#mass effect 3 spoilers

[msunitedstatesjames]

Can't believe Mass Effect 3 is really out here killing off 2/3 of my favorite weird alien men. R.I.P to my favorite hyperactive, singing madman and my favorite lizardman assassin. Now, Garrus will be protected at ALL costs.

[ceo-of-sloppy-women]

My least favourite part of mass effect 3 is how Thane doesn’t take the shot. He has a clear shot and chose dramatic timing??? He’s a professional assassin!

[wdba]

I just finished playing the mass effect trilogy for the first time ever and I

...actually liked the endings no matter how much gamer dudebros tell me that only one of them is legit and the others were all actually just ooki spooki indoctrination kazooie

Howeverrrrr I wish the devs just leaned harder into why they're called "Reapers"? Cause I kinda see The Vision of how they wanted to flesh their whole deal out:

A. Being reapers of life cause they try to preserve it in some fucked up roundabout way, kinda like saving the seeds of the harvest and all

and B. All that "archived data" gives birth to and is stored in a new Reaper, which is unfortunately the only way to make more of them somehow

Which makes the whole deal with Legion and the Leviathans a nice sort of foreshadowing that there's some data error? Memory corruption??? thing the reapers got going on, and the Crucible was several million years worth of civilizations way to patch it out or something (like the whole thing's caused by a leviathan programmer failing to do a lil bugtest, whoopsi)

Cause ya know, all that is a little more acceptable than the whole order vs chaos, creations vs creator, beep boop vs splish splash thing the game slams into you the last ~15 minutes of the entire trilogy

Also, Cerberus? The xenophobic human supremacist group? Like the aliens are right there, the batarians, who attacked and enslaved humans, are right there??? Who on earth gave them, the xenophobic human supremacists, the idea to experiment on humans??? Sure would have made a nice parallel to the Council aka aliens who do the barest minimum to help humanity and committed two (2) genocides by actual extinction and forced sterility on aliens who were Mean To Them (oh but when we, Cerberus, do it to help humanity...). Like the idea was dangling in front of them and they swerved hard to just being the Kicks Puppies and Kittens (and Human Babies) faction

Anyway, 10/10 would dance with Garrus again

[monowires]

the character death that makes me the saddest is definitely anderson. my shepard is earthborn, never had parents or anything close to it. anderson ends up being the closest thing to a dad he’s got, because it’s obvious they trust each other a lot even beyond being brothers in arms.

so shepard almost gets to see what it’s like to have a paternal figure, only to have it taken away from him; and undoubtedly he blames himself for it, because unless i misunderstood the scene, the illusive man/reapers (by proxy?) managed to control shepard’s behavior for a split second thus causing shepard to shoot anderson, and i just can’t handle that. shepard’s already been through so much

[hieravian]

thinking about them now I'm on ME3

was anyone gonna tell me the Kaidan romance carried to ME3 is so tense yet hopeful early on. It is so obvious they wanna be together again but the air ain't clear yet....

not to mention Shep processing Kaidan getting hurt on Mars like break my heart why don't you

:[

[mephestopheles]

"Well, I did just write your name in the stars."

Their friendship is going to kill me

[jaebird88]

Mordin’s sacrifice never fails to bring me to tears. Forget the discourse over the endings. Moments like this are what make the first three Mass Effect games great. That, and the mother of all thresher maws throwing down with a Reaper.

[one-little-nerd-stayed-home]

Actually yeah Thane Krios for funniest bitch here because he is literally on his death bed and still takes the time to make sure you know that Kai Leng is a clown bitch and a loser.

Like the man is actively dying and still like "damn I kicked that boys ass so hard. I hope it ruins his life."

Like he's so correct for that but it is so funny

[jacwags]

We really need to talk about the Asari breaking council law by hiding that Thessian beacon.

[cobaltswriting]

Well, I actually enjoyed the party in the Citadel DLC quite a lot! In fact I played it twice, doing both a rowdy party and a quiet party to see the differences~ I think, on the whole, I preferred the quiet party. Also Tali has her (apparently holographic) tattoo. So it should hopefully be easy to remove if Tali doesn’t like it any more.

I also started on the combat simulator and... it’s a bit basic right now, hopefully it gets better.

I also grabbed all the prizes I can from the claw machine. It seems they decided to change the difficulty down to easy after Zaaed had his goes with it.

[ceo-of-sloppy-women]

My biggest question for mass effect 5 is how they’re tackling space travel. If the relays all got blown out during the me3 destroy ending, how does it work now?? Did they just build more? Did the writers retcon it (totally valid in my opinion)? Did we somehow gain new tech and/or upgrades that function like relays (ie someone expanded the capabilities of the tempest’s drives in andromeda)? Or is everyone just like “space travel takes months now, it is what it is”???

Personally, I could care less about the plot (I quite enjoy biowares stories), I just want to know if it’s set in the Milky Way (or even in andromeda, because we only ever see one cluster), how space travel works now.

[licensed-fan-girl]

Heart: shattered

“oh, god, you fought with commander shepard, didn’t you? wow. she was a legend.”

a legend. that’s what kaidan is left with. and it’s not the fault of these kids, who come into the alliance with hope and an N7 dream.

“i heard she took on twenty krogan at once and lived to tell the tale —“

“twenty? more like two hundred!”

“well, i heard that she —“

their voices fade out. a legend in her own right. as she should be. as she deserves to be. after everything she did, commander shepard of the alliance is legendary.

but legends don’t wake up next to you in the morning. legends don’t dance to any tune playing in the kitchen. legends don’t insist on giving themselves haircuts because it’s quicker, don’t sleep with the bathroom light on, don’t beat vega in pull-up contests out of spite.

no, that was just shepard.

“not the time, cadets,” kaidan barks out briefly, once their bickering has turned into arguments there’s a distinct crackle of new biotic energy swirling around fingers and glowing in eyes. commander shepard is simply a passing topic, a heading of a chapter they’re forced to read about. “unless you all want to be working double duty in the bathrooms next week.”

his voice gets them grumbling. his look gets them back to attention. the day finishes like any other, and at the end of it all, kaidan makes it home. to an empty house, an empty bed, and too many gray hairs shepard didn’t get to have.

because that’s the problem, isn’t it? after all, legends don’t live to see tomorrow. that’s how they become legends.

he places two beers on the countertop. reserved for the worst days, when there’s no comfort in the photo he has at his bedside. pops them both, lets the second one fizzle.

“get some sleep, shepard,” he murmurs to it. eyes on the stars as the sun sets. “you’ve earned it.”

[monowires]

wrex's reaction to the clone takes me the fuck out every single time

[maintitle]

I don't think I've ever mentioned it, but the first time I ever played Mass Effect 3 I did the full playthrough without Garrus. I managed to save everyone on the Suicide Mission in ME2 blind except Garrus, and I didn't realize until a few days after the game launch that Garrus could survive the suicide mission. It was a very confusing experience that I pretty much rushed through because I wanted to replay the second game and fix my mistake. It's also why I think I'm a bit frustrated that there aren't more companions from ME2 in that game, because the phantom memory of a playthrough without BOTH Garrus and Javik still exists as a spectre of horror deep in my soul even after the memories have largely faded into the abyss.

[busybee217]

I HAD TO FIND OUT, ON MY FUCKING BIRTHDAY NO LESS, THAT BABY BOY MORDIN DIES CURING THE GENOPHAGE???? 😭😭😭😭