d6774f No.14655635
Haven't played these since release. I dusted off Mass Effect 1 and still had an old save file in there from 2010, so I thought I'd play through again on the unlocked "hardcore difficulty".
About 4 hours in, I'm rushing through but not exactly speedrunning, and I'm already at Virmire which is like 70% of the game done.
It seems like barely anything has happened. Are the other games really this fucking short and barebones? How did I take 25+ hours on my first play through?
9b8e1e No.14655832
>>14655635
>How did I take 25+ hours on my first play through?
Maybe because it was a new character and you had to do sidequests and explore the galaxy?
When I replay Mass Effect 1 I usually make an insanity run with a character that has already everything because I just want to have fun with the singularity and the physics engine.
50a699 No.14655842
POZZ EFFECT WAS NEVER GOOD
8701a8 No.14655846
>>14655842
X was never good was never good.
a11230 No.14655848
Stop at ME1 and then feel hollow that the game never got proper sequels, that the story went off the rails and it got pozzed to oblivion.
7df1e7 No.14655866
>>14655842
First one was a breddy gud 5/10 arpg
Rest are complete dogshit however and I will never take to heart the opinion of any faggot who professes their love for ME2 in some sort of sad sap attempt at appearing "cultured"
9b8e1e No.14655884
>>14655866
>ME2
I hate when people praise ME2 saying that it's better than ME1. It's bullshit, ME2 is a downgrade of the first game. Everything has been toned down, from the exploration to the talents and the gear. Instead of fixing and improving the features (like the inventory or the Mako) they just removed them completely.
a0b700 No.14655896
>>14655848
>great game
What was great about it? I'm genuinely confused. Every aspect of the gameplay is shit, it plays like a godawful third-person shooter with even worse vehicle sections, the story is the same shit BioWare has been peddling for years. The only thing people seem to actually praise is the worldbuilding, but that's just generic space opera stuff they stole from other IPs.
I tried playing ME1 and got bored of the terrible combat, muddy visuals, janky animations and uninspired plot and worldbuilding. Does it get so much praise because people that like it have never read a science fiction book in their lives?
d6774f No.14655913
>>14655884
I dunno man, I remember combat in ME2 being a massive step up. Sure, everything else might be worse but maybe I have rose tinted glasses. I'll find out soon enough!
da0cce No.14655928
>>14655832
If only Tali's ass was actually that good in game.
The ayys in Ass Erect were great, but what really baffled me is how they never let you fuck a male Turian in the original trilogy. Garrus was the heartthrob of ME's gay playerbase but Bioware would rather let you fuck some ugly wop-looking motherfucker nobody liked.
a11230 No.14655939
>>14655896
I'll admit it was pretty much my first RPG, so I am biased. I'm wary of replaying it because of nostalgia goggles.
9b8e1e No.14655946
>>14655913
The combat got casualized too, they replaced the weapons' heat sink with thermal clips so the combat turned into "run around the combat area to find thermal clips or you're fucked".
>>14655928
Speaking of love interests, I've never understood Kaidan's appeal. He seems to be on the top of the list according to the "community" but I once made the mistake of saving him on Virmire and oh my god the guy was so boring in ME3.
6c7f0e No.14655963
>>14655635
Like 70-90% of the content in Mass Effect is optional sidequest bullshit on planets you never have to set foot on. if you just ignore that stuff, you'll cut your time played dramatically.
Also, because you've played the game to completion before, foreknowledge of the environments is ingrained into your mind. Even if you spent over a decade between play sessions, you'd still be able to recognize where you are and deduce where you need to be going without much issue.
Finally, you might very well have spent some of that time dicking around trying to trigger dialogue from party members or looping through their conversations to see everything they have to say.
>>14655946
He's Carth Onassi with telekinesis. I'm assuming half the love he gets is because of the latter and how it affects combat, and the other half is because also because of the latter, but as a fetish.
503691 No.14655974
Spent so much time and money on these games. Yes ME3 was a let down, but the Citadel DLC saved it.
Mass Effect is a good example of how games are dumbed down for the masses. Both in gameplay and writing.
42f382 No.14655984
>>14655848
ME2 was a reasonable sequel. Did some stuff better, some stuff worse. Really my biggest issue in the game was adding reloading into the game, which just kind of ignored previous lore., and lore was easily the most important part of Mass Effect. 3 was disappointingly ok until the ending, where it became irredeemable shit. The trilogy was pretty close to being a classic trilogy that would go down in history, but they fucked it massively.
d6774f No.14655986
>>14655963
>Like 70-90% of the content in Mass Effect is optional sidequest bullshit on planets you never have to set foot on.
True, but I was still shocked at how short it is. I recently replayed Baldurs Gate 1 / 2 with expansions and that took me north of 80 hours (and I know the games inside out).
I'm just surprised at how quick it was, although I know I'm comparing apples to oranges. Is ME2 equally short? I recall it being meatier.
d6774f No.14655988
>>14655984
>Really my biggest issue in the game was adding reloading
Wasn't the lore here that they wanted weapons to put as many rounds downrange as possible, so built in universal heatsinks that enabled guns to just keep firing as long as you could keep replacing them?
42f382 No.14655995
>>14655896
>Uninspired worldbuilding.
Nigger what? Mass Effect did a lot wrong, but it's world building is some of the best I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. You should try actually reading the codex.
>>14655988
Yep. The issue being that, once you ran out of disposable heatsinks, the guns were unusable in 2. You were no longer able to tactically choose the best weapon for the moment, you had to worry about ammo constraints.
d2213c No.14656009
>>14655988
That didn't make any sense anyway since the first game let you add frictionless parts to your gun which would remove nearly any heat you could possibly build up. The first time I played ME, I ended up building an assault rifle that took a little over three minutes of sustained fire to overheat, and most enemies died before I could reach two.
85627b No.14656023
I never understood why Dragon Age got shafted while they put effort to ME tbh. Imo DA:O > ME
fe742b No.14656025
>>14655866
>5 out of 10
>"good"
What the fuck?
d6774f No.14656028
>>14656009
> remove nearly any heat you could possibly build up.
False, they removed like 20% of the heat build up, so helped a lot but didn't mitigate entirely. You also sacrificed some damage output too.
