Not gonna lie, as I get older and don't (cant) have kids, listening to a one sided conversation addressed to a father figure about a mutual interest is greatly appreciated. Please keep up the great work! 👍
Same here. I love Garrus. I never romanced him as my female Shepard, because her heart belongs to Kaidan, but he is the best friend with an amazing delivery. The line “there is no Shepard without Vakarian” made me weep and by the time I finished the game, I didn’t stop crying. Masterful game trilogy.
I generally find myself wanting to renegade any ME playthrough, but I can never go 100% in any direction, I usually end up with about an 80/20 split. It may end up hurting your max score for Paragon/Renegade, but I think the best playthroughs actually are somewhere in the middle, where you just choose the answer you like best/how you would answer if you were Shepard. You're still always able to save Wrex, romance whomever, its all just adds yet another layer to a universe where things aren't black and white...or blue and red for that matter
@@YourFavoriteSon1 oh yes usually so, but many you can always still get regardless of what path you've chosen, like doing a full paragon run and still punching the reporter lol. Honestly I think the only time it benefits to go full hog is for the VERY hard alignment checks at the end game
Totally agree, I very much play as a Paragon in general but I selected the 'Ruthless' background, killed Wrex and let the Council die at the end. My version of Shepard came across as a good, well-meaning guy but he was willing to get his hands dirty when needs be for the greater good.
As long as you're a completionist there is some wriggle room that allows you the freedom to mix things up. I usually go mostly renegade but skip a few of the more sociopathic choices.
There's a glitch in the game (even the remastered version) that will allow for unlimited renegade or paragon points. I use it every time I play so I can make whatever choices I want. Google it if ur interested
Oh no! I suppose I have to replay the whole series again so I can have it fresh in my memory while you go through the series. Truly a tragic fate. Good job, son.
I've been waiting for you to cover the Mass Effect games. I've never had the chance to play them when they were new but the universe and characters did intrigue me. It's interesting hearing someone else talk about the world, characters and how they interacted with the narrative.
Just discovered this video....very well done. It may be an unpopular opinion, but Mass effect 1 is my favorite of the trilogy. It's the most RPGish of the 3, and the story and world building is top notch. I'll be checking out your other mass effect videos. Thanks for your efforts!
I love how there's a document that shows how all the choices played out on average from all the players in the Mass effect series. With female soldier Shepherd ending up with liara and killing Caden being the most common outcome.
Nuts, I just started a new playthrough - first of the Legendary Edition - this weekend. First time I played it in, I wanna say, nine years. And the muscle memory I got slipping back into the groove of things was immense. For a game I didn't take to right away - impatience and ignorance on my part, due to treating it like a Gears of War clone - it grew on me with repeated playing and I got to love it's immersive world and likeable characters. Oh, and FemShep is OnlyShep
Just doing this to correct some narrative mistakes. Many of them don't amount to much but I thought it important to correct these as technically they are still mistakes. 20:00 Barla Von isn't a shadow broker but an information broker who works FOR the Shadow Broker. 20:40 Wrex didn't kill Fist because of a feud between him and Fist but because it was his job to do so. He even says as much right after the execution. 24:03 The Consort isn't just what you implied (though she is that too) but also a therapist, psychologist, and others as well. Essentially whatever a client needs/wants to relieve their stress she provides. This is why when you ask the human bartender at the embassies about her he doesn't quite know how to describe her. Just mentions that "If you haven't hear of her yet, you soon will." and "She is an important person but also very respected."
I love your Renegade commentary! it's a shame you didn't play one character as FemShep, Jennifer Hale's performance is top-notch but I can also understand why you kept things consistent. I can't wait for ME2.
Fem shep is just not fun. I usually play women over men characters in RPGs and this is the one game I just can’t do it. I hate femshep. I hate her voice.
I have done so many play throughs of all three, and currently doing another trilogy run but with the legendary edition. Truly a great series, one of my favorites. I always did paragon/maleshep and renegade/femshep, lots of fun. These retrospectives are so good
I finished playing the Legendary Edition, after my husband told me I would love the game. He was right. Now, I am replaying it on insanity mode and I am completely hyped about the fourth one. I played the female Shepard and all the characters were so well developed, I hope I see them all again in Mass Effect 4. Lovely video.
