It’s a small one but I think it makes the scene that much more... if you ask Mordin to sing in ME2, in his final moments, he’ll sing “scientist salarian,” but if you don’t, he makes an entirely different comment.
You can kill the last 3 squadmates too in the final mission too. 1. Keep your war assets as low as possible. 2. Bring James and Liara to the final mission. If youre war assets our low enough theyll get vaporized by Harbinger. 3. Choose the Destroy ending which will kill all synthentics including EDI 4. Do some soul searching as you are a horrible person.
**Alliance takes control of the Normandy and begins refit** "Sir, just forewarning, there's a lot of mineral resources stored onboard. Like... a lot." "How much could there possibly b... JESUS THAT'S A LOT OF METAL."
I gotta mention that an engineer shepard ONLY gets a special reaction command during the climax of the omega mission dlc in 3. When Shep is supposed to hack something normally it takes time. But if Shep is an angineer you can speed up the process with some fun dialogue about how it 'would've been hard if i was some grunt'
There's also some special dialogue in, you guessed it, the Citadel DLC. If Shepard is an engineer and mentions hacking the casino security, Brooks mentions that she forgot you were and engineer rather than the typical dialogue.
I realized a few months ago that it's actually possible to finish the game with no party members. By finish I mean post-game epilogue. Basically you can plan out the game to the point where the only people you have left at the end are Vega, Liara and EDI. If you have really low war assets, and bring in Liara and Vega, they can both get blasted by a reaper during the final charge to the space elevator and die. Then, if you pick destroy, you kill EDI, too, resulting in no party members being left alive at the end.
Do you know if anyone's actually done that? And, if so, did they wait until after it all to do the Citadel DLC??? (Is that even *possible* to do with no squad left??????)
When you do the last mission the game completely ends. So you wouldn't be able to do the Citadel DLC at that point. So it looks like it would be just those 3 and Joker I guess.
The smallest possible Citadel party invite list is Cortez, James, EDI, Joker, Traynor, and Liara. When initiating the final mission, you can get Cortez killed, then Liara and James. After picking the "destroy" option, the only people to survive at the very, very end will be Traynor and Joker. However, you can also walk away from the construct, which initiates a fourth ending resulting in the death of every sentient living and synthetic being in the galaxy, including Joker, Traynor and EDI.
@@ilovejettrooper5922 look up a video on YT titled: "Mass Effect Trilogy: Almost all squad members die" for a nearly flawless genocide playthrough. The only thing the video doesn't include is wiping out the heretics in ME2, and killing the rachni Queen in ME1, but they and everything else dies anyway by the end. Great video.
@@paulroche6969 I was wondering what the extended cut would look like in such a scenario, I guess Joker and Traynor are on the crashed Normandy and put Shepard's name on the memorial wall?
Things that you might not know: Me: "Yeah, right" Gamespot: "If you have Wreav in charge, he'll do this." Me: "Yeah, okay, fair enough, I've never made the mistake of letting Wrex die."
@@yozul1 its absolutely hysterical because if you cheat on her me3 she will 100% call you out on it and shepard will just flounder trying to say something.
I randomly got that one. My friends said I was lying back then. Transferred to playstation abd bought the trilogy. Part 2 starts you off with a renegade playthrough of the first game and I ended up with 1 file where Mordan was alive. They also said I was lying... Lol
depending on how nice or mean you were to them, they can have different dialog in death. they will either be hostile or apologetic about the situation.
@@SoldierGeneral64 I've never seen kaidens hostile dialog, but I have seen Ashley be both hostile, where she basically calls shepard a traitor and hopes the reapers drag him to hell, and where she apologetic and states basically that she had to take a stand.
Keeping Wrex alive, then playing through to ME3 and betraying him by sabotaging the cure leads to him finding out and trying to kill you on the Citadel, a moment which I thought was pretty rare: because if you're playing full Renegade the odds are that Wreav is in charge of the Krogans.
theres actually another tidbit born of this. if you betray Wrex, then it will be kirahi (i know, I butchered that spelling) who is leading the troops on earth in the last mission, and if you also got him killed, it will be a random salarian leading them.
If you went full renegade, you should have access to the intimidate dialogue option to keep Wrex alive. If you skipped recruiting Garrus (that's possible- go to Barla Von, speak to Wrex, go straight to Fist: Garrus will offer to join by the elevator but you can refuse) and haven't done Liara's mission yet, Wrex automatically backs down, too.
@@jamesherb4384 I never said you couldn't. OP said it was unlikely a full renegade run would keep Wrex alive. I noted a full Renegade run would actually give Shepard the resources to keep him alive easily. Paragon shep is irrelevant to the conversation.
@@YourCrazyDolphin Fair point on Shep having the resources to keep Wrex alive, but I'd like to point out that it garners more Renegade points to kill Wrex than Intimidate him (25 versus 9). So, depending on your definition of "full Renegade run", a full Renegade run could require Wrex dying even if you definitely could have talked him down.
What an ending, it made me think of a version of Shepard mixed with Zap Brannigan and with EDI saying "Shepard, every mission with you is a suicide mission".
If you bring Legion to the Flotilla in ME2, you witness some very intriguing court scenes. The Quarians are even more hostile towards Tali. You have to do some missions in a specific order for you to be able to take Legion on Tali’s loyalty mission.
There’s actually tons of dialogue relating to legion you can’t normally hear. Supposedly he was supposed to be accessible as a crewmate immediately, then they moved it further into the game, but left the old voice lines
Yeah: have Tali loyalty mission active, do the derelict Reaper mission, activate Legion, when the first conversation with Legion ends and he states that he needs your aid don't start his dialog, do Tali loyalty mission with Legion and then do his loyalty mission. Assuming you did all other loyalty missions and upgraded the Normandy you have all the things necessary you can launch the suicide mission and save the whole crew.
@@tacoman736 For some added information, in the initial builds of the game, supposedly all of the squadmates were supposed to be recruit-able from the start. However, Xbox 360 couldn't handle the size, so the game had to be split onto two disks which subsequently resulted in our half now, half later recruitment regiment we got in the released product. Whilst PC did not have the same problem, in order to maintain continuity across the versions of the game it was subjected to the same split recruitment. As a result it's not limited to just Legion, there's a few lines regarding Tali that make it clear she used to be recruit-able before garrus, jack and the Horizon mission.
Even worse is that she's a plain phantom with a bit of dialogue. For a character like Jack to be reduced to that hurts a bit. Even though it's just a game.
On Mordin's Survival: This is what I love about Bioware (or what Bioware used to be, pre-EA). The simple fact that they thought of this rare outcome, and put in stuff to cover it, shows how deeply they thought about the story of the game. So a big 'Thumbs Up!" for pointing out stuff I would have never known about otherwise ^_^
It involves some save manipulation but bringing Legion on Tali's recruitment mission when Reger says "There is a Geth right behind you!" is hilarious. Also bringing Legion to the Flotilla is great.
Actually its possible in vanilla mass effect because you can put off Tali's recruitment until AFTER getting the IFF and Legion, which makes me wonder if you can beat mass effect 2 and THEN recruit Tali... Time to make another Shepard, MIRANDA FIRE UP THE CLONING MACHINE!
