The funny thing is that I heard from someone that Saren wasn't supposed to look the way he does until later in the game, he was supposed to look like a normal turian which would explain why no one was suspicious of a dude that had freaking geth parts on full display.
Having Wrex and Tali pretty much through the whole game and them having their conversations makes their Crazy Uncle and Niece relationship feel more real in later games.
AKILBEHINDTHECAM eh kinda. Tali actually calls Wrex her crazy uncle she never had in the Citadel DLC. Lol which was amazing. Having all the characters possible in the DLC makes for some amazing interactions.
Tali came to the Citadel to take the information to the Council, but the authorities dismissed her as a 'suit rat' and told her to get lost or they'd kick her off the station (this is revealed in ME3 when you see her talking to the turian on the Presidium Commons). She instead turned to the Shadow Broker, who does have the power to get the information where it can do some good, but was tricked by Fist and sold out to Saren. It's not that difficult to follow.
WOMANpukumaru Because Tali wanted to help the galaxy by bringing that info to the attention of the Council, while the Fleet would do absolutely nothing with it
Not irrelevant - it's because it's important that the information get to the Council immediately. The Migrant Fleet has no power or influence; they can't do a thing, while the Council can disavow Saren, cut him off and take measures to rein him in, like they did. The Migrant Fleet is also constantly moving; it would be a nightmare to find, especially from an uncharted world where the only source of info is whatever ship she's taking a ride on. So Tali had two options: - spend forever searching for the Fleet, travel to the other end of the galaxy and hope it isn't gone when she gets there, then get the Admiralty Board to send the evidence to the Council, hoping that it not only isn't intercepted but that the Council doesn't dismiss it, or even have them send her with the evidence to the Citadel and hope that the Council doesn't dismiss it - or head straight to the Citadel, seek an audience with the Council and hope they don't dismiss the evidence. The second option really just cuts out the middleman. Seeking out the Fleet would be a massive waste of time.
On that note, the Geth share memories and information constantly. She wouldn't have to locate a specific Geth that was on Eden Prime at all, simply any Geth around would have the exact same information because of their central consciousness. Considering all of the Geth that were with Saren were the Heretics there would be even less of them than the actual Geth, which would mean their shared memories would be quite easy to find as the only Geth around would be Heretics as well.
@a HERO that doesn’t know what protect means How would it have completed her Pilgrimage? It had no value and, as she says in the game, as the daughter of an Admiral she's expected to bring something of high value back.
L. Jenkins running ahead and getting killed isn't a Star Trek homage... It's a World of Warcraft one. That's why he isn't wearing red. They named him L. Jenkins. The 'L' is clearly short for "Leeroy".
I do kind of wish it was possible to save him. The punishment for doing so would be, Ash dies and he takes her place. As they are both Soldiers it makes sense. If I remade the Trilogy this would be a possible option.
It pisses me off how much they threw away in the next two games. By the end nothing you chose matters. ME3 should have had an option to side with the Illusive Man if you did so to end ME2. You could literally do all the same missions but with Cerberus. THAT would have felt consequential and locked you out of a good amount but also given you some unique upgrades.
I used them all the time. In fact I used them as much as any other team members. And despite your assertion that Ashley Williams is not as good a character. I find the initial character defects a challenge and one that changes if you develop the character.
To be fair on the rachni thing, Wrex at this point in the series seems to have spent at least the past century drinking and fighting and trying not to think about his people’s downward spiral, so it’s not surprising that he hasn’t been looking at rachni pictures recently. The rachni wars happened a long time before humans emerged on the galactic stage and Shepard’s generation was the last generation born pre-first contact, so it’s not inconceivable that they’d be familiar with the term but not with their appearance. And Liara is an expert on the Protheans, that’s like expecting an Egyptologist to be familiar with details of the Mongol hordes.
Also for your "why would Sovereign let him study indoctrination" question - the Reapers are Lovecraftian eldritch horrors (which you removed a sin for), they don't give a shit what we do. All of Saren's research into indoctrination was pointless, and his armies of both cloned krogan and heretic geth would simply be assimilated no matter how many he made
right. Saren could study indoctrination all he wants it wasn't going to help him in anyway lol. He was already under sovereigns control. It probably just thought Saren was being cute.
I'm sinning the video for not removing 2 more sins: 1")You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it." because that line is just fucking awesome 2)because the ending, where you climb the citadel while watching a giant reaper is fucking awesome That being said Bayonetta 2 because far cry 4 would mostly be "do you remember far cry 3?"
I also think that while ME does rehash a bit too much of KotOR in its basic premise, the organic-exterminatin extragalactical robots that use the inside help of Citadel creatures nobody ever suspected were a threat are an absolutel blast of an idea for a story. I still remember the chills I got during Sovereing's holo speech.
Actually, saving the rachni queen in ME1 does matter. If you let her die, the one you encounter in ME3 will turn out to be a reaper agent who, should you rescue her will turn on your forces alongside her children shortly thereafter. If you save the queen in ME1, in addition to aiding your forces in ME3, she will express gratitude at least twice: once in ME2 through an asari messenger, and once through a recently dead krogan when you encounter her in person in ME3.
Btw at one point there is an option to let an asari working for saren escape. If I remember correctly her name is Rana Thanoptis. don't let her get away. In ME3 she is revealed to be indoctrinated and kills several high ranking military officers before committing suicide. i haven't played those games in a while though so you might want to save before making the decision to kill her, just in case.
Damn, the Reapers were soo awesome when they were introduced, that Sovereign speech back when I played it years ago still gives me shivers, shame ME3 took away alot of their mystery, but still.
One of my old friends was a huge Mass Effect fan. I think he told me that it's more or less the Star Trek of video games, because of its attention to detail with the sci-fi tech and focus on how civilizations and species interact with each other. I joked that it's like Star Trek because of the way the male captain can romance so many different alien women like he's Captain Kirk.
Kirk actually wasn't a big a whore for alien women as he's made out to be. Read below: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32051/how-many-alien-women-has-capt-admiral-kirk-slept-with
I'd say Star Wars, not Star Trek. Star Wars has its own wiki dedicated to deep lore that spans back millennia. Personally, to compare Mass Effect with Star Trek seems a distasteful disservice.
Until the third game, when they make a magic ray that can reshape everything in the universe at a molecular level. And FemShep gets her groove on as much as ManShep. She has also come out as fan favorite in multiple online polls.
@Maehedrose "Until the third game, when they make a magic ray that can reshape everything in the universe at a molecular level." So... at that point, it becomes even MORE like Star Trek? XD
20:02 From what I understand, that's pretty much exactly what was supposed to happen. Bioware wanted to put together a pre-Geth Saren model, had to cut it, and just shipped with the Post-Geth one.
