Let's Play Mass Effect Legendary Edition | Part 7 - The Normandy | Blind Gameplay Walkthrough
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- In Part 7 of this blind Mass Effect Legendary Edition gameplay walkthrough on the Xbox Series X we speak to all our crew and learn a lot about Quarians and Geth. | Please Like and Subscribe if you enjoyed!
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Mass Effect Legendary Edition is a remastered compilation of the video games in the Mass Effect trilogy: Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and Mass Effect 3. It is being developed by BioWare with assistance from Abstraction Games and Blind Squirrel Games, and published by Electronic Arts. All three games were remastered, with visual enhancements, technical improvements, and gameplay adjustments. Mass Effect, the first game of the trilogy, has received more extensive upgrades than its counterparts, specifically with regard to combat mechanics, vehicle handling, and loading times.
Development on the Legendary Edition remasters commenced in 2019 under the direction of Mac Walters. Although BioWare initially considered other alternatives, they ultimately decided to approach the project as a remaster as opposed to a remake in order to preserve the original trilogy experience. The compilation was announced on November 7, 2020, and released on May 14, 2021 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.
The compilation also includes almost all single-player downloadable content (DLC) that was originally released for each game, such as promotional weapons, armors, and packs. Set in the Milky Way galaxy within an alternate universe during the 22nd century, the trilogy consists of action role-playing games in which the player assumes the role of Commander Shepard, an elite human soldier who must unite the galactic community against an impending threat. Shepard is a customizable character whose morality is determined by the player, and during each game, the player makes choices that can impact the story in various ways. These choices and consequences can be carried forward through the trilogy.
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I love the Quarians and the Krogan. Their past is inherently flawed and now they are people paying for the mistakes of their ancestors and just trying to survive. I love their backstories, lores and cultures. Just so insanely well thought out.
Yeah it seems really well thought out, can't wait to learn more :D
I just want to tell you good luck we’re all counting on you.
Thanks dude, appreciate that!
I've already assumed crash position.
If you loved the nuanced ethical dilemmas of this episode, oh boy, won't you believe there's a truckload of them coming in this game and beyond. It's a well-written universe with layers, is what I'm saying.
Haha I can't wait!
Really appreciate you reading and learning the lore. It's nice that they put so much thought into this universe
I'm loving learning it all :D
Protect this man at all costs - downvote any spoilers to hell
Haha thanks, my mod should be deleting spoilers before I check the comments so hopefully none will slip through :)
Quarian population is 17 million: That doesn't seem to bad, they were supposed to be on the verge of extinction
For some comparison, the population of Tokyo is 37 million
From the tens of billions they were pre-war, it isn't that high either.
Tokyo is one city on a world of seven billion. If a crisis event were to whittle our population down to 37 million in only 300 years, we would view ourselves as incredibly endangered. That's way beyond "save the whales" numbers. Same thing with the Krogan. When you hear that there are still a few billion of them in the galaxy left, you think "well that's not so bad", until you consider that the Genophage allows maybe one child for every female in a breeding cycle, and the Male-Female ratio is VERY predominantly male, you realize that they are slowly dying off, especially since a lot of them tend to die before they can hook up.
Yeah true lol
The Geth/Quarian and Krogan/Genophage story lines are some of the best in the trilogy. Great ethical questions as the trilogy progresses. Tali and Wrex are awesome, good people shaped by their circumstances.
Can't wait to hear more about it :D
Its explained in the codex at some point so ignore this if you were just being rethorical. The reason Quarians can't just colonize other worlds is because of their non existent immune system. They thrived on their own planet because insects and bacteria don't exist so its hard to find similar planets that evolve and developed this way that can accommodate them.
Also, several attempts by the quarians to establish a colony were blocked by the Council awarding colonization rights to another species. Once, they established a colony without securing permission first (hoping for "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission" to apply), only for the turian fleet to show up and evict them for 'illegal occupation.' The Council then turned around and granted colonization rights to the turians.
It sucks to be the Space Roma.
It's really important to acknowledge that the council denies the quarians the right to colonize
Ah okay that is rather unfortunate
First round through the 'bioware-style companion hub' is always a pleasure
Loving it haha
There’s an Avina Terminal on the presidium next to the Krogan statue that tells you all about the Krogan Rebellion, the Rachni and the Genophage. It’s one of the few things you missed.
