Mass Effect General- /meg/

Faggotry

Tali best waifu

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Claiming thread for best girl.

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>>165137041
IT'S LIKE THERE WASN'T A HUGE REPOSITORY OF COLLAGES AVAILABLE SO YOU CHOOSE SOME RANDOM SHIT PIC INSTEAD, WEW GOOD THING WE HAVE SUCH VALUABLE OPs

Why is our cycle the first to come up with the idea to travel to Andromeda before the Reapers invade?

How come vermin like us have the technology on that level?

What if some of the previous cycles have already made the trip to Andromeda? Would Reapers travel there as well to finish there as well?

If trans-galactic travel is possible, what stops an advanced synthetic race from developing in Andromeda, wiping out its organic masters and then travelling to our galaxy to colonize it like we are doing now? What do the cycles here solve then?

If the organic life in Andromeda could evolve freely, without the Reapers periodically stomping over it, how come the Andromedan races aren't far more advanced than us? Why haven't THEY made the trip already? And if the technological singularity is inevitable, as the Starchild says, why hasn't it already happened in Andromeda?

What does Tali smell like?

>>165138924
quarians are literally sitting in their excrements so take a good guess.
>inb4 muh mass effect fields break it up
more like bioware breaking up their lore.

>>165139301
I bet she uses rose-smelling perfume and cleans her shot boxes every day

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Official waifu ranking 2017
1. Ashley
2. Kelly
3. Jack
4. Miranda
5. Samara
6. Tali
7. Garrus
8. Thane
9. Diana
10. Kaidan
11. Samantha
12. Steve
13. Liara
14. Jacob
This list has been put together by a group of professional waifu specialists and cannot be disputed.

>>165138907
The entire purpose of the Citadel and relay system is to incentivize civilizations to stay in a predetermined lane, as such.

You have a technological marvel custom built to be the core of a space faring community, and a vast form of space travel that would take an incredible amount of time to explore on it's own.

Humanity are just the unique kind of impatient and stupid that they look at that, already be rapidly expanding beyond their actual ability to support and defend their assets, and still think "eh this is kinda boring, what about that place way over there centuries of travel away?"

>>165137041
>stout and firm MTs

Tell me more.

>>165139710
If cancer had a list

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>>165129328
>repost because the thread ended but I'm going to say my rant anyway

I won't spend any money on 3, period.

You don't understand what a betrayal ME3 was. How dejected I was when I first realized how shit it would be.

I was hyped for ME1 prior to release and pretty excited to get into the series back in those days. To be there from the beginning and see the ride through all the way to the end. I played through ME1 and ME2 many many times and argued passionately about the lore and morality for years.

Only to have it all cast into the trash bin at the end. The things I loved about the series, the ideas, characters, sub-plots, core gameplay mechanics, and themes, the PAY-OFF... all of it just thrown away in a terrible game with a terrible story and indefensible ending.

Via the very nature of the Mass Effect series, in which its most defining feature was that you would make decisions in each game and the effects would carry-over into future games. A system which made you feel like your run through the whole story was unique to you in that way... It is all retroactively ruined by ME3 and its terrible story, assets system, and ending. There is no point in replaying any of it now knowing that the import feature won't even lead to satisfying window dressing for ME3.

The whole series is shit because of 3. I hate it and I hate the people who made it. To some degree I even resent the people who played it.

Mass Effect was one of my favorite series of all time, one of my favorite settings to immersive myself in, and ME3 took it away.

>>165139710
Liara is pure garbage, that much is correct

Am I the only one who wishes ME:A had open-world space combat? You'd fast travel to a new system, but once you get there it'd take a few minutes of real-time travel through the system. You could go silent-running and stealthily make your way straight to your objective, go prospector and try to find rare new metals in asteroids, or if you're lucky (or unlucky) you'd engage an alien ship in combat and if you took it down you'd potentially get cool new alien tech in the form of salvage.

>>165138907
>Why is our cycle the first to come up with the idea to travel to Andromeda before the Reapers invade?

How do we know that is the case? I wouldn't be surprised if we find evidence in Andromeda of past cycles that sent similar expeditions.

The real question is why were the Protheans the first to throw a real wrench in the Reapers' plans with the Conduit and the beacons? (which Sovereign itself couldn't use)

In even being able to fight the Reapers we were just lucky to have come after the Protheans who are the ones who really made it possible.

The Crucible shit likewise is just luck.


Also, you are probably putting a lot more thought into this than the writers for Andromeda have.

Really there is no reason for conflict between galaxies. The distances are too great and what you can find in one galaxy you can find in another. It just isn't worth it as civilizations separate galaxies might as well be in separate universes.

>>165139447
>every DAY
wow, how cleanly and proper

>>165139991
ME2 was just as bad and your previous choices mattered even less.

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>>165139991

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>>165140238
No, ME2 was not nearly as bad. The worst sin ME2 did was not advance the main story. It was a dud but it didn't retroactively ruin anything. Don't get me wrong though: the warning signs were apparent with ME2 and I said as much at the time. I argued for a long time that ME2 was setting us all up for disappointment in ME3 because as far as narrative and design was concerned with was two things: poorly conceived and a total waste of time.

In terms of choices, again, ME2 could at least offer that there was still one more game to really lay this stuff out. Mind you, as I said, I saw the warning signs and I called the game out over it.

At least ME2 kept the dialog wheel. At least sidequests were usually treated with an actual conversation with an NPC. Even some choices from ME1 were rewarded, perhaps only, with a dialog with a returning NPC. That stuff does little to game-play but it is nice in a ROLE-PLAYING-GAME.

However, for all of ME2's flaws at least it didn't rape or ruin the lore with excessively stupid ideas, or ruin any characters (too badly), and at least there was still one more game to do. The series could have been saved from embarrassment and near destruction if 3 had been written and executed intelligently.

It just needed a story that was a little less dumb and an ending that wasn't an ass-pull.

>>165140515
Thanks for the blogposts

What's your Reddit name?

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>>165138924
The more important question is how cuddly is she?

>>165140636
Plastic, leather, and sweat.

>>165140515
t. bootyblasted Cerbie fanboy

>>165140515
>At least ME2 kept the dialog wheel.

So did ME3

>At least sidequests were usually treated with an actual conversation with an NPC.

So did ME3. There's just less of them.

>Even some choices from ME1 were rewarded, perhaps only, with a dialog with a returning NPC. That stuff does little to game-play but it is nice in a ROLE-PLAYING-GAME.

