Mass Effect General - /meg/

What are they going to do with the extra $10?, and why do they need $400? It doesn't cost that much.

Maybe stop buying hair dye for a month or perhaps try spending time raising your newly born twins instead of playing a fucking video game.

It clearly says they *he* doesn't have a platform to play the game on either. I was wondering why they didn't just buy the person a copy of the game and keep it to themselves instead of making some big todo about it. W/e I'm not going to shit on an act of kindness when a dude is prioritizing his own money on the children he's responsible for instead of games.

I'm gonna marry Jaal!

Not before I marry Cora!

How do you pronounce his name?

Dat ass

Like Y'all with a J.

Jawl

yeah true, he couldve bought the console and game himself, but instead spent the money on his kids
good on him, and good on the people for giving charity to him

i dont even know what gender Jaal the Not-Garrus Twi'Lek is, but regardless, go for it man

but she's no longer fertile

see

Al

>how are those bunnies? i dont see the resemblence, look more like twi'leks to me

I'm pretty sure it's because of the nose. I'm getting Alice in Wonderland vibes from Jaal. I want to give him a top hat, a cane and have him talk to me in a jovial british accent.

Jaal reminds me of a lop eared rabbit the way he wears his tentacles and the nose.

eeeeeeeeehhhhhhhh kinda
their faces are too flat for rabbitdom, and no ears
also no necks youtube.com/watch?v=o_dyXUp89c8

i still dont really see it

Angora rabbits=The Angara

oh
fucking BioWare has the subtlety of vorcha nowadays

I wonder if they had hair at some point while they were drawing up concept art.

Speaking of Vorcha. I like that they didn't have a name for the Kett as recently as a year ago and were just calling them Collector/Vorcha bad guys.

same here, adds more mystery and shit to their evildom
maybe theyre a sympathetic evil, like ME2 Cerberus?
probably not

ME2 Cerberus was pants on head retarded.

ME3 Cerberus
ftfy
ME2 one had legit goals and shit, despite being, yknow, evil
but it was an evil you could relate to

ME plots have the same problem as just about every scifi series that involves superweapons. I mean the Collector base was a superweapon of sorts and I was disappointed with the Crucible. I expected combined Citadel fleets if Shepard made the right choices. Reaper invasion would have been destroyed with extreme casualties but galaxy would live on and rebuild. Instead we had a light show.

And I'd hate if the Andromeda will have the same overused scifi plots once again. Better to get the drama from Andromeda vs Milky Way colonists than from stopping some ancient threat again. Like helping oppressed fishmen against the Archon/whoever the fuck is commanding the evil fleet

CUTE

I should have just said Cerberus and not attached any single game to it.

ME2 includes them going through the expense of bringing Shep back to life and then repeatedly putting him in situations where they don't give him a full intel report before sending him on mission (disabled ship). Getting their shit pushed in by a single mole who was able to set every droid in the building hostile. There's also the entire Overlord DLC.

>mfw I unironically thinks Cora looks cute

Leaning forward/sticking her ass out and she still can't compare to even Aria's ass.

You're faceblind.

>There's also the entire Overlord DLC.
>"Shepard, please, we we're torturing an autistic person to better humanity."

Sounds reasonable.

>Getting their shit pushed in by a single mole who was able to set every droid in the building hostile.

Makes me wonder how Cerberus even got this far with people like Miranda in charge desu. Every single Cerberus operation in that game somehow results in everyone dying, and it seems comically easy for everyone else in the galaxy to screw them over with little effort, e.g. the Shadow Broker having their entire space station massacred by bribing one guy or the Blue Suns raiding a base and just stumbling upon data that could endanger their entire organization. They're much more retarded there than they are in ME3.

Their leader is also the most transparently full of shit dude in the world, makes no attempts to be secretive (read his Shadow Broker dossier for some cringe), and is genuinely convinced that you'll suck his dick at every turn even if literally every dialogue option Shepard picks is "I hate you and will leave at the soonest opportunity".

what do you expect from BioWare? they can only do one thing good: character interactions and writing

wow, they uhh...
they kinda fucked up the mocap, eh?
still better than Tali's picture, goddamnit DykeWare

true, i guess im wrong

ME2 writing for ya

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Actually that is a problem with the scifi genre in general. It's kind of easy to make our band of the bold with daddy issues to go against some superweapon than actually dwelling deeper into political reasons of the conflict.