@@nicolasdecarpentier9047 but what if you just, don't go get Tali in the first place. Leave her alone on that planet she's on until after the suicide mission.
I love that you can actually follow up on Sahara as a romance option in Citadel. It’s such a rare thing - you probably tried in ME2, failed, and romanced someone else, but in Citadel she actually remembers and decides to go with it. So few people would even know that’s a possibility.
I love Mordin and hes one of my favourite characters, I would have loved to have him survive but it makes such a good ending for his story to die curing the genophage.
Stuff like this makes me facepalm every time people say your choices in mass effect don't matter because of 3's ending. FFS people, what other series gives a shit about WHETHER OR NOT YOU DID A COLLECTION QUEST IN THE FIRST GAME. The journey matters too, not just the destination.
The issue being that the destination is unsatisfying. At the end of the day, to get the "best" ending, you just have to have enough military points and select "Destroy". The actual ending of the game doesn't take into effect ANYTHING you did in any of the games. If you didn't get any of the war assets from previous games there is still MORE than enough to gather in just ME3 that you can max out the Assets bar which basically means that nothing you did in previous games mattered to the ending of the series, so to speak.
My favorite and not well knowns ME moments (that aren't even in this video) are these: 1: blood pack krogan shooting a vorcha's head off if you take grunt to Archangel recruitment mission and make a renegade dialog choice 2: Grunt asking if anyone's hungry when passing burning corpses at the beginning of Mordin's recruitment mission. This is why I 've recruited Grunt first and Garrus second in three playthroughs already.
its one of the reasons I can never play renegade properly. its just. too brutal, especially when there is another way with objectively better outcomes.
Do it but do it to save him... In reality it is for the best. With Eve and Wrex you can only be sure the Krogan will have good leadership for one (albeit a very long given the long lifespan of Krogans) generation which will allow them to expand and repopulate well... After Wrex and Eve eventually die you will have the Krogan Rebellion 2.0 once more the fast breeding, long living, hard to kill, hyper aggressive Krogan will become the dominant force in the galaxy by any means necessary. It is best to cull them and trick them at the cost of Wrex... You save Mordin and stop a future war. The genophage keeps the Krogan contained and the post Reaper War numbers will prevent them from being more than a powerful splinter species.
@@chrisf2615 You're assuming that that outcome is a guarantee, rather than a possibility. That mindset is why genocide happens, period. Don't be _that_ guy. No matter how you try to slice it, genocide is wrong. "But they'll be monsters!" You committed genocide; who's the _real_ monster?
I think BioWare did that romance cut scene with James so badly because in reality you can't force somebody to like your ass. lol jokes on the fans for Forcing something like that
My favourite little detail is that there is a spot on one of the uncharted planets in Mass Effect 1 where you can hear the Rachni ”musics”, an example of how it sounds when they communicate.
The James scene in the Citadel DLC just makes me..sad. Like, James respects Shep and isn’t interested and the fact that Shep ruined that admiration for one night maaan.. why was it added 😭😭
I never bothered doing either one but it is my understanding that the only way to have the one night stand with Javik is to have never romanced anyone in any of the games, not at all. Too much trouble.
dunno if this really counts, but if you haven’t romanced anyone in me2, mordin will assume you have the hots for him-and who can blame him, when even aria couldn’t resist him!
My very first playthrough of the trilogy almost 9 years ago, I stumbled to the scenario where the Salarian counselor dies and Udina tries to frame Shepard. I never could replicate it on later playthroughs, though, even when trying. Thanks for explaining how I got there!
How about the fact that you can totally bypass recruiting Garrus in ME1? He joins up in the other games regardless, but you get special dialog when you meet him in ME2.
I've watched ME1 speedruns where they don't get Garrus, Wrex, or Liara, but I didn't know it had special dialogue. But other than speedrunners, who tf doesn't want Garrus?
you can do ME1 with only recruiting liara. cant do it without her cos you have to nuke one of the humans and always need a full party available but i love that you can do a minimalist run.
@@sliceofsparta8985 hold on, aren't you required to recruit either wrex or garrus in order to go after fist? tali is a mandatory party member, but you'd still be required to have at least one more because of the way virmire is set up.
You can keep Mordin around and then cure the genophage through Synthesis, and there's a different line in the epilogue for curing the genophage that way.
Conrad winds up tying together so many of those side missions from Mass Effect 1. When he offers to prove his doctoral dissertation, he contacts Gavin Hossle for a copy of some alien tech schematics he can apply his theories towards. Hossle will only send the scematics if Shepard helped Gavin on Feros. Then, you need the ancient Asari writings to translate the schematics (as mentioned in the video). Lastly, Conrad's omti-tool refuses to analyze the alien tech because it falls under an existing patent held by Elkoss Combine. It can only be accessed if Shepard bought the Elkoss Combine amory license in Mass Effect 1 for Normandy's requisition officer. He only survived because I happened to do the mission saving Jenna from having to be a spy in Chora's Den.
A funny moment for me was having hooked up with Jack in ME2 she brings it up when you rescue her and her students. She asks Shepard if he was trying to bang her up against a wall again and Liara was in my party and my current choice to romance.
Wow, I didn't know about most of these. I do try to complete everything, and keep everyone alive, though. But there is one optional sidequest in ME1 that wasn't mentioned. You have to get some sort of trinket (I think from the Asari consort on the Citadel), and take it to a distant planet. There's some sort of statue that you come across, that you can put the trinket into. There's then a text pop up that tells you Shepard sees a vision where primitive people have been given cranial implants by an advanced alien race. I came across it by accident on a 2nd playthrough, and was pleasantly surprised, but also a bit let down that they didn't make this small story into an actual cutscene (probably due to time/budget).
Yeah I know the one. I think that they tried to tie it in though with Javik bluntly describing how the Protheans "uplifted" the Asari through genetic engineering when he's in the squad with Liara when you do Operation: Thessia in ME3 (it's been a while since I played but I think that's the quest). He's super harsh (awesome) when she was just trying to introduce Asari folklore as I recall!
I got most of these moments in my first ME3 playthough, I hadn't played any of the previous games and didn't know about save importing. I had absolutely no idea what was going on.
I didn't realize she was gonna be a party member on my first playthrough, so I did her mission last and then just thought she was supposed to be that crazy lol
I don't think of it as a choice between The Krogan Species and Mordin, I think of it as choosing between Wrex and Mordin, and sorry, but Wrex is one of my favorites, and I love his interactions with Tali, "you're like the crazy headbutting uncle I never had"
This is cool to see. I had no idea about Jack and them being turned into enemies and all that. This game still has surprises even after so many play throughs
I watched a blind play-through recently and the player asked if you ever find out about Liara's father. Someone in the chat said no. I have been wondering if this is something that is easily missed. Well, you do find out about her father. The hint starts in ME2 and confirmed in ME3.
You can actually talk to her father on citadel as well. Was surprised I had missed it so many times before. You can convince her to talk to her father and she tells you she already knew who her father is. Was interesting because early on in the game she says she didn't know who her father was.
In ME2, if you recruit Legion before doing Tali recruit mission and bring him on the mission, Kal'Reegar will tell you "You've got a geth, right behind you."