Same thing happened to me. My guy told me to play cuz he thought I would love the games. He was right. Who did you decide to romance? 😅 Garrus is my boy 👀
@@nataliem86 I romanced Kaiden. I love Garrus, but I always felt there was just a friendly quality between them. I especially liked the fact that Kaiden didn't go with her in the second one. It gave depth to their relationship, since love also means staying true to your morals. I felt that he was a more serious romance. Garrus is the guy you flirt with. For me, Kaiden was her rock. Someone she could break down and have him bring her back up. Cheers.
Sorry for the late viewing, The moment I saw you start playing the first three again, I went back and played them. watching your renegade synopsis made my day. "She unlocked the doors to his base, she wanted to leave. Not on my watch." 😆
Oooooo man the hype is real for this. Just played through Legendary Edition after not having touched the games since high school. They're still excellent! Excited for your thoughts.
I always picked what I waited to say or do in mass effect. This made for an interesting character. I played a female shepherd that was the both the nicest person in the world and a monster no one wanted to piss of become she would drop kick you out s window or pouch a report in the face. It turned out rule interesting in mass effect 2 and 3 .
Renegade playthroughs are the most entertaining playthrough in the series, me and my brother was playing these games on launch, and he always go for Paragon, it makes me play renegade by default. We both watch each other's play so we know what happens each path. 😂
Bro I remember being in one of your live streams early on and now look at your channel!! Love to see that hard work recognised and you finally got around to mass effect...awesome
Son, now we can finally start using you in Mass Effect memes! Dad: "Son" Son: "Dad" Dad: "Son" Son: "Dad" ME always had an odd place in my heart. By time the second game came out I considered it one of the best sci-fi stories ever told. There was practically nothing about it that I actually disliked. Then 3 came around and it suddenly dawned on me how quick and easy it is to make someone despise something they had previously considered a lifelong love. 3 had a lot of what made the previous 2 so great and then some, but the narrative plotholes, inconsistencies with the rest of the franchise, and outright denying the primary theme of the previous two games (personally surviving the impossible) made it thoroughly unenjoyable by the end. It's crazy how much a couple of bad cut scenes sprinkled throughout the game and the entire ending made me do a 180 on something I loved- something literally no other franchise has ever managed to make me do. It'll be one heck of a fun ride listening to you tackle the rest of the games though. Especially Andromeda lol.
idk why but the opening made me laugh and slam my desk, I think it was the pause "Mass Effect is a game series". TRUE!!! Joking aside, super comfy vid.
In retrospect and with multiple playthroughs, I can definitely say that the 1st Mass Effect is my favorite in the trilogy (even before the Legendary Edition). How they introduced you to the world, its inhabitants, the sense of mystery and exploration has no equal for me to this day. And even if it was really simple and quite barebone, I really like the way you explore the galaxy and the many uncharted planets, it's just the unknown and emptiness of space that is fascinating to me, not like in other sci-fi franchises where every planet is full of life and host of aliens species, sometimes you just don't find anything but the empty void of space and that is really appealing to me. And I'll add something, playing as a renegade in ME1 is one of the best and funniest things in gaming, especially with a femshep 😂
I started a playthough a few days ago. My first playthough on the legendary edition, but my fourth overall of the first one. I have literally never heard of your channel before nor have i seen any of your videos. I wanted to listen to a retrospective while i was knocking out uncharted worlds and the part where your going over your character creation choices is _absolutely_ uncanny. You and I made _the exact_ same choices, every. single. one. of them, the default appearance, the name, the gender, class, psyche, background, paragon, identical. Its bizarre.
I never played the series before. I just started playing the first one from the legendary edition and I’m hooked. Love everything about the game so far
I love Mass Effect but I've only completed it twice, and I played the original a year or two after it's release and the subsequent games day one. Bought the PS4 version a while back and this is just making me hype to play it when I get home this week.
