Thread 723283648

>Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters.
How do you even respond to this in a logical and non-emotional response to this question?

calmly call him a retard, then turn 360 degrees and walk away

>>723283648 (OP)
I should go.

>>723283648 (OP)
I do so
and receive no reply because ghosts don't exist and he's a faggot

>>723283648 (OP)
>lel seething

>>723283648 (OP)
what if i stood in the ashes of a quadrillion dead souls? also souls do not leave ashes as they are incorporeal

>>723283648 (OP)
Space him. Batarians are not allowed on my ship.

>>723283648 (OP)
>Paid DLC character
Non canon.

>>723283648 (OP)
>we'll bang

>>723283648 (OP)
>amazing companion
>day 1 on-disc DLC
good riddance to bioware

There are hundreds of thousands of reapers. There are at most 50 relevant worlds.
Why do they take so long?

>>723283648 (OP)
Gesture to the Krogans and tell him where no honor got them. Unless you're going to escalate a war up to genocide it's important to not cross certain lines to make the post war easier.

>>723285001
they never said they take the brightest minds to make the reapers

>>723283648 (OP)
Wrex.

>>723285105
That makes sense. The best and brightest would be in research facilities, resisting, or on ships that get blown up.
All the reapers have left are the absolute dregs of the species.

>>723283648 (OP)
>We'll bang later, okay?

>>723285001
And they only produce one capital-class reaper lol.
>Muh destroyers!
Oh, you mean those dinky little metal lice that get torn apart by a giant thresher maw and get blasted into the dirt by a fleet of hobos? They're a bad joke.
The reapers are quite possibly the worst machine antagonists I've ever experienced in media (but I haven't seen all of the terminator franchise, and I've heard Skynet goes full retard). The only reason everyone got BTFO'd is because they're retarded and chose centralization of resources and became over-reliant on the reaper's toys without bothering to go over them with a fine tooth comb.

>>723284676
>>723284813
>tfw didn't realize that he was a DLC character because I pirated the game

>>723285505
I also downloaded a free copy but putting DLC on the disc was a bitch move.
>It's not cut content I pinky swear
FUCK EA.

>>723283796
You would be walking right into him

>>723283648 (OP)
I wouldn't, I'd listen. Because that's what no one else did.

>>723285750
thank you marilyn, but really I think we should be as underhanded as possible when it comes to fighting them

>>723284813
It wasn't their choice, retard

>>723285995
>bioware apologist
>in 2025
gross

>>723285001
Because they don't want to genocide all organics? They need them, both to 'reproduce' and fulfill their flawed directive. They only cull. We knew since ME1 both how strong a single Sovereign-type Reaper was and that harvestings took hundreds of years.

>>723286119
>no actual fucking argument
What did I expect
>"ME3 was originally announced to release in the holiday season of 2011. By March 2011, the game production was behind schedule and the leads were convinced they couldn't have it ready for that release. Ultimately, Bioware's General Manager Aaron Flynn got the release pushed back to March 2012, through a direct phone call with the head of EA's games label. Even with that, production was still behind schedule and a significant amount of content was cut from the game"
Javik was cut before they were granted the extension to the deadline. Moving the game to 2012 allowed them to put him back but by then they had rewritten the plot already and EA was still jewish so he was forced to be DLC. Or in other words: I'll accept the concession.

>>723285001
About 1% of the known galaxy is explored. The Council in ME1 mentioning having to govern, protect, aid, help the lives of trillions. We know the Turians have unseen client races and they make mention of other unseen races in the games and Terminus Systems. Now 1% of hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy is still maybe 1-2 billion you can imagine out of those planets a good hundred million maybe even 50 million or less have life and colonies on them. If the Reapers did really plan to fuck the 1% who discovered Mass Relays which is completely unlikely it would still take ages, even if they had 100,000 of those giant squid ships.

>>723284813
I still can't get over that I bought the ME trilogy collection and the DLC that leads ME2 into ME3 IS NOT IN THE FUCKING COLLECTION

>>723286537
wtf? i bought the legendary edition wanting to play through the whole trilogy for the first time

>>723286503
Most people don't seem to realize just how fuckhuge space really is.

>>723286702
Our minds aren't made to conceive of such large spans of distance. Sure, we can use numbers, but your brain doesn't really think it's as far as the numbers say.

>>723283860
Based.

>>723283648 (OP)
>implying I would ever put him in my party or progress his quest
lol
lmao
#notmyprotheans

>>723286630
That was the non-remaster collection. The Legendary edition seems to have it. Arrival was just missing in the original trilogy https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_Trilogy

That's right. The pivotal DLC that segues 2 to 3 was just missing. For no reason.

>>723286878
>Our minds aren't made to conceive of
Some are, and it's horrifying and you live every day of your life with an inescapable existential dread until you eventually kill yourself just to escape the constant feeling of cosmic insignificance.

>>723286941
t. Liara

>>723283648 (OP)
And then he immediately ruins his kino moment by stating the obvious.
>Their silence is the answer.
At least by being Day 1 DLC you can actually remove it from the game and have a better playthrough without this fanfiction character.

