What did you do today in ME?

Landed on an asteroid that batarians were going to use to wipe out a human colony. One batarian tried to say "It doesn't have to end in bloodshed! I was here for the slaves, not the genocide!" My response? Mindoir says hello. Then Ash, Kai and I shot the shit out of them. Major baddy escaped but he'll turn up eventually.

Killed Helena Blake's partners and let her go free in exchange for disbanding the gang.

[Was about to recover a body, stumbled into a geth trap and then the game crashed.]

Recovered Willem's body.

Let Garrus kill "Dr. Love".

Put down some rachni attacks.

Found a way to Peak 15 on Noveria, killed Liara's mother and [oddly] saved the rachni queen.

Landed on Virmire. Took out the AA cannons preventing the Normandy from landing and about to meet with the STG forces present.

Met with STG Captain Kirrahe. He wanted one of my squad to accompany him while I planted a nuke to destroy the facility that was going to churn out genophage-cured, indoctrinated krogan. Couldn't have that happen so that cure had to be stopped. Wrex wasn't happy but I convinced him it had to be done. Ran into Sovereign, who I realized wasn't Saren's ship but instead a Reaper. It said the Reapers had created the mass relays and the Citadel so that organics would develop they way they desired - allowing them to come around at 50,000 year intervals to harvest all organics and wipe the galaxy clean. The reasons why are not known. Ash...died.

Council tried to keep me from going after Saren. They don't believe in the Reapers and blame me for the nuke on Virmire. (It was Kirrahe's idea.) Anderson helped release the Normandy from lock down by punching Udina out and taking control of his terminal. Then we were off to Ilos. Kaidan and I consummated our relationship just prior to arrival.

Went down to Ilos with Kaidan and Liara. Saw hundreds, maybe thousands, of inert stasis pods. Protheans had been in them but were now all dead. Encountered a damaged Prothean VI that gave us a program to temporarily take control of the Citadel defenses. Then it was a race to beat Saren to the Conduit, which was a backdoor onto the Citadel the Protheans had created (a mini relay).

One last thing. Imported into ME2. Came out looking pretty much exactly like the ME1 version. Played through Lazarus Project stuff before stopping.

ME3 MP is a great substitute for the single player when all you want to do is play ME3 and not do all the RPGing so to speak. There are so many fun builds. And I'm not sure what you mean by silver being buggy though. While I am good at gold, I feel like there are just some obnoxiously cheap deaths like Banshees just teleporting through walls and grabbing you without having a second to react. Had that happen to me last night and I was really annoyed by it because it was wave 11. I can't recall that happening to me in silver. Or is this just a joke that went over my head?

I am on ME3 now with my Shotgun infiltrator Winifred. It is already a lot more fun than sniping because there is no slow motion aim down sights and I feel more mobile too. And I am only using the Katana and haven't unlocked a good shotgun yet. And infiltrators are just so much more fun in ME3 compared to ME2. I am on Grissom Academy. I love this mission, but for the life of me, I cannot stand the students and have no problem having them fight in the war and potentially dying. I usually do Grissom Academy with a dead Jack. Jack and Prangley are the only ones in this mission I like.

I can't be alone on this. Rodriguez is annoying as hell. Constantly getting in trouble, doubting Commander friggin' Shepard, complains about your choice at the end regardless, and then causes Prangley to die in the end because her dumb ass can't stay with the group. Then there's that obnoxious dink with the faux hawk hairstyle who says "who cares" about Prangley. Its especially annoying because he says "I'm not listening to Prangley, I'm listening to Commander Shepard." Yeah, lets not give any credit to the guy who kept you alive before help arrived. What a loser.

Its just a shame Prangley has to die. I wouldn't mind if the other students in his group died and Prangley lived. A shame they kill off the most likable one of the group who took charge and kept them alive. But on a positive note, I can't wait to unlock the Phantom armor for her. I think my femshep looks great in it.

Honestly, it's not the game itself I take issue with; it's the fact that it's dead in the water with plans to tie things up in book format rather than in-game.  Also, had some issues with poorly implemented s/s romances (Reyes was clearly intended for m/f only, since the heights are all wrong when they kiss or dance, and I'm not even going to touch on Gil) that made me lose interest.  Since it is an RPG, and BioWare has long been known to cater to LGB (not so sure about the rest) fans...well, I can't accept the big step backward they took.  Had I never seen it I'm sure I'd feel differently.  So, for me, it's a fail.

That is quite funny because those Banshee grabs happen rather frequently to me on Silver while on Gold it's mostly fine. And I don't know, we have buggy matches quite often depending on who hosts in my group (it seems). Not being able to use ladders, revive teammates, invisible enemies (that was a fun match where I once hosted and only I could see turrets ), mooks that shouldn't be able to one-shot us doing exactly this, health not coming back, not being able to shoot/use powers until pressing heavy melee, weapons doing no damage from time to time. And my controller mod seems to be wonky recently as well. Sometimes I take an Ops Pack when I didn't press the button, sometimes I accidentally switch to Cobra when not pressing the corresponding button (and I'm not playing the Talon Mercenary who has that bug too). Things like that It's still fun though!

I agree about Grissom and Prangley! The one scene where I do like Rodriguez is where she talks about her first kill. That's such a good scene with her and Shepard/the squadmates. Other than that she really is annoying and Prangley is just the best. I have a soft spot for him Too bad indeed he dies when Jack is not there, because he really shines in this mission when Jack is not around.

Wait, is that possible?  I thought toaster ovens were beyond even the powers of a Spectre!  No, seriously, is this a thing?  I remember this starting in ME1.

Hah, that's amazing!  I've observed often enough but had no idea I could intervene!

