Mass Effect 3 thread

[Personamanx]

I now have both a male and Female perfect file to take over with me to ME3. Well I still have not played Lair of the Shadow broker on my male file so I guess I'll do that sometime next weekend but still. Don't know which I'll start off with in ME3.

[AthenAltena]

I feel like I might be making a mountain out of a mole hill, but does it seem to anybody else like the FemShep railer has much quicker editing than the other trailers when it comes to actually showing Sheppard, so you get much less time to actually see her as the star of the game? The trailers have been more fast-paced in general than the trailers for 1 and 2, so it might just be that, but it seems to me like they were trying to not have it be clear from the visuals which of the many characters seen was actually the titular "Sheppard" and player character.

Or is that just me looking for something to complain about?

Oh, also, can you switch player class in the shift from 2 to 3, as you did from 1 to 2, or is the character adjustment limited to the physical appearance?

I think it's pretty obvious who Shepard is, especially when Anderson tosses her the tags and calls her Commander.

And someone pointed out that when you see Miranda throwing a biotic thing if you pause it you can see ShepLoo there for a second. It's too quick to see unless you're looking for it, but it suggests that some shots were things they had on hand. Which makes sense, but is kind of funny.

[Tyr]

I preordered the Collectors Edition today just because i want that fucking Robot Dog!
Only problem is that the guy at Gamestop was not sure if they got more collectors editions then what was already reordered.

Also regarding Femshep
Originaly she was supposed to be on the cover of the Collectors Edition.
But they changed that so shes now on the cover of every single regular copy.
Or rather when you get the game box dudeshep is on the cover but you can flip the cover around
So when you first open the box and remove the disk Femshep is starring at you!

Holy shit! I was just thinking, you know it would be a cool idea if...and I find out they already implemented it! Awesome

In other news, Manshep Liara love interest is now ready for duty in ME 3. Now I think I grab the Arrival, I can pick up a gamestop psn credit award that will knock the price of the DLC down to 4 bucks.

[Gaelforce]

Curious as to the decisions other folks made in the games. Here's what I did in ME 1 & 2.

[SPOILERS BELOW FOR NON-ME 1 and 2 PLAYERS]

Femshep
Full Paragon
Sole Survivor
Colonist
Infiltrator (gimme my sniper rifle!!)
Romanced Liara in ME1 (by accident )
Romanced no one in ME2 'til Liara returned in the Shadowbroker DLC
Sacrificed Kaiden
Saved the Council
Put Anderson on the Council
Released the Rachni Queen
Merged the two Geth factions
Blew up the Collector base after telling the Illusive Man to shove it
Completed all loyalty missions and made the right decisions so no one died
Rescued all members of my crew

Think that covers all the key decisions?

I had to re-run this after my hard drive died and wiped my saves. I also had run it on the following just for kicks:

Femshep
Full renegade (or as I call it, full douchebag)
Soldier
Spacer
Hero
Romanced Kaiden in ME1
Romanced Garrus in ME2
Sacrificed Ashley
Sacrificed the Council (which gives you an all human council in ME2)
Put Udina on the Council
Killed the Rachni queen
Killed the Geth Heretics
Completed loyalty missions and everyone survived
Lost most of the crew because I didn't save them fast enough (Doctor lives, everyone else dies)
Kept the Collector base and my association with the Illusive Man

Not gonna have time to rerun this before ME3 comes out, but I'll play it through completely when I'm done with my Paragon

I should point out, btw, that running around in heavy armor with an assault rifle was a *much* easier experience than wearing light/medium armor with a sniper rifle, but I love the challenge. Just hope ME3 lets me carry more than 12 bullets at a time!

[Personamanx]

Just played the Multiplayer on the Demo (Assumed I could not play it due to not having Gold). Man, I was really skeptical at first but it's actually really fun.

[Personamanx]

Male Shepard
Full Paragon
Sole Survivor
Colonist
Vanguard (and always Vanguard)
Romanced Liara in ME1
Romanced no on in ME2 (Reunited with Liara in LOTSB)
Sacrificed Ashley
Saved the Council
Put Anderson on Council
Released Rachni Queen
Merged The Geth Heretics
Blew up collector base/told IM to shove it
Completed all loyalty missions, all survived suicide mission
rescued my entire crew

Female Shepard
Full Paragon with some douchebag on the side
War Hero
Spacer
Vanguard (FOR LIFE!)
Romanced Liara in ME1
Romanced Garrus (By accident!) In ME2 (Reunited with Liara in LOTSB before it occured though)
Sacrificed Ashley
Saved The Council
Put Anderson on Council
Released the Rachni Queen
Destroyed the Geth Heretics
Blew up collector base/ Miranda told the IM to Shove it.
Completed all loyalty missions, entire party survived
rescued my entire crew

Yeah, I tried playing Renegade with Femshep but I'm just too paragon.

[JBK405]

Put Udina on the Council

Really? Even when I played it through as a full Renegade I couldn't bring myself to put him on the council, he's just such an ass (I once saw a review/guide of the game that described the choice of who to put on the council as between "I pick Anderson" and "I pick Anderson and fuck you Udina!!")

My primary character is as follows:

FemShep, Full Paragon
Earthborn, and refuses to help Finch when he brings up my gang history
Adept, with assault rifle bonus power
Sole survivor of Akuze (This is the one choice I wish I could change, since I feel that it doesn't fit with my character, but I've already played it through several times).
Freed the Rachni
Sacrificed Kaidan
Romanced Liara
Saved the Council and nominated Anderson for the human seat
Continued the Liara romance in the sequel
Merged the two Geth factions
Completed all loyalty quests and saved everybody (Including crew of the Normandy)
Blew up the Collector base and told the Illusive man where to stick it.

The only difference between this and my MaleShep is who I romance; Ashley in 1 and rotating in 2 (Tali is by far my favorite, but I haven't replayed it enough for her to be my "main" romance).

[AthenAltena]

Alright, might as well put mine in.

FemShep, Full Paragon with occasional dalliances into Renegade
Spacer
Adept in 1, Vanguard in 2
War Hero
Freed the Rachni
Sacrificed Ashley
Romanced Liara in 1, Garrus in 2
Saved the Council and nominated Anderson
Merged both Geth factions
Saved everyone, including Crew
Flipped off Illusive Man by destroying Collector Base

[Personamanx]

I still say that Merging the Two Geth factions was a mistake I made In My Male Shep run.

[K-DoG7p7]

Male Shepard
Full Paragon, some Renegade points
Spacer
Ruthless
Manguard
Romanced Liara in ME1
Romanced Tali in ME2
Sacrificed Kaiden
Saved the Council
Put Anderson on Council
Released Rachni Queen
Rewrote The Heretics
Mordin kept the Genophage cure
Blew up collector base/told IM to shove it (I think)
Completed all loyalty missions, all survived suicide mission
Rescued my entire crew

Female Shepard
Full Paragon, some Renegade points
War Hero
Earthborn
Soldier
Romanced Liara in ME1
Romanced Loyal to Liara in Me2
Sacrificed Kaiden
Saved The Council
Put Anderson on Council
Released the Rachni Queen
Rewrote the Heretics
Mordin kept the Genophage cure
Kept the Collector Base.
Completed all loyalty missions, entire party survived
Rescued my entire crew


From all the spoilers i have read from the Leaked script and such i know a few things that makes me wish i could go back a do a few things different.