ME3 rewards more choices than ME2 did

>>165140515
>At least ME2 kept the dialog wheel
Dialog wheel was always shit. Half the "choices" in ME1 actually had the EXACT same response under different positions on the wheel.
>Even some choices from ME1 were rewarded
Same as ME3? Except they actually had impact on the story arcs(Tuchanka and geth/quarians).
>it didn't rape or ruin the lore with excessively stupid ideas
Yeah, like Shepard dying, "ah yes Reapers", Cerberus suddenly becoming vigilantes, Council sending a Spectre into Terminus systems, geth/heretic split, the human reaper...

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>thread overrun by talicancer

going to come back in 6 hours to watch another 50 kaidanpics then

>>165139991
ME3 had an amazing story except for the last 10% of it which was so bad it was like the video game equivalent of "It was all a dream all along!"

Ending aside, I found that 2 on the whole was worse. Not just because of the T-850 Reaper but because it took a really awesome premise and had 0 pay off for it. Collectors were dope but the entire story wasn't.

>>165141267
Get a trip so I can filter you

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>>165139937
...you'd be on it.

>>165139991
>its most defining feature was that you would make decisions in each game and the effects would carry-over into future games
No, it was chest high walls and ayy lmaos. The save import thing was a gimmick.

>>165142024
Skin cancer, yes.

Beats waifu cancer.

>>165144608
is this a joke

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>>165141267
>ME3 had an amazing story except for the last 10% of it
This meme needs to die.

>>165144651

That's up to you.

>>165144958
Like Ashley did.

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>>165146194
>Ash
>Dying
>Ever
Gaydan always becomes a crater and Ash never dies in ME3, if she does you're playing the game wrong.

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>tfw when people keep arguing about which Generic Human Companion should die in 1
>no option to kill both of them
Why are all the humans shit in ME, but god-tier in DA?

>>165138924
I don't have it saved unfortunantely, but there's a screencap out there of a BSN post that uses niology and shit to determine what Tali smells like, or rather, what her sweat smells like. tldr is she doesn't smell like anything due to no bacteria b/c quarians.

>>165139710
>1. Ashley
>2. Kelly
>7. Garrus
Opinion disregarded.

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>>165149217
>Opinion disregarded.
Not opirion, scientrific fact.

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>>165149713
Pretty sure its an opinion dude, since such things are subjective. Like art.

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Hyped yet or do I need to shill it more?

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nice.

>>165150076

f*ck yes

>>165149939
>face blurred out
Why? Seems uneccesary.

>>165150795
its this gay dude that jerks of to pictures of Sheploo. just ignore

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>>165152334
>implying you wouldn't jerk off to Mark Vanderloo if you were gay

>>165149862
Actually I'm semi-serious, I'm studying to become a professor of psychology and my thesis is on relationship sustainability. I've worked out a formula to determine partner long term desirability based on research and statistics and applied it to the romance interests, naturally it's not really applicable to fictional characters and aliens but I did my best.

>>165150795
because it's the frecklebeast.

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>>165152951
Really? Shit son.

But wouldn't Garrus be at the top of the list (for FemShep atleast)?

>>165150076
>that smooth, firm curve of her ass
I don't care what you say, I'd fuck her

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>>165149939
It's a shame you never really got to tell anyone about your adventures, it's always NPCs giving you their life's story seconds after meeting you for the first time. Shepard never got to tell any stories, it would have been fun to pick between the paragon and renegade options for different versions of the same events.

>>165153339
That list is based on the assumption that the subject is male and human, I didn't want to speculate too much about MTs and stuff but Garrus would be somewhat higher up if you switched gender, yeah. Liara would probably end up above him though.

>>165152951
>autism, the post

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>>165154091
Hmm. That's really interesting. But why is Liara higher for FemShep than BroShep?

>>165154336
>people with education have autism

>>165144958

As dumb (and albeit hot) as the boob window is, I still prefer that outfit to the official one. It doesn't look as bulky, the pauldrons are smaller, it doesn't have the too long jacket, etc.
The latex-look was kept, though, which I like.

>>165154794
are you really this gullible?

>>165150076
>those tights pants
>that booty
>that crotch shot

Chub achieved.

>>165153562
>no trying to impress Ashley with your stories, with Wrex subtly listening in the background, taking jabs at your stories once in a while, while telling his own

Bioware, please, I thought this was about the characters.

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>>165154995
Yes.

>>165155180
Where's the "ebil awayckNs" cliche? You can't have an EPIC SPACE OPERA FROM THE PEOPLE BEHIND GREAT GAMES LIKE MASS EFFECT 3 & DRAGON AGE INQUISITION without ancient evil robo-squids!

Reapers were a mistake

>>165152951
>Kelly
>able to sustain a relationship
>Garrus not at the top
>Ashley above Kaidan for that
>Miranda above Tali
>Jack above ANYBODY

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Samara is best asari.
>also has biggest MT
I don't think that's a coincidence.

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>>165156342
Even as a devout talimancer I agree that Garris is #1 romance.

>>165156535
The asari are all shit-tier, but yes Samara is best asari.

>>165152951
Tell us what makes the waifus get each place in your list now that you put so much thought into it. I'm curious.

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>>165156832
same. If Garrus was bi, I'd never have fucked Tali

who's making ME:A's soundtrack? Sam Hulick?

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>>165157265
But that's gay, anon~! Not that I care.

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>>165157645
don't know what it is about them, but I'd fuck any turian
I think it's the voices

>>165152951
You know, actually, I'm in the middle of writing PhD thesis and I'm making a Machine Learning project that determines level of faggotry of person based on contents of his post along with current thread context and contents of posts that person replied to.
All math aside, your faggotry is 96.3% with 1.2% variance. To be honest, this is one of the highest results on 4chan.

>>165157449

Seems all but certain the composer is John Paesano, a movie/tv composer who did the music for Netflix's Daredevil

>>165155407

I do feel like Mass Effect would be a lot better if you dropped the Reapers, and instead went for a more grounded threat. Terrorism, rogue spectre, geth incursion, and so on.

>>165158486
well, that isn't too bad. soundtrack was the only thing that wasn't bad about that show

>>165158486
>a movie/tv composer
>in addition to the Hollywood designer

For God's sake. It's like they want to throw money away.

Did he make the intro music for Daredevil, because that one is really good.

>>165158742

Here it is.
>https://youtu.be/KFYFh8w4758

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>>165157919
Voices, skin/dermis, aerodynamic & lean bodies, personality, etc. etc.

