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Post by lordmoral on Oct 16, 2021 18:23:59 GMT
I guess, I'm going to post here my very slow playthrough series ( yes, I haven't much time to play ) since it is ME specifics. I had already finished a very quick playthrough, because I wanted the last armors, weapons, and being able to play on nightmare mode with these. I'm playing a mostly renegade Craig Shepard, with colonist from Mindoir and Torfan as background. : Here his quick story, for more Craig Shepard, from the Mindoir colony, who lost adolescent his family resisting the batarian pirates invading the planet after an artillery blow on his house. The sixteen year old boy himself found by alliance soldiers, lifeless under the smoldering rubble, gun in hand next to his father's torn off hand. His little brother and mother nowhere to be found, their bodies totally wiped out. It's difficult to find peace when your family has been killed. But as harsh as it is, at least you know where they are, that it's over. What if your crush has been also abducted by batarian slavers, and that years after you still have no idea if alive or not, where ? A hole in your heart, powerless, bitter, difficult to move on. Curiously this experience could be also a source of strength. Torfan. Year 2178. The same Craig Shepard, N4 ,second lieutenant at 24 years old, doing his speech before his troops with a cold determination before going into dark tunnels full of entrenched enemies waiting for them. Where noboby else wants to go : << There are rules of engagement. But there is combat. And it is your fucking arse on the risk, not that person who wrote those RoE. Pirates and slavers never respect these, be aware that we are going to fucking hell. If someone shoots at you - even if wearing uniform clearly saying "batarian civilian ice-cream carrier", you don't give a shit- you will shoot back. And you'll be damn well ready to make control shots on everyone lying on the ground, to prevent being shot in back or being grabbed by legs and be exploded by grenade. And if there is no way to secure prisoners or those who surrender, I guess there is high chance you shoot them. Be prepared for that. Because it's them or you and your team. Would you care about some pirate who probably was on Elysium -and even if wasn't - is a pirate or a slaver killing and abducting your fellowmen - or you would care about James Olsen, Corporal, 24, from Idaho, father of two, including one newborn, guy covering your six at this very moment ? And what if pirate you set free won't wait in some dark hall, pick up some gun and shoot yours or Olsen back ? It's okay if it's you, but if Olsen ? What would you say to his widow and their children when they grow up? Would you be able to look at them straight in the eyes ? You have to be strong, you have to dominate, whatever the cost. Remember Elysium. Remember Mindoir. Their cruelty, their savagery, the bloody, chopped, charred corpses they left behind them every single time. There is no middle ground. Your lives come first. Have no mercy if needed . Show them what humans are capable of. Show them the cost of attacking their daughters and sons. Let's go. >> Major Kyle's unit met rather harsh resistance and suffered some losses. When unit advance stalled by batarians, retreated into tunnels, Shepard choose volunteers from his and surrounding units and led them inside. They were cut off by all means (no communication whatsoever, rest of unit remained on top), but they cleared all tunnels, caves and hideouts, illing even those that surrended or prisoners, without choices to secure them. They lost many men because Kyle played chicken and unwilling to send more troops inside, even to evacuate wounded from Shepard's team, though he (Shepard) tried to protect them, always being a spearhead of unit. But close quarters, unknown to Shepard layout, booby traps, grenades, and enemy fire - they all took toll of his unit. At the end, they triggered booby trap and one of Shepard's subordinates pushed him away and shielded Shepard and other two with his body, taking all shrapnel and blast. Remaining two soldiers carried wounded and concussed Shepard to the surface. As for Ashley's jealousy, it's sooo realistic, I've seen and experimented that kind of behavior a lot of time. What I like with that gal in M1, it's that she makes me feel like it's a woman from real life that I can totally stumble upon anywhere on earth. Her way of speaking and interacting with you, her way of flirting, her jealousy, her personality. Cora is like that too in another way. ( if we forget one moment her fanatic love for Asari ) Cora's way of flirting is very realistic too. I immediately thought that it was a woman who wrote her during my first playthrough. I'm especially talking about the minor flirt