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I almost always play as "Sole Survivor" For Shepard's backstory because it opens up a SHIT TON of dialogue in all 3 games, a lot of it plot important.
But it's also kind of fucked up to have the human characters all being "oh wow Commander Shepard! It's so cool you have all this survivor's guilt!" and have Shepard visibly cringe and go "HAHA YEAH. HEY I KNOW, LET'S CHANGE THE SUBJECT!"
Anyway Scholarship boy does a Google.
I hear Virmire is lovely this time of year.
In the past I have been willing to discuss Ashley's racism with her and get her perspective. It is now 2023, I have grown old, and I am no longer willing to listen to her. I appreciate the option Bioware gives you to tell her to shut the fuck up when she starts going off.
i started ME1 (2007) and i got instantly attached to this guy only to have my hopes and dreams shattered
My thoughts about Mass Effect 1 with a first time playthrough. (no spoilers tho this thread will contain spoilers as it is about stuff i'm doing in my playthrough and the big important missions)
I don't really know how to do threads so imma just wing it. I've been enjoying this game so far. some stuff has been annoying like the stupid flying gun turret things. I feel like the game also doesn't balance very well and with stuff not fully told to the player is annoying. for instance. the Mission on Ferros, you need to find out what Seran is after, its a mind controlling plant, and you can try and beat the place without killing innocents. I went for this path and ran out of concussion grenades. turns out, you could melee them... NOBODY SAID THIS But I did look online for how I could do it cause if i was expected to subdue 16 people spread out people with 5 grenades, that's just bullshit. but I'm past that now and doing a bunch of side missions. will try to keep this updated as i play. Also I got a glitch where I broke my arms while dealing with a cult. that was also funny. quick update: I will also just quickly add i am using 2 mods i consider to be essential to improving this game and thats an infinite sprint mod and a screen shake remover mod. Because the sprint lasts about 3 seconds before you're winded and the screen shake is vomit inducing another quick update: I FUCKING HATE THE DIALOGUE OPTIONS DON'T FULLY GO WITH WITH WHATS PRESENTED! FOR EXAMPLE! Guy: i don't think my dad would like, he doesn't like spectres (spectres is a short version of elite task force kinda thing that operate outside the law) me: *clicks the "too bad" option* my character: damn, your dad sounds like a dick. me: THATS NOT WHAT I CLICKED!
ITS SO ANNOYING!
My thoughts about Mass Effect 1 with a first time playthrough. (no spoilers tho this thread will contain spoilers as it is about stuff i'm doing in my playthrough and the big important missions) Pt2
So the controls for driving are still wired to me. just strange as it feels like a mix between halos warthog controls and every other simple car games controls. it keep messing up when driving around with it. combat is kinda simple at this point since i have the few abilities i like, the 2 companions i like, and the guns for each mission. and while the AI is pretty stupid, that doesn't stop me from sending them in a room of bad guys, closing the door behind them, waiting for them to die, revive them from outside the room, let them die again, and then panicking when the door opens and i die seconds later, 20% of the time it works 100% ,but other times i charge in with my team and try to coordinate attacks and movements with them. i also now have all of the characters. and after doing some research i found out something that's kinda icky personally speaking. there is an alien race called the Asari, they are the blue alien women. the Asari companion you get is 106, that is and i quote from the game "considered a child" and doing some research online, Asari live roughly to 1000 years old. they start puberty around 50-60 and are, technically speaking, a teen/young adult until they are 350 (give or take) which is when they are considered to be a full adult. thats all fine... except for the fact that she's a romanceable option, and just like that, the icky feel.
but yeah. i'm still greatly enjoying this game... also almost every human besides the player (unless they choose to be) is racist against any aliens. buts very nice to say "shut up, stop being a twat" and they will immediately shut up and start being cool with it, its nice.
My thoughts about Mass Effect 1 with a first time playthrough. (no spoilers tho this thread will contain spoilers as it is about stuff i'm doing in my playthrough and the big important missions)
I don't really know how to do threads so imma just wing it. I've been enjoying this game so far. some stuff has been annoying like the stupid flying gun turret things. I feel like the game also doesn't balance very well and with stuff not fully told to the player is annoying. for instance. the Mission on Ferros, you need to find out what Seran is after, its a mind controlling plant, and you can try and beat the place without killing innocents. I went for this path and ran out of concussion grenades. turns out, you could melee them... NOBODY SAID THIS But I did look online for how I could do it cause if i was expected to subdue 16 people spread out people with 5 grenades, that's just bullshit. but I'm past that now and doing a bunch of side missions. will try to keep this updated as i play. Also I got a glitch where I broke my arms while dealing with a cult. that was also funny. quick update: I will also just quickly add i am using 2 mods i consider to be essential to improving this game and thats an infinite sprint mod and a screen shake remover mod. Because the sprint lasts about 3 seconds before you're winded and the screen shake is vomit inducing another quick update: I FUCKING HATE THE DIALOGUE OPTIONS DON'T FULLY GO WITH WITH WHATS PRESENTED! FOR EXAMPLE! Guy: i don't think my dad would like, he doesn't like spectres (spectres is a short version of elite task force kinda thing that operate outside the law) me: *clicks the "too bad" option* my character: damn, your dad sounds like a dick. me: THATS NOT WHAT I CLICKED!
