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Fucked Ashley, no regrets.

It still hurts

AND I NEED YOU TO RECOVER, 'CAUSE I CAN'T MAKE IT ON MY OWN

Ashley in ME1 was great. You could actually see her growing as a character.

Then ME2 and ME3 happened.

The first time I finished this game and heard this song I went straight to iTunes and downloaded the single. Sometimes it still comes on my playlist and makes me nostalgia super hard.

Mass Effect is over a decade old for all you waiting to call me underage.

I don't really think she was hurt in her appearance in 2, and I don't think she really regressed a lot in 3 unless there are some examples I could get

man, me3 redesign was so terrible

>I don't think she really regressed a lot in 3 unless there are some examples I could get

Are you for real?

She explicitly mocked wearing skirts and looking like a bimbo in ME1 and in ME3 she literally became what she hated.

oh, that was such an incredibly minor thing I must have overlooked it

I don't know how they managed to make her look like a man without changing her face whatsoever, but they did it

>10 years later
>still the go-to song whenever I think of end credits
That, and What I've Done thanks to the first Transformers movie

That song is a 10/10, I still listen to it and it brings me right back to when I first heard it

Here, have another.

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>not this one
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Perfect strategy:
Romance Ashley in 1, leave her to die later

Shit, when you start talking to Vigil and this theme plays in the back on Eos, shit was just too fucking good.

I've played mass effect trilogy only a year ago. I loved first one so much but second and third were underwhelming. Is it just me or they were really worse in comparison?

>only time I've cried from vidya was when Legion died and I couldn't save him because Tali wasn't an admiral

>choosing the space gypsies over the Geth

Having that song play both at that moment and in the main menu was brilliant. It felt like I truly found a safe haven, and everything was about to become clear.

Doesn't the romance part come after that choice though?
Some parts were better but they weren't improvements per se. Things in both gameplay and plot were done pretty differently and it's a damned shame they didn't work harder to improve on the mechanics of the first and opted to just outright drop or change shit instead.

i played the first one about a year after it came out. hated the second one when it came out and didnt replay it again until a few years later. i liked it more that time, but the first will always be my fave.

>tfw Marauder Shields

I romanced Tali like a fag. I chose a hoe over a bro and paid dearly for it.

>romanced Tali in ME2
>got her killed in the suicide mission
>last save before she got killed was like 40 hours time played prior
>went through me3 without her
at least I still had Liara

>those few days after the release of the game where /meg/ became a support group

Im still mad we could have had Tali as a romance option for fem shep if the mocap actress wasnt a pussy, people rag on andromeda but the signs where there as far back as 2, even b4 inquisition which dont get me started on that b.s. uncanny valley femc cant have fucking eyebrows

What did EA mean by this?

he "dies" anyway, he can't be saved

I remember looking this song up when I first heard it and discovered the crab music video.

I know user. I just wish the first time when I was playing blind and the emotions were real that I could have made his death mean something.

>wanted to romance Liara in ME2
>they replaced her with ancient amazonian wierdo looking like a prostitute from star wars
>romanced Tali instead
>they brought Liara back in 3
i'm still mad

nice timing boys I was about to get into this series but I don't want to give anything to bioware
can you carry saves on pirated versions?

i feel ya mate, i fell for Liara in me1 and was pissed I couldn't romance her in me2, so I just went for the next best alien babe

>you can't restore him via a backed up copy of his consciousness
>the reason he dies in the first place goes against everything geth believed in ME2
forced drama desu

>can you carry saves on pirated versions?
Yeah man. Saves are kept locally so it just werks.

Yep.

Yep.

Yep.

Yep.

Yep.

There was a time where Bioware was my favorite developer uncontested and I looked forward to every single game they made.

Baldurs gate. Neverwinter Nights 1 and 2. Kotor. Mass Effect. Dragon Age:Origins.

Now I look at what they've become and just feel disgust, if you went back a decade and told me that they would become one of my most hated developers I'd have fucking laughed.

Where did it all go so wrong.

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> Where did it all go so wrong.
Gee i wonder

hmm, i wonder what could have happened after me1 and da:o to make the studio fall apart...

