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Aces High posted:dang, I must've never made a Shepard with the background where your mom's still around, I'm seeing new content for a game I've owned for over a decade I think Spacer is my favourite background for Shep because it's the only one where their family is still alive. Helps make it feel like they're not just alone in the universe out there in a way.
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it may just have been that I didn't travel back to the Citadel often enough to unlock that sidequest as well. Until 2020, I just had the trilogy for PS3 and the load times for ME1 are loving atrocious, so after my 3rd Shep, I just tried to avoid as much travel as possible whenever playing ME1. That, and I played a LOT of ME3 MP. A LOT
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Aces High posted:dang, I must've never made a Shepard with the background where your mom's still around, I'm seeing new content for a game I've owned for over a decade There's nothing big, but I'm definitely running into some ways to resolve quests I've never tried before. One mod, I'm not sure if it's the LE1 Community patch or the LE1 Diversification project (probably the latter), is moving some of the Citadel NPCs around, like Conrad or Emily. They appear in spots that perhaps make slightly more sense now, it's fun. I can't really get used to seeing the funky hairstyles the Diversification project introduces, though.
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 Tammy meets the Peak 15 workforce and heads down into the Hot Labs to catch the sexy but evil Benezia. After editing this, I googled What Is Up With Benezia's Weird Teeth. I kind of wonder if she might've been a character that was designed very early on, which is why she only has a row of bottom teeth and they're gigantic. She has like four teeth total.
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Is there anyway to prevent ventralis from killing everyone?
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Feb 12, 2024 22:58
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coleman francis posted:Is there anyway to prevent ventralis from killing everyone? Beyond "just don't visit the Hot Labs"? No.
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coleman francis posted:Is there anyway to prevent ventralis from killing everyone? On my first attempt to record Noveria (where I found out I hadn't started my recording software), I misremembered that Benezia IS in the Hot Labs, but by going through the back way, you take a safer route, so I never caused him to kill everyone. Second time through, I immediately went to the Hot Labs since that's the first thing he suggests, and came back to find everyone dead. It's set up kind of weirdly.
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there is a way to keep Ventralis on your side the whole time, you just have to save the Hot Labs for after you visit Benezia
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They also make it so that if you DO get everyone on Peak 15 killed 1) it doesn't matter gameplay wise, and 2) you don't feel bad about it because everyone on Peak 15 was an rear end in a top hat involved on bad science poo poo for bad people and they all deserve to die. gently caress Peak 15. All my space racist homies hate Peak 15. Okay, maybe the Elcor shopkeeper dude. HE didn't deserve to die, but everyone else did.
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 Fresh from her Noveria adventure, Tammy evaluates the crew, throws The Enemy Of The People a bone, and finishes up her business on the Citadel.
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The Expanse on the History Channel got a big laugh out of me. Thanks for all the extra effort you're putting in to showcase these games.
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I saw a show on the history channel that said it was the protheans that built the pyramids at Teotihuacan! It just makes sense!
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coleman francis posted:I saw a show on the history channel that said it was the protheans that built the pyramids at Teotihuacan! It just makes sense! 
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who's the Turian that was staring at nothing? Is that a dig at ignoring Garrus?
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Aces High posted:who's the Turian that was staring at nothing? Is that a dig at ignoring Garrus? Yeah. I figured it would get annoying to show in the videos, but it's kind of silly when you don't recruit Garrus and return to the Citadel after each mission, and you see him still standing there like a sad sack, hoping you'll cave.  Tammy remembers she should probably check in with that distress call from Admiral Kahoku, and checks with an asteroid that's flying towards a human colony at an alarming speed.
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Geez, Tom Arnold isn't THAT bad.
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wow, I forgot how much of a wet blanket Kaiden is. Then again, the overarching story of Mass Effect is that "Shepard was right, everyone else is wrong (except in Mass Effect 2 where TIM is also right?!)" and that this isn't a time to be tip-toeing around
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Aces High posted:wow, I forgot how much of a wet blanket Kaiden is. Then again, the overarching story of Mass Effect is that "Shepard was right, everyone else is wrong (except in Mass Effect 2 where TIM is also right?!)" and that this isn't a time to be tip-toeing around I've come to appreciate Kaidan a bit more as a guy with a dramatic moment in his past, that came out healthy instead of letting it screw him up. That's unusual in fiction. Though his dialogue is written very tediously with constant bland metaphors and figures of speech. He could use more of an edge. I'd hoped to get a bit more appreciation for Ashley in this playthrough where I'm hanging out with the two of them constantly, but while I think Ashley's bigoted tendencies get overblown... she's such a drag with the poetry and God stuff, man. 