>>14656009
Try playing on the harder unlocked difficulties (like I'm doing now). Enemies take a lot more punishment.
d5932d No.14656031
The problem with 2 is it felt so "Hollywood." The first one had promise but needed a bit of a touch up in some areas. They went overboard with the second though. As soon as I saw the Jack character it put it beyond any doubt that they went in the wrong direction.
d6774f No.14656036
>>14656031
The main problem with Mass Effect is that they had arguably one of the most menacing antagonists, the Reapers, which you feel are just crushingly, overwhelmingly, unstoppably powerful, and totally neutered them.
The first game has this amazing monologue by Sovereign, but by the third game you're taking them out on foot in combat. It's fucking bananas.
42f382 No.14656046
>>14656036
Yeah, it was pretty great how the climatic fight of 1 wasn't about fighting the Reapers, but more about closing the door because they were an unstoppable force. 2's ending was pretty good as well, though in retrospect it had already started to make the reapers less of a threat. It would have been better if you had to fight only a handful of reapers, and at the end figured a way to lock them out of the Mass relay system, and just ended on the note that in the infinite vastness of space, there is real bad shit you hope never finds you.
a11230 No.14656055
>>14656046
My ending for ME would have been a bittersweet one. You have to use the Mass relays to destroy the Reapers, but they are destroyed in the process. So all the races are forever separated, all the systems separated.
3d9f7d No.14656059
>>14656025
5 out of 10 is accurate for an "average" game. It's not stellar, but it's functional and enjoyable as a game. The media has fucked it that a 7 is a fucking terrible game, 8 is average, while 9 and 10 are media shilled 'best game" shit.
>>14656046
>>14656036
They never needed to explain them and had so many fucking cupons to make the story great, but EA just took a massive dump on it.
Oh, and techno ninja fuck from 3 was intended to mostly be "this is Shepard if you embraced the idea that you are a cyborg who wants to fuck people up" and if you were an asshole anyway, you were "this guy admires you because you're so alike".
He wasn't supposed to be an untouchable faggot.
52aac7 No.14656074
>>14655984
I've been replaying the second game recently and I've got to say I think the first was better. The first game had a clear idea of what it was trying to do and put a lot of work into the world-building. The second had some nice squadmates and loyalty missions (Moridin, Tali's loyalty mission) but also had some really strange/stupid ideas (Cerberus suddenly being some big powerful organisation that are the only people who believe Shepard, killing Shepard and the Normandy only to bring them back, the whole Collector/Human Reaper thing that went nowhere, the Council no longer believing in the Reapers, E.T.C.). Overall I'd say if ME3 had had ME1 tier writing or near it then the second game would've been remembered as easily the weakest simply because the main plot of it goes nowhere in relation to the other games and it made a bunch of stupid decisions with the story that weren't necessary.
Pretty much this: >>14656031. Take a look at the Normandy getting blown up at the start of ME2 and ask yourself what it added to the plot. Or if the Illusive Man couldn't have been replaced with the Council. They're both things that look/sound cool the first time you see them but when you look back at them knowing where the rest of the story goes you realise it doesn't really make much sense and has no actual depth. In ME1 for the most part things made sense if you looked at them, in ME2 and 3 they don't. By Andromeda the writers were just hoping no-one paid attention to plot-holes in RPGs.
>>14656046
To be honest I love the concept of the Suicide Mission in ME2 but I just wish it was set up differently. As it is you spend 90% of the game preparing for it without the foggiest clue on what you're actually supposed to do there and ultimately the human Reaper angle went nowhere. It'd probably have worked a lot better IMO if you were heading there to steal the blueprints to some ancient Prothean anti-Reaper weapon or something, at least that way it'd fit into Shepards goal at the end of ME1 (find a way to stop the Reapers) whilst also meaning that when you started talking about the Crucible in ME3 it wasn't just a complete arsepull but something the players had worked to get in the previous game.
Tl;DR: Bioware killed Mass Effect because they tried to replace a coherent world with shiny explosions and now we'll never get to bang Quarians again.
8b2d9f No.14656076
>>14656028
>False, they removed like 20% of the heat build up, so helped a lot but didn't mitigate entirely.
That may be the case for rifles, though I wouldn't know since I didn't use that garbage, but I definitely had a pistol that had infinite rate of fire by the end of the game. It was impossible to overheat with the right mods on it.
d6774f No.14656081
>>14656076
>It was impossible to overheat with the right mods on it.
I'm using explosive rounds since they're the only thing that do decent damage and my pistol overheats after like 3 shots.
9b8e1e No.14656086
>>14656059
>Oh, and techno ninja fuck from 3 was intended to mostly be "this is Shepard if you embraced the idea that you are a cyborg who wants to fuck people up" and if you were an asshole anyway, you were "this guy admires you because you're so alike".
It was as bad as the Shepard clone from the Citadel DLC.
d2213c No.14656090
>>14656028
>they removed like 20% of the heat build up
They removed 20%, 24% and 28% depending on which level of upgrade you had. You could remove 56% of heat buildup on any gun with mods alone, and remove even more with the overkill skill and guns with high heat thresholds.
>You also sacrificed some damage output too
Frictionless materials would add damage, not remove it.
>Try playing on the harder unlocked difficulties (like I'm doing now). Enemies take a lot more punishment
I actually tried to play it again just a few months ago, but I got so bored that I stopped. I don't doubt that a harder difficulty would make the game more challenging, but it would end up being more of a slog than a fun challenge to overcome. I'd rather have more difficult enemies, larger groups and more advanced AI tactics than simple health and damage tweaks.
4d3cdc No.14656093
I had more fun playing 2 since the gameplay wasn't a chore, 2's biggest problem was the filler plot and how it felt more like a expac. But it's biggest strengths were the character arcs, interactions and how in the final mission all of what you did previously mattered.
52aac7 No.14656095
>>14656081
Then don't use explosive rounds, use the pistol ability in conjunction with incendiary rounds or some other non-heat increasing ammo and the level ten heat reduction mods. You basically end up with an SMG that you can fire non-stop while your weapons heat level actually drops.
8b2d9f No.14656098
>>14656081
Maybe stop playing incorrectly? It's been ages since I played ME1, but I know you are 100% wrong. End game pistols have infinite rate of fire and do great damage. At least, if you smack them around with the magic-equivalent and remove all armor first. I can't remember how they fair against duders with normal stats it's been like 10 years get off my back.
Regardless, I recall the game was piss easy since you could magic everything into a helpless state and chunk their HP away.