This is short in comparison to your other videos 😢but still solid I hit the like button and I’ve been subscribed I never played this series but I’ve seen several retrospective this is solid thanks brother
I have very cherished memories about this game from when I was younger. For context: My father doesn't play play video games. Or if he does he doesn't get really far with them. Either too busy or just no interest despite my small attempts to get him interested in the hobby. But to each their own. Anyways, we had gotten this game randomly I don't remember from where. I know we didn't buy it but I think we rented it, I want to say from Gamefly (anyone else remember that?). I didn't have much interest in the game myself, I liked the aesthetic but at the time rpgs didn't appeal to my gotta go fast COD brain at the time and the combat was meh at best but my dad started playing it. My curiosity to watch wasn't for the game itself but rather just to see my dad play a video game. I don't know for how long, it felt like several weeks but was prolly just a week or so I'd watch him play it every night in the living room. One time, he had been sitting on the ottoman in one spot for so long that it broke and you could feel the piece of wood that had snapped to the day we threw that out. He accidently managed to romance Liara, I'm pretty sure Wrex bit a bullet, and I think Kaiden died. And when he was done we gave the game back and I still hadn't really played the game and didn't like what I had played. Fast forward to today: Mass Effect is my favorite gaming trilogy of all time with no other game series even coming close. I have played through all three games so many times that to measure my time spent in them isn't in the dozens of hours but rather the hundreds. Bought the games about as many times as Todd Howard has sold us Skyrim. I know the games backwards, forwards, up, down, left, and right. I make yearly pilgrimages through the trilogy, and all companions in other games I compare to Mass Effect companions (Tali/Garrus are the GOAT and I will die on this hill). And I feel like I owe this in no small part to that playthrough my dad went through so many years ago of this game. And even before the legendary edition came and made some much appreciated quality of life changes, I still held Mass Effect 1 in a special place in my nostalgia driven heart because of that journey. Also before anyone asks, no my father has not played any of the other games much to my chagrin. Though he has has watched me play them from time to time. Not like how I watched a full playthrough back in the day though just bits and pieces. Probably for the best, I fear my innate desire to backseat game would take over since I know the games so much.
Kinda cracks me up that in his Paragon playthrough he chose to save the alien-hating racist who talks back and in the Renegade playthrough he kept Kaidan, who is thoughtful and dedicated to the mission and worries about doing what's right.
Hey, Son! Another stunner, cheers.. you've been working hard the last few months, don't forget to make sure you're resting and eating enough and remember to call your mother.. she worries.. Take care of yourself, boy Dad - London UK ❤
Twitter just hasn't been showing me your posts so I didn't actually know this was the next series. (I'm one of the weird ones that liked Andromeda the best. Story wise it wasn't that great, but gameplay wise it's 100% the best)
@@YourFavoriteSon1 I'm not going to defend their decision to use college, or students or whatever they used for the Animations cause it was dumb. But I liked it and do think it's at least worth a try. It's just a shame the story remains incomplete because the DLC got scrapped. If EA didn't do their usual EA BS, Andromeda would have been much better
I thoroughly enjoyed your renegade roleplay! I dislike people being edgy and roleplaying evil from the get go, but as a comparison to the Good roleplay, it was amazing.
12:00 I love this series, I even enjoy Andromeda, but the way the Paragon/Renegade system starts here, is invisibly sabotaged in ME2 and then becomes totally pointless in ME3 with checks just determined by the total is a really good example of how Bioware seems determined to just constantly surprise their fans with things that make you want to bang your head on your desk.
Hi Son, so good! I must admit, Conrad is my second son. He is one of my favourite parts of this game alongside the music, the story, my girl Liara...Anyways, shared this with my friend whom this is his favourite series.
I would realllyyy recommend playing the original version of mass effect 2 as well as the recent remaster when you get to 2 for the sake of completeness. They made some actual balance changes that significantly effect how the game feels to play and it would be good to go over that. XD specifically for me they increased the ammo drop rate which does address one issue I have with 2 personally.
