I haven’t really played Mass Effect properly in about 15 years… Time to rediscover a modern classic!
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Dave: "Chemical rounds heehee". I see we're getting right into the spirit of Renegade already with the Geneva Suggestion bullets.
Your experience with Mass Effect is almost identical to mine played them all on launch without DLC as a Paragon BroShep only difference is I moved over to Vanguard in 2&3 instead of sticking to Soldier. Also have watched some LPs over the years. Last time I played (ten years ago or so) I too went with a Renegade leaning FemShep except I went full on caster with Sentinel and it was glorious so much fun using all the different powers! Alas at the time I only had access to the first game so never got to finish it. Renegade can be pretty fun though in the first game it does lean a bit too much on the anti alien rhetoric for my liking.
33:01 DAO started development in 2002 probably on a fork of Aurora engine Bioware used for NWN. I remember seeing some of the corpses in that game being the exact same as the ones in Kotor. It already being dated graphically and the make everything brown so common of the era leaves it as a pretty ugly game without any mods.
2 hours thoroughly enjoyed! i love how many voice actors i recognise, look forward to next installment
Awwww lovely! I've sadly played the series SO many times that I'm not sure I could bear watching someone else play it at this point, tho. :')
Honestly, I preferred the combat and inventory system in ME1 to that of the later games. But I'm weird.
52:24 Indeed, believe it or not I got into a debate once with somebody who said that the dialogue wheel responses not matching up with what Shepard says is a myth 😂 A myth!
Looks at notifications A Mass Effect playthrough by SorcererDave? SOLD !!! brings out the popcorns
F5 as what God intended? F7 as it says in the name. Then again seven sounds more like saving in Dutch.
That'll be enjoyable
let's go Dave!
Ah yes, femshep. The only way to correctly play the mass effect games. My first mass effect game was the second one, and I must say that it is the best one in my opinion. I usually go with a paragon playthrough with a bit of renegade mixed in. I mean who doesn't knock out that annoying reporter chick at the citadel. My favorite companions are, Garrus, Thane, Grunt, Legion, and Samara. I love the design of the Normandy sr2 as a small frigate class ship.
The cognitive dissonance between rampant male pattern baldness vs female heavy makeup/large boobie leotard armor is both disconcerting and hilarious.
I'll call this the punter porn star dichotomy.
Don't know why this came into my head but I believe it applies. "Space Racism!"
Now this brings a smile to my face
I refuse to believe the fake sprint is fake. It cant be. (It is) (or is it?)
Ah, ME1. A perfectly fine game. I'm very glad I didn't play it on release.
0:41 I noticed that with Dragon's Dogma, too. Something about console games from this time or something. They scream at you until you load the main menu.
1:07 That was my experience with ME2, sort of. I played right after I beat ME1. Don't know how far I made it, don't care, won't touch it again. Too many things that felt anti-rpg, which was why I was there.
6:55 I think I went Colonist, Ruthless (maybe Sole Survivor?) Soldier.
12:08 Ah, one thing ME will always have: better Carth.
30:40 Was his jaw-quiver in the original?
32:42 Imo, it still holds up. I played the 2007 version in 2019.
35:06 "Jenkins" is a cursed name in video games.
36:24 It'd be really funny if his name was "Wallace A. Jenkins"
43:38 Ashley! 😀
45:12 Yea, that was a huge turnoff for me. Felt like they skinned an RPG and made something wear it like a costume.
51:04 I do really like that level up sound.
56:16 Turian armor? Game, spoilers!
1:00:25 I love characters like Manuel here.
1:03:11 Nihlus, you were a bit trusting.
1:03:28 You know, I never stopped to look at the ship, I just kept legging it. In hindsight, I don't know how to feel about that decision.
1:06:32 Even just after one game, there's a lot of "oh shit, really?" moments already. It's like rewatching a movie or show and spotting tiny details.
1:13:19 One of the many times Ashley makes me smile.
1:16:51 My only issue with it was actually the controls being insane.
1:18:47 One thing I just realised that amuses me: playing as FemShep means constant armoured sideboob. I'm sure some people enjoyed that way too much.
1:24:19 I wouldn't mind the loot spam if you had infinite storage space. I discovered rather rudely on a mission that there's a behind-the-scenes carry cap for your ship, and if you hit that cap, you are forced to reduce stuff to omnigel.
1:28:43 I would, but I never remember to. It's always after the action I'm like "that would've made great screenshots…"
Looking sharp dave!
Now this is unexpected.
too pretty to be a marine? Fruity Rudy would beg to differ!
Nice to have another bio-ware playthrough to enjoy. May play along with you, not played this for a while
First Aid Interface in the first container? Health regen from the start is a lucky draw.
Gotta love jango lol 😂
FUCK YEAH MY FAVORITE SERIES EVER
One interesting thing I found out. Akin to Bloodlines, Mass Effect has a TTRPG esque mechanic in terms of gunfire. IE your spread, accuracy, damage, etc is determined by your skill in said firearm.
Holy crap. I'm doing a new playthrough of the series. That's wild thay you're doing a playthrough as well.
The bizarre years-long back and forth between Dave and Jango is one of my favorite parts of the channel.
oh heck yeah!! Also a sidenote about ME2, you don't actually need to go 100% paragon or renegade, I think they made it a bit more forgiving in the LE? I remember it being a lot more unforgiving in the original version. I usually play with mostly paragon and a bit of renegade and I haven't had any problems in LE ME2.
remember playing this game whilst living on the most remote australian outback farm you could imagine, on a laptop that had as much video memory as a block of tofu. The most i could get was 10 frames at a resolution of 640×480 or sum sht, but i persisted with it and had an absolute blast. one of the best trilogies in video game history for sure. i even think mass effect 3 is a lil underrated just because people didn't like how subversive the ending was i suppose.
we'll bang, okay?