options. There is also that moment for example where she makes you understand that she wants to have sex with you without being able to speak it out the word, but clearly showing you with acts and body language, that's very girly. Ashley's life, her desires, are so ordinary, that for me that makes her very realistic and appreciable. The content is really very subtle and meaningful at the same time. I love how she fights to get Shepard, even being a little immature ( but who didn't act irrationally for his crush ) criticizing Liara, telling that she has to be sexually immature and awkward to turn him away from her, but is still able to feel sorry for the blue alien when you choose Ashley rather than Liara. She knows that being rejected hurts a lot, especially if you really like someone. The only thing that makes me a little sad with the jealousy scene, it's when Liara states that " of course you are both humans " so it's obvious that I choose Ashley over her. I wish we could have a way to tell her that it has nothing to do with that if that's not the case. The issue that I have with Liara actually, it's that she is quite fangirling. I can appreciate but to a certain degree. She is so sweet, so loyal, so behind Shepard, approving of almost everything he states, not offended even by some bad behavior he could have toward her, that it makes me like her a lot and makes me feel good, yes, but at the same time makes me feel like it's not really realistic, it's too perfect. I mean I haven't met many french girls like that at least. It feels a little too much like fantasy for my taste. I appreciate a little more that romance option with the shadow broker, where she shows another side of her, where she and shepard have some arguments. Ashley scene on Horizon needed a follow up in ME2, in that conversation you should choose the neutral speech options and it goes from nuanced to fantastically realistic. In ME3 there is some realism in how she acts but that needed a follow up post Citadel Coup, but Bioware was just bullrushing towards the end at that point.
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Post by talyn82 on Oct 16, 2021 18:39:35 GMT
In my last playthrough I was romancing Liara and being nice to Ashley, and at a certain point they confronted me and gave me an ultimatum. This scenario reminded me of the first time I played Dragon Age: Origins. I was romancing Morrigan and being friendly to Leliana, and at a certain point they both gave me an ultimatum. That is bad, you need to be neutral in the conversations you don't plan to have now, they usually give you a point to cut of the romance before that scene. Right now I am currently playing Andromeda. When I continue playing LE1 when I get both Liara and Ashley on the Normandy, I will choose the neutral choices when speaking to Liara.
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Post by Syv on Oct 16, 2021 22:44:08 GMT
Since Torfan, Craig Shepard, is admired, adored, acclaimed by one side, among humans, despised and hated by the other one, the batarians. However causing the fascination of all, even drawing the attention of the citadel council. The Batarian Hemogeny called his actions a violation of war conventions, evidence of human aggression and hatred for the Batarian race. Alliance Admirals, professors, respected human officials and experts, even President Huerta shielded his actions claiming legitimate danger and self defense. Rescuing alliance soldiers trapped into these dark tunnels full of ruthless enemies capable of the most horrible actions possible, destroying a formidable threat, called a strong, necessary response to Elysium and Mindoir beyond the massive victory of the Alliance fleet. In spite of Kyle harsh accusations, spitting out his horror and disgust for his former subordinate and comrade who sacrified so many men to reach his ultimate goal, that biggest distractor of him dismissed, Shepard was treated as a hero, as the champion of humanity. The one they needed at a time where weakness couldn't be allowed to succeed and put an end to the" great army " of pirates and slavers created in 2176. Five years later, The commander Shepard is now an N7, serving on the Normandy, the finest human ship, for the Capitain Anderson, already on a new "banal" mission. After Torfan and his N7 training, in the following years Craig Shepard had been part of particular special forces serving on a discreet frigate, in a ruthless death squad, a specific secret unit of which no one was aware except the most senior officers of the Alliance army, in charge of eliminating the greatest threats against the interests of humanity in the Attican traverse. Something he was already used to since the major campaigns and military operations that happened from Elysium to Torfan, his main enemies being especially the war