About the thing with Tali getting the info from that geth, the geth are said to have a shared intelligence, and therefore any information one unit collects is transferred to the whole group. She didn't need to find one that was at Eden Prime. Just find one after that conversation happened
Saren doesn't run off to the Conduit immediately because he can feel himself slipping away to Sovereign; his research on Virmire was intended to find a way to stop that. When you blew up his facility, Sovereign was able to reassert control and drive him to Ilos to fulfill its goal. Part of Saren was still fighting indoctrination even then however, which is evidenced by the fact that you can get him to shoot himself at the end with a (difficult) speech check.
The sin does work if you go to Virmire as soon as it is availible. After completing Virmire that early there is still another planet to go before Shepard is ready to but Saren has everything he needs. The only way it would make sense for Saren to have not gone to Illos after Virmire is that he hadn't been to the other planet yet but the conversation you have with Saren on Virmire makes it seem like he knows everything already and was only staying back to study indoctrination for fear of losing himself to the reapers. It is definetly impossible is you do Noveria and Feros first to make it clear in game that Saren has already been there and gotten the cipher from the thorian and the location of the Mu relay from the rachni queen. The only purpose of going to Therum is to save Liara from the geth. Saren did not go to Therum, he sent assassins. There was nothing for him there but to eliminate a threat. Shepard needed Liara to mind meld to understand the beacons images while Saren already had asari under his command to do this with.
i love the “boring” human character so much bc they feel like your connection between your ordinary life and the game world. makes suspension of disbelief a bit easier when some boy-next-door is saving the galaxy with you
At the beginning, when you talk about the jump, what's impressive is that ordinarily there's a deviation of tens of thousands of kilometers. Joker managed to bring that down by a lot.
3:05 I LOVED the elevators. They felt real and thus helped with immersion. Teleportation is not real, and in real life, to go from the ground to story 20, you NEED to take the elevator.
Saren was growing the krogan army because he wanted to use them against the Reapers. He was fighting his indoctrination. Also, Saren's speech was dumb because he was partially indoctrinated. He believed Reapers would spare him if he helped them. 17:36 What do you think was the point of the Conduit?! The Mass Relays were guarded, but the Conduit opened a backdoor for Saren and the geth. 18:01 The Spectres aren't responsible to anyone... *but* *the* *Council.* The Council still has authority over them.
Hold on Dart. You pointed out how taking away guns is pointless because of biotics, but earlier in the video you criticized that Shepard could talk to the Counsel while having guns.
He sinned that Shepard could waltz in with guns, but then said taking them away is pointless, thus stripping Shepard of his weapons is pointless when he walked in the Space White House (as he calls the place.)
Probabbly because killing solely with biotics takes longer than with a gun, unless you're a biotic charge vanguard krogan. Then you can leave your gun at home, all day, every day
Trojianmaru Even the characters in the game find it asinine how the space cops on Novaria want to take their guns away yet asari are allowed to walk on by without a problem
Well, one's a formality (speaking to the Council in a formal setting, therefore guns ruin the setting), the other is a power move being attempted by rouge cops who should know how combat works in this universe.
It really doesn’t. If you kill it then they simply show the same cutscene the only difference is that it is a corrupted queen that is not explained how it got there.
@@loudman12 If we take side content into consideration there were more Rachni in the galaxy. Cerberus was experimenting on somw Rachni before they escaped. While it’s not concrete we could assume that another queen egg was produced.
@@dagothurik1815 there are side missions where they appear. I’m more inclined to believe Cerberus took them there. There was only one queen egg. If Cerberus was experimenting and managed to clone eggs then why only one?? I think the best explanation is that the reapers were well aware of the rachni and based on the rachnin queen saying that the reapers were influencing during the wars. Reapers most likely gerrymandering a egg and they would have the know how.
@@loudman12 Any answer I could give for why only one Queen egg would be pure speculation. Reaper influence seems like the best answer given the limited information.
Save the queen in ME1, you get a great PERMANENT resource in ME3. Kill the queen and the rachni will betray you in 3 and take a bunch of Krogan down with them. But in the scope of just ME1, it is mostly inconsequential outside of where your morality ends up.
7:55. "The Mako was cut out for good reason..." Oh, so you enjoy having to manually scan every single planet for some bullshit materials using the slowest scanner known to men. Whoever decide that doing that was a better alternative deserves a high five... to the face... with a brick. At least the Mako had you doing actual exploration. They should've fixed it for the second game, not remove it entirely.
I'd disagree with you on the Krogan breeding farm. Even the Reapers require a decent foot patrol to fight the ground forces on populated planets. Why wouldn't they take the strongest breed in the galaxy and build them to their own end? The Collectors were very limited in numbers and if you recall correctly Shepard practically wiped them all out in ME2. That's not what I'd call a formidable fighting force they could rely on. The Reapers, or rather Sovereign since he was operating as a field intelligence officer, very likely calculated for this.
FemShep is a fun character, but MaleShep has more of a military tone in his voice, especially when he deals with people that are up or down the Chain of Command. I found MaleShep more honest to the role, therefore.
As much as I like MShep, I'm sorry to say that there's nothing militant about his tone of voice. Nothing about his voice would make me stand to attention in any way. At least Hale's raspy and forced bad-ass voice is at least trying to convey that. Sure, I'm a FemShep Renegade all the way, and agree MShep is the default Paragon choice, but that's only because MShep sounds like a softy in spandex.
Who the fuck cares about femshep? A woman saving the galaxy, yeh right. Too busy growing a millimetre of leg hair and taking pictures of it for her shithead facebook friends to be like 'YES' 'THIS' 'YOU GO GIRL'. Fucking women.
Most likely Saren knew he had to get the location of the Mu relay and the Prothean cipher from the Thorian because Sovereign told him. Sovereign probably knew about the existence of the Mu relay as well as the conduit, but couldn't locate it by "itself" and needed Saren's help to locate it.
I love the story and gameplay of Dragon Age Origins, but I must say, the graphics and visuals looked awful even back when the game was new, the landscapes looked like painted cardboard, nearly all haircuts like cheap plastic wigs and people's shoulders just looked plain wrong.
Gertrud Bondesson Well, it's an RPG. Older RPGs always looked crappy, because that wasn't the most popular genre. Not popular genre = less predicted sales = less budget. And nice graphics = big budget. I think Oblivion and its knock-offs were starting to move it towards nicer graphics.
the reason they had to use the normandy to extract the beacon was Eden prime was in the Attican traverse bordering the edge of the terminus systems which is full of pirates and slavers. A prothean beacon is extremely valuable and something space pirates would of been more than willing to go to war with council space over. So if they just sent any old ship to claim it they would of just been open to attack by those maurading pirates for the beacon. Normandy is stealthy they would of got in and got out undetected.
