So I Played Mass Effect 3 with NO IMPORTED SAVE… The Results Were Horrifying. 

Thank GOD for imported save files!

Just so you know this choice 12:44 saved everyone’s opinion of you 15:40 damn it Dan!

It’s crazy how mass effect predicted deep fake technology

It's one of the most predatory F2P games available, not a sponsor I will support.

Can you do a Mass Effect video where you do not romance anyone throughout the entire trilogy? Curious how that plays out.

truly the worst crime bioware committed with this game state

im screaming at this 🤣🤣🤣

They needed diversity, lol.

To be fair him and Miranda were apart of the big bads group so it makes sense why they would both be alive.

@@gamingman5453 except Miranda now has Cerberus assassins after her, what's his excuse? he wasn't even important enough for TIM to be like "hmm... i know there's another rogue element out there.... what was his name again?"

I think its kind of good in a sense. Like its not meant to be a stand alone game and its not meant really for people who havent seen the story so I appreciate that they didnt try to make it its own self contained story to let new ones in. Convince them to start from the beginning and experience it.

@@williammartin1691 Oh yeah that how I actually got into the Mass effect series. I actually borrowed ME3 from a friend and I was wanting to see if I can do things differently if I had played the past games. So I bought the first game then the second and bought literally all the DLCs I was actually drawn into the story and loved every minute of playing them and even bought the Legendary edition to play them all again XD

​@@williammartin1691 my exact experience. I finished ME3 wondering if anything in the previous games would have made a difference. The entire time I felt like I was missing something despite how good the storytelling is.

@@leevillanueva7432honestly if I played just the third one without any prior knowledge id probably ask what the fuck it’s happening with everyone dying lol.

"Oh, you don't have an import? Well f*** you then."

Wrex dies in me1

@@waleedfarooqi5998 yes, but that is still in the realm of “still salvageable” as long as you save the research in Mordin’s loyalty mission, Eve will survive in ME3 and she is the best hope at that point of the Krogan turning out better.

@@niceguyofgames9490 Its not. Would you consider ME3 "still salvageable" if Tali and GArrus are dead? They arent needed anyway. With James, Liara and Edi we got enough Squadmates to beat the game.

@@Berek71182 if you want a somewhat decent ending, at least Tali is needed.

I play ME3 multiplayer with a guy who didn't know there was a 1 & 2 until Legendary came out

I bet that Kasumi broke into Bioware

Probably because he and Miranda were default squad mates.

As someone that never played the second this is an absolute win. Idek who those chumps were.

In my super duper bad ending, I made sure to send Jacob through the vents with no loyalty mission completed.

Why yall hate Jacob??

More evidence that ME3 was hijacked by fanfic writers -- Kai Leng, the biggest "My bestest OC Do Not Steal!"

literally the only good thing about ponytail assassin boi is Troy Freakin Baker. @@notthemusewere

I am so sorry there isn't a dialogue option where you tell him he almost got taken out by a dying man who snuck off his sickbed. That and when you finally stab the idiot are the high points for that character. Not helped that at normal difficulty, I had him on the run on Thessia. If he wasn't scripted unkillable...@@XFallenFreakX

In ME2 both Jacob and Garrus was given one set of plot armor ( the one where you say "no" to damage from Collector bullets.) Meanwhile Jack and Samara was given another set of plot armor.

​@notthemusewere It's horrible because Leng was a great hateable villain in the books.

The return of Ugly Shepard! Brilliant!

Must have gone*

Is that why the game was kinda ass?

Considering how much work had to go into accounting for every possible decision in the previous two games, yes. I'm sure that played a big part in why they couldn't stick the landing. I'm pretty sure it's been confirmed that the devs were running out of time and had to rush the ending.

This is the right path.

Overlord was my favourite DLC, maybe b/c I'm on that spectrum myself.

I had a similar experience where I realized that I had failed to set all the right flags in order to save both the Geth and the Quarrians. I was like, well, it's time to start over in Mass Effect 2.

my games sometimes glitch n dont give me the proper amount of required "Points" so as I play on PC i use save editor to be sure always have enough points. doesn't mean I'll always keep the peace though, just like to have the option to without being locked out.@@FreakazoidRobots

​@@zimrielI like that mission, but my personal favorite was the Shadow Broker mission.

I'll never understand why EA tried to market ME3 by saying it's a good starting point for newcomers. That's like saying Return of the Jedi is a good place to start with Star Wars.

@@Mysticgamer it's like watching return of the king without fellowship or the two towers

Hilarious - you're a real Navy guy and play Mass Effect, as well. I bet all the Commander Shep memes hit a little more effectively for you!

@@Mysticgamer said this before, this could all be solved by simply randomizing the choices on making a brand new game for 3. it would not only help new players, but would make returning players have a reason to no use their og saves on new playthroughs.

That's rough bro! Was 3 your first Mass Effect game?

@@rustybushel6220 yeah it was. I randomly picked it up at Best Buy. I had no idea what was going on with the story besides the reapers invading but I had fun playing as femshep and I've been a fan ever since.

