Board 8 > I have finally finished my first Mass Effect 1+2 playthrough *MAJOR SPOILERS*

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From: Ryo8889 | #048
It's easier to play as a Paragon, because the game offers more and more importantly bigger Paragon checks. If you do something good it's usually like +24 Paragon and if you do something evil it's more +2 Renegade. So getting to Renegade checks is harder than passing Paragon checks.

Yeah well Renegade fo' life.

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I plan on doing a Renegade run after a bit of a break from the game to play LA Noire, FF13, and the rest of the stuff I'm backed up on.

Can't wait to kick that guy out the window.

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I planned on using Grunt and Zaeed in my party for the Renegade game for ultimate intimidation, but knowing what I know now it seems like everybody would die at Hold the Line. Maybe I'll replace Grunt with Jack in my party or something, although I intended to be a biotic. Maybe I'll just use Grunt and Zaeed and just use two other people at the end instead.

I'm not sure who my second guy will be after Wrex in 1 though. Maybe Garrus? I thought he was a dork in 1 but maybe he'll be cooler if I actually use him.

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i usually play paragon but i always always always kick the guy out the window

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Garrus is the best, dude. Him and Wrex were my team all the way through the first game.

I change my team around all the time in the second game though, because there's so many good characters. The only ones I rarely, basically never use are Miranda, Jacob, and Jack.

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Also I played Project Overlord last night, and I gotta say

HOLY F***.

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The way the checks work is you have to have a certain percentage of the total Paragon/Renegade points you could have gotten up to that point.

So say you've done enough stuff that, choosing everything right, you could have gotten 1000 Renegade points, then you might need 900 of them to pass a certain check, but if you could have gotten only like 500, then you'd only need 450 of those.

It's nice in that it means you don't have to go mining for Paragon/Renegade points before doing certain tasks, but it makes it a lot harder to mix it up and still meet checks, you pretty much have to be one or the other all the time in order to make the hard checks.

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I am PISSED.

After all I've done, trying my best to be as Renegade as possible, I still couldn't pass the check for the Tali and Legion fight, so I had to side with Tali. Then I talked to Legion and picked the "I lied" Renegade option, so will that ensure Legion's loyalty and allow everyone to survive the suicide mission?

The last time I played, I lost the crew and Legion. If that happens again, oh man, just, oh man. The whole REASON I played through the game again was to get a perfect ending. F***.

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YESSSS!

It worked out, everyone survived. I'm happy. And I blew up the Collector Base this time because f*** the Illusive Man. The last conversation with him and all but giving him the middle finger was so satisfying.

Now I can finally play Shadow Broker and Arrival!

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Shadow Broker so good.

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Shadow Broker is boss. One of the best missions in the game. My only gripe I'd have with it is the maps aren't quite as sniper-friendly as a lot of the others, but that's just me being biased towards my Infiltrator. >_>

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Yeah, thinking back (started with an Infiltrator) you're right about that. But oh man, it's so brilliant anyway.

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Driving a taxi was awesome, it felt like Star Wars, hell yeah.

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Yesss

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It was a bit of a learning curve getting used to the taxi controls but once I knew what I was doing it was pretty cool, yeah. And apparently Liara grew a snark bone sometime in the last two years.

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It wasn't too hard learning the taxi controls, because if you can learn how to roughly control the Mako, you're good on any other vehicle controls ever I think.

But yeah, the chase just reminded me so much of Coruscant with the tunnels and all the traffic. So awesome.

I'm currently inside the ship, after like an hour of fighting my way to the hatch. I liked how Shepard mentioned the past and how they used Omni-Gel for everything.

Also I saw that "twist" coming from a mile away.

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I honestly never had any problems with the Mako beyond the fact that a handful of planets had those ridiculously steep mountains that would always sit right between my landing spot and wherever I wanted to go. I mean it didn't exactly drive like a sports car but I don't see where people get all those complaints from.

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The fact that you tap the turn button and it practically veers completely off course. It's virtually impossible to straighten it out, like when you're going down a long stretch, more often than not I couldn't get the stupid Mako to just run straight, it would insist on driving at an angle.

And then there was the time I was in that sky platform area (forget the name of the planet), and I ran into some debris on the slope and FLIPPED ALL THE WAY OVER THE FREAKIN' EDGE.

Seriously, worst vehicle controls ever. The gun controls were at least good though, much better than the Hammerheads arsenal. And the Mako could actually take some hits, unlike the Hammerhead, which has paper thin shields. The Hammerhead has amazing driving controls though, like, simple. You turn the cursor, the vehicle moves with you, that's how it should always be.

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My favorite part of Shadow Broker was the videos afterwards you could watch from his spy cameras. Like the Keepers being hella creepy, murdering Krogans, and finding the cameras to look into them and destroy them. Those things are *evil*

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I finished the mission, spoilers.

The Shadow Broker himself was a surprise, I wasn't expecting a whole new species to be introduced. He wasn't that difficult to beat either, but it was still an awesome fight just for the experience. His asari Spectre was a lot more difficult to beat though.

As for the videos, I guess not all of them are there. Are they just random whenever I go back to the base or what?

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I think they update as the plot moves along

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The plot is finished, except for Arrival.

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I did LotSB halfway through my play through,that won't cause any actual issues will it? I couldn't help myself, i was replaying loyal to Liara. It just felt right.

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I didn't see anything in the mission that indicated it was meant to be completed after the Suicide Mission. I don't remember them mentioning anything about the Collector Base or such.

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