19:30 Actually, Saren's lost his status as Spectre by then. He couldn't just simply waltz in. Being trained like a Spectre that would have made little difference and he *could* simply waltz in. Unless other Spectres were there. Where *are* the other Spectres for everything going on, anyway?
Saren knew he needed the relay because he was indoctrinated during that time. Sovereign would obviously know what the visions meant. Saren’s arm and tube are also not Geth parts but reaper parts similar to the Husks. The originally intention was to show Saren gradually turn into a reaper thall throughout the game
That was good, although "the competition" also caught on some more stuff (Fist: " I don´t know where quarian is, but I can tell you where you can find her.")
I know im 2 years late but i finished the trilogy again during lockdown, you asked around min 14:50 why saren did not get the same visions as shepard inspite of having 2 beacons, and i may be wrong but on illos i think VIGIL says something like he does not sense an indoctrinated presence, the beacon was programmed as such to not communicate with anyone who was indoctrinated. also in ME3 when kai leng comes to the asari temple to get the prothean VI, it shuts off sensing an indoctrinated presence.
Mine too! i cannot describe how many time i played trough the tree parts. they are so many i cant even remember that game is the most played by me. and the only game i cried on. so much feelings !
I know this video is a year and a half old, but I have to post about the Mako. I love that little tank, I loved running it around on planets. My favorite moment is the time I managed to actually get it to land on it's roof and then proceeded to drive it across the planet using the jump jets.
"We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it." This is easily one of the greatest quotes I have ever heard in a video game.
Dai_Do93 I also prefer MaleShep. FemShep sounds too emotional and more like a high school student than an elite soldier. Ashley had a much better voice after for the role, as she actually sounds like she's in the military with the manner in which she speaks.
Djrocks Gaming Soldiers got emotions too fam. Though me personally I prefer FemShep in 1, 2 it’s a tie, and MaleShep in 3 cause he got waayy better imo But MaleShep is better overall to me cause he nails the funny lines 😂
AHappyBlackGuy Soldiers have emotions, but they typically have a much stiffer and firmer moderately monotonous voice. Ashley is the perfect representation of what FemShep should have sounded like. FemShep sounds like a teenage girl trying to sound tough while Ashley actually sounds badass and realistic for her role.
On the whole collectors thing… Sovereign was the vanguard. He already had the geth hertics and Saren on his side. He could’ve used the collectors, but the collectors weren’t known for working with reapers, and served as mostly agents to gather specimens and mutations. So it’s easier to pick new pieces then reveal ur trump card in case things go tits up. They called in the collectors to deal with Shepard in the second game because Shepard killed their vanguard and was a threat
The Collectors are enslaved to Harbinger, not Sovereign. Sovereign has no hold over them - they exist to obey the commands of Harbinger, who is currently coming in from dark space to hit a mass relay and who has no use for them currently until he reaches the galaxy, until Sovereign's death sends signals through the Reapers and informs them of how it died, so Harbinger gets the idea that humans are more powerful than the other species and, once close enough for its signal to work, directs the Collectors to make a human Reaper and throughout Mass Effect 2 begins to realise that it is simply Shepard, but Shepard pissed it off, so it plans to storm through batarian space to hit Earth first, being the human homeworld and all.
Frogger? Must be PC. That’s not on Xbox, just A B X & Y. I do Therum, Feros and then Noveria. Hold off on Virmire until I can’t do anything else with the side missions. Romanced Liara? Why even be male? Must be waiting for the Tali option in Mass Effect 2 (or Jack or Miranda).
8:39 Just a bit of trivia to tack onto this sin but, in the Citadel DLC for ME3 it's revealed Wrex is somewhere around 700 years old. Growing up on Tuchanka he'd probably have been around a lot of veterans of the Rachni War who would gladly take any chance to brag about their exploits.
The mass effect series is my favourite game series but looking back on the first one there are a lot more plot holes than I remember. With that said I loved the video, keep up the great work! Edit: also 1 vote for Far Cry 4
Actually I find it really damn odd she gave a better performance in ME2 and ME3 then in ME1 and then just did a terrible job in the whole FF13 series .
@@clothar23 She played Liara how she should have in each game. The first game she was a sweet and innocent, nerdy character. By part 2, she became more titles because of what had happened to her in the span of the two years that had passed.
Firing the main guns at Saren would only take out Saren and the geth surrounding him. The geth that have been sent on ahead can still fight to the Council Chambers and link up Sovereign to the Citadel.
I absolutely love this series. The first one, while it had its problems, was a great introduction into such a deep universe. The second one is quite possibly my favorite game of all time. The third one was very enjoyable even though it felt like they pulled the ending out of a hat and said "Eh, sure, we'll go with that." My biggest gripe with the series, though, is exactly what you mentioned at the Rachni part. All of those decisions I put so much thought into ended up meaning jack squat in the third game. If you ended up killing someone in the first two they just replaced that person with a generic character. Did you kill off the Rachni? No worries, they will still be there in ME3. Kill off Mordin Solus? No worries, they replaced him with a generic scientist and the story doesn't change one bit. I still love the series but man they wasted such an amazing concept and opportunity.
Actually the story DOES change in those cases. If you kill the rachni in ME1 the ones in ME3 will kill people working on the crucible if you recruit them, giving you less war assets. And if mordin dies Eve also dies. Did you even do more than one playthrough?
Depends... ME3 was rushed as it already is, if Bioware tried to make additional levels based on some of those outcomes it could've only end up being an unfinished mess...
I admit this game had its flaws but when I was a kid 18 years ago and I had the best gear/high enough Paragon points it made so much more fun especially when saving Wrex.
As per usual, a fun video to watch, definetely a thumbs up from me, however... There's one little detail I think was off, still deserved it's sin, namely at 6:00 (warning, mild spoilers on ME2 for those that actually never touched it) - you mentioned that Tali had to track down a geth that was present on the attack. Aren't the Geth a common conciousness, as explained in ME2's quest from legion? Therefore, any geth unit should have the memory available, as long as they had any sort of long-range communication setup and were attached to the conciousness. Granted, it's still only a day of a time window. Therefore the entire situation is still absurd and should never have happened to begin with, as geth usually stick to the edge of the Terminus and avoid contact, which shows how illogical it is: how would a quarian, that is on a pilgrimage and apparently broke/in dire need of help, be able to go to a remote planet that also has geth units on it? In all fairness, it'd be shameful for a plot convenience to get explained in hindsight by use of a sequel, so this is probably blatand oversight by the devs, which is why I still consider this sin to be totally deserved for it's illogical timewindow
@Dartigan in sin 42 you forgott 1 important thing krogans live for 500+ years easy if they arent killed ( up to 1k i believe) and krogans are a very martial focused society one should believe that they retain any information on a enemy in case they fight them in the future, i actualy belive all in all this is worth 2 sins
the reason why the council Asari does not perform the melding proces with Sheperd is that in Asari culture it is seen as the ultimate act of intimacy and something they only do with their mates (under normal circumstances)
If anything Knights of the Old Republic was the one that started the “assembling a map left behind an ancient civilization that leads to some all important device with an ambiguous name.”