chiefs pirates, mercenaries, slavers, terrorists, and especially exalted batarian patriots, allegedly former soldiers of the batarian army, acting allegedly without orders. Each successful mission earned Shepard a new tattoo. And he had a lot. He ended up leading this unit with an iron fist and unyielding, until he was offered to serve on the Alliance's best ship with new and formidable technological capabilities. A proposal that cannot to be refused. At only 29 years old, there came the consecration of his career as a soldier, a new stage in his life. Time had passed, and everytime, the miracle worker had demonstrated what he was capable of in missions that had then been deemed nearly impossible. He was always called in when an objective was deemed extremely difficult or required infallible and relentless determination. A man able to put his feelings aside for the greater good or, paradoxically, to act like a free electron, able to adapt to the situation on the ground to the detriment of the Alliance brass. Hence why he was now the commander Shepard of the new Normandy, waiting for briefing, waiting for Anderson's call at the front of the ship. << Great, you piss the captain off and now I'm going to pay for it. You'll pay for that as well. >> added Craig Shepard half serious, half joking. Joker: Pff don't blame me the captain's in a bad mood.Kaidan: Only when he's talking to you, joker.Joker and Alenko, Craig already likes them, they are good lads. Everything seems fine so far, but everything feels wrong, his guts are always right. A Turian spectre on board, armed to the teeth strolling nervously on the deck of the ship, conferring interruptedly in the greatest secrecy with the Captain Anderson whom he hardly ever left except to observe the maneuvers of the crew. Spectres had always reasons to come somewhere. Yeah. It smelled like shit. And they would have it up to their necks. Pressly clearly irritated went to seem him to complain about that same feeling he had too, about that turian spectre, about the secrecy around the mission. Craig put an end to that bullshit, even if he was right to be suspicious. Complaining about his superior officer was something else..: << Info's on a need-to-know basis, Pressly, just follow the orders you are given. >>Then we had the junior soldier Jenkins who felt the same, convinced that there was a big and dangerous mission to come, way too enthusiastic, far too excited for his liking. That's how you die in combat, you have to keep a cool head from start to finish. It was necessary to reframe the young wolf. << This mission isn't about personal glory, Corporal. We have a job to do. Don't do anything stupid to mess it up. >> The boy promised him that would be the case, but not sure he really integrated the message, given the still exciting language of his body. He was almost hopping on the spot. Everything was finally told to him in private, They were looking for a prothean beacon, a secret mission of the greatest importance, perhaps the one which would have the most repercussions for the advancement of humanity. Why did they need a turian Spectre, since when the Alliance needed help to resolve their own matter ? He also learned that the Alliance brass had decided to make him a spectre, but that did not please him that much the way it happened. << I don't like people making decisions about my future without my consent. >> Obviously, he didn't have a say, it was decided for him, he was just a pawn in their eyes. A weapon. They weren't totally wrong, except they were wrong. But humanity, his people needed him, he would never let it down. And Anderson knew it. In the end that's didn't matter. Anyways that didn't hold much importance : everything went south, Eden Prime was under attack by unknown forces. Craig Shepard clearly understood it was just the beginning. After Mindoir, he was very able to guess very well when shit was just getting started. Whatever that was, he would deal with the matter. ------ lordmoral Yeah, absolutely. After Horizon It needed a follow up, for me the email wasn't enough, it was the easiest solution that was chosen by the devs, but not really satisfying. I mean it's just a bit weird, if you remain loyal to Ashley, you have apparently no time to answer to her letter and maybe arrange a meeting or a date with her before your suicide mission. I mean you could die the next day but you aren't apparently interested to see her maybe a last time to fix things before. Bioware dropped the ball for both Kaidan and Ashley to be honest in Mass effect 2. I heard that at least they apparently fixed her bugged eyes from the original trigoly on Horizon when you meet her there... in MELE.. I never tried the neutral options on horizon, I should try that in my next playthrough with Mass 2 after I'm done with Mass effect 1.