Shut up.

>>723283860
/thread

Finally starting this series.
Does military specialization have significant impact on the game?
Leaning towards sentinel or engineer

>>723289564
Not terribly. It's just what you're gameplan in combat is and whether or not you need to bring a tech person if you want to unlock lockers and shit, which usually just have ammo types and small upgrades. The game is mostly about liking party members and going on the grand adventure, not actually role-playing as a solder vs infiltrator vs engineer etc

>>723289564
It's classes. ME1 is just abilities, ME2 locks you to weapon types for each, ME3 is back to just abilities

yes, yes, well done Shepard, well done.
HOWEVER IN MY CYCLE

Ghosts don't exist lololol

Was it ever confirmed in the games that the Krogan are a Prothean bioweapon?

>>723283648 (OP)
I’d tell him the silence is their answer.

>>723286330
They had to rewrite the entire script when the dark energy plot got leaked on /v/ bro (and a bit of Casey whatever’s inability to write compared to drew).
Why does no one remember this?

>>723286537
that's what you get, paypiggy.

>>723287353
You may think you’re special but the wiring of everyone’s brain thinks of >100 as “wow, a lot”.
You truly can not conceive time,
Imagine the passage of time prior to your birth - from both a physical and metaphysical standpoint you flat out can-not.
And there’s a solid chance that’s by design. Ask the selurian hypothesis, and the hayflick limit.

>>723285001
>escalate a war up to genocide
that's literally what the reapers are doing.
>post war
something you can't even afford to think about, because beating the reapers is an impossible all-or-nothing proposition.

>>723283648 (OP)
We'll bang, okay?

>>723283648 (OP)
*Paragon interrupt* Calm down, retard.

Should I play the original versions of these games or the legendary edition remakes?

>>723283648 (OP)
Easily the best non-og companion

>>723292545
Legendary edition with the mod that puts the Miranda ass shots back in

>>723283648 (OP)
>90% aliens are humanoids
>with human-like faces
>with human emotions
>human-like reproduction with males and females
>and human-like culture such as wearing clothes and having strip clubs

>>723286702
And the reapers have had a billion years to build numbers lol

>>723283648 (OP)
Why should I respond in a logical and non-emotional way? Isn't dictating the terms of my answer just a dishonest way of making me agree with you?
Humans have emotions and value more than just what is the most practical.
Plus, the speaker is implied to be demonstrating the emotion of disdain. But I'll play along wand answer with pure logic:
OP is a faggot.

>>723283796
Not if u moonwalk bro

>>723292545
The original versions still run well, in some cases better than the legendary edition, and have plenty of mods that make them visually superior (especially ME1). Even without the mods legendary edition fucks up a lot of visual elements of the original games.

Mass Effect would've been a better franchise if the Reapers were considered effectively deal with at the end of ME1 and future games were just about Shepard's Spectre adventures across the galaxy.

>>723293689
It's always annoyed me how important the spectre status is made out to be at the beginning of me1, and it ends up being mostly meaningless. The galaxy ending evil was too big to be interesting and the story should've been more political instead.

>>723290918
because its pure fantheory and has no evidence whatsoever

>>723287353
>>723291003

>>723283648 (OP)
We'll bang, ok?

>>723283648 (OP)
ligma balls

>>723293039
to leave your original habitat you have to wear clothes
to become the dominant species you have to have strong emotional bonds or you just end up killing each other for lack of empathy
the other stuff i don't have a defense for

>>723294540
It turns out there is one thing primitives are good at.

>>723287353
t. Greatly Filtered.

>>723286503
>f the Reapers did really plan to fuck the 1% who discovered Mass Relays which is completely unlikely it would still take ages, even if they had 100,000 of those giant squid ships.
They can easily construct other methods.

>>723283648 (OP)
>you are god damn right
>now move, we have Batarians to kill

>have super space technology
>cerberus makes female naruto robots wielding katanas
TIM really was a retard, huh

>>723283648 (OP)
If honor only matters when other people are looking, then you were never honorable.

>>723293820
fuck no. I don't want to sit there listening to inane political rambling for hours. I just wanna shoot some ayys

>>723297612
Everyone in ME3 was retarded.

>>723297612
no, he was a visionary

>>723297721
average SPECTRE agent

>>723283648 (OP)
>So.... are you like a shark man, or something?

Liara sexo

>>723293820
It is important though, its literally how Shepard can go up and down the galaxy without any bureaucracy issues or whatever. He can do literally whatever he wants and has to answer to no one

Joker... tell them...

Why is he space Nigerian though?

>>723283648 (OP)
Skill issue.

>>723290918
Because it never happened, which is why you cannot post any proof or source

>>723293329
At one singular Reaper per 50k years, that still results in far less numbers than the trillions of people in the galaxy if their aim is to finish a harvest with as few losses as possible. This idea that the Reapers should win a cycle five minutes after arriving was always dumb when ME1 itself already established the cycles taking centuries to end.

