What did you do today in ME?

Isn't there a terminal upgrade at some point that allows you to fix the scars?  I thought something we find somewhere ends up at Glyph's terminal.  Wait, no, nevermind.  I see that it requires the deal to be made with the turian on the Citadel and that can't happen without your medic.

I recorded a video yesterday evening to demonstrate this...

Yesterday, I killed Kai Leng, went back to Earth, defeated the reapers ... and then had a hell of a party with everyone in my apartment on the Citadel. Seriously, CEM rocks!

Before I got there though, EGM surprised me with a pretty cool "mission" for the evacuation of Thessia. Again, the resourcefulness, dedication and imagination of these modders is to be commended. Also, arriving in the Exodus cluster and seeing all my fleets assembled there (with some very cool music playing) is just awesome:


Played on insanity. I really love the final fight. Whatever you may think about the ME3 ending, the decision to avoid a boss fight and instead just make it an absolutely epic ground battle where you get swarmed by Banshees, Marauders and whatnot was the ideal way to end the gameplay portion of the game. It really feels like you just do not stand a chance. The only criticism I have is that the following cutscene with Anderson is too long. It would have been better if they fired the thanix missiles, jumped into Anderson's car as it drives by while even more reaper forces show up and you drive like mad to the beam. But that's just me trying to find peanuts. Over all it's glorious.

I used MEHEM this time around, for the feel good factor. Now, the cutscenes about the rescue maybe a bit rough around the edges and frankly they are a bit over indulgent but I am astonished how well the timing of the suicide mission music fits to the (unaltered) final cutscenes. When the reaper falls, there is a dramatic pause in the music, when the Citadel fires the beam, it just picks up in time and when we see it spreading through the galaxy, the epic chorus comes in just in the nick of time. It's like it was composed for this. That's crazy.

As for the party, I used CEM's "super party" mode, where you can have all the stages (quiet and loud) in one go, so you have like 6 stages of party or so. I'd say it's actually a bit too long, but still, nice idea to make that possible. I've heard most of the encounters multiple times before but some still make me chuckle.
My favorite part though is when everyone wakes up the next morning and is hung over or just ... contented, being there with all the others. Especially as an epilogue it is such a sweet moment to send everyone off, it's perfect. I don't know another game (barely another story) that captures friendships as well as ME does.


So good bye Shepard and crew, I'll see you again maybe in 2 years or so for another playthrough. :contempt:

Just completed Lair of the Shadowbroker today. I guess it would have made sense to play it after the main campaign, but I decided to do it mid-run, because I needed some distraction. And yeah, it was a great DLC.

More importantly: I think I have a crush on Tela Vasir. Just look at her:



By the Goddess, is she a handful. She's got the voice, the tattoos and the cool armor. (I want that armor!) And she's a Spectre. Why did I have to kill her? Instead of fighting Vasir, it should have been an option to dump Liara and elope with the former And maybe do some world-saving, as well.

The scene where Shepard invites Liara to the Normandy to catch up was cute, and it made up a little bit for the loss of Vasir. But there's no doubt who's the better asari

Anyhow, it was a good ME day. Really starting to warm up to the trilogy.

PS. I find it a fun detail that a lot of characters in ME seem to have Canadian accents. Way to go, 150-year-old Canada

I look at the Renegade/scarred Shepard and think: "That one is well on the way to being turned into a husk."  The red eyes, the red scars...looks so unnatural.  Just add some cables (which could easily be under the surface) and there you have it.

fraggle
Bring Garrus along on the Dreadnaught for some major trolling.

I'm pretty sure it's fake skin, so no pus? Plus, all the upgrades from 2 turned it into super duper fake skin, so even if the implants are showing, it's still pretty tough stuff.

Damn, I already took Kaidan, but I will check out Garrus. If not someone on YT recorded it I'll play through the mission once more to see it

That's why I always create a Shepard in ME3 first, then create sliders for ME1 from that code. Works like a charm every time

Continued with ME2 PT with Giovanna, Paragon Vanguard. Initially wanted to do it on Hardcore. But after using up the nine lives of a thousand cats, I realized it was both pointless and not at all fun. Playing Vanguard for the first time, using the Charge power plus the Eviscerator shotgun can be fun, but most of the time it would get you killed on Hardcore. Veteran is challenging enough.