Holy cow. I knew other people had done it too, but y'all did a Livestream series, I'm blown away. I personally called it the Worst Case Scenario run. I did it to see how bad the 'verse could get. Never had the heart to record it. Kudos
Oh my God. I got the confusing Liara moment the first time I played Mass Effect, and I didn't understand that was because I'd done the other story missions first. I was so confused the next time I played through Mass Effect 1 and thought I was misremembering the scene!
there is a rare enough outcome if you help the consort in me:1 with both the general and the elcor ambassador she gives you a trinket that enables interaction with a prothean sphere on one of the worlds ,I don't remember which, that acts like another beacon and tells you about protheans kidnapping a caveman and studying them and then returning them to earth
@@christineherrmann205 to be honest you should give it a chance is a farly good movie that even my dad liked (and he havent even played the games ) But long story short Vega it put on difficult position of either rescuing a bunch a colonists (he been taking care for 2 years) from the collectors or and asari that had some vital intelligence from the collectors that could help stop them for good, asari that he had been in love for the better part of thoses 2 years Only to then realize that the Intel was next to worthless since right around that time Sheppard was kicking the collectors at their own base
@@darkhope97 oh, I know the backstory; I thought there was something else I'd missed. I don't see that as getting in the way if a relationship, though that may be because I'm writing one with all that backstory included.
@@christineherrmann205 well he probably still feels the guilt of his choice and that given that he might have chosen tria just for his feelings but then rationalize it with the collector data (that proved to be uselees)
@@darkhope97 they play up that he's still haunted by his choice, but he flirts like heck with Femshep; it doesn't seem like he blames Shepard past that first sparring bout where it's clear he's still upset. He obviously goes to Shepard about the N7 invite and cares what they think overall. I don't see the issue. Then again, none of this changes the fact that what Bioware did with the 'romance' is thinly-veiled (if even) sexual harassment. I mean, come right down to it, Shepard shouldn't be romancing Alenko, Williams, Cortez, OR Vega.
I really liked what he said at the end about choice in Mass Effect and the Citadel DLC. Pretty much no one made it to that point with almost all the team dead but the fact that it’s possible really is amazing. I could never ever shoot Mordin or sabotage the cure and stop him from sacrificing himself but the fact that you can do that really is mind blowing to me.
I don't think this is as rare as I think it is, but it's a class-specific option in the Omega DLC. If you are an Engineer, in the area of the power junction of the game after you get separated from Aria and Nyreen, there's a paragon interrupt when trying to figure out whether to cut the power to the station. The Interrupt allows the Engineer class to bypass the power and save lives with little to no cost whatsoever. The last time I played on the PS3 I was an engineer and got to experience this option and I found it to be the best option available.
I accidentally did the whole Conrad/Dissertation thing in my MEL playthrough. That was cool, I'm usually pretty tough on Conrad, so it was neat to have stumbled into it accidentally
I don't know how rare it is, but it seems like not many people I've talked to know about the bits of dialog you get if you bring Liara and Javik on the mission to the Asari homeworld in ME3. Basically as you're looking at the various relics in the building at the start of the mission, Liara will explain the why they're significant to Asari mythology, and then Javik will pipe up to explain what actually happened. Like Liara talks about how the Goddess used her shield to defend the ancient Asari from a falling star, and Javik goes "Well, we'd put a lot of effort into developing you, and redirecting the asteroid wasn't THAT hard."
i did that option, as it seemed sensible at the time. Just loved how Jaavik was practically ripping apart all of the Asari beliefs (not in a deliberately hurtful way) but was like "yeah, that was us"
In my last playthrough I met the conditions for the salarian counciler to die, to then see the dead councilor alive and well at Thanes memorial in the citadel dlc.
There is unique dialogue in ME3 citadel if you kill everyone. When certain characters are missing other ones have to fill their place and say different things. See big dan gaming's video on this
I didn’t cure the genophage but I let the Krogan think I did which I always thought was really F’d up. Just imagine a decade down the road when they still aren’t having babies and they realize how much of a betrayal I pulled. But it still wasn’t as bad as when I accidentally committed genocide against the Quarians after spending all of the other games trying to save them and the geth. I stopped paying attention for a second and a prompt came up so I hit A real quick and then the cutscene started with the geth just massacring them. I sat in horror watching it unfold knowing my previous save was about 7 hours before. So that was their fate.
This is why when I play games like this For example I still didn't played Cyberpunk more than 2 hours and wait for more patches possibly DLC. That is why on my first playtrough I jist do spur of the moment decisions without any walktroughs how would I act or this character would act and and see where it leads me
Mass Effect is in my top 3 game series of all time recently beat them all 3 for the first time and it left me in awe THE ONLY complaint I have is not being able to see what happens after Shepherd wakes up in the end does he make it back to Tali???? An have the drink with Garris?!
One my most regretted moments in my playthrough was when I faked the genophage cure while wrex was alive. He attacks you on the citadel and you have to kill him.
In Baldurs gate, it’s expansion and sequel BioWare scattered 3 pairs of special underwear that if combined in the last game made an overpowered robot suit
What I love about mass effect is all the little difference and details like if you bring certain members to certain cutscenes or quests like bringing Javik to Thessia on ME3, he has unique and funny dialogue that confuses Liara when you get to the Artifact building.
Two things: I always preferred Ashley as she actually has a character arc. Kaiden is just... there. Second thing is that the Genophage isn't a genocidal virus. It stops the Krogans from breeding quickly to prevent another uprising. It keeps the Krogan population at a steady number. Theoretically. It doesn't work out because a lot of Krogan leave Tuchanka to be mercenaries or whatever. That's why the Krogans are in decline
There is an ending where Mordin can live with Wrex alive. If this happens Wrex turns on you on the citadel. He is killed by Bailey and you do not get Krogan support for the war effort in ME3.
the only way that is possible is to not recuite wrex at all in mass effect one, in which case he would not arrive at the citadel to target you. if wrex is leading the krogan, then even if eve dies, mordin cannot be convinced to sabotage the cure.
If it wasn't part of the mass effect series it probably would be as hated as it is. It wasn't a perfect game but it was pretty good. Agreed, Fantastic combat!
Samara was always romancable. However her's did depend on alignment a bit, as if you are too far into Renegade as Shepard, she will turn you down in 2.
@@PhoenixOfArcadia Samara actually wasent fully romanacable till citadel. In Mass Effect two she may take your affections positively or negatively but ultimately turn you down. Citadel let's you solidify the romance if positively recieved in Mass Effect 2.
You can also "use" Kirrahe when Thane is alive, for that you have to ignore him in the hospital. That way you dont get thane as a war asset (I think.. its been a while) and Kirrahe jumps in. Also, just want to mention that I love that the salarians look sooo much better than humans in ME1. Its the equivalent to drawing amazing dragons but never get those damn human eyes right :D
Morden Living is a cornerstone of a ME Trilogy renegade run for me since Urdnot Wreav is too stupid to discover you didn't cure the Genophage so you can get all the Krogan and Salarian War assets. Also Confused Liara was my first interaction with her during my first ME run back in 2008/09ish XD.
