Mass Effect 1 really is the story of Shepherd signing up for as many newsletters and e-mail lists as possible to defeat the Collectors and Geth in 2 with spam.
There is a profound sense of irony that Shepherd stops a Batarian from crashing an asteroid into a Human colony, only for Shepherd to do the same thing by crashing an asteroid into a Mass Relay destroying a Batarian colony. Also, I am surprised you didn't at least explain the Lorik Quinn infinite paragon/renegade points loop.
Did you know that Batarians compromise only 10% of the galaxy's population? Yet, 85% of terrorism and crimes are done by Batarians. All my homies hate Batarians.
44:34 I believe I have the answer to your question. So, in Mass Effect 2 it’s confirmed that the technology behind Dragon’s Teeth came from Sovereign and not the Geth as was suspected by the characters in Mass Effect 1. This is confirmed during the Reaper IFF mission if you’re curious as to how this is brought up. Considering that this is Reaper technology it stands to reason that this is left over from a previous cycle that they eradicated. Garrus states that he’s heard of these types of “machine cultists” before, cases where people unearth some strange alien technology and become “indoctrinated” (key word lol) into blindly worshipping it like slaves. So your explanation for this side quest is that during a previous cycle somehow some Reaper technology was left behind on this planet, following this the humans that were working on the planet discovered it and became unwilling slaves under the technologies’ influence. This then lead to them impaling themselves on the Dragons Teeth as some form of ritual sacrifice to their newly perceived deity, becoming the husks. Damn that was a long nerdy explanation sorry haha 🤓 😂
I like this route being able to get some unique Liara dialogue I've never heard before. I also never knew Dr. Michel shells out more $$ when you sell to her after her quest! Personally, I prefer unlocking all the side quests organically rather than flying into the systems. The Kahoku quest works really well towards the end of the game after you've found Rachni and Thoriun Creepers and you can bring Tali + the planned Virmire survivor. Great content, keep it up!
I'm really excited to see you continuing this series past the Soulsborne franchise! I feel like ME1 in particular is a sneakily really good game to apply this format to; it's mostly straightforward, but has a ton of little interlocking pieces that are fun to put into proper order. And honestly, as somebody who loves doing this sort of thing on my own playthroughs of games, this whole format is a joy to watch. Great stuff!
The Trinket If you completed Citadel: Xeltan's Complaint before returning to her, Sha'ira will give you a bonus reward, a small trinket that appears to be of Prothean design. This can be used on Eletania, a planet in the Hercules system of the Attican Beta cluster. Use the trinket when examining the anomaly at the ruins, and you will experience a short burst of information about the Protheans studying cavemen on Earth. If you do not speak to Xeltan before returning to Sha'ira, her door will be locked and you won't get the trinket. (Fandom Wiki)
After hearing many praises of Mass Effect from friends I finally caved on a really strong Steam sale. I got as far as being let loose on the citadel. I'm not made for games without some kind of guideline. :D When you mentioned being fuel efficient I was reminded of Air Diver for the Genesis. You can enter any stage in any order, but your air-carrier can't refuel itself so you can gameover by completing distant stages over and over.
I love your videos so much! You've done a great job filling a niche. I love the constant music references too. I wasnt at all exoecting the Bon Iver one! Keep up the genuinely great work man. I can see your channel blowing up and you becoming a known name in the challenge run community :)
Tysm! And I love when people get the more niche references, I basically wait & wonder until each one gets a comment. I'm pretty sure we're at 100%, this is a smart community
This man does Dark Souls then Mass Effect 😮 Literally top tier games. I haven’t even watched this video yet but I’d love to see you attempt this with the other two games!
Pausing at 22:25 to say I'm loving this video and I really enjoy longer form content (helps me ignore my real world problems for longer periods of time) and I'm really feeling like I slept on Tali in my playthrough of ME1. Also, without knowing anything about the Conrad questline, I somehow kept him alive at least up until ME2, though I had to quit that playthrough cause of an unfortunate and uninformed hidden timer after a certain event happens. You almost certainly know what I'm talking about.
Hope your doing on friend. I know real world problems cause a lot of pain and suffering. And from a random person on the internet, I hope your not doing too terribly. Know that your not alone. People do care. Even strangers on RUclips. I hope you get the support you deserve.
@@daphnedherbert Ah, I appreciate it. I'm in therapy and on medication for my depression. I'm doing better than I was a year or two ago, but I still have a long way to go. Thanks for the support and I likewise hope you're also doing well!