I used to hate your videos. Then I realized that the sins in most cases are exactly my (conscious or not) thoughts and/or questions. Difference is later I get the answer or I forget the question. Or I don't even have time to ask them because I'm so invested in the game... :D Ever since I have realized how not-serious this whole thing is, while also being completely rightful "criticism" I love every single video :D Keep up man! ^^,
There's a multitude of mercenary groups and general groups that'd kill to have a Beacon. The sneaky beaky approach is a bit warranted. And it also allows everything to happen as the planet isn't crawling with people trying to find it and thus having proof of Saren and the ship. I will note, Saren wasn't supposed to look like that, but something fucked up, so he's Geth'd up before he should be. Garrus is admittedly headstrong, so that might have been why he was kicked off it so quickly. Spectre is definitely a way to justify Shepard getting up to the random shit that they do. I keep forgetting how light Tali's accent is compared to 2 and 3. The Council are very against anyone joining or possibly rocking the boat, so they won't fuck with the Terminus System. The "On the double" line sounds bad with either of them. lol. Benezia knows but is under Sovereign's control, it's also to keep the reveal secret. Holy shit! I never realized that repeating mission setup until now. After pushing, the line still has to be held. Reapers definitely didn't hold up as well through the later games. Why I feel like the games need to avoid something like that, should the IP ever be brought back. Also, the fact that we could save Ashley and Kaidan prior to release makes that choice seem geared toward shock now than being a legitimate choice. The Collectors weren't thought up until prior to the 2nd game, so Saren and the Geth were their only option. You also make a great point about how Saren could have started it at any time. Honestly, given how small the Relay is compared to the massive larger ones, it makes sense that it only throws them that far. The "Ahh, Reapers" thing was so stupid and tacked on to keep us against the Council in 2.
The Collectors are under the control of Harbinger, who is in Dark Space. While Sovereign is the only Reaper still in the Milky Way Galaxy, even if he could contact the Collectors, they'd probably not respond, given that they are already under the control of a Reaper., meaning he'd have to find another way to open the Citadel Relay.
I'm guessing Sovereign can't use the collectors, it may be that they only answer to Harbinger, Sovereign was the vanguard his job was to activate the relay without alerting the civilizations, however, he failed spectacularly and launched a desperate assault on the citadel which failed and reaper had to take the long way round, also Seran couldn't have walked up to the council chambers, the citadel would monitor incoming ships and Seran is a wanted criminal at that point, if he and a squad of Geth launched an attack from within he would have lost, so they launch an assault and thankfully for the reapers, the council was incompetent and didn't prepare properly for them when they arrived 3 years later
Just going to say that Tali did not have to track a Geth present from the attack on Edin Prime. She just had to find "a" Geth because they all share the same memories.
"We'll bang, okay."
*removing sin sound*
The funny thing is that I heard from someone that Saren wasn't supposed to look the way he does until later in the game, he was supposed to look like a normal turian which would explain why no one was suspicious of a dude that had freaking geth parts on full display.
The Saren Stages mod fixes that.
I actually liked the elevators, for the discussions, mostly.
christophe varengo indeed
Having Wrex and Tali pretty much through the whole game and them having their conversations makes their Crazy Uncle and Niece relationship feel more real in later games.
@ Thomas Windigo Jr - Like Jumba and Lilo?
AKILBEHINDTHECAM eh kinda. Tali actually calls Wrex her crazy uncle she never had in the Citadel DLC. Lol which was amazing. Having all the characters possible in the DLC makes for some amazing interactions.
Tali's exchanges with Garrus are pretty funny yoo.
Tali came to the Citadel to take the information to the Council, but the authorities dismissed her as a 'suit rat' and told her to get lost or they'd kick her off the station (this is revealed in ME3 when you see her talking to the turian on the Presidium Commons). She instead turned to the Shadow Broker, who does have the power to get the information where it can do some good, but was tricked by Fist and sold out to Saren. It's not that difficult to follow.
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WOMANpukumaru Because Tali wanted to help the galaxy by bringing that info to the attention of the Council, while the Fleet would do absolutely nothing with it
Not irrelevant - it's because it's important that the information get to the Council immediately. The Migrant Fleet has no power or influence; they can't do a thing, while the Council can disavow Saren, cut him off and take measures to rein him in, like they did. The Migrant Fleet is also constantly moving; it would be a nightmare to find, especially from an uncharted world where the only source of info is whatever ship she's taking a ride on.
So Tali had two options:
- spend forever searching for the Fleet, travel to the other end of the galaxy and hope it isn't gone when she gets there, then get the Admiralty Board to send the evidence to the Council, hoping that it not only isn't intercepted but that the Council doesn't dismiss it, or even have them send her with the evidence to the Citadel and hope that the Council doesn't dismiss it
- or head straight to the Citadel, seek an audience with the Council and hope they don't dismiss the evidence.
The second option really just cuts out the middleman. Seeking out the Fleet would be a massive waste of time.
On that note, the Geth share memories and information constantly. She wouldn't have to locate a specific Geth that was on Eden Prime at all, simply any Geth around would have the exact same information because of their central consciousness. Considering all of the Geth that were with Saren were the Heretics there would be even less of them than the actual Geth, which would mean their shared memories would be quite easy to find as the only Geth around would be Heretics as well.
@a HERO that doesn’t know what protect means How would it have completed her Pilgrimage? It had no value and, as she says in the game, as the daughter of an Admiral she's expected to bring something of high value back.
L. Jenkins running ahead and getting killed isn't a Star Trek homage... It's a World of Warcraft one. That's why he isn't wearing red.
They named him L. Jenkins. The 'L' is clearly short for "Leeroy".
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I believe it was a redshirt
Thajocoth a little column A, a little column B
I think you nailed it!
Oh my god how did I never notice this?
I do kind of wish it was possible to save him. The punishment for doing so would be, Ash dies and he takes her place. As they are both Soldiers it makes sense.
If I remade the Trilogy this would be a possible option.
Garrus had been investigating Saren since before the start of the game.
And years later, Sovereign's voice and speech still makes my arm hairs stand up.
