mass effect 2 (finished only, spoilers!!!)

[Zegz]

yeah he did die once before...but come on, 2 revivals from the dead to start both games. thats just lame. Im starting to think hes not the character you play as in ME3. And that saddens me.

P.S. who thinks the illusive man isnt even human? Cause i sure as hell do. Look at his eyes for starters, they look like machine eyes, def not human eyes. Theres something up about him. He wants too much control over humanity....to destroy it in the end?

 

[e MpTy]

Did you know Shepdard had a mom? SHe sent me an message? lol Captain of her own ship.

 

[FaTtY-mIc-FaTFaT]

Did you know Shepdard had a mom? SHe sent me an message? lol Captain of her own ship.

i think that depends on what you choose when you make your shepard in the beginning.

i mean theres a crap load of ways the story can unfold, they did a really good job on this. you can play the game over many times, and choose different actions to see how it unfolds. its actually really cool how much work they put into this.

 

[Zegz]

yeah its awesome but i cant see how they can make a mass effect 3 for a living and dead shepard. My theory, Shepard has a brother and a sister that no one knew about. If shepard lived in ME2 then u will just play as shepard, if he died, they go into detail about how they stil need someone to sve the world, someone like shepard. They find out he had a brother (sister for ppl who want to play female) and they recruit that person. Therefore, the game will still play the same, shepard will be called commander shepard by everyone still, the only difference is 3 different voice actors playing the same part. How else can you write shepard out of ME3 if he survived in the end of ME2? And if he died it doesnt matter cause you can still be a commander shepard.....

 

[e MpTy]

Thats not forget Ashley or Kaiden, either one of them could be the next shepard if he dies.

 

[Rogue Sniper]

I imported my character off of ME1... I dont know what happened by my crew lived, my squad all died but Miranda ... wth? IDK I guess Ill have to go back and retry from somewhere so they all live.

 

[mdgrim]

I just finished lol. I love the implementations of my actions in the 1st game (followed light path, wrex lived, Ashley lived) and I only lost ONE! squad mate (Thane T_T thane was epic...) I had Zaeed (download squad mate on xbox live, idk if PC got him) control the 2nd team and Thane go through the vents in the beginning. Used grunt and legion(used them throughout the entire battle) as my squad, Thane died. Had jack make the barrier and garrius be diversion lead and Jacob escort survivors back to ship, No casualties. Almost lost Grunt at the end when the human reaper went down (barley got his hand before he slide off hehe). I saved the station, which im thinking was the wrong thing to do... My game play was around 30 hours. Oh yeah, I had all ship upgrades and everyone loyal except Miranda, because I stuck up for Jack during their fight cutscene. I used my paragon talk option during Legion and Tali's fight to keep them both happy.

Overall it was another epic game by bioware, I can't say it was better than mass effect 1, because without the original, mass effect 2 wouldn't have been the same (I dont mean story wise,etc but the game in general). Also, I have theory... I don't think the collectors are the protheans.. I think the reapers are the protheans, and what the collectors were creating was some false super weapon that was misunderstood. If you look closely at the cutscene right before harbinger (the collector commander) dies, you see a hologram of what appears to be Sovereign, then you hear a voice say "control released" and the hologram disappears. Immediately after you see harbinger shake his head, as if confused, before turning and getting blasted. Also, the cutscene with the mass of reapers... They all look quite similar if all are based off of the creature they were created from, than you would expect there to be a much larger variety of shapes among that mass. I also have the feeling that the Illusive man, may be under the control of a reaper.

Anyways, there is my input and yes.. that is a lot of typing lol

*edit*

Actually... the Name "harbinger" was the one of that reaper hologram, and he had control over the collector commander, you can also notice that collectors eyes stop glowing right after the reaper releases him

 

[Ramp]

I beat the game as well. Lost legion to him getting his head shot off when closing the doors which made me cry, lost tali ( who was my love interest at the time...actually got her to take the helmet off ) and thane on the ship before I even landed and I lost every crew member since I didn't send anyone back to guard them.