ITS SO ANNOYING!
My thoughts about Mass Effect 1 with a first time playthrough. (no spoilers tho this thread will contain spoilers as it is about stuff i'm doing in my playthrough and the big important missions) part 3
so at the time of writing this. I have finished Mass effect 1 and i bloody loved it. there were things that could have been done better such as the combat, it just got a bit samey same same once i got the best guns money could buy, and i finally worked out how to put stuff in the quick slots which was great, amped up combat a bit. As for the last missions of the game. i let an alien queen re-populate their race, i had reason to believe they wouldn't pose a problem if i did so. but during the missions of Noveria, i had to look stuff up alot becasue it wasn't clear at all. and the problem i had with the dialogue not lining up with what was written and what was spoken was even more annoying. (i also got 1 more mod just to give my vechile infinite boost due to how empty alot of the planet were) on Viremire (what i consider the second to last planet you should do) where i almost lost one of my favorite characters which thankfully didn't happen. and then i had to make a choice. did i let the alien racist die, or the ass kisser die. you think this would be an easy choice... but the only reason i struggled with this choice is because i didn't like either of them and i didn't know which option would result in the death of the one i didn't like. ended up making the choice i wanted (of the racist dying) and then it was time for the final battle. the final battle was.... not that great... it was more annoying then anything because of 1 of my 3 powers worked, he kept shooting rockets, and was jsut overall, not a section i liked. getting to the boss fight was really damn cool. and then the final boss fight was also just kinda bleh. i sat in one spot and just unloaded into him whenever he stopped moving. but overall, i loved the game and i'm very excited for Mass effect 2
also, you think people would have different ways of being hacked. but everyone uses the same system. haha
also a funny glitch where 2 of my guys just lost all their color and shaders. haha this was just from a glitch, not a mod.
My thoughts about Mass Effect 1 with a first time playthrough. (no spoilers tho this thread will contain spoilers as it is about stuff i'm doing in my playthrough and the big important missions)
I don't really know how to do threads so imma just wing it. I've been enjoying this game so far. some stuff has been annoying like the stupid flying gun turret things. I feel like the game also doesn't balance very well and with stuff not fully told to the player is annoying. for instance. the Mission on Ferros, you need to find out what Seran is after, its a mind controlling plant, and you can try and beat the place without killing innocents. I went for this path and ran out of concussion grenades. turns out, you could melee them... NOBODY SAID THIS But I did look online for how I could do it cause if i was expected to subdue 16 people spread out people with 5 grenades, that's just bullshit. but I'm past that now and doing a bunch of side missions. will try to keep this updated as i play. Also I got a glitch where I broke my arms while dealing with a cult. that was also funny. quick update: I will also just quickly add i am using 2 mods i consider to be essential to improving this game and thats an infinite sprint mod and a screen shake remover mod. Because the sprint lasts about 3 seconds before you're winded and the screen shake is vomit inducing another quick update: I FUCKING HATE THE DIALOGUE OPTIONS DON'T FULLY GO WITH WITH WHATS PRESENTED! FOR EXAMPLE! Guy: i don't think my dad would like, he doesn't like spectres (spectres is a short version of elite task force kinda thing that operate outside the law) me: *clicks the "too bad" option* my character: damn, your dad sounds like a dick. me: THATS NOT WHAT I CLICKED!
ITS SO ANNOYING!
“I am the Vanguard of your Destruction.”
The Reaper, Sovereign, says to the lowly human, Commander Shepard. Unbeknownst to the machine, or it never cared to learn, but Shepard was a vanguard herself.
Finally got the chance to start playing Mass Effect! It's been a lot of fun!
So I've done Virmire now...saved Wrex, so that's nice!
RIP Ashley tho. It came down to her and Kaiden and...well...Kaiden had less of a problem with me bringing aliens onto the crew, so I saved him
This FUCKING COUNCIL though istg 😡