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She did all their loyalty missions, the only way any can die then is if you put them in incredibly stupid positions. Which the game always tells you who is best for any choice.
The biggest threat was deciding who to send back with the recovered crew, iirc if you send anyone but Mordin, he dies because your final team needs a certain amount of combat power and he has the lowest hidden value in the crew.
@@Ashtarte3Dthat’s true to a point. Each companion counts for a certain number of points during the holding of the line. Garrus, Grunt and Zaeed counting for the most (4 if loyal, 3 if not loyal) If the average of everyone you did not bring with you is above 2, then everything is fine. But if it’s below 2 then squadmates can die there. Bringing Grunt and Garrus with you, for example, would drastically reduce the average of the remaining squadmates point value, and might bring it below 2.
@@masmurdermonkey9233 Yes the very first time i played the game back then i had the exact team of Garrus and Grunt with me, (cause they are my favorit) which resulted in Mordin dieing and leaving me confused as to what i did wrong back then, that was sad :( Also that was way back at release before i got any dlc so i didnt had Zaeed, that might have brought my average point total down.
I wish she had managed to save Wrex because in ME2 I feel like he is the only old crew member who actually seems happy to see you when he finds out you are alive. Everyone else treats you with suspicion but Wrex? He's all excited like "My friend! I knew you were too badass to be dead!"
I enjoy how "into" games Girlfriend gets. Its so nostalgic to hear the genuine excitement, concern, anger etc that I had on my first playthrough all those years ago.
12:54 - Anyone looking to replay ME2 on PC needs to look up and install the Recruit Any Order mod. The original game had the dossiers divided between pre and post Horizon because the 360 needed two discs. The game was INTENDED for you to be able to recruit anyone in any order, complete with voice lines that nobody would ever hear without the mod or glitches. Bringing Legion and Garrus to recruit Samara has some of the funniest dialogue I've ever heard.
@@AutkastKain It absolutely is. I'm just about to finish 3, friend watching and doing all the choices, and going through 2 with the mod was a complete game changer. I didn't tell him until after that the original release wasn't like that. If you have the patience of a saint, you can recruit Tali before Garrus and have her be around for his mission
Common misconception, but the Normandy was totally destroyed in the harvester attack, it's gone bye-bye, kaboom The Normandy SR2 is a totally different brand new ship that was built from the blueprints of the original Normandy but got massive upgrades it desperately needed, with tons of cameras and microphones for Cerberus to spy on the crew
You even get to touch down onto the wreckage of the SR1 and place a memorial. The "Legendary" edition didn't cut THAT DLC like it did with Pinnacle Station and the entire multiplayer component... and several mood-establishing camera shots... and lighting art direction... okay I'll stop.
@@KopperNeoman In fairness to Pinnacle Station, they literally *couldn't* include it. They lost the source code for that entire DLC, so they could not add it to the remaster. It was eventually painstakingly restored by fans and there's now a mod to add it to the legendary edition.
@@pollin522 Don't "to be fair" me with that one. Square lost the source code to the entirety of Kingdom Hearts 1 in a fire, and they reverse-engineered the whole Final Mix version based on the final retail release when it came time to port it to PS3. This "lost the code" excuse washes fine for not including the DLC on the PS3 version of ME1, but by LE they 100% could have reverse-engineered it.
58:07 For those who didn't connect the dots about that hamster (me too, actually, it took me a lot to understand that it's a reference): Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 were made by Bioware, this hamster is a reference to Baldur's Gate series.
Taryn: "The SR-2 Normandy--an advanced prototype heavy frigate, with a Tantalus FTL drive system and one-of-a-kind heat-recapture stealth system." Nick: "You sure do seem to know a lot about it..." Taryn: "DO YOU EVEN *READ* MY CHRISTMAS LIST?!"
Wow, not losing a single crew member deserve a high five. I was not patient enough for the side quest / Normandy upgrades and I lost people and I regretted it so hard.
Ahhhhh shit I was 15 minutes in writing a comment about kaidan and I see this, well thank God I thought everyone was absolutely cooked and I wasn't looking forward to see that, I'm kinda glad that I got this spoiled
She did a REALLY good job on the suicide mission. My first time around I didn’t even know how to upgrade the ship. Then I made Garrus go in the vents because I remembered him being half tech in the previous game. And then I had Grunt escort the crew back because I figured he’d be able to defend them solo the best. Needless to say…I lost a LOT of crew members in my first run.
Oh my i remember my first suicide mission. Didnt know you have to upgrade your ship to be successful. I didnt do it because it costs too much and gaining minerals were too boring for little me. In mission itself i chose Thane get to the shaft because i thought he is assasin and he already was in ventilation in one of the cutscenes. Gladly he survived though he complained about how hot in ventilation i thought he gonna die. For second group i chose mordin dont ask me why. I chose samara as a biotic shield, but because i failed her loyalty mission garrus dies. I dont remember who i sent to escort the survivors probably it was jacob because he was useless for my opinion. I remember tali survived for sure but dont remember who else.
It's not that Garrus isn't a techie. He is. Dude does complex mathematical equations in his head. For fun. He's just not a techie to the level of Tali or Legion (who is literally a piece of tech). Nor does he have the infiltration expertise of Kasumi, who spends a lot of time crawling around in vents and I believe will also work. He's 50 % techie. Tali and Legion are 100%.
Having watched both the Mass Effect video, and this one. As well as many of ya’lls other videos. I have a feeling that A LOT of tears are going to be shed during ME3.