Yee but the pilot sounds like Seth Green the Robot Chicken guy 😂🤣
@@Dietrich_Kaufmann It IS Seth Green, that’s why.
@@internetprofessorguy2138 lit 🔥
It pisses me off how much they threw away in the next two games. By the end nothing you chose matters. ME3 should have had an option to side with the Illusive Man if you did so to end ME2. You could literally do all the same missions but with Cerberus. THAT would have felt consequential and locked you out of a good amount but also given you some unique upgrades.
Jones I've thought the same.
Your companions in ME2 even mention the elevators.
The Spongy Mallard also in dragon age when exploring the deep roads
@Rick K a The Descent, a DLC for DA: Inquisition, it's mentioned by Dorian in a banter
Just don't let Garrus mention them to Tali.
*refers to Kaiden and Ashley “bench characters”
*uses them in multiple sections of gameplay footage
I used Kaidan a bunch. Of all the playthroughs I've done (and I've done half a dozen) I only left him to die once.
I much prefer him to Ashley.
I used them all the time. In fact I used them as much as any other team members. And despite your assertion that Ashley Williams is not as good a character. I find the initial character defects a challenge and one that changes if you develop the character.
Rule 34
I used them a lot in subsequent playthroughs just because it was a rare chance before one of them died on Virmire
To be fair on the rachni thing, Wrex at this point in the series seems to have spent at least the past century drinking and fighting and trying not to think about his people’s downward spiral, so it’s not surprising that he hasn’t been looking at rachni pictures recently. The rachni wars happened a long time before humans emerged on the galactic stage and Shepard’s generation was the last generation born pre-first contact, so it’s not inconceivable that they’d be familiar with the term but not with their appearance. And Liara is an expert on the Protheans, that’s like expecting an Egyptologist to be familiar with details of the Mongol hordes.
Yes but even a basic education goes over ( though only briefly ) Both Egyptians and Mongol Hordes. And Liara received more then a basic education .
I should go.
Alright. See ya
Also for your "why would Sovereign let him study indoctrination" question - the Reapers are Lovecraftian eldritch horrors (which you removed a sin for), they don't give a shit what we do. All of Saren's research into indoctrination was pointless, and his armies of both cloned krogan and heretic geth would simply be assimilated no matter how many he made
right. Saren could study indoctrination all he wants it wasn't going to help him in anyway lol. He was already under sovereigns control. It probably just thought Saren was being cute.
I'm sinning the video for not removing 2 more sins:
1")You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it." because that line is just fucking awesome
2)because the ending, where you climb the citadel while watching a giant reaper is fucking awesome
That being said Bayonetta 2 because far cry 4 would mostly be "do you remember far cry 3?"
I also think that while ME does rehash a bit too much of KotOR in its basic premise, the organic-exterminatin extragalactical robots that use the inside help of Citadel creatures nobody ever suspected were a threat are an absolutel blast of an idea for a story. I still remember the chills I got during Sovereing's holo speech.
Actually, saving the rachni queen in ME1 does matter. If you let her die, the one you encounter in ME3 will turn out to be a reaper agent who, should you rescue her will turn on your forces alongside her children shortly thereafter. If you save the queen in ME1, in addition to aiding your forces in ME3, she will express gratitude at least twice: once in ME2 through an asari messenger, and once through a recently dead krogan when you encounter her in person in ME3.
Btw at one point there is an option to let an asari working for saren escape. If I remember correctly her name is Rana Thanoptis. don't let her get away. In ME3 she is revealed to be indoctrinated and kills several high ranking military officers before committing suicide. i haven't played those games in a while though so you might want to save before making the decision to kill her, just in case.
Damn, the Reapers were soo awesome when they were introduced, that Sovereign speech back when I played it years ago still gives me shivers, shame ME3 took away alot of their mystery, but still.
One of my old friends was a huge Mass Effect fan. I think he told me that it's more or less the Star Trek of video games, because of its attention to detail with the sci-fi tech and focus on how civilizations and species interact with each other. I joked that it's like Star Trek because of the way the male captain can romance so many different alien women like he's Captain Kirk.
Kirk actually wasn't a big a whore for alien women as he's made out to be. Read below:
scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/32051/how-many-alien-women-has-capt-admiral-kirk-slept-with
I'd say Star Wars, not Star Trek. Star Wars has its own wiki dedicated to deep lore that spans back millennia. Personally, to compare Mass Effect with Star Trek seems a distasteful disservice.
Huh neat
Until the third game, when they make a magic ray that can reshape everything in the universe at a molecular level.
And FemShep gets her groove on as much as ManShep. She has also come out as fan favorite in multiple online polls.
@Maehedrose
"Until the third game, when they make a magic ray that can reshape everything in the universe at a molecular level."
So... at that point, it becomes even MORE like Star Trek? XD
20:02 From what I understand, that's pretty much exactly what was supposed to happen. Bioware wanted to put together a pre-Geth Saren model, had to cut it, and just shipped with the Post-Geth one.
1:30 - In the console versions this was done in the style of Simon Says
About the thing with Tali getting the info from that geth, the geth are said to have a shared intelligence, and therefore any information one unit collects is transferred to the whole group. She didn't need to find one that was at Eden Prime. Just find one after that conversation happened
Saren doesn't run off to the Conduit immediately because he can feel himself slipping away to Sovereign; his research on Virmire was intended to find a way to stop that. When you blew up his facility, Sovereign was able to reassert control and drive him to Ilos to fulfill its goal. Part of Saren was still fighting indoctrination even then however, which is evidenced by the fact that you can get him to shoot himself at the end with a (difficult) speech check.
The sin does work if you go to Virmire as soon as it is availible. After completing Virmire that early there is still another planet to go before Shepard is ready to but Saren has everything he needs. The only way it would make sense for Saren to have not gone to Illos after Virmire is that he hadn't been to the other planet yet but the conversation you have with Saren on Virmire makes it seem like he knows everything already and was only staying back to study indoctrination for fear of losing himself to the reapers. It is definetly impossible is you do Noveria and Feros first to make it clear in game that Saren has already been there and gotten the cipher from the thorian and the location of the Mu relay from the rachni queen. The only purpose of going to Therum is to save Liara from the geth. Saren did not go to Therum, he sent assassins. There was nothing for him there but to eliminate a threat. Shepard needed Liara to mind meld to understand the beacons images while Saren already had asari under his command to do this with.
i love the “boring” human character so much bc they feel like your connection between your ordinary life and the game world. makes suspension of disbelief a bit easier when some boy-next-door is saving the galaxy with you
At the beginning, when you talk about the jump, what's impressive is that ordinarily there's a deviation of tens of thousands of kilometers. Joker managed to bring that down by a lot.
