VaciliNikoMavich It's basically a machine pistol. The fact it is burst fire also sells it. How many SMGs do you know that fire in burst fire? And if you answer stuff like the big smgs, they don't exactly count since they are more like undersized machine gun. The Shuriken is basically the pistol version of an smg. It's smaller than the Predator, even, and that's the minimum size for a pistol.
@@PhantomJavelin Shepard just emptied every heat sink the gun held making it a useless hunk of metal, the guns in ME2 are designed in such a way that flat out prevents you from firing the thing if it doesn't have a heat sink in to use.
Yes, even my Renegade Shep has done a couple of the Paragon interrupts. Specifically, she did the one with Archer, concerning David, and the one on the C-Sec officer and the volus who were harassing that quarian girl. Those felt right, even for my Renegade.
@@tylersmith1409 I just finished ME3 today and got the destroy ending 💀 nice to see Tali not put up shepards name on the wall because she knows he is still alive
It's so crazy seeing how many voices Mark Meer did for this game, let alone all the dialogue he recorded as Shepard. He not only voiced Maelon but even the biotic god volus as examples. Such a talented voice actor.
Honestly, I don't like to play 100% renegade., after some people like chaotic things, it depends on people's personality but I think in general, humans are chaotic. I don't need to say more .
Angsty and Edgy teens. Idk about them, but i love my brothers in arms relationship that ME series give you. Betraying them gives me no satisfaction what so ever. I was attracted in trying out Renegade, but i can't go full renegade honestly, i was under the impression i was going to be some cold, pragmatic or ruthless commander who only aims to get his job done, instead a good few of the choices were just made him out as a narcissist with anger issues, or even sociopathic.
I prefer good choices, granted like the good good to shoes. But so much things that doesn’t need a terrible person but a good person someone knows from right and wrong, to sympathize and help those coping the pain, especially Some crew members. Like one of their pupils betrayed them and showing what they’ve done in the past is a terrible choice, not become a terrible person like their father, losing those they love and care about Dead or become a monster, or those who care about us becoming a far worse person Thay were. I’d rather have a great care for my teammates and become an asshole to them
Well i dont find it boring. I always like to be the good guy in games like this. For example i didnt even finished my 2 playtrough in both kotors for the sith. Just didn't wanted. SPOILERS AHEAD. Imagine being so dark and really killing Mission. That is really fucked up.
I really see Vega as sorta Shepard's successor, the way Shepard mentors him is like trying the next human SPECTRE to take Shepard's place if the galaxy succeeds against Reapers
Javic having an african accent is badass, also I love that all the races were "young" meaning probably stone age if not younger, also meaning the Reapers would let them live to grow and repopulate the galaxy, its a cool little detail
I thought it was a great opportunity to build his character. He even delivers one of the best lines in the series in the following conversation, “It’s so much easier to see the world in black-and-white. Gray… I don’t know what to do with gray.”
I think the sound effects for the interrupts needs to be talked about. The way I see it, the paragon interrupts are made of two parts - the empathetic, natural response to help your fellow man, or be kind to them, and then actually doing so. One is an urge, the other is an immediate feeling. The sound effects really represents this, I... can't quite explain how. It just feels like that urge and effect, put in audio form. In the same vein, renegade interrupt prompts sounds like high pitched ringing, like you're feeling an impulse born out of anger and frustration, and you either fight it down or act on it. It's an important part of what makes both feel rewarding, and I wish there was a video with just those sound effects.
I love to being Paragon... This satisfy me as being a big hero. :) And you missed the female Shepard Paragon interruptions, when you romanced with Garrus and when you romanced with Thane. :)
William Connor Sierra Wasn’t it?? Then andromeda came around and changed everything up.. I miss the old trilogy. Let’s hope that the new mass effect game will be amazing since the old trilogy team is back at bioware!
I loved these games it was amazing to play my favourite character of all time was definitely tali she was awesome and the concept of being trapped in a suit fascinated me
I love paragon, I love this diplomatic side that solves most problems without abusing pure violence (renegade). I've tested renegade but I can't do it 100%, it's impossible for me to hurt people who trust shepard blindly. And then shepard renegade is classified as a bad character and if I was a colleague of shepard, I would want more with a paragon commander than renegade xD.
I always kill the Citadel counselors at the end of Mass Effect 1. I wanted to help them, but given the situation, it makes more sense to save the most people. @Ash2dust- Personally, I don't like this interaction of wanting to push the mercenary, I find it a bit unhealthy, but that's just my opinion. I like some renegade choices when it's a rather pragmatic choice, but if it's for the fun of killing people without any purpose, no.