@@Yaeza31 so glad to hear that your doing better! Every little bit counts, imo. Celebrate every win! Its a marathon not a sprint. And I know from personal experience it can also take a long time to find the right therapist and the right medications. I spent years trying many therapists and many medications. Now I see a social worker who helps me, and she’s been amazing. You deserve praise for the progress! We all do the best we can with the tools we have. ❤️ makes me happy that you’re feeling a little better and having good distractions rock. hope you don’t forget that it does get better, you can fully feel better. and its ok if you don’t. I live with chronic pain, and for me its all about appreciating recognizing when i’m feeling better and comparing that to when i’m feeling awful. Sorry if my experience isn’t useful for you(maybe it’s useful for someone else who reads this) I tend to ramble 😜 keep being awesome 💜
After following through this over the course of the past week and around 22 hrs of gameplay on my part, I can say ME1 is still a great game. I'm planning on making my way through the next 2 games seeing if I can do me2 and me3 next. Thank you again for this
Lore note about the 'Bring Down The Sky' DLC - The torches were stuck there by the colony. It was meant to bring the asteroid closer for mining. The Batarians just took over and set the torches to straight up crash the asteroid into the planet, they didn't actually put the torches there themselves. Also, am I the only one who thinks Batarian lore just has no possible way to leave the Citadel Races looking good? I mean, it's canon that the Batarians were vastly outgunned when they first broke the agreement to not enslave Citadel citizens, and canon that their illegal slaves are being sold on their homeworld, to members of their government... And nothing gets done. I kinda get it from the Salarians, but the Asari? If your goverment is willing to let you suffer a thousand years of torture, rape, and slavery rather than actually enforce their agreements and treaties, I think you need a new government.
@@robertharris6092 Whe the Council met the Batarians, they made an agreement to not raise a fuss about the slavery thing as long as the Batarians left the Council races alone. The Batarians immediately did not do that, and regardless of location or the broken agreements, if someone steals and enslaves your people, the goverment most definitely has the authority to deal with that.
I would love if there was also a google doc outlining the order in case we wanted to do similar runs, or try the small deviations but as close to 100% ourselves without all the work of planning *all* of it out
I believe Soldier is the cannon class for Shepard, which would make it the choice for "playing as intended." "Sniping is way too good." Heh. Play the original version with sniping.
@@ji_mothyMan I didn't even know they released ME on consoles until like 5 years ago. I always thought it was just a PC game, though I guess very few games are that specific anymore
Rear Admiral Mikailovich unfortunately dies in the battle against Sovereign if you save the Council. Naturally, if he were alive, he'd be there to represent humanity as an exemplary specimen of our kind.
This is great. Love the content. Thank you for this. Been waiting for content like this for mass effect. If I could erase a game series from memory to play again it would be the mass effect series. ME 2 is and was a goated game. Can't wait for part 2
This is exciting! Love the idea, and been wanting a video like this for ages!! Love your souls content, your positive affirmations and your kind appreciation of those who are enjoying your content. Also the Mitch McConnell joke had me dying. Appreciate you and hope you keep up the great videos. I hope this video gets far! I was glad without notifications on, it came to me immediately.
I'm so glad someone else doesn't like Liara in this game. She gets better in 2 and 3, but she spends all of ME1 alternating between whiny and thirsting for Shepard while having zero interesting personality traits. Tangentially, I feel like the people who think Ashley is xenophobic are straight up wrong. She brings up legitimate security concerns exactly once, drops it when you tell her you trust them, and her dialogue in 3 says she thinks of Tali like a younger sister. Anyways, great video, looking forward to whatever comes next.
Stellar stuff. I often think at some point in these videos if I could deign to organize something like this into a cohesive format and the answer is no. The music in this game is a huge stand out for me and as time has gone on, it's the sort of thing that goes into the time capsule when I think of certain chunks of time.
I really loved this video. Mass effect is one of my fave IPs and I played ME1 many times, but still learned a lot of new things in this video. I never did therum last, liara hallucinating was hilarious
Very cool video. Reminds me of Many A True Nerd's "Can You beat Mass Effect with No Friends?" series (which is largely about how avoiding companions breaks the narrative), and also Twenty Sided's "Mass Effect 2 Broke the Franchise" (which is more about how promises of Mass Effect 1 weren't paid off, and how Mass Effect 3 was hamstrung but a bad setup). In case the actual video editing and voiceover is a big drain, please feel free to make the videos shorter. As the "Can You Beat Mass Effect with No Friends?" series highlights, it's possible to condense a big game into a small video. Otherwise, please carry on. I'm guessing that capturing your own footage is the biggest time sink, and I'm here for longer videos either way.
Loved this video man. I hope it does well. I know it might not because not darksouls or whatever. But I didn't subscribe for darksouls content. I subscribed because of the way you made content and stuff. I hope you continue to make content like this. ❤
This was super cool, I love ME! There were a bunch of sidequests I had no idea about before, like rachni, that's funky. Thanks for all your work on this! The only thing I'd suggest is playing a different class in ME2 if and when you get around to it--I recommend Vanguard because Charge is just badass. Oh, and I love the Bon Iver reference, picking up the quest for Emma forever ago. :D
Awesome video all around! One point about recruiting Wrex though, you can recruit him at any point and then just choose not to have him in your squad when going to Chora's den, as the game lets you change your team after recruiting him. So for example, recruiting him but then taking Ashley and Garrus with you to Chora's den is fine.