Which is a shame because Star Wars has had 8 movies and 4 of those have been centered around some planet destroying weapon. Wonderful galaxy ruined with stupid ass plots.I'm going to scream if Andromeda will have a similar plot about some ancient threat or even a hint about some hyperweapon.

>I'm going to scream if Andromeda will have a similar plot about some ancient threat or even a hint about some hyperweapon.

I think this is pretty much guaranteed. We're never going to get a game where it's just disparate factions fighting for their slice of the pie and you get to decide who comes out on top and who gets a serving of shit.

i love making ugly characters in games
btw its OC

which is a shame, since Mass Effect is supposed to be very Star Trek, but quickly turned into Star Wars

but there is a game like that
its called Fallout New Vegas
true, its not space sci-fi, but its still a pie to eat

I just want a story about being a CSEC officer working some cases on the Citadel that eventually become entwined and lead to bringing down a Shadowbroker agent. Chase bad guys, shoot criminals, hunt for clues etc.

Game like that wouldn't sell. The vast majority want some "big bad evil ancient creature" threat. Which is too bad.

I thought of New Vegas while I was typing that and thought to maybe include "a game from Bioware where...", but yeah. I'd hoped ME4 would have been the Milky Way galaxy a little after the Reaper War and they'd open it up to you playing from one of the four major races with a plot related to establishing dominance after the reaper threat. Securing advanced reaper tech for assimilation, undercutting other races, unleashing new genophages, false flag pirate attacks on fledgling colonies. That sort of shit.

>its called Fallout New Vegas
>true, its not space sci-fi, but its still a pie to eat

It is, however, sci-fi, what with the laser/plasma guns, robots, mutants, and power armor.

I really love New Vegas's structure and ending. ME3 should have been more like that. You don't defeat the Legion with a superweapon (well, unless you take the House/Independent route), you do it by gathering up all the feuding factions and uniting them against the main enemy, while you also wipe out minor enemy factions causing them trouble and solve various issues preventing them from putting forth their full strength. The final battle against the Legion can be said to lack tension, since it's revealed to be damn one-sided and the results are never really in doubt, but seeing all your work pay off as the results show through is its own reward.

I mean I could accept a plot where oppressed Andromeda civilizations go against their oppressed with the help of the Milky Way colonists. Lots of drama, desperate fighting and dead people ensue.
I just hope that the exploration is deeper than DA:I in space.
It wouldnt sell because people would be "B-but I want my own starship n shieet!" Also gong from the slums of Tuchanka to Asari worlds in a hunt to uncover Shadow broker operations would be awesome.

>I'd hoped ME4 would have been the Milky Way galaxy a little after the Reaper War and they'd open it up to you playing from one of the four major races with a plot related to establishing dominance after the reaper threat.

That seems to contradict the whole point of ME1+ME2+ME3, which was about how cooperation made them strong and those trying to establish dominance were in the wrong. That's why the main humanoid villains were Saren and TIM, supremacists for their respective races.

I'm glad we're getting out of the Milky Way. MW was Shepards story and now is the time to move on.

that sounds like a great idea, if out of character, since all the races are cool with each other now that all their problems are solved

the whole game was setting up for a conclusion like that, but that got thrown out the window at orbital velocity in the last fifteen minutes

hopefully, but i didnt play Tumblr: The Game so i dont know how bad it was

Yeah, I mean ideally you'd be able to play as a paragon if you wanted to and remind the galaxy that they were 'stronger together' or whatever. I was just wanting those messier kind of options.

I'm half and half on this. There's so much world building that just goes straight into the trash by moving to andromeda. Plus clearing the slate gives Bioware the freehand to just fall back on their usual tropes.

I can see this give or take about ten years and two to three kids. With Cora losing weight from the stress of raising said children. I kinda feel sorry for the character already, even before playing the game.

It was bad and most of the choices and consequences were text based. Way to go with the immersion.
After the fucked up ME3 ending I'm just glad that we're getting the hell out. Though I'll sacrifice my gf to dark gods if Andromeda 1 has twink/dyke Ryder as young pathfinders and they'll age a lot in the sequels.

>the whole game was setting up for a conclusion like that, but that got thrown out the window at orbital velocity in the last fifteen minutes

The Crucible was introduced in the opening hour bro.

>After the fucked up ME3 ending I'm just glad that we're getting the hell out.

I feel like that's just letting Bioware cheat their way out of having to explain shit.

