Obviously, making predictions on ME3 will involve ME1 and ME2 Spoilers, so fair warning.
1) If you saved the Rachni Queen, they will join the war on your side.
2) Corporal Toombs and his Merc squad, from your ME2 email if you saved him, will likely turn up at some point as antagonists. Possibly as allies if you're given a diplomatic dialog option.
3) If you urged the Quarians not to go to war, and kept both Tali and Legion loyal in their little...disagreement...then both the Quarian and Geth fleets will be available for your side in the war.
4) The Batarian terrorist from X57 will be back, if you didn't kill him off. You'll also hear from his deputy again if you let him go in ME1.
5) We'll find out what Salarian recordkeeping Aria could not outlive.
6) The Terra Firma party will make another appearance.
7) There will be varying consequences regarding Citadel politics depending on how you resolved Thane's loyalty mission and whether the candidate lived.
8) Another Dantius sister will turn up somewhere in the storyline.
9) We'll see the Consort again.
10) Whether we saved Captain Kirrahe on Virmire will have an effect on Salarian participation in our war.
11) General Septimus will turn up again, and possibly have a bearing on how the Turians respond to our call for aid.
12) I will be disappointed if the Elcor and Volus ambassadors from ME1 do not show up somewhere. We need to know what Din thinks now that humanity got a seat on the council just as he predicted they would. :>
13) Emily Wong has to interview us still from our return in ME2, when she emailed us. We also want to have a chat with Dr. Michel.
14) There will be another preacher somewhere. We had the Hanar preacher on Citadel in ME1, and the Mad Prophet on Omega in ME2, so we'll have another preacher on a soapbox somewhere in ME3.
15) Urz the varen will accompany us on at least one mission, if we befriended him on Tuchanka.
16) Mordin will have to choose whether or not to end the genophage so the Krogan can join the war. If he spared his assistant and backed up the data in his loyalty mission, he'll likely have an easier time of this.
17) If we had Kasumi, whether we convinced her to keep or destroy the graybox will come into play.
18) If we downloaded the Cerberus Agent intel in ME2 and had EDI begin decrypting it, it may enable us to put Cerberus in a difficult position.
19) How we handled Ish and Patriarch will significantly affect the calm or chaos of Omega in ME3. We will almost surely be going back.
20) If you got the dialog option where Samara promised to come if you ever needed her, and did not get her killed in the Suicide Mission, then she'll help you at least once in ME3.
21) If you let Zaeed's enemy escape in ME2, you'll have another crack at him in ME3.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Max Sheppard Saves the Universe (Nicely)
Spoiler warning for ME1 and ME2.
I'm a little late on posting this, as my victory is now about two weeks old. But for the first time ever, I have completed both ME1 and ME2. Our hero, Max Sheppard, was born in the Colonies and was already a War Hero before he came to serve aboard the Normandy. A powerful Adept, he conducted himself in an almost entirely Paragon manner with a handful of exceptions, such as helping a tired Blue Suns mechanic not work so hard (ever again) and teaching an Eclipse merc squad just why fighting underneath cargo cranes and copping an attitude with Commander Sheppard is a bad idea.
Only missions I have not yet done with him are Pinnacle Station (didn't realize it also had to be done before Ilos), Lair of the Shadow Broker (don't have the DLC yet), and Arrival (also don't hve the DLC). Well, that and the Renegade alignment special mission in ME1, since he only did the Paragon one.
In the process of saving the galaxy, he talked Wrex into listening to reason on Virmire, saved Ashley and Captain Kirrahe on the same, freed the Rachni queen, completed all loyalty missions successfully in both games, was nice to Conrad Verner (even though the save game bug doesn't reflect it), saved all the scientists at Sirta Foundation (ditto), and even saved the Council despite how troublesome they were. He also talked Mr. Batia into letting the Alliance keep his wife's body for testing, and ensured that Uvenk received his proper quota of headbutting. He spared lives wherever he had the opportunity, losing only one of the Zhu's Hope colonists. Unfortunately, this included having to let the Batarian terrorist escape on X57. Fist did not get the chance to live, thanks to Wrex' presence on the squad, though Sheppard himself spared him. Thanks to him, Captain Anderson has taken humanity's rightful place on the Council. In the ME2 Suicide Mission, he completed the objective while preserving his entire team, and saved his whole crew as well. He romanced Ashley in ME1, though he did accidentally end up in a love triangle with Liara, which ended with him choosing Ashley. In ME2, he avoided romance conversations, staying true to Ashley throughout, except for the usual flirting banter with Kelly.