9b8e1e No.14656099
>>14656081
Why don't you give the explosive rounds to your teammates?
d6774f No.14656102
>>14656090
>You could remove 56% of heat buildup on any gun with mods alone, and remove even more with the overkill skill and guns with high heat thresholds.
That's not "nearly any heat".
I wouldn't want to buy an anti-bacterial gel that killed "like, 60% or something" of bacteria. I'd want something that was lethal to 99.999%.
d2213c No.14656123
>>14656102
Overkill removes 60% of heat buildup, which gives you 17.6% heat when you subtract from the 44% left over from the mod reduction. Even if you do end up building a good amount of heat, you could stop firing for a couple seconds and it would cool down completely.
>I wouldn't want to buy an anti-bacterial gel that killed "like, 60% or something" of bacteria
We're talking about how thermal clips are unnecessary when guns could function well enough without them. Your Lysol analogy doesn't apply here.
9af3ee No.14656132
Mass effect 1 was a clunky but ambitious rpg
Mass effect 2 fucked the lore, started the downfall, but can be enjoyable if you focus on the characters and less on the universe
Mass effect 3 has good shooting mechanics. At this point the franchise has gone to shit in EA's grasp and that's the only compliment that I can can give it
4c199a No.14656158
>>14655635
>trilogy
Mass Effect is the only Mass Erect game that exists.
4c25b9 No.14656200
>>14655896
Anon, nobody are gonna tell you the truth but this game is considered good because it´s the ONLY space opera game in 3D (Yet it´s a plagiarism of star control IN EVERY ASPECT), that´s why it´s considered a masterpiece, because there´s no competition.
The worldbuilding was good but that´s like the 5% of the game, the rest is a crappy mess designed to waifufags with a skin so thick they will literally burn anyone who says Liara is a mary sue and it is.
The only thing i wanted was a game where i can visit other planets, shoot aliens in the face and bang their females without having to save the FUCKING UNIVERSE.
4c25b9 No.14656237
>>14656200
Thin skin, for fucks sake.
9b8e1e No.14656243
>>14656200
> it´s the ONLY space opera game in 3D (Yet it´s a plagiarism of star control IN EVERY ASPECT), that´s why it´s considered a masterpiece, because there´s no competition.
It still pisses me off that Santa Monica Studio was forced to cancel a space opera ARPG because Sony wanted them to make God of Soy.
a0b700 No.14656254
>>14656200
>because there´s no competition
That's still no reason to call it a masterpiece.
>designed to waifufags
So why are all waifus so fucking shit then? Most of them aren't even pure. Oh, wait, I know, it's because Western nerds have absolutely zero standards.
9af3ee No.14656258
>>14656200
Liara was devoid of personality and only had one moment of weakness is the entire trilogy. I think that she was only popular because the only other option in the original game was Ashley and she's a shitter.
>>14656243
Starwars 1313 never ever
5d277f No.14656271
>>14655928
It fucking disgusted me when they made garrus romanceable. He was THE buddy in the trilogy, the one alien bro who had your back, and knew what you were going through, and they ruin that shit by letting fempshep ride his turian tip, even though they're not even compatible species. Garrus was never for cuddle, but for blasting your enemies with. Disgusting.
32f25f No.14656324
>>14656059
An average but enjoyable game is a 6/10, not a 5/10, 5/10 is not bad but completely forgettable. A score above 5 implies that it's worth your time at all.
9e1497 No.14656393
>>14656271
I thought I was the only one who felt this way. I never played as femShep but it still just made me feel dirty thinking about it. The platonic/romantic line should never blur like that.
7df1e7 No.14656409
>>14656025
On the scale of ignore-to-buy it's a pretty solid "worth a pirate and a single playthrough"
b34a58 No.14656424
>>14655866
>>14655842
I dropped the ME1 about 12 hours in unlike OP, I was kinda taking my time, trying to experience everything the game has and I realized it was a piece of shit basically on the same level as your average Bethesda RPG. The writing was about on par with a teen fiction novel and there wasn't really any reason to make the game an RPG. It's just an open-ended TPS game with mediocre gunplay. Nothing more.
9b8e1e No.14656425
>>14656271
It could be worse, you could've gotten into a relationship with Thane. I made the wrong dialogue choice in 2 (I just wanted to know more about his culture) and there was no way to back out so that fucking frog alien fell in love with my femshep and that fucked up my partnership with Liara.
41a363 No.14656427
A few years back, that Mass Effect Trilogy game came out on the 360, PS3, and PC. The PC version has the best graphics and shit, but the PS3 version came with the most base content. (With stuff like the Shadow Broker and Kasumi DLC already on the disc. So even if all the DLC on your PS3 got deleted somehow, you still would have assess to the on-disc DLC.)
For a comparision of the base content of all three trilogy compilations, check this out: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_Trilogy
But the PS3 version is not without its downsides though. It might not have multiple discs like the bothersome 360 version did, but the PS3 version easily had the worst graphics and framerate of all 3 versions. (It's also unable to install the Pinnacle Station DLC, whereas the PC and 360 versions can. Not that it really matters, because that DLC was meh at best.)
I still prefer the PS3 version overall (I personally hate downloading ANY DLC whatsoever. Games should come with AS MUCH base content as possible. Not nickel and diming you at every opportunity with DLC bullshit). But I really do wish this trilogy gets a "proper" compilation soon. I don't really give a fuck which platform it is (PS4, Xbone, PC, Switch), just so long as it comes with ALL of this series' DLC already included within the base content. Especially the ME3 DLCs which came with a massive number of war assets that makes getting the bestish? endings more possible.
9b8e1e No.14656528
>>14656427
The PS3 version was the worst though.
4d71a6 No.14656540
416cd6 No.14656568
>>14656393
>>14656271
waifu faggots ruin everything
d2f727 No.14656610
There is only one question for the original trilogy.
TALI OR LI'ARA
b6749f No.14656621
Mass Effect 1 is an unfinished mess of a game. Shooting in it feels terrible, it has four guns in the entire game, skills are largely the same thing. Your squadmates are all boring and speak three times in the entire game. The story is about ANCIENT EVIL AWAKENING. The setting doesn't make sense, since every character treats you like a bitch despite being an elite agent of the most powerful government in the universe. I played it to completion, and it's a giant dreg to play through.