Initially, recruited Zaeed, Mordin, and Garrus. (I always feel bad for Zaeed's prisoner. Any info on what this guy did? Surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be any way to do a humanitarian intervention of any kind.) Then went to recruit the Krogan Warlord but ended up with grunt instead. Giovanna killed Rana Thanoptis, the questionable Asari scientist (who was already indoctrinated) in ME1. If she lives, she's an assistant to Okeer. Dead, she has no replacement.

Went to the Horizon colony after hearing tip from TIM. Took the usual team of Mordin and Miranda. (Miranda's Warp power is boring, but very useful. I can't do this mission without Mordin's banter about his armor protection against the Collector swarm "might" work.) After successfully driving off the Collectors and damaging their ship, Giovanna briefly reunites with her old love, Ashley. After a loving embrace, things quickly turn cold when the subject of Cerberus is brought up.

Did Jacob's loyalty mission. This time, I chose options that manipulate Jacob's father into killing himself. Jacob is still loyal and no renegade points were incurred, which was a surprise.

Recruited Jack. Recruited Kosumi and did her loyalty mission. This time, I tried to sneak into Hock's apartment via the window instead of by luring the guard away from the door. Ended up having noisy encounter with guards. Interesting that no one noticed. So much for trying the Splinter Cell approach. I do like Kosumi's banter. I let her keep the Greybox. Also did "Cheerleader's" loyalty quest the Paragon way.

Then went to Ilium. After brief reunion with Liara and doing some hacking for her, went to find the Justicar. To keep Samara from tearing up the police department, went to take on the Eclipse mercs to find out how they smuggled out a fugitive Samara was looking for. This time, Giovanna didn't fall for Eclipse iniate Elnora's "I'm not a killer" routine. That did earn a couple of renegade points even though she turns out to have been the murderer of Pitne For's associate. Initially let the volus high on Red Sand go after Wasea with predictable results. Went back a save to do it the Paragon way!

Next Thane and then on to Tuchanka...

Played a bit with Kathrine today. She got Grunt and met Ash in an earlier session. This time she met her blue knight in red latex armor. Had a bit of fun with the biotic gas canisters, but they are just too toxic. Let little Elnora go, much to Jack's dismay.
Also did Jack's loyalty mission. Felt a bit bad Kathrine got her butt kicked twice by the local Varren. But on the other hand, had no problem with the Krogan. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Anyways, didn't have enough renegade for the ideal solution, so Kathrine used reverse psychology to kill Aresh. Also spent quite some time looking at Jack's scars. Usually have her in the alternate outfits, so kind of forgot the nasty scars at her belly and back. Did some reading about them and learned that she has faces on her arm. Which I didn't know and they look pretty cool.
Also tried to look up model swapping for laughs, but was too tired to find the right words. 

(long post, sorry for poor english. Also, tons of pics.)



Alright, bought 15 games in Steam Sales. I start Bioshock and drop. Then Mad Max, then Guacamelee and then Shadow of Mordor. Drop, drop, drop =p

I could not stay too long, I'm back. This is my Shepard, Alan. "Vanguard", Colonist, Paragon.



Quick background: He was a eezo miner in Mindoir, with his parents. Life was hard but honest and he felt happy. An accident in the mines soaked him with the strange element and he became the first human to be able to use bio charge. Which made him a good candidate for the Alliance after the massacre of his people.

Years later: Eden Prime.

Ok, he´s not a vanguard, actually. I pick adept because I need this class to unlock some achivements. The road to 100% is in the end now. Just 3 more and I´m done: Have Ash as a main companion, beat in Insanity and reach level 60. After that, I still wanna complet the Turian mission in Pinacle Station in Insanity. Already have a Soldier in standby, I'll use him for this job.

Anyway, bastion is awesome. I already loved with Sentinel and continued with Adept. Freeze a maw and kill with a pistol? lol lol lol.