As a long time gamer who tends to focus more on the gameplay and less on story, watching your girlfriend play games has helped revitalize my love and appreciation for gaming. I see and hear how excited she gets about characters, codex entries, and overall story and it makes me want to slow down with my own game playing to appreciate the world building. Mass Effect is one of my favorite game series ever and it is a total joy watching her experience it for the first time. I hope that I can appreciate games as much as she does. Keep it up! Edit: have you ever considered having her play Skyrim?
she may have done it as a side mission during the game, but Arrival is the bridge from ME2 too 3 so would love to see that reaction as well. also makes ME3's opening for Shepard make a lot more sense.
@thefogg 0 seconds ago the arrival works even more IMO if you do it before the end. i really thought the collectors were the reapers. then at the end, i did feel bad for them. since they were sentient the whole time. as mordin put it. the galaxy needs diversity, all life precious
@@thefogg replaying the games i can't disagree more with that. They Talk about the Collectors history in the universe all the time, even pretty early on even like mission 1 or 2 when you first see them. them having active history in the galaxy that people know about. kind of rules out them being THE reapers. But to be fully honest, you also not really wrong either, they kind of are reapers. xD
@@TheLiveactiongamer my now regret after playing the trilogy. is not reading the books till recently. they are amazing. i recommend the books when i hear someone i work with thinking starting it.
Taryn's rationalizing the squadmate choices in the endgame was a long stretch of tense moments. Her instincts showed just how invested she's become in the characters and their distinctions.
@@dogishappy0Mordin actually gives advice for every xenosexual pair. If you romance Tali as MaleShep for example Mordin will talk about how he consulted her and helped her find some performance drugs for her immune system. If you romance Thain the Drell Assassin - he will warn about his skin chemicals and sends FemShep meds to help with "hang over" that WILL happen after intercourse. And etc etc Mordin is a true professional at work. Any work. And he is a good friend. A truly modern model of a scientist salarian.
As someone who loves this game I'm so happy to see someone so invested in it and see it for the first time. This was so much fun to see her reactions to all the new info and changes in mass effect 2. I can't wait to see her play the 3rd one.
..."A geth, a geth, literally a geth. He is so cool and he is my friend"... Adorable...sometimes she reminds me of a cute/innocent/naive JRPG/anime character!!!! 😂
If you never ship with tali or garrus in any game and always do their missions they will be together in ME3 at the end, which i found out after playing all 3 games again this year. very wholesome
Iirc Tali also has a drunk dialogue where she mumbles to herself about both Garrus and Shepard, also funny that Liara apparently also knows her search history too.
YES! I am so glad she dumped Kaiden for Garrus. I did the same thing. I am curious on her playthrough of the Project Overlord DLC (Just a really good DLC and I love seeing people's general feelings behind it)
I literally just discovered this channel and watched the first part a couple of hours ago and was sad there wasn't one for Mass Effect 2 yet 😭 Perfect timing omg!
This video was worth the wait. I am going to be rewatching both mass effect videos until 3 comes out lol. I came for the video and the adorable girlfriend reactions and I was not disappointed in any way lol. I love her excitement. Great video.
I am happy that she's taking Wrex's loss in stride and making efforts to not have the same thing happen! I hope she enjoys the trilogy! thank you for the video its awesome.
After recently playing through the trilogy again after almost 15 years, and it feeling like the first time all over again. Seeing your gf play through this for the first time brings me joy I ain't know I needed.
Wow this was the best video on ME2 I've ever seen, well done and thanks! Perfect mix of narration setting the scene, hitting the main story points, lore, funny moments and all with the excitement and enthusiasm your GF has which frankly I'm jealous of! Made it really fun. Can't wait for ME3's video.
She can be a kid sometimes, I really like it 😂, It reminds me when I played this game back on the Xbox 360! Also her being upset about that cut in the Garrus romance scene is so funny 🤣
This series is incredible and am really enjoying her journey. This series just has so many memorable characters, Mordin, Garrus, Thane, Tali...they all are some of my favorite sci-fi characters in any media. Can't wait for her to finish ME3. Great job on the videos.
Your videos made me play the games and I finished them in a month, it was an amazing month . Looking forward to the ME3 video and her reaction to the ending...
As sad as I was to see Wrex die in ME1, I'm glad his sacrifice wasn't in vain, his death taught her the importance of never taking your team for granted
Yes, that's exactly how it played out for me. Wrex dead in first playthrough. Never been so stressed about any other game in my life when I went into the suicide mission :D
I’ve been through the entire back catalog and now I’m stuck waiting for regular uploads like everyone else. I literally cannot wait for the next upload. The videos always turn out great, gotta respect all the time and effort that goes into making these entertaining. And Taryn’s eagerness to invest in worlds and characters is just charming as heck.
No that's annoying. Takes you out of the video, immersion gone, atmosphere out of the window... You can think it's genius bad has a bad effect on many people... I literally had to stop the video then and there and continue it after 2 or 3 hours... I hate when people do this...
@@Ellinon_Vasileus yea, but that goes for all ad-reads. I hate them with a passion, and I'll do near anything to skip them, but of all the sponsorship inserts i've come across, this one takes the cake. IMO they selected the perfect, (non main) story beat, and as he's a bit of a joke character, our normady SR-2 janitor-cook, not as Only MapMen's ad-reads are funnier Anyway, isn't that a bit worrying? that you let it affect you so much, and I say that as someone who can get quite f king annoyed at ads (so I say this as much to you as myself lol), but it affected so much to the point of needing a couple of hours (?!) seems to be really not worth your energy! Or did you get like distracted/focused on doing something else?