I do actually think you're doing a disservice to the amazing writing and voice work for FemShep by not playing as her in one of your alternate (in this case Renegade) playthough. I played MaleShep for years but when I played FemShep it was a while new experience cross the Trilogy.
ME was the only BioWare game where I didn’t play the first in the series. Started with ME2. Loved everything about the world and characters just as much as 2. The gameplay on the other hand took a minute getting used to.
I just replayed the trilogy not that long ago. Originally I never finished ME1 (when it first came out) and besides some technical flaws, I'd say it's tied for 2nd with ME3 imo. ME2 is still the best one (even though I know some ppl didn't like the direction of more action vs. RPG)
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How do you feel about the first game in the Mass Effect series dad? 🚀
Stop calling me dad you weirdo.
Great trilogy great channel keep it up kiddo. Oh try an arkham series retrospective at some point
Loved it, it was a game I received for my b day and was instantly a fan, mostly cause it reminded me of Kotor
I grow more proud of you for every video
Liked the first game. Hated the lift/elevator cutscenes at the citadel
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite son in the Citadel
Who is your least favorite son?
Absolute genius, made me lol hard
The perfect comment
Cringe, and it doesn't even make sense.
@@LuveenWadhwani very easily entertained.
Not gonna lie, as I get older and don't (cant) have kids, listening to a one sided conversation addressed to a father figure about a mutual interest is greatly appreciated. Please keep up the great work! 👍
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Most relatable comment I've ever read
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Five minutes after talking with Garrus for the first time I was thinking, "yeah, I can tell we're going to be best friends"
Same here. I love Garrus. I never romanced him as my female Shepard, because her heart belongs to Kaidan, but he is the best friend with an amazing delivery. The line “there is no Shepard without Vakarian” made me weep and by the time I finished the game, I didn’t stop crying. Masterful game trilogy.
Garrus is the lad I would hang out with for a beer.
Son, you'll always be my favorite, and the more I see of your work, the more I love it. Keep it up, you're goin' places kid
Thanks Dad!
Good overview (inexplicable mispronunciation of names aside lol), and your assessment of your renegade playthrough was quite entertaining.
I was waiting when you would do a retrospective on Mass Effect! Thank you!
You're welcome Dad!
I generally find myself wanting to renegade any ME playthrough, but I can never go 100% in any direction, I usually end up with about an 80/20 split. It may end up hurting your max score for Paragon/Renegade, but I think the best playthroughs actually are somewhere in the middle, where you just choose the answer you like best/how you would answer if you were Shepard. You're still always able to save Wrex, romance whomever, its all just adds yet another layer to a universe where things aren't black and white...or blue and red for that matter
I agree, but some of the most interesting outcomes are in the extremes haha
@@YourFavoriteSon1 oh yes usually so, but many you can always still get regardless of what path you've chosen, like doing a full paragon run and still punching the reporter lol. Honestly I think the only time it benefits to go full hog is for the VERY hard alignment checks at the end game
Totally agree, I very much play as a Paragon in general but I selected the 'Ruthless' background, killed Wrex and let the Council die at the end. My version of Shepard came across as a good, well-meaning guy but he was willing to get his hands dirty when needs be for the greater good.
As long as you're a completionist there is some wriggle room that allows you the freedom to mix things up. I usually go mostly renegade but skip a few of the more sociopathic choices.
There's a glitch in the game (even the remastered version) that will allow for unlimited renegade or paragon points. I use it every time I play so I can make whatever choices I want. Google it if ur interested
The Mass Effect trilogy will always have a soft spot in my heart, shame nothing really took its place
Oh no! I suppose I have to replay the whole series again so I can have it fresh in my memory while you go through the series. Truly a tragic fate. Good job, son.
Oops
There goes all of my freetime for the next month again.
Your retrospectives are always fantastic and this is another hit. Proud of you son
Your*
You need to work on your grammar.
My browser glitched at the right moment.... "Mass Effect is a game...." indeed it is
I had to make him look terrifying so I gave him a mustache. This joke made my day!