The only reason people like it is because the development was held up and the guy writing the lore had years to develop it. However, none of this worldbuilding shows up in the game and if I wanted to read a book I'd read a fucking book.
Mass Effect 2 cut out the time wasting activities of ME1 and made the game dun to play. The guns now behave and sound differently. You no longer have infinite ammo, and that creates more interesting combat scenarios. Instead of slowly driving around an empty square on a Mako and doing a minigame to gain useless resources you snipe that shit from orbit and use it to upgrade your guns. Instead of every sidemission happening in a copypasted bunker you now have them take place on different worlds.
Mass Effect 2 was a giant step up, made for a fun shooter game about space adventures with a group of misfits and people who prefer the gameplay of ME1 might have brain damage.
Mass Effect 3 goes back to ME1 formula of "every sidequest is not developed". The game wants you to do a shitload of useless garbage. There aren't proper dialogues anymore, squadmates talk twice in the entire game. Most missions take place in what are clearly repurposed multiplayer maps. The shooting is fine and there are more weapons, but the return to ME1 system of "slap 1 - 10 number on a weapon's name and pretend each is a separate gun" reflects poorly on the game. It also feels like a chore to play and unlike ME1 doesn't have a decent ending.
So, rush through ME1, play ME2 and ignore ME3.
b6749f No.14656627
>>14656610
Dumb question, everybody knows who's the best girl.
38952b No.14656630
>>14656610
>implying that's even a question
Talk every time. Space whores with tentacle hair that are probably disgusting but just mind control you need not apply.
38952b No.14656632
9af3ee No.14656635
>>14656610
Use the spoilers, nigger.
For your question,
>>14656258
>>14656200
Liara is not an interesting character. The fact is as plain and simple as her personality.
Tali has actual character development. It's enough to make a man believe that bioware can write until he remembers everything else they fucked up.
90ef4d No.14656637
>>14656610
Liara, she went through hell n back for you, and you can have children with her
d2f727 No.14656658
>>14656640
I don't know what to think about this, it's at the same time fucking retarded and really cute.
41f078 No.14656660
Ashley is best girl, only /leftypol/ disagrees.
d2f727 No.14656667
>>14656660
She has the best arse, but liking arse over tits is massive niggerish doode.
b6749f No.14656671
>>14656660
Ashley is a fucking alcoholic and a whore that will fuck the buff guy at a party.
She is also a complete bitch, continuing the cowardly line of the Williamses.
The only good thing about her is that she was named after Ash from Evil Dead.
5bf2fd No.14656672
>>14656660
>Ashley
>only /leftypol/ disagrees.
No. She leaves you in the second game, always bitches about random stuff, is damn shallow and unfaithful.
Also:
>>14656667
ffdd35 No.14656684
>>14656640
That was cute and you're a nigger.
dcd843 No.14656696
>Mass Effect thread
>Quickly becomes a waifu thread
The worse part is I'm not even surprised.
Also, as much as I like Tali, Liara is still best girl
ffdd35 No.14656700
d3f5fd No.14656709
>>14655896
>great game
What was great about it? I'm genuinely confused. Every aspect of the gameplay is shit, it plays like a godawful third-person RPG with even worse dungeon sections, the story is the same shit Bethesda has been peddling for years. The only thing people seem to actually praise is the worldbuilding, but that's just generic fantasy stuff they stole from other IPs.
I tried playing Morrowind and got bored of the terrible combat, muddy visuals, janky animations and uninspired plot and worldbuilding. Does it get so much praise because people that like it have never read a fantasy book in their lives?
9b8e1e No.14656718
>>14656621
>Your squadmates are all boring and speak three times in the entire game.
You should play ME:A.
>Mass Effect 3 goes back to ME1 formula of "every sidequest is not developed". The game wants you to do a shitload of useless garbage.
The way they designed the sidequests/fedex in ME3 was really retarded: "I need that thing. Go to that quadrant of the galaxy, have fun wasting your time going system after system, planet after planet to finally get a ping also everytime you use your radar it attracts the Reapers".
The only good thing in ME3 was the sound design.
b6749f No.14656726
>>14656718
I hated the sound in ME3 mostly because of adrenaline rush. In ME2 it distorted every gunshot and voices, in ME3 it did absolutely nothing.
5bf2fd No.14656729
>>14656132
This
>Mass effect 3 has good shooting mechanics
No shooting mechanics were best in 1 because it matched the game.
They are really innovative futuristic weapons instead of normal ones in cool plastic cases.
>characters
The followers in 1 were pretty shallow. In 2 they over dramatize everything. The characters of 2 aren't that good either (see Jack) and in 1 you already had tons of characters whose equipment already got hard to manage. And you can only take 2 at a time anyways. Quality > Quantity
Tali and Miranda are best, even through Tali always cries and Miranda will bitches about her father even when he's not there anyways just so she can have something to bitch about.
I'd say 1 is best followed by 2. And only play 3 with "MEHEM - The Mass Effect (3) Happy Ending Mod" if you're the type who can't finish without an ending.
b6749f No.14656739
>>14656729
>shooting mechanics were best in 1 because it matched the game.
You mean, were as bland and buggy as the rest of it?
They are the very same normal weapons only now they have infinite ammo and can't fucking shoot straight.
I have a soft spot for Jack for some reason. I kinda like that things that other games would make a pivotal point of their story arc (i.e. being raped in a prison toilet by six guys) only gets a passing mention in here and is ridiculously easy to miss.
5bf2fd No.14656747
>>14656640
>who doesn't love good cross-species moments
Jew infestation shining through. 3 really doesn't need to be played EVER.
>speaks broken English
good that I played it in German where she didn't speak like that if I remember correctly
>watching TV in space in a DLC
good that I didn't buy the DLCs because they weren't in the collection I bought on amazon for 15€
ffdd35 No.14656749
>>14656739
The real crime of ME was the fact you couldn't fuck legion or any other geth.
5bf2fd No.14656754
>>14656739
>can't fucking shoot straight.
Correction: You can't.
>soft spot for Jack
>raped in a prison toilet by six guys
Because you're a cuck.
5bf2fd No.14656771
>>14656739
>buggy
>1
I only remember getting stuck in 2 and 3 all the time because they fucked up collision in certain places. I remembered that very well and 1 definitely wasn't that buggy.
b6749f No.14656836
>>14656771
I played ME1 on ps3 a couple of weeks back.
