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The nostalgia is crazy!

Happy 20th anniversary of HL2, SoldierHawke. I find myself revisiting your LP series these days. Memories since 2011, I think. Dang.

I can assure you being a mindless muppet, and picking all the above and to the right options makes for a better storyline, aside from when kicking the control stick to the left for more information to fill out the Codex. But it's your play through, your way. I think there's something wrong with the Conrad story though if you do that, and you don't get to punch a reporter, and that's about it.

Boy of boy, it's rough getting police checked by seventeen different organizations from four or five different countries. Then when you find I've got three problems with contacts with the "stupid" and "On Russia's payroll." The fourth being, yes, I've played Tetris. It's like nooo. They were Spectres. Why'd your country have to go loony fixing all our tech support problems?

Trying to help Malik always makes me happy. It sometimes leads to choices contrary to my best play-style admittedly.

Hell yeah, fashion souls. Sorry you haven't been feeling well hawke. It's good to hear from you though and hope you have a full recovery soon. Part of the reason I haven't gotten into many RPGs like Mass Effect, let alone finish them, is the sheer amount of _stuff_ present. Having something like a poll certainly helps with deciding where to go. I keep forgetting to head over to patreon to see your posts there. Looking forward to seeing how this all turns out.

About the Geth...speaking of blasts from the past, have you ever read the old webcomic "Miracle of Science"?

Strange that hull patching is used as an example of something they can't get on the Flotilla, it's so much less complex than, like, electronics or something. If you can mine fuel, then the refining for metals and stuff seems like it shouldn't be that much harder. It's an odd oversight for a game that's normally pretty good about its lore, and of course a terribly minor one that I hadn't noticed until now.

The "make your own speech" thing is fun. I like that you can mix and match by line, not just like...picking wholly one speech or another, even if most people play basically all of one or two paths with little variations.

I really do like the way the first game is scripted. I always tended to do Feros first, it kind of felt like the most "starting town" of the adventures, sometimes after recruiting Liara and sometimes not. Obviously, Noveria after Liara, at least after my first playthrough and...figuring out I did those two in very much the wrong order. :P

Aha. Bt (Error log, you okay with revealing the fact that I review and reveal my own non-primary thought?)--this is much better than posting on the Deus Ex: Human Revolution page, part 20. I might actually start to enjoy watching computer acting again. This is coming out with far too much muck. Let me think for a moment, eliminate some connections (temporarily). Here's some evidence of something that I actually did, rather than something I may have imagined: contacted David Morgan Mer/Marr (again?) whilst living in a different location. I now live in Lithgow, not Wangaratta, and I am moving on down in the world, in assets. You okay with a second D&Der to hunt down and spot?

Having a rough time lately. You familar with The Voice and Mind of Gordon Freeman: Ross Scott, and Minecraft Dungeon Master Super Hostile Vechs?

42:00 Wow. What an image.

I am remembering how awkward and weird Malik's arm animations were throughout this entire game.

Never had the time to play this one but always wanted to. Looking forward to seeing more of this.

I really don't like the Spectres as a _concept_ but kind of accept they were needed for how the game wanted to work in this one. That said, I did still really like the acceptance scene and immediate follow-up like the speech to the ship's company.

I always feel like I _need_ to bring Ash to see Mr. Bhatia, at least with the follow-up.

"And yea the Enemy sent the gunship to slay the One Free Man. And the One Free Man didst run back, back to where the gunship smiter would be replenished. And the One Free Man smote the gunship mightily. And the Hawke didst rejoice as the gunship crashed and burned, crashed and burned, as the gunship crashed and burned." The Bible of Vortigaunt. Chapter "I. Hate. GUNSHIPS." Verses 19:40 - 30:12

I watched you years ago when you were playing through the half life franchise and I'm so happy your stuff started coming up on my homepage again! I've been subscribed but I guess youtube decided I wouldn't be interested in your playthroughs.... They were very wrong. Glad to see you're still uploading! I've never played this franchise but I'm excited to see it with you <3