I've been waiting for you to cover the Mass Effect games. I've never had the chance to play them when they were new but the universe and characters did intrigue me. It's interesting hearing someone else talk about the world, characters and how they interacted with the narrative.
Great work, son. Always a pleasure to watch another video from you. Keep up the good work champ! 👍
Omg yessss!!! Mass effect is one of my favorite game series I’ve replayed this countless times!
Just discovered this video....very well done. It may be an unpopular opinion, but Mass effect 1 is my favorite of the trilogy. It's the most RPGish of the 3, and the story and world building is top notch. I'll be checking out your other mass effect videos. Thanks for your efforts!
I love how there's a document that shows how all the choices played out on average from all the players in the Mass effect series.
With female soldier Shepherd ending up with liara and killing Caden being the most common outcome.
Letting Caden live is the one thing I’ve never done
Hey son, thank you for this retrospective. Make sure to do your chores before making the next one.
Sincerely,
Dad
Nuts, I just started a new playthrough - first of the Legendary Edition - this weekend. First time I played it in, I wanna say, nine years. And the muscle memory I got slipping back into the groove of things was immense.
For a game I didn't take to right away - impatience and ignorance on my part, due to treating it like a Gears of War clone - it grew on me with repeated playing and I got to love it's immersive world and likeable characters.
Oh, and FemShep is OnlyShep
Just doing this to correct some narrative mistakes. Many of them don't amount to much but I thought it important to correct these as technically they are still mistakes.
20:00 Barla Von isn't a shadow broker but an information broker who works FOR the Shadow Broker.
20:40 Wrex didn't kill Fist because of a feud between him and Fist but because it was his job to do so. He even says as much right after the execution.
24:03 The Consort isn't just what you implied (though she is that too) but also a therapist, psychologist, and others as well. Essentially whatever a client needs/wants to relieve their stress she provides. This is why when you ask the human bartender at the embassies about her he doesn't quite know how to describe her. Just mentions that "If you haven't hear of her yet, you soon will." and "She is an important person but also very respected."
my son talking about my favorite game of all time? That's why you're my favorite son!
Finally, I've been waiting for this)
Good job, son)
Thanks Dad!
I love your Renegade commentary! it's a shame you didn't play one character as FemShep, Jennifer Hale's performance is top-notch but I can also understand why you kept things consistent. I can't wait for ME2.
Renegade FemShep is gold in ME2.
Fem shep is just not fun. I usually play women over men characters in RPGs and this is the one game I just can’t do it. I hate femshep. I hate her voice.
I have done so many play throughs of all three, and currently doing another trilogy run but with the legendary edition. Truly a great series, one of my favorites. I always did paragon/maleshep and renegade/femshep, lots of fun. These retrospectives are so good
Thanks Dad!
Been waiting for an ME retrospect!
I finished playing the Legendary Edition, after my husband told me I would love the game. He was right. Now, I am replaying it on insanity mode and I am completely hyped about the fourth one. I played the female Shepard and all the characters were so well developed, I hope I see them all again in Mass Effect 4. Lovely video.
Same thing happened to me. My guy told me to play cuz he thought I would love the games. He was right. Who did you decide to romance? 😅 Garrus is my boy 👀
@@nataliem86 I romanced Kaiden. I love Garrus, but I always felt there was just a friendly quality between them. I especially liked the fact that Kaiden didn't go with her in the second one. It gave depth to their relationship, since love also means staying true to your morals. I felt that he was a more serious romance. Garrus is the guy you flirt with. For me, Kaiden was her rock. Someone she could break down and have him bring her back up. Cheers.
Sorry for the late viewing, The moment I saw you start playing the first three again, I went back and played them.
watching your renegade synopsis made my day. "She unlocked the doors to his base, she wanted to leave. Not on my watch." 😆
I was literally just thinking "I wonder what the next retrospective will be" so now I'm stoked.
Proud of you Son. Just don't call out the wrong woman's name like you did in Dead Space 2. That kind of carelessness can only end in a black eye.
Very chill and informative video. Thanks for this, exactly what I needed while nursing a cold
Glad you liked it, and feel better!
