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As a first time player of the ME series I have to say im enjoying it immensely. I think the gameplay is good except for the furious tapping of A shouting "WHY WONT YOU TAKE COVER!!!". The weapon mods (although its a shame you can only have 2) make weapon selection a very interesting part of the game. I was disappointed you cant "mix and match" armour pieces from different armour sets.

Im enjoying the story also but i constantly feel like im "missing" something from not playing ME2. The bad things I have to say are two main things: The whole "scanning" and recovering artefacts interface was never properly explained (making it very frustrating) and not all systems are unlocked from the beginning making certain recovery missions undoable for a while. Secondly it seems like a bit of a hassle between every mission wondering round and talking to every member of my crew, couldn't there just be a helpful interface which says "X, X and X have new dialogue options"?

Necros wrote:For me at the end, when I faced the illusive man (anyone else think that's a dumb name?) I had some paragon & renegade responses that I could give while he was monologueing, but no interrupts. I was like a 99% paragon for the whole game

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and I just convinced him that the reapers were controlling him instead of the other way around, so he blew his head off. Also, there's supposedly some way to save Anderson, but for me he died.

"The Illusive man" like "The Dark Council" from tOR. Typical Bioware and their wonderful names.

A Town Called Malus wrote:

Anung Un Rama wrote:Do I need the Galactic Readiness to get the best ending. Because the Multiplayer is rather boring.

You need an Effective Military Strength above 4000, I believe. I had to do a tiny bit of multiplayer, not hours of grinding.

Yea I got 30% readiness in about 2-3 hours of casual gaming. (and above 5000 is the best ending)

I swear somethings wrong with my game, all I have ever done is play pure paragon, I never got an option to save both the geth and the quarians and at the end even though i had full paragon i couldnt use the last option on the illusive man. Furthermore I was only just able to scrape 5000 military strength, despite having 100% readiness and scanning EVERY SINGLE SYSTEM for assets and doing every available side mission (my friend was no where near as thorough and he somehow managed to get about 6000 strength with only 60% readiness).

I personally think the Krogans body proportions look WAAAY off, with those scrawny arms and legs attached to a squat torso and HUGE heads. As a new player to ME, I think the Turinas look similar in some ways to "the Prawns" from "District 9".

Although not directly related, I believe this has to be shared; its hilarious.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29768571/Name%20Generator.html

If anyone has questions about the ending, the answers are all right here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QT4IUepvrU1pfv_B95oQj0H84DlCTUmzQ_uQh1voTUs/preview?pli=1&sle=true

Just look up the "indoctrination theory", needless to say it makes the endings have allot more sense. If Bioware DO NOT confirm the indoctrination theory as true I will loose all faith in humanity. NO ONE (except maybe Lost) could make an ending with so many plot holes and inconsistencies, its especially out of character for Bioware.

As someone who has only played ME3, I never got to meet Jack, Samara or Thane....

Amaya wrote:You do realize that they can't come out and say yes the indoctrination theory is correct if they want to pull off a big reveal?

I dont see why not, even if it wasn't their intent (which i hope to God it was) It would make me and im sure many others feel a hell of allot better about the ending. If Bioware had just confirmed Shepard was becoming indoctrinated near the end and put in a bit of needed exposition I would have been very happy with the three colour rainbow.