>>165158486
>did the music for Netflix's Daredevil
FUCK YES
Andromeda is gonna be good
You have restored my hope Anon #165,158,486
Thank you

>>165158628
It would tie a lot better into the societal/cultural messages integrated into 1 and sort-of 2. But that's not SINICHMAHTICK enough.

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>>165157919
As a fellow turianlover....I seriously think it is the voices. Male or Female, I'll have a turian of any gender. I do wish too that Garrus was bi, but hey, maybe we'll get a male/maletur romance in Andromeda and it won't be utter shit.

>>165158853
did Cliff Martinez ask for too much money?

>>165158742
>>a movie/tv composer

Didn't Clint Mansell do ME3's score?

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>>165159029
I have faith in turian characters in Andromeda to be good, even if the rest of the game is worthless. So far, literally every turian character has been well-written

What do turian genitalia look and feel like?

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>>165159696
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca

>>165159258
>>165159143
>Cliff Martinez
>Clint Mansel
Is this the new BIG MCLARGEHUGE meme?

>>165159258
Mansell only did two tracks - the music during the escape from Earth, and the ending theme when the Crucible is activated

The rest was am equally split combination of Sam Hulick (co-composer ME1/ME2) Christopher Lennertz (Overlord, Shadow Broker), Cris Velasco, and Sascha Dikiciyan (Kasumi's Memories, Arrival)

>>165159862
>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaca
probably not, I think Turians birth live young so they'd probably have more mammalian reproductive organs.

>>165160798
Straight from the wiki:
>Turian features are avian, making them resemble humanoid birds or raptors, however unlike most Earth avian creatures, turians are viviparous and give birth to live young.
However, live birth does not always mean mammalian.

But then again they're aliens so they can break all the rules.

>>165158486
going to listen to the soundtrack now and decide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzFAQvsm5cg

also the soundtrack from the 2003 movie was the only good thing about it.

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>>165161175
seems legit
haven't exactly researched the subject, but a quick google search is telling me that there are a few snakes and lizards that give birth to live young. so I'd guess that maleturs have hemipenes.
Another thing that makes Garrus the best romance for femshep

>>165161659
pretty shit tbqh, anon-san. hope he brings something different to ME:A, but I'm ok playing with the music off.

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>>165162068
>best romance for femshep
>femshep
It's like you don't love him or something.

>waifufagging to keep the general alive

>>165162289
Oh, I do. But the hacks at Bioware don't let sheploo fuck him

and it isn't waifufagging, it's just a weird conversation about best race

so, you think we'll get to genocide the Asari in Andromeda? Or at least the Krogan?

>>165137041

BIG PURPLE REAPER

>>165163184
No, didn't they already say none of your squaddies are in mortal danger and this game is meant to be the huggiest of hugboxes?

>>165163184
would be cool if you could genocide the ingenious races.

>>165163516
>ingenious
indigenous

>>165163438
I hope they meant that they couldn't die in combat. And still, that doesn't mean I can't get the rest of Peebee's race killed, forcing her to wander the galaxy as the last of her worthless race

>>165163516
nah, gotta enslave them. Go full conquistador

>>165155086

You are why this game will be shit

>>165163657
>I hope they meant that they couldn't die in combat
Companions in bioware games can't die in combat since fucking Baldur's Gate, don't kid yourself.

>>165164925
More meant that as "be taken out of combat" rather than "actually die." Like how some games just have your companions be downed for a few seconds when they hit 0 hp, and then they recover a little bit and are back in the fight

so, how mad will everyone be if Vetra isn't romanceable, or if Peebee's the only alien romance option for broryder?

>>165164013

I'm just admiring the view, bud, I didn't say the character would be good.

>>165167003
Macky Mac Walter already confirmed there will be romance with characters that are not even part of the tempest crew that you meet on some planets.
And I don't really care if Vetra is not romanceable. I don't play ME games for the romances, I play them for the gunplay

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Andromeda needs more comfy-looking romance options

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>>165167372

What about slutty robits?

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>>165167003
I'll be disappointed if there's no turian romances at all, but I'm not super invested in romancing Vetra specifically. I'd rather see a m/m romance with a turian personally bc I'm gay.

>Tfw chubby.
Does anyone in ME desire guys not fit?
I'm losing weight now though.

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>>165170409
Any asari, since they aren't picky.

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>>165159696

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>>165156342
>Jack above ANYBODY
kys

Jack is the best human romance

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>>165163579
no, I meant ingenious.

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If you could pick ONE (1) NPC to take on a complete romance arc from each, game, who would it be /meg/ ?

I would have liked a Gianna Parasini date.

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>>165171407

>>165173843
Romance? dunno. just fuck? Tevos

>>165173605
RIP Salarians.

>>165175262
again?

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Paragon choice to eskimo-kiss your waifu!

>>165175592
Paragon choice to hold hands with your waifu!

>>165175684
that's hardcore triple confirmation renegade you sick fuck

>>165175684
you sick son of a bitch.

>>165175535
I guess so... sigh.

>>165177275
A Hanar artist that is a bit of a loner but not asocial? Damn, I'm on a roll today. Why did I even bother doing the sheet is beyond me.

>>165175262
Roll.

>>165178382
A thick femBT who is a recovering addict, laidback and kind with a weakness for ice cream smeared across her body.
I'm okay with this.

will andromeda have co-op? that'd be so sweet.

>>165178827
no_

>>165161659
just listened to it, kind of annoying.

>>165175262
Ah fuck it, why not.

>>165175262
Roll.

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>>165175684
Renegade choice to raepe aria

>>165175262
.

>>165175262

Let's see.

>>165175262
Is there something else similar to this?

>>165175262
roll

>>165175262
mamma needs a new pair of SHOES-

>>165175262
Always rolling

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BTs groping your waifu right infront of you.

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i know you faggots are all in on Vetra for the moment, but Cora apparently looks a lot like some of the early Miranda concepts. Best Waifu coming thru BEEPBEEPBEEP.

>>165191095

You got a source on that?

>>165190962
How can they keep getting away with it.

>>165191095
Source: (you)

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>>165191306
>>165191353

Heard it from a few people, latest CES video also shows the updated squad icon for Cora.

>>165191095

>all in on Vetra
Nope.

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I just realized with a brother and sister duo as the MCs fans are going to make a metric fuckton of incest porn

>>165139710
>EDI not on this list

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>>165169516
i wouldnt mind a turian m/m romance at all; they're too handsome. i even pretend my fucking BD dildo is a turian wang, how degenerate is that?

Anyways, I'm talking with the Petrovsky's right now in ME1, and I wanna make the bitch get the gene therapy? What should I do?