Yeah I thought all terminals would be the same, will get it next time
@13:22; That particular dialogue is just an indicator, akin to how Kaidan tried to brush you off, that after a mission, they'll usually have something under that prompt to talk about.
Ah cool :)
your genuine excitement at lore is refreshing
It's so interesting :D
27:00 the reason, I think, why the Quarians decided to act against Geth was also of political and economic importance. The Quarians were part of the Citadel, thus subject to the laws against AI. If they went ahead, the Citadel would have aimed a weapon against them (most likely). They were sandwiched between the Terminus Systems (bad bois), the Batarian Hegemnoy (bad bois), The Citadel (meh bois), and intergalactic space (their best neighbor). So... you can see why they wanted to be buddies with the Citadel. There was paranoia, but also geopolitical reasons.
Interesting, the nuance makes it very cool to learn about :)
I feel like the council is a bit more....accepting, if the quarians did speak with the Geth and they started working together, im sure (after many tense conversation( the council would have left them alone. It's not really the quarians fault that the Geth get smarter the closer together they are (probably an oversight on someone's end) but like tali said they are sentient. They have potential and use, that's what all species on the citadel are there for.
Full renegade mass effect campaigns are savage....... and amazing
I'll have to look up the differences after I'm done with the trilogy haha
love the lore in this game! so glad you are taking the time to immerse yourself in it. you will find out why the quarians haven't settled down on a new world a bit later in the story.
Can't wait :D
Codex: "A species who suspects the Migrant Fleet is heading towards their space often offers gifts..."
Living Sun: Well that's nice of them. Moving on.
Codex: "... to convince them to alter course."
Lmaooooo xD
Fun fact, Tali Zora is around 22 years old in this game, while Wrex is something between 700 and 2000 years old. Both characters ages are unstated in the game, but it really does inform on their characters when you look at them through the lens of their ages
Oh wow haha
Incorrect actually. Tali is 22 in Mass Effect 1, having been born in 2161. There's a timeline on the Mass Effect wikia which lists character birth dates and other important information, as well as just background lore dates and stuff.
@@StarfallShadow It may have been retconned, or I'm miss-remembering, but I swear when it first came out I read something about her being essentially a child prodigy turned Soldier/Galactic hero. I guess it would make sense though, a teenager in that situation might have caused some backlash, and been quietly retconned to young adult.
The idea that Krogan don't physically age isn't really negotiable for me though. It makes sense, between the redundant nervous system, and regenerative abilities capable of keeping them fighting briefly after brain-death, the only thing that can kill them is anything physically capable of doing it
@@KingAce595 Krogan for sure age physically. It's why the genophage was implemented. Krogan kept having thousands of babies that mature more rapidly physically than other races, which gave them overwhelming numerical superiority during the Krogan Rebellions.
@@StarfallShadow We also know that they were killed by predators, then each other more often than anything else, before they were afflicted with the blood rage that makes them so likely to fight people. This means that accidental deaths, and death by disease are both out due to durability and regenerative ability. Now when yo look at aging, the entire process is just your cells loosing the ability to continue dividing into health cells over time. With that said, let's take a look at some of the oldest krogan we've heard of. We hear that matriarch Atheda's father was alive during the Rachni Wars, so over 1000 years, Patriarch was around during the early days of the rebellions, so over 1000 years. And lastly, Wrex never says anything outright, but he hints at knowing what his people were like before the genophage, meaning over 1000 years. Now, as for your bit about how the genophage is killing them off, it's not. It's the fact that they all run off to be mercs, Wrex even says that one. So to round out my statement, the Krogan may not be immune to aging, but they also clearly haven't found their Max age yet.
im sure people already told you, but talk to everyone on your ship between every mission in case they have new stuff to say.
also, might be worth going back to the citadel between missions too, what with it being your hub and all. might even meet a certain superfan again >.>
Yeah will do :)
Ahhhhhhhhh I remember returning to the Normandy for decontamination. The loads would take 5 mins and the long ass elevators 😂😂😂. You dont understand our pain lol.
