mass effect - /v/

Anonymous10/24/26, 21:04No.750289097Mass Effect

>b-b-but the next game should've honoured YOUR choices in the trilogy! why? >94% of players saved wrex in ME1 >93% saved the rachni queen >96% cured the genophage >96% pardoned tali >80% achieved peace between the quarians and geth >68% punched the reporter in the face >45% picked destroy ending players were actively seeking out the best ending with destroy max assets where shepard lives, just make that the "canon" ending

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Anon10/24/26, 21:57No.750291859

It's a meme feature which shackles rpg series, turns it into long slog and as such encourages self inserting instead of roleplaying Every rp game should be about a different character and encourage replaying it as a character with a completely different personality, class, traits and goals instead

Anon10/24/26, 21:59No.750291964

Thane was the only character I never liked. Even the black guy, forgot his name, had a somewhat interesting story. Generic, yes, but at least it was something.

Anon10/24/26, 22:01No.750292062

% cured the genophage Man there's a lot of retard out there.

Anon10/24/26, 22:01No.750292063

compiled trilogy stats are invalid.

Anon10/24/26, 22:02No.750292140

Has anyone ever noticed how all background story arcs of the crew members in ME2 boil down to daddy issues?

Anon10/24/26, 22:45No.750294317

The ending sucked, not the choicesThe last 10 minutes killed the entire IP

Anon10/24/26, 22:46No.750294360

Why would you even play a choice based RPG if you're just going to say choices are pointless and should be ignored? Stick to CoD, zoomer

Anon10/24/26, 22:54No.750294783

Don't care. Play my mod when it comes out. I'm stumped on the voice acting. I use AI but I consider it placeholder. I started salivating when Jennifer Hale and Mark Meer just posted a #SaveMassEffect video saying "We wanna be Shepard again" that maybe they'd work with fans.I have so much Shepard dialogue I need voiced, I'd go fucking broke.

Anon10/24/26, 22:54No.750294790

What If I chose to let the Reapers win? thus meaning everyones dead especially Liara so why is she in the trailer, Bioware is just retarded

Anon10/24/26, 23:07No.750295440

Yeah. Most people will also just reload if a companion dies or they fail a dialogue check. ME3 shouldn't have even had choices for an ending. Literally the entire trilogy revolved around destroying the reapers. That is all that the ending should have been. Gathering the combined might of the galaxy and defeating the reapers in massive battle above Earth. No deus ex machina needed. No star child. No control or synthesis.

Anon10/24/26, 23:29No.750296693

The only viable ending is Control. Players who choose destroy or synthesis forget that synthetics vs organics isn't the only problem of the Galaxy.

Anon10/24/26, 23:31No.750296808

>600 years DOA, they didn't learn from AndromedaMemberberries don't work anymoreShould be instead 20-25 years after ME3, everyone still rebuilding and the OG cast is still around and actually matches their IRL age

Anon10/24/26, 23:40No.750297275

they're going to ruin liara by having her have multiple husbands by the time zhong shepard gets to romance her even far worse if she never romanced again and compares you to shepard kwab should go all in on female turians, hot human females (like in that fake trailer) and a female salarian waifu who wants to lay your eggs

Anon10/24/26, 23:42No.750297414

This is because the game does expect you to make exactly these choices and didn't plan on you not making them. There is no benefit in doing the opposite thing. You are locking yourself out of content and the game offers basically no reward to compensate for it. That's not just the case with moral choices. What does brining Liara to Noveria give you, a few extra lines of dialogue? What does cooperating with Parasini give you, a few extra lines across all three games? What does killing Samara in favor of Morinth give you, a few lines if dialogue, ONE unique interaction on the planets and...one additional enemy in ME3? Oh I guess a unique game over screen is very cool and worth it! Get fucking real, ME's choices were never important. Anyone can see that shooting Wrex or exiling Tali or not punching the jeet journo will give you fucking nothing. Here's my party on Virmire at one point on my recent playthrough, you think this meant anything? I got a funny Liara dialogue out of it later I guess.

