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

Samara was a little underwhelming on that trip. I'd rather have dissenting opinions. Should have brought Jack- she dissents AGAINST everything

Also. Even on casual, died a lot. Used Half my unity

We just did a major mission and people have nothin to say?!

I'm still disappointed that he post mission meetings don't include more than just Jacob and Miranda. I feel like this was a budget cut.

IMO, the derilict reaper mission is one of the most difficult missions in the entire series. the combination of scions and a shitload of husks can be pretty devastating if you don't know excatly the best places to make a stand. Thane and Samara should have been good companions on this one though as their throw ability really helps with the husks (especially if maxed with AoE) and Thane's warp is good against the Scions..

I also find ot to be one of the less spectacular missions (which is ironic as it is probably one the most close up views of a reaper we ever got up to that point).

But for me, the intended creepy atmosphere didn't really work that well (collector ship was better in that regard IMO) and the fact that the team kinda seems to forget about the IFF throughout the mission and only picks it up by chance at the end is also weird.
All in all, I think the only highlight really is Legion.

As for the post mission meetings: I think it would have been very complicated to implement this any other way. Since you can pick up squad members in any order (or not pick them up at all if you wish), it would have made it difficult to account for any combination of people that might or might not be there and then should interact. This is also not different in DA. General briefings usually only include people who have to be there (like your advisors in DA:I) and maybe one or at max two people who are optional. It's just that DA:I for example had more fixed people (but a smaller group of optional companions).
Technically, ME2 does have a bunch of non-optional companions other than Jacob and Miranda (namely Garrus, Jack and Mordin) but the fact that you had to pick up certain people before going to Horizon was only added very late in development (and only so that switching discs on the XBox wouldn't occur too often). You can tell because the commentary dialogue for the early missions for squad mates who shouldn't be there is still in the game code and if you cheat these guys into existence via the game console, they will speak. So, since no order was planned, it would have been tough to combine those guys for briefings. It's not ideal to be stuck with Miri and Jacob but I can understand why it was done in this way.

Being my own tech support sucks sometimes, but it's better than a wait like that. They don't have phone tech support?



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In other news.

573 in favor of a rewrite is more than the 571 in favor of destruction.

But my boo, Thane, seems to think the idea bad.

I'm guessing the Heretics are all the Geth Shepherd have killed in the last game and this?


Edit add:

Sorry Boo. Technically, the geth made their own decision, IMO.

If you decide to replay ME2, take Garrus, Jacob or Tali on the IFF mission. Listen to all the logs. After dealing with the first scion, the hunchback looking thing, walk towards where it came from. You will see a few humans impaled on the spikes. There is a spot that you can activate that will give a cutscene with Shepard and Garrus, Tali or Jacob who will share some dialogue.

Omg Mordin's busy line about Varren Sexually transmitted disease

Does anyone know if Kelly still "feeds your fish" after she is abducted? I never checked this but now that I think about it, I am wondering if the game takes that into account when deciding the fish's fate after each mission.

I usually do take the time to feed them myself after she's abducted.  I think, though, there have been a couple of playthroughs where I've just gone straight to the GM after talking with Joker, Miranda, and Jacob and had them still survive.  I'm not sure what would happen though if you did a number of other missions before going through the Omega 4 Relay and forgot to feed them between each one of those.

 

Changed my armor a bit to have a bit more red in it. Feeling aggressive.

I didn't know for Kelly would really feed the fish and I liked clicking on the hamster anyway. So I just kept doing it myself.

Speaking about deceleration... From the first cut scene I was wondering about the lack of seat belts. No seat belts in space!

I think I can remember thinking the same thing about the hamster during my first playthrough.  By that point in the game though, I had already killed all the fish myself (didn't flirt with Kelly and regularly forgot to feed them... until there just weren't any more to buy.)

Finally! Everyone is at the meeting, even if they don't talk.

I picked the distraction option.

Crap. I'm assigning people certain jobs. It's a logic puzzle all over again. *Terrible at puzzles*

Good at Tech: I sent Legion. I care the least about him but also he is literally a machine and should be able to hack it.

Good Leader: I pick Samara. She is level headed and I don't really anyone having an issue with her. Although Grunt or Jack would have been hilarious to pick.


Ooooooo. The way she said "not one more" was great!

Wish I'd picked a more aggressive color scheme for the suit. Should have gone black red for that scene.

Picked my LI and settled on Jack. She respects Shepherd but also...Feel like she needs it more.