The bugs I encoutered were mostly about enemies getting thrown outside of the level by explosion/powers and not counting towards quest completion.
I also got flipped over on the Mako and could only get back to Normandy as the usual flipping over mechanics weren't working.
>>14656754
>one of the best in elite forces N7
>fucking war hero
>the soldier humanity chose as their best guy
>can't fucking shoot straight
9af3ee No.14656840
>>14656836
Which class are you using?
b6749f No.14656854
>>14656840
This time? Soldier.
It kinda sucks that by ME3 there isn't really a point to playing soldier though, everyone can do what he can.
4c25b9 No.14657019
>>14656718
I liked the multiplayer mode Human engineer best starter Geth Juggernaut best character
9b8e1e No.14657059
>>14656726
>I hated the sound in ME3
Dem loud biotic explosions though.
>>14657019
>I liked the multiplayer mode
Me too. The progression system was bad though, I never got the old school Avenger rifle from ME1 and the Prothean beam weapon.
>Human engineer best starter
I agree. The drone gets really useful once you get the rockets. In ME:A the drone gets a flamethrower
bceffd No.14657060
>>14656747
>I bought on amazon for 15€
>Not just pirating the whole thing including the dlc's which have good weapons and armors
Maximum retarded goy over here.
bceffd No.14657096
>>14656854
>everyone can do what he can.
Try saying that after you deck him fully for damage and choose double damage on ammo skills for his last trait.
Then equip the particle rifle, use inciendary ammo and watch every damn unit in the game burn down in seconds.
2349c5 No.14657113
>>14656258
>ME1
>ashley is a religious nut
>always let her die on virmire
>liara is a fucking autist generic blue space babe
>tali isn't fuckable
>garrus isn't fuckable
>always go virgin route
>ME2
>miranda is a fucking tranny
>mfw manface miranda ranting about her perfect looks and genetics
>liara became a NEET
>ashley is fucking dead
>jack is a degenerate delinquent
>still can't fuck garrus unless femshep
>tali got dat booty, dat skinsuit
>always go tali route
>ME3
>choose never to buy ME3 due to the shit they pulled
>get it for free recently, though
>start playing through it
>the animations are comically hilarious
>the normandy is a poorly designed piece of shit now
>get a million generic fetchquests cluttering up the log
>decide it's shit and quit playing after a few hours
>still know roughly how the story goes
>at this point i've long since become redpilled
>now i can only see quarians as space muslim refugees
>quarians also go full retard towards the geth
>tfw still want that quarian pussy but quarians are retarded
ec3de7 No.14657114
There is no need to waste your time on this piece of shit franchise.
5bf2fd No.14657119
>>14656836
>on ps3
>enemies getting thrown outside of the level
Did it stop you from completing a quest?
>flipped over on the Mako
>could only get back to Normandy
So what? Way better than loading a save. You can just land again.
>>14656836
>can't fucking shoot straight
Well I wouldn't either when playing
>on ps3
>>14657060
Yes, I regret that. Don't worry I uninstalled Origin long ago.
a0b700 No.14657123
>>14657113
Tali would be okay if she didn't have those disgusting hands and feet.
d3f5fd No.14657125
>>14657113
>mfw manface miranda ranting about her perfect looks and genetics
No shit, what was up with that? The only conclusion I can draw is that Bioware artists were trying to push some "non-conventional beauty" shit. They modeled her after pic related, and somehow ended up with that. Nice ass though. Maybe perfect genes just mean a nice ass, that's alright.
cb59fc No.14657127
I was pretty excited when I started the first game, but I never played much of it. That could be my next game since I recently finished Resident Evil 3.
3d9f7d No.14657134
>>14656610
>Liara
>you come back from the dead and she tells you to fuck off when you come back and try to take her with you
nah that cunt had her shot.
3bc007 No.14657137
Only ever played the first one. Did anything neat get done with the robot janitor bugs that were clearly being set up as bbeg hiding in plain sight, or did they scrap that idea for them being a consistent set piece?
a0b700 No.14657139
>>14657125
The IRL model is equally ugly. Manjaw, huge forehead and buckteeth. The only reason she got the job is because Chuck was popular among the soycucks at the time.
Wish they'd gone with Monica Bellucci or someone else actually attractive.
9b8e1e No.14657144
>>14657113
>ashley is a religious nut
*tips fedora*
2349c5 No.14657147
d3f5fd No.14657150
a0b700 No.14657153
>>14657150
No, I just have actual standards when it comes to 3DPD. Most of the women the media describes as good looking are complete gutter trash that can only look halfway presentable after ten layers of makeup and hundreds of hours of photoshop.
b6749f No.14657160
>>14657096
Not like you ever need to shoot in ME3 though.
>>14657113
Quarians aren't muslim refugees, they are space gypsies.
>>14657119
I could complete the quest this time, but on my first playthrough it fucked me out of the Keeper quest. Was annoying as hell.
The can't shoot straight is less about aiming and more about the aiming getting less precise with each shot. When you fully level your skil for that weapon and get spectre weapons it is normal, but at that point the game is already over anyway.
>>14657137
The only neat thing with them was the culmination of ME1. The entire twist revolves around them.
>>14657134
Liara doesn't go with you because she's trying to save the guy who saved you. Or take revenge, or whatever. She's literally the only reason Shepard gets resurrected.
The real reason she doesn't go is because she could die in the last mission like every other squadmate and the devs like her too much to allow that
d3f5fd No.14657162
>>14657153
Well Yvonne is probably a lot less hot without makeup but she's at least as attractive as Monica in the publicity shots. Plus Yvonne has a nice ass, though not Miranda tier.
5bf2fd No.14657168
>>14657153
>Most of the women the media describes as good looking are complete gutter trash
This
>>14657125
This too. At least the character didn't bitch as much as Ashely.
eef3e3 No.14657180
>>14657123
Like if you want to talk xenophilia Tali's entire design is accidentally one of the worst for that shit. The whole point of wanting to fuck an alien is because of seeing another sentient with an exotic body and wanting to crash a meteor into their crater because of it.
Tali's covered up, so you have to use your imagination, They cheaped out in ME3 and used edited stock footage with a human face when she has a body that DOESN'T at all imply she'd be similar in appearance. She has wide hips in regards to bone structure to the point that it's noticable and there's a huge gap between her legs, so if she were to stand toe to toe you'd see it, her feet have fucking clawed ends and her legs are double jointed and her hands have spaced knuckles to facilitate a three point angled grip that humans can't do. You can see she has glowing eyes behind the mask etc.