These type of videos are amazing, please don't hesitate to make more. Long form multiple game video sagas are my JAM. I never looked into Andromeda, because of its media thrashing at launch, so I'd be happy to see that played even
1. Batarians looking like angry space Mitch McConnell is one of the greatest things I've ever heard 2. I don't usually have the paragon points when I run into Jeong but I believe the Feros colony assisting in ME3 still happens even if you kill him. Does it just give you more galaxy points or whatever if he lives? 3. Thoroughly enjoyed this and learned a couple things even though I've beaten the game 5-6 times since it released. Biotic for life
Jafar is the hero I never knew I needed. I'm enjoying this video. I sincerely hope the video performs as well as you'd like. You've made me laugh a few times already and I look forward to more.
Fantastic video! Also I know you made your choice already but in terms of content and story, I feel like Ash surviving opens up more. She has a special interaction with the Terra Firma party right after, her getting body by the seeker swarms in ME2 makes more sense than Kaidan forgetting he has biotics (Also the aggressive dialogue of the survivor makes more sense coming from Ash’s mouth imo) and in ME3 if you’re on good terms with her but didn’t romance her, you can encourage a romance between her and James which is something I think few people experience.
Great vid, Mass Effect was my favourite game series for a long time. I just wanted to say that I'd always thought that the Promethean VI was named Vigil as a nod to his lore of watching over the cryopods for thousands of years rather than it just being a play on VI. It also makes a bit more in-game sense that way because Vigil is a sensible name for a security VI and doesn't rely on English spelling to work
I really enjoy listening to your narration. Im really looking forward to any potential follow-ups in the rest of the mass effect series. I does pain me to that ashley is left behind. I dont know why but i kaiden didnt really click with me.
Yeah, I didn't catch those lines from ash when i was younger (english is my 2nd language), so by the time i had played the entire trilogy multiple times, i then saw those lines. I like her, i think she gets better, But shes way out of pocket in the first game
When I streamed ME, I romanced Ashley and chat was pretty mad about that. I think her point of view is understandable in the universe, and I even think it was important BioWare gave us her, to demonstrate conflict and that not everyone is getting along. She does calm down in the future games (and get a big glow up too)
BRO i just discovered your channel a few weeks and started my insainty run again on me3 because i got burnt out after playing 2 and 1 back to back. Literally perfect
Great vid as always, i didnt really think the format would really work for another series than the souls games but it turn out i was completely wrong on that front. Keep up the great work, i greatly enjoy every single one of your uploads!
Witcher 1 would be perfect for this series, so many bizzare sequence steps. although if you do that you'll get nagged to do Witcher 3 and that might just be a nightmare to do everything in.
No matter if you're Paragon or Renegade, it's critically necessary to always, I repeat, ALWAYS, to the effort of maximizing your choices and efforts, to punch Khalisah.
I really do like the longer format, I still think a little more detail at the expense of a longer runtime would be good for the videos. Imagine you’ve never played mass effect, what the hell are geth? What is the citidel? What’s a krogan? Just hitting those little bases could really rope in a wide audience if they feel like they’re experiencing the game in full as intended alongside the video. Another banger as always Monty
Ok but throughout this whole video I've been constantly confused as to what FF10 minigame is being referenced during all the hacking sections. Like I havent played it in a while but the only one I can think of that's close to those is that one minigame to learn the Jecht shot which is like, a rarity compared to the others. This is gonna haunt me for days xD
in truth I think I meant FFX-2 lightning tower calibration as the *closest* match to the ME loot containers. The jecht shot learning is absolutely a match too! Ha thanks for commenting on this
I remember stumbling on that paragon charm problem too. At the time, I thought it made sense insomuch as the more good stuff you do, the more solid your reputation becomes. But looking at this playthrough, I somehow doubt that most of the people involved will have talked to each other.
I was wondering what you'd do next. I've never played ME (and probably won't ever, since bad experiences with Origin has me very very hesitant) but this was a very entertaining watch. Looking forward to the next ones!
I know you didn't mention the Mako much here, but ME1 Mako sections are widely considered horrible and annoying. I know they improved them in Legendary edition, but I will say that I actually adore driving the Mako around and even accidentally got some physics launch glitches during my ME1 playthrough. I do have to warn you for when you play Andromeda, it's not a perfect game. When it was being developed, the teams for it kept getting gutted and people placed on other projects. That being said, for what got done with what was essentially a barebones team, it's an amazing game and I think rather enjoyable, though I haven't beaten it. I really hope you enjoy it!
