Stupid Newbie Questions, The Prequel: Mass Effect 1

I agree. I like his scene on the Normandy right after the coup. His scene after rescuing the Cerberus scientists  was alright.

I do like that the player gets to see Ashley with her sister.

Yes, this is the same Shepard, so she will be with Garrus again. I was thinking of seeing Ashley's content this time for the reason you gave.

You guys are giving me plenty to think about while I'm supposed to be working

"What's so important about a solution to this 'genophage'?"



Not quite "What's a Mythal," but not far off. I'm going to pretend you didn't say that, Shepard.

Kaidan and Ashley might have just made a decision for me...? The salarian asked for one of my people to accompany him to coordinate the attacks, and Ashley acted like an adolescent over it. I definitely cannot send her if she's not going to be professional about it, and Kaidan volunteered.

I don't know if there's another decision to make that actually determines who lives and who dies (don't tell me!) but if not, then sorry...whoever I just killed

I do appreciate that maybe it's an RP decision and not just a metagaming one, at least for now.



1. I honestly don't remember. I know I thought tech sounded kind of fun, but when I first started posting about ME2, I actually forgot which class I chose So in the end, it was not that well-reasoned of a decision if I couldn't even remember it. I did enjoy the class a lot in 2 and 3, though. The drone was very handy to have around, and I miss him. His name was Larry

2. www.nexusmods.com/masseffect/mods/1/?
HUGE improvement. Don't play ME1 on PC without it.

3. It was cringe-worthy in the beginning of the game compared to ME2 and 3. It's either gotten better, or I've gotten used to it. I'm not sure which. It'll be easier to tell when I get back to ME2, I think.

4. She's almost full paragon, though I feel like that decision was somewhat taken out of my hands the first time through ME2 because of the stupid way that morality checks work. Since I will be importing plenty of paragon points this time, I plan to take more dialogue options the way I want to RP them, rather than for game mechanic reasons, though I think she'll still be mostly paragon. At this point, it's just her personality to be patient and supportive, and I don't want to lose that.

Renegade would be fun to do in the future, though.

Yes, and talked to Conrad three times. I sent him back to his wife. I hope that was the "right" thing to do

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I told Garrus NOT to set off any false alarms on the base, because Shepard doesn't want to make things any harder on the salarians/Kaidan. We'll see if that actually helps Kaidan survive or if he's still doomed. Or maybe he was never doomed at all.

Anyway, I'm taking a dinner break.

Disrupted communications, satellites, and refueling.

Lol. Maybe it'll save some salarians? I mean, I'm losing a squad mate either way.

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Just talked to the reaper, and now I feel even more like "destroy" is the right ending. I can't imagine merging with or trying to control those things that have such disregard for life. Or at least Shepard won't be able to imagine it.

I got a bit of snark from Garrus as the asari scientist ran off. Finally, my space raptor boyfriend is back 

Going off to the breeding grounds to set the bomb now.

I let the game sit there for a while, then made the choice.

I feel bad

Ashley lives. It made a lot more sense to me that Shepard would be more sure she could save Ashley, while saving Kaidan seemed like more of a long shot. (I know it wasn't really, but I'm trying to stay in Shepard's head here.) That doesn't mean his final words didn't hurt a bit, though.


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Stupid, useless council. Especially that damn Turian. Shepard told them to go to hell.

Oh no. Kaidan died and you saved racist Ashley. She'll rip you a new one in Horizon and you will be a sad panda. Ouch. I go with other poster and vote you shoot her in ME3!

Why you make me laugh so much Dragon? Making up for your raptor Bf's lack of snark?