Leave it to Hawke to turn a cool adrenaline-fueled chase sequence into a confusing save-load-fueled exercise in frustration.

oh no statue discourse

As far as the interior, I've always assumed that the Presidium may get redecorated every cycle. It might have been decorated by the Asari as much as the Protheans or anything

I was looking forward to this for a while, a nice treat after back from eclipse travel. :)

This was what originally drew me to Mass Effect as well - the background of all the races and the history and politics of it all. Ironically I never actually played the games until much later, but one of my friends was completely obsessed and I ended up looking up some videos on it.

Mass Effect is written in such a way that if you're a male Shepard, you want Ashley to survive, if a female Shepard, you want Kaidan to survive. If you're optimizing your gameplay decisions, you want Kaidan to survive. If you're after the guns and boobs, you want Benezia's boobs to look less like a hairy backside. If you have less sympathy for turians after you figure out that Nihlus, Paladin, and Garrus are the exception, and the norm actually murdered people for a law they couldn't possibly know anything about, and you feel that letting her die is letting the aliens (including biotics, which are from the aliens) win somehow, then Ashley. No wait, it's the boobs and backside.

18:00 I don't remember. I remember that Reave, Overload, and Warp are essential, and I remember that being a soldier is regarded as being the easiest class to play. I also remember having lots of fun with the sniper rifle, and more challenge when restricted to a pistol. I was also surprised at how useful Neural Shock was when I got a chance to use it. Cryo and Incendiary rounds made me squeamish, and Singularity making objects float and orbit each other was fun. A lot of the effects don't carry over from Mass Effect 1 into Mass Effect 2.

The only problem with Manuel, aside from his manager being off her rocker--'The solution to everyone who knows what they're talking about', funny--is that he said the one line you should never say, except you'll probably need to actually learn from history to do it. Never, ever, ever, say that I'm the only sane one left, unless everyone is dead, and you're in the privacy of your own home. Sane people say that they're probably crazy, or they don't know whether they're sane or not. Oh, and wouldn't it be fun if seeing the future comes hand in hand with jackass time cops that do their best to discredit people? Edit: Yes, fun. Fun. The type of fun where you want everyone having fun to just die.

'I gave him an extra dose of his meds shortly before the attack'. Why would you do this? Normally, I'm supposed to think 'Oh, yeah, that'll help', but in actual fact doubling the dosage CAUSES THE PROBLEM. You cannot overdose someone like that. I need oxygen to breathe, but I don't need several tonnes of it jammed up my backside. I need clean water to live, but I don't need distilled water (that'll actually kill anyone through dehydration, and the plants, too).

The Ashley in Mass Effect 1 and the Ashley in Mass Effect 3 are not the same personality; Mass Effect 3 kind of assumes that the only reason you keep her around is to romance her. Same goes for Kaidan, except he has a stronger personality that survives ME2. It's really awkward in the Citadel DLC with a male Shephard. I think the first time around I kept Ashley alive, and her reaction in Mass Effect 2 to joining Cerberus matches her personality, whereas it doesn't for Kaidan--Kaidan I'd expect to listen, investigate, and join the Normandy to better keep an eye on Shephard and report back to the Alliance that way.

12:00 Despite having a thorough grounding in World War 2 in Primary, I had no idea about the Pacific theater until I was moved to Tasmania, and even then I thought that the bad blood was behind us until I was moved to the Northern Territory, where Darwin got flattened. This is eighty years later, not thirty. It's more that Pressly has PTSD rather than racism--those who live with those with PTSD in turn get PTSD. Before moving to the Northern Territory and being shown that this was real, not an internet-thing, I had less sympathy.

