Mass Effect 3 - Part 5

[TheCorpulent1]

Damned fine paint job. All that white in ME 2 was getting to me.

As for the issue with planet-hopping while Earth is under attack: It's just like ME 2. You know you've got an unbelievable powerful threat to face and going back to Earth with anything less than all of the resources at your disposal is suicide. So you let the Reapers do their thing on Earth in the short term, take your time, recruit your team, call in favors, etc., and then you head back when victory is assured (or at least a reasonable possibility). Going back without doing all of that would just be throwing your life away, and Earth would pay anyway.

 

[Havok83]

Man just one more week. Getting SSX this week and then I have ME3. Nothing else on the near horizon till maybe fall for me

 

[TheCorpulent1]

If you didn't have certain items in ME 2 because they were pre-order or promotional DLC, would those items be available to all in ME 3? That's one thing I'm not clear on, and it might be a big issue considering a lot of ME 3's armor and weapons are just imports/updates of ME 2's.

 

[SpideyVille]

I doubt I'm going to get this anytime soon due to lack of finance and no job at the moment. But I'm tempted to use some of the money I have that is supposed to be for bills on this. Seeing all the videos and trailers has really gotten me hyped again since I haven't really played ME2 since the summer.

 

[Reek]

all i want is my widow anti-material rifle and black hole gun

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'd really love to get my Locust back. I hope you get that early in the game. I favor Engineers, Sentinels, and Adepts, so the Locust in ME 2 was like a godsend compared to the s***ty pistols in ME 1.

 

[Master Chief]

heh, EA is marketing this thing like crazy.

 

[Donut]

Has anyone told Miranda to take a hike yet after the story mode before Part 3 comes out ? Because if you do your still loyal to the first love interest.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I didn't even know you could do that...

 

[Donut]

I didn't even know you could do that...

Me neither until I read about it in a forum & tried it myself & it works

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Does she leave the ship or stick around? I'm trying to strategically kill off all the "bad" characters in my current playthrough as a Paragon who doesn't abide serious criminals, and I'm counting Miranda as one for her Cerberus loyalty. But it'd be cooler if I could just kick her off the ship instead of killing her off...

 

[Donut]

Does she leave the ship or stick around? I'm trying to strategically kill off all the "bad" characters in my current playthrough as a Paragon who doesn't abide serious criminals, and I'm counting Miranda as one for her Cerberus loyalty. But it'd be cooler if I could just kick her off the ship instead of killing her off...

She just sits there acting like nothing ever happens. In fact if you talk to people like Joker after beating the story mode. He is still ready to kick some final bad guy ass in the second one after the story mode. So Part 2 is horrible when it comes to updating the game after it

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Haha, I see. Okay, so my plot to kill Miranda along with the rest of the ne'er-do-wells continues...

 

[Reek]

new ME3 commercial tonight with walking dead

 

[Master Chief]

new ME3 commercial tonight with walking dead

I posted it already hahah, here it is again.

 

[Nathan]

I had them all survive on my last playthrough, intend to do so again. And then I'll give them a choice, turn good and make amends for their crimes, or answer to me.

 

[Reek]

i thought that was just the dashboard one,

coolness, has it already happened on walking dead ?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I had them all survive on my last playthrough, intend to do so again. And then I'll give them a choice, turn good and make amends for their crimes, or answer to me.

No mercy for criminal scum! I'm killing off Jack, Miranda, Thane, and Zaeed. I'm particularly looking forward to letting Zaeed burn to death after the suicide run.

 

[Nathan]

Aww, even Thane? The poor bastard would die anyway. And he probably mostly killed people who had it coming.

 

[Crockett]

I posted it already hahah, here it is again.

Trying to be like the live-action commercials for Halo 3 & Halo:Reach, it's good but this reminds how great the commercial was for Reach.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Aww, even Thane? The poor bastard would die anyway. And he probably mostly killed people who had it coming.

If there were a way to be sure of that, I might've spared him. But I don't get the impression that he did kill only justifiably "bad" people. If he had, wouldn't he be less hell-bent on atoning for past misdeeds, not to mention less inclined to say his son shouldn't be proud of his name? I get the feeling he killed anyone his contracts specified. Sure, maybe he prayed over them when he killed them or whatever, but it seems he only just decided to try and balance the scales a bit when he learned he's dying.

 

[Nathan]

I think out of all the bad guys, Thane is the one that deserves to make it. Since he isn't evil at heart, and if it doesn't get in the way of his contract, even tries to keep people safe. Like the Salarians, when he went after that one Asari. Jack and Zaeed though? Yeah, 'eff them. I only let them survive, because I don't let people die on my watch.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

Well then ya might as well go and kill Wrex you bastards.

 

[spiderbob]

Yeah, I know. What the heck guys!? I know not everybody can't be as awesomely written as Wrex, or Garrus, or Tali, or Joker, but I've never wanted any of them purposely dead! Especially not going to the extent of meticulously planning their deaths!

For shame!!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Dude, relax, I saved everyone on my default Shep playthrough. This is Gilina Shepard, the no-nonsense Paragon who hates criminal scum. She's probably closest to Samara, although she allows for some complexity. Like Mordin--he's arguably a war criminal for engineering a "patch" to the genophage that genetically sterilized millions of krogan, but that's basically the only really questionable thing he's done and his alternatives were genocide and letting the universe potentially be overrun by a warlike race that's posed a threat before. Plus, you can get him to work toward undoing the damage he and others have done in his loyalty mission.

Thane's got a lifetime of being a remorseless assassin, which he could've stopped at any time. Instead, he chose to continue that life, to the extent that he abandoned his family for it. Basically, the only reason he changes at all is because he finds out he's dying and then learns that all his terrible acts are catching up with him in the form of his son's following in his assassin footsteps. The holy act is just a veneer to my Shep, used to comfort Thane for what he always knew deep down were unconscionable acts.

So basically it's the combination of choice and duration. Hell, Jack's arguably a more sympathetic case than Thane, since her crimes all stem from the horrible crimes enacted on her in the Cerberus facility she grew up in. But I'm still counting her as a criminal deserving of death because while she may have started out a victim, she's got about 10-15 years of criminal, murderous acts that she chose to engage in of her own free will. It's terrible what happened to her, but my Shep isn't gonna coddle her if she refuses to even recognize that what she did was wrong.

Also, my Shep's kind of closed-minded about criminals, so she hasn't been doing their loyalty missions to find out that maybe they are actually regretful or worthy of redemption. She's a hard woman, Gilina Shepard is.