Ty! My "mentions" of the mako were all the shots I included of driving really stupidly, flipping the car, taking spinning jumps! It does get high bottomed easily and I _hate_ how they dumbed down the controls so Up goes in the direction the camera is facing instead of having normal car controls. Makes it impossible to duel thresher maws
@@ji_mothy The best tactic I've found for dealing with thresher maws is (funnily enough) to just sit still while it's above ground and hit your jump jets at the last second to avoid most of its goo projectiles. They're mostly HP sponges so once you get the rhythm down, it's just a matter of time. I will say the sound mixing for Thresher Maws? god fuckin awful. Their screams, no idea which audio setting they're tied to, but they are like 10x louder than all other audio I get from the game.
44:34. The dragon's teeth aren't a geth invention, they're a Reaper invention. My understanding is that they were left behind from a previous cycle and the scientists dug them up.
I randomly stumbled onto your channel from the souls videos. I like that you're branching out to other games! I honestly hate EA, but you video helped me remember what I missed from that series. So much so, that I'm finally going to try Andromeda. It's on sale as well.
Comment to appease the algorithm overlords. I only found your channel recently and I've really enjoyed your "as intended" videos. I very much prefer the longer format of this one, though I know the algorithm can be kind of harsh on videos over a certain length. For what it's worth my vote is for longer videos, but if the analytics say stick to the shorter ones you should go where the money takes you. Ain't no channel at all if you can't afford to make content....
Udina as the human rep, haven't done that yet, curious to see how that affects ME2. Also, for my first play through, I too got to Liara last, and didn't realize that was rare dialogue until I watched other play throughs of the game. Man I hated trying to collect everything the second time I went through the games, so having a list of places to hit and what specifically to double back to will be a great use for number three with the Renagade Sheppered I plan on having. Great vid, looking forward to the next one.
Looking forward to the rest of this series, especially with the potential for an Andromeda entry. I've always thought the game has been too harshly criticized, and gets ignored a lot as a result, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I remember when I played through ME as an infiltrator, after coming down the stairs I didn't even wait for the Charn conversation to trigger, I sniped him from afar lol
Mass Effect 1 really is the story of Shepherd signing up for as many newsletters and e-mail lists as possible to defeat the Collectors and Geth in 2 with spam.
Mass Effect is 15 years old, and I never knew about Liara going bonkers if you save her for last.
Even years after it's release people still continue finding new things.
There is a profound sense of irony that Shepherd stops a Batarian from crashing an asteroid into a Human colony, only for Shepherd to do the same thing by crashing an asteroid into a Mass Relay destroying a Batarian colony.
Also, I am surprised you didn't at least explain the Lorik Quinn infinite paragon/renegade points loop.
Did you know that Batarians compromise only 10% of the galaxy's population? Yet, 85% of terrorism and crimes are done by Batarians.
All my homies hate Batarians.
Devlon Armour resisting hazards is the single largest revelation I've ever recieved about this game.
Liking or commenting? No chance, sir. You'll take both and like it.
1. That man is an affront to heaven
2. I never realized how many evil blue women their are
3. I never knew about most of these things lol
Jafar doing his best: 🥹👿
Dude I've been playing Mass Effect religiously once a year at least and I still discover stuff I have never seen before.
@@ji_mothyCan't wait for either the Optimal Heroism for ME2, or an Optimal Villiany video for ME1
44:34 I believe I have the answer to your question.
So, in Mass Effect 2 it’s confirmed that the technology behind Dragon’s Teeth came from Sovereign and not the Geth as was suspected by the characters in Mass Effect 1. This is confirmed during the Reaper IFF mission if you’re curious as to how this is brought up.
Considering that this is Reaper technology it stands to reason that this is left over from a previous cycle that they eradicated.
Garrus states that he’s heard of these types of “machine cultists” before, cases where people unearth some strange alien technology and become “indoctrinated” (key word lol) into blindly worshipping it like slaves.
So your explanation for this side quest is that during a previous cycle somehow some Reaper technology was left behind on this planet, following this the humans that were working on the planet discovered it and became unwilling slaves under the technologies’ influence. This then lead to them impaling themselves on the Dragons Teeth as some form of ritual sacrifice to their newly perceived deity, becoming the husks.
Damn that was a long nerdy explanation sorry haha 🤓 😂
Previous cycle makes sense! Ty for the answer!
thank you great job
I keep forgetting that most of the galaxy believed the Dragon Teeth to be Geth tech back then, never understood Garrus’ reaction to those “cultists”
I like this route being able to get some unique Liara dialogue I've never heard before. I also never knew Dr. Michel shells out more $$ when you sell to her after her quest! Personally, I prefer unlocking all the side quests organically rather than flying into the systems. The Kahoku quest works really well towards the end of the game after you've found Rachni and Thoriun Creepers and you can bring Tali + the planned Virmire survivor. Great content, keep it up!