I think the whole human face reveal issue kinda defeats the point of Tali, the whole love story was building up to the face reveal and the whole theme of screwing her was love crossing boundaries and shit, with her anxiety about the whole situation compounding with the fact that her face is obscured and "walled off". They should have never revealed her face or released a concept art that detailed it after the fact.
Mass Effect was a fucking shitshow, As soon as I saw 3, it was already over. The way they handled Garrus' character arc was a generic "dating batman" situation too, they didn't really dig into his race's military culture or spiritual practices except for mild background characters saying shit like "thank the spirits", he's pretty generic.
They had this whole universe filled with great matierial like it was inspired by a fucking great D20 homebrew session and they fucking blew it and turned it into stupid hollywood bullcrap. It still pisses me off.
b6749f No.14657197
>>14657180
Remember these unused aliens? Now that would have been cool.
3bc007 No.14657204
>>14657197
Is that just a halo flood stuffed into a suit with a face stapled to it?
4d71a6 No.14657211
>>14657156
>masseffectdiedforthis
mass effect was never good. it was always kike cucknadian propaganda and the western industry deserves this.
0af765 No.14657217
>>14657204
No, it's the worms that make up the Halo fuel rod gun guys stuffed into a suit with a face stapled to it
3d9f7d No.14657223
>>14657180
Reminder that Matt Rhodes fucking hated what they did with everything in ME3 and had designs of REAL Tali as far back as ME1.
>pale skin because generations of no fucking sun
>no hair because generations of temperature control
>the purple highlights you can make out are just due to the metallic faceplate, similar to how we use Gold in our space suits to protect us from space radiation and is not an indication of color
>the entire idea is that she outwordly looks one way and you might wanna smash that but then, like meeting someone you only know online, when the mask comes off, do you REALLY still love HER or just her looks?
08cbe6 No.14657228
>>14657113
If you import a save, you can actually negotiate a treaty between quarins and geth so you can have tali's ass and legion doesn't hate you/ is dead.
3d9f7d No.14657230
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>>14657217
>>14657204
>>14657197
It's an alien so horrifyingly badly trying to take on the look of a human and failing in a spectacular way, but the idea is that, when in motion, it would look janky, horrifying, and fucking hilarious doing things no human should do. Think of Edgar from Men in Black wearing his human suit.
0af765 No.14657231
>>14657223
All the concept artist guys and low-level writers were far more intelligent than the guys who actually called the shots. I get the feeling that's how it goes with most big games
b6749f No.14657236
>>14657223
Matt's unused designs are great. Makes me sad for how badly they fucked ME3 up.
>>14657230
I think it's supposed to be a friendly race, and the face is there to be more attractive to humans. Kinda reminds me of badge seller from A Hat in Time.
3bc007 No.14657237
>>14657230
I'm still buthurt he didn't even get any nominations for that act, seriously some of the best acting in modern films and it just flew under the radar as silly
231ea9 No.14657248
>>14657236
Why would you bother with giving that gun a stock if the trooper carrying it has his upper body encased in a giant bubble that makes it impossible to shoulder?
3d9f7d No.14657259
>>14657236
Right it was supposed to be a friendly race and trying to appease the humans and most other races by looking "not so horrific" since their natural form is more amorphous and truly alien, not adhering to the seeds of the protheans.
And yes, his concept designs were fucking great. Hell, just the idea that you "accidentally" genocide a few planets and then find yourself in a showdown with the virmire survivor, but now you're playing the role of Saren, would have been enough of a brick shitting moment for the player to realize how they weren't in control anymore.
>>14657248
If I remember right, the bubble trooper was planned to be part of a flamethrower type foe and the weapon was just a placeholder.
>>14657237
Fucking seriously? Shit feels bad.
0af765 No.14657264
>>14657211
Okay. Point is, all of a sudden in ME:A the asari are talking about pronouns like they spend all day on tumblr when we know they don't have concepts of gender and are only called women because they look feminine
3bc007 No.14657271
>>14657236
>I think it's supposed to be a friendly race, and the face is there to be more attractive to humans.
Why would they bother with what humans think?
I could understand them putting on some blue facepaint or some faceted turrian prosthetics but why bother with the newest species? Although now that I think about it, it does make more sense to try to cozy up to the people that just showed up to the party and not the people that have already gotten used to bringing a mop to conversations.
b6749f No.14657276
>>14657259
In ME2 you very deliberately genocide a batarian solar system, so it's not much of a stretch,
3d9f7d No.14657289
>>14657271
As I said above, the idea is because, unlike just about everything else that has four limbs and eyes and a face in specific places, these are true aliens because all the other races are supposed to have been seeded by the Protheans. The Rachni were the only ones who made it through the clusterfuck of development. basically, in ME3, relays are opened with abandon and the new race seen in their human suits were probably going to be encountered early on without said suits but would be willing to join your cause, thus getting one as a party member.
d2213c No.14657302
>>14657228
I actually quit playing ME3 because I read that Tali would blow her brains out if you didn't buy into her retarded Geth hatred, and I was only interested in her romance questline after dealing with the fetchquest bullshit I still don't know how someone thought it made sense to add post-attack fetch quests to the pre-attack Citadel.
>>14657271
Probably because humans would be the most freaked out by them since they're the most recent species and "grotesque killer aliens" are part of human popular culture. They could even dress that way out of habit in some places like the Citadel.
9af3ee No.14657316
>>14657223
This bullshit right here is why I hate mass appeal. Making the Quarians generally friendly but unattractive beneath the suits could have been a stroke of genius. Tali's face reveal could have been timeless moment in the franchise, something which made players think about how they understand beauty, but they backed out of the original design and used a fucking photoshoop because doing something interesting and thought provoking is risky.
At least Andromeda exploded in Biocuck's face.
08cbe6 No.14657320
>>14657316
They should've just never revealed it. I don't care if tali is made of spiders post it is still fuck her if she just kept the mask on.
9af3ee No.14657327
>>14657316
And how they threw a bunch of gays into me3 because being gay was popular back then.
The wasted potential of 2 and 3 irritates me to this day.