The fact that she managed to keep everyone alive despite the odds stacked so heavily against her is INCREDIBLE. Let's go Tarny!! I'm just sad I missed seeing her reaction to realizing how many ways things could've gone wrong 😂
Oh damn, you actually got something wrong about the suicide mission: In the Hold the Line segment, loyalty isn't the part that is relevant for whether someone lives or dies. Every squadmate has a "Hold the Line" score attached to them, increased by 1 if they're loyal. If the combined score of all squadmates that are left to hold the line is too low, some of them will die.
Im more surprised by the fact she managed to save ALL squadmates and the whole crew considering this is her first time playing the game where must of us our first time we didn't managed to save them all the first time (mordin and half the crew in my case)
I love how attached your girlfriend is to the characters in games l, and it’s adorable. It’s beyond amazing to watch her play video games I grew up on, and to have that first experience again. Your guys relationship reminds me a lot of me and my husband. We game together a lot, and I also get very attached to characters. Her excitement is what makes the games she plays so wonderful for us to watch again. It’s good to see you guys back. ☺️ Even if I don’t fully watch a video of yours, I never exit out without giving it a like.
This was a joy to watch. I was really anxious when the final mission decisions started, glad everyone survived. ME2 is the only game I instantly replayed after beating (I lost Tali on my first playthrough).
When's the second channel launching where you get recommendations and we see her narrate your reactions to it? Girl meets boy. Love these vids. Strikes me that she enjoys the Mass Effect universe more than a fair few that's been recommended lol
Seeing someone experience games like Mass Effect for the first time with such joy helps me remember the amazing feelings I had myself in my first playthrough. Love this channel, looking forward to ME3.
This video is amazing, made me relive ME2 as if it was my first time playing it again. Your girlfriend's reactions were so relatable it almost brought a tear to my eye multiple times throughout the video.. comes to show how amazing this game series is!
Mass Effect is one of my most favorite games. I enjoyed your vid man, i honestly cant wait to see your GF play ME3 especially with the decisions she has made throughout all 3 ME games.
It’s great to see how much you both enjoy this series! I’m so tired hearing people moan and complain non stop about the game they are playing. Your editing is also top notch, love your call back about the eyebrows as one small example. Can’t wait until you bring this series home with ME3! But one question in the meantime … is your girlfriend becoming more decisive in real life thanks to playing these games???
Give hem a shot! They are extremely cheap and very good experiences even if you know what’s gonna happen, everyone has a different story and play style
No lie, that was a smooth sponsor integration into the video. I wish I could play these games again for the first time. Videos like these are the closest I can get to that. Thank you!
Two things: 1. Always love how excited that your girlfriend gets for the story 2. Her thoroughness paid off! when I played this the first time, i didnt listen to a lot of things and ended up losing people because of ship upgrades, and also crew members because i dilly dallied Overall, she's a better ME2 player than me lol
Awesome choices on the final mission, on my first playthrough I lost Mordin because I left him to hold the line instead of sending him back with the crew. Will you play the DLC before ME3? It’s a must to see the growth of certain characters that have mayor roles in the sequel
Fun Fact! Who you bring with you to fight the Human Reaper DOES MATTER, and isnt based on Loyalty. Each Squadmate while defending your position gives points to a survivability score while you fight the final boss. Keeping Garrus, Zaeed, and Grunt GREATLY increases your chances of having no squad wipe. By sending Mordin back to the ship, and taking Tali to the final boss, Tarny actually made it so the two squishiest squad mates survived! Good on Tarny for making those choices on a first playthrough, I lost Mordin on mine!
Jack and Kasumi are also the squishiest squadmates. Bringing Garrus was a mistake, but that part of the mission doesn't demand perfection, only competence. Good thing too, because a perfect score on the line would require you to not recruit Kasumi at all. Mordin and Jack are mandatory, and you need Tali to upgrade the Normandy's shields.
@@KopperNeoman Three different colour swaps for the same generic ending, an ending which didn't reflect any of the decisions you'd made in the previous 3 games. People's complaints were completely valid, Bioware absolutely shit the bed on this franchise at the very last moment.
@@peacemaster8117 personally I never really had an issue with the actual endings, they seem like natural conclusion to me, what I was a bit sad about was there was no game after ME3 to see the choice playout. ME:A kinda felt like a cop out to not have to commit even if it does have some interesting stuff in it. Hopefully ME4 actually does branch off from the endings. maybe thats why its taking them 10 years to make the game xD they already said its min 2029 and its been in dev for 4-5 years already. (Separate team from DA:V thankfully with a bunch of ME vets it seems)
@@TheLiveactiongamer The conclusion was never the problem. It was always about the lack of closure, like you mentioned yourself. The Citadel DLC would've been the perfect epilogue for an ending where Shepard and everybody survived, but they made it a pre-ending content instead. I still to this day consider The Citadel DLC as my headcanon ending.
@@Kreze202 Audemus's Happy Ending Mod, plus Starchild-Be-Gone, plus Citadel Epilogue mod (which does exactly what you wanted and makes it an epilogue story after Priority: Earth) is my personal headcanon for how the trilogy actually ends.
I salute you, Commander Shepard. :) Girlfriend did an excellent job of learning from her mistakes last time and making good decisions for the future. I do think that missing out on the DLC epilogue between the two is a mistake. Or maybe she did that and we're just not seeing it? It just sets up the story better for when you start 3. Also glad she didn't stick with Kaidan's slimy, backstabbing behavior.