I'm really excited to see you continuing this series past the Soulsborne franchise! I feel like ME1 in particular is a sneakily really good game to apply this format to; it's mostly straightforward, but has a ton of little interlocking pieces that are fun to put into proper order. And honestly, as somebody who loves doing this sort of thing on my own playthroughs of games, this whole format is a joy to watch. Great stuff!
"I'm commander Shepard and this is my favorite video on the Citadel" - Jafar, probably
"Does he have mustaches for eyebrows, or a third eyebrow for a mustache? Yes." Beautiful.
this better not flop i want more content like this it really scratches a specific itch ive had in my brain for all my life since ps2 till now
The Trinket
If you completed Citadel: Xeltan's Complaint before returning to her, Sha'ira will give you a bonus reward, a small trinket that appears to be of Prothean design. This can be used on Eletania, a planet in the Hercules system of the Attican Beta cluster. Use the trinket when examining the anomaly at the ruins, and you will experience a short burst of information about the Protheans studying cavemen on Earth. If you do not speak to Xeltan before returning to Sha'ira, her door will be locked and you won't get the trinket. (Fandom Wiki)
After hearing many praises of Mass Effect from friends I finally caved on a really strong Steam sale. I got as far as being let loose on the citadel. I'm not made for games without some kind of guideline. :D
When you mentioned being fuel efficient I was reminded of Air Diver for the Genesis. You can enter any stage in any order, but your air-carrier can't refuel itself so you can gameover by completing distant stages over and over.
I love your videos so much! You've done a great job filling a niche. I love the constant music references too. I wasnt at all exoecting the Bon Iver one! Keep up the genuinely great work man. I can see your channel blowing up and you becoming a known name in the challenge run community :)
Tysm! And I love when people get the more niche references, I basically wait & wonder until each one gets a comment. I'm pretty sure we're at 100%, this is a smart community
This man does Dark Souls then Mass Effect 😮
Literally top tier games. I haven’t even watched this video yet but I’d love to see you attempt this with the other two games!
I really hope you follow this masterpiece video up with Mass Effect 2 and 3. This video was amazing, thank you so much.
Welp, time for another Mass Effect run. Great video, I'm looking forward to see "Playing Mass Effect 2 & 3 as BioWare intended!"
Andromeda as bioware intended (they didn't intend for you to play the game) lmao
Pausing at 22:25 to say I'm loving this video and I really enjoy longer form content (helps me ignore my real world problems for longer periods of time) and I'm really feeling like I slept on Tali in my playthrough of ME1. Also, without knowing anything about the Conrad questline, I somehow kept him alive at least up until ME2, though I had to quit that playthrough cause of an unfortunate and uninformed hidden timer after a certain event happens. You almost certainly know what I'm talking about.
Hope your doing on friend. I know real world problems cause a lot of pain and suffering. And from a random person on the internet, I hope your not doing too terribly. Know that your not alone. People do care. Even strangers on RUclips. I hope you get the support you deserve.
@@daphnedherbert Ah, I appreciate it. I'm in therapy and on medication for my depression. I'm doing better than I was a year or two ago, but I still have a long way to go. Thanks for the support and I likewise hope you're also doing well!
@@Yaeza31 so glad to hear that your doing better! Every little bit counts, imo. Celebrate every win! Its a marathon not a sprint. And I know from personal experience it can also take a long time to find the right therapist and the right medications. I spent years trying many therapists and many medications. Now I see a social worker who helps me, and she’s been amazing.
You deserve praise for the progress! We all do the best we can with the tools we have. ❤️ makes me happy that you’re feeling a little better and having good distractions rock. hope you don’t forget that it does get better, you can fully feel better. and its ok if you don’t. I live with chronic pain, and for me its all about appreciating recognizing when i’m feeling better and comparing that to when i’m feeling awful.
Sorry if my experience isn’t useful for you(maybe it’s useful for someone else who reads this) I tend to ramble 😜 keep being awesome 💜
After following through this over the course of the past week and around 22 hrs of gameplay on my part, I can say ME1 is still a great game. I'm planning on making my way through the next 2 games seeing if I can do me2 and me3 next. Thank you again for this
Lore note about the 'Bring Down The Sky' DLC - The torches were stuck there by the colony. It was meant to bring the asteroid closer for mining. The Batarians just took over and set the torches to straight up crash the asteroid into the planet, they didn't actually put the torches there themselves.
Also, am I the only one who thinks Batarian lore just has no possible way to leave the Citadel Races looking good? I mean, it's canon that the Batarians were vastly outgunned when they first broke the agreement to not enslave Citadel citizens, and canon that their illegal slaves are being sold on their homeworld, to members of their government... And nothing gets done. I kinda get it from the Salarians, but the Asari? If your goverment is willing to let you suffer a thousand years of torture, rape, and slavery rather than actually enforce their agreements and treaties, I think you need a new government.