3d9f7d No.14657337
>>14657320
sure
>>14657316
Everything just fell apart. Hell, the Shadow Broker DLC and the personal character interactions were the only things in 2 written by the guy who started the game storyline in the first place, which is why they are some of the only tolerable things.
They yanked him off of the project full stop to try and write for TORtanic, which was impossible to make good.
7e3b34 No.14657375
>Reminder that we'll never have a game where you are cute badass space captain-commando with AAA+ qtpie aaaayyyys as your crew with impecable artwork.
4c25b9 No.14657428
>>14657113
>Quarians are muslims
Nigga, muslim sacred book is the QURAN just one or two letters and BAM space muslims, and Tali comes from talibans… I can bet my ass and i wouldn´t lose it because probably thats what they came with during their brainstorming sessions
9af3ee No.14657449
>>14657428
>Miranda Lawson
Miranda rights, the right to remain silent
Lawson = Law
Damnit we're onto something!
9b8e1e No.14657459
>>14657162
I was looking at the thumbnail and I thought the girl in the first pic was Roxy Raye
>>14657160
I'm tempted to reinstal ME3 to play with this version of Garrus.
>>14657204
It looks closer to the lekgolo worm than the flood.
8e89d9 No.14657490
>>14657337
>This takes me back
d2213c No.14657504
>>14657449
>Urdnot Wrex
>Urdnot = knots his sexual partners
>Wrex = wrecks sexual partners with his knot
I'm onto your game, Ubisoft.
52aac7 No.14657516
>>14657504
>Asari
>Ass-Are-(W)e
Bioware taking a stance on the great tits/arse debate.
a0b700 No.14657517
>>14657375
>half the game is genociding space niggers and Jews (human equivalents don't exist after the race war or 2077)
>other half is hunting down new additions to your harem of space waifus and getting them pregnant
>a few waifus are "lesbians" but get converted with the power of dicking, just to piss the feminists off some more
We'll never experience something this glorious.
027bb2 No.14657550
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>>14656671
>The only good thing about her is that she was named after Ash from Evil Dead
This. I saved Kaiden instead and accidentally got into a romance with him which pissed me off.
a0b700 No.14657562
>>14657550
>accidentally
Anon, you might be gay.
9b8e1e No.14657582
>>14657302
>I actually quit playing ME3 because I read that Tali would blow her brains out if you didn't buy into her retarded Geth hatred
You can reason with both Tali and Legion if you choose the right answers.
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027bb2 No.14657610
>>14657562
It's one of the reasons as to why I quit playing 3. I skipped the romance in the first one, tried to get the lesbo scene with Kelly in 2 but fucked up, and in the middle of playing 3, I did something which I thought was entirely platonic but ended up getting me stuck with Kaiden. I got so angry I quit playing the game.
51a5d3 No.14657640
>>14657113
Ashley says that she believes in God. That's it. One line, one time, in one game. You paid too much for that fedora.
7f9cd0 No.14657652
>>14656271
You realise its pretty easy to avoid romancing him right? It's not like with the dynamic want to fuck you duo of Kaidan/Liara of the first game who follow you around like lost puppies. Also didn't they make Kaiden gay/bi in the 3rd one for msheps?
>Not loving your best buddy and seeing each other through till the end
9e89a2 No.14657699
>>14657223
>the entire idea is that she outwordly looks one way and you might wanna smash that but then, like meeting someone you only know online, when the mask comes off, do you REALLY still love HER or just her looks?
Which is a great idea, until you remember anyone can look up what a quarian looked like pre-exodus. Shepard would already have an idea what Tali looked like, and no doubt he's seen pictures (possibly corpses) of quarians not wearing a helmet in his work. It doesn't actually 'work' as much as you'd think.
0af765 No.14657713
>>14657699
Matriarchs would remember too
b6749f No.14657764
>>14657699
Shepard has no idea what quarians look like. In ME3 while processing geth memories Legion mentions that despite quarians not wearing suits during that era, Shepard percieves them as wearing suits because bioware are lazy hacks who couldn't be arsed to make new models and do a proper face reveal because that's the only way he knows.>
0c8a90 No.14657774
>>14656271
Reminder that wrex + garrus is the best possible team and turns mass effect into space bros.
9e89a2 No.14657778
>>14657764
So Bioware were hacks, again. Gotcha.
1a86b7 No.14657944
>>14655842
The success of ME 1, much like with any other Bioware game, stems from the fact that it came at a time when RPGs were mostly dead.
428bcb No.14657988
>>14657764
He's part of the fucking army and he has never once seen a picture or drawing of an unmasked quarian? Not even a general idea of their biology? Great job, Bioware.
55df7d No.14658002
>>14657764
What drove Bioware to remove all the talent form their team and hire literal retards in their place?
0c8a90 No.14658013
>>14656627
I agree, purification is the best fetish.
42f382 No.14658048
>>14657264
Isn't it part of the lore that no one even knows what the actually look like, they just secret mind-controlling pheremones that make them look fuckable to any species?
>>14657271
It's well established that everyone is afriad of Humans due to their aggressive expansion, and how successful they are in all environments. It makes sense that one race would cozy up to them rather than be pissy about it.
1a86b7 No.14658057
>>14658002
Publishers want yes-men that are easy to handle and cheap. So they started hiring women and desperate soyboys.
0af765 No.14658114
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>>14658048
You'd see what they actually look like in a photograph or sign, anon. You don't even have to think that hard about it.
5672d5 No.14658247
>>14655635
The trilogy is this, on my viewpoint:
ME1: Amazing setting. Characters are written to be likable. Player gets to play the big secrets of the story, as Shepard is not just a pawn, gameplay is really good, but a little clunky.
ME2: Same setting, that is really good. Characters start to turn to one-shot plot-points for no reason. Story stays at semi-good, writing is good all around. Combat is fine tuned, and it is way better than in ME1.
ME3: Improved combat and improved ally-AI. The combat is pretty much as good as it can get. Ordering your allies to do shit actually works now! The games AI is "great". Ending is terrible, but that does not make the 30h game before it any worse.
Don't buy ME: Androgymeda. It's just not a ME-game at all. It's a corporate product named ME, because that is what sells. They try to ride on the popularity of ME.
40517a No.14658384
>>14657228
but does that fucking matter by the end?
4b1b3b No.14659017
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>>14657337
>this takes me back
Fuck, I miss Zaeed.
