D.A. fan is back for an ME1 Text Only 'Let's Play' (page 51)

What themikefest said. Make sure you download the extended cut, it will eliminate two things you may be worrying about in your spoiler section.

Good luck!

Kaidan appears briefly in ME2, but not as a squad mate and not as a romance.

I've never tried any mod myself, I shot them bastards up the traditional way... with mouse and keyboard. 

Gileadan and themikefest I am downloading the Extended Cut.



This made me laugh.

ME3 is already 55% downloaded. I told ME2 to download but I don't know how to change download order now that it's started.

I wonder if this mod is as easy as DA2 mods to use.

I looked at pictures on the Wiki while ignoring all the text to avoid spoilers. Jacob meets my romancing standards but then he doesn't appear in the list in 3. Is there some sort of break up option between games so I can date Jacob in 2, finish that game, then date Kaidan in 3?

I put an order in for a PS4 charger cord replacement. As it is right now, I'd have to be a foot away from a 32+ inch screen TV standing the entire time...and even then, the controller seems to go dead even with the cord plugged in. It's interfering with cinematics and battle and it's annoying. the cord arrives the 10th and today is my day off. when the cord arrives, I'll go back to TW3, I'm not giving up on it. ^^ I've made myself finish Main Street, (an awful gratingly boring 'classic' book), I can finish TW3 easy.

Good o. I know nothing about Jacob. I liked Kaidan the moment he said he liked strong women in the first game.   But I didn't like him enough to continue playing the game just to see the romance through. So I was sort of looking forward to him in 3. But I also didn't want to go romance less in a Bioware game my first PT if I started in 2 to allow for a Kaidan romance in 3.

Is there a Mass effect equivalent to a Dragon Age Keep for between games?

AnDromedary

So all the races, including humanity, are Solent Green for the Reapers? Kinda reminds me of The MAtrix as well. Computers using humans as batteries.

I'll just go with whatever ME2 considers a base game state which includes a solo Shepherd, I'm assuming. Then I guess I'll look to see what ME3 considers a base game state before choosing to buy.

Well, this is the summary of the events of ME1. At the end of that game, no one really know the motivations of the reapers. They only found out from Sovereign and Vigil (a Prothean VI) that they come into the galaxy and wipe out every advanced species every 50.000 years. For what purpose exactly is unknown.

(also, see the EDIT on my previous post, regarding saves, might help).

Gileadan : Yep, more than that, you'll never meet a few pretty awesome characters since it will be assumed that they are dead at the time of ME3. But you are right, the general tone of ME3 will be much darker and you will have less options if you use the default worldstate. Yet another good reason to start with 2 actually.

EDIT: By the way, speaking of DLCs, I am not sure what's already included in the Trilogy package but I recommend you at least get the following DLCs:
ME2: Lair of the Shadow Broker and Arrival
ME3: From Ashes, Leviathan and Citadel

Those are must-haves IMO as all but Citadel really deal with essential parts of the main plot and should have been part of the main games really. (Citadel is just awesome. )

I do also recommend you get the other story DLCs for ME2 and 3 as well (Overlord, Kasumi's Stolen Memories for ME2 and Omega for ME3 are all worth even the rather steep price IMO). They are optional side stories though and not that relevant for the main plot.

If you can play ME2 at all, I would recommend it. Have fun, maybe you will like it. I have never romanced Jacob, but I think he is okay. Thane's my one True Love of the MET.

I don't think there is a website where you can make the ME1 choices. The Genesis DLC is a comic that you can page through after ME2's intro scene and make your choices as you go along.

If you don't import or use Genesis, Kaidan will survive ME1 if you play a female Shepard, otherwise he dies and Ashley lives.

Yea, ok, didn't realize, on the site I linked the "click on choices" thing ends after three choices (gender, alignment, romance option). Still, there are saves there with pretty much every possible combination of the major choices Shep can make in ME1, so you can pick and choose.

If you want to shell out the money, Genesis is your best option of course, as it also gives you a pretty good recap of what ech choice was actually all about. If not though, I'd say the MassEffectSaves site is probably your best option.

.... Shepherd has pet fish? a fish farm?