Mass Effect 3 - Page 110

ok so maybe this has all been talked about before but this is my first mass effect game, i dont play many rpgs, and this is only my first play through.

does anyone else feel the moral choice system is kinda sily when the placement around the choice circle tells you what is good and what is bad? even if you intend to role play 'yourself' your going to be influenced by the positioning of the choices, you know before you click which is good guy which is bad guy.

so i had a lesbo session with the comm girl, but apart from a few token conversations she doesnt act any different to me. she never leaves the ship while we are docked, and you cant call people to your room at will so its impossible to feel like im having a relationship with her. im not trying to play the sims, but for a genre of games about immersion, i find this kinda shallow.

in a similar vein. theres only really three paths to take, all good, all bad or neutral. theres almost always only 3 choices and i know for a fact that this leads to 3 endings, which implies you just get the one closest to where you are on that stupid arbitrary rep bar. maybe im asking for too much here but im role playing for the shades of grey not the black and white.

im playing through on normal (obviously) with normal combat, and theres too much ammo in the game, its never, ever a concern. add to that the fact you are capable of combat without ammo, it would be more interesting if ammo was a concern. powers are too powerful, they stun your enemies meaning even on a rambo charge, fast play can make you take barely any damage. it also makes recharge speed trump damage in every sense, because the stun lasts so long after even a weak hit.

the salvaging mini game seems stupid, but the bonus's are so strong i feel compelled to do it. i have 20+ systems averaging over 2 planets each and due to only getting partial completes due to the reapers coming i have no idea where to scan. i dont want to have to start taking notes -_-, but like i said the bonuses are just too good to pass up.

the token sex scene just looks stupid, i know its a tiny detail but the bras the females wear look painted on. after so much hard work in making everything look pretty, it makes it look even more jarring. getting back to my desire to be a sim i seduced my comm girl after a few conversations and then a visit to my private room, and yet the 2 returning female characters who ive been flirting with never showed signs of being interested. completely random romantic 'difficulty'.

everything is too cheap. you find 10k a time searching some planets and im getting paid over 10k a mission now. upgrading a gun from lvl 1 to lvl 5 is like 20k total? it feels stupid fully upgrading a gun after the second level then never touching it again.

im enjoying the story, it really does a good job of showing the scope of the conflict, but i had to read extensively on wikipedia to find out what the hell things are. what a reaper is is never actually explained to you, or who some people are who you met in previous games. due to the 'upload' feature if you have an me2 save the game is aware i probably havent played m e before, why isnt there expanded explinations for first time players?

medikits are too plentiful when you have everlasting shields, and the upgrade to carry more is too cheap.

the moral system felt really shallow in a lot of missions. if i chose the bad boy choice i was instantly 'punished' for it, and in a cliche way. spoilers but a young person dying not 10 mins after you put them in to harms way (even though they are a trainee soldier) is so dull and predictable. and in a world of infinite revives with medi gel, it doesnt even make sense.

why is window glass bullet proof? i mean i can understand glass used in a military base would be bullet proof, but even when fighting on the citadel, damn that persons house window, i just cant blow it up....

every mission is completely linear and uses this as a crutch for terrible explaining. theres no in mission map and no one really ever tells you how to get places, but it doesnt matter because theres only ever exactly 1 path to follow. i thought games stopped being 100% linear 10 years ago?


it may sound like i hate the game, but infact im actually having a lot of fun. these are just all the very minor things that have bugged me. can someone explain to me how i ever get the 'readiness' of anyone above 50% or is that through later missions? and what impact does your choice of squad really make? when i was bringing the blue girl a long she would sometimes, about twice a mission it felt like, land a singularity on an enemy. but thats such token help, incapacitating 2 enemies out of about 200 just doesnt feel like it matters, so i just bring the 2 guys as they are able to learn buffs that affect me when they use their abilities.



alot of those theorists are just grasping at straws.

one of them mentioned the low rez deadbody piles as being fuzzy aka dream like?

nope, its just shitty texture work by bioware, go to the citadel. go to the embassy floor and then look other the rail by the lift of all the way at the end of the path, theres super super super low rez still people, i have no idea what their purpose is except they look shitty and dont move.

then the guy pointed out that 'ashley williams head' was part of the pile of bodies. the very first moment i made my character, i hit random look twice, then altered the hair style, very first cutscene, theres a women with the exact same hair style as me. theres probably only about 10 female hair cuts in the game, lazy design but oh well.


and then the comments about human letters on the crucible? its a replica built by humans from our resources. ofcourse they are numbered, so the engineers know where to put them. its not like the crucible was discovered, it was purpose built by the humans.

the rest of the stuff i really believe is just people who refuse to believe that writters are fallable or got lazy. they dont want the story to be over/end how it did so they imagine anything to make it how they want it to be.