Amazing - what I would give to be able to experience playing this game for the first time again. Mass Effect is my favourite series without question, and it made me genuinely emotional getting someone's reactions to playing the game for the first time, especially with that score in the background pulling up my own memories of playing through those scenes. Can't wait for the ME3 playthrough! Also, she's not wrong, she's definitely got them sniper skills down!
I'm really bummed Taryn didn't have Wrex alive, he's one of the best crew members (for ME3). Only Legion and Mordin are better than Wrex, partially because their stories and endings are so damn good.
This was really fun! Loved how excited she was while playing, really made me smile and made me remember how I felt my first time through the trilogy. Looking forward to the conclusion
I love the Mass Effect series... not just because I am in Mass Effect 3 (The people at Bioware snuck people they knew into the various games, using their names as random people in the background or notes... and I even got a small speaking role!)
@@KopperNeoman The crewman in question doesn't have a first name. My first name is strange enough it would have stood out if they used it and the last name at the same time. Regardless of that, online I actually don't confirm my gender or sex, sorry.
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Liara will forever be my favorite but if we are talking only ME2 then Kasumi!
Tali for ever
Tali. Of course it’s my dear Tali. Keelah Se'lai.
Alot like how Ashley grew on me in ME1, it took me some time to appreciate Miranda, but I think she's probably my favorite, now.
favourite companion? Thane.
ME 2-3 Thane is arguably one of the best romances in any game.
Damn she really managed a clean run, kept her whole crew alive. Hope you told her afterwards just how close she came to disaster lmao
She did all their loyalty missions, the only way any can die then is if you put them in incredibly stupid positions. Which the game always tells you who is best for any choice.
You'd be surprised how many people don't pay enough attention though. @Ashtarte3D
The biggest threat was deciding who to send back with the recovered crew, iirc if you send anyone but Mordin, he dies because your final team needs a certain amount of combat power and he has the lowest hidden value in the crew.
@@Ashtarte3Dthat’s true to a point. Each companion counts for a certain number of points during the holding of the line.
Garrus, Grunt and Zaeed counting for the most (4 if loyal, 3 if not loyal)
If the average of everyone you did not bring with you is above 2, then everything is fine. But if it’s below 2 then squadmates can die there.
Bringing Grunt and Garrus with you, for example, would drastically reduce the average of the remaining squadmates point value, and might bring it below 2.
@@masmurdermonkey9233 Yes the very first time i played the game back then i had the exact team of Garrus and Grunt with me, (cause they are my favorit) which resulted in Mordin dieing and leaving me confused as to what i did wrong back then, that was sad :(
Also that was way back at release before i got any dlc so i didnt had Zaeed, that might have brought my average point total down.
the most relatable bit of this is your gf booting up a mass effect sequel and going "that is Not how i designed my character last time"
mass effect 2 and 3 really fuck up the character. like my shepard did not look right specifically in 3. i spent 3 hours remaking her in 3.
Its so annoying especially when you took a very long time to create them 😅
I was lucky to love how mine translated over 😊
“What did they do to my eyebrows….” Lmao.
I wish she had managed to save Wrex because in ME2 I feel like he is the only old crew member who actually seems happy to see you when he finds out you are alive. Everyone else treats you with suspicion but Wrex? He's all excited like "My friend! I knew you were too badass to be dead!"
I enjoy how "into" games Girlfriend gets. Its so nostalgic to hear the genuine excitement, concern, anger etc that I had on my first playthrough all those years ago.
12:54 - Anyone looking to replay ME2 on PC needs to look up and install the Recruit Any Order mod. The original game had the dossiers divided between pre and post Horizon because the 360 needed two discs. The game was INTENDED for you to be able to recruit anyone in any order, complete with voice lines that nobody would ever hear without the mod or glitches. Bringing Legion and Garrus to recruit Samara has some of the funniest dialogue I've ever heard.
Ok, that might just be worth a replay all on its own
also each game has an Unofficial Patch like Bethesda games.
The legendary addition is also 5 bucks rn
@@AutkastKain It absolutely is. I'm just about to finish 3, friend watching and doing all the choices, and going through 2 with the mod was a complete game changer. I didn't tell him until after that the original release wasn't like that.
If you have the patience of a saint, you can recruit Tali before Garrus and have her be around for his mission
@@lamentslounge And the mod works with both original, and the legendary edition. It's the perfect game to ring in the new year
Mordin singing his own version of the Modern Major General immediately makes him one of my favorites.
it also makes ME3 hurt that much more :((
@@neutral139 Had to be him.
Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
I'm glad she enjoyed him singing in this game. And she'll enjoy it even more in the next game, hehehe
8-Bit Big Band did a full version of it
For me it was the awkard cough after he finished.
Common misconception, but the Normandy was totally destroyed in the harvester attack, it's gone bye-bye, kaboom
The Normandy SR2 is a totally different brand new ship that was built from the blueprints of the original Normandy but got massive upgrades it desperately needed, with tons of cameras and microphones for Cerberus to spy on the crew
You even get to touch down onto the wreckage of the SR1 and place a memorial. The "Legendary" edition didn't cut THAT DLC like it did with Pinnacle Station and the entire multiplayer component... and several mood-establishing camera shots... and lighting art direction... okay I'll stop.
@@KopperNeoman In fairness to Pinnacle Station, they literally *couldn't* include it. They lost the source code for that entire DLC, so they could not add it to the remaster. It was eventually painstakingly restored by fans and there's now a mod to add it to the legendary edition.