Yeah, I got a physical stomach ache when I did that part of the play-through the first time. I found it very shocking that Archer could do such a thing to their own little brother, who trusted him. Needless to say, my FemShep, who is normally Renegade, but who has a soft spot for kids (David qualified as a 'kid' in her opinion) took the Paragon option and used the Paragon interrupt in that scene.
Mordin's quest is overall powerful and serious, dealing with deeply-seated ideas of xenophobia, power dynamics, and cultural stagnation due to a complicated history. Then you have Maelon's little head shake and nod during the paragon action. Peak humor.
Yo this is the first time I saw this line! "You -- Whatever species you came from, before the Reapers decided to preserve them? They are dead. They died thousands of years ago." How did I miss this line?
I always laugh at interruptions that you basically have zero reason not to do. For example a renegade action in Archangel mission. Sure let me fight a gunship with full health instead of a damaged one. Or a paragon action in Jacob's loyalty mission : oh no, I saw those hunters from a mile away, they're gonna kill this girl, whatever shall I do. There're more examples, but you get the idea.
Wow this Shepherd looks just like my shepherd I love this game and to be honest with you all I would love to wake up in this world someday assuming that reincarnation is a real thing
I swear, it seems like the same guy voices every Batarian in the entire trilogy. Either that, or it’s just the way their vocals come out. I wish we’d have gotten to know more about Batarians other than just “isolationist hegemonic paper tiger empire who’s angry at all the humans”
39:44 why didn't he just rip mordin out of the elevator and go up himself? Since Shep is so good at taking the choice out of people's hands in the name of being a paragon of justice.
May I suggest some other characters ? I would like to see Cpt Anderson compilation , he's like a dad to Shepard imo . I'd like to suggest Admiral Hackett too , but that might be too much ^^
Captain Anderson is pretty simple imo . But when it comes to Hackett ... Well , i think that you should forget every Alliance missions from ME1 , or you know , the video will probably be 2 hours + long . I'm waiting impatiently for Anderson though ^^ . Keep up the good work !
"Shepard! I'm unarmed and I can give the alliance intel on the illusive man!" "Yeah well... I don't like turncoats any more than I like the illusive man...."
Nothing is canon except Saren and the Geth, Shep getting resurrected by Cerberus and defeating the Collectors, and the Reaper invasion. If it involved direct player decision, it is not canon, no matter which direction the player chooses. This is per BioWare (though I am sorry, I cannot remember which article I read that stated that.) Rather, that becomes a part of the individual's 'head canon' for their own version of Shepard's story. That is a large part of what makes the series so great.
Ngl I kind of wish paragon!Shepard reversed the dialogue at 47:41. As in, "Legion is our best source of information on the geth. More importantly, Legion is my *friend.*"
Thats odd with the Aria interrupts. My paragon Omega mission she didn't kill him and just said Shepard must of rubbed off on her with no interrupt necessary.
There are a lot of different ways that finale plays out depending on how you go through the mission. From Shepard killing him, to Aria doing it, to Aria being stopped, or just deciding not to... Lots of different ways. In a full Paragon play, she doesn’t try to kill him.
In ME1 you can mix and match decisions as long as you have enough charm/intimidate points. In ME2 you can mix and match but not too much. Some dialogues require high Paragon/Renegade check and it can be hard too reach them if your score is too low. ME3 is way easier. You can mix and match as much as you want.
@@jaguar550 and MR X I know this is rather old, and MR X has probably done her or his play-through but, SPOILER FOLLOWS: You probably do not want to mix too much in ME2, as Jaguar550 mentioned, some of the dialogue options require very high on the Paragon/Renegade check. These checks do not require a specific number of points, like they do in ME1. Instead, they require a HIGH PERCENTAGE of the total possible Renegade/Paragon points that can be earned up to that point in the game. In some instances, if you fail the Paragon/Renegade check, you can (and probably will) lose a squad-mate's loyalty, which greatly lessens their chance of surviving the Suicide Mission. It sucks, I know. I've had to stop and re-start a couple play-throughs as I was failing too many of the checks, as I was Role-Playing a Shepard that was too midline. However, it CAN be done. WHat one needs to do is keep the majority of their decisions either Paragon or Renegade, while allowing themself the option of taking the occasional opposite choice. I did this on my Renegade FemShep. She was predominately Renegade, but I used the Paragon option in some few select instances. In another play-through, I went in the opposite direction; my BroShep was predominately Paragon, but went Renegade as the situation warranted. Someday, I will do a play-through where I care less about making sure all my ME2 squadmates survive and run my midline character, just to see what happens, and how everything works as a result in ME3.
This 23:06 is better then every other renegade interrupts combined. I was so happy when I saw Shep punching Zaeed 🤣 Man, they should have give the opportunity to let him die even before suicide mission, he's just a psychopath who even created the blue suns.