Ohhh. Those bugs. Yeah, I've. had people mention to me they have had some of those bugs. But ever since I upgraded my internet, I've had almost no one complain. In fact, some people even say that they feel like host on my connection. And yes, I always host because I got tired of joining games and experiencing bad lag. It didn't allow me to get better because of this so I just hosted all the time. The only things on host that I have to worry about is that obnoxious damage reductions Phantoms have. Though I have some builds that can deal with it without the Acolyte or Venom (like the Shadow), I still find it annoying they have this at all. But I guess without it, they aren't really a challenge.

And not sure. That scene where she asks about her killing something for the first time is something I've seen before a few times. It was in Metal Gear Solid when a rookie character couldn't handle killing soldiers. It was handled a bit better there. But I always choose the Renegade option for this one. Basically I'm saying is that part feels a little cliche to me. I might have been more accepting of it if I didn't hate Rodriguez. The fact that she doubts the one person not trying to kill her just boggles my mind. But yeah, if you are talking about what the squadmates say, then I agree. I always like Javik's "better they learn early." 

But yeah, a shame that several characters I like if the ME2 character dies gets killed off (Dagg, Prangley, and Wiks). Though I suppose in Wiks case you can technically save him, but I could never betray Wrex.

Karen Shepard, Soldier, ME3 cont'd:

Citadel

Shepard went to the Embassy to meet with fellow Spectre Jondum Bau. He had intel regarding the possible Indoctrination of hanar government officials. Evidently the hanar had gotten their hands on some Reaper technology the batarians were studying, after the Alliance had raided a batarian research station. Bau suspected the intel came from Kasumi Goto, who'd leaked the information she'd found Keiji Okuda's graybox.

Once Shepard was alone, Kasumi revealed her presence – she'd been cloaked right under Bau's nose the whole time. Shepard agreed to let her tag along while they tried to get evidence on the hanar diplomat Bau suspected.

They got the evidence they needed against the diplomat, and Shepard and Bau confronted him in the embassy office (Kasumi was there as well, cloaked). The hanar attempted to upload a virus that would cripple Kahje planetary defences and leave them helpless against the Reapers. The combination of Shepard, Bau, and Kasumi stopped him, with Kasumi faking her own death in the process. Kahje was safe, and Bau would no longer pursue Kasumi – a win all around.

Steve Cortez was relaxing on the observation deck of the Citadel docking bay. Shepard was glad he took her advice to try and get some R & R, and their talk seemed to help him deal with what he was going through.

Normandy

Shepard checked in with Gabby and Ken down in engineering. They'd been pardoned and agreed to rejoin the crew, and Shepard was glad to have them back. Engineer Adams also seemed glad to have them aboard.

Annos Basin - War Summit

The Normandy travelled to the Pranas system in the Annos Basin, location of the salarian homeworld Sur'Kesh. Shepard and Primarch Victus went to the conference room for the War Summit, joined by Urdnot Wrex, head of the krogan clans, and Dalatrass Linron, representing the Salarian Union.
Wrex and Linron were already in the middle of an argument when Shepard and Victus arrived. Wrex refused to offer assistance to the turians unless the genophage was cured. He knew that the Council races just wanted to use the krogan like during the Rachni Wars, and would only help them if they helped his people.

Shepard and Victus supported Wrex, but Victus pointed out there was no time to develop a cure. Wrex had received information about Maelon's experiments into the genophage, and insisted a cure was possible, and that it could be done quickly. The Dalatrass eventually relented under pressure from the others – and the proof Wrex had that the STG had taken fertile females that had survived Maelon's experiments from Tuchanka. She agreed to grant them access to the STG facility where the krogan females were held.

Annos Basin: Sur'Kesh - “Nothing is Ever Simple with Salarians, Is It?”

Commander Shepard, Liara, and EDI accompanied Wrex to the STG base on Sur'Kesh to retrieve the krogan females who'd been cured of the genophage. Predictably, Wrex's presence created tension – diplomacy wasn't his strong suit – but Shepard managed to calm things down. The head of the facility, Padok Wiks, began making the arrangements for the transfer.

While waiting, Shepard caught up with Wrex on what he'd been up to for the past few months, and also ran in to Kirrahe, now promoted to Major, and they discussed the current situation and reminisced about the mission on Virmire. Shepard wished Ashley could have been present; she'd worked closely with Kirrahe's team on the Virmire mission and had been instrumental to it's success.

Shepard was cleared for access to the lower levels of the base, just as alarms started to go off. Cerberus was attacking, so it was imperative to get the females out ASAP.

Shepard and friends reached the level where the females were being held, and was not surprised to find Mordin Solus there, working as a “special consultant” on the project. He had, of course, been the source of the leak that gave Wrex the intel about the surviving females. Shepard had long felt that there was more to Mordin than met the eye, and his presence added even more weight to her suspicions – for a “retired” intelligence operative, he had a knack for being in the right place at the right time whenever something galaxy-shaking was going down. Shepard was glad to see him.

Mordin revealed that the krogan females had been weakened by Maelon's experiments, and only one had survived. She was immune to the genophage, however, and her tissue could be used to help synthesize a cure for all krogan.

They had to fight their way through the Cerberus troops that were attacking the base and secure the shuttle pad. Along the way, Shepard found log files and specimens of species (such as varren and yahg) that the salarians were considering for “covert uplift”, or to manipulate in other ways to use against their enemies. Evidently they'd learned nothing from the krogan uplift / genophage fiasco.

They reached the landing pad and successfully extracted the krogan female. Back on the Normandy, Shepard updated Admiral Hackett on the status of negotiations. The Admiral revealed that the Prothean device had been named “Project Crucible”.

Mordin informed them he'd need time to create a cure from the krogan, who he'd named Eve. Wrex agreed to stay aboard, as Mordin would need a tissue sample from him as well.