Few random rare moments: -If you're diligent about visiting your crew often (and you sided with Gabby over Ken in an argument earlier) you can find the engineers kissing in the engineering sublevel before the final fight. -The adorable Tali/Garrus romance where you find them smooching in the battery before the final battle -Related to Mordin Lives, but he sends you an audiolog of sorts, and you find out that he broke Omega's 1 Rule in more than one way
yeah i played trough me3 three times at least with the remastered collection perhaps 4, but most likely 3 and it was the first time i happend to notice the thing with Gabby and Ken. Because this time i went after every main mission or even side mission to talk to the companions and so on to see if the had something to say.
Mass Effect is my favorite video game series, and 3 is my favorite game. I've played through the entire series multiple times, and I didn't know about any of these. Wanna know why? I'M NOT A MONSTER
Idk if it counts as a "scene", but in ME1, you can get a bauble from the Asari consort, which can activate a dormant Prothean (or possibly Reaper) beacon.
Yoooooooooo so I didn't have the Citadel DLC pre-LE, and knew you could have a one night stand with Vega but had no idea it was completely non-consensual. What the actual hell BioWare?
Sad when the only coming game of any real interest is an old one. I am glad ME is getting redone for the better consoles. I hope it is the beginning of many older games being remade since the game companies can't seem to remember what makes a good game.
Made a playthrough the full intention was to complete the trilogy and get the most amount of companions killed during the franchise (make it a point to get them killed in ME3 not ME2) gave my Shepard the Colonist background as well as sole survivor military record by the end of it my Shepard was all to eager for death
You can in fact get Liara, James and EDI killed, but it's not until near the end of Priority: Earth and requires a very low EMS to occur. The can be killed by Harbinger on the run to the portal. In theory, with the aformentioned conditions, you can actually get every squadmate killed if you count EDI dying in the epilogue due to the Destroy ending killing synthetics
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It’s a small one but I think it makes the scene that much more... if you ask Mordin to sing in ME2, in his final moments, he’ll sing “scientist salarian,” but if you don’t, he makes an entirely different comment.
I actually like the standard dialogue better than the song at that moment.
@@roadjcat same here!
Ah yes, glad to see Gilbert and Sullivan still exists hundreds of years into the future
@@mojo_joju can’t beat Modern Major General xD especially its duality in meaning
I never fail to explore all dialogue options so this is surprising to me
You can kill the last 3 squadmates too in the final mission too.
1. Keep your war assets as low as possible.
2. Bring James and Liara to the final mission. If youre war assets our low enough theyll get vaporized by Harbinger.
3. Choose the Destroy ending which will kill all synthentics including EDI
4. Do some soul searching as you are a horrible person.
What about Jaavik ? :p
there is some recording left by protean soldiers that you can find
if you give it to him, he'll get all nostalgic and end up killing himself.
@@Saidor570 You may skip DLC From The Ashes to never wake him up resulting in his absence
Eh, you’ll be dead too.
don't forget that Cortez definitely dies in the shuttle crash 🧍🏽♀️ so that's four whole characters
Liara: *After spending the entire game on Therum* Whew, I’m glad that’s over. I should really give my mother a call and tell her I’m alright.
Oh no... ... ... That's so cruel, ja, ja, ja.
wrex: "your mom died by the hand of Shepard"
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite comment on the Citadel.
**Alliance takes control of the Normandy and begins refit**
"Sir, just forewarning, there's a lot of mineral resources stored onboard. Like... a lot."
"How much could there possibly b... JESUS THAT'S A LOT OF METAL."
The Alliance should be glad that those Mineral cover the cost of refitting Normandy. Hell, they can even sells those minerals for extra revenues.
Heavy Metal
WHO ALLOWED OZZY OSBOURNE ON MY SHIP?!?!
"Really, Commander?"
"Haaaah, Probing Uranus."
?????????
does this actually play out in the game?
can't believe these comments aren't all about baldspot Shepard. i am amazed and horrified.
Looks like this Shepard lied about his birthdate in the recruitment documents)
Hey that’s Baldwin shepherd you’re talking about. He enjoys killing his squad members
Every video about how to kill everyone in Mass Effect trilogy features a bald Shepard
That party photo will haunt me for a while…
@@Ultra_Hlebus Its not the years its the mileage. :)
"Originally this video was very long"
Give me that video!
X2
@@darkhope97 X3
We need the Zemo Cut!
HARD AGREE
Agreed
I gotta mention that an engineer shepard ONLY gets a special reaction command during the climax of the omega mission dlc in 3. When Shep is supposed to hack something normally it takes time. But if Shep is an angineer you can speed up the process with some fun dialogue about how it 'would've been hard if i was some grunt'
Lol I heard that dialogue last week. Didn't know that. I can't remember how that convo went when I played as an Infiltrator.
You're the kind of person I need to befriend.
Did not know that, that’s hilarious 😂
There's also some special dialogue in, you guessed it, the Citadel DLC. If Shepard is an engineer and mentions hacking the casino security, Brooks mentions that she forgot you were and engineer rather than the typical dialogue.
@@Hollow_Spam engineers gettin that goood dialogue XD
The “Sad Shepherd” looked perfect for his role in that universe.
I realized a few months ago that it's actually possible to finish the game with no party members. By finish I mean post-game epilogue.
Basically you can plan out the game to the point where the only people you have left at the end are Vega, Liara and EDI. If you have really low war assets, and bring in Liara and Vega, they can both get blasted by a reaper during the final charge to the space elevator and die. Then, if you pick destroy, you kill EDI, too, resulting in no party members being left alive at the end.
Do you know if anyone's actually done that? And, if so, did they wait until after it all to do the Citadel DLC??? (Is that even *possible* to do with no squad left??????)
When you do the last mission the game completely ends. So you wouldn't be able to do the Citadel DLC at that point. So it looks like it would be just those 3 and Joker I guess.
The smallest possible Citadel party invite list is Cortez, James, EDI, Joker, Traynor, and Liara. When initiating the final mission, you can get Cortez killed, then Liara and James. After picking the "destroy" option, the only people to survive at the very, very end will be Traynor and Joker. However, you can also walk away from the construct, which initiates a fourth ending resulting in the death of every sentient living and synthetic being in the galaxy, including Joker, Traynor and EDI.
@@ilovejettrooper5922 look up a video on YT titled: "Mass Effect Trilogy: Almost all squad members die" for a nearly flawless genocide playthrough. The only thing the video doesn't include is wiping out the heretics in ME2, and killing the rachni Queen in ME1, but they and everything else dies anyway by the end. Great video.
@@paulroche6969 I was wondering what the extended cut would look like in such a scenario, I guess Joker and Traynor are on the crashed Normandy and put Shepard's name on the memorial wall?
Things that you might not know:
Me: "Yeah, right"
Gamespot: "If you have Wreav in charge, he'll do this."
Me: "Yeah, okay, fair enough, I've never made the mistake of letting Wrex die."
Mordin, Thane and Legion are the only one that died (as heroes)
Oh yeah and one of the human on Virmire but who cares?
How about betraying him and having to duel him on the citadel when he finds out?
@@guifire9747 excuse me, don't disrespect gunnery chief ashley "the crater" williams like that
@@cainyourkids Kaidan died there for me, but honestly it doesn't make that much of a difference ^^
i killed wrex in my second playthrough ,to save mordin and stop the genophage cure.