@@carterstrain9951 Wrong. They isolated themselves in their space and attacked anyone that entered, as well as shut down any attempts at communication from the other races. On top of that, some of them joined the reapers in attempting to wipe out all life in the galaxy, and guess what? The true geth allowed them to do it and never tried to warn anyone. Funny how everyone conveniently forgets that fact. If it was not for the Shepard, the geth would have wiped out all advanced life in the galaxy and both the true geth and the heretics would have been responsible for it. What's even more insulting is that idiot players blame the quarians for attacking the geth in ME3 (when in reality, it was only a minority that wanted to to go war), while saying that the true geth are not responsible for what the heretics did ( even though they are far more guilty of what the heretics did than the peaceful quarians are of what the warmongering ones did). To make matters worse, the Geth are still occupying Rannoch for absolutely no reason. Legion even says that the planet holds no value to them, and they know the quarians want it. So why not just give it to the quarians (who, it's established NEED the planet for their survival)? Instead they forced the quarians to attack them in order to get the planet back. In addition the geth cornered themselves on rannoch too. Why? There was no reason to. They created this problem. Let me get this straight; they were openly hostile to everyone, allowed a group of them to wage a war of genocide on the galaxy, continue to occupy your enemy's most valued planet despite it having no value to you.... and then you act surprised when they try to take it back? Remember no one even knows at this point that the geth are open to peace. The only interactions anyone has had with the geth for 300 years is with the heretics, and the true geth have done NOTHING to rectify that. They used Legion to contact Shepard and that was it. It amounted to nothing. What's even dumber is that in ME2 you have the PERFECT opportunity to end the war and achieve peace when you go to the migrant fleet. But no, nothing happens. More great writing from Bioware. But what's really bad here (that everyone conveniently ignores) is that this proves that the geth will side with the reapers if they think it means a better chance of their survival. This makes them a massive liability. What is to stop them from turning on everyone once the reapers start to win? This is also something Legion said they would never do, but apparently he's a liar.
@@Quole1234 members of other species joined the reapers. They also had to hack the majority of the geth to force them to work with the reapers. The galaxy declared that the geth had no rights and we're to be destroyed on sight before they had a chance to defend themselves, the geth reciprocated. Nothing particularly wrong with the geth's actions compared to the other species.
@@carterstrain9951 " members of other species joined the reapers. " Sure, but that's different than YOUR ENTIRE RACE JOINING THEM. And when the heretics joined them, the rue geth allowed them to do it, and didn't warn anyone. "They also had to hack the majority of the geth to force them to work with the reapers." No they didn't. Not sure where you got that from. The Heretics saw the reapers as gods and worshipped them. The true geth joined them when the quarians attacked. "The galaxy declared that the geth had no rights and we're to be destroyed on sight before they had a chance to defend themselves," Wrong. Not sure where you are getting your information from here. The geth were no believed to have been truly sapient, and creaing true AIs was forbidden for the very reasons the geth would prove later on. The quarians attempted to shut them off before they got to that point. Even after the quarians were driven from their homeworld the council races still tried to communicated with the geth but were met with hostility at every time. The geth became violent isolationists. "othing particularly wrong with the geth's actions compared to the other species." 100% false. The heretics joined the reapers. This wasn't like Saren. This was a massive portion of their race ha willingly joined the reapers because they saw them as gods. he rest of the geth ALLOWED them to do so, and didn't try to warn anyone.
@@ndbd9drn If you do not like the dog mech, there is a mod that will insert a varren in its place. I am not sure if the author was able to alter the letter or not. Still, I might get the mod someday, as I could see a few of my head canon characters having a varen instead of a dog mech.
Is anyone a little pissed off by the mass effect 3 ending even if you have max effective military strength then ending is annoying the secret ending I don’t like either because it shouldn’t be it’s impossible and the ending where Shepard always dies it pisses me off I just want Shepard to build tali a home and GODAMN RETIRE
Personally, I tend to prefer the Renegade interrupts; they are more badass, which makes the character (IMHO) more interesting. The Paragon interrupts, for the most part, make Shepard the iconic, albeit stereotypical, hero. That being said, I can't imagine how many times you needed to use the save game editor to collate all this, and the compilation is very good. Well done. PS: The Paragon interrupts with Shep's love interest work very well, in either situation.
You can usually tell it's the repressesd homosexuals who have the biggest problem with it. :P People who are confident in their own sexuality (straight or not) usually don't need to put others down.
@@WolfhoundMercenary I don't think Shepard's character matches with this romance option. The only reason why it's in the game is because Bioware didn't want a shitstorm started by LGBT activists.
@panzer4391 True, the writers never wanted to include something like that. It was a point of political privilege. A shame. It would have made for an interesting lore moment if every romance was either straight or asari.