Hardcore was not as challenging as I thought. In moral, everything depends on the equipment itself, there is no way. When you're well equipped, it's over. Talking about gear, this Shepard thinks that he can enter camouflaged in places (he never heard of the radar mods of the guns? Oh Sheps, only you)





I really like Liara in ME1 (don´t like her AT ALL in M2 and M3). But I never finish her romance, wich I´m doing now.

As always, I did ALL missions. I can not let it go, the minerals are like pokemons, I have to catch them all.

Some crazy adventures later, the Galaxy is saved. Ash survived in the end. I never had her in Normandy at 3.






MASS EFFECT 2

The reborn of Shepard, but things did not go as planned. A sabotage in the Lazarus project seriously compromised the appearance of our hero. Cyborg eyes and nasty scars.







Huh, he's okay with that. There are more important things to do. Then he makes a plastic or something.

ok, now I´m a true Vanguard. Have I told that I was a big hater of the Vanguard? Seriously, I STOOD the class. I tried once, tried two, tried three. On the four, I decided to finish the run of this class. And I like a lot. More fun than efficient, though. This time I did a different build, changed the way I played and stopped trying to be a soldier, and I took claymore instead of training with rifles.

I know this trilogy like the back of my hand. And I can state categorically that this is the best class of the game (The worst at the begining of the game, but that´s normal). There are times that it is even cowardice to play with this thing. Reave, oh good, reavy fits like a glove for him. Later I talk about more about the Vanguard.

Now, a pause for misadventures of Miranda Lawson.





OUCH!

I always bring Miri for this mission (hey, Cerberus bussines) and I love take pics of this scene, because this cat does not know how to fall on her feet.


My methodology for choosing squadies is:

1) Zaeed and Garrus for the Geth (like the photo bellow). If I have disruptor ammo, Tali and Garrus.

2) Zaeed and Mordin for blood pack.

3) Zaeed and Kasumi against Husks.

4) Miri and Kasumi against Blue Suns. Somethimes Garrus.

5) Sometimes Miri, but usually Thane and Samara against Eclipse and Collectors.


I never use Grunt, Jack, Jacob and Legion, unless I play with soldier/infiltrator, because is not like this guys need suport for someone. Just point and shoot and we all be fine.

Jason, Tommy, Billy and Trini for the rescue. GO GO POWER RANGEEEEERS!!!! 





In Horizon, An unexpected encounter. I'll always find Ash from 1/2 a cute one, the opposite of that ATROCITY that's her face in 3. IMHO, of course.





And she makes a point of saying she does not like aliens. Haha, what a bitch. That's why Kaidan >>>> Ash. My crew have aliens, DEAL IT.

The following meeting was more warmer.




haha, look at his face, he looks so happy. Damn, this big frog is adorable ^^

But the next big one it's anything but lovely.





Good fight using Vanguard against him. Almost as easy as using the Engineer. I like the Broker, he´s fat, ugly, clumsy.....everything I did not expect from him back there in ME1. Too bad we did not have another fight against a Yahg. ME3 is aaaaaalllllll about Cerberuzzzzzzzzzzzzz . Urgh.

I reconnected with Liara, """""""""""""""""""""saved"""""""""""""""""""""" the day and then I took the opportunity to blow up a relay, killing hundreds of thousands of people. :poker:

MASS EFFECT 3

Alan Shepard now is an unemployed, discredited, faithless and thinking he will die with a shot in the back, shot by some Batarian. His careless hair denounces his state of mind.



I tried to build on Raynor in Starcraft II. Close enough, I guess.



Still without much to comment, I'm at the beginning. So I'm going to talk about Vanguard in 3. I hate it lol. No, kidding. I try before with the BORING charge/nova/gun thing, and can´t avanced too much without falling asleep. But now I made a diferent build. NO NOVA. It's fun for now. I still can not decide which shotgun I like. For now, the geth shotgun is breaking the branch. Sidearm is that N7 pistol (that thing is a knockout).

Alan gained a special armor made by the military industry of Terra Nova, for saving them.