Try Dragon Age 2. I enjoyed it, and couldn't get into Dragon Age: Origins much. The main character's name is Hawke. Mass Effect's combat was great for me, actually. There was less of the hide-behind-cover and more spray and pray, and let your shields and armour (or squad) take the damage. I think my shooter video game only combat experience went Halo to Gears of War (learn how to throw a grenade again) to Half-Life to Mass Effect, with Halo being my first (and so it took months to point the rifle in the right direction), and Gears of War being an oddity with the chainsaws and grenades (I died to the tutorial).

Haha! This mod certainly takes a page out of id's labyrinthine level design. I admit I got stuck really good at one point, maybe twice. I adore its monolithic chunkiness :)

You are the first person I've run into who has actually said they preferred Kaiden.

Ashley is...more interesting (than her common fandom reduction) in this game if you run through all her dialogue, but I also generally choose Kaidan. In future games, I don't actually know if she's interesting or not since she's barely in ME2, and as noted I've never played 3 myself.

One definitely has the best game feel of the Mass Effects I've played myself. Two has much less interesting world in a lot of ways, with all the Cerberus stuff and the main plot, and much more corridor-shooter gunplay, but the character missions and the squad generally make up for it...mostly until the end. And then I never bothered playing ME3, because at the time I was broke and playing them like on a two-year delay when they got cheap, and by the time it was two years after ME3 I was exhausted by the concept of Cerberus suddenly everywhere and winning all the time, and all that. I watched the bits I was interested in on Spoiler Warning or other shows, and called it a series.

Always subtitles. I can read them while listening to you.

Mass Effect is one of my fave series of all times I would love to see a full playthrough! (and this is me putting my vote in to save Ashley)

Having the different armor types was nice...but they did look silly a lot of the time. Having to go through and make sure everyone had the best possible guns and armor and stuff in ME1 was a chore, but not having to make sure everyone had a nice warm sweater and snow pants before you went on missions in 2 did feel like it lacked something as far as why you should be looting and going to stores.

I appreciate the subtitles being on for this.

I still love love love the intro to this game.

The G-Man (and Barney, and many other characters) was voiced by Michael Shapiro. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shapiro_(actor)

Seasonally appropriate videos are always good.

Good to see you continuing this! Keep up the good work. I wish I'd remembered last time that it was possible to continue without the tram from where you were stuck - I would have mentioned it and maybe saved you some replaying.

You know, it's crazy, I rarely leave comments because I'm just that type of viewer but I've been watching you for half my life now (pun not intended). It's cool the way you upload kind of rarely, because your videos are always a nice surprise, the way they pop up when I'm not expecting. It's always a strangley nostalgic escape watching your videos, because I've changed so much since I started watching your half life lets play at the age of 12, and I l've been through a lot. I have many fond memories of watching your lets plays throughout different stages of my life, like childhood and xmas, which has offered escapes throughtout othertimes like addiction and depression. I'm not the only one either, i bet there's plenty sielnt viewers just like me.

8:18 that cockatiel sounds like it's catcalling you

I wonder if he's ever appealed to teachers about this. I know in the states the book is "banned" but at least in Canada over a decade ago, 1984 was a part of the High School cirriculum. Having a playable version of that book might help teachers engage their students in the work.

This is a bit of a tangent, but you mentioned Talos Principle and the upcoming Talos Principle II. Have you played that? I'd be really interested in your thoughts on it, it's one my wife and I enjoy and have replayed several times.

I think your commentary is what inspired me to pick up the book in the first place, and it seems like my kind of game. A slow cerebral burn. I'm in. I mean, a literature aficionado with a penchant for Laidlaw and Orwell before the fact? I honestly, truly couldn't imagine anyone better to pick up and play Half-Life. Happy to do so. It's the least I could do.

Ouch. That thing where Hawke realizes at the end of an episode she (and a bad tram run end point) soft-locked herself twenty minutes ago with two minutes left in the episode....that'll be fun to fi in Part 2. I had a suspicion, but...ouch, the level design shouldn't have allowed that I think.