Also while playing through this game I noticed several typos which made me laugh.


One of them was when your trying to talk to the synthetic insights rep in the eternity bar it called the slave trader the slake broker.


Also if anyone is interested go to this website and check out whats needed in order to either kill the characters at the suicide mission, or keep them alive

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_Wiki

 

[Ducttape]

Did you know Shepdard had a mom? SHe sent me an message? lol Captain of her own ship.

orly? wow - I though I took my time on my first play-through (27.7 hrs).

I'm planning on doing a second go-round, but this time as an engineer - I was totally jealous of Tali's mobile sentry thingy she could summon.

Can't wait to explore all the little things I missed the first time

 

[Cupcake]

Yes, how did Legion know Shepard's name when they first met? I don't buy that shared conscience answer Legion gave...

Geth are a hivemind. Anything one experiences is shared by all of them, even between the heretics (the ones you fight in the first game) and the "normal" geth that Legion is part of. So if any one geth has seen/met/studied Shepard, they ALL have.

Side note: The getting your entire squad to survive achievement is a flaming pile of stuff. Mordin, no matter what you do, has a set percent chance to just randomly be found dead. I got all the choices right and EVERYONE was alive when I formed my final squad to go deal with the boss, and he was just found dead later and I didn't get the achievement.

Some people have said he can still die even if you take him up with you. So it's just a matter of doing it right maybe 2, 3 times before you'll get the stupid achievement and it's a HORRIBLE designed system, hopin' for a patch for it.

 

[mdgrim]

I redid it today, same setup(that I mentioned in my typing above) just replaced Zaeed with garrus on 2nd squad lead both times and legion as the hacker, no deaths

*edit*

I also have another theory, This one about the illusive man.

Did you notice that behind him, the star or sun (whatever its supposed to be) usually burns bright red... at the end when and if you decide to blow up the collector station and you go to talk to him, that glowing whatever it is in the background is dull and now glowing blue. When I saw that, the first thing I thought of, was the reaper core on the derelict reaper. Anyone else thinking what im thinking? ((that the illusive man is under a reaper indoctrination and is residing inside of one) May also explain as to why his eyes look so odd)

 

[FaTtY-mIc-FaTFaT]

every single one of my guys lived, including the crew :3 i hate that my mail girl died, now i dont have anyone to tell me i have mail XD (unless there was a choice if she could die or not, then DAMN)

and i wouldnt put it past bioware to have the illusive man be controlled, your kind of expecting it, seeing as how he is so creepy, but it could also be a twist where he really is a good guy just looking out after humanity. but like i said, wouldnt put it past them

 

[broccolicreamsoup]

every single one of my guys lived, including the crew :3 i hate that my mail girl died, now i dont have anyone to tell me i have mail XD (unless there was a choice if she could die or not, then DAMN)

how did you kill the mail girl? I finished it today, every one lived for me But one thing I dont get is the ammo there was no ammo in ME1

 

[Ramp]

I redid it today, same setup(that I mentioned in my typing above) just replaced Zaeed with garrus on 2nd squad lead both times and legion as the hacker, no deaths

*edit*

I also have another theory, This one about the illusive man.

Did you notice that behind him, the star or sun (whatever its supposed to be) usually burns bright red... at the end when and if you decide to blow up the collector station and you go to talk to him, that glowing whatever it is in the background is dull and now glowing blue. When I saw that, the first thing I thought of, was the reaper core on the derelict reaper. Anyone else thinking what im thinking? ((that the illusive man is under a reaper indoctrination and is residing inside of one) May also explain as to why his eyes look so odd)

The illusive mans eyes are like that due to surgery he had on them. If you look closely you can see the cerberus symbol.

 

[mdgrim]

The illusive mans eyes are like that due to surgery he had on them. If you look closely you can see the cerberus symbol.

Wasn't that close to my tv screen lol, I still think that thing in his background looks like a reapers core haha