The Mass Effect thread

Sudo_Nym · Post Post #3251 (isolation #0) » Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:21 pm

The most asshole thing you can do in Mass Effect 3:

Let Samara kill herself to avoid shooting her daughter. Then kill her daughter afterwards anyway. Killing the Quarians to save the Geth and then picking Destroy is a good second, though.

Sudo_Nym · Post Post #3253 (isolation #1) » Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:23 pm

Or, on Tuchanka,

you can shoot Mordin in the back and watch him die while attempting to crawl to the Genophage cure console.

Sudo_Nym · Post Post #3255 (isolation #2) » Thu Jan 01, 2015 9:05 pm

If it helps, they're just pixels. Tormenting them is no different in Mass Effect than in the Sims.

Sudo_Nym · Post Post #3258 (isolation #3) » Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:22 am

Padok sucks, though. Leave him out of it entirely.

Sudo_Nym · Post Post #3260 (isolation #4) » Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:47 am

I think you get the hologram in Citadel if Mordin was alive when you imported; he doesn't have to

survive Tuchanka

Sudo_Nym · Post Post #3262 (isolation #5) » Mon Jan 05, 2015 10:32 am

Oh. We don't actually remember if Mordin has a goodbye hologram, but it's been a while since I did the Mordin Lives ending for Tuchanka.

Sudo_Nym · Post Post #3264 (isolation #6) » Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:11 am

Yeah, we got them confused. We get the recording from Mordin every time, since Mordin is awesome and we never kill him, but we don't remember getting a hologram on Earth.

Sudo_Nym · Post Post #3266 (isolation #7) » Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:20 am

Right, but we never liked doing that, since you get fewer points than that and we want the best ending without playing multiplayer. So we always

save Eve, and kill Wrex and Mordin in 1/2 so we can shoot Padok. We don't have any save where both Wrex and Eve are dead.

Sudo_Nym · Post Post #3268 (isolation #8) » Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:29 am

Definitely, I think with the DLC and the patches reducing the threshold, there's plenty. But we're a bit obsessive over things when numbers get involved.

Sudo_Nym · Post Post #3270 (isolation #9) » Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:33 am

And our favorite FF game was a No Sphere Grid run of FFX. But at least there the numbers were easier to overlook so that part of my brain didn't activate :p

Sudo_Nym · Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:43 am

We didn't think it was that tedious; it was actually less tedious because there's less trouble running away from random encounters or trying to fit every character into a battle for XP, so you can run through faster. You do have to rely both on Yuna's Aeons and Rikku's overdrive, though. Took quite a while to get through the Jecht fight because it was super hard to get 9 spins on Lulu's overdrive for the kill. Kinda wish that we had a PS4 so we could play the rerelease and do the Penance/Dark Aeon fights, though.

Sudo_Nym · Mon Jan 05, 2015 12:26 pm

We don't have a PS3, either. We haven't bought a console since the PS2.

We also never killed 9999 enemies with each Aeon; just get each Aeon with an overdrive and Yuna with a Grand Summon before a boss fight. Then summon each Aeon in turn, use their overdrive, then let them die. The boss can't hurt the party while the Aeon is out (though Seymour can one-shot any Aeon in his fights). It's basically free damage.

Against tougher bosses, you instead lead with Rikku and two of Tidus/Wakka/Lulu; get their overdrives up before the fight, get them equipment with first strike so they can go before the boss. Rikku uses her Trio of 9999 mix first so that the other two will do 9999 on every hit. Then Lulu's Fury, Wakka's Attack Reels, and Tidus's Blitz Ace each hit 8+ times each for 9999 per hit. That, followed by Yuna chaining Aeon overdrives, is usually unstoppable. If even that doesn't work, you can have Kimahri use his Self Destruct, or Rikku use one of the elemental gems that hits 5+ times while she's still under the effects of her overdrive, though that's unlikely, since she's only got 360 HP in a NSG game and the effect wears off if she gets KOed.