Funny mass effect 2 was my first time playing mass effect,on the Xbox 360 I literally lost everyone then never went back then I got a Ps3 then I found mass effect 3 and I would only place this version of ME3 cause two different systems lol

Mass effect 3 was my first mass effect game as well. I remembered that the ending seemed a bit lacking, but I assumed that was because I hadn’t played the prequel games prior. I enjoyed my time with me3 so much that I ended up going back and playing me1 and me2, and thoroughly enjoying them as well. I wonder how many others were introduced to the series like I was?

@@Alkadius1993 I am curious as well. It's my favorite series, so I love hearing these stories about how people came to find it.

I think it's possible. Grunt is never woken up, legion is the same, zaeed and Kasumi are not met. Jack is killed in the cutscene before the final mission because of no armor plating, samara is sent into the tube and dies, mordin escorts Dr chakwas and survives, thane dies at hold the line.

@@PcCAvioN but mordin's loyalty mission is not completed, he would die escorting chakwas afaik.

@@salamantics correct, the only way him to survive is being loyal so my guess is that in this world state his loyalty mission is done but Maelon data is destroyed. So no reason to mention the data during dialogues

There is a very simple explanation for that and that is Shepard "dies" on the suicide mission. When you start Mass Effect 3 you are playing a different person - a lookalike who has been trained to assume Shepard's identity. If you get your Shepard through the suicide mission Bioware even have a contingency plan. Shepard gets replaced with an imposter during the Arrival DLC when they get knocked out by Object Rho. I discovered Shepard got replaced in Arrival last December but a few months ago I found the default settings for Mass Effect 3 and I started doing the math. I've also been playing ME2 and in the final battle Harbinger can be heard saying, "Preserve Shepard's body if possible." There's no Saeed, Kasumi, Grunt, Legion and Samara on the SM and Jack and Thane die. Chakwas survives but a disloyal member cannot escort her back. Therefore, Garrus, Jacob, Mordin, Miranda, Tali, Chakwas and Joker helped knock Shepard out and preserve their body. They preserve Shepard's body for the finale of the trilogy and that was being planned from the very start of Mass Effect 1. You play a different Shepard in each game. OG Shepard is replaced at the start of Mass Effect 2. Joker causes the blast that knocks Shepard into space and the Collector vessel picks up the body. When Joker says, "Watch the arm," watch his arm as he gets into the escape pod. You wake up in the Cerberus facility playing a different person whose first words are, "This pistol doesn't have a thermal clip." Huh? Thermal clips were developed while Shepard was comatose. They are telling you it's a different person. Also, why did Bioware have a beauty pageant before the release of Mass Effect 3 where the community could vote on how Femshep looks? Because it's a different person. Why did Bioware make it impossible to import the same custom face from ME2 to ME3? Because it's a different person. Not only have I discovered Shepard gets replaced with imposters, I have discovered who those imposter are. One is Armistan Banes and the other is Captain Harris Fairchild of the MSV Hugo Gernsback. Both their bodies were collected after they were spaced and you never see them. Bioware has a canon story which they seeded throughout the game from the beginning to the end. That canon story is about replacing characters with imposters. It is highly likely that canon is classified, gatekept and concealed by NDAs. You will never get them to confess.

The best way to keep Mordin alive, if you have done his loyalty mission, is to send him with the Normandy crew back to the ship when that option presents itself. You can, if you use just the right people, kill off everyone but Zaeed in the hold the line. Then kill off Zaeed in his own loyalty mission after the suicide mission.

💀Vent God has spoken💀

Truly, the Gods hath forsaken us…

When you finally get a character that shares your name in real life... 😑

“Somehow, Jacob Taylor returned.”

Well I did ME3 first before playing backwards lol. Tbh I don’t really remember what I was experiencing when I played with the default state since I didn’t know any prior storylines so of course I wouldn’t know what’s missing or that I played in a not so good world state. So I definitely enjoy this video to remind me again lol

In which way? Destroy, Control, or Synthesis.

"You did crap, son. You did crap."

How will he be fine? What does this mean?

sadly, even if you do, me3 will still end feeling like your choices didnt really matter much...

​@@marcosdhelenoEh, the endings can be redeemed with side material a la the Star Wars Prequels.

@@michaelandreipalon359 "Goodbye Chewbacca. Miss you, I will"

@@michaelandreipalon359 gonna be honest, hard disagree. ending was probably one of the worst and most disapointing endings to a game i've experienced.

@@Rudoku1 Yeah, the Galactic Battlegrounds and Republic Commando video games, plus the Republic comics, out the war effort on Kashyyyk into a whole new and well meaning light.

So BioWare was garbage even when they were popular Lmao

​@@Jim-BagelOh no, you're supposed to play games 1&2 in a trilogy!? How messed up!

@@Jim-Bagel yeah what assholes, making a heavily story-based trilogy thats only properly effective when you play all 3 games. how dare they make you play 1 and 2 before playing 3?

​@@Jim-Bagel rofl lol lmao rofl lol

You could always play through the comic.