>being so desperate you can't go one game without fucking someone else

You never really loved her, Anons.

I fucking adore Vigil, it's an amazing song on its own but it's benefited greatly by how it was used in the game.

>main menu transports you to a serene, peaceful place every time you boot up the game
>that gentle fading through the characters and idyllic lull into a future world you want to live in
>then Ilos, with the slow buildup
>that amazing atmosphere that felt like the entire weight of millennia crashing down upon you
>the gentle heartbeat throbbing in the background the entire time, and the long, long waterway descending into a dead alien land
>walking into the room with Vigil and the track starts playing after so much buildup
>it's the emotional climax of the entire story, with so much narrative weight building and paying off simultaneously
>the sheer tragedy of the Protheans' history, the realization you're amidst the final tombs

Fuck what an amazing moment.

you shut your mouth right now

You're like the fucking Geth right now.

Why would you love the most incompetent Shadow Broker in history in the first place?

Literally play this every year, might as well get it done early.

Yeah i didn't. Asaris are manipulative bitches. youtube.com/watch?v=nNYj2XvVv7s
But Liara was undoubtedly best character for romance imo.
Definitely better than miss """"""""""biological perfection"""""""""" or a gypsy that could die because of your cum

huh, I actually completely forgot she became the shadow broker. that and her position in general in ME2 felt like such a weird turn for her character. going from a passionate archaeologist(?) to basically a mob boss

>le Asari true form theory
Off yourself, retard.

No wonder you did, Traynor did literally everything for her. "Very good shadow broker", yeah right.

That and encountering Sovereign.

You are not Saren.

I played them all at release and replayed them many times until 3 came out. This summer I replayed them all back to back for the first time. 1 was definitely the best in most regards except characters, which I think is where 2 truly excelled. The story in 2 was totally flaccid and the gameplay was your generic cover shooter with light dialogue choices and minimal customization. Granted, ME1 wasn't exactly a great RPG for its roleplaying mechanics, but it at least had roleplaying mechanics. ME2 was by comparison streamlined, and not for the better. That's not to say ME2 was bad, in fact I have a ton of fun with it. Most of its side quests are great and pretty memorable, especially the loyalty missions which are generally the highlight for me. The suicide mission was amazing the first time but after repeat playthroughs it loses its magic because you see they could have taken it way further.

ME3 is a clunky, fucked up turd from beginning to end. There is a single segment that's good - Tuchanka - and to be fair it really is quite superb in my opinion. It's one of my favorite parts of the series, but it's surrounded by shit. The entire story in 3 is terrible, the character interactions are far weaker, the gameplay is smoother than 2 but it's not exactly engaging at all, and most of the areas are pretty damn forgettable. Then the shitstain cherry on top with the abysmal fucking ending.

ME1 is an excellent, self-contained game. The series should have featured completely different stories each entry about the ongoing adventures of Commander Shepard & Alien Co., like the 70s space operas and serials it was a love letter to. The Reapers really weighed the series down and trapped it in a really shitty writing corner, and it's a real shame.

Is this one of the greatest examples of
>it's ok to be cliche
ever?
Like sometimes - God forbid - it's fine to just have people handing out medals while the Throne Room theme plays? Instead of trying to be gay as fuck with your "there's no perfectly right answer, look how good I am at nuanced writing :^)" garbage that shits on the main protagonist, his close friends, and galaxy as a whole?

Don't they all want to fuck Vetra now?

I don't know, I haven't touched Andromeda and last time I went on /meg/ was mid 2013.

Because dark energy ending got leaked, they had to rewrite the script. Or some shit like this. And now it turns out Saren was right all along.

it might be nostalgia for a decade old game but
I have yet to play a game that evoked such a strange feeling of wonder and sadness
Nier:Automata is up their now but still doesn't pack the same punch

Well I just checked and they pretty much have 50% of the posts as slutty turians so I guess so.

>And now it turns out Saren was right all along.
That actually kinda made his character a little more tragic in hindsight after all, but it's not worth it for the shitacular ending we ended up with.

>it might be nostalgia for a decade old game but
It is, but it's well deserved. I've played it as recently as a few months ago and it truly holds up as one of the most wondrous, melancholy games I've played. Especially Ilos, that fucking planet is the real treasure of that game and one of the best settings of any game ever as far as I'm concerned.