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>>165192405
>ranking dead toasters

for what purpose?

>>165175262
lets see

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R U A BIG GUY?

>>165191656

Seems plausible. I like the look of the omni-tool, there's more texture to it. Also toned down the glow slightly.
Seeing those abilities, I really hope they still have the number bar for PC.

>>165192426

Isn't there a paragon choice?

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>>165192917
Dunno, don't see any charm or intimidate options here. I've even maxed out my charm.

>>165192917
From what I remember the paragon choice is some faggot bullshit about it being her body/her choice.

>>165193174
exactly why i wanna tell her to just get the fuckin gene therapy.

>>165193282
yeah, she sounds like some hysterical anti-vaxxer.

>>165192712
Lame start screen senpai

>>165193138
That cuck then raises the little fucker lel

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>>165194945
This is the start screen.

>>165192517
>he didn't choose synthesis

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>>165195436

>>165195436
nice try, Saren.

>>165195370
I like it. Looks comfy

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>>165191656
>PeeBee

who came up with this?
doesnt even sound like an asari name.
just show nu-BW has no idea what the fuck they are doing.
Sad!

>>165198506
Are you mentally challenged? It's obviously a nickname.

>>165198813
whats with all the salt?
and how can you be so sure?

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>>165198813
>defending Bioware

>>165198982
Because it's a non-meme explanation that's also in line with what we've seen of her "personality" so far.
>>165199185
>defending shitposting and retardation

>>165198982
>and how can you be so sure?

...because they've said so, multiple times?

>>165200327
>>165200449
its still fucking retarded

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>>165191095
I am ready for the new best waifu. If they make her a dyke I will alluh snackbar Bioware's offices

>>165200648
>Bringing queers and other degenerates on a colonization mission.

Would Bioware really be this retarded?

>>165200593
Yeah, everyone already hates PeeBee.

>>165175262
rolling

>>165175262
Rolling.

>>165200982
Hopefully not.
If it's true they went full SJW.
Luckily, they are lazy enough to only make 1 body model for each race.

>>165200648
>>165200982
Would be beyond retarded to take gay people on a colonisation project. They're just wasted space and useless eaters who won't reproduce so won't help the colonisation project along in any way.

I'm still mad

>>165191656
Those squad mate icons are gay as fuck.
They look silly and out of place, honest designer opinion.

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>>165200982
>Would Bioware really be this retarded?
Yes.

>>165203195
Every aspect of the UI so far looks like a fucking nightmare. Why does the character screen look like an unnecessarily nested Mac finder window

>>165200982
Technically that's a literal non-issue thanks to procreation technology available to citadel races.

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Phoebe theory

In mass one liara explained asari provreation,
The asari that is pregnant can imprint markings on the child,

So peebees black blindfold is her markings,
Or she has no markings and wears makeup.

>>165203601
Dat consolized interface
Dem loadouts
Dat four of everything because 4 gameplay buttons

Consoles rape stupid the user interface, experience and right down to game features, limiting any games potential.

>>165203943
Naw they just thought it looked cool

>>165192374
Lol

>>165203943
>The asari that is pregnant can imprint markings on the child,

I don't think so.

>>165192374
ME had selfcest.
Sheploo could do so much better than the frecklebeast...

>>165203943
No, they just wanted her to be cute like that replicant from Blade Runner and failed miserably.

>>165203943
My theory is that PeeBee rejects asari culture other asari because she's an ardat yakshi and the PB is a reference to her being a pure blood.

>>165205942
that's... not bad actually

>>165205942
So if you fug her it should be like fugging Morinth.

NOPE

>>165206376
It'll be a chaste romance like Sebastian in DA2. That would be the ultimate troll of all the blueberry futa fags by Bioware. Much respect.

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>>165204504
How about commanders Meg and Megloo?

>>165206464
DA2 sure trolled me for not letting me fug the chantry boy like I always do.

>>165205942
>bringing an ardat yakshi on your colonisation mission
That's even more retarded than bringing gay people. Bioware writing is dumb, not mentally challenged

>>165207817
>implying she'd advertise it

She might not be an ardat-yakshi, but I'd bet money the PB thing is a reference to being pure blood asari / juxtaposed with her IMSOQUIRKYANDUNCONVENTIONAL personality.

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>>165191656
not sure if want

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>>165208737
I'M NOT A RACCOON I'M THE LONE RANGER

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>>165209651

>>165208026
>>165209651
calm your autism

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>>165208026
>PeeBee
>pure-blood
really makes you think

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>>165211701
do u like it, anon?

I really love this scene.

https://youtu.be/ZXYGh8vftCg?t=165

>>165139991
ME3 is better than ME2 became ME3 actually had decent gameplay.

Decisions did not mean SHIT in mass effect 2. Throwaway lines of dialogue here or there is not good consequence.

I cannot stress that enough, giving lip service should never be praised if it does not actually affect how the game develops.

ME3's story was alright with Leviathan DLC.

It was obvious in ME1 that the writers had absolutely no fucking idea where they were going. Lovecraftian horror only works when looking at it will turn you insane, and considering this a videogame which involves shooting things that wasn't really an option.

>>165215051
>that wasn't really an option
Yes it was, just look at Bloodborne.

>>165215051
>entire crew can die based on your decisions

>Decisions did not mean SHIT in mass effect 2.

>>165217381
I misread his post, I thought he meant the import decisions from ME1 -> ME2. I mostly understand why those were almost all just lines of dialog / unimportant characters, but the rachni still being alive in ME3 just makes me mad.

>>165217381
Shit crew anyway

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posting gypsywaifu for bump

In my cycle, if a species reached page 9, they would be used as cannon fodder against the Reapers.

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>>165220313
>bumping cancer with cancer

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>>165220559
cancer^2
now it is cancer^4 with both your post, and now this one

>>165220313
>>165220432
>>165220559
Everyone's busy making meme magicks over in /pol/

If Trump were a Mass Effect universe xeno, which species would he be?

>>165220879
BT

>>165220879
Asari.

>>165220879
Yagh of course

>>165220879

Batarian

>>165220917
Do Batarians like to get peed on? I think so.

>>165221136
I like this, that makes Putin the Salarians w/ the experimental and ill-advised uplift

>>165221051
Don't see it. I guess his tits are big enough.

>>165221254
>looks ridiculous
>wants to make Thessia great again
>by getting rid of the turians and humans

>>165221514
This would be appropriate if Burgerland were the height of anything besides heart disease and getting shot in surprising places.

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>>165221754
yeah, America has always been pretty awful
less awful than other countries, but still awful
but lets keep /pol/ in its containment board, shall we?

