Mass Effect 3

Citadel soundtrack was just released for free by bioware this evening - it's a ginormous WAV file though..

grab it here for free http://social.bioware.com/me3citadelsoundtrack.php

It's been over a year since ME3, time to start the trilogy again

I know there were steam sales with me and me2 in them before but i havent seen them for ages on steam.

The copies i have which i initially bought on steam, show up on origin. Wasnt there a deal on origin recently with the mass effect bundle, 1,2 and 3 for 30quid?

Just had a look on origin: ME1 + ME2 Digital Deluxe = €20.

That'll do me.

Pushtrak wrote: »

In case anyone is reading this thread without having played Mass Effect, I'd advise paying no attention to this post if you plan on changing that. A stat sheet of what decisions people made in terms of character class, gender are in here, but there are some spoiler stuff you'd be better off not seeing.

Anyway, here's the stats.

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Only 18% went with FemShep which is a bit of a pity as the voice acting was far superior by her than it was for him.

64% didn't even have Wrex

. Honestly, these stats affirm the bald space marine trope. Look how many people played as the male soldier build. I think the stats are woeful.

Few interesting stats there.

I'm astonished that only 4% of players beat the game on hardest difficulty.

I'm replaying ME1 at the moment. It really isn't a great game. Which is a pity, because the story is the best of the three (although ME3 makes better use of music to give some parts extra poignancy).
It just feels a bit amateurish in places - not a game released as recently as 2008.
Seriously though, I'd love to see if any behaviours are predictors for something like psychopathy.
I find playing as a renegade very difficult. I could never go full-on space hitler - the best I could go in that direction was "paragade" where I tend to shoot first against baddies but don't just murder innocent people for the laugh and the bigger decisions are generally paragon. A pity the game penalises you for that sometimes.

On the "space marine trope", I tried making a character but he didn't really look human. I mostly stick to the stock male Shepard because i'm lazy.
In the first 2 games you're fairly heavily penalised for not picking Soldier, especially early on. It's not surprising that Infiltrator and Soldier are the most chosen - they're the easiest to play with.
ME3 changes that by making the other classes far more powerful, especially in that you can equip all weapons. Also, if you're importing you start at a fairly high level.

It's also fairly understandable that people pick a character broadly representative of themselves - in my case a white man. If I was black I might've made shepard black. If I was a women I would've been far more likely to make a female shepard.


I made 1 femshep just to try something different but I also made her Renegade so for the reasons I mentioned before I kinda lost interest. I also lost her save.

I noticed that too when i got the citadel dlc last month,

Oh and a sidenote, there wont be any more ME3 weekend challenges, Bioware posted it on the quiet on their forums during the week. Sneaky.

Gbear wrote: »

Few interesting stats there.

I'm astonished that only 4% of players beat the game on hardest difficulty.

I'm replaying ME1 at the moment. It really isn't a great game. Which is a pity, because the story is the best of the three (although ME3 makes better use of music to give some parts extra poignancy).
It just feels a bit amateurish in places - not a game released as recently as 2008.

I'd hazard a guess that all of the 3.8% of players who shot Mordin are psychopaths :P

Seriously though, I'd love to see if any behaviours are predictors for something like psychopathy.
I find playing as a renegade very difficult. I could never go full-on space hitler - the best I could go in that direction was "paragade" where I tend to shoot first against baddies but don't just murder innocent people for the laugh and the bigger decisions are generally paragon. A pity the game penalises you for that sometimes.

On the "space marine trope", I tried making a character but he didn't really look human. I mostly stick to the stock male Shepard because i'm lazy.
In the first 2 games you're fairly heavily penalised for not picking Soldier, especially early on. It's not surprising that Infiltrator and Soldier are the most chosen - they're the easiest to play with.
ME3 changes that by making the other classes far more powerful, especially in that you can equip all weapons. Also, if you're importing you start at a fairly high level.

It's also fairly understandable that people pick a character broadly representative of themselves - in my case a white man. If I was black I might've made shepard black. If I was a women I would've been far more likely to make a female shepard.


I made 1 femshep just to try something different but I also made her Renegade so for the reasons I mentioned before I kinda lost interest. I also lost her save.

In relation to the paragon/renegade distinction I played the first game as purely renegade most of the time as I had never played as a bastard before in a game and wanted to experiment. I more or less played as a dislikeable Zapp Brannigan, arrogant, loaded on hubris/self importance and trigger happy. Not to insult the actor or anything, he does a good job imo but there is a certain harshness in his tone that lends itself quite well to either tough but fair military leader or giant space douche. In the second game I decided to play a reformed Shepard, his near death experience had changed him, he wanted to make amends for his previous douchebaggery. Instead though at the end I distantly recall you were given the choice to salvage a reaper, or something like that, and I thought yeah why not, science is good, tech knowledge would give us an advantage against the reapers, but apparently that was a major renegade decision. Inadvertently that worked out well in terms of character development, reformed Shep wasn't so reformed after all having got back his skills and powers and remembered who he was. In the third game I've decided to take more renegade decisions, in terms of just being an asshole in speech or being a bit underhand but avoiding things like genocide, the reason being the war makes our hero behave in not so nice ways because he either has to or he's feeling pressure. That said I avoided the boring cliche of the bald space marine from the start by giving my character a peroxide Vannila Ice haircut and an asshole face, not representative of me but of the idea of an 80s sci fi action hero. They got rid of that haircut in ME3! (Bioware seemed to go for draconian generic) so all I could replace it was a peroxide mini mohawk. Here are pics of Shepard according to my vision.

Kiith wrote: »

Hang on a second...give out about anything else in the game, but I won't hear a bad word about Kirrahe. I loved that speech :P

Yeah I think that was meant to be cheesy as hell and I loved it for it!

Kirby wrote: »

Not really shocked. Many people got turned off by the ending. I know several people who played the living hell out of ME1 and 2 and yet only did one playthrough of 3. "None of my choices ultimately matter, so whats the point in replaying?" etc.

I know myself personally I played full playthrough's of ME1 five times and ME2 three times. Only did one playthrough of 3. More than a year later, I'm just now starting my second playthrough.

only played through 3 once but I did a full 3 game play though for it. Playing through 3 again is like replaying the last level of a game again and picking a different option, it's the choices going into 3 that make more of a difference to what happens.

Kirby wrote: »

The Wrex figure is sort of surprising but when you think about it, some killed him on Virmire in 1, some will have gotten him killed on the suicide mission in 2, and a few will have him turn on shepard if you refuse to cure the genophage in 3. That's alot of ways for him to die.

I guess all krogan look a like to you.

I just got stuck into ME2 there.

I remember the cut-scenes looking terrible.

It's that pesky film grain. When you turn it off everything looks way better.