3:05 I LOVED the elevators. They felt real and thus helped with immersion. Teleportation is not real, and in real life, to go from the ground to story 20, you NEED to take the elevator.
We bang ok?
Saren was growing the krogan army because he wanted to use them against the Reapers. He was fighting his indoctrination.
Also, Saren's speech was dumb because he was partially indoctrinated. He believed Reapers would spare him if he helped them.
17:36 What do you think was the point of the Conduit?! The Mass Relays were guarded, but the Conduit opened a backdoor for Saren and the geth.
18:01 The Spectres aren't responsible to anyone... *but* *the* *Council.* The Council still has authority over them.
Hold on Dart. You pointed out how taking away guns is pointless because of biotics, but earlier in the video you criticized that Shepard could talk to the Counsel while having guns.
He sinned that Shepard could waltz in with guns, but then said taking them away is pointless, thus stripping Shepard of his weapons is pointless when he walked in the Space White House (as he calls the place.)
Probabbly because killing solely with biotics takes longer than with a gun, unless you're a biotic charge vanguard krogan. Then you can leave your gun at home, all day, every day
Trojianmaru Even the characters in the game find it asinine how the space cops on Novaria want to take their guns away yet asari are allowed to walk on by without a problem
Well, one's a formality (speaking to the Council in a formal setting, therefore guns ruin the setting), the other is a power move being attempted by rouge cops who should know how combat works in this universe.
10:12 Uh, it does matter. Saving or killing THIS Rachni queen determines if you can have them as an ally in the third game.
It really doesn’t. If you kill it then they simply show the same cutscene the only difference is that it is a corrupted queen that is not explained how it got there.
@@loudman12 If we take side content into consideration there were more Rachni in the galaxy. Cerberus was experimenting on somw Rachni before they escaped. While it’s not concrete we could assume that another queen egg was produced.
@@dagothurik1815 there are side missions where they appear. I’m more inclined to believe Cerberus took them there. There was only one queen egg. If Cerberus was experimenting and managed to clone eggs then why only one?? I think the best explanation is that the reapers were well aware of the rachni and based on the rachnin queen saying that the reapers were influencing during the wars. Reapers most likely gerrymandering a egg and they would have the know how.
@@loudman12 Any answer I could give for why only one Queen egg would be pure speculation. Reaper influence seems like the best answer given the limited information.
Save the queen in ME1, you get a great PERMANENT resource in ME3. Kill the queen and the rachni will betray you in 3 and take a bunch of Krogan down with them.
But in the scope of just ME1, it is mostly inconsequential outside of where your morality ends up.
7:55.
"The Mako was cut out for good reason..."
Oh, so you enjoy having to manually scan every single planet for some bullshit materials using the slowest scanner known to men.
Whoever decide that doing that was a better alternative deserves a high five... to the face... with a brick.
At least the Mako had you doing actual exploration.
They should've fixed it for the second game, not remove it entirely.
At least you don't have to do the scanning for materials at all. Each main planet after the Citadel had a area where you had to use the Mako.
Mako...and exploration..in same sentence? Are you drunk?
I'd disagree with you on the Krogan breeding farm. Even the Reapers require a decent foot patrol to fight the ground forces on populated planets. Why wouldn't they take the strongest breed in the galaxy and build them to their own end? The Collectors were very limited in numbers and if you recall correctly Shepard practically wiped them all out in ME2. That's not what I'd call a formidable fighting force they could rely on. The Reapers, or rather Sovereign since he was operating as a field intelligence officer, very likely calculated for this.
FemShep is a fun character, but MaleShep has more of a military tone in his voice, especially when he deals with people that are up or down the Chain of Command. I found MaleShep more honest to the role, therefore.
maybe that's why MaleShep is more often considered Paragon while FemShep tends to be viewed as Renegade
Agreed. That's how I usually played both versions anyway.
MaleShep has no soul...
As much as I like MShep, I'm sorry to say that there's nothing militant about his tone of voice. Nothing about his voice would make me stand to attention in any way. At least Hale's raspy and forced bad-ass voice is at least trying to convey that. Sure, I'm a FemShep Renegade all the way, and agree MShep is the default Paragon choice, but that's only because MShep sounds like a softy in spandex.
I found male Shepherd to just sound extremely bland. Female Shepherd I think is superior, better voice actress.
I absolutely love Male Sheps voice acting
Sympa Dm I prefer it to fem sheps actually
Actually, I found that manshep's voice acting improves with each game while femsheps gets worse with each game.
Who the fuck cares about femshep? A woman saving the galaxy, yeh right. Too busy growing a millimetre of leg hair and taking pictures of it for her shithead facebook friends to be like 'YES' 'THIS' 'YOU GO GIRL'. Fucking women.
@@pikmak920 Holy shit that's sexist as hell xD
Lazy troll is lazy
Most likely Saren knew he had to get the location of the Mu relay and the Prothean cipher from the Thorian because Sovereign told him. Sovereign probably knew about the existence of the Mu relay as well as the conduit, but couldn't locate it by "itself" and needed Saren's help to locate it.
It'd make no sense for Sovereign to hear about the Conduit since the point of Ilos project was to be super classified so Reapers wouldn't find out.
Anyway, Mass Effect is a gorgeous game, even if you start looking for a bunch of sins in it :)
Pls, do sins for Dragon Age Origins
I love the story and gameplay of Dragon Age Origins, but I must say, the graphics and visuals looked awful even back when the game was new, the landscapes looked like painted cardboard, nearly all haircuts like cheap plastic wigs and people's shoulders just looked plain wrong.
The shoulders aren't as bad as when you go under cover in ME1... that is a horrifying image that will haunt your dreams
Love to him to sin the entire series
Also the swooping was bad
Gertrud Bondesson Well, it's an RPG. Older RPGs always looked crappy, because that wasn't the most popular genre. Not popular genre = less predicted sales = less budget. And nice graphics = big budget.
I think Oblivion and its knock-offs were starting to move it towards nicer graphics.
the reason they had to use the normandy to extract the beacon was Eden prime was in the Attican traverse bordering the edge of the terminus systems which is full of pirates and slavers. A prothean beacon is extremely valuable and something space pirates would of been more than willing to go to war with council space over. So if they just sent any old ship to claim it they would of just been open to attack by those maurading pirates for the beacon. Normandy is stealthy they would of got in and got out undetected.
Why do I love the saren theme song with a passion?
*WE’LL BANG OK?*
19:30
Actually, Saren's lost his status as Spectre by then. He couldn't just simply waltz in. Being trained like a Spectre that would have made little difference and he *could* simply waltz in. Unless other Spectres were there. Where *are* the other Spectres for everything going on, anyway?
the reason they are checking the systems after the jump is to see if they are still working after the jump... it's really it
Saren knew he needed the relay because he was indoctrinated during that time. Sovereign would obviously know what the visions meant.