I memorised the transit citadel fast transport so I knew which route was fastest as that load was pretty long too! So if you picked the wrong oneeeee... 😭
5 minutes D: wow glad I'm living in the future :P
@@LivingSun no joke! The infamous elevator rides felt like actual real life elevators. Where you're just staring at the floors numbers you pass. I think it loads so fast you don't get the whole party conversation sadly or news reports.
Not sure if you heard, but the salarians only uplifted the krogan to fight the war against the rachni. Really enjoying your playthrough, the only one I've found so far that I can't wait for more parts of!
Yeah loving learning all the history :D
19:34 17 million is pretty low when the population of earth today is around 7 billion
@@serelryk5365 yeah the geth essentially responded the quarians' genocide attempt with an unprecendent genocide, it's a messy history for sure. Thats why we love it tho
Yeah fair point lol
Reading codex in a Comm room is very atmospheric))
Yes, I like it, Living Sun needs to make it a tradition! 😉
I love how he looked for a quiet space to read the codex. :)
Haha maybe we'll make a habit of it
Tali is one of my favorite characters of the series. While I don't agree with what the Quarians did I definitely understand why they did it. And it kind of shows some of the double standards of the galaxy that the Turians and Salarians and heroes for what they did to the Krogans and the Quarians are pariahs. I know it is not the same but it is not too different either.
One of the reasons the Quarians probably did what they did was fear of a galaxy-wide threat like the Krogan or Rachni, both ironically being accidentally triggered by Salarians. It was based on paranoia and fear, but not entirely unfounded either.
I also like the Quarians as a people. They are very close-knit and loyal and generally are pretty good people. There are definitely worse species overall. I also their resourcefulness and independence.
They made a mistake for sure, but they and their descendants are still paying for that mistake and are treated as second-class citizens by the galaxy at large.
Plus Tali is best girl. I love her.
Gonna be interesting to see where my thoughts end up by the end haha
Man how have I not found this channel before. Exactly the play style I like to watch, (thorough story focused)… he’s done a tonne of games I’ve specifically searched for before (persona 5, ffvii remake, halo etc.)and yet he never popped up in my searches. Criminal in my opinion. Can’t wait to see the rest of this and an awesome backlog to check out as well. Subbed.
Lol, cheers dude, darn youtube algorithm xD
Ikr, I also just found out about this channel through this LP. His P5 one is also interesting as he has initially no idea what persona is about, just like this game. I love watching playthroughs of people getting diving into a whole new game without prior experience.
What I like about this game is that no species is innocent and all have flaws. Also what happened to the krogans is so messed up. No matter what they did they didn’t deserve that
Edit: also I agree the quarians definitely brought the geth situation on themselves
Yeah agreed, very cool :)
the world building combining the dialogues and codex is so well done, each interaction adds more to the universe :)
Yeah they've built a great universe to explore for sure :D
Nice to see someone enjoying all that lore. I really like the tone of the first mass effect particularly. Really felt like you were going out into a universe with stuff going on outside the players existence.
I even enjoy that inspiring speech on leaving the citadel. Yes it’s very Gung ho but there’s nothing wrong with that in a space opera!
Yeah it feels really vast :D
Just wanted to say the reason Kaiden's dialouge was weird was because he didn't have anything to say so that's the line you get. When you do missions you can ask him again and he'll say different things.
In fact you should check in with your crew on a regular basis just to see if any new dialouge has shown up.
I've been loving the playthru so far keep up the good work! 👍
Makes sense, will do :)
I am loving this let's play so far! It's awesome how you read the codex and search for the lore! Couple tips: When you equip new items, mark all the old ones as junk, so you can sell them all at once to vendors. And make sure to explore every inch of the Citadel next time you are there. Can't wait for more!
Glad to hear man :D ah right didn't notice mark as junk was an option haha, will do
the genophage and the quarian-geth conflict are two topics that make the game and its lore so interesting. In addition it provides tons of material for passionate discussions among the mass effect fan community. Its very intersting to read their pro/cons in the comment section of YT or gaming forums (of course after finishing the game) - Well, at least for me it is :)
Yeah seems pretty interesting :)
On the quarian/geth conflict, I'm kinda divided, but I also fall more on the geth-favoring sided of things. I understand where the quarians were coming from. I mean, you create a manual labor force, and suddenly, they start asking existential questions. As Tali said, it caused a panic, and so a "deactivation" of all geth was called for. If all computers in the world suddenly started asking "Am I alive?", I can guarantee that most people still wouldn't immediately think of computers as people.