Once I can afford Lair of the Shadow Broker and Arrival, he'll do those as well.
Currently, I'm working on a new character, focused on a renegade playthrough. Smiley Sheppard, also male. Earthborn, Ruthless reputation. Paragade or Renagon, whichever one emphasizes Renegade aspects in your definition of the term. He's a Vanguard, because I really wanna play with the Biotic Charge ability once I hit ME2 with him. After him, or possibly alternating if I get bored, is my first Femshep, an Infiltrator named Rosemary. I made her Spaceborn so I could experience all three background missions in ME1 across the three chars, and I think I gave her Sole Survivor as her reputation; I don't remember for sure at this moment and I'm not at liberty to fire the game up to find out.
Next up: My Mass Effect 3 predictions.
I'm a little late on posting this, as my victory is now about two weeks old. But for the first time ever, I have completed both ME1 and ME2. Our hero, Max Sheppard, was born in the Colonies and was already a War Hero before he came to serve aboard the Normandy. A powerful Adept, he conducted himself in an almost entirely Paragon manner with a handful of exceptions, such as helping a tired Blue Suns mechanic not work so hard (ever again) and teaching an Eclipse merc squad just why fighting underneath cargo cranes and copping an attitude with Commander Sheppard is a bad idea.
Only missions I have not yet done with him are Pinnacle Station (didn't realize it also had to be done before Ilos), Lair of the Shadow Broker (don't have the DLC yet), and Arrival (also don't hve the DLC). Well, that and the Renegade alignment special mission in ME1, since he only did the Paragon one.
In the process of saving the galaxy, he talked Wrex into listening to reason on Virmire, saved Ashley and Captain Kirrahe on the same, freed the Rachni queen, completed all loyalty missions successfully in both games, was nice to Conrad Verner (even though the save game bug doesn't reflect it), saved all the scientists at Sirta Foundation (ditto), and even saved the Council despite how troublesome they were. He also talked Mr. Batia into letting the Alliance keep his wife's body for testing, and ensured that Uvenk received his proper quota of headbutting. He spared lives wherever he had the opportunity, losing only one of the Zhu's Hope colonists. Unfortunately, this included having to let the Batarian terrorist escape on X57. Fist did not get the chance to live, thanks to Wrex' presence on the squad, though Sheppard himself spared him. Thanks to him, Captain Anderson has taken humanity's rightful place on the Council. In the ME2 Suicide Mission, he completed the objective while preserving his entire team, and saved his whole crew as well. He romanced Ashley in ME1, though he did accidentally end up in a love triangle with Liara, which ended with him choosing Ashley. In ME2, he avoided romance conversations, staying true to Ashley throughout, except for the usual flirting banter with Kelly.
Once I can afford Lair of the Shadow Broker and Arrival, he'll do those as well.
Currently, I'm working on a new character, focused on a renegade playthrough. Smiley Sheppard, also male. Earthborn, Ruthless reputation. Paragade or Renagon, whichever one emphasizes Renegade aspects in your definition of the term. He's a Vanguard, because I really wanna play with the Biotic Charge ability once I hit ME2 with him. After him, or possibly alternating if I get bored, is my first Femshep, an Infiltrator named Rosemary. I made her Spaceborn so I could experience all three background missions in ME1 across the three chars, and I think I gave her Sole Survivor as her reputation; I don't remember for sure at this moment and I'm not at liberty to fire the game up to find out.
Next up: My Mass Effect 3 predictions.
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