Saren’s arm and tube are also not Geth parts but reaper parts similar to the Husks. The originally intention was to show Saren gradually turn into a reaper thall throughout the game
Hey one of my favorite games of all time. I can't wait.
Yo i have been waiting for something like this. You Sir seriously earned a sub.
I desperately wanted Liara to say, " What is... kiss?"
Dartigan - my secret ingredient to a complete Saturday morning.
Bayonetta 2
Yes, it's happened! Haven't started it yet, but my hype is through the roof right now.
That was good, although "the competition" also caught on some more stuff (Fist: " I don´t know where quarian is, but I can tell you where you can find her.")
7:30 So glad to see the sin I pointed out in the stream. It's nice to feel useful.
Also, Saren's synthetic parts aren't Geth, they are standard synthetic parts to repair damage he has taken as a spectre.
Lol your back man love your videos never stop
Great video. Keep them coming
I know im 2 years late but i finished the trilogy again during lockdown, you asked around min 14:50 why saren did not get the same visions as shepard inspite of having 2 beacons, and i may be wrong but on illos i think VIGIL says something like he does not sense an indoctrinated presence, the beacon was programmed as such to not communicate with anyone who was indoctrinated. also in ME3 when kai leng comes to the asari temple to get the prothean VI, it shuts off sensing an indoctrinated presence.
This is quite literally my favorite video game of all time.
This video is gonna be fun.
Mine too! i cannot describe how many time i played trough the tree parts. they are so many i cant even remember that game is the most played by me. and the only game i cried on. so much feelings !
That guy who yells Yakuza 0 every time
Yakuza 0 plz
I know this video is a year and a half old, but I have to post about the Mako. I love that little tank, I loved running it around on planets. My favorite moment is the time I managed to actually get it to land on it's roof and then proceeded to drive it across the planet using the jump jets.
Kaiden is with me every single mission I can bring him along. He never gets benched if I have an option.
"We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it."
This is easily one of the greatest quotes I have ever heard in a video game.
Also, the FFXIII videos had this many sins in the first 10 minutes of their respective videos....each... and FFXIII had three videos.
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite video on UA-cam.
Hey, I liked Male Shepard, not that Jennifer Hale isn't bad, but I like him more. Also Bayonetta 2
Dai_Do93 I also prefer MaleShep. FemShep sounds too emotional and more like a high school student than an elite soldier. Ashley had a much better voice after for the role, as she actually sounds like she's in the military with the manner in which she speaks.
Djrocks Gaming Soldiers got emotions too fam.
Though me personally I prefer FemShep in 1, 2 it’s a tie, and MaleShep in 3 cause he got waayy better imo
But MaleShep is better overall to me cause he nails the funny lines 😂
AHappyBlackGuy
Hostages only work if your enemies care if they live!
AHappyBlackGuy Soldiers have emotions, but they typically have a much stiffer and firmer moderately monotonous voice. Ashley is the perfect representation of what FemShep should have sounded like. FemShep sounds like a teenage girl trying to sound tough while Ashley actually sounds badass and realistic for her role.
His voice actor is shit. He's so bland and generic. Jennifer Hale actually puts effort into it.
On the whole collectors thing… Sovereign was the vanguard. He already had the geth hertics and Saren on his side. He could’ve used the collectors, but the collectors weren’t known for working with reapers, and served as mostly agents to gather specimens and mutations. So it’s easier to pick new pieces then reveal ur trump card in case things go tits up. They called in the collectors to deal with Shepard in the second game because Shepard killed their vanguard and was a threat
Your videos be bringing out these emotions in me yo..
The Collectors are enslaved to Harbinger, not Sovereign. Sovereign has no hold over them - they exist to obey the commands of Harbinger, who is currently coming in from dark space to hit a mass relay and who has no use for them currently until he reaches the galaxy, until Sovereign's death sends signals through the Reapers and informs them of how it died, so Harbinger gets the idea that humans are more powerful than the other species and, once close enough for its signal to work, directs the Collectors to make a human Reaper and throughout Mass Effect 2 begins to realise that it is simply Shepard, but Shepard pissed it off, so it plans to storm through batarian space to hit Earth first, being the human homeworld and all.
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I was hoping Mass Effect 2 was a voteable option for your next gaming sin video. Since it's not, guess I'll vote Far Cry 4.
Sin 75: The Nomandy has stealth systems to evade the citadel fleet who would be watching for incoming fleets, not individual outgoing ships.
Frogger? Must be PC. That’s not on Xbox, just A B X & Y. I do Therum, Feros and then Noveria. Hold off on Virmire until I can’t do anything else with the side missions. Romanced Liara? Why even be male? Must be waiting for the Tali option in Mass Effect 2 (or Jack or Miranda).
8:39
Just a bit of trivia to tack onto this sin but, in the Citadel DLC for ME3 it's revealed Wrex is somewhere around 700 years old. Growing up on Tuchanka he'd probably have been around a lot of veterans of the Rachni War who would gladly take any chance to brag about their exploits.
The mass effect series is my favourite game series but looking back on the first one there are a lot more plot holes than I remember. With that said I loved the video, keep up the great work!
Edit: also 1 vote for Far Cry 4
Mass Effect Sins: ME1 --- 21 minutes, ME2 --- 57+ minutes, ME3 --- 2 Hours 27 minutes.
Y’all better watch what you say about Alli Hillis!
Actually I find it really damn odd she gave a better performance in ME2 and ME3 then in ME1 and then just did a terrible job in the whole FF13 series .
@@clothar23 She played Liara how she should have in each game. The first game she was a sweet and innocent, nerdy character. By part 2, she became more titles because of what had happened to her in the span of the two years that had passed.
0:10 JOKER MY BAE!!! (I’m in love with Garus now tho)
Firing the main guns at Saren would only take out Saren and the geth surrounding him. The geth that have been sent on ahead can still fight to the Council Chambers and link up Sovereign to the Citadel.
Please do sins for "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic".
Bayonetta 2...For God sake please sin that game. I've seen it up for vote like...5 times.
BlackShotWolf
The same with Dead Space 2. Dartigan really wants to make a video of that game.
16:03 LOL his face was like "Damn, this bitch is spazzing!" I'm dying at how expression changed.
All I remember about Kaiden is that I sacrificed him to save Ashley. It was worth it !!!
I absolutely love this series. The first one, while it had its problems, was a great introduction into such a deep universe. The second one is quite possibly my favorite game of all time. The third one was very enjoyable even though it felt like they pulled the ending out of a hat and said "Eh, sure, we'll go with that."