Anon10/24/26, 23:45No.750297581

% saved the rachni queen I still have no idea why unleashing a bioweapon on the galaxy gives paragon points.

Anon10/24/26, 23:51No.750297884

it was going to take place 600 years later. none of that matters

Anon10/24/26, 23:57No.750298119

>RPGs shouldn't even have choices Think about how stupid you sound

Anon10/24/26, 23:58No.750298167

Source to your data? Because I always did 2 playthroughs where I did the opposite things.

Anon10/25/26, 00:17No.750299090

>96% cured the genophage What the fuck?

Anon10/25/26, 00:26No.750299524

>trailer from Mass Effect Universe actually looked decent >they had to pull devs away from ME project to work on nigger-guardWhy couldn't Bioware just have made one game in the past decade that was decent?

Anon10/25/26, 00:28No.750299629

It's insane how most people made the normie moves>Wrex is a violent ape nigger and Ashley should shoot him as soon as he chimps out >The rachni are dangerous ugly insectoids who will simply repopulate and then kill millions of your human descendants. Saving them is like bringing a million thirld worlders into your country. A typical boomer move. > The genophage still allows them to have children, just not too many which is a correction for how they evolved in a hostile planet and now have access to an entire galaxy. As above you're simply unleashing another plague in the galaxy as soon as your buddy Wrex dies off >There can't really be long-term peace between these two, it's just synthesis slop >Well yeah fuck that hoe >The only real choice

Anon10/25/26, 00:28No.750299636

>why? Because making an ending where you get to pick between three colored lines because you were lazy hurt future sales.

Anon10/25/26, 00:32No.750299764

should i give it a try? i think i got this for less than 10 CAD back then

Anon10/25/26, 00:34No.750299868

Anyone that's not thoroughly retarded (ie anyone that played the trilogy before the demaster, and anyone that's not terminally online on Twitter and r/masseffect) would've told you just that, yeah. Save import mattering between games in Shepard's trilogy is important, which is where 2 faltered, but for what was essentially going to be a soft reboot? Clean slate, and there's nothing cleaner than High EMS Destroy. Caring about fucking Synthesis was a mistake, as was setting the game 600 years in the future solely to pander to the 0.3% of people that liked Andromeda. Glad the game's cancelled.

Anon10/25/26, 00:39No.750300138

Or you could do it Deus Ex way. Combine all endings and made it nothingburger.

Anon10/25/26, 00:45No.750300423

% of players saved wrex in ME1 didn't % saved the rachni queen didn't % cured the genophage didn't % pardoned tali did % achieved peace between the quarians and geth did % punched the reporter in the face did % picked destroy ending didbest ending. peace in the galaxy

Anon10/25/26, 00:47No.750300543

someone post the Casey hudson post

Anon10/25/26, 00:48No.750300617

They really stopped producing good games immediately after they started developing games under EA's influence. Surely it's a coincidence

Anon10/25/26, 01:03No.750301386

>why? Because otherwise it's not canon to my playthrough. >"b-b-but I have these numbers" That's cool, still not canon.

Anon10/25/26, 01:14No.750301871

Anon in case you have been living under a rock the past decade, accounting for the small, minute portions of the gaming audience is what the industy does now. Look at trans representation for example. Single digit percentage contribution of the overall audience of gaming, yet has entire committees dedicated to placating them and accounting for their overly representative social media presence.