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Post by lordmoral on Oct 17, 2021 0:24:36 GMT
Yeah, absolutely. After Horizon It needed a follow up, for me the email wasn't enough, it was the easiest solution that was chosen by the devs, but not really satisfying. I mean it's just a bit weird, if you remain loyal to Ashley, you have apparently no time to answer to her letter and maybe arrange a meeting or a date with her before your suicide mission. I mean you could die the next day but you aren't apparently interested to see her maybe a last time to fix things before. Bioware dropped the ball for both Kaidan and Ashley to be honest in Mass effect 2. I heard that at least they apparently fixed her bugged eyes from the original trigoly on Horizon when you meet her there... in MELE.. I never tried the neutral options on horizon, I should try that in my next playthrough with Mass 2 after I'm done with Mass effect 1. I can show you what that looks like, and fill you with a F-- You Alliance, Council, Cerberus feeling. I could understand not meeting A/K post Horizon but after the Suicide Mossion we should have taken that Harbringer datapad to Anderson as he is briefing the Council and the press about why the abductions seemed to stop, the Virmire Survivor would be there as we give them a holler as they claim victory over the Pirates and Slaver attacks. If players managed to have Mordin and Samara live through the Suicide Mission as well Legion with his built in camera could be used to solidify the case, after the whole thing A/K decide to spend time with you (LI gets access to romance while the regular soldier just spends time in the Normandy for a while, likely looking for that 37M year old cannon) with a more positive view of you if you destroyed the Collectors Base and saved David. A/K were used by the Alliance and Council as much as Cerberus, change my mind:
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Post by Syv on Oct 17, 2021 13:43:21 GMT
Eden Prime. The sight of an extremely chaotic Eden Prime, strewn with flames here and there, clouds of smoke on the huge towers, the sounds of uninterrupted gunfire all over the colony, reminded him incessantly of his adolescence, as always. No matter how hard he tried to erase that trauma from his head, those images would never fly away. He would always see horror in action. But as always Craig shepard silently dealt with it after a few seconds, shaking his head lightly, he had made peace with himself and his teenage past years ago. Even if after Torfan, other ghosts from the past, other tragic elements had been added to this sad guilt of the survivor. Contrary to appearances, where he showed a serene, peaceful demeanor, Craig had not forgotten his comrades fallen on the battlefield under his command facing the army of pirates and slavers. He had in mind each of them, fierce and determined who had joined him voluntarily, each of their faces, the courage they had demonstrated. He went to see all the families affected by the death of their loved one in 2178, once out of the hospital, to express his condolences and assure them how proud they could be of what their loved one accomplished for humanity. No one among them was angry with him, and it touched him, that was the most important. It didn't matter to him what a few politicians with easy-going morals, oblivious to the reality on the ground, or admirals a little too clean in their career, thought. Today, he was again faced with devastation, death, cruelty, depredation. Something he was so used to. Kaidan: It's smells of smoke and death. Yeah. That's what it smelled. During all his life he had seen dead people, but he had never seen anything like it. Smoldering, blackened, decomposed bodies, touched by weapons probably unknown. Who did this ? The Pirates ? Mercenaries? The Batarians ? The answer had been found, and in the quickest, savage and cruel way : Alien machines with stunningly powerful and precise weapons and formidable kinetic shields, potentially superior to human infantry military technology. Jenkins was the first to fall. The enemy ambush left no chance. Another man who fell under his orders, another soul to be deplored. But later. They had a mission to accomplish, they could mourn their dead when the time was right. << Leave him lieutenant, the mission comes first. >> he claimed harshly to a sorry Kaidan, but already getting up, ready to follow him. Craig could trust him, he was a powerful biotic support, as formidable as he was professional, with infallible coolness. Together they went up the trail, and fought. They met the soldier Ashley Williams whom they saved at the last minute, having fought for hours for her survival. An impressive feat. The gunnery chief, in spite of having just lost her whole unity, was already demanding vengeance. Damn, he already liked her. She explained everything to them, they were facing the Geth. Gave them more information on the prothean beacon. An enormous ship, emitting cries of damned, flew into the sky. How could it manage to land in the area? The three of them wreaked havoc in the ranks of the surprised enemy, they saved civilian farmers and Craig even forced a stupid smuggler who was lying to him despite the gravity of the situation to reveal to him where he had hidden what he had stolen from the army stockpiles, weapons that could help them greatly, that could help save their colonist's asses. But the bad news was Nilhus' bullet-riddled body, bathed in his own pool of blood. Definitely one of the worst missions Craig had endured. They learned who was responsible for this massacre and the name of their enemy: a certain Saren, another Turian they did not know. This one relentlessly laid explosive charges, and Shepard's unit thankfully deactivated them after storming the stronghold from Geths, well-guarded by the enemy. No trace of Saren, but the prothean beacon was recovered, the mission in spite of deaths was successful. Except the soldier Williams activated the beacon's safety field, and Craig rushed to get her out of there. Out of question to lose another subordinate, preferring to sacrifice himself. Then the prothean beacon exploded and he found himself thrown violently on the ground with incomprehensible images in his head. Yeah. Definitely one of the crappy missions of his career. That was just the beginning. -- lordmoral Indeed it goes from nuanced to incredibly realistic. The conversation is really smooth and doesn't feel stiff. Thanks for the video. I'll choose the same lines with my shep.