And if you sleep with James at the saddest Citadel party........damn.......that's a dark timeline.
@@yozul1 Damn......can it get any darker?
@@Felix-Sited No taquitos _or_ pizza rolls.
@@Brasc You fucking WOULDN'T
@@yozul1 its absolutely hysterical because if you cheat on her me3 she will 100% call you out on it and shepard will just flounder trying to say something.
Didn't realize Kaiden or Ashley could refuse to join up wow.
I randomly got that one. My friends said I was lying back then. Transferred to playstation abd bought the trilogy. Part 2 starts you off with a renegade playthrough of the first game and I ended up with 1 file where Mordan was alive. They also said I was lying... Lol
It's pretty easy to do actually. Be nice to them throughout the series, and then don't visit them in the hospital during ME3.
depending on how nice or mean you were to them, they can have different dialog in death. they will either be hostile or apologetic about the situation.
@@jamesherb4384 Makes sense though didn't realized that as well lol ty
@@SoldierGeneral64 I've never seen kaidens hostile dialog, but I have seen Ashley be both hostile, where she basically calls shepard a traitor and hopes the reapers drag him to hell, and where she apologetic and states basically that she had to take a stand.
Seeing the memorial wall with everyone's name on it has got to be the saddest most depression things I've seen in a long time
Keeping Wrex alive, then playing through to ME3 and betraying him by sabotaging the cure leads to him finding out and trying to kill you on the Citadel, a moment which I thought was pretty rare: because if you're playing full Renegade the odds are that Wreav is in charge of the Krogans.
theres actually another tidbit born of this. if you betray Wrex, then it will be kirahi (i know, I butchered that spelling) who is leading the troops on earth in the last mission, and if you also got him killed, it will be a random salarian leading them.
If you went full renegade, you should have access to the intimidate dialogue option to keep Wrex alive.
If you skipped recruiting Garrus (that's possible- go to Barla Von, speak to Wrex, go straight to Fist: Garrus will offer to join by the elevator but you can refuse) and haven't done Liara's mission yet, Wrex automatically backs down, too.
@@YourCrazyDolphin you can keep wrex alive on virmire with paragon as well. if you did his family armor quest, that makes it very easy as well
@@jamesherb4384 I never said you couldn't.
OP said it was unlikely a full renegade run would keep Wrex alive. I noted a full Renegade run would actually give Shepard the resources to keep him alive easily.
Paragon shep is irrelevant to the conversation.
@@YourCrazyDolphin Fair point on Shep having the resources to keep Wrex alive, but I'd like to point out that it garners more Renegade points to kill Wrex than Intimidate him (25 versus 9). So, depending on your definition of "full Renegade run", a full Renegade run could require Wrex dying even if you definitely could have talked him down.
What an ending, it made me think of a version of Shepard mixed with Zap Brannigan and with EDI saying "Shepard, every mission with you is a suicide mission".
I am the man with no name.....Commander Shepard, at your service!
If you bring Legion to the Flotilla in ME2, you witness some very intriguing court scenes. The Quarians are even more hostile towards Tali. You have to do some missions in a specific order for you to be able to take Legion on Tali’s loyalty mission.
There’s actually tons of dialogue relating to legion you can’t normally hear. Supposedly he was supposed to be accessible as a crewmate immediately, then they moved it further into the game, but left the old voice lines
It's really sad how underutilized Legion turned out to be.
Yeah: have Tali loyalty mission active, do the derelict Reaper mission, activate Legion, when the first conversation with Legion ends and he states that he needs your aid don't start his dialog, do Tali loyalty mission with Legion and then do his loyalty mission. Assuming you did all other loyalty missions and upgraded the Normandy you have all the things necessary you can launch the suicide mission and save the whole crew.
@@tacoman736 For some added information, in the initial builds of the game, supposedly all of the squadmates were supposed to be recruit-able from the start. However, Xbox 360 couldn't handle the size, so the game had to be split onto two disks which subsequently resulted in our half now, half later recruitment regiment we got in the released product. Whilst PC did not have the same problem, in order to maintain continuity across the versions of the game it was subjected to the same split recruitment. As a result it's not limited to just Legion, there's a few lines regarding Tali that make it clear she used to be recruit-able before garrus, jack and the Horizon mission.
@@Shatteredworld I’ve always heard this, did they re-release on Xbox 360? Because I have ME2 on 1 disk for 360
"Series Edge-Lord" is the exact description I was looking for to refer to Kai Leng. Thank you, I will now use that.
There's always the classic "Lieutenant Bastard Kai Leng"
@@sliceofsparta8985 Aye, that's true🤣
I always forget his name so I just refer to him as "Samurai Boy".
Man that last photo of the party is just depressing...
OMG the idea of having to kill a mind controlled jack is sad af
its actually even more brutal, because you can find the recordings of her being tortured and they are....hard to listen to
Yea, I made the mistake of putting that mission on hold for too long for my first ME3 playthrough... that recording is ROUGH
Even worse is that she's a plain phantom with a bit of dialogue. For a character like Jack to be reduced to that hurts a bit. Even though it's just a game.
On Mordin's Survival: This is what I love about Bioware (or what Bioware used to be, pre-EA).
The simple fact that they thought of this rare outcome, and put in stuff to cover it, shows how deeply they thought about the story of the game.
So a big 'Thumbs Up!" for pointing out stuff I would have never known about otherwise ^_^
It involves some save manipulation but bringing Legion on Tali's recruitment mission when Reger says "There is a Geth right behind you!" is hilarious. Also bringing Legion to the Flotilla is great.
Don't forget Tali shooting him
Actually its possible in vanilla mass effect because you can put off Tali's recruitment until AFTER getting the IFF and Legion, which makes me wonder if you can beat mass effect 2 and THEN recruit Tali... Time to make another Shepard, MIRANDA FIRE UP THE CLONING MACHINE!
@@RustyC216 nah, not in total paragon. Either legion or tali can't be loyal or you lose half your non combat crew.
@@nicolasdecarpentier9047 but what if you just, don't go get Tali in the first place. Leave her alone on that planet she's on until after the suicide mission.
I specifically brought Legion along to to recruit Tali because I just had to know. Wasn't disappointed lol
If you murder the krogans but save the rachni, the Tuchanka slide at the end of the game shows the rachni taking over the Krogan Homeworld
Bravo, going to look for that. Just completed ME2 with just Zaeed and Tali (on purpose).
I love that you can actually follow up on Sahara as a romance option in Citadel. It’s such a rare thing - you probably tried in ME2, failed, and romanced someone else, but in Citadel she actually remembers and decides to go with it. So few people would even know that’s a possibility.
Sahara
Is that who the desert was named after?
Samara, not Sahara.
This might be the first bald Shepherd I've seen.
I love Mordin and hes one of my favourite characters, I would have loved to have him survive but it makes such a good ending for his story to die curing the genophage.
I agree. Also, he believes in re-birth so in my book he was actually reborn as Eve’s baby (she even names him Mordin
Stuff like this makes me facepalm every time people say your choices in mass effect don't matter because of 3's ending. FFS people, what other series gives a shit about WHETHER OR NOT YOU DID A COLLECTION QUEST IN THE FIRST GAME. The journey matters too, not just the destination.