4d3cdc No.14659214
>>14659017
>Zaeed.
He was like a crazy uncle from /k/
fc8324 No.14659967
>>14659017
>voice actor died right after recording for Citadel DLC
What a way to go.
7e3b34 No.14660815
>>14658002
You mean apart from Hamburger Hepler's insatiable hunger for flesh to save themselves?
3a0877 No.14660897
>>14655896
>Does it get so much praise because people that like it have never read a science fiction book in their lives?
No, it gets praised for capturing the upbeat space opera theme very well at a time where there wasn't all that much of that.
>>14656036
>The main problem with Mass Effect is that they had arguably one of the most menacing antagonists, the Reapers, which you feel are just crushingly, overwhelmingly, unstoppably powerful, and totally neutered them.
They should never have reused the reapers, tbh. It should have been like, "yeah, they're coming but it's going to take them thousands of years so w/e." The sequels should have been their own stories, not an extension of the first one with the same bogeyman,
Really, the problem was that they started thinking of the reapers as the villains rather than a plot device. Saren is the villain, the reapers are just a (pretty well done) ancient evil that he awakens/unleashes.
>>14656074
>the whole Collector/Human Reaper thing that went nowhere,
ALL of ME2 went nowhere. Shepard dies, collectors show up and there's a reaper being built but by the end of the game shepard is alive again and the reaper, collectors and their station are blown up. The overall plot didn't move forward at all (until some DLC came out I think, I never got it), and while we learned more of cerberus (continuing the trend of ruining bad guys by showing too much of them), we already knew they existed. Unless I'm forgetting any major plot developments the game might as well not have existed, since it constitutes a giant sidequest.
7e3b34 No.14660925
>>14660897
>They should never have reused the reapers, tbh. It should have been like, "yeah, they're coming but it's going to take them thousands of years so w/e." The sequels should have been their own stories, not an extension of the first one with the same bogeyman, Really, the problem was that they started thinking of the reapers as the villains rather than a plot device. Saren is the villain, the reapers are just a (pretty well done) ancient evil that he awakens/unleashes.
This actually sounds like a better way to use the Reapers. Have them loom and just stretch the franchise as much as it needs via having an overarching menace that should be the ultimate evil as in the final, final villain of all the franchise.
Having Shepard go on space adventures discovering ruins, become the law on Omega a la Dredd and persuading Cerberus or even aknowledging Cerberus as necessary evil for the humansphere would be great, doing spectre shit, do bro shit with Garrus while constantly calibrating, turning lesbo ayyyys straight with the power of a good dicking etc.
4c25b9 No.14661228
>>14660925
If i recall correctly the reapers were a cibernetic lifeform made to reap the current sentient race to prevent some kind of universal destruction since the use, and abuse, of the eezo or the mass effect would destroy the galaxy because dar matter and shit. Basically, Tengen toppa gurren lagann version bioware where the reapers are Genome equivalent and the dark matter o whatever are the anti-spiral.
First ME did it good (despise the game being shit) when the sovereign is defeatehus delaying the apocalypse.
ME2 should been about the emergency plan of the reapers "Well, the plan B has failed, time to use our minions to create a new corckscrew to open the portal", but then Shepurr comes and rape the collectors and the Harbinger congratulates Shepard for being the first one to not only defeating them but imprisoning the reapers in the dark space FOREVER but warning him about "What its about to come".
And then ME3 shit hits the fan. This was my "theory" about what was supposed to be the dark matter plot instead of "We kill you to prevent your machines to killl you".
cb46d8 No.14661241
>>14661228
The original plan of the plot was for Sheppard to figure out how to solve the dark matter issue, then the Reapers would stop because they don't need to kill everyone anymore.
0af765 No.14661256
>>14660897
I think ME1 also filled the gap that'd been left after Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and Voyager ended and Enterprise disappointed most people.
bb170a No.14661379
>>14658247
thats some hot shit taste you got there because the game just went full GoW at ME2 and the writing got really stale. ME3 the entire fucking game is garbage. ME1 is easily the best of the series and people who didnt like the combat are easily the biggest fucking casuals on the planet.
6fa22d No.14661471
>>14656696
>Liara is still best girl
She is pretty good but as usual the sequels ruined her, never played the DLCs so ME3 was kind of a slap in the face Didnt bother with the DLCs because I bought the first ME and after the ME2 shitshow I just didnt bother even with pirated copies
9b8e1e No.14661497
>>14658048
>Isn't it part of the lore that no one even knows what the actually look like, they just secret mind-controlling pheremones that make them look fuckable to any species?
No, that was a shitty fan theory that was added in a random NPC dialogue in ME2.
d4a6b0 No.14661523
>>14656271
Garrus is the generic veteran cop-buddy archetype, hardbitten law enforcement past where he eventually resorts to skirting the vigilante line in order to pursue justice. Seeing the manner in which fag-romance was hamFISTED into Garrus was my first realization that homosexuality is not merely a sexual orientation but a destructive mental illness whose sole tenet is to corrupt everything it touches.
>>14657652
In the third one they made everything gay. MANshep talks with the most indirect effeminate dialogue with prissy facial expressions to match. The worst part is when you've got your buddy moment with Garrus where you're shooting the shit while shooting shit on a rooftop(i think). Garrus is talking about his prior work in 'the department' and his past and all the cool shit you've kicked ass together on. OH SHIT! suddenly they both start talking like the lonely fat women who wrote the dialogue; projecting heartfelt sensuality on each other that had no contextual basis prior to it.
>nice shot shepard ur aim never let me down shepard
<ur welcome i do these things just for u garris
>Thank u shpard 4 being there for me u mean a lot 2 me
<u mean a lot 2 me too i couldnt beat the reapers witout u garris
>hey shepard u can shoot me too i-if u want
<Id rather take a bullet for from u
>>14656425
>playing femshep instead of a man's man
what are you gay?
8bc529 No.14664128
>>14657136
It's been six years and I'm still angry. Mass Effect 3 was such a shit fucking game.
fe742b No.14664381
>>14664128
>im still angryyy XD
>im still mad xDDD
Go back to cuckchan.
8bc529 No.14664398
>>14664381
I am sorry that your stunted emotional development causes you to become upset at other people for expressing their feelings
Have you considered seeking therapy
5cb08f No.14670786
>>14664128
Mass Effect 2 wasn't much better.