I'm very disappointed in you for not including all the expanded universe's media, namely the adult entertainment film Ass Effect
He usually saves that stuff for the full Trilogy video.
@@couchpotato2222 But Ass Effect has implications from the very beginning, it's important enough to be mentioned in the intro
It doesn't matter if you are playing Paragon or Renegade, you never give up your weapons on Noveria.
Love this! Keep up the great work. Thanks for giving me vids to throw on and vibe with.
Absolutely killing the content game my dude. So cool to watch your channel grow! Keep up the great work a play button is in your near future!
Just played all 3 games for the first time. Now I’m obsessed and looking up every video I can 😍
Oooooo man the hype is real for this. Just played through Legendary Edition after not having touched the games since high school. They're still excellent! Excited for your thoughts.
straight killing it with these videos man!!! love the content.
I always picked what I waited to say or do in mass effect. This made for an interesting character. I played a female shepherd that was the both the nicest person in the world and a monster no one wanted to piss of become she would drop kick you out s window or pouch a report in the face. It turned out rule interesting in mass effect 2 and 3 .
Renegade playthroughs are the most entertaining playthrough in the series, me and my brother was playing these games on launch, and he always go for Paragon, it makes me play renegade by default. We both watch each other's play so we know what happens each path. 😂
Hi son, it's me your favourite Dad
Hi Dad
Never understood all the hate for the Mako. It was a little wonky but I had fun with it.
Bro I remember being in one of your live streams early on and now look at your channel!! Love to see that hard work recognised and you finally got around to mass effect...awesome
You got my attention, anyone who talks about any of the 4 Mass Effect games will always have my ears!!👍👍
Perfect timing i had just started playing through the series 2 weeks ago. I’m halfway through the 3rd game as we speak.
"we don't have time to deal with this idiot, charge!" is probably my favorite renegade line
Son, now we can finally start using you in Mass Effect memes!
Dad: "Son"
Son: "Dad"
Dad: "Son"
Son: "Dad"
ME always had an odd place in my heart. By time the second game came out I considered it one of the best sci-fi stories ever told. There was practically nothing about it that I actually disliked. Then 3 came around and it suddenly dawned on me how quick and easy it is to make someone despise something they had previously considered a lifelong love. 3 had a lot of what made the previous 2 so great and then some, but the narrative plotholes, inconsistencies with the rest of the franchise, and outright denying the primary theme of the previous two games (personally surviving the impossible) made it thoroughly unenjoyable by the end. It's crazy how much a couple of bad cut scenes sprinkled throughout the game and the entire ending made me do a 180 on something I loved- something literally no other franchise has ever managed to make me do. It'll be one heck of a fun ride listening to you tackle the rest of the games though. Especially Andromeda lol.
I haven't played 3 since high school, so I'm also interested to see how I feel about it today.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 Dunno about you, but Tali is best love interest. Especially in ME3.
It's strictly Blue girls for my Shepherd.
Your renegade Shep looks like Genghis Khan.
Genghis John.
idk why but the opening made me laugh and slam my desk, I think it was the pause "Mass Effect is a game series". TRUE!!! Joking aside, super comfy vid.
In retrospect and with multiple playthroughs, I can definitely say that the 1st Mass Effect is my favorite in the trilogy (even before the Legendary Edition).
How they introduced you to the world, its inhabitants, the sense of mystery and exploration has no equal for me to this day. And even if it was really simple and quite barebone, I really like the way you explore the galaxy and the many uncharted planets, it's just the unknown and emptiness of space that is fascinating to me, not like in other sci-fi franchises where every planet is full of life and host of aliens species, sometimes you just don't find anything but the empty void of space and that is really appealing to me.
And I'll add something, playing as a renegade in ME1 is one of the best and funniest things in gaming, especially with a femshep 😂
I started a playthough a few days ago. My first playthough on the legendary edition, but my fourth overall of the first one. I have literally never heard of your channel before nor have i seen any of your videos. I wanted to listen to a retrospective while i was knocking out uncharted worlds and the part where your going over your character creation choices is _absolutely_ uncanny. You and I made _the exact_ same choices, every. single. one. of them, the default appearance, the name, the gender, class, psyche, background, paragon, identical. Its bizarre.