The issue being that the destination is unsatisfying. At the end of the day, to get the "best" ending, you just have to have enough military points and select "Destroy". The actual ending of the game doesn't take into effect ANYTHING you did in any of the games. If you didn't get any of the war assets from previous games there is still MORE than enough to gather in just ME3 that you can max out the Assets bar which basically means that nothing you did in previous games mattered to the ending of the series, so to speak.
@@jameshaughney2327 this.
your choices don't matter; there is no way to "win"
The final two missions of ME:3 are near series destroying.
@mitchmiecielica5017 the ending doesn't destroy the series. The ending also has some of the most well written moments with the crew.
Mass Effect Trilogy is a masterpiece of decades.
Freddie Prinze Jr. went on to voice Kanan Jarrus in SW Rebels after James Vega and Iron Bull.
Really?? I actually really like his voice work, so I'll definitely look this up.
My favorite and not well knowns ME moments (that aren't even in this video) are these:
1: blood pack krogan shooting a vorcha's head off if you take grunt to Archangel recruitment mission and make a renegade dialog choice
2: Grunt asking if anyone's hungry when passing burning corpses at the beginning of Mordin's recruitment mission.
This is why I 've recruited Grunt first and Garrus second in three playthroughs already.
I’m so scarred from doing Mordins mission on my renegade play through on ME3 that I’ll never do it again. I will never do it again.
Damn same here.
its one of the reasons I can never play renegade properly. its just. too brutal, especially when there is another way with objectively better outcomes.
I could only watch it online and I bawled through that 😂
Do it but do it to save him... In reality it is for the best. With Eve and Wrex you can only be sure the Krogan will have good leadership for one (albeit a very long given the long lifespan of Krogans) generation which will allow them to expand and repopulate well... After Wrex and Eve eventually die you will have the Krogan Rebellion 2.0 once more the fast breeding, long living, hard to kill, hyper aggressive Krogan will become the dominant force in the galaxy by any means necessary.
It is best to cull them and trick them at the cost of Wrex... You save Mordin and stop a future war. The genophage keeps the Krogan contained and the post Reaper War numbers will prevent them from being more than a powerful splinter species.
@@chrisf2615 You're assuming that that outcome is a guarantee, rather than a possibility. That mindset is why genocide happens, period. Don't be _that_ guy.
No matter how you try to slice it, genocide is wrong. "But they'll be monsters!" You committed genocide; who's the _real_ monster?
I think BioWare did that romance cut scene with James so badly because in reality you can't force somebody to like your ass. lol jokes on the fans for Forcing something like that
You mean most player DON'T scour the ME1 Galaxy Map for all its got before heading for the end? Wow, never before have I felt like a completionist.
right bunch of rookies
@@the_ejj Right? I managed to grab the spectre guns pretty early in the game just by exploring and getting the experience and saving up the money.
It’s not just that but also Conrad’s survival as if you complete his assignments without speech checks he’ll die
We want to see more. Why was this video cut down? It's Mass Effect week guys. All hands on deck!
My favourite little detail is that there is a spot on one of the uncharted planets in Mass Effect 1 where you can hear the Rachni ”musics”, an example of how it sounds when they communicate.
There's a few worlds that have that. I know of at least 2 and I'm sure there are more
@@scottbuickel2552 Yeah I actually discovered it on Luna on my latest playthrough, really cool.
The ME trilogy is the paragon (pun intended) for storytelling and universe building in games, imho.
The James scene in the Citadel DLC just makes me..sad. Like, James respects Shep and isn’t interested and the fact that Shep ruined that admiration for one night maaan.. why was it added 😭😭
Yea... why is Shepard a rapist now, BioWare??? Why can we do this?? And to James too
'I wonder if I can romance James?'
'OHGODNOWHY LOAD OLDER SAVE! LOAD OLDER SAVE'
I'm as big of a Mass Effect fan as you can get, and even I didn't know about that one about James and Javik!
Same. I didnt know a lot of the things on here. Crazy just how many branches this series actually has even with the smaller things.
I never bothered doing either one but it is my understanding that the only way to have the one night stand with Javik is to have never romanced anyone in any of the games, not at all. Too much trouble.
I wish I didn't know about the James one. It's disgusting.
Man I can't be more excited than I already am.
dunno if this really counts, but if you haven’t romanced anyone in me2, mordin will assume you have the hots for him-and who can blame him, when even aria couldn’t resist him!
Yeah, that datapad in the Citadel DLC was both sad and really awesome. The Aria story was great lol
What? Really??? Hahaha
My very first playthrough of the trilogy almost 9 years ago, I stumbled to the scenario where the Salarian counselor dies and Udina tries to frame Shepard. I never could replicate it on later playthroughs, though, even when trying. Thanks for explaining how I got there!
How about the fact that you can totally bypass recruiting Garrus in ME1? He joins up in the other games regardless, but you get special dialog when you meet him in ME2.
I've watched ME1 speedruns where they don't get Garrus, Wrex, or Liara, but I didn't know it had special dialogue.
But other than speedrunners, who tf doesn't want Garrus?
@@sliceofsparta8985 you can't skip liara
@@sliceofsparta8985 Liara's recruitment is required but if you recruit her after you've talked with Sovereign her dialogue is different.
you can do ME1 with only recruiting liara. cant do it without her cos you have to nuke one of the humans and always need a full party available but i love that you can do a minimalist run.
@@sliceofsparta8985 hold on, aren't you required to recruit either wrex or garrus in order to go after fist? tali is a mandatory party member, but you'd still be required to have at least one more because of the way virmire is set up.
You can keep Mordin around and then cure the genophage through Synthesis, and there's a different line in the epilogue for curing the genophage that way.
Is the line "You're worse than the Reapers" for choosing synthesis?
Conrad winds up tying together so many of those side missions from Mass Effect 1.
When he offers to prove his doctoral dissertation, he contacts Gavin Hossle for a copy of some alien tech schematics he can apply his theories towards. Hossle will only send the scematics if Shepard helped Gavin on Feros.
Then, you need the ancient Asari writings to translate the schematics (as mentioned in the video).
Lastly, Conrad's omti-tool refuses to analyze the alien tech because it falls under an existing patent held by Elkoss Combine. It can only be accessed if Shepard bought the Elkoss Combine amory license in Mass Effect 1 for Normandy's requisition officer.
He only survived because I happened to do the mission saving Jenna from having to be a spy in Chora's Den.
A funny moment for me was having hooked up with Jack in ME2 she brings it up when you rescue her and her students. She asks Shepard if he was trying to bang her up against a wall again and Liara was in my party and my current choice to romance.
Wow, I didn't know about most of these. I do try to complete everything, and keep everyone alive, though. But there is one optional sidequest in ME1 that wasn't mentioned. You have to get some sort of trinket (I think from the Asari consort on the Citadel), and take it to a distant planet. There's some sort of statue that you come across, that you can put the trinket into. There's then a text pop up that tells you Shepard sees a vision where primitive people have been given cranial implants by an advanced alien race. I came across it by accident on a 2nd playthrough, and was pleasantly surprised, but also a bit let down that they didn't make this small story into an actual cutscene (probably due to time/budget).