>>723293689
Mass Effect would've been a better franchise had the sequel remembered what it was meant to be about and build off of. I'm not gonna blame 1 for something 2 fucked up.

>>723293820
>being a Spectre is a big deal
>nvm you can just not be one for an entire game lol
>possessing the Cipher will surely be a big deal
>nvm we forgot about its narrative existence for 90% of the remaining runtime lol
>having a prothean expert on board will surely affect the way we investigate the mystery of the Reapers by analyzing the last cycle now that Sovereign's gone
>nvm she forgets about her past and becomes le badass info broker writer's pet lol
>we spent a full game establishing the Normandy as a one of a kind stealth ship to complement the Spectre status as to make you the most qualified individual to sneak into any one part of the galaxy
>nvm we blew it up five minutes into the sequel for no reason 'cause we immediately replaced it with the exact same ship with blackjack and hookers lol

>>723303505
>its literally how Shepard can go up and down the galaxy without any bureaucracy issues or whatever
Is that why you can play the entirety of ME2 without being a Spectre and it changes absolutely nothing

>>723308067
>>Mass Effect would've been a better franchise had the sequel remembered what it was meant to be about and build off of.
I don't know. Reaper shenanigans sounds so much better than Reaper War with no payoff, if you ask me.

>>723293039
>strip clubs
I prefer to think these didn't exist until first contact with humanity

>>723308343
What were the asari doing for a living?

>>723285146
Sheppard.

the story of mass effect is all in the first game, the second one and the third add almost zero to it, if not some minor bullshit and things that are genuinely hate by the playerbase.
mass effect is why the game industry is shit today, 2 games full of secondary garbage and fill content and yet everybody got redditfaced by it.
the arabs should close the study and launch a global jihad against masseffect redditors

>>723283648 (OP)
I have to return some videotapes.

>>723290918
I remember it very well and that's not what it was.
The leaked ending was pretty much exactly what we got with only a few changes. Main one being the Prothean/Javik being the Catalyst, which was MUCH better and shouldn't have been dropped. The pick a color stuff was not dramatically different between the leaked script and release.
There were other interesting decisions they scrapped like having to pick between Liara vs Ashley/Kaidan.

>>723306167
>go to Noveria
>meet a Turian with a brooklyn accent

>>723283860
spbp

>>723311218
>interesting decision
>pick between Liara vs Ashley/Kaidan
Everyone knows Liara was the winner of that pick, come on.

>>723309037
Judging by the ones we run into I think they were just going around in groups of 4-6 maidens and being paid to kill things. That and whoring seems to be their m.o. as a species until they hit a few hundred years old and become space jews.

>>723313619
>whoring seems to be their m.o. as a species
Hmmmmmmmmm

>>723312946
I pick Chambers. She is my wife.

>>723313815
She's not part of that dilemma.

>>723283648 (OP)
>be an edgy retard
>the war ends with shepards honor intact
So was he just full of angst?

What do you call this body type?

>>723313956
The only reason Shepard's cycle had a chance was precisely because of the things it inherited from the protheans' honorless cycle. Disabling the Citadel, building the Conduit, hiding the Crucible, it all came from them. Shepard should suck their metaphorical cock.

>>723313689
Is it weird that the Protheans created and groomed an entire race into being inter-species prostitutes? I think it's a little weird.

>>723314105
None of those actions are dishonorable though

>>723314031
So attractive her proportions had to be nerfed in later entries to not mog Liara as badly.

>>723314154
They only survived long and organized enough to do them thanks to Javik's cultural way of thinking.

>>723314113
Not my problem.

>>723314210
Wrong, the beacons were just normal technology in common use, the conduit project was in the works before the reaper invasion, and every cycle hid the crucible plans. Nothing they did that mattered was done by Javik's extraordinarily edgy and retarded guys who were just trying to survive the end of their cycle and into the next. Their plan failed completely outside of Javik himself, their scientists were what made the difference, and their motivations were based on hope for the next cycle to win, not revenge as it was for Javik.

So really, he's just edgy for no reason.

>>723314663
Crucible was a Reaper trick

>>723314765
Not really

>>723314765
What gay schizo shit are you babbling about now?

i have space nigger fatigue

>>723284813
God what I wouldn't give to have Nyreen and Javik replace Garrus and Liara in ME1. I would say replace Ashley and the Canadian but killing them is too kino.

>>723315579
Do I have a 1992 space movie for you!

>>723314817
>this device somehow passed down between species was never ever compromised or found by the mind controlled researchers and AI death machines
>well yes, it does need to dock with a Reaper-constructed ship to "activate" but that's just a coincidence

>>723318028
Oh you're one of those indoctrination theory faggots

>>723318073
Indoctrination theory is retarded and totally unsupported by the story. I just think the backstory for the Crucible is too absurd to believe. .

>>723318152
You know what? Unfortunately, it's true.
Doesn't make it good, just true.

>>723283860
spbp

>>723315579
Take solace in the Reapers wiping out most batarians. There are too few left to sustain their species