Arnt. the batarians outside of council space? Where they have no authority.
@@robertharris6092 Whe the Council met the Batarians, they made an agreement to not raise a fuss about the slavery thing as long as the Batarians left the Council races alone. The Batarians immediately did not do that, and regardless of location or the broken agreements, if someone steals and enslaves your people, the goverment most definitely has the authority to deal with that.
Considering the rest of ME that IS the point, to show Council's ermmm lack of useful action. Makes total sense
thank you thank you thank you for this great video, not only was it entertaining, this is going to be very helpful in my new play through😈
these views are criminal. i hope you make these for the passion, because i dont want numbers to deter you. great videos!
I would love if there was also a google doc outlining the order in case we wanted to do similar runs, or try the small deviations but as close to 100% ourselves without all the work of planning *all* of it out
I believe Soldier is the cannon class for Shepard, which would make it the choice for "playing as intended."
"Sniping is way too good."
Heh. Play the original version with sniping.
This was both hilarious and educational, I can't wait for Mass Effect 2: The Return of Jafar 😂
I know it's like a sin to not play mass effect, but this was a good way to almost preview the game.
I was like you until recently! Didn't have a console from 2006-2017 so there's a huge gap I'm still making up for. ME have held up _ok_
@@ji_mothyMan I didn't even know they released ME on consoles until like 5 years ago. I always thought it was just a PC game, though I guess very few games are that specific anymore
Still waiting for part 2 keep up the hard work
"Convince Garrus we're ok to place this cardiac doctor under arrest"
Lmao that's genius
Rear Admiral Mikailovich unfortunately dies in the battle against Sovereign if you save the Council. Naturally, if he were alive, he'd be there to represent humanity as an exemplary specimen of our kind.
Dadmiral Hackett.
You have disrespected my blue space wife! 😂 Despite this, another great video. I get excited when I get the notification that there’s a new one.
This is great. Love the content. Thank you for this. Been waiting for content like this for mass effect. If I could erase a game series from memory to play again it would be the mass effect series. ME 2 is and was a goated game. Can't wait for part 2
This is exciting! Love the idea, and been wanting a video like this for ages!! Love your souls content, your positive affirmations and your kind appreciation of those who are enjoying your content.
Also the Mitch McConnell joke had me dying. Appreciate you and hope you keep up the great videos. I hope this video gets far! I was glad without notifications on, it came to me immediately.
Mass Effect and the Secret of Shepard's cheekbones
I like to do a playthrough of the trilogy every few years, so this is right up my alley!
Jafar shepard looks like he's the great grandson of the bogdanov brothers
Hey man, just wanted to say loved your series on the souls games and am so excited to see ME2 and ME3 after this one! Keep up the great content! :D
Gotta interact as much as possible for a video as entertaining as this one.
I'm so glad someone else doesn't like Liara in this game. She gets better in 2 and 3, but she spends all of ME1 alternating between whiny and thirsting for Shepard while having zero interesting personality traits.
Tangentially, I feel like the people who think Ashley is xenophobic are straight up wrong. She brings up legitimate security concerns exactly once, drops it when you tell her you trust them, and her dialogue in 3 says she thinks of Tali like a younger sister.
Anyways, great video, looking forward to whatever comes next.
Jafar Shep 😆 Not even in Mass Effect can you avoid endless emails. Excited to see the next part of this series and see Jafar's space adventure!
Omg this is fantastic!!! Waiting for ME2 😍😍😍
Stellar stuff. I often think at some point in these videos if I could deign to organize something like this into a cohesive format and the answer is no. The music in this game is a huge stand out for me and as time has gone on, it's the sort of thing that goes into the time capsule when I think of certain chunks of time.
Commenting for the algorithm gods
I love these long-form playthroughs, and the idea of the most efficient, story-maximizing route is always interesting.
Thanks for the video, Mass Effect is a series tha a love a lot, I'm so glad to see you tackle it like you did the souls franchise, it's great.
I really loved this video. Mass effect is one of my fave IPs and I played ME1 many times, but still learned a lot of new things in this video. I never did therum last, liara hallucinating was hilarious
gonna guess 57 reward emails for the algorythm
ah, i can finally play ME1 as maximally possible.
Comment for the algorithm since this is peak content
Very cool video. Reminds me of Many A True Nerd's "Can You beat Mass Effect with No Friends?" series (which is largely about how avoiding companions breaks the narrative), and also Twenty Sided's "Mass Effect 2 Broke the Franchise" (which is more about how promises of Mass Effect 1 weren't paid off, and how Mass Effect 3 was hamstrung but a bad setup).