Yeah I know the one.
I think that they tried to tie it in though with Javik bluntly describing how the Protheans "uplifted" the Asari through genetic engineering when he's in the squad with Liara when you do Operation: Thessia in ME3 (it's been a while since I played but I think that's the quest). He's super harsh (awesome) when she was just trying to introduce Asari folklore as I recall!
I got most of these moments in my first ME3 playthough, I hadn't played any of the previous games and didn't know about save importing. I had absolutely no idea what was going on.
Oh yeh, I did that once. Jfc default Shep made some bad decisions
I did that "save Liara last" once 😅
I did that on my first play through.
I didn't realize she was gonna be a party member on my first playthrough, so I did her mission last and then just thought she was supposed to be that crazy lol
@@floriantinschert5542who do you think the remaining silhouette was supposed to be?
These moments make me so sad. Kinda glad I missed them
Lmao something about you fast forwarding through all of the team mates death's is hilarious
I don't think of it as a choice between The Krogan Species and Mordin, I think of it as choosing between Wrex and Mordin, and sorry, but Wrex is one of my favorites, and I love his interactions with Tali, "you're like the crazy headbutting uncle I never had"
wrex has amazing interactions with everybody. I especially like his reaction to Liara telling him she is one quarter krogan.
This is cool to see. I had no idea about Jack and them being turned into enemies and all that. This game still has surprises even after so many play throughs
I watched a blind play-through recently and the player asked if you ever find out about Liara's father. Someone in the chat said no. I have been wondering if this is something that is easily missed.
Well, you do find out about her father. The hint starts in ME2 and confirmed in ME3.
You can actually talk to her father on citadel as well. Was surprised I had missed it so many times before. You can convince her to talk to her father and she tells you she already knew who her father is. Was interesting because early on in the game she says she didn't know who her father was.
In ME2, if you recruit Legion before doing Tali recruit mission and bring him on the mission, Kal'Reegar will tell you "You've got a geth, right behind you."
Holy cow. I knew other people had done it too, but y'all did a Livestream series, I'm blown away. I personally called it the Worst Case Scenario run. I did it to see how bad the 'verse could get. Never had the heart to record it. Kudos
I did a renegade playthrough in all 3 games once and still to this day I still regret my decisions. 😐😐😐
Ive tried to do a renegade campaign 3 times. I just can't make the mean choices xD
@@Hawxi3 after doing a renegade playthrough in all 3 games I felt like a P.O.S for 2 weeks. 😐
@@joshuajefferson3504 Yea i know that feeling xD
Oh my God. I got the confusing Liara moment the first time I played Mass Effect, and I didn't understand that was because I'd done the other story missions first. I was so confused the next time I played through Mass Effect 1 and thought I was misremembering the scene!
there is a rare enough outcome if you help the consort in me:1 with both the general and the elcor ambassador she gives you a trinket that enables interaction with a prothean sphere on one of the worlds ,I don't remember which, that acts like another beacon and tells you about protheans kidnapping a caveman and studying them and then returning them to earth
Wow didnt know about that, thats a bit cool
@@XTORD1 sadly it is just a text tab describing a vision
Not really all that exciting
Well to be fair theres a good reason why James would reject Shepard and that's all in the mass effect animated movie were James is the protagonist
I'll never watch it, but what's the reason?
@@christineherrmann205 to be honest you should give it a chance is a farly good movie that even my dad liked (and he havent even played the games )
But long story short Vega it put on difficult position of either rescuing a bunch a colonists (he been taking care for 2 years) from the collectors or and asari that had some vital intelligence from the collectors that could help stop them for good, asari that he had been in love for the better part of thoses 2 years
Only to then realize that the Intel was next to worthless since right around that time Sheppard was kicking the collectors at their own base
@@darkhope97 oh, I know the backstory; I thought there was something else I'd missed. I don't see that as getting in the way if a relationship, though that may be because I'm writing one with all that backstory included.
@@christineherrmann205 well he probably still feels the guilt of his choice and that given that he might have chosen tria just for his feelings but then rationalize it with the collector data (that proved to be uselees)
@@darkhope97 they play up that he's still haunted by his choice, but he flirts like heck with Femshep; it doesn't seem like he blames Shepard past that first sparring bout where it's clear he's still upset. He obviously goes to Shepard about the N7 invite and cares what they think overall. I don't see the issue.
Then again, none of this changes the fact that what Bioware did with the 'romance' is thinly-veiled (if even) sexual harassment. I mean, come right down to it, Shepard shouldn't be romancing Alenko, Williams, Cortez, OR Vega.
I really liked what he said at the end about choice in Mass Effect and the Citadel DLC. Pretty much no one made it to that point with almost all the team dead but the fact that it’s possible really is amazing. I could never ever shoot Mordin or sabotage the cure and stop him from sacrificing himself but the fact that you can do that really is mind blowing to me.
I always did get those 16 writings every single time I played ME1 lol.
The Party DLC with everyone alive should’ve been the canon ending for the game in my opinion it was the funniest an best DLC in the trilogy.
Mass effect is just so good, I played through them so many times but didn't even realise any of this. Can't wait for that preorder to ship
I don't think this is as rare as I think it is, but it's a class-specific option in the Omega DLC. If you are an Engineer, in the area of the power junction of the game after you get separated from Aria and Nyreen, there's a paragon interrupt when trying to figure out whether to cut the power to the station. The Interrupt allows the Engineer class to bypass the power and save lives with little to no cost whatsoever. The last time I played on the PS3 I was an engineer and got to experience this option and I found it to be the best option available.
That Shepard looks like he's been through it.
I accidentally did the whole Conrad/Dissertation thing in my MEL playthrough. That was cool, I'm usually pretty tough on Conrad, so it was neat to have stumbled into it accidentally
I don't know how rare it is, but it seems like not many people I've talked to know about the bits of dialog you get if you bring Liara and Javik on the mission to the Asari homeworld in ME3. Basically as you're looking at the various relics in the building at the start of the mission, Liara will explain the why they're significant to Asari mythology, and then Javik will pipe up to explain what actually happened. Like Liara talks about how the Goddess used her shield to defend the ancient Asari from a falling star, and Javik goes "Well, we'd put a lot of effort into developing you, and redirecting the asteroid wasn't THAT hard."
i did that option, as it seemed sensible at the time. Just loved how Jaavik was practically ripping apart all of the Asari beliefs (not in a deliberately hurtful way) but was like "yeah, that was us"
In my last playthrough I met the conditions for the salarian counciler to die, to then see the dead councilor alive and well at Thanes memorial in the citadel dlc.
There is unique dialogue in ME3 citadel if you kill everyone. When certain characters are missing other ones have to fill their place and say different things. See big dan gaming's video on this
In my first ever playthrough, Thane was killed during the suicide mission so I ended up losing Mr. "Hold the Line" It was sad...
I didn’t cure the genophage but I let the Krogan think I did which I always thought was really F’d up. Just imagine a decade down the road when they still aren’t having babies and they realize how much of a betrayal I pulled. But it still wasn’t as bad as when I accidentally committed genocide against the Quarians after spending all of the other games trying to save them and the geth. I stopped paying attention for a second and a prompt came up so I hit A real quick and then the cutscene started with the geth just massacring them. I sat in horror watching it unfold knowing my previous save was about 7 hours before. So that was their fate.
