game equivalent of "It was all a dream all along!"

Ending aside, I found that 2 on the whole was worse. Not just because of the T-850 Reaper but because it took a really awesome premise and had 0 pay off for it. Collectors were dope but the entire story wasn't.

Get a trip so I can filter you

...you'd be on it.

>its most defining feature was that you would make decisions in each game and the effects would carry-over into future games
No, it was chest high walls and ayy lmaos. The save import thing was a gimmick.

Skin cancer, yes.

Beats waifu cancer.

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is this a joke

>ME3 had an amazing story except for the last 10% of it
This meme needs to die.

That's up to you.

Like Ashley did.

>Ash
>Dying
>Ever
Gaydan always becomes a crater and Ash never dies in ME3, if she does you're playing the game wrong.

>tfw when people keep arguing about which Generic Human Companion should die in 1
>no option to kill both of them
Why are all the humans shit in ME, but god-tier in DA?

I don't have it saved unfortunantely, but there's a screencap out there of a BSN post that uses niology and shit to determine what Tali smells like, or rather, what her sweat smells like. tldr is she doesn't smell like anything due to no bacteria b/c quarians.

>1. Ashley
>2. Kelly
>7. Garrus
Opinion disregarded.

>Opinion disregarded.
Not opirion, scientrific fact.

Pretty sure its an opinion dude, since such things are subjective. Like art.

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Hyped yet or do I need to shill it more?

nice.

f*ck yes

>face blurred out
Why? Seems uneccesary.

its this gay dude that jerks of to pictures of Sheploo. just ignore

>implying you wouldn't jerk off to Mark Vanderloo if you were gay

Actually I'm semi-serious, I'm studying to become a professor of psychology and my thesis is on relationship sustainability. I've worked out a formula to determine partner long term desirability based on research and statistics and applied it to the romance interests, naturally it's not really applicable to fictional characters and aliens but I did my best.

because it's the frecklebeast.

Really? Shit son.

But wouldn't Garrus be at the top of the list (for FemShep atleast)?

>that smooth, firm curve of her ass
I don't care what you say, I'd fuck her

It's a shame you never really got to tell anyone about your adventures, it's always NPCs giving you their life's story seconds after meeting you for the first time. Shepard never got to tell any stories, it would have been fun to pick between the paragon and renegade options for different versions of the same events.

That list is based on the assumption that the subject is male and human, I didn't want to speculate too much about MTs and stuff but Garrus would be somewhat higher up if you switched gender, yeah. Liara would probably end up above him though.

>autism, the post

Hmm. That's really interesting. But why is Liara higher for FemShep than BroShep?

>people with education have autism

As dumb (and albeit hot) as the boob window is, I still prefer that outfit to the official one. It doesn't look as bulky, the pauldrons are smaller, it doesn't have the too long jacket, etc.
The latex-look was kept, though, which I like.

are you really this gullible?

>those tights pants
>that booty
>that crotch shot

Chub achieved.

>no trying to impress Ashley with your stories, with Wrex subtly listening in the background, taking jabs at your stories once in a while, while telling his own

Bioware, please, I thought this was about the characters.

Yes.

Where's the "ebil awayckNs" cliche? You can't have an EPIC SPACE OPERA FROM THE PEOPLE BEHIND GREAT GAMES LIKE MASS EFFECT 3 & DRAGON AGE INQUISITION without ancient evil robo-squids!

Reapers were a mistake

>Kelly
>able to sustain a relationship
>Garrus not at the top
>Ashley above Kaidan for that
>Miranda above Tali
>Jack above ANYBODY

Samara is best asari.
>also has biggest MT
I don't think that's a coincidence.

Even as a devout talimancer I agree that Garris is #1 romance.

The asari are all shit-tier, but yes Samara is best asari.

Tell us what makes the waifus get each place in your list now that you put so much thought into it. I'm curious.

same. If Garrus was bi, I'd never have fucked Tali

who's making ME:A's soundtrack? Sam Hulick?