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Post by lordmoral on Oct 17, 2021 14:56:08 GMT
Syv nice pictures and they seem to have inspired me to upload more videos of the ME LE much like I did with ME Andromeda. It is a shame that ME3 removed the neutral speech options in a dialog centric RPG but oh well, they were seeking to make the game smoother for the shooter crowd and new players hence why the shooting controls seem smoother than dialog options and story progression. In ME3, regarding Ashley behavior, I understand why she started freaking out about Cerberus on Mars heck the Alliance Troopers were being executed point blank by Cerberus agents and in Williams mind Shepard still felt like he owned some favors to the organization, though it would have been even better to add he barely had any confidence in the Alliance for how they acted from the start of ME2 to how they decided to ignore most of Shepard warnings and just left him to be forgotten in a cell.
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Post by Rascoth on Oct 18, 2021 6:51:45 GMT
I think the main problem is I created a character who looked like an acquaintance who I don't like much and it put me off. Maybe it's sign from universe that you should use this Shepard for pt with renegade decisions
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Post by dazk on Oct 18, 2021 8:43:08 GMT
I think the main problem is I created a character who looked like an acquaintance who I don't like much and it put me off. Maybe it's sign from universe that you should use this Shepard for pt with renegade decisions I tried, I just can't do it!!!!!
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Post by themikefest on Oct 18, 2021 17:26:03 GMT
I think the main problem is I created a character who looked like an acquaintance who I don't like much and it put me off. That's a good motivator do have him die at the collector base so you don't have to deal with him making decisions about what to do in ME3. Quickly playthrough ME1/2. Have him die on the collector base. Start a new playthrough with a Shepard that looks like someone you like.
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Post by Syv on Oct 18, 2021 22:46:32 GMT
lordmoral I'd love watching a few of your videos with your shep. Glad I inspired you ! dazk Harsh. I had the opposite problem to yours, in DAI. I succeded to create a character that looked very much like my brother. When I showed his pics to him and my family ,they were all shocked. It's too bad, the site that had uploaded all my pics disappeared with them... Would have shown the fair comparison. Anyways, I like my brother, but once I tried the first heart option at the beginning with Cassandra, the inquisitor trying to be charming, I was like, yeah. No. Nope, nope, nope away ! Kill it with fire Couldn't play with his face and deleted him just after. No way ! Otherwise I uploaded two very quick fights that prove Shepard deserves to be a spectre. And this made me laugh : After resolving the matter with Septimus and The consort Asari, the Elcor being like : " you see Din', humans aren't all the same, they can be altruistic ! "Yup, Din korlak is about right, that Volus is so smart ! :
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Post by talyn82 on Oct 18, 2021 23:32:27 GMT
lordmoral I'd love watching a few of your videos with your shep. Glad I inspired you ! dazk Harsh. I had the opposite problem to yours, in DAI. I succeded to create a character that looked very much like my brother. When I showed his pics to him and my family ,they were all shocked. It's too bad, the site that had uploaded all my pics disappeared with them... Would have shown the fair comparison. Anyways, I like my brother, but once I tried the first heart option at the beginning with Cassandra, the inquisitor trying to be charming, I was like, yeah. No. Nope, nope, nope away ! Kill it with fire Couldn't play with his face and deleted him just after. No way ! Otherwise I uploaded two very quick fights that prove Shepard deserves to be a spectre. And this made me laugh : After resolving the matter with Septimus and The consort Asari, the Elcor being like : " you see Din', humans aren't all the same, they can be altruistic ! "Yup, Din korlak is about right, that Volus is so smart ! : Two things. One, there is a love scene with Shaira? Two, I like the look on your character's face with what I presume is a nude Shaira lol.