However, morally, and ethically, I agree that once a computer becomes a person, if you try to exterminate them, they have a right to defend themselves to the last. So, I can not say that the geth were in the wrong, period.
On the krogan issue... That one is a LOT more complex. So I love it. Any story that can make you look at a situation and go, "Would I have made the same choice in that situation? And if I did, could I have lived with myself afterward?" is a game worth remembering.
Yeah, like I can see where they're coming from but I definitely don't think they did the right thing there, from what I currently know at least
It's stated that a female Krogan can have as many as 1,000 offspring in a single breeding cycle. So the Genophage's effect of pinning the offspring viability to 1 in 1,000 basically means they can now only have one child at a time. Of course, it should be noted that females are very rare, and that male Krogans are predisposed towards fighting causing them to have a high mortality rate.
Hmm interesting
2:46 ngl he had me in the first half and then boom confidence struck can't relate
super interesting to learn about the geth! pretty much agree with u on that front, excited to learn more about them :D
Hahaha xD yeah can't wait to learn more!
I might have addiction to your videos
I am so sorry to hear that :P
Shit Sun, between your Mass Effect and Hollow Knight playthroughs, you have yourself a new subscribe. This old man digs your play style, keep it up.
Haha thanks man! Glad you dig it :D
Oh yeah, full mean/renegade is very different but you do generally end up doing the same things but boy do people react to that kind of behavior lol. I love the female shep as renegade though, she delivers snarky and cocky renegade lines so fucking well. Maybe when you finish the series try to play renegade on your own time as femshep, it's worth the different perspective in seeing what changes when you're a hothead lol.
Also i suggest turning down the music a bit so the character voices are a bit more clear, some of them are somewhat drowned out by the music at times, your volume seems fine though.
Regarding quarrians settling on planets, tali explained they have extremely weak immune systems. A foreign environment would kill them.
Lol I never have time to replay games sadly but sounds interesting!
Growing up I was so used to Sci-fi like Star Trek that had rules like the prime detective. When I played Mass Effect for the first time I was so interested in a universe that didn't have any thing like the prime detective in fact it had the opposite. Even the term "up lift" would suggest that the over all consensus is positive.
Yeah that's pretty cool :)
12:08 Me whenever I play an rpg.
Hahahaha xD
A La-grange point is a real part of celestial mechanics its a point near two orbiting bodies that can be orbited as though it were itself an object with mass. there are 5 sun - earth lagrange points and 5 different earth - moon points. The James Webb space telescope will be deployed later this year to orbit the sun - earth L2 point. Shows how dedicated the ME writers were incorporating real physics into a sci-fi game.
Interesting haha
Finally someone who doesn't just stop at "The Turians are bad because they released the genophage. The Krogans are entirely responsible for what happened to them. Even Wrex confesses it when he said that it isn't the genophage that are destroying the Krogan but only themselves.
Ironically, all this mess was started by the salarians (at least in this cycle). They're not only uplifted the krogans to win the Rachni Wars for them, but also (unintentionally, but still) sparked this Wars in the first place.
What can I say? Curiosity killed the salarian. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah it's definitely pretty nuanced
@@Darth_Niki4 I thinks it's suppose to show how science, can be dangerous with no boundaries and when scientist thinks themselves as God it can lead to some disaster.
aah yes all the lore i liked this episode i needed a chill thing to watch
Yay :D
This is shaping up to being my favorite play-through after the Halo and Gears of War one solely due to your enthusiasm. I love to see it.
Also, don't know if you've found out yet but since you commented on liking her voice, Doctor Chakwas is voiced by Queen Myrrah.
Yay, glad you like it :D oh that's cool, thought she sounded a little familiar
Yes... Tali is very interesting.
Very much so :D
Massive lore dump! Do you have a favorite squad member yet?
Hmm, I mean I don't know any of them very well yet, but if I had to pick now then Wrex :)
Nice...... maybe
the first comment is very nice, I am happy
:pepeclown:
@@bakedlizard6429 correct
@@syressx9098 it depends on your perspective, I would say it's nice, but not everyone thinks the same 😔
Nice..... definitely
I never could bring myself to do a full Renegade run. It's not like it's being truly evil (in most cases), it's just being cartoonishly abrasive and immoral at all times.