This is why when I play games like this
For example I still didn't played Cyberpunk more than 2 hours and wait for more patches possibly DLC.
That is why on my first playtrough I jist do spur of the moment decisions without any walktroughs how would I act or this character would act and and see where it leads me
I am playing this game for 9 years and its still surprise me. God...its masterpiece
Mass Effect is in my top 3 game series of all time recently beat them all 3 for the first time and it left me in awe THE ONLY complaint I have is not being able to see what happens after Shepherd wakes up in the end does he make it back to Tali???? An have the drink with Garris?!
One my most regretted moments in my playthrough was when I faked the genophage cure while wrex was alive. He attacks you on the citadel and you have to kill him.
I played ME3 full Renegade exactly ONE time. And I still hate myself for it. That scene was so freaking brutal.
I def want a part 2 to this!!!
In Baldurs gate, it’s expansion and sequel BioWare scattered 3 pairs of special underwear that if combined in the last game made an overpowered robot suit
What I love about mass effect is all the little difference and details like if you bring certain members to certain cutscenes or quests like bringing Javik to Thessia on ME3, he has unique and funny dialogue that confuses Liara when you get to the Artifact building.
Ashley brings up the same points, if less factually. she just recognizes the profile of a prothean when she sees it. :)
Two things:
I always preferred Ashley as she actually has a character arc. Kaiden is just... there.
Second thing is that the Genophage isn't a genocidal virus. It stops the Krogans from breeding quickly to prevent another uprising. It keeps the Krogan population at a steady number. Theoretically. It doesn't work out because a lot of Krogan leave Tuchanka to be mercenaries or whatever. That's why the Krogans are in decline
There is an ending where Mordin can live with Wrex alive. If this happens Wrex turns on you on the citadel. He is killed by Bailey and you do not get Krogan support for the war effort in ME3.
Really? I thought you could only get Mordin alive if Wrex died in ME1. I gotta find out how to get this ending!
@@MajorKirrahe I believe Eve has to die and/or Maelon's research is destroyed.
Also why are all these comments so new?
@@Chris.Holcomb Because the video literally came out today...
Yeh I did the same wrex alive and mordin alive aswell
the only way that is possible is to not recuite wrex at all in mass effect one, in which case he would not arrive at the citadel to target you. if wrex is leading the krogan, then even if eve dies, mordin cannot be convinced to sabotage the cure.
Mass effect andromeda underrated game. Perfect Combat.
I really enjoyed the gameplay and the characters but the story animation and bland design.
If it wasn't part of the mass effect series it probably would be as hated as it is. It wasn't a perfect game but it was pretty good. Agreed, Fantastic combat!
being able to combine that tech, biotic, and solider skills to make combination attacks was a blast.
Hey, just randomly found this video. Amazing work, really enjoyed it. Hope to see more videos
-James
I love this trilogy and gleefully play renegade, but shooting Mordin in the back is the one thing I don't think I could bring myself to do ever again.
I hate how they turned Renegade from being a hardass, to just, "Oh, you like Renegade choices? You're the villain, now."
Not really my first playtrough ever was renegade bitchy femshep who got all nice and melty with Liara and got most people saved
Three romances were added in citadel. Samara became romacable with it.
Samara was always romancable. However her's did depend on alignment a bit, as if you are too far into Renegade as Shepard, she will turn you down in 2.
@@PhoenixOfArcadia Samara actually wasent fully romanacable till citadel. In Mass Effect two she may take your affections positively or negatively but ultimately turn you down. Citadel let's you solidify the romance if positively recieved in Mass Effect 2.
You can also "use" Kirrahe when Thane is alive, for that you have to ignore him in the hospital. That way you dont get thane as a war asset (I think.. its been a while) and Kirrahe jumps in.
Also, just want to mention that I love that the salarians look sooo much better than humans in ME1. Its the equivalent to drawing amazing dragons but never get those damn human eyes right :D
Morden Living is a cornerstone of a ME Trilogy renegade run for me since Urdnot Wreav is too stupid to discover you didn't cure the Genophage so you can get all the Krogan and Salarian War assets. Also Confused Liara was my first interaction with her during my first ME run back in 2008/09ish XD.
Few random rare moments:
-If you're diligent about visiting your crew often (and you sided with Gabby over Ken in an argument earlier) you can find the engineers kissing in the engineering sublevel before the final fight.
-The adorable Tali/Garrus romance where you find them smooching in the battery before the final battle
-Related to Mordin Lives, but he sends you an audiolog of sorts, and you find out that he broke Omega's 1 Rule in more than one way
yeah i played trough me3 three times at least with the remastered collection perhaps 4, but most likely 3 and it was the first time i happend to notice the thing with Gabby and Ken. Because this time i went after every main mission or even side mission to talk to the companions and so on to see if the had something to say.
Mordin’s message appears regardless of his fate
Hold the line. Trust the plan.
The sad party can happen the same way with characters alive, just don't send out invites to the party.
"I'm throwing a party for ONLY ME"
The first mention is something that made me howl in 3 when it comes up in the Conrad questline, because of course it comes up there.
Mass Effect is my favorite video game series, and 3 is my favorite game. I've played through the entire series multiple times, and I didn't know about any of these.
Wanna know why?
I'M NOT A MONSTER
Idk if it counts as a "scene", but in ME1, you can get a bauble from the Asari consort, which can activate a dormant Prothean (or possibly Reaper) beacon.
Yoooooooooo so I didn't have the Citadel DLC pre-LE, and knew you could have a one night stand with Vega but had no idea it was completely non-consensual. What the actual hell BioWare?
Only thing that could make that party sadder is demanding everyone watch Shepard dance.
Knew actually everything except Virmire survivor refusing Normandy. Never knew that one!
Sad when the only coming game of any real interest is an old one. I am glad ME is getting redone for the better consoles. I hope it is the beginning of many older games being remade since the game companies can't seem to remember what makes a good game.
Hear me out Gamespot,
"Saddest Party On The Citadel: Legendary Edition"
Do it again with new found knowledge and new ways to kill off your crew.
Yes. Fill the Wall.
Made a playthrough the full intention was to complete the trilogy and get the most amount of companions killed during the franchise (make it a point to get them killed in ME3 not ME2) gave my Shepard the Colonist background as well as sole survivor military record by the end of it my Shepard was all to eager for death
I did not remotely try or know that I could save Liara at the end of the game. I 100% will do that for every future playthrough now.
I like how a Mass effect 2 you could question EDI about additional Cerberus info after she's unshackled.
You can in fact get Liara, James and EDI killed, but it's not until near the end of Priority: Earth and requires a very low EMS to occur. The can be killed by Harbinger on the run to the portal. In theory, with the aformentioned conditions, you can actually get every squadmate killed if you count EDI dying in the epilogue due to the Destroy ending killing synthetics
I like you can talk saren into killing himself so you only have to fight geth saren.
You mean Reaper powered Saren. Sovereign basically attached part of himself into Saren.
@@masterofthefirstraceoftheu8608 He was being indoctrinated and slowly became more machine than man towards the end.
I've never killed any of my squadmates as a renegade