@@pollin522 Yeah and some modder in their spare time happen to recreate the entire dlc in less than 6 month for free
@@pollin522 Don't "to be fair" me with that one. Square lost the source code to the entirety of Kingdom Hearts 1 in a fire, and they reverse-engineered the whole Final Mix version based on the final retail release when it came time to port it to PS3. This "lost the code" excuse washes fine for not including the DLC on the PS3 version of ME1, but by LE they 100% could have reverse-engineered it.
The SR2 is also much bigger.
58:07 For those who didn't connect the dots about that hamster (me too, actually, it took me a lot to understand that it's a reference): Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 were made by Bioware, this hamster is a reference to Baldur's Gate series.
"Go for the eyes, Boo!".
@@lynnbowers4722 "Go for the optics, Chatika!"
WAIT. YOU'RE SO RIGHT ACTUALLY
It's a space hamster, too.
I believe you mean Giant Space Hamster
Taryn: "The SR-2 Normandy--an advanced prototype heavy frigate, with a Tantalus FTL drive system and one-of-a-kind heat-recapture stealth system."
Nick: "You sure do seem to know a lot about it..."
Taryn: "DO YOU EVEN *READ* MY CHRISTMAS LIST?!"
Fantastic use of that format 🤣
When Taryn arrived at the collector base, she decided to *Go for a Walk*
A very enthusiastic walk.
Also totally not in use by the Migrantfleet based on an engine Tali just so happened to reverse engineer. That would be insane
Gotta love a HUA reference, the more the merrier.
2:00
"MY SHIIP! MY JOKER! [beat] MEEE!"
It's always great to see that Taryn's priorities are in order.
Wow, not losing a single crew member deserve a high five.
I was not patient enough for the side quest / Normandy upgrades and I lost people and I regretted it so hard.
My heart sank seeing Legion fall in the background at 51:48, must've been a glitch.
Ahhhhh shit I was 15 minutes in writing a comment about kaidan and I see this, well thank God I thought everyone was absolutely cooked and I wasn't looking forward to see that, I'm kinda glad that I got this spoiled
Tbh the right options are kinda obvious.
@@Naysayer32 not everyone shares your brilliant deductive skills. Especially not the demographic of these games.
Best girl quote of the video: "Biggest dose of ice water ive ever seeeenn!" 1000% agree
She did a REALLY good job on the suicide mission. My first time around I didn’t even know how to upgrade the ship. Then I made Garrus go in the vents because I remembered him being half tech in the previous game. And then I had Grunt escort the crew back because I figured he’d be able to defend them solo the best.
Needless to say…I lost a LOT of crew members in my first run.
Oh my i remember my first suicide mission. Didnt know you have to upgrade your ship to be successful. I didnt do it because it costs too much and gaining minerals were too boring for little me. In mission itself i chose Thane get to the shaft because i thought he is assasin and he already was in ventilation in one of the cutscenes. Gladly he survived though he complained about how hot in ventilation i thought he gonna die. For second group i chose mordin dont ask me why. I chose samara as a biotic shield, but because i failed her loyalty mission garrus dies. I dont remember who i sent to escort the survivors probably it was jacob because he was useless for my opinion. I remember tali survived for sure but dont remember who else.
It's not that Garrus isn't a techie. He is. Dude does complex mathematical equations in his head. For fun.
He's just not a techie to the level of Tali or Legion (who is literally a piece of tech). Nor does he have the infiltration expertise of Kasumi, who spends a lot of time crawling around in vents and I believe will also work. He's 50 % techie. Tali and Legion are 100%.
"Ooo a bunch of Tali's" 🤩😍
"StopRightThere!"
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite youtube channel
😂
Shepard would not say that seeing what happened to our man Wrex
I can confirm that they are indeed commander shepard.
…on the internets.
Nice try Glados
19:54 "All life precious." That one line is why he is one of my favorite characters in Mass Effect, and especially in ME3.
Martin Sheen my MAN, Illusive Man is such a well voiced character, I can't sing Martins praises enough.
President Bartlet for 2028, one more term!
Having watched both the Mass Effect video, and this one. As well as many of ya’lls other videos. I have a feeling that A LOT of tears are going to be shed during ME3.
Garrus.
The greatest Alien Bro since Chewbacca.
Chewie had reach, Han had flexibility.
Facts.
That role goes to Wrex.
And Wrex.
@@Decitsu Agreed. Garrus is the Younger Brother and Wrex is the Older Brother of Shepard.
40:30 anyone else just go "oh no" when Nick said "doesn't even realize it YET"
As a long time gamer who tends to focus more on the gameplay and less on story, watching your girlfriend play games has helped revitalize my love and appreciation for gaming. I see and hear how excited she gets about characters, codex entries, and overall story and it makes me want to slow down with my own game playing to appreciate the world building. Mass Effect is one of my favorite game series ever and it is a total joy watching her experience it for the first time. I hope that I can appreciate games as much as she does. Keep it up!
Edit: have you ever considered having her play Skyrim?
The real question is, did she probe uranus?
Really commander?....probing Uranus (sigh)
No, but Garrus sure did.
Damn. I posted before seeing this. Literally the same question I had
@@The_Real_Mr_AlHey-O!!
Fair play, that was one of the smoothest sponsorship transitions I've witnessed.
she may have done it as a side mission during the game, but Arrival is the bridge from ME2 too 3 so would love to see that reaction as well. also makes ME3's opening for Shepard make a lot more sense.
@thefogg
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the arrival works even more IMO if you do it before the end. i really thought the collectors were the reapers. then at the end, i did feel bad for them. since they were sentient the whole time.
as mordin put it. the galaxy needs diversity, all life precious
@@thefogg replaying the games i can't disagree more with that. They Talk about the Collectors history in the universe all the time, even pretty early on even like mission 1 or 2 when you first see them. them having active history in the galaxy that people know about. kind of rules out them being THE reapers.