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Post by dazk on Oct 18, 2021 23:40:08 GMT
I think the main problem is I created a character who looked like an acquaintance who I don't like much and it put me off. That's a good motivator do have him die at the collector base so you don't have to deal with him making decisions about what to do in ME3. Quickly playthrough ME1/2. Have him die on the collector base. Start a new playthrough with a Shepard that looks like someone you like. I like how you think but just can't get myself past Eden Prime after three attempts. Going to have a break and come back and try again in a week or so, think it may just be my mind set ATM as much as anything.
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Post by Syv on Oct 18, 2021 23:43:34 GMT
Two things. One, there is a love scene with Shaira? Two, I like the look on your character's face with what I presume is a nude Shaira lol. Thanks. It's not a love scene, but rather a scene where it is implied they have sex, but it's very quick and you don't see anything. Shep is rewarded for helping her with more than just words. You just have to pick the renegade option, where you show some disappointment with her first " gift" where she is just telling you about " who you are and your " future. "
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Post by lordmoral on Oct 18, 2021 23:43:52 GMT
lordmoral I'd love watching a few of your videos with your shep. Glad I inspired you ! dazk Harsh. I had the opposite problem to yours, in DAI. I succeded to create a character that looked very much like my brother. When I showed his pics to him and my family ,they were all shocked. It's too bad, the site that had uploaded all my pics disappeared with them... Would have shown the fair comparison. Anyways, I like my brother, but once I tried the first heart option at the beginning with Cassandra, the inquisitor trying to be charming, I was like, yeah. No. Nope, nope, nope away ! Kill it with fire Couldn't play with his face and deleted him just after. No way ! Otherwise I uploaded two very quick fights that prove Shepard deserves to be a spectre. And this made me laugh : After resolving the matter with Septimus and The consort Asari, the Elcor being like : " you see Din', humans aren't all the same, they can be altruistic ! "Yup, Din korlak is about right, that Volus is so smart ! : Two things. One, there is a love scene with Shaira? Two, I like the look on your character's face with what I presume is a nude Shaira lol. Of course you can but you will miss out on the Trinket.
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Maybe it's sign from universe that you should use this Shepard for pt with renegade decisions I tried, I just can't do it!!!!! You know, as much as I've wanted to do this terrible decisions playthrough, I'm having a lot of trouble motivating myself to start up the game. I just started Feros today, which is my least favorite part to begin with, and coupled with feeling nothing at all for this Shepard, well...it's hard to make myself do it
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Post by Syv on Oct 18, 2021 23:47:30 GMT
Two things. One, there is a love scene with Shaira? Two, I like the look on your character's face with what I presume is a nude Shaira lol. Of course you can but you will miss out on the Trinket. No, you still have the trinket if you help her with Septimus AND resolve the matter with the diplomat Elcor, before going to see her. You have sex, xp, money and the trinket in the end. She's quite generous Shaïra.
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Post by lordmoral on Oct 18, 2021 23:56:36 GMT
Of course you can but you will miss out on the Trinket. No, you still have the trinket if you help her with Septimus AND resolve the matter with the diplomat Elcor, before going to see her. You have sex, xp, money and the trinket in the end. She's quite generous Shaïra. Ok, players helping each other but I will still just accept the Trinket, less things the paparazzi can use to dig dirt on Shepard on behalf of his political enemies.
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Post by Syv on Oct 19, 2021 0:28:33 GMT
I tried, I just can't do it!!!!! You know, as much as I've wanted to do this terrible decisions playthrough, I'm having a lot of trouble motivating myself to start up the game. I just started Feros today, which is my least favorite part to begin with, and coupled with feeling nothing at all for this Shepard, well...it's hard to make myself do it If it becomes really really difficult to be motivated, and to enjoy that playthrough maybe you should create another character which you better like, which better fits you, that's what comes first and what matters above all : That you have fun, enjoy your playthrough and your character. If that's not the case, that's too bad. I know, that I gave up with a lot of characters because I couldn't enjoy the playthrough, not motivated at all, even if it was different from what I used to play. I tried. There are some things different that we are able to appreciate, because it's another experience, indeed, there are others ones that are totally opposite to our core identity or go beyond our limits sometimes though. And we don't have fun or can't enjoy. And yet these are the first elements we have to take into acount. I personally never succeeded to play an Adept for example. And yet I tried a lot of times, but always gave up after a while. I mean it goes against my core identity, I can't play a game based mostly on powers and not guns in Mass effect.. No issues with the vanguard, I love it, but the adept isn't really my thing, it's like that. The same in dragon age, I can't play a mage based on health powers, as support. I can't enjoy that type of playthrough even if I tried for hours and hours. I always need to be on the front, either rogue or warrior. The same with terrible decision playthroughs, I am not able to play that, I can't accept my character being incompetent, screwing up everything . Courage !
