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Feb. 9th, 2013 10:59 amME blather- Finally beat ME3 last night. I actually coulda beaten it 10-20 minutes earlier, but I didn't realize I had to run to some controls to progress the mission. So I had holed up in a London store and was killing wave after wave of Banshees, Cannibals, and Marauders, not realize they spawned infinitely. Eventually, I realized I just need to make a run for it, so I did.
So, I started a NG+. One diff I've already made is picking Dr Michel over Dr Chakwas as the ship's doctor. It feels wrong, like I feel bad about not letting Dr Chakwas back aboard, but I need to play with Dr Michel at least once to get that last medi-gel capacity slot.
Anyways, here's some comments about the game now that I've completed it once:
EDI- I was spoiled for a lot of the game before I actually finally played it since the 1st game only came out for the PS3 last month. But how did I not know EDI was the lunar VI from the first game?!
The Krogan/Rachni- Who doesn't cure the genophage? Like I could maybe understand it if the Krogan under Wreav, but who has the Krogan under Wreav?! I mean, why the eff would you kill Wrex on Virmire? He's cool. The only reason to kill him is if you 1) didn't help him recover his family armor or 2) didn't raise charm/intimidate. And that's not a choice, that's you sucking at playing the game. But regardless, even then, I'm not going to frickin kill off an entire race for something they MAY do in the future. The council is all, "Our children's children will pay the mistake if you're wrong!" Hey, I destroyed armies. My kill count is in the hundreds of thousands. If those races step out of line, my bad-ass children will put them down!
Thessia- Not sure why Shepard blames himself for Thessia. Feel bad about Kai Leng getting the jump on him, sure. But the mission is totally separate from Thessia's fate- the Reapers were already attacking anyways. Even if Shepard did get the info, it wouldn't change the outcome, he'd still have to leave the planet it to its fate because the information is too important. Him getting it would not have saved the planet at that point. And he can't be thinking it was all for nothing, because that would imply they made a calculated risk- to chance Thessia's fall to get something that would win the war. But like I said, Thessia was already being attacked, regardless of what Shepard was doing.
The End- Heh, I don't feel like there's a "best" ending. I mean, if your EMS is high enough, its implied that Shepard actually survives the destroy ending. But I would never pick that. For one, that would kill EDI, and two, I just worked hard to broker peace between the Quarians and Geth, that Legion sacrificed himself for. I'm not going to shit on all that.
Then there's the control ending. My Shepard was a paragon, but even then, would you really trust anyone being "uplifted" into some immortal consciousness controlling a huge armada of giant killer space-squids? How do you know in a few centuries or millenia he won't go crazy and do something as insane as the Reaper cullings. Like I said, I'm having trouble leaving that to my paragon Shepard, some of the choices a renegade Shepard can make in the series, I wouldn't want him in control!
As for Synthesis, you die, but everyone in the galaxy gets turned into a synthetic/organic hybrid (which apparently means they get glowing green eyes and having weird green circuitry on their skin) and they get the knowledge of all the beings the Reapers previously culled. That may seem ideal, but its still creepy to me. Also, I'm amused that the ending storyboards for synthesis are similar to the other ones, except everyone has the aformentioned green eyes.
Finally, the do nothing ending. Who the eff would ever do this?! Its like the catalyst is all "we've determined its inevitable synthetics will always seek to destroy organics, which is why we've been doing these cullings over and over. But, things are different now! You can wipe out all the Reapers IF you also destroy all the synthetics in the galaxy. Of course, you'll prolly have to deal with a synthetic rebellion in thousands of years when people have forgotten about the dangers of synthetics and rebuild them and start this process again. Or, you could become a god and control this army of unstoppable robot squid monsters, doling out justice as you see fit. Or, you could kill yourself, but it would turn everyone into this synthetic/organic hybrid being and they'd get the wisdom of millions of years of dead civilizations. Or you could just say eff it, and get everyone killed!"
I mean, I understand wanting to do things on your own terms, but that's just stubborn. Those are decent choices- particularly synthesis! Its like he's being all, "Screw you, I don't want to usher in a new era of peace and paradise, because its not on my own terms! I'd rather kill everyone!"