>>165220879
what the hell is going on

>>165222001
Fair enough. Do you think Tali has a furry muff?

>>165222136
We're talking Quarian pubic hair now.

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>>165222001
The fact that Tali's casino outfit is just her normal outfit except with the fabric patterns in black and white is too fucking adorable.

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>>165222623
Adorable because Bioware's lack of effort is so endearing to everyone?

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>>165222247
Probably, yes. given the quarian immune system, they'd want to minimize infection as much as possible. Hair can help by catching any random shit that falls in it. However, I believe it is trimmed. Too much hair becomes a problem, and too little doesn't help at all, so it would probably be on the thick side, but neat.

If they even have pubic hair.
>ywn marry Tali on the shores of Rannoch, with Garrus as best man

>>165222623
I always wondered why no one ever wore their Loyalty outfits in 3. But I guess her outfit in the casino counts. Sorta.

>>165222001
We are on /vg/. The most containerizing of container boards.
It's how it seceded from /v/ in the first place.

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>>165222753
>implying you don't like her canon appearance
She's pretty, but not nearly ayy-lmao enough.
The fact it's photoshopped is total bullshit, and Bioware should fucking die.

>>165222782
True, but /pol/ is one of *those* boards. Where talking about /pol/ things outside of /pol/ leads to rampant shitposting.
They call them container boards for a reason: you don't put things from one container in another. Ya gotta keep it all organized.

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>>165222753
They could have at least put in minimal effort

>>165203209
Well keep in mind Bioware wrote in a member of the military who has brittle bone disease so bad he can't even walk right.

That is so stupid. Why not just have a crew member in a wheel chair? Why not a squadmate?

>>165223847
It's pretty fucking retarded that joker wasn't immediately DQ'd from service based on his disability.

>>165223847
>Well keep in mind Bioware wrote in a member of the military who has brittle bone disease so bad he can't even walk right.

This triggered me so fucking much, especially since ME1 was relatively grounded. It's not like this is a condition that can be compensated for with their tech, or if it is he didn't bother to do it. He limps and obviously walks with difficulty, and constantly talks about how easy it is to shatter bones. Everyone would need to be informed of his condition whenever he enters a room, since a little accidental shove would be enough to send him to the medbay. The guy is so fragile that he can't even go into a public place completely alone. He says he's able to take EDI everywhere because he's fragile enough to need a personal mobility assistant.

He can't even go out by himself or run to an escape pod if the ship starts blowing up. Let alone go through any basic training program for any military I can think of, which EVERYONE has to do, even non-combat personnel. The weirdest part is that, despite the enormous risks involved, everyone is not automatically warned of his condition when he shows up. Shepard isn't even aware of it in the beginning of ME1.

And look what happens. His disability gets another person killed.

>>165224149
If I remember the back story, Joker tested so well that they couldn't can him, but even then he got relegated to meaningless shit duty, until he got strings pulled for him by the Turians

>>165224424
>If I remember the back story, Joker tested so well that they couldn't can him

He shouldn't have tested for anything at all. How did he pass basic, which requires a basic standard of physical fitness and weapon proficiency?

Speaking of Joker's backstory, he also jacked a billion-dollar top-secret stealth frigate and took it for a joyride against the orders of his commanding officers. That's how he got the position, not via the turians pulling strings.

>>165224149
Alliance pilot sux,
Joker should have died with cortez

>>165140952
>ME3 rewards more choices than ME2 did

+200 warscore is not much of a reward. It's maybe equivalent to ME2's emails, which were also poor rewards. Considering 3 was the final game which didn't need to carry over anything any further I think it had less of an excuse to handle the issue so poorly.

>>165141024
>Dialog wheel was always shit.

No, I don't think it was. It had a flaw in that the dialog choices were not usually summarized very well, leading to a bit of a surprise in some cases when you picked an option. However at least there were options that, usually, lead to different dialog from Shepard. That choice was nice for roleplaying and tone.

Scraping the system all together was not the answer.

The dialog-wheel was at least interactive, unlike ME3's dialog.

>Except they actually had impact on the story arcs(Tuchanka and geth/quarians).

A rare exception, I will give it credit for handling those situations a bit better. One of the few highlights of the game.

>ah, like Shepard dying, "ah yes Reapers", Cerberus suddenly becoming vigilantes, Council sending a Spectre into Terminus systems, geth/heretic split, the human reaper...

Shepard dying doesn't do anything to the lore. It's just a useless plot-device. The Council going back to being skeptics is lazy writing, but doesn't impact lore very much either. A spectre going into the Terminus is fine too. That the title of Spectre necessarily carries less (but probably still some) weight outside Council space isn't an important detail.


The geth/heretic split is a fine idea, but not implemented well. It doesn't rape the lore either, but it is sad that that the moral implications of this split are never really explored in terms of the geths' collective guilt.

Human-Reaper is just weird and pointless.


The Crucible, the ending, curing the genophage, and bringing back Protheans are way worse ideas. Not to mention Cerberus becoming a galaxy-spanning military force.

>>165223646
To me Tali always seemed like the chubby hispanic girl in the back of the class who reads manga all day.

Liara is the true pairing. Works with either male or female shep, plays a prominent role in all three games, and romancing her gets Garrus and Tali together for an even happier ending.

>>165224625
>Joker should have died with cortez

Should have died at the beginning of Mass Effect 2 while Shep got in an escape pod so we could have avoided the forced Cerberus Jesus shit.

>>165224584
The Alliance were going to toss Joker's ass in jail for that stunt until the Turians intervened and insisted he be assigned the Normandys pilot

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>>165224721
>this is what hiplets actually believe

>>165205942
Maybe she never grew up with other asari?
Purebloods are frowned on

>>165224424
It doesn't matter if he is a good pilot. A man who can't fucking walk or run or carry a wounded comrade is a liability that will get other people killed. We see this in action TWICE in ME2.

A military simply would not do that.

>>165224584
Yeah, even more retarded shit.


I can only assume Earth and the Alliance in Mass Effect is super ultra PC to the extreme, but it doesn't feel right because other than Joker the Alliance seems like a perfectly rational and realistic military.

>>165224721
>Liara is the true pairing.

Fuck off, Mac.

>>165224771
That's another thing, like, looks are half of the package. With Tali you're only getting the personality half. You never get to see her, so that's lame.

>>165224771
>To me Tali always seemed like the chubby hispanic girl in the back of the class who reads manga all day.
hes right about that though

>>165224762
Yeah, you're right, I just-read it.

