HoonDing

ME3 should end like Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Choose which button to press to end the game. Press A to destroy Reapers, press B to control Reapers, press C to join Reapers.

I didn't know Citizen Kane was still regarded as some kind of paragon of film making.

They shouldn't have made the Reapers that powerful to begin with. Sovereign soloed the entire Citadel Fleet in ME1, and was only destroyed because he turned into an evil Kermit the Frog. Now there's hundreds of Reapers in the galaxy, they could easily take the entire galaxy by sending one each to each star system. If they weren't severely powered down, that is. Then again, one should wonder why the Reapers bother anyway. The Protheans had a galaxy spanning highly advanced civilization that unlocked the mystery behind the mass relay technology, humanity/asari/salarians/etc. are nothing in comparison. Yet humanity gets handpicked because Shepard is so awesome.

They are not just machines, though, they're more a hybrid of organics and machine. They've been harvesting organic life for millions of years like the Borg from Star Trek (the first harvested race probably the one that created them in the first place). With the knowledge of all these highly advanced civilizations they wiped out (compared to which humanity are just a bunch of hicks in comparison) one'd expect them to be have several contingency plans available if plan A, B or C backfires. For instance, since the Reapers originally built the mass relays, wouldn't they be able to shut them all down if necessary, winning immediately? Yet they attack Earth directly and come off as simply attacking Earth because they have a grudge against Shepard.

So that's how games get leaked nowadays.

At least Max won't be brooding anymore and just focus on killing bad guys. Welcome to 2012.

Amazing it takes 3 parts to analyze ME2's "plot".

The slow blade penetrates the shield.

Strange how they can't just copy animations from ME1, rather than somehow making them worse in folluw-up games. Not to mention, apparently holstering weapons is impossible too in ME3. I don't get it.

In the case of Samara, it's not for lack of trying Unfortunately being Renegade is a bit of a heartbreaker. "You are a good friend Shepard and I like you, but I will kill you." Damn space paladins.

Use uesp.net/wiki, it's a way better site.

Of the new party members in ME2, I liked only Legion and Mordin. All the rest could've been nuked on Virmire for all I care. Miranda was highly useful in combat, but her character fell apart completely when her ice queen fa

"Hey look, a cave! Wonder what's inside."

I feel in my left toe Conrad Verner is going to return as a surprise miniboss.

With Reapers being this stupid, I no longer want to become one.

Every 50,000 years, the Reapers completely obliterate all intelligent life in the galaxy and "harvest" the dominant race. There are several worlds in the previous games with descriptions of ancient civilizations that mysteriously vanished. There's even a planet with a huge rift caused by a Reaper gun, and another planet with cities blown to dust. This time around they're only interested in humanity for harvesting (because Shepard is awesome), and humanity is only reduced to Earth and a handful of colonies. So it doesn't make much sense that the Reapers are suddenly inept, unless Sovereign was somehow an exception. They could easily nuke the Asari, Salarians and Turians into oblivion so that they're completely unhindered to reap Earth, yet somehow they actually took a beeline to Earth (probably again because Shepard is awesome). Anyway, yeah, BioWare wrote themselves into a corner and it's best to shut off your brain when playing this.

Shepard is always still tied to the Alliance when she shouldn't be. As a Spectre, Shepard is totally beyond the Alliance and shouldn't even be able to be court-martialed. She only answers to the Council. BioWare just put Shepard back on Earth for the whole invasion drama; pity it's kind of a major letdown. Reapers just fly in, walk around and occasionally blow up random shuttles with kids. For a supreme machine god race, you'd expect them to nuke everything from orbit or just send in the Collectors with their paralyzing bugs.

The Renegade option I always wanted was an opportunity to call Tali out on her persistent damsel-in-distress habit. The game keeps telling me that she's a useful addition to the crew, but every time I actually see her on screen, she's gotten herself into great danger and needs Shep to pull her butt out of the fire. My 2 favorite dialogue choices in the ME games: First, in ME1, after you rescue Liara, Joker makes some crack, and Liara asks how he can make jokes about life-or-death experiences. The renegade option on the dialoge wheel is labeled "He's a jerk," and the dialogue is "Joker can be a real ass sometimes." Second, in ME2, when Ms Perky Secretary says, "Please, call me Kelly," dialogue-wheel option "No." It's funny, but Twitcher 2 paraphrasing is even worse than ME. One of the very first dialogue options the game gives you is "Very funny", which translates into "**** you". Ironically my favourite ME2 dialogue option is only possible in a Paragon playthrough, namely telling the Council to shove it.

BioWare can't even manage bow strings. It's like chastising a ten year old for being unable to solve the Riemann equation.

Default Femshep looks hideous. I shudder to think what my own imported Femshep will look like.

It worked for Shaddam IV.

Sure it would, considering Renegade is just Chaotic Evil/Stupid half the time and especially in ME1. For example, Shepards shooting three unarmed people that surrendered and needlessly causing the death of two others. And my favourite, shoving a pistol in the face of a clearly mentally unstable but otherwise harmless man. Heck, five minutes into the game SHepard knocks out a rambling scientist and threatens farmers with her gun. The funny thing is that this behaviour is perfectly in line with Shepard's "Earthborn" background, where Shepard is basically a thug from the streets that made it into the army.

I was initially impressed as well, until I discovered Ashley and Kaiden have exactly the same dialogue during that scene. I bet it's the same with Wrex and whatever Krogan is put in his place if he's dead. The worst is that Shepard is forced to act like a complete wuss on Horizon and just take it when Ashley/Kaiden are griping, with not even a chance for a Renegade interrupt. If BioWare had guts, there would've been an option to kill those idiots right then and there.

Yes, on x360 and ps3. I thought Origin was only required for multiplayer? I believe they are moving to the same model as Steamworks. I know Kingdoms of Amalur requires Origin to be running. On the positive side, Origin is pretty unobtrusive, and even seems less resource hungry than Steam. Wasn't it that you need to activate it over Origin and then you can play without, but you need Origin running for MP? Can anyone confirm this? After authorizing the game via Origin, can I remove that crap from my pc and still play the single-player?