But to be fully honest, you also not really wrong either, they kind of are reapers. xD
@@TheLiveactiongamer my now regret after playing the trilogy. is not reading the books till recently. they are amazing. i recommend the books when i hear someone i work with thinking starting it.
@thefogg what's a good starting point on those?
Anderson: It's messed up that you had to kill 300,000 batarians, Shep. But I understand that you did it to delay the reapers.
Shepard: Reapers?
No Shepherd without Vakarian
Who is Shepherd and where are the sheepies?
Taryn's rationalizing the squadmate choices in the endgame was a long stretch of tense moments. Her instincts showed just how invested she's become in the characters and their distinctions.
The Good Doctor really just told Shepherd to have great but safe smex.
I never played femshep, this was somehow new to me after all this time. (18:40 for those who want to rewatch)
@@dogishappy0Mordin actually gives advice for every xenosexual pair.
If you romance Tali as MaleShep for example Mordin will talk about how he consulted her and helped her find some performance drugs for her immune system.
If you romance Thain the Drell Assassin - he will warn about his skin chemicals and sends FemShep meds to help with "hang over" that WILL happen after intercourse.
And etc etc
Mordin is a true professional at work. Any work. And he is a good friend. A truly modern model of a scientist salarian.
And what’s funny is that he also gives advice with human lovers. Since they are Cerberus, you gotta watch out for bugs XD
As someone who loves this game I'm so happy to see someone so invested in it and see it for the first time. This was so much fun to see her reactions to all the new info and changes in mass effect 2. I can't wait to see her play the 3rd one.
..."A geth, a geth, literally a geth. He is so cool and he is my friend"...
Adorable...sometimes she reminds me of a cute/innocent/naive JRPG/anime character!!!! 😂
I would warn her not to start the Citadel DLC too early in ME3. It's hard to know it's DLC to new players.
Just played through ME3, played through Citadel without getting Tali first 😢
@@drewvasseur3123did that on my first playthrough too. Went to a previous save file, got Tali, and replayed the DLC again. Worth it
If you never ship with tali or garrus in any game and always do their missions they will be together in ME3 at the end, which i found out after playing all 3 games again this year. very wholesome
Iirc Tali also has a drunk dialogue where she mumbles to herself about both Garrus and Shepard, also funny that Liara apparently also knows her search history too.
@@Tim7318-3Only happens if you romance Garrus.
I... don't remember that ! I romanced Liara through the 3 games and I don't recall them together at the end... I'll have to look into that.
@@Paehriniirc you are def with liara at the end of 3 if you played that way in the first two
why are spoiling that shit for her? His lady has not played the game!
YES!
I am so glad she dumped Kaiden for Garrus.
I did the same thing.
I am curious on her playthrough of the Project Overlord DLC (Just a really good DLC and I love seeing people's general feelings behind it)
Choosing him over Kaidan “Full Retard” Alenko or not-horrendous-but-has-space-cancer lizard? Hell, yes and thank God.
omg me too! I totally didn't even realize we didn't get to see her reaction to Liara or the Overlord DLC. Which are both great pieces of content!
Fuck yeah! I’ve been waiting for this for SO LONG!
Mordin, and it isn't even close. The scientist Salarian is my favourite character in all of fiction.
"Talitalitalitali!"
Your girlfriend wouldn't happen to be a former Small Arms Repairman, would she?
I literally just discovered this channel and watched the first part a couple of hours ago and was sad there wasn't one for Mass Effect 2 yet 😭
Perfect timing omg!
21:03 Shepard murders someone in cold blood, and she giggles. That says a lot.
Then again, he was a batarian. Sort of had it coming...
This video was worth the wait.
I am going to be rewatching both mass effect videos until 3 comes out lol.
I came for the video and the adorable girlfriend reactions and I was not disappointed in any way lol.
I love her excitement. Great video.
I am happy that she's taking Wrex's loss in stride and making efforts to not have the same thing happen! I hope she enjoys the trilogy! thank you for the video its awesome.
I can't wait for her reactions to ME3. Jack's arc, Mordin's next song, Geth and Quarians, and so much more.
After recently playing through the trilogy again after almost 15 years, and it feeling like the first time all over again. Seeing your gf play through this for the first time brings me joy I ain't know I needed.
Congratulations on a fantastic year in terms of videos and wishing you a Happy New Year. Looking forward to everything the future has in store.
Tali. Tali! TALI! I love Tali, she's my favorite companion in all 3 of the games. I couldn't do the games without her.
0:50 the collectors were just trying to install a new moonroof but Joker kept swerving out of the way
Wow this was the best video on ME2 I've ever seen, well done and thanks!
Perfect mix of narration setting the scene, hitting the main story points, lore, funny moments and all with the excitement and enthusiasm your GF has which frankly I'm jealous of! Made it really fun. Can't wait for ME3's video.
I've been waiting for this since the ME1 video!!
She can be a kid sometimes, I really like it 😂, It reminds me when I played this game back on the Xbox 360!
Also her being upset about that cut in the Garrus romance scene is so funny 🤣
This series is incredible and am really enjoying her journey. This series just has so many memorable characters, Mordin, Garrus, Thane, Tali...they all are some of my favorite sci-fi characters in any media. Can't wait for her to finish ME3. Great job on the videos.
Watching the suicide mission had me on the edge of my seat. HUGE kudos for getting everyone out alive on a blind playthrough!