Somehow that's even more fucking retarded than I originally thought it was. Because we all know a turian general would be really accepting of a subordinate hijacking a frigate leading to a shootout with fighters. Turians are like that right?

>>165224840
She is. No other romance option even compares to the depth of Liara path.

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>>165224762
That comic is stupid. Why would the turians want him piloting the Normandy? You do know that their society is all about strict adherence to law and order. Most turian criminals will even admit to their crimes if questioned/caught.

They would look on someone as unprofessional as Joker with nothing but scorn.

Also, frankly, I just don't think it is in character for Joker to steal a fucking ship like that all on his own purely for a joyride. He has a smart mouth but in the games he is still professional and he shuts the fuck up and holds his tongue when his CO's give him a stern look.

He's cocky but he stops short of insubordination.

>>165224856
The suit is tight enough that we pretty much know what she looks like except her face, which I view as a big plus because ME's facial animations always looked pretty derpy, so we can just go by her body and voice.

>>165224829
That he and his fucking limping down to the mainframe when the collectors carjack is ridicoulus.

The entire crew is hamstringed while his mom has to autopilot away.

Hes not even a real pilot he just activates nos

>>165224863
How so? Tali's extroverted, thin, and has a shotgun.

>>165225049
Just because Bioware gave it the most attention doesn't make it any good. She's garbage.

>>165225225
She plays the shy nerdy girl stereotype. Gets flustered easily, often considered a damsel in distress who loves Shepard for saving her.

>>165225049
more attention =/= good
Besides, Garrus is better for FemShep

>>165224721
I don't know how I'd describe Tali in terms of the kinds of girls I was around in school.

She wouldn't be fat and quiet though and keep to herself reading some gay anime. Tali is active and has overbearing parents. She'd be one of the higher graded kids in class and be involved in extra-curricular activities. She wouldn't be that popular though because she seems to hate gossip, so she'd probably be somewhat of an outsider amongst her female peers.

She's not Stacy, but she'd definitely have a crush on Chad. Shepard is the ultimate Chad after all and so it is safe to say Tali would have no interest in an introverted, skinny, nerd like me.

>>165225350
>She plays the shy nerdy girl stereotype. Gets flustered easily

This is more of a meme perception than than reality. She's not at all shy in any scenario except iirc her ME2 romance.

> often considered a damsel in distress

Really no more so than half the other squadmates, and can more than hold her own in a fight anyway.

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>collectors

>>165225350
She's only shy and flustered when Shepard consider returning her affection. And even then, she's reticent because it would endanger the mission by making her sick and Shepard potentially frustrated. She matures pretty fast in ME3, she's just not fit to be in a leadership role.

>>165225663
I got the impression she dislikes immaturity

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>>165225350
No, that's ME2 Tali after she was written to appeal more to her fans. Her being flustered in the romance always felt off to me.

ME1 Tali wasn't really paragon. She was actually the pure neutral character in that game. She was savvy to the intrigue on Noveria, had a passionate hatred of geth, and was bold enough to arrange meetings with dangerous criminals to trade valuable information.

She was independent and tough, somewhat cynical, and eager for adventure.

Tali should have been flirty and confident, a little playful, in the romance. Serious and passionate when talking things out openly.

She has one line in the romance in ME2 that feels right. When you are talking to her by the engine core about the difficulties of the relationship and you tell her you'll wait, but not for long, she says, something like, "I wont keep you waiting long... I promise..." in a very husky and eager way.

That felt more appropriate for her ME1 character.

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>>165225565
>French translation for collectors is Récolteurs (people that pick up an agricultural reap)
>French translation for reapers is Moissoneurs (people who actively harvest a field)
>mfw the french dub makes me fight giant squid farmers

>>165225813
That pretty much describes her romance in ME3. I always thought her acting kind of off in the ME2 romance was a combination of surprise/inexperience and being pretty emotionally drained after the events of the Alarei and Haestrom.

>>165225565
What's the problem?

>>165226190
Jokers joke

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>>165225565
Alternate concept for the Collectors:

They are survivors from the early days in the Reaper cycle. Perhaps even from a time before the Reapers. The only race to survive through the aeons by living in a very harsh region of space and keeping a very low profile, venturing forth only when they were sure the Reapers were asleep and then only to collect specimens.

They are a race long beyond their singularity that have completely mastered creating virtual realities. Subjects they harvest are broken down in a process which transfers their consciousness to an alternate reality the Collectors construct for them. A zoo. They have done their best to preserve every civilization that has ever arisen in the galaxy, every species.

The process is irreversible.

While they believe they have survived because the Reapers haven't found them, in reality the Reapers have allowed them to continue to exist because they too wish to preserve this digital archive.

At the end of ME2 the options are to destroy or preserve the Collector archive. However the reasoning is this:

>If we save it
We can study the histories of the fallen civilizations, as their wars with the Reapers have been recorded in some cases, giving us valuable intel

>Why destroy it?
...because Shepard and co have discovered that the Collectors are unknowingly part of the Reapers' scheme, with Reaper code lurking in their archive and the Collector General (or Administrator) being directly controlled by a Reaper. So we may wish to destroy the archive completely to prevent the Reapers from spying on us any further, even if it means annihilating all the history and information contained within.


Regardless, by hacking our way through the Omega-IV relay to reach their base we have learned how to manipulate relays ourselves. This will be a useful ability when the Reaper War actually begins.

>>165226438
Better than "the Collectors are Prothean husks".

What was even the fucking point of that reveal.

How many Arks are there in Andromeda? Is it 12 and are they all named for Titans?

>>165226438
Yea

>>165226560
Make them darker,
An enslaved degenerate fleet,
They were abducting humans cos harbinget wanted to mindrape shepard with a human reaper

>>165226560
It was never made clear how harbinger could control the collectors from deep space......

Or how the omega 4 relay and the station could hold together,

The core of the galaxy would spin at an extreme rate with many collisions and black holes,
Imagine the heat and no comms would be possible

no archipelago of titanic barriers or walls would make it......

And the proteans are just retaeded

>>165227552
Looking back at it, you could almost assume that the Collector base was a failed attempt at building a Crucible, repurposed by the Reaper / Collector to make more of their own.

So what's the best team to bring on each recruitment mission in ME2 for banter alone ?

Thinking about recruiting Grunt first to bring him to Garrus' mission with Zaeed, instead of the usual Jacob / Miranda beginning team.

>>165228389
Zaeed actually gives you a unique scene if you bring him on the Archangel mission, which is cool

>>165227552
>It was never made clear how harbinger could control the collectors from deep space......

