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Everyone wondered WTF when Khyron wrote:
Palavin? The turian homeworld? Or was there another planet that I don't remember called Televen?
No, I meant Palaven and just had a brain fart. Plus I think Televen was the Turian councilor's name.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
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Mortious probably says this to all the girls:
I quite like the Prothean. Especially when you introduce him as "the Prothean" and people are all, "oh pleased to meet y.. wait.. WHAT?". A few chuckles are to be had.The infinite ammo particle beam rifle he adds to your armoury isn't bad either.
I just got it! Man it's powerful!
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
on that note, the Geth-Quarian missions are pretty awesome.
Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 03-19-2012 at 05:30 AM.
Edit: Quick question; how much game is there still left after Cerberus HQ?
If you go to Thessia, for gods sake take the Prothean. He adds so much more depth when you're in the temple. In fact he adds depth wherever he goes. I can't imagine the game without him, it would be so much shallower.
Sure, it could've gone on for a bit longer but it said what it needed to say and provided the answers it needed to. A good ending to a good series.
I love the constant jokes about calibrations, especially because my FemShep is with Garrus and for forever in the second game, that's all you could get him to talk about. So it took a while to progress the romance conversation there.
Hell, *Jack* talked about more in ME2 than Garrus did.
Lyinar Ka`Bael, Piney Fresh Druidess - Luclin
Don't mass relays destroy entire systems when they're blown up?
I assumed Normandy's crash landing was on Earth.
I'm pretty sure that last scene was getting fubared by indoctrination. I was basically wondering throughout the entire series whether indoctrination would get to Shepard. Seems like it did.
Khyron fucked around with this message on 03-20-2012 at 12:17 PM.
I can live with the end. Also Shepard didn't die. How he survived, no idea.
What I didn't like was the lack of a proper song during the credits, like in ME1, and Dragon Age 1 and 2. Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 03-21-2012 at 03:37 PM.
The "weird effects" at the end are because Shepard is starting to be indoctrinated but resists it long enough to active the Crucible.
If anyone believes the Indoctrination theory, I have this lovely bridge for sale.
Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 03-25-2012 at 05:19 AM.
Just because one ending needs more effort to unlock, doesn't make it the real ending. That's a bit of video game logic there.
The Crucible was never meant to destroy the reapers, if you note to get the "Destroy" ending you have to actually damage part of the Crucible. If anything, that's the worst ending possible. Because it will all happen again and your efforts throughout the three games is now meaningless. The Crucible was always meant to achieve synthesis using the Mass Effect Relays and their control station (the Citadel) to spread the wave throughout the galaxy. It's the only ending where you don't have to interfere with the process by destroying or grabbing something.
It doesn't fire because it's original designers had no idea the Citadel's hidden AI was controlling the reapers all along, it's this AI which stops it firing and allows you to choose instead because it now has more options open to it.
People thinking up these alternate ending theories just haven't read the lore properly, or lacked in their understanding of it.
*monocle and handshake*
(I also like the video's theory because I picked the 'best' ending from that line of thought.)
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The Indoctrination theory is grasping at straws. The ending happens and Synthesis is the true ending because you need max military strength to unlock it.
Actually, the ending that takes the most military strength to unlock is the Destroy w/ Shepard gasping for breath on earth at the end. I'm pretty sure that one requires the most, after synthesis. As per this guide, that holds true:
So the 'best' ending is actually Destroy + save Shepard. Destroy without the required EMS just destroys shit, along with destroying Shepard. Falaanla Marr fucked around with this message on 03-27-2012 at 12:30 AM.
I can't even begin to understand why this ending was even controversial. What exactly were people expecting from an ending anyway?
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage probably says this to all the girls:
Just found out the hard way that it's impossible to get the "good" endings without playing multiplayer, despite the propaganda to the contrary.
Incorrect.
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Channeling the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, Kegwen absently fondled Watson and proclaimed:
Incorrect.
You are incorrect about me being incorrect. Verified on the game's forums, as well several other up-to-date sites. The cake is a lie.
I did every single possible quest, saved everyone possible, and still topped out at about 3600 with the 50% readiness screwjob. Even accounting for some slop in maybe not maxing points--I'm almost 100% paragon--it's still not possible to get the "perfect" ending without multiplayer time.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
[Although I'm given to understand there are subtle differences in the amount of destruction on Earth, and whether your companions survive. Both the top two tiers of endings seem to be locked out unless you spend time in multiplayer.]Also, whoever designed the multiplayer was a sadist--what's with locking your view over someone else's shoulder when you die, with no option to wait in the lobby? If they're going to force anyone who wants a decent ending to play multiplayer, they shouldn't then try to make them seasick the whole time. Bloodsage fucked around with this message on 04-15-2012 at 08:35 AM.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Bloodsage probably says this to all the girls:
You are incorrect about me being incorrect. Verified on the game's forums, as well several other up-to-date sites. The cake is a lie.I did every single possible quest, saved everyone possible, and still topped out at about 3600 with the 50% readiness screwjob. Even accounting for some slop in maybe not maxing points--I'm almost 100% paragon--it's still not possible to get the "perfect" ending without multiplayer time.
Except the maximum war assets you can get (by being a total completionist) is over 7000, with enough buffer to go over the 3500 needed for the "good" ending with Shep taking a breath, and still doing zero multiplayer.
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x--Delphi AegisO-('-'Q) :
Except the maximum war assets you can get (by being a total completionist) is over 7000, with enough buffer to go over the 3500 needed for the "good" ending with Shep taking a breath, and still doing zero multiplayer.
To get that, you also need to import a save file with a perfect set of decisions.
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Channeling the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, Delphi Aegis absently fondled Watson and proclaimed:
Except the maximum war assets you can get (by being a total completionist) is over 7000, with enough buffer to go over the 3500 needed for the "good" ending with Shep taking a breath, and still doing zero multiplayer.
According to everything I can find, that ending requires 4000+ war assets. I had just under 3600.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