Anon10/25/26, 01:14No.750301884

Literally this.>killing off 99% of companions with only Liara and maybe Grunt and/or Wrex as the sole survivors.Initially I was super mad this shit got cancelled, but when that trailer leaked and it got confirmed to basically tailor itself to Andromeda by having a timeskip is when I was super relieved it got cancelled.I couldn't imagine leaving the trilogy with so many unsolved questions and issues regarding perhaps the greatest companions ever to be in an RPG series.Canceling this game is a mercy killing for us OG bioware fans.Hoping the game gets picked up by another studio and just reused the assets to give us a smaller scale ME4 with a small time skip maybe 5-10 years after ME3 dealing with the current dynamics of the galaxy and its issues with it setting up to a true finale of a ME5 finally dealing with Leviathans.Like so many GOATed companions like Wrex, Garrus, Tali, Miranda, Javik, etc. killed off just go to cater to Andromeda troons.Never will an RPG ever have the same amount of amazing companions the way the ME trilogy did and this is coming from someone who is as anti-woke and a RPG stan as they come.DA1 came close as a stand alone game, but didnt deliver over the following games by bringing those companions back like ME trilogy games did , but finessing Morrigan into being Allistair's (your fellow Warden nigga that is literally a loser virgin that jacks off in the bushes) hoe as a means of fulfilling her wish of a demon spawn baby all while RP'ing as a racist vengeful City Elf who wouldnt dare touch human filth like her or Lilliana (humans were the only female romance options in DA1) just to see their eventual bastard child in DA3 being acknowledged was a chef's kiss moment, especially considering Allistair was still childless otherwise meaning a demon spawn would inherit Allistair's kingdom thereby inadvertently doing Morrigan a favor in the long run.

Anon10/25/26, 01:16No.750301954

i still think its hilarious that shepard dies in the bad ending on 2

Anon10/25/26, 01:21No.750302162

Mass Effect never had any sequels. Its a shame because BioWare were onto something special but its probably for the best. If we got a sequel it would have most likely been a major shift and downgrade from the first.

Anon10/25/26, 01:30No.750302527

y'all remember the pathetic cope that was the indoctrination theory?

Anon10/25/26, 01:36No.750302801

They could have had Shepard slowly die, after speaking with Anderson, then have the 'device' go off and that would have been the end of itBut the whole last 5-10 mins of the last game, holy shit, what is going on?

Anon10/25/26, 01:38No.750302890

>ME5 would have had all ME3 endings converge >TW4 has Ciri become a witcher regardless of your TW3 ending This medium is a joke

Anon10/25/26, 01:40No.750302981

I like nu Ash

Anon10/25/26, 01:52No.750303546

I dont understand why they time jumped so far again, my idea is >set it 2 years after 3 >Perfect Destroy is canon obviously >Post War restoration setting >bigger diversity is our strength tier council and even more incompetent causing public discourse >Mass relays are sort of back >Geth are kinda back but still distrusted to not chimp out again >Cerberus is either gone or pulling a generational PR run to clear their name. >More gangs and faction leaders taking advantage >Maybe the bad guy could be some Palpatine type basically ''False Shepard'' uniting people for the wrong reasons or some shit >You play as new N7 guy with his own squad but you need to find Shepard and his friends to bring everyone together again There is potential there along with shit I forgot about like the Leviathans are Dark Space whatever it was called, I just dont find speedrunning the setting to everything being normal again as interesting as a direct post galactic war one

Anon10/25/26, 02:21No.750304792

I'M ONLY HUMAN AFTER ALL

Anon10/25/26, 02:23No.750304859

>downloadable content

Anon10/25/26, 03:06No.750306649

how about instead of mass effect its mass efukt, and its a game about prolapses and asian girls drinking diarrheal

Anon10/25/26, 03:09No.750306786

Heavily story-driven narratives mixed with fuckass RPG design is just a bad idea period.

Anon10/25/26, 04:03No.750309052

Thane krios, my husbando forever

Anon10/25/26, 04:05No.750309102

My first ever playthrough wrex died, I did save the queen, I didn't cure the genophage, couldn't care less about Tali, and I chose geth over the quarians.

Anon10/25/26, 04:21No.750309683

these ME threads are proof of how normie 4chan actually is hocking the same ME2 da best ME3 da worst xplay takes from 2012

Anon10/25/26, 04:27No.750309915

The stupid ass ending should have just been blowing the reapers up. No waxing poetic bullshit, just the actual goal you'd been working towards the whole time. Some higher up cunt thought about how emotional and poignant and meaningful it would be if Shepard could fail or die and that stupid ass idea shat on everything you'd worked towards the whole time. It should have been: press button, reapers die, make babies with lover of your choice.