My biggest gripe with the series, though, is exactly what you mentioned at the Rachni part. All of those decisions I put so much thought into ended up meaning jack squat in the third game. If you ended up killing someone in the first two they just replaced that person with a generic character. Did you kill off the Rachni? No worries, they will still be there in ME3. Kill off Mordin Solus? No worries, they replaced him with a generic scientist and the story doesn't change one bit.
I still love the series but man they wasted such an amazing concept and opportunity.
Actually the story DOES change in those cases.
If you kill the rachni in ME1 the ones in ME3 will kill people working on the crucible if you recruit them, giving you less war assets.
And if mordin dies Eve also dies.
Did you even do more than one playthrough?
Kumail Nanjani's voice acting was wasted on the pile of shit that is ME Andromeda. Making him a generic nerd was such a waste of potential humour.
Depends... ME3 was rushed as it already is, if Bioware tried to make additional levels based on some of those outcomes it could've only end up being an unfinished mess...
Dartigan: Sins for the Elevator
Mass Effect Fans: DA DADADADADA DADADADADA DADADADA DA DA… DA!
+1 sin added for calling Fist "Fisk"
I admit this game had its flaws but when I was a kid 18 years ago and I had the best gear/high enough Paragon points it made so much more fun especially when saving Wrex.
As per usual, a fun video to watch, definetely a thumbs up from me, however...
There's one little detail I think was off, still deserved it's sin, namely at 6:00 (warning, mild spoilers on ME2 for those that actually never touched it) - you mentioned that Tali had to track down a geth that was present on the attack. Aren't the Geth a common conciousness, as explained in ME2's quest from legion? Therefore, any geth unit should have the memory available, as long as they had any sort of long-range communication setup and were attached to the conciousness. Granted, it's still only a day of a time window. Therefore the entire situation is still absurd and should never have happened to begin with, as geth usually stick to the edge of the Terminus and avoid contact, which shows how illogical it is: how would a quarian, that is on a pilgrimage and apparently broke/in dire need of help, be able to go to a remote planet that also has geth units on it?
In all fairness, it'd be shameful for a plot convenience to get explained in hindsight by use of a sequel, so this is probably blatand oversight by the devs, which is why I still consider this sin to be totally deserved for it's illogical timewindow
Sin 6. Subtitles. Dartigan missed "i" in "if". *Ding*
8:22 W R O N G
Mark Meer is dope wtf
Not sure whether you played the side missions but there’s a specific set of side missions that pertains to Cerberus that is completely sin worthy
I had no idea Marina Sirtis was a voice actor in Mass Effect, but I recognized her voice immediately
Get me this Witch!
I'll say Bayonetta 2. Again. Like I keep begging for. I'll even bake cookies, ok?
(Great video, by the way... :D)
@Dartigan in sin 42 you forgott 1 important thing krogans live for 500+ years easy if they arent killed ( up to 1k i believe)
and krogans are a very martial focused society one should believe that they retain any information on a enemy in case they fight them in the future, i actualy belive all in all this is worth 2 sins
the reason why the council Asari does not perform the melding proces with Sheperd is that in Asari culture it is seen as the ultimate act of intimacy and something they only do with their mates (under normal circumstances)
mikkelturtvig That's in regards to sex. Melding doesn't always involve sex and isn't always intimate. It was clearly an oversight by the writers.
I want Mass Effect: Shepard Trilogy on PS4
1:34 for Xbox and Playstation its a "Guess the button combination in the time alloted" instead.
If anything Knights of the Old Republic was the one that started the “assembling a map left behind an ancient civilization that leads to some all important device with an ambiguous name.”
Dude, Jenkins wasn't a reference to Star Trek, he was a reference to WoW.
I used to hate your videos. Then I realized that the sins in most cases are exactly my (conscious or not) thoughts and/or questions. Difference is later I get the answer or I forget the question. Or I don't even have time to ask them because I'm so invested in the game... :D
Ever since I have realized how not-serious this whole thing is, while also being completely rightful "criticism" I love every single video :D Keep up man! ^^,
You can sin literally everything by nitpicking
There's a multitude of mercenary groups and general groups that'd kill to have a Beacon. The sneaky beaky approach is a bit warranted. And it also allows everything to happen as the planet isn't crawling with people trying to find it and thus having proof of Saren and the ship. I will note, Saren wasn't supposed to look like that, but something fucked up, so he's Geth'd up before he should be.
Garrus is admittedly headstrong, so that might have been why he was kicked off it so quickly.
Spectre is definitely a way to justify Shepard getting up to the random shit that they do.
I keep forgetting how light Tali's accent is compared to 2 and 3.
The Council are very against anyone joining or possibly rocking the boat, so they won't fuck with the Terminus System.
The "On the double" line sounds bad with either of them. lol.
Benezia knows but is under Sovereign's control, it's also to keep the reveal secret.
Holy shit! I never realized that repeating mission setup until now.
After pushing, the line still has to be held.
Reapers definitely didn't hold up as well through the later games. Why I feel like the games need to avoid something like that, should the IP ever be brought back. Also, the fact that we could save Ashley and Kaidan prior to release makes that choice seem geared toward shock now than being a legitimate choice.
The Collectors weren't thought up until prior to the 2nd game, so Saren and the Geth were their only option. You also make a great point about how Saren could have started it at any time.
Honestly, given how small the Relay is compared to the massive larger ones, it makes sense that it only throws them that far.
The "Ahh, Reapers" thing was so stupid and tacked on to keep us against the Council in 2.
The Collectors are under the control of Harbinger, who is in Dark Space. While Sovereign is the only Reaper still in the Milky Way Galaxy, even if he could contact the Collectors, they'd probably not respond, given that they are already under the control of a Reaper., meaning he'd have to find another way to open the Citadel Relay.
I'm guessing Sovereign can't use the collectors, it may be that they only answer to Harbinger, Sovereign was the vanguard his job was to activate the relay without alerting the civilizations, however, he failed spectacularly and launched a desperate assault on the citadel which failed and reaper had to take the long way round, also Seran couldn't have walked up to the council chambers, the citadel would monitor incoming ships and Seran is a wanted criminal at that point, if he and a squad of Geth launched an attack from within he would have lost, so they launch an assault and thankfully for the reapers, the council was incompetent and didn't prepare properly for them when they arrived 3 years later
Dartigan do killzone shadow fall
Dartigan, where are your ME2 and ME3 videos? I'd love to see your counter to GCN's videos.
Just going to say that Tali did not have to track a Geth present from the attack on Edin Prime. She just had to find "a" Geth because they all share the same memories.
Sin 7: OMG I hadn't noticed that before!