Probably quantum entanglement technology, like how the Normandy has a direct line to TIM that is instant. It doesn't explain how the Collector General can then command individual Collectors, though.

>>165228564
SPAAAAAACEEEEEE MAAAAAGGGIIIICCC

>>165228505
Nice ! Then Grunt and Zaeed are good for Archangel.
Probably Garrus and Grunt for Mordin's recruitment for the cute scene ? I know I'll take Garrus and Gruntfor Tali's recruitment too.

Who has the best bantz for Jack's, Thane's and Samara's one ?

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>>165226438
>>165226560
>>165226635
>>165226778
Another subplot in this Alt ME2 is that Shepard was implanted with Reaper tech as part of the process that brought him back.

During the game the Collector General (really a Reaper) manipulates Shepard by causing him to hallucinate. Usually this in combat with unique enemies that turn up. A savvy player might notice that team-mates never target these enemies and these enemies only ever target Shepard. In fact they are figments of Shepard's imagination. Part of an attempt to slowly indoctrinate him.

Outside of combat certain NPC's talk to Shepard who aren't really there and Shepard has conversations with squadmates that are entirely factitious. This is revealed near-ish the end of the game as Shepard, and the player, start to notice that the squad and Normandy crew are acting strange and questioning conversations that Shepard recalls having with them, conversations that have lead Shepard to direct the squad to carry-out missions throughout the galaxy.

TIM and EDI have been aware of this, and all along TIM knew this would happen but wanted to watch it play-out so he could study indoctrination at the technical level. EDI is his trump-card as she has the capability to interfere in this process if it goes too far.

On the eve of the Suicide Mission Shepard has a dream about the Collector base in which he leads a failed and doomed mission to destroy it. This is in fact the Collector General attempting to aid Shepard by giving him the intel he will need to win and, one way or another, free the Collectors from their enslavement.

>>165228625
I take characters on missions for roleplaying reasons. Generally:

>Garrus, Grunt, Zaeed, Morinth/Samar, Jack, Jacob
for pure combat. You know, missions that are set-up beforehand to be assaults on enemy bases. Grunt and Jack also get preference for missions in close spaces, like when boarding ships.

>Tali, Kasumi, Thane, Legion
Infiltration of-course. Tali is also taken on Jacob's loyalty mission so that she can potentially help with salvaging the wreckage or else picking it apart for information. Kasumi also attends Tali's recruitment mission because I imagine Kasumi insisted, wanting to plunder the ruins for quarian artifacts/treasures.


Miranda generally always stays on the ship except for a missions directly affiliated with Cerberus (such as the captured agent and she is present to recruit Jack to oversee the exchange)

I bring Mordin to the crashed quarian vessel for his medical abilities to attend to survivors, but otherwise he stays on the SR2 doing valuable research.

Jacob attends Jack's loyalty mission because Miranda insists a Cerberus Operative be present but she herself is too confrontational with Jack.

>>165229002
>On the eve of the Suicide Mission Shepard has a dream about the Collector base in which he leads a failed and doomed mission to destroy it. This is in fact the Collector General attempting to aid Shepard by giving him the intel he will need to win and, one way or another, free the Collectors from their enslavement.

Actually, I have a better idea. Shepard dreams about being captured by the Collectors and attempting to escape from them. Before dying, in his dream, he manages nearly to escape the base and in-so doing has actually gained knowlege of the real base. The Collector General did this on purpose in a desperate attempt to subvert the Reapers without tipping them off.

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>>165229002
I already played that game, senpai.

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>>165228389
for pure banter? here's my list, in the order i do them, with the squaddies i bring and why

Prologue, Cerberus Base, Freedom's Progress
Mordin: Zaeed & Kasumi
Grunt: Mordin (extra lines about genophage n shit) & Zaeed (blue suns)
Garrus: Grunt (lines with the blood pack leader) & Zaeed (lines with the blue suns leader)
Jack: Miranda (animosity with Jack) & Grunt (he likes Jack)
Horizon: Mordin (wants to test personally) & Garrus (lines with Virmire survivor)
Thane: Jacob (animosity with Thane) & Grunt
Tali: Grunt (doesnt give a shit about the sun) & Kasumi ("And I'm wearing black!")
Samara: Garrus ("We can disobey suicidal orders? Why wasn't I told?" & "This guy can barely tie his bootlaces") & Thane ("That's about twice a day")
Miranda L: Jack (animosity)
Garrus L: anyone (Tali if not romancing for TalixGarrus) or (Zaeed b/c blue suns)
Collector Ship: Mordin (coliktrs r prothyans!!1!) & Grunt ("Anyone else hungry?")
Thane L: anyone (Garrus or Tali for brief line when the VI is mentioned, but thats it)
Mordin L: anyone, they all have lines
Grunt L: anyone
Samara L: anyone
Collector IFF: Tali (animosity with Legion) & Thane (line about the Dragon's Teeth)
~Collector invasion happens sometime between now and the base~
Tali L: Legion (geth, also the only one with lines)
Zaeed L: anyone
Kasumi L: nobody
Jack L: Miranda (animosity)
Legion L: Tali (animosity)
Jacob L: Kasumi (BBC)
Collector Base:
Ship Attack: anyone
pt. 1: the Tube: (Tali for Tube)(Garrus for Fireteam Leader) anyone
pt. 2: the Walk: (Jack for field)(Miranda for Fireteam Leader) anyone
pt. 3: the Reaper: Miranda (lines with TIM) & LI (love interest, much more dramatic when everything blows up)
Epilogue, woohoo we won, now go knock up Tali

>>165230839
Noting some of them down, thanks anon.
Leaving Omega just to get Grunt feels a bit weird to me, tho. I'll probably go Grunt first and do some changes to your list. Thanks anyway !

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>>165231194
my reasoning was, Mordin is a priority since they dont know when the Nu-Protheans are gonna show up, so they should be prepared
also, it staggers the amount of shit to do, makes it seem like you're doing a lot more than you actually are
but its your game, do what you want

>>165231864
She looks very manish here

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There need to be more Turian characters in Andromeda.

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>>165231407
Fair enought, you have a point. The way I planned it, both roleplaying and bantz wise, would look a lot like you list except for some modifications.

