ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL

>>713742703 (OP)
>Harbinger is Mass Effect 2
>Leader of the Reapers

>Harbinger in Mass Effect 3
>Literal who?

I hate Mac Walters and Casey Hudson.

>>713742703 (OP)
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Assuming direct control
This hurts (You)

who has the best ass in the trilogy and why is it the brute

>>713742703 (OP)

>>713742703 (OP)

>can only control two collectors at a time
some eldritch machine god he turned out to be

Sir Not-Appears-in-Mass-Effect-3

ME2 threads were the peak of /v/

Suicide Mission OST still gets me.

Why does he have to announce it out loud? Why not just say nothing and take the enemy by surprise?

ME2 was where it went wrong. The Collector plot was a waste of time and it left solving the Reaper problem entirely up to 3. Even with shitty writing 3 could've cobbled something together if they had anything to go off.

I replayed the trilogy recently, and even had fun doing it.

>>713744457
He doesn't actually announce it out loud per se, Shepard is the only one that perceives it in all cases bar Kenson and hologram in Arrival, but he speaks not to Shepard, but to player.

>>713743513
Can't surpass Miri.

>>713744649
To be fair it wouldn't be a problem if Arrival DLC never existed. That alone forced 3 to deal with the reapers. 2's vanilla ending is fine to just continue being episodic shepard stops long standing reaper plot.

>>713748019
The entire point of the second part of a trilogy is to build on the first part to lead into the third. ME2 completely fails to do that. And by the time they were making 2 they knew they were going to make a 3 so there's no goddamn excuse.

>>713748435
It very much connects perfectly, you people just don't get how.

>>713743005
Don't forget that they raged so hard about people shooting the kid that they made an entire shitty bad ending in their emo rage over it.

>>713748435
And the correct option would have been to make Arrival the main plot of 3. Harbinger being closer to the milkyway as a back up to Sovereign to try and retake the citadel. Having the reapers show up en masse completely undercuts the climax of 1.

>>713748019
>to be fair it wouldn't be a problem if Arrival DLC never existed
nta but arrival has the most amazing soundtrack
https://youtu.be/n-5VglT6fPY?si=djJJbfDORX1cuT7r
https://youtu.be/X9TViW1NEJw?si=Efvqp-KF7cMcMmIH
https://youtu.be/Ucz70p04O50?si=OXJGmBGsmdEqwA_Q

>>713748435
>The entire point of the second part of a trilogy is to build on the first part to lead into the third. ME2 completely fails to do that.
Thought it did a good job doing that.

What are you all talking about?
The Mass Effect series ended with part 2.
There was never a ME3.

>>713749229
3 is a better game than 2

>>713742703 (OP)
>this hurts you

>>713749060
Disagree. ME2 added
>side characters
>reaper reproduction
>dark energy subplot
>cerberus
Aside from Legion and Mordin the new characters don't help the main plot. Reaper reproduction doesn't matter and dark matter got dropped (if it was ever really meant to matter). Cerberus was fumbled since the invasion's already begun by the time you fight them. Its relevance to ME3 is small.
I think it should've introduced the Crucible (or other such macguffin) and indoctrinated sleeper cells instead of the Collectors. I think it'd give ME3 better set up.

>>713749229
I KNOW, RIGHT?

this game really expects me to believe joker would rather tap a sack of circuits and batteries instead of actual human pussy

>>713751631
>actual human pussy
vs
>bespoke pussy

>>713751631
Joker has no issues with biological women, he just grew attached to EDI. Can't blame him, plenty helmsmen and captains would fuck their vessels if they could.

>this hurts you

>>713752427
What am I looking at, chief?

>>713752719
Looks like a bomb disguised as luggage.

>>713752719
I thought it was the one where the bubble rap catches on fire

i know you can feel this shepard

>>713749229
>>713750932
I replayed 1&2 many times.
Always stop after 2, never replayed 3.

>>713742703 (OP)
>sovereign of the reapers is called Harbinger
>harbinger of the reapers is called Sovereign

>>713752240
I like how within like 10 minutes he called her cancer at first

>>713752719
up the RA

>>713743005
Harbinger being a thing at all is Walters' work tho. I hate them too in any case.

why didn't the quarians just settle on a planet? are they stupid? lmao

>>713756489
it's their holy planet
they have to rebuild their temple

>>713748705
Refuse ending > Destroy (original) > Destroy (ED) > Control (OG) > Synth (OG) > Control (ED) > Control (ED)
Secretly, the best ending is still whatever your ME1 ending was. just pretend the series was only 1 game.

Remember when suns were mysteriously dying in ME2?
And it never came up again?

>>713756489
aparently they are weak from living in space or something so only their home planet is compatable or something. I dunno it was pretty vague and nonsensical.

>>713756665
Thank you Haestrom for giving us an even worse SMG than the Shuriken.