In case the actual video editing and voiceover is a big drain, please feel free to make the videos shorter. As the "Can You Beat Mass Effect with No Friends?" series highlights, it's possible to condense a big game into a small video. Otherwise, please carry on. I'm guessing that capturing your own footage is the biggest time sink, and I'm here for longer videos either way.
I love this channel sm
Loved this video man. I hope it does well. I know it might not because not darksouls or whatever. But I didn't subscribe for darksouls content. I subscribed because of the way you made content and stuff. I hope you continue to make content like this. ❤
woah mothy post
Loved the skrillex reference haha
This was super cool, I love ME! There were a bunch of sidequests I had no idea about before, like rachni, that's funky. Thanks for all your work on this! The only thing I'd suggest is playing a different class in ME2 if and when you get around to it--I recommend Vanguard because Charge is just badass.
Oh, and I love the Bon Iver reference, picking up the quest for Emma forever ago. :D
Love these videos! Keep it up dude!!
great video, learnt quite a bit about one of my favourite games from it. would be happy seeing ME2/ME3 played this way as well.
Awesome video all around! One point about recruiting Wrex though, you can recruit him at any point and then just choose not to have him in your squad when going to Chora's den, as the game lets you change your team after recruiting him.
So for example, recruiting him but then taking Ashley and Garrus with you to Chora's den is fine.
These type of videos are amazing, please don't hesitate to make more. Long form multiple game video sagas are my JAM. I never looked into Andromeda, because of its media thrashing at launch, so I'd be happy to see that played even
1. Batarians looking like angry space Mitch McConnell is one of the greatest things I've ever heard
2. I don't usually have the paragon points when I run into Jeong but I believe the Feros colony assisting in ME3 still happens even if you kill him. Does it just give you more galaxy points or whatever if he lives?
3. Thoroughly enjoyed this and learned a couple things even though I've beaten the game 5-6 times since it released. Biotic for life
Jafar is the hero I never knew I needed.
I'm enjoying this video. I sincerely hope the video performs as well as you'd like. You've made me laugh a few times already and I look forward to more.
Thanks for the vid man! Really good stuff, earned the sub, looking forward to this format for ME2 and ME3!
Fantastic video! Also I know you made your choice already but in terms of content and story, I feel like Ash surviving opens up more. She has a special interaction with the Terra Firma party right after, her getting body by the seeker swarms in ME2 makes more sense than Kaidan forgetting he has biotics (Also the aggressive dialogue of the survivor makes more sense coming from Ash’s mouth imo) and in ME3 if you’re on good terms with her but didn’t romance her, you can encourage a romance between her and James which is something I think few people experience.
I love Mass Effect so much! It's my favorite game series!
Great vid, Mass Effect was my favourite game series for a long time. I just wanted to say that I'd always thought that the Promethean VI was named Vigil as a nod to his lore of watching over the cryopods for thousands of years rather than it just being a play on VI. It also makes a bit more in-game sense that way because Vigil is a sensible name for a security VI and doesn't rely on English spelling to work
Great video. Incredible work and detail
I really enjoy listening to your narration. Im really looking forward to any potential follow-ups in the rest of the mass effect series.
I does pain me to that ashley is left behind. I dont know why but i kaiden didnt really click with me.
Thats really interesting. I find its often the opposite. Most I know dislike ashley the space racist.
Yeah, I didn't catch those lines from ash when i was younger (english is my 2nd language), so by the time i had played the entire trilogy multiple times, i then saw those lines. I like her, i think she gets better,
But shes way out of pocket in the first game
When I streamed ME, I romanced Ashley and chat was pretty mad about that. I think her point of view is understandable in the universe, and I even think it was important BioWare gave us her, to demonstrate conflict and that not everyone is getting along. She does calm down in the future games (and get a big glow up too)
Yeah ashley has some deeply founded beliefs that wont turn over easily it seems
BRO i just discovered your channel a few weeks and started my insainty run again on me3 because i got burnt out after playing 2 and 1 back to back. Literally perfect
Favorite RUclips series right now. Good stuff.
Great vid as always, i didnt really think the format would really work for another series than the souls games but it turn out i was completely wrong on that front. Keep up the great work, i greatly enjoy every single one of your uploads!
Love this series! Really hope it does well
Wow had no idea how much content I missed playing this for the first, 2nd, 3rd, 47th time... good job ji_mothy! Thanks for your service. o7
Can’t express how unready I was to see that Shepard face animate
I already beat mass effect 1 twice this year and this makes me want to up it to 3
Witcher 1 would be perfect for this series, so many bizzare sequence steps. although if you do that you'll get nagged to do Witcher 3 and that might just be a nightmare to do everything in.
I've never played any of the mass effect games, but this was still a really fun video to watch
No matter if you're Paragon or Renegade, it's critically necessary to always, I repeat, ALWAYS, to the effort of maximizing your choices and efforts, to punch Khalisah.