But that's gay, user~! Not that I care.

don't know what it is about them, but I'd fuck any turian
I think it's the voices

You know, actually, I'm in the middle of writing PhD thesis and I'm making a Machine Learning project that determines level of faggotry of person based on contents of his post along with current thread context and contents of posts that person replied to.
All math aside, your faggotry is 96.3% with 1.2% variance. To be honest, this is one of the highest results on Veeky Forums.

Seems all but certain the composer is John Paesano, a movie/tv composer who did the music for Netflix's Daredevil

I do feel like Mass Effect would be a lot better if you dropped the Reapers, and instead went for a more grounded threat. Terrorism, rogue spectre, geth incursion, and so on.

well, that isn't too bad. soundtrack was the only thing that wasn't bad about that show

>a movie/tv composer
>in addition to the Hollywood designer

For God's sake. It's like they want to throw money away.

Did he make the intro music for Daredevil, because that one is really good.

Here it is.
>youtu.be/KFYFh8w4758

Voices, skin/dermis, aerodynamic & lean bodies, personality, etc. etc.

>did the music for Netflix's Daredevil
FUCK YES
Andromeda is gonna be good
You have restored my hope user #165,158,486
Thank you

It would tie a lot better into the societal/cultural messages integrated into 1 and sort-of 2. But that's not SINICHMAHTICK enough.

As a fellow turianlover....I seriously think it is the voices. Male or Female, I'll have a turian of any gender. I do wish too that Garrus was bi, but hey, maybe we'll get a male/maletur romance in Andromeda and it won't be utter shit.

did Cliff Martinez ask for too much money?

>>a movie/tv composer

Didn't Clint Mansell do ME3's score?

I have faith in turian characters in Andromeda to be good, even if the rest of the game is worthless. So far, literally every turian character has been well-written

What do turian genitalia look and feel like?

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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca

>Cliff Martinez
>Clint Mansel
Is this the new BIG MCLARGEHUGE meme?

Mansell only did two tracks - the music during the escape from Earth, and the ending theme when the Crucible is activated

The rest was am equally split combination of Sam Hulick (co-composer ME1/ME2) Christopher Lennertz (Overlord, Shadow Broker), Cris Velasco, and Sascha Dikiciyan (Kasumi's Memories, Arrival)

>en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca
probably not, I think Turians birth live young so they'd probably have more mammalian reproductive organs.

Straight from the wiki:
>Turian features are avian, making them resemble humanoid birds or raptors, however unlike most Earth avian creatures, turians are viviparous and give birth to live young.
However, live birth does not always mean mammalian.

But then again they're aliens so they can break all the rules.

going to listen to the soundtrack now and decide.
youtube.com/watch?v=gzFAQvsm5cg

also the soundtrack from the 2003 movie was the only good thing about it.

seems legit
haven't exactly researched the subject, but a quick google search is telling me that there are a few snakes and lizards that give birth to live young. so I'd guess that maleturs have hemipenes.
Another thing that makes Garrus the best romance for femshep

pretty shit tbqh, user-san. hope he brings something different to ME:A, but I'm ok playing with the music off.

>best romance for femshep
>femshep
It's like you don't love him or something.

>waifufagging to keep the general alive

Oh, I do. But the hacks at Bioware don't let sheploo fuck him

and it isn't waifufagging, it's just a weird conversation about best race

so, you think we'll get to genocide the Asari in Andromeda? Or at least the Krogan?

BIG PURPLE REAPER

No, didn't they already say none of your squaddies are in mortal danger and this game is meant to be the huggiest of hugboxes?

would be cool if you could genocide the ingenious races.

>ingenious
indigenous

I hope they meant that they couldn't die in combat. And still, that doesn't mean I can't get the rest of Peebee's race killed, forcing her to wander the galaxy as the last of her worthless race

nah, gotta enslave them. Go full conquistador

You are why this game will be shit