>>713743005
The reapers having a leader at all was a retarded move

>>713756908
The tempest is extremely overpowered. Get better aim and stop trying to keep your distance from enemies like a coward

>>713743513
uh oh stinky

>>713756489
Tali mentions it. They're symbiotic with their home planet's flora. Colonising planets would make them sick but they'd adapt, but when they fled the quarians spent so long in sterile space that it ruined their immune system. It would take generations to adapt to a new environment that isn't their original one.
So the quarians are stupid for messing up their health and even more stupid because they keep thinking their generation will be the one to retake the homeworld.

>>713744649
If the Collectors weren't stopped they would've made the Reaper Invasion 1000x worse with their flying bugs swarms crippling all resistance, not to mention the countless millions of processing pods greatly speeding up the harvest of human worlds.

>>713752719
China just kinda explodes like that randomly

>>713755786
kek

>>713742703 (OP)
Did the LE go back and fix ME2s combat at all or did they only bother with the original?

WE ARE YOUR GENETIC DESTINY

>>713757597
Yea that was the reason. I remember it was nonsensical since they could build sealed towns and cities on land and it'd be easier than space.

>have only played as femshep forever for ar least 20 playthrus on ME 1 & 2
>thinking about playing as generic maleshep after years of seeing the memes
Is it worth it?

I could never finish ME3 because it gives me motion sickness. Worse part is, there's a mod that removes camera shake for ME2 but ME3
Am i missing out?

>>713758624
You probably think you're being funny.

>>713758624
>have only played as femshep forever for ar least 20 playthrus on ME 1 & 2
why are you gay

#backtheblue

>>713758481
There's also no way they wouldn't have some OG plants or that they couldn't find some to clone elsewhere. It was just an excuse to make the player care more about the quarian cause.

>>713743005
To be fair, I think dialing back on Harbinger might have been the right move after ME2. It's a shame we never got any more reaper encounters on par with Sovereign's intro, but Harbinger never really escaped the meme status of his combat lines.

Even in the Arrival DLC I thought he sounded more like Dr. Claw than a cosmic horror threat.

Reminder that not only is Tali a canon virgin before she meets Shepard, she is a porn addicted gooner obsessed with human cock!

>>713745058
Who're your favorites looking at them with fresh eyes?

>>713758624
femshep is Hale's worst performance ever

>>713758624
you tranny?

>>713756489
The Citadel Council straight up wouldn't let them. They got pissy that Quarian refugees found an uninhabited planet right after the Morning War and touched down before asking permission, so they punished the whole species.

>>713742703 (OP)
Mass Effect 2 was the beginning of the end. Only ME1 was good.

this is the purest human ever???

ME2 was shit. Not just ME3. And ME1 was mediocre.
A franchise that never realized its potential.

>>713751631
She does look good with her skin

>>713759606
eww gross anon
You could've of at least posted a pic with her and Commander German Shepherd instead

>>713758916
wheres her cock?

>>713759220
i got a better appreciation of thane's character arc. i also never played the dlcs for 2 so it was nice to be introduced to the dlc squadmates, particularly zaeed.

>>713751631
Edi with her human look is sexo

>>713744649
it cemented ME3 as a failure by not advancing the plot when it was needed, but it succeeded on its own because NOBODY FUCKING CARED ABOUT THE REAPERS
ancient evils suck, people wanted to play space cop

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>>713760735
AHHHHHHHHH NOOOOO THE ADVERTISERS! JANNY SAVE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of the devs hinted that the new Vice City has a weather system that changes based on the character’s emotional state. Not just scripted cutscenes — I mean, the whole city literally breathes with your choices. This might be their most immersive tech yet. -neckisdead

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>>713759301
>immediately resorting to faggotry
Nope, it's a legitimate question. Call it whatever you want, I did the first playthru as femshep so its been that way since. Any real answers?
>>713759248
Eh, she's nothing spectacular but I've read the guy who does maleshep was the same in 1 but got better by the 3rd gsme like Hale.

>>713748861
Track 5 almost made me feel bad for the Batarians.

>>713759606
weird lookin krogan

>>713744649
Reapers never should have been a plot line. Bioware was better at smaller scale stories but always defaults to the same dogshit “an ancient evil has awoken” plots that they never know how to resolve.

>>713761754
>Tuchanka is Ukraine!

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>>713761924
disgusting bitch. human women are vile, no wonder human men prefer xeno women

>>713758916
Total Asari Death
Thessia deserved it

>>713762146
Why are they like this??

>>713762313
Space parasites.
Like the batarians, only more insidious.

why is it all futa

>>713762313
there's nothing wrong with being a sex worker for a couple centuries

>>713762418
>asari that has spent 100s of years being a prostitute on the most run-down, crime ridden planets
WIFE material

Zaeed is my favourite companion.

>>713762614
>formerly Zuck

>>713762614
Everybody loves Zaeed. Even as they're leaving him to die in a fire.

>>713762614
goddamn right he is