Mass EffectFollow

I just finished it, and I must say Mass Effect is the best game I've played in years.

Awesome story line, plot, great adventure with terrific twists.

A few times I even found myself saying "Wow, the character they used for Shepard is awesome!" only to remember that I designed him. They plugged you in so well, and the facial expressions seem better than any other game, even if they do break and glitch. I had one time where my eye lids closed, but my eyes still showed through.

It's a bit disappointing though, I get the feeling that even though the decisions do affect people and the story (You can kill or save some characters, you know?) it will overall end up the same.

I was an Infiltrator, by the time I finished I had Pistols and Snipers maxed out, along with maxed Spectre Training and Infiltrator Training, and mixed other ones. Some Decryption, some Electronics, and others.

I mainly used Garrus and Wrex as soon as I acquired them I switched them out, and had a grudge against Kaidan. He died a lot when I first started, so I switched him soon as I could. The only time I changed this was Noveria, Garrus for Liara because of his dumbass suggestion. I didn't see how Liara helped at all with that situation, my conversation with Benezia seemed normal, nothing special/interesting happened with having Liara there.

If someone can tell me how to use those black box spoiler thingies, that'd be awesome, then I can actually mention something interesting.

The dialog changes a little bit when you have her with you.



When Mass Effect II comes out, you'll have the option to load from your Mass Effect 1 save. Certain story elements are supposed to cross over, such as Spoilerwho has survived, the choices you made at the end(saving the council, who you put as the representative on the council, etc).



Liara is by far the strongest biotic you have available and makes a very strong addition to any team that doesn't have Shepard as a Biotic, though her lack of weapon skills makes her best suited to pair with a Soldier Shepard. When I went through as an Infiltrator, I found my strongest team was Shepard/Ashley/Wrex.



SpoilerDoes that mean that you didn't do the special side mission to visit the moon and disable the training VI at level 20? If you do that one, you get to further specialize as either a commando or something else.


Also, what level you end up at(gives me an idea of how many side missions you did) and did you go Paragon or Renegade?


Also, I should note that in about 5 hours, my computer access becomes spotty at best for about a week so if I don't respond after this, please understand it's because I'm out of town away from the interwebs.

Adept Shepard with Liara and Garrus was always my favorite combination. Two full on biotics would just clear rooms faster than god, and the fact that she and garrus have electronics means they won't ever be low on shields.

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Two lift charges also rape mecha saren.

Edited, Jul 14th 2009 9:04am by Pensive

Yeah,I'm talking about the fight at the very end. Biotics completely debilitate hi.

Benezia was a hard fight, which was unfortunate because, as a biotic, all I could do was plink her to death with the pistol. I'm not positive, but I think the first phase of the fight will end once she summons four teams though, so I would just singularity the four corners of the room and kill everything that way, then bum rush her when it was time to actually kill. Three heavily armed dudes running full tilt at a biotic, even benezia, will take them down easily.

Since you already necrod this, I see no reason to let it die. I have about 20 hours into ME2 already and it is a vastly larger game. I beat ME1 in a little over 30 hours first playthrough, and I did *most* of the sidequests. Currently in ME2 I'm working the loyalty missions. ME2 is a good game, but I'm a little unhappy about making this game more FPS-ish. I'm a much bigger fan of RPGs.