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Post by dragontartare on Oct 19, 2021 1:18:32 GMT
If it becomes really really difficult to be motivated, and to enjoy that playthrough maybe you should create another character which you better like, which better fits you, that's what comes first and what matters above all : That you have fun, enjoy your playthrough and your character. If that's not the case, that's too bad. I know, that I gave up with a lot of characters because I couldn't enjoy the playthrough, not motivated at all, even if it was different from what I used to play. I tried. There are some things different that we are able to appreciate, because it's another experience, indeed, there are others ones that are totally opposite to our core identity or go beyond our limits sometimes though. And we don't have fun or can't enjoy. And yet these are the first elements we have to take into acount. Yeah, I really wanted to see a very different experience, but at this rate, that isn't going to happen anyway. I'm going to create a new Shepard and go the renegade route, still making some decisions I never would have made otherwise, but not trying to be awful just for the sake of it. Maybe that will be more playable for me.
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Post by talyn82 on Oct 19, 2021 3:45:47 GMT
Two things. One, there is a love scene with Shaira? Two, I like the look on your character's face with what I presume is a nude Shaira lol. Thanks. It's not a love scene, but rather a scene where it is implied they have sex, but it's very quick and you don't see anything. Shep is rewarded for helping her with more than just words. You just have to pick the renegade option, where you show some disappointment with her first " gift" where she is just telling you about " who you are and your " future. " That's why, in my two playthroughs I played Paragon.
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Post by talyn82 on Oct 19, 2021 3:47:00 GMT
Two things. One, there is a love scene with Shaira? Two, I like the look on your character's face with what I presume is a nude Shaira lol. Of course you can but you will miss out on the Trinket. I always wondered what was the Trrinket she gives Shepard?
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Post by dragontartare on Oct 19, 2021 3:56:05 GMT
I started again. Here's Donna Shepard: adept, Earthborn, ruthless. I plan to have her sabotage the genophage in ME3 without killing Mordin, which I think means not recruiting Wrex (or killing him), and destroying Maelon's data? Not sure if I'll have her kill the rachni queen. Shepard's evil glee when doing so isn't the character I'm aiming for this time. I might as well romance Kaidan, I guess Sorry, Ash. That means your days are numbered.
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Post by dragontartare on Oct 19, 2021 3:56:56 GMT
Of course you can but you will miss out on the Trinket. I always wondered what was the Trrinket she gives Shepard? Not to give too many spoilers, but did you happen upon a prothean sphere in a little corner of one of the planets?
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Post by talyn82 on Oct 19, 2021 3:58:39 GMT
If it becomes really really difficult to be motivated, and to enjoy that playthrough maybe you should create another character which you better like, which better fits you, that's what comes first and what matters above all : That you have fun, enjoy your playthrough and your character. If that's not the case, that's too bad. I know, that I gave up with a lot of characters because I couldn't enjoy the playthrough, not motivated at all, even if it was different from what I used to play. I tried. There are some things different that we are able to appreciate, because it's another experience, indeed, there are others ones that are totally opposite to our core identity or go beyond our limits sometimes though. And we don't have fun or can't enjoy. And yet these are the first elements we have to take into acount. Yeah, I really wanted to see a very different experience, but at this rate, that isn't going to happen anyway. I'm going to create a new Shepard and go the renegade route, still making some decisions I never would have made otherwise, but not trying to be awful just for the sake of it. Maybe that will be more playable for me. In my two playthroughs of the games I played mostly Paragon. But in my last playthrough I played mostly Paragon, but made Renegade choices when I thought it fit the situation. Like the scene with David in the Overlord dlc. Once Shepard sees what has become of David. I told the brother to free David, then I chose the renegade option and proceeded to pistol whip the brother. There were other moments I chose the renegade option. If an npc is trying to punk Shepard or threaten them I retort. But mostly my Paragon meter fills up completely than the Renegade meter.
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