I really do like the longer format, I still think a little more detail at the expense of a longer runtime would be good for the videos. Imagine you’ve never played mass effect, what the hell are geth? What is the citidel? What’s a krogan? Just hitting those little bases could really rope in a wide audience if they feel like they’re experiencing the game in full as intended alongside the video. Another banger as always Monty
Ok but throughout this whole video I've been constantly confused as to what FF10 minigame is being referenced during all the hacking sections. Like I havent played it in a while but the only one I can think of that's close to those is that one minigame to learn the Jecht shot which is like, a rarity compared to the others. This is gonna haunt me for days xD
in truth I think I meant FFX-2 lightning tower calibration as the *closest* match to the ME loot containers. The jecht shot learning is absolutely a match too! Ha thanks for commenting on this
@@ji_mothyThat would explain why that didnt occur to me. I am long overdue to actually play X-2 Properly xD
I remember stumbling on that paragon charm problem too. At the time, I thought it made sense insomuch as the more good stuff you do, the more solid your reputation becomes. But looking at this playthrough, I somehow doubt that most of the people involved will have talked to each other.
Oh this was a great , I never knew Dr Michel gave the most money
Aww heck yeah, new mothy video. Only played the first 6-10 hours of Mass Effect so this is great.
I was wondering what you'd do next. I've never played ME (and probably won't ever, since bad experiences with Origin has me very very hesitant) but this was a very entertaining watch. Looking forward to the next ones!
The 100 gecs reference!!!!
this was such a great run, also please sing more
I know you didn't mention the Mako much here, but ME1 Mako sections are widely considered horrible and annoying. I know they improved them in Legendary edition, but I will say that I actually adore driving the Mako around and even accidentally got some physics launch glitches during my ME1 playthrough.
I do have to warn you for when you play Andromeda, it's not a perfect game. When it was being developed, the teams for it kept getting gutted and people placed on other projects. That being said, for what got done with what was essentially a barebones team, it's an amazing game and I think rather enjoyable, though I haven't beaten it. I really hope you enjoy it!
Ty! My "mentions" of the mako were all the shots I included of driving really stupidly, flipping the car, taking spinning jumps! It does get high bottomed easily and I _hate_ how they dumbed down the controls so Up goes in the direction the camera is facing instead of having normal car controls. Makes it impossible to duel thresher maws
@@ji_mothyOh yeah, I died to Thresh Maws *a lot* due to how it controls
@@ji_mothy The best tactic I've found for dealing with thresher maws is (funnily enough) to just sit still while it's above ground and hit your jump jets at the last second to avoid most of its goo projectiles. They're mostly HP sponges so once you get the rhythm down, it's just a matter of time. I will say the sound mixing for Thresher Maws? god fuckin awful. Their screams, no idea which audio setting they're tied to, but they are like 10x louder than all other audio I get from the game.
It's like the mirror good universe version of Davey Gunface's worst possible Mass Effect run
44:34. The dragon's teeth aren't a geth invention, they're a Reaper invention. My understanding is that they were left behind from a previous cycle and the scientists dug them up.
I randomly stumbled onto your channel from the souls videos. I like that you're branching out to other games! I honestly hate EA, but you video helped me remember what I missed from that series. So much so, that I'm finally going to try Andromeda. It's on sale as well.
That K&P "blaaaaayke" reference was sublime
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I only found your channel recently and I've really enjoyed your "as intended" videos. I very much prefer the longer format of this one, though I know the algorithm can be kind of harsh on videos over a certain length. For what it's worth my vote is for longer videos, but if the analytics say stick to the shorter ones you should go where the money takes you. Ain't no channel at all if you can't afford to make content....
Udina as the human rep, haven't done that yet, curious to see how that affects ME2.
Also, for my first play through, I too got to Liara last, and didn't realize that was rare dialogue until I watched other play throughs of the game. Man I hated trying to collect everything the second time I went through the games, so having a list of places to hit and what specifically to double back to will be a great use for number three with the Renagade Sheppered I plan on having.
Great vid, looking forward to the next one.
awesome video! thanks for ur hard work! i would love to see the rest of the mass effect trilogy & andromeda
Looking forward to the rest of this series, especially with the potential for an Andromeda entry. I've always thought the game has been too harshly criticized, and gets ignored a lot as a result, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Love this man, first vid ive seen from you, but keep it up. You got great things in your future :)
My name is Jafar...
I come from afar...
I am looking forward to 2 cause that game structurly is really weird so im wondering what an optimal path really looks for it
I remember when I played through ME as an infiltrator, after coming down the stairs I didn't even wait for the Charn conversation to trigger, I sniped him from afar lol
while minor, the spacer is the optimal preservice history bc Shepard's mom sends a email in 2 and has a phone call in the citadel dlc.