Chances of us ever seeing shepard again boys?
It still hurts/

I cant even remember the last time I went into a game with innocence and no idea what to expect. It feels like advertisements ruin games for me as they show so much and on top of that my experience leaves me with biases and prejudices that spoil them from the get go. I just want a good game that I am excited for but don't know every fucking thing about.

The side quests were definitely ME2's strongest points. I remember starting my first follower mission and being surprised that it was a proper scripted mission and not just a barren landscape with an objective on the other side of it like most of ME1's side quests were.

Tuchanka was absolutely GOAT, beginning to end. It's a shame The Illusive Man and Cerberus were completely squandered, seemingly just so that there would be another enemy type besides the reapers.

Ending should have been like the Suicide Mission but on a grander scale i.e. instead of selecting which squadmates to put where, you select which fleets and such go where and fulfill what role. This would also reward you for knowing more about each race and their attributes.

Hopefully never. I remember what happened when I asked for more Revan and they gave me the book and then TOR

The dark energy ending was never on the table. it was just what the original writer said he had planned to write but never got it out of the concept phase as he was moved to the SWtOR team.

The rewrite of the ending was due to time restraints. game was rushed. same old story.

>it's been a good ride.
>...the best

Tfw no big futa asari gf

ME3 should have been entirely about gathering galactic resources, and then utilizing them to their fullest extent. Have the last mission or two put Shepard in command of everything by happenstance or by being the last one alive capable of commanding it all. Delegate and make choices about who does what and actually form the plan for defeating the reapers from scratch, your success lies totally in the hands of the player, their choices, and what they managed to accomplish in the game to gather resources. Hard choices, ones with actual consequences, where entire races must be sacrificed, billions of lives and immeasurable damage, down to the very last man, woman, and child if need be just to scrape by one more day and win at all costs. Make it very difficult to actually succeed, and impossible to get by without extremely heavy costs. At the very least, most of your crew should end up dead, and all because of your choices. The final moments of the game should then play out as a result of your actions across the games, not dictated by any one final choice but a culmination of them.

maybe another 10 years for a remaster but even then I doubt it

best case scenario is that some new company EA buys remasters and redoes the story after 1

>there is an alternate timeline where Bioware didn't get bought out by EA and became its own standalone entity that created classics well past our time
>this same universe also saw HL3 come out to universal praise and Duke Nukem Forever was a pop culture phenomenon

it hurts...

Even if EA never bought Bioware, they would have still evolved into a shitty SJW asylum and their games suffered

>Chances of us ever seeing shepard again boys?
Sub-zero, unless you count the nuShepard they'll give us in the inevitable ME1 reboot in 2025 that has barely any of the charisma the original Shep had

first playthrough of the trilogy and especially me1 remains one of my last truly fond vidya memories

Commander

>playing through ME3 at launch
>stopped to get something to eat
>get back on and go into party chat with a friend
>start talking about the Mordin part and what happened on each of our ends
>third friend joins in and hears "yeah I shot Mordin"
>WHAT THE FUCK
good times
thanks for reading my blog

best girl

>sterile
>best girl
may as well fuck the robot, her fat ass will never get saggy and wrinkly

How'd Bioware cock up her face that badly?

Maybe because that's fan art you retard.

Based on Bioware's shitty facejob

>10 years

Modders were able to salvage at least some of it

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is that supposed to look better?

>ME1 story
>ME2 presentation and music
>ME3 combat
Why was it so difficult for bioware to make this?

Time to download the PC version. Although ever since the release of 3 I've had a sour taste the few times I've tried to replay through the series. Don't make it past the first few missions of the first one

>supposed to
Yes

Actually thats a very flexible statement.

>Character progression was great

Then ME2 and ME3 happened

>The world was very deep and interesting

Then ME2 and ME3 happened

>It wasn't ME2 and ME3

Then ME2 and ME3 happened.

ME2 has the best character progression and world building, though.

DA:Origins>all ME games

DA:O is the magnum opus of Bioware.

>world building
This pistol doesn't have a thermal clip.