Only with maleshep. If you chose femshep, he survived virmire and ashley died.

Dude , when I was a teenager, my dad bought me3 because he thought it was like halo, me wasn't even on my radar, I was like "who tf is kaiden?" The whole time

@@DeitySkullKid I started with ME2 and was the same way. Who is this Kaiden they talk about (and why should I care about this Ashley person who wasn't harvested during a main mission)?

Citadel dlc was such a unique expirience I really think it has to have been written by an entirely different team.

It’s like Skyrim. A garbage game unless you add a bunch of stupid bs

I didn't even know you could upgrade Anderson. 😂

I was playing yesterday for the 50th time and I discovered that in ME2 when you ask someone for upgrades idea, go into upgrade menu and just do nothing, they have a line about wasting their time

I was really curious what the game was like for WiiU players. I'm assuming you still had the Genesis comics?

​@@GordonShemway1the game at launch didn't have the genesis comics, they were added in an update about 6 months later if I recall (about the only update the Wii U version got) The day one experience was cursed indeed

What did you know about Mass Effect before you played? Did you know how much of it built on the game before?

​@@BrainAbsoluteZeroI'd already played through all of them on the Xbox 360 before Picked it up as it was very cheap, as the Wii U never did very well It includes Javik and the Prothean DLC and the expanded ending but otherwise it's a barebones experience Only unique feature is the gamepad has a minimap and you can see enemies marked as orange dots

😆

It sounds like you just admit it’s a bad game though? If it’s living off the hype of the first ones then what does the game have by itself? Like you said they’re your favorite characters after but they’re still nobodies.

No, there's the comic at the start

Especially if you want the perfect ending, those 8000 points aren't gonna collect themselves

@@happygal8804 "Gonna catch em all - War assets."

To be fair, it is a sequel that builds extremely heavily on the story of its predecessors.

If they weren't great game games I might be upset. Besides, there's save game editors for 2 and 3. I can't remember the last time I played 1.

Dude same, my dad was a gamer too and got me into it when be bought it. I was maybe in the 7th grade, so around 11 or 12. Had zero idea of what was going on but immediately fell in love. Then one day after work, he came home with me2 something edition. It had the double discs and all the dlcs. I literally stopped playin me3 to play me2 and it was amazing as well. When i was younger, I didn’t like me1 because it felt boring. Older i got, the more i loved it. 3 is still my baby tho.

RIGHT?!?! I STILL play ME3 multiplayer a couple times a month to this day! It BAFFLES me why they removed it for the Legendary Edition…

I was very young when I first played the original ME and had a very limited vocabulary. So I was absolutely clueless to what was going on. I specifically remember being invited to meet the consort, but with the cutscene that was presented, I thought Shepard was about to have a booty call so I noped out and went exploring uncharted planets - which was actually something I actually really enjoyed for the exploration fantasy. Then when I returned, I learned that I was unwelcome to the consort for the rest of the game and was genuinely confused why, and only pieced it together later. Edit: a year or so later when my intelligence improved a little, I proceeded to start a new save and this time ensure to not mess anything up with the help of my older brother - who literally supervised me while I was playing the game. 😂

​@@nerdyneo21 servers cost money to run.

@@robertharris6092 the multiplayer is peer to peer

“Haha red shirt death meaningless” Great character building right there

Okay, to be FAIR to you, the tech specialist is specifically tasked with crawling through a vent, when you first meet thane he's being all sneaky and crawling through vents

I pity Jacob though. He's no Virmire Survivor, Vega, or even Traynor and Cortez, but... Anywho, nice seeing you here, IoN!

@@michaelandreipalon359 Likewise good Sir.

WHY BIOWARE???? WHYYY

ME3 Randomizer speedrun: shepherd lives%

3 is definitely the worst of the bunch

It’s just a bad game and they want to spite players that didn’t play their trash games before the 3rd

​@@Jim-Bagel The gameplay of 3 solos the first two though, no debate.

not dollar store kanye kkkk

I tend to agree. I did the opposite: ME1-2 (Zaeed died in the suicide-mission, but screw him, he's ripoff DLC) and just... refused to play ME3. In part because of that stupid ending but more because of that arrogant warning the Bioware / EA forum posted on the day the game came out and we all learnt about the stupid ending. Anyway now it's all on Legendary excepting the unmissed and unwanted "Pinnacle" DLC, and can be had for a song during Steam sales, so I might venture back in there after all...

Finally, someone who takes pity on the guy.

wrong, it is. i've done it multiple times.

I have only completed Arrival once I just fear its difficulty

@@channel45853 Same, it's so awful. Time limit, hordes of enemies, and no squadmates? No thanks.

​@@MiharuTheFoxHmm, what class do you main on?

​@@channel45853Not as bad as Dragon Age: Origins' "Golems at Amgarrak".

@@michaelandreipalon359 Adept

"One is enough."

The answer is: yes, Kaiden is the default VS if you start either ME2 or ME3 as FemShep.

Yes. Yes it is

Yeah, kriff Morinth!