I'll never stop loving your work... Wonderful job as always
always hilarious when Shepard winds that haymaker up.
I'm proud of you son, this is one of my favourite games.
Nother video? Sign me up! Keep going!
I never played the series before. I just started playing the first one from the legendary edition and I’m hooked. Love everything about the game so far
Your videos are fucking awesome. There's so much effort put into them! I hope you keep your narrating style because it's so good
Alex Kurtzman straight ripped off Mass Effect for his Picard show.
I love Mass Effect but I've only completed it twice, and I played the original a year or two after it's release and the subsequent games day one. Bought the PS4 version a while back and this is just making me hype to play it when I get home this week.
Definitely worth a revisit
Darn. This vid auto played when I was asleep.
Guess I have to watch it again to actually see the video.
This is short in comparison to your other videos 😢but still solid I hit the like button and I’ve been subscribed I never played this series but I’ve seen several retrospective this is solid thanks brother
There is no timeline where Ashley survives Virmire.
“ just another alien-
.. started to feel out numbered on my own ship!”
😂😂😂😂😂
Good job, Son! Always proud of you ^^
Gosh I wish we had a new Mass Effect game to discuss, dissect, and play. Too bad ME4 is at least 3 years (possibly more) away.
Soon
Been here since the Legacy of Kain video. Stayed because of your Silent Hill and Yakuza videos. You never disappoint me, son.
YourFavoriteSon discussing my favorite game series ever? Do go on.
god Renegade is so comically dickish, it's SO funny
I loved this games as a child it helped in a hard time and helped me express my self and see what happens it's left a MASS effect on me...lmfao
Is that really so funny that it requires an lmfao?
@@jarlwhiterun7478 it was actually ,glad to give clarification anytime my simple fellow
I have very cherished memories about this game from when I was younger.
For context: My father doesn't play play video games. Or if he does he doesn't get really far with them. Either too busy or just no interest despite my small attempts to get him interested in the hobby. But to each their own. Anyways, we had gotten this game randomly I don't remember from where. I know we didn't buy it but I think we rented it, I want to say from Gamefly (anyone else remember that?). I didn't have much interest in the game myself, I liked the aesthetic but at the time rpgs didn't appeal to my gotta go fast COD brain at the time and the combat was meh at best but my dad started playing it. My curiosity to watch wasn't for the game itself but rather just to see my dad play a video game. I don't know for how long, it felt like several weeks but was prolly just a week or so I'd watch him play it every night in the living room. One time, he had been sitting on the ottoman in one spot for so long that it broke and you could feel the piece of wood that had snapped to the day we threw that out. He accidently managed to romance Liara, I'm pretty sure Wrex bit a bullet, and I think Kaiden died. And when he was done we gave the game back and I still hadn't really played the game and didn't like what I had played.
Fast forward to today: Mass Effect is my favorite gaming trilogy of all time with no other game series even coming close. I have played through all three games so many times that to measure my time spent in them isn't in the dozens of hours but rather the hundreds. Bought the games about as many times as Todd Howard has sold us Skyrim. I know the games backwards, forwards, up, down, left, and right. I make yearly pilgrimages through the trilogy, and all companions in other games I compare to Mass Effect companions (Tali/Garrus are the GOAT and I will die on this hill). And I feel like I owe this in no small part to that playthrough my dad went through so many years ago of this game. And even before the legendary edition came and made some much appreciated quality of life changes, I still held Mass Effect 1 in a special place in my nostalgia driven heart because of that journey.
Also before anyone asks, no my father has not played any of the other games much to my chagrin. Though he has has watched me play them from time to time. Not like how I watched a full playthrough back in the day though just bits and pieces. Probably for the best, I fear my innate desire to backseat game would take over since I know the games so much.
😂the renegade story run down is hilarious!!!