Plus I'm going to miss the locations and characters of the MW. Andromeda doesn't really have any connection to ME at all beyond the guns, omni-tools, and SOME of the races.

good to know that i wont need to spend money on it
>implying i would buy it anyway and not just pirate it

but it was never established as an ex machina device until the choice actually showed up

Yeah well, but Bioware has to make tough decisions. And usually it's for the best that the creators make their own choices instead of trying to appease their fanbase too much. Dont get me wrong, listening to critique and contrary opinions is extremely important. But players are among the shittiest possible customers ever. Just take a look at ME trailer comments and think if you want to make a game for such players.

>I feel like that's just letting Bioware cheat their way out of having to explain shit.
I dont think they could. I think the reworked endings and leviathan was their best shot. And it didn't work. Hell, some of the time you could almost sense an attitude from Bioware in the dialogue.

its like fuck, dont blame us you half assed the story from the start and played catch up for another two games

To this day I have yet to actually do a renegade humans first playthrough, romance ashley, or jack.. guess that's the plan for next playthrough after this femshep... didn't feel right to make femshep renegade though.

Is there one of these for Miranda?

you should, its a lot of fun

probably, but i have no idea, i dont save pics of Miranda

Well if I'm all renegade humans first, I'm thinking, that'd be the playthrough to hook up with Ms Humans First, in ME1 and 3, and Jack in 2.

Ashley being a racist is a meme, she'd hate a true humans first Renegade Shepard. But then, most dialogue with characters doesn't take into account how they'd logically react to your previous actions due to lack of effort put into recording lines for every possible variation. This includes romance.

Also she's fine with being literally cucked by an alien, so.

eh, Miranda is more racist Shep oriented, Jack is more for masochistic Sheps
or you could have this be the one playthrough where you remain faithful

>tfw will never be pinned and crushed between tali's muscular thighs

What's better with CEM?

JAM or just the MEHEM?

I already had a playthrough where I remained faithful to Liara the entire Trilogy. No need.

I've also already romanced Miranda in 2 and 3 (and was disappointed in how it was in 3, so I don't think I'll romance cameos in 3 anymore)

I need to romance Jack but it's just going to be a fling for 2.

To be fair, in the beginning they were just some radical group. And only in ME2 did they get big. I'm pretty sure the original writers never intended for them to be anything other than crazy terrorists.

I'm guessing that writing a game story is harder than writing for books. With the game you have to take into consideration the limitations of technology and budget and as a result you end up having to recycle assets such as story locations.

what's the difference? other than that one version of JAM keeps the Catalyst talk?

I suppose if you'd actually want it to be 'canon' and thus increase immersion, go with JAM and choose Destroy, as then the events depicted could actually have happened without flat-out changing canon. The only problem is EDI still being around. But that's easily explainable.

I know that feeling.
It hurts.

JAM is just MEHEM lite, so really whichever you want
i personally prefer JAM since it doesnt have those cringy cutscenes in it, but hey, its your game

alright, just giving you my two cents

>The females are taller because their legs are less bent
Huh, neat.

I think their necks are obscured by their armor. The females have them.

I know you feel this

aww, i was hoping to make a shitton of JonTron references and memes about it

IF I MUST TEAR YOU APART SHEPARD, I WILL.
harbinger must have a stained shepard poster, the way he gushes over them
first for Harbinger starring in a hardcore BDSM porno

ayylmaorabbits have no necks bump

delet BT

Mass Effect trilogy was all about Shepard's flying brothel. Prove me wrong

What does you all think Jaal's sweat smells like?

ME3's ending

>inb4 that one post about Tali's sweat
i wish i had that, gets me hard as iridium

Peeps and chocolate

New car smell.

thanks senpai

have this ultra rare pepe as payment

>So, so far, we can tell that Tali would not smell nearly as bad as those filthy humans, her sweat's a drug and a natural performance enhancer.
This is my kind of autism right here. When science and perversion meet.

>When science and perversion meet.
m-mine too, user
>no android sexbots yet
P A I N

good night y'all, sweet dreams of waifus and butchering nigtarians

>TFW will never massage Jaals sore, aching feet
>TFW will never rub cacao butter lotion on his hard cracked soles
>TFW he will never smile in appreciation for the hard effort I put in and reward me by letting me sniff his armpits
Just kill me now

kys yourself tbqh

Stop trying so hard to make Jaal the new Tali. It's not all that funny.

It was Talifeet tier.
End yourself post haste.

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thicc

>10
Seems we're back to the usual.

People are prolly disappointed with that new trailer so they're having a break. Have some leniency

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>ME3 came out 1790 days ago
>ME1 came out 3371 days ago

The series will be a decade old in a few months.

Doesn't feel that way.

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