What did you do today in ME?

To continue what I said about every Mass Effect sort of being like "Groundhog Day" where Shep keeps revisiting the same things each game: After Horizon, I decided to do Miranda's loyalty, visit Liara, run into the Asari possessed by Rachni, hooked up the Krogan and Asari couple, then Jack's loyalty, then hit Tuchanka and did Mordin's loyalty and killed the Thresher Maw for Grunt. It's a lot of the same elements you get in ME3 for the first half of the game (besides Miranda's loyalty, I suppose).

Anyways, tied all that up with LotSB for the 5th mission... I guess you could say crashing on Azure and killing Vasir has similar elements to the Citadel Coup.. but only loosely.

Illusive Man lured me to the Collector Ship, with the false Turian signal. Yet another thing that pops up around this time in ME3.

Anyways, I'll save it there for now.

Benjamin completed Feros today. Two times in fact, since Liara doesn't understand that "I'm not interested in you that way" does not equal to being patient nor wanting to sleep with her. Hopefully taking the middle path made it clear, otherwise, well...these things happen.
But it wasn't all bad, this way Benjamin prevented a quest getting stuck in his book and got a shiny new armor (really rare drop in this playthrough). And I quite like Feros (minus the creepers). But the Geth are fun and there are some easy Paragon points to be had. Which is how Benjamin maxed his score this time, thus being free to go on a murderous rampages while still keeping his knightly image. He also hit level 50, so no more experience points for him.
Quest wise he's almost done with the game. Next session will be Virmire, then wrap up the quests at the Citadel, hopefully snatching the ally achievements for Garrus and Liara. Then he's pretty much done with that chapter of his life.

Well, the plan to have the campaign finished was too ambitious, but I finished Virmire and the Geth Master Base quest. The two colossus still took a bit of fancy driving, but dismounting from Mako and remounting it did the trick.

Mark saved Ashley that went to hold the Tower, while Kaiden died proud with the nuke. Actually was more emotional than I expected. kaiden might not be my fav character, but the cutscenes was great.

Oh, need to say that joker-renegade dialogues are fun.

In the end, Mark Shepard just escaped Citadel to make a run for Mu Relee... so of course he's going to go try the Bringing Down the Sky next.

finally, in MP I finished levelling my Sala Engi which was so-so (even got moved to a successful Silver game by the lead, yay). Then I switched to Vanguard, and well, started getting this weird experiences of looking for my name on the 4th, hoping for the 3rd line, and ending up 2nd or even 1st. So, yeah, dunno what to do at all. Silver's nice, but I can't seem to make it on any character in bronze but Vanguard, which is not going to one-shot stuff there.

Ha-ha, playing Vanguard is leading a thrilling life of frustrated attempts at a suicide as far as I can tell.

Erin Shepard chased after a robot, had a bad dream, met with the council, punched a reporter, rescued a Turian Primarch, and recruited her Turian boyfriend to the squad.

Finished my ME2 run... for real this time.

Kind of screwed up my mission priorities a bit, so had to wait to do Legion's loyalty for post Suicide Mission.. but finally finished that up and Arrival. Almost had an exact Paragon/Renegade score at the end. Kind of what I planned, but didn't calculate it to be so close.

I think I'll play ME3 vanilla at first and then heavily mod it for a second run.

Soldier FemShep, cont'd:

Now that the Normandy was under her command, Shepard met with various crew members - and the new non-human friends they picked up while finding evidence against Saren on the Citadel - to see if there was anything else she should know before setting out.

Joker provided some info about the ship, and bragged about his awesome piloting skills. He revealed how his brittle-bone disease had impacted his life and driven him on to be the best pilot at his flight school.

Navigator Pressley expressed concern about the non-humans on board, but insisted it "won't be a problem" for him. Some in the Alliance apparently are still suspicious of other races - in particular Turians - thanks to incidents like the First Contact War. Shepard understood Pressley felt, but the encounter with the strange ship on Eden Prime suggested that there were other threats lurking out there in space, and perhaps it was time to let go of old grudges and start building alliances to help deal with these threats.

Engineer Adams described the capabilities of the Normandy's engines and stealth systems, as well as his background in the Alliance before being assigned to the Normandy. He also expressed admiration for Tali's skills and technical knowledge.

Tali was very enthusiastic about being assigned to a ship as advanced as the Normandy, since the Quarian Flotilla often struggled to keep their ships space-worthy and lacked the resources to build anything like the prototype Alliance ship. Shepard asked her about her people and the Pilgrimage rite of passage that they all undertake. She also gave the Quarian version of the war with the Geth, and her and Shepard had a minor disagreement over who was truly at fault - it sounded to Shepard that the Quarians were the ones who were the aggressors. She didn't make a huge deal about it, though - she liked Tali, and it wasn't really fair to blame her for something that happened centuries before she was born.

Garrus was happy to have left C-Sec, and seemed to think that the freedom of Spectres to do whatever they wished somehow extended to him. Shepard quickly nipped that in the bud.

Wrex described the history of the Genophage - the sterility plague inflicted on the Krogan by the Salarians and Turians - and how it had affected his people. He was understandably angry and disheartened. The Krogan had been used by the Council races, then cast aside when they had outlived their usefulness and become more trouble than they were worth. It made Shepard angry, too.

At this point, the Normandy was ready to get under way. The first stop was the Hydra system, in the Argus Rho cluster. While on the Citadel, Shepard has read a scouting report about a distress call in the area, so she wanted to investigate. On arrival at the planet Metgos, the Normandy received a transmission from the Sacred Angel medical transport, and went down to the surface to investigate. It turned out that there was no transport, and that the distress call had been faked by the Geth to lure them into a trap. The Geth forces were no match for the Mako, however, and were quickly destroyed. Shepard, Kaidan and Tali surveyed the surrounding area, finding some Turian wreckage from the time of the Unification Wars, some salvage, and a couple of valuable mineral deposits.

The team then returned to the Normandy to plan their next move.

straykat
I think there's a mod to set your guns to level X. Not sure what it is though.

Well, I'm already about to recruit Garrus. I might as well just play through. It's no biggie, I guess. I wish they hadn't messed this up for importers though.

As for Jack, not only is she alive, but I'm romancing her.. so this is tough. I haven't decided... This would definitely make my Shep suicidal and stop caring though

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I feel even more sorry for Thane and Miranda fans though. Thane you have no choice, but it was easy for many to miss a beat with Miranda and lose her... at least when the game came out.

No need to worry.  You can still defeat the Reapers.

(Waves) Well, folks, my Reaper slaying carrier is on hold for a couple of weeks. RO CBT starts tonight, so I will be checking it out before going back to the Renegade Campaign.

I've just been playing MP a little in the past few days, even got to play Silver games b/c the group leads will re-queue from Bronze to Silver & I think that after the RO-break, I will start queueing for Silver/Cerberus, since my Vg seems to be able to do that, and I want to get moving on maxing out the silver weapons/mods.