I was legit sweating the entire time.
I admit I’ve never sent Legion into the vents
Your videos made me play the games and I finished them in a month, it was an amazing month . Looking forward to the ME3 video and her reaction to the ending...
Her excitement is so infectious and keeps me coming back for these videos. Love it!
18:15 I actually got to meet Bill Salyers (voice actor of Mordin Solis), awesome dude :).
They took our crew, our ship, OUR CHEF. This was my favorite part of her reaction lmao.
As sad as I was to see Wrex die in ME1, I'm glad his sacrifice wasn't in vain, his death taught her the importance of never taking your team for granted
Yes, that's exactly how it played out for me. Wrex dead in first playthrough. Never been so stressed about any other game in my life when I went into the suicide mission :D
I’ve been through the entire back catalog and now I’m stuck waiting for regular uploads like everyone else. I literally cannot wait for the next upload. The videos always turn out great, gotta respect all the time and effort that goes into making these entertaining. And Taryn’s eagerness to invest in worlds and characters is just charming as heck.
Okay, that sponsorship placement was genius
actually!
There's more food, and less ass!
No that's annoying. Takes you out of the video, immersion gone, atmosphere out of the window...
You can think it's genius bad has a bad effect on many people... I literally had to stop the video then and there and continue it after 2 or 3 hours...
I hate when people do this...
@@Ellinon_Vasileus yea, but that goes for all ad-reads. I hate them with a passion, and I'll do near anything to skip them, but of all the sponsorship inserts i've come across, this one takes the cake. IMO they selected the perfect, (non main) story beat, and as he's a bit of a joke character, our normady SR-2 janitor-cook, not as Only MapMen's ad-reads are funnier
Anyway, isn't that a bit worrying? that you let it affect you so much, and I say that as someone who can get quite f king annoyed at ads (so I say this as much to you as myself lol), but it affected so much to the point of needing a couple of hours (?!) seems to be really not worth your energy! Or did you get like distracted/focused on doing something else?
Her reactions just make me smile. I think they were the same I had during the prologue, and the whole scene when we see the SR-2. I love all of it.
@15:00 "Look a bunch of Talis" I can't 🤣
The fact that she managed to keep everyone alive despite the odds stacked so heavily against her is INCREDIBLE. Let's go Tarny!! I'm just sad I missed seeing her reaction to realizing how many ways things could've gone wrong 😂
39:12 The mining was.... Fun? That's a new one.
That little whirring it does as you're scanning drives me insane.
EDI's reaction to probing Uranus is golden
That mod that instantly depletes a planet with one probe is the first one I always install.
It's a relaxing pacebreaker.
Ya'll's editing. It's wonderful story telling and has on several occassions added to my appreciation of a lot of games that I already loved.
Patrolling the Mojave makes you wish for a Made my Girlfriend Play Fallout New Vegas video.
Oh damn, you actually got something wrong about the suicide mission: In the Hold the Line segment, loyalty isn't the part that is relevant for whether someone lives or dies. Every squadmate has a "Hold the Line" score attached to them, increased by 1 if they're loyal. If the combined score of all squadmates that are left to hold the line is too low, some of them will die.
Im more surprised by the fact she managed to save ALL squadmates and the whole crew considering this is her first time playing the game where must of us our first time we didn't managed to save them all the first time (mordin and half the crew in my case)
I quite literally have been waiting for this 😭 so glad she got around to playing the second one and can't wait for the third game
YEAH!!!! I’ve been way too of so long for this!!!!! Can’t wait for 3
Cant wait for Mass Effect 3 and then having her replay 1 through 3 to save Wrex and do the Genophage right.
I played the Mass effect series and 2 is definitely my favorite!
I love how attached your girlfriend is to the characters in games l, and it’s adorable. It’s beyond amazing to watch her play video games I grew up on, and to have that first experience again. Your guys relationship reminds me a lot of me and my husband. We game together a lot, and I also get very attached to characters. Her excitement is what makes the games she plays so wonderful for us to watch again. It’s good to see you guys back. ☺️ Even if I don’t fully watch a video of yours, I never exit out without giving it a like.
I was rooting so hard for taryn to choose the right options in the suicide mission
This was a joy to watch. I was really anxious when the final mission decisions started, glad everyone survived. ME2 is the only game I instantly replayed after beating (I lost Tali on my first playthrough).
Cerberus messed up my eyebrows too! Also I only lost one crew member on the Collector base but I could not keep a single fish alive.
When's the second channel launching where you get recommendations and we see her narrate your reactions to it? Girl meets boy. Love these vids. Strikes me that she enjoys the Mass Effect universe more than a fair few that's been recommended lol
Thank you for all the great content this year!
Seeing someone experience games like Mass Effect for the first time with such joy helps me remember the amazing feelings I had myself in my first playthrough. Love this channel, looking forward to ME3.
Ah yes, the absolute masterpiece of the series.
This video is amazing, made me relive ME2 as if it was my first time playing it again. Your girlfriend's reactions were so relatable it almost brought a tear to my eye multiple times throughout the video.. comes to show how amazing this game series is!
you can tell shes having a great time when half the video is mic peaking lol
im hyped for this video! the ME1 vid is the reason i subbed then i suddenly found myself binging on the souls vids. cant wait for ME3
Holy shit I discovered your *excellent* ME1 video yesterday and immediately subbed and now I get the 2nd one the very next day? Fuckin ace
Mass Effect is one of my most favorite games. I enjoyed your vid man, i honestly cant wait to see your GF play ME3 especially with the decisions she has made throughout all 3 ME games.