Husks- Which speaking of, all those husk-creatures, if you pick the synthesis ending, are the people they used to be still in there? Like now that they're free of Reaper control, does their personality return? So now you have all these creepy looking human, turian, asari, krogan, and batarian techno-zombie looking people walking around?
So, I started a NG+. One diff I've already made is picking Dr Michel over Dr Chakwas as the ship's doctor. It feels wrong, like I feel bad about not letting Dr Chakwas back aboard, but I need to play with Dr Michel at least once to get that last medi-gel capacity slot.
Anyways, here's some comments about the game now that I've completed it once:
EDI- I was spoiled for a lot of the game before I actually finally played it since the 1st game only came out for the PS3 last month. But how did I not know EDI was the lunar VI from the first game?!
The Krogan/Rachni- Who doesn't cure the genophage? Like I could maybe understand it if the Krogan under Wreav, but who has the Krogan under Wreav?! I mean, why the eff would you kill Wrex on Virmire? He's cool. The only reason to kill him is if you 1) didn't help him recover his family armor or 2) didn't raise charm/intimidate. And that's not a choice, that's you sucking at playing the game. But regardless, even then, I'm not going to frickin kill off an entire race for something they MAY do in the future. The council is all, "Our children's children will pay the mistake if you're wrong!" Hey, I destroyed armies. My kill count is in the hundreds of thousands. If those races step out of line, my bad-ass children will put them down!
Thessia- Not sure why Shepard blames himself for Thessia. Feel bad about Kai Leng getting the jump on him, sure. But the mission is totally separate from Thessia's fate- the Reapers were already attacking anyways. Even if Shepard did get the info, it wouldn't change the outcome, he'd still have to leave the planet it to its fate because the information is too important. Him getting it would not have saved the planet at that point. And he can't be thinking it was all for nothing, because that would imply they made a calculated risk- to chance Thessia's fall to get something that would win the war. But like I said, Thessia was already being attacked, regardless of what Shepard was doing.
The End- Heh, I don't feel like there's a "best" ending. I mean, if your EMS is high enough, its implied that Shepard actually survives the destroy ending. But I would never pick that. For one, that would kill EDI, and two, I just worked hard to broker peace between the Quarians and Geth, that Legion sacrificed himself for. I'm not going to shit on all that.
Then there's the control ending. My Shepard was a paragon, but even then, would you really trust anyone being "uplifted" into some immortal consciousness controlling a huge armada of giant killer space-squids? How do you know in a few centuries or millenia he won't go crazy and do something as insane as the Reaper cullings. Like I said, I'm having trouble leaving that to my paragon Shepard, some of the choices a renegade Shepard can make in the series, I wouldn't want him in control!
As for Synthesis, you die, but everyone in the galaxy gets turned into a synthetic/organic hybrid (which apparently means they get glowing green eyes and having weird green circuitry on their skin) and they get the knowledge of all the beings the Reapers previously culled. That may seem ideal, but its still creepy to me. Also, I'm amused that the ending storyboards for synthesis are similar to the other ones, except everyone has the aformentioned green eyes.
Finally, the do nothing ending. Who the eff would ever do this?! Its like the catalyst is all "we've determined its inevitable synthetics will always seek to destroy organics, which is why we've been doing these cullings over and over. But, things are different now! You can wipe out all the Reapers IF you also destroy all the synthetics in the galaxy. Of course, you'll prolly have to deal with a synthetic rebellion in thousands of years when people have forgotten about the dangers of synthetics and rebuild them and start this process again. Or, you could become a god and control this army of unstoppable robot squid monsters, doling out justice as you see fit. Or, you could kill yourself, but it would turn everyone into this synthetic/organic hybrid being and they'd get the wisdom of millions of years of dead civilizations. Or you could just say eff it, and get everyone killed!"
I mean, I understand wanting to do things on your own terms, but that's just stubborn. Those are decent choices- particularly synthesis! Its like he's being all, "Screw you, I don't want to usher in a new era of peace and paradise, because its not on my own terms! I'd rather kill everyone!"
Husks- Which speaking of, all those husk-creatures, if you pick the synthesis ending, are the people they used to be still in there? Like now that they're free of Reaper control, does their personality return? So now you have all these creepy looking human, turian, asari, krogan, and batarian techno-zombie looking people walking around?