Kinda cracks me up that in his Paragon playthrough he chose to save the alien-hating racist who talks back and in the Renegade playthrough he kept Kaidan, who is thoughtful and dedicated to the mission and worries about doing what's right.
Watching these after I've completed my own playthrough just to see what different choices me and Son made
Hey, Son! Another stunner, cheers.. you've been working hard the last few months, don't forget to make sure you're resting and eating enough and remember to call your mother.. she worries..
Take care of yourself, boy
Dad - London UK ❤
In all my multiple playthroughs of the trilogy, I never had the heart to kill Rex.
Ah, my favourite half-Asari son ^.^ Good work as always
I love you for this
Tali Zorah Vas Normandy. 🥰
Twitter just hasn't been showing me your posts so I didn't actually know this was the next series. (I'm one of the weird ones that liked Andromeda the best. Story wise it wasn't that great, but gameplay wise it's 100% the best)
I'm nervous to try Andromeda because it's the only one I've never played.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 I'm not going to defend their decision to use college, or students or whatever they used for the Animations cause it was dumb. But I liked it and do think it's at least worth a try. It's just a shame the story remains incomplete because the DLC got scrapped. If EA didn't do their usual EA BS, Andromeda would have been much better
weird that there is no mention of the 3-4 sidemissions against cerberus, considering how big of a part they are of the next 2 games
I thoroughly enjoyed your renegade roleplay! I dislike people being edgy and roleplaying evil from the get go, but as a comparison to the Good roleplay, it was amazing.
12:00 I love this series, I even enjoy Andromeda, but the way the Paragon/Renegade system starts here, is invisibly sabotaged in ME2 and then becomes totally pointless in ME3 with checks just determined by the total is a really good example of how Bioware seems determined to just constantly surprise their fans with things that make you want to bang your head on your desk.
Damn son now I want to play the trilogy again. I was surprised that you didn't had sexy time with the consort.
Hi Son, so good! I must admit, Conrad is my second son. He is one of my favourite parts of this game alongside the music, the story, my girl Liara...Anyways, shared this with my friend whom this is his favourite series.
Renegade Shepard is gigachad as hell, i will never llay paragon again
I would've called Renegade Shepard, Judas Shepard
A team dextro user I see. Based.
My fav son doing my fav series, I love you my son
I would realllyyy recommend playing the original version of mass effect 2 as well as the recent remaster when you get to 2 for the sake of completeness.
They made some actual balance changes that significantly effect how the game feels to play and it would be good to go over that.
XD specifically for me they increased the ammo drop rate which does address one issue I have with 2 personally.
I do actually think you're doing a disservice to the amazing writing and voice work for FemShep by not playing as her in one of your alternate (in this case Renegade) playthough.
I played MaleShep for years but when I played FemShep it was a while new experience cross the Trilogy.
you femshep stans are in a cult. I say this with complete seriousness.
ME1 is that one game I loved but won't replay ever again.
ME was the only BioWare game where I didn’t play the first in the series. Started with ME2. Loved everything about the world and characters just as much as 2. The gameplay on the other hand took a minute getting used to.
I just replayed the trilogy not that long ago. Originally I never finished ME1 (when it first came out) and besides some technical flaws, I'd say it's tied for 2nd with ME3 imo. ME2 is still the best one (even though I know some ppl didn't like the direction of more action vs. RPG)
this is making me want to play mass effect (and finish making the tabs for the illusive man theme from 2 on guitar) again, hope you enjoy 2
hello mr. son. how are you? doing good, i hope. thx for the great content. hope this comment helps boosting. keep on keeping on.
Mass Effect 1 and Witcher 3 should be put on golden CDs and shot out into space to let everyone in the galaxy experience them.
Son, if you don’t at least mention just how badass Saren’s theme is, I shall be disappointed.
YOU ARE MY SONSHINE!
The Mako-XP penalty was based on the game's difficulty rather than a flat 50%. On insanity you just dont get XP for killing things in the mako.
On my renegade run i still saved the rachni queen
Not cause i like them but cause who doesn't want a whole race of super bugs owing you a favor?