Anon10/25/26, 04:33No.750310092

I know they have made nothing but shit for like 15 years but that 2 minutes bullshot trailer made me think they're actually le epic company again! #bringbackbioware

Anon10/25/26, 04:35No.750310167

>Kept Wrex alive >Spared Rachni queen >Saved Kaidon >Talked old comrade out of killing himself >Didn't let Garrus take revenge >Pardoned Tali >Cured the genophage >achieved peach between Geth and Quarians >Never even talked to the reporter Sole survivor bro, everyone's gotta live >picked destroy ending because the other two were literally retarded and that stupid computer program was full of shit and definitely trying to manipulate you

Anon10/25/26, 04:36No.750310198

been playing with ME3LE Multiplayer mod with friends. it's fun, though it's kind of rough starting out because you have jack shit for weapons and characters.

Anon10/25/26, 04:39No.750310295

>93% saved the rachni queen I figured theyd be good allies to have, its the same reason I converted the Geth. Boy, did that ever pay off when the reapers showed up.

Anon10/25/26, 04:42No.750310420

Because it's an RPG, you stupid piece of shit, not a popularity contest. Dumb fat cunt needy for attention, go back to licking your windows.

Anon10/25/26, 04:50No.750310730

Just to stick to New Vegas with its slideshow and narration, it's incredible how much replayability there is just by a few slides saying if boone became an hero who spat on the legate, or that New Vegas food supply got fucked because some rich fuck kid got eaten by cannibals

Anon10/25/26, 04:54No.750310853

>that one ending where shepherd merges his dna will all living things while also mind controlling all the robots insanely spooky and humorous

Anon10/25/26, 04:55No.750310928

I'm really not interested in the dumb fixation on choice in these retarded games

Anon10/25/26, 04:58No.750311017

You make destroy canon and then space A.I and Geth get nuked. And the fuck are you gonna use as end game enemies if you ain't got the Geth running around to be murder bots? This is the main problem with Mass Effect 3's ending and why they pivoted to a different galaxy to begin with, all 4.5 ending options presented by ME3 make writing a sequel more of a pain unless you're like some coked up British sci-fi writer. Bioware has never had the skill of a coked up british sci-fi writer.

Anon10/25/26, 05:03No.750311201

If you didn't play the Mass Effect trilogy AS IT WAS RELEASING then I don't give a shit about your opinion.

Anon10/25/26, 05:23No.750311984

>why? Because it's supposed to be a roleplaying game.

Anon10/25/26, 05:45No.750312674

According to the leaks, in the next Mass Effect, the galaxy would have been divided into three major factions in a cold war: >Humanity, Krogan, Batarians, and more allied together (representing the Terminus systems aka the galactic equivalent of the Global South) >Council races (representing the First World/West/ZOG) forming their own alliance >The Geth emerging as a third superpowerLeaving aside the sheer retardation of humans allying with their arch enemies the batarians, it also would have been a conscious decision by the humans, who were part of the Citadel Council, to actively ally with the shitskins races like the Krogan and Batarians.This would be the equivalent of the US allying with Russia and China against the rest of NATO and Japan/South Korea. It is humanity, renouncing its Western heritage in favor of third world anti-colonial solidarity. We see what's happening here

Anon10/25/26, 05:53No.750312959

The entire trilogy could easily be fixed if Bioware wasn't retardedMass Effect 2 >Shepard acts as a Spectre with considerable authority, building coalitions and directing the war effort. >The player's decisions in ME1 determine military support, alliances, political legitimacy and who participates in the final battle. >The genophage, geth–quarian conflict and other galactic divisions become major strategic problems. >Hugely expanded RTS elements with little emphasis on mindless cover shooting >Shepard marries the player's love interest before the final battle, this is a on screen culmination of the romance >The final mission of the game is the Suicide mission against the Reapers, Automatic fail state if Shepard dies in battle, Liara cannot die either, every other party member can perma-die >The reapers are destroyed permanently in the final battle with no Cosmic bullshit >The galaxy celebrates. The Reapers are gone. Shepard survived. The player believes they've reached their happy ending. Then, during a subsequent Normandy journey, the ship collides with space debris. Shepard ensures their spouse is evacuated, but cannot escape the destruction of the ship. Shepard dies—not defeating the Reapers, but in an unforeseen accident after saving the galaxy.There, now all of the Cerberus bullshit can take place in ME3 with Shepard being woken up 10 years after the Reapers are destroyed in a game that shamelessly rips off Deus Ex and Alpha Protocol