You've probably conisdered it already, but I think seeing Detroit: Become Human on this channel would be great
Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls too (unless there's ones already, haven't checked)!
It’s great to see how much you both enjoy this series! I’m so tired hearing people moan and complain non stop about the game they are playing. Your editing is also top notch, love your call back about the eyebrows as one small example. Can’t wait until you bring this series home with ME3! But one question in the meantime … is your girlfriend becoming more decisive in real life thanks to playing these games???
I haven't played Mass effect games and probably never will, but hey, I'm hooked on your content guys
Give hem a shot! They are extremely cheap and very good experiences even if you know what’s gonna happen, everyone has a different story and play style
No lie, that was a smooth sponsor integration into the video. I wish I could play these games again for the first time. Videos like these are the closest I can get to that. Thank you!
2:09 My cabbages!
Two things:
1. Always love how excited that your girlfriend gets for the story
2. Her thoroughness paid off! when I played this the first time, i didnt listen to a lot of things and ended up losing people because of ship upgrades, and also crew members because i dilly dallied
Overall, she's a better ME2 player than me lol
Awesome choices on the final mission, on my first playthrough I lost Mordin because I left him to hold the line instead of sending him back with the crew.
Will you play the DLC before ME3? It’s a must to see the growth of certain characters that have mayor roles in the sequel
Fun Fact! Who you bring with you to fight the Human Reaper DOES MATTER, and isnt based on Loyalty. Each Squadmate while defending your position gives points to a survivability score while you fight the final boss. Keeping Garrus, Zaeed, and Grunt GREATLY increases your chances of having no squad wipe. By sending Mordin back to the ship, and taking Tali to the final boss, Tarny actually made it so the two squishiest squad mates survived! Good on Tarny for making those choices on a first playthrough, I lost Mordin on mine!
Jack and Kasumi are also the squishiest squadmates. Bringing Garrus was a mistake, but that part of the mission doesn't demand perfection, only competence. Good thing too, because a perfect score on the line would require you to not recruit Kasumi at all. Mordin and Jack are mandatory, and you need Tali to upgrade the Normandy's shields.
The fallout from ME3's ending is gonna be rough
If nobody poisons the well, Girlfriend will love it. People's complaints amount to "I didn't want hard moral questions, I wanted to win!"
@@KopperNeoman Three different colour swaps for the same generic ending, an ending which didn't reflect any of the decisions you'd made in the previous 3 games. People's complaints were completely valid, Bioware absolutely shit the bed on this franchise at the very last moment.
@@peacemaster8117 personally I never really had an issue with the actual endings, they seem like natural conclusion to me, what I was a bit sad about was there was no game after ME3 to see the choice playout. ME:A kinda felt like a cop out to not have to commit even if it does have some interesting stuff in it. Hopefully ME4 actually does branch off from the endings. maybe thats why its taking them 10 years to make the game xD they already said its min 2029 and its been in dev for 4-5 years already. (Separate team from DA:V thankfully with a bunch of ME vets it seems)
@@TheLiveactiongamer The conclusion was never the problem. It was always about the lack of closure, like you mentioned yourself. The Citadel DLC would've been the perfect epilogue for an ending where Shepard and everybody survived, but they made it a pre-ending content instead. I still to this day consider The Citadel DLC as my headcanon ending.
@@Kreze202 Audemus's Happy Ending Mod, plus Starchild-Be-Gone, plus Citadel Epilogue mod (which does exactly what you wanted and makes it an epilogue story after Priority: Earth) is my personal headcanon for how the trilogy actually ends.
Not losing anyone on a blind playthrough is always good to see
I salute you, Commander Shepard. :)
Girlfriend did an excellent job of learning from her mistakes last time and making good decisions for the future.
I do think that missing out on the DLC epilogue between the two is a mistake. Or maybe she did that and we're just not seeing it? It just sets up the story better for when you start 3.
Also glad she didn't stick with Kaidan's slimy, backstabbing behavior.
Amazing - what I would give to be able to experience playing this game for the first time again. Mass Effect is my favourite series without question, and it made me genuinely emotional getting someone's reactions to playing the game for the first time, especially with that score in the background pulling up my own memories of playing through those scenes.
Can't wait for the ME3 playthrough!
Also, she's not wrong, she's definitely got them sniper skills down!
I'm really bummed Taryn didn't have Wrex alive, he's one of the best crew members (for ME3). Only Legion and Mordin are better than Wrex, partially because their stories and endings are so damn good.
This was really fun! Loved how excited she was while playing, really made me smile and made me remember how I felt my first time through the trilogy.
Looking forward to the conclusion
she should totally play cyberpunk, she will love it now that is all updated and actually a good game
Let’s go! I was waiting on this one ever since the first one
Mooooore!!!
I've seen 2 of yours videos and I love this.
Can't wait for more.
I love the Mass Effect series... not just because I am in Mass Effect 3 (The people at Bioware snuck people they knew into the various games, using their names as random people in the background or notes... and I even got a small speaking role!)
okay now I'm curious what background role did you get? xD
Yeah me too (me when I lie)
@@TheLiveactiongamer One of the crewmen on the ship... the one arguing with the reporter.
@@RedKytten Ah, so your avatar is a waifu of some kind. Thought at first you were a woman, but I don't remember any female crewmen arguing with Diana.
@@KopperNeoman The crewman in question doesn't have a first name. My first name is strange enough it would have stood out if they used it and the last name at the same time. Regardless of that, online I actually don't confirm my gender or sex, sorry.