Yeah that's what a lot of the renegade options have seemed like haha
@@LivingSun while there are some Evil choices, Renegade is generally just being a violent asshole, so feel free to pick em if your feeling Ornery about something in the story...glad they made it that way, instead of Pure Evil or Pure Good.
It’s here!!
Woo!
There a lot of lore and different species, that can lead to a lot of conflict. The Girlseth definitely had an awful beginning and I wonder how there story progress from where they are know.
Can't wait to find out :D
32:27 - It just struck me. When it comes to the human/military elements - as a COMMANDER, you'd think MAYBE Shepard would know a little more about the things he keeps asking about ;)
Don't get me wrong - Still really digging this. This is just an unfortunate way my brain works.
Haha xD he just got his memory wiped right before the game started okay :P
STOP CALLING THEM THE WRONG NAMES!
its Daddy Wrex
Doc Chak (pronounced ch-aw-k or chalk)
And Tali is waifu
xD
Side note: Dude - You went from 8k to 8.64k in like, what - a week? Nice. 👍
Yeah it's been pretty crazy since this series started lol, fastest growth I've ever had!
Soon trademark! I take you played Battlefront II 2017?
No haha, didn't want to support that game as they'd designed it to be totally pay to win
@@LivingSun Understandable. I’m glad they completely reworked the progression system so that was no longer the case. It was always a fun joke on reddit when a dev would say that something was coming soon and the replies would be nothing but “soon trademark”.
What do you think of this game SO far
Really enjoying it!
@@LivingSun mass effect 2 is better some glish good story
If the Geth weren't our enemies, I would have probably sided with them against the Quarians. Tali said they "didn't have another choice" while in fact they had several options but instantly proceeded to unprovoked genocide.
Hell, I would even have forgiven it, if she at least regretted it, but she thinks that the Quarian were right in attacking the Geth for the crime of thinking, and you can't change her mind, so it's a no no for me.
Yeah, it really sours my opinion on Tali in general. I get that she's raised in a pretty desperate society and has been taught her entire life that the Geth are at fault, but still I think the Geth are ultimately in the right. They have a right to defend themselves from what was essentially an attempted genocide by the Quarians.
Ehh it's not so black and white, the moment they realized the geth had intelligence they were completely screwed in so many ways. Both internally within their people and globally, risking response from the rest of the galaxy. The genocide of either species was inevitable. They acted first but the geth ended up doing the successful genocide.
Maybe so, but does that make it right that their attempted genocide ended in their actual genocide and also defacto exile from galactic civilization?
@@Brinelious no, it doesn't make it right, but Karma is ironic that way. I would be more sympathetic to the Quarians if they regretted their actions, but since they see their unprovoked attempted genocide as completely justified, I care about their conditions much less that i would otherwise.
Yeah so far I'm definitely feeling like the Quarians were in the wrong on that one
I forgot Ashley wasn't the only racist in the Normandy crew lol. Forgot about Presley.
Lol
Is it just me, or is it weird that this game does not capitalize the names of the alien races? It makes the text harder to read for me. Maybe that's just because I'm a german? Or rather a German :-)
It's grammatically correct to not capitalize the species name since its a common noun. Same reason "human" isn't capitalized either. Same rule should apply to the alien races.
But not if you consider alien races similar to nationalities, right? I feel like most sci-fi franchises handle it that way ("a Klingon, a Romulan and a Cardassian walk into a bar...")
Hmm I guess it works either way haha
@@raphaelkirschke3194 they're not nationalities. They are species/race.
German is capitalized because it's a proper noun, a man (common noun, human) from the country Germany.
So in this sense, if we apply it to aliens, a turian from Palaven. A quarian from the Rayya, a krogan from Clan Urdnot, etc.
Ultimately, both approaches can be correct since there really isn't a rule for this anyway as it's fictional.
But Mass Effect's approach is more realistic in the sense that aliens are already the norm in the galaxy that they are considered common nouns instead of Proper nouns.
Yeah Mass Effect is not content to hand wave away things as mere gameplay. Almost everything in-game as a logical lore explanation behind it.
Love it :D