Anon10/25/26, 08:17No.750317609

The best part of Mass Effect's universe was envisaging all the rape taking place in it. all other details are there to flesh out an expansive well-developed universe for an especially immersive porno in which these rapes can be set.It was a mistake to move the setting to Andromeda. What kind of rape is there to be had in a completely unsettled galaxy? Now, hardly any rape stories are produced compared to the heyday of Mass Effect in 2010-12

Anon10/25/26, 08:25No.750317807

% achieved peace between the quarians and geth Absolutely disgusting.

Anon10/25/26, 08:46No.750318390

It definitely should have. ME3 would have been a classic had they had tens of different endings based on earlier choices in the trilogy. Look how their one ending colored in three ways helped to develop sequels lol. ME3 was so shit that it killed the franchise.

Anon10/25/26, 08:48No.750318429

>gamers are sad sacks who mixmax and care about one of the blandest protags in videogame history Yeah we know.

Anon10/25/26, 10:05No.750320613

>Synthesis ending All these years later and I still have no fucking clue what actually happened there. Leaves having circuit boards, reapers and humans living together, everyone walking around with glowing eyeballs and circuit board tattoos, EDI able to bear Joker's children, seems like the happiest but also the most nonsensical out of all the endings.

Anon10/25/26, 10:09No.750320752

>Wrex tells the dumbshit Krogan to listen to the humans because Shepard. Wrex. >batarians follow humanity because Shepard raped their whole race in to submission by blowing up their planet HUMANITY FUCK YEAH

Anon10/25/26, 10:10No.750320758

Control is still the best ending

Anon10/25/26, 10:20No.750321039

Shiala

Anon10/25/26, 10:25No.750321198

Cerberus killed Admiral Kahoku

Anon10/25/26, 10:26No.750321269

>94% of people saved Wrex Always knew this series was for low testosterone "males".

Anon10/25/26, 10:46No.750321896

Having the option is what makes my choice more special you fucking female retard.

Anon10/25/26, 10:48No.750321970

>unironically thinking ME5 would've been good

Anon10/25/26, 11:18No.750322817

>EDI, what's the probability that the reapers have indoctrinated a human of indian descent? >Approximately one hundred percent, Commander Shepard >Perfect. Now we can safely assume that their master password is something simple, like the number four. Now create a virus we can upload into the reapers that would kill them. Make no mistakes. Masterpiece. >I'll get right on it, Commander. >Excellent. Oh, and one last thing EDI. >Yes? >We'll bang, okay?

Anon10/25/26, 11:19No.750322857

% cured the genophage>violent retard species lives 700 yrs, reproduces repeatedly, birth 1000 young *each time* >virus reduces their birthrate to 1 kid per pregnancy (literally mandatory to avoid mass starvation) >96% of ppl cure the virus because "its killing muh heckin wrex race" >even though the krogan are only dying out because they're too violent and stupid to survive this is why we're screwed

Anon10/25/26, 11:36No.750323395

destroy>>>>>>control>>>>>>refuse>>>>>literal shit>>>>>>synthesisFACT

Anon10/25/26, 11:38No.750323505

...yes and?

Anon10/25/26, 11:39No.750323540

i don't know why people prefer mass effect over dragon age. Mass effect was just a really bad action game with terrible gameplay and okay story

Anon10/25/26, 11:50No.750323939

>genophage not cured >somehow i saved wrex >rachnis not saved >pardoned tali >geths extincted >first council dead >ashley in my sheets >the only good batarian is a dead batarian >destroy

Anon10/25/26, 11:50No.750323940

Because it's not the same 95% that did each of these things.