Mordin : Zaeed & Jacob (don't feel like Kasumi very well.)
[...]
Thane : Jacob & Garrus (simply because I would bring Garrus to meet Liara)
Tali : Grunt & Garrus (for old time's sake)
Samara : Garrus & Jack (She has a nice reaction to the coked-up Volus)
[...]
I'd rather take Grunt to Tali's loyalty than let the crew get melted down in the Collector base. Even if I play a renegade ruthcuck Shepard, someting about seeing Kelly get liquefied makes me gag

Also, who would be good squadmates to take with you for Lair of the shadow broker and Overlord ? I'm considering bringing Samara for Tela Vasir or Legion for the Lair itself (because I wouldn't use him anywhere else). Overlord is a prime Tali / Legion mission, but wouldn't it feel weird doing it after destroying the Collector base and telling TIM to fuck off ?

>>165228564
Rf

>>165232261
>Also, who would be good squadmates to take with you for Lair of the shadow broker and Overlord ?

The squaddies have literally no lines in LOTSB, so either choose who you think is best for gameplay or best for roleplaying.

Personally I take Tali and Garrus to the first LOTSB mission, because Shepard was just expecting a quiet meet-up with Liara rather than a gun battle, and I think those are the only two he'd really hang around with outside of work (plus they're the only ones Liara knows).

>>165232067
I was just thinking the same thing, probably the upside down. Triangle body shape.

Turians have 90 degree angle hips

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>>165232409
Also how much you're bothered by squad members wielding out of character weapons in the climatic cutscene is a factor

(just pick your favorite)

>>165139991
>me3 ending was bad meme
ME3 has been fixed with DLC. Go back to 2012.

>>165234921
>retarded biodrone telling anyone to go back to anywhere
lel

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>>165221254
>Believing the MSM nonsense
Trump would be turian backed by the volus and merchant guilds. Hillary would be vorcha backed by the council.

>>165240608
Is this official concept art?

>>165240812

I think it might be concept art for 3's multiplayer, yeah.

>>165149217

>Why are all the humans shit in ME, but god-tier in DA?

The issue may be two-fold. First, the fact that Salarians and Turians are inherently more interesting than dwarves or elves. Such as, we all know what dwarves and elves are in DA, they’re all over fiction. However at the same time we don’t know much about Turians or Salarians. As a result, unconsciously, we’re more forgiving in DA if there isn’t elves or dwarves in the party. There is also the matter on whether or not the characters are in the way of the story.

The goal of ME was to stop the Reapers. Humanity in the beginning was one of the least equipped species to do that. A great portion of ME1, was trying hard to make humanity relevant. The Asari, Turian and Salarians were in the best position to acknowledge and nullify the threat. They had the resources and infrastructure to do so. It’s why when we received humans into our party we felt they were out of place such as Ashley in ME1. Shepard was the best humanity had, it’s only fair that he be associated with the best. ME1 started off like this with Shepard and Nihlus going to team up on a mission.

I remember an old thread on /a/, I think, that had picture that said: How to draw a seahorse. It was the first post, with the post itself asking some benign question. Instead of answering the question, the rest of the responses demanded the OP finish instructing everyone how to draw a seahorse. Humans in ME are somewhat like that. It’s like the image shows all these different and new species, while the text itself spent time talking about a young woman and her love of poetry.

TL;DR: Seahorses

>>165138907
This is probably the damn plot for andromeda.

Any official marketing materials coming out? Bioware is releasing next to nothing. Before ME3 came out everything was either leaked or marketed virally.

>>165152951
>Things that aren't true

>>165241823
Wouldn't that be a pointless thing to lie about though? I mean psychology is a pseudoscience anyway.

>>165241810
It's weird.

Since what they do release mostly gets flak, I kind of wonder if they are just biding their time and hoping to sell the game on positive word of mouth post-release? Every single trailer they put out mostly met with negative reception at worst, morbid curiosity at best. If they overhype the game, it'll get torn apart like ME3. If they stay quiet and just let people make up their own mind, it could pay off.

Or it'll end up swept away like Watch Dogs 2 and Titanfall 2. Positive reactions from the fans didn't really help them either. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Just like Watch Dogs, the Mass Effect title probably carries too many negative connotations now.

>>165243106
This guys gets it. Bioware is stuck in the "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" conendrum where anything they do, show, talk or hide will be met with harsh criticisicm.

The rule of thumb is to not care about marketing or other people's reception but your own gut feeling (and personal economy). Do you want to play ME:A or not ? If yes, then you probably don't need marketing to convince you to buy the game. If not, then you don't need marketing neither.

>>165234921
>ME3 has been fixed with DLC.
not sure if I should laugh or cry

>>165244925
It's called Extended Cut. Addresses some plotholes but the endings are still shit.

Yes they patched the ending. Not as ridiculous as when they had to patch a book because it raped the lore too much.
A fucking book.

>>165245617
>a fucking slideshow addresses plotholes
what? how deluded are you?
the extended cut didnt fix shit you retarded biodrone.

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>>165245617
>it's fixed now, stop your complaints
nice try, shill.

You know when femryder grabs the merc's gun. it means that there's a chance the target will be killed before the grabber is. in the real world.
But in ME they have shields, and you bet not!Aria has some barriers, pretty much everyone does. A single shot from a little pistol isn't enough to kill her. Two krogan with shotguns will kill femryder faster than femryder can deplete Nails-on-a-toilet mcgee's barriers.

In effect she just made them hostile without having any hope of gaining an advantage.

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>>165245862
Actually it did, Leviathan, Citadel and Extended all made the end very conclusive, satisfying and left no threads loose. The initial ending was crap because it was too ambiguous. Unless you're one of those tards who demanded that it would end like pic related.

Mass Effect went wrong storywise by the second game already and if you didn't like last half hour of ME3 you should realise it was just the logical conclusion of what ME2 started.

>>165241810
Marketing is supposed to start up at the end of this month and go through Feb with regular releases. Mac also confirmed they'd be releasing at least 15 minutes of unedited gameplay footage.

>>165246467
>fan of nuBioware being this unsubtle with their "trolling"

Sheer pottery.

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>>165246467
>this whole post

>>165245862
>>165245946
Geez you fags I said it was shit. Guess I wasn't specific enough. As far as o remember, it addressed the Normandy extraction before the beam and that it got repaired and left the planet where it crash landed.

The RGB endings still stand, hence shit.

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There is only one thing BioWare can do to make Andromeda be worth all this wait.

I want another qt3.14 Quarian to fuck the shit out of.

Also for someone to make me some John Shepard sliders once the game drops. Second Shepard clone headcanon time.

>>165246758
yes, now the normandy lands right infront of Harbinger
fucking genious, 10/10 IGN

fucking neck yourself retard

>>165246825
there are no quarians in Andromeda
but maybe you can find a cute femkro which ravages your boipucci