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iirc Kaidan does "harden" if you choose him to be your Virmire survivor, but I've never romanced him before so I didn't realise how comparatively "soft" he is in ME1. Hardness and softness aren't great descriptors, but considering that he is working under a Spectre, he was ground zero at Eden Prime and KNOWS Saren is responsible for all of the things we have accused him of (even going so far as to voice protest while on the Citadel) it almost feels like he was turned into a mouthpiece here instead of continuing being the character he had been and will be. Granted, I'd probably have to see the alternative responses he has if you aren't full-steam ahead Make Earth Great Again, because these ones just feel like a different person
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Time to clean up all those pesky sidequests left, before Tammy goes to save the universe. In this compilation, Tammy cleans up some geth bases and some husk-infected outposts, fumbles the two missions you get when you max out your alignment scores, saves some space marines from the Rachni (one of my favorite missions), and hunts down the dregs of Cerberus to avenge admiral Kahoku. Next week, the penultimate video before the endgame.
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when playing through ME1, I never really understand why they decided to make Cerberus such a big organization, one that is capable of bringing Shepard back from the dead and rebuilding the Normandy into a bigger, better version. It's like how every Star Trek series after DS9 took away the wrong message about Section 31
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I like how the games inadvertently(?) show that racists miss out on life and spread misery.
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Aces High posted:when playing through ME1, I never really understand why they decided to make Cerberus such a big organization, one that is capable of bringing Shepard back from the dead and rebuilding the Normandy into a bigger, better version. It's like how every Star Trek series after DS9 took away the wrong message about Section 31 I still think it would've been way better to have the geth rebuild Shepard. At least you can imagine they might have preposterous technology developed in secrecy and isolation. Time for the big moment: let's hit Virmire.  I mention the Virmire Survivor mod in this video, I haven't actually tried it out myself. I figured it just cut surreptitiously around the deaths of either Ashley or Kaidan, just cutting out moments of dialogue that would affirm either's fate. But then I saw this video last week, that briefly covers the post-mission briefing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr1_YnHUQ-I The comments say it's done with unused dialogue already present in the game, no voice synthesis, Bioware just decided it sucked out the drama if you could save both. I'm just very tickled by the crew doing the equivalent of "*sudden cut* Brilliant Baldrick, how you pulled that off, I'll never know."
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Time to end this little game. Tammy bypasses the Council, heads to Ilos, and chases Saren back to the Citadel for the final confrontation. And that's it for Mass Effect 1! Despite the ending message, I don't expect I'll be covering Mass Effect 2. I had fun making these, but I've gotten the impression nobody really liked the gimmick for my Shepard but me. Right now I'm working on an LP of a different game, so if that works out, you'll see it in a couple of weeks. Thanks for your attention, we'll talk later.
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I had a great time, as much as some (all) of Tammy's decisions made me wince. I always love your edits and commentary. "Pathetic" had me cackling. Thanks for the LP! ...really wish there was a "shoot udina in the face" option at the end.
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Thanks for the great LP! It's been a lot of fun seeing this old game from a different perspective.
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Sorry for barging into a thread like this to ask a dumb question. I bought ME:LE shortly before christmas when it was on sale for £5. I played 1+2 to death when they first came out but I was one of those 'No Steam, No sale!' guys and refused to install Origin so ME3 is a bit new to me. Is there any place online where I can find a guide to what the best weapons for different characters are? It's cool that my Infiltrator can now use assault rifles instead of just SMGs but I want to know what weapons I should be spending my credits on -I don't think I can buy them all. I'll never waste money on shotguns.
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Valko posted:Sorry for barging into a thread like this to ask a dumb question. That's a shame. Shotgun infiltrator is hilarious. You know those invisible geth dudes that sneak around your cover and blast you to pieces? That's you now, but better.
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FoolyCharged posted:That's a shame. Shotgun infiltrator is hilarious. You know those invisible geth dudes that sneak around your cover and blast you to pieces? That's you now, but better. There are geth in ME3? It's been over a decade since I played and i only played through it once. It's almost like a new game - I don't remember everything but I have a fair idea. It's not like other games from the era like Skyrim/New Vegas - which I have played start to finish several times over. Don't want to spoil anything. Bye thread!
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There's still a good Mass Effect thread going in Games if you're looking for advice: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3957741
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davidspackage posted:There's still a good Mass Effect thread going in Games if you're looking for advice: Thanks.
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Thanks for the LP. It was cool to see how the LE version looks (complete with mods and stuff) A pity we won't get to see the continuing adventures of Tammy Shepard. I'd be curious how she's supposed to suddenly be friendly with people she straight up ignored in this game 
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I warmed to the gimmick, it was interesting seeing such a confrontational play through after I tried so hard in my own to speak to everyone and do all of their lame little side quests.
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I might come back to it eventually, but I think I'd play a bit in advance to see if it turns out funny. ME2 specifically feels like a game thst assumes you're already friends with all of these wonderful aliens and will be difficult to roleplay as a bigot. But I do have a bunch of mods for that one as well I'm curious to see in action. We'll see! But again, thanks for watching.
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