Hoping to see in Mass Effect 3

[Dr Snakeman]

The only thing I want is a dialogue option with the Turian council member that literally has Shep say, "Ha! I TOLD you so!" once the Reapers finally appear. I've been waiting for that option since the first game.

This, but I hope they elaborate on it a little.

Paragon: Doesn't mention it, just says something about what they need to do next.

Neutral: "HA! Told you so!"
or, alternatively, "I'm not going to say 'I told you so'."

Renegade: Turian- "Shepard, the Reapers are preparing to attack Palaven/Thessia/Sur'Kesh/other important Citadel Council planet! Do something!"

Shepard (in a voice positively dripping with sarcasm)- "Reapers, councillor? But... I thought we had dismissed that claim!"


If BioWare has that last exchange in the third game, and throws in Tali's (or any quarian's) face, I will die a happy man.

 

[sheah1]

Would be nice if each character had different requirements to be able to romance them. For example, you're way more likely to get Jack's attention if you're a real hardcore renegade.

I noticed that when I chose to destroy the entire Collector mothership every single squad member thought I did the right thing... why? Are you seriously telling me that no one actually thinks that we would have been better off keeping the mothership for research?

Part of the whole "moral choice" thing should be that you can't make everyone happy. Hell, by doing what I did I potentially jeopardized the entire resistance against the Reapers. You're telling me that someone like Mordin cares more about the dignity of the humans who were used to build the Reaper [embryo] than the safety of the galaxy? Isn't that the entire point of the genophage, but with the krogan instead of humans?

I actually believed that one, the way I see it, they were preserving the dignity of the humans (thereby keeping the good team members happy) as well as keeping that tech out of the hands of Cerberus (thereby keeping Jack and Mordin happy, Grunt doesn't care). Plus if they're okay with your choice then they've survived and therefore you've earned their total loyalty, they'll follow you anywhere.

I'm a sucker for romance, so i'm hoping for romance that consists of a bit more than:

Do quest, Receive sex.

lol yeah that's true. In both games I treated my relationships very realistically, but when you break it down to its game mechanics, romance is literally as easy as doing the loyalty quest (which you're going to do anyway) and then choosing one specific dialogue option a little later on.

I like how they did it in Dragon Age, I hope they do something like that.

Even then it was only a tad above "do quest, receive sex". I've just finished the first ME and didn't like the 'you can't have chats with the squad mates until after major plot worlds are done'. Did this change in 2, or is it still an issue?

Kind of. You can only talk to them after Major plot places, and character loyalty quests. But the character who's loyalty quest you had wouldn't talk to you until you finished it.

So not massively different. I did Garrus' quest on ME and now he just says the same thing over and over again. See, they should change the interaction options then

Erm, no, you can talk to your team mates practically all the time, about a large variety of stuff that, most importantly, you choose (on the dialog wheel). They'll say they're busy if you pester them too much, but you can really get to know them properly. Some of what they do is pretty damn funny as well (seriously, talk the lips off of Mordin).

Oh, no, I know that, I meant in relation to relationship options - I referenced Garrus in relation to loyalty quests. To clarify, in ME, my FemShep can only talk to Kaiden after plot worlds, otherwise he just says 'I've taken enough of your time'.

Oh, I see, yeah, sorry, I should read stuff more thoroughly.....

 

[Stammer]

Yeah giving Liara's character a whole storyline's worth of DLC helped a lot. I hope they let us do that with more characters, even if it's just DLC they add further down the line.

In a couple of months (once I get over my initial hype over these games) I'm going to play through again, this time as FemShep and actually go for Liara.

EDIT: lol it was actually pretty immersion-breaking when the Shadow Broker threw his table and my Shepard tackled Liara to safety and not my/his love interest Tali, and then continued to fight the Broker without even checking on her to see if she's OK or not.

 

[radioactive lemur]

I just don't understand why everyone in the galaxy hates quarians and yet they're all basically saints to begin with. You know why I and just about everyone else went with Tali? Because BioWare decided to make quarians some kind of awesome super-race that we're meant to pity and stand up for at every waking moment. At least one quarian who isn't a paragon of excellence would be nice.

No one really says quarians aren't nice as individuals, but they are looked down upon because the lazy fuckers created a race of slaves to do all their work for them and said slaves ended up gaining sentience, getting loose from their masters and fucking up a lot of shit in the universe.

 

[Zydrate]

I just don't understand why everyone in the galaxy hates quarians and yet they're all basically saints to begin with. You know why I and just about everyone else went with Tali? Because BioWare decided to make quarians some kind of awesome super-race that we're meant to pity and stand up for at every waking moment. At least one quarian who isn't a paragon of excellence would be nice.

No one really says quarians aren't nice as individuals, but they are looked down upon because the lazy fuckers created a race of slaves to do all their work for them and said slaves ended up gaining sentience, getting loose from their masters and fucking up a lot of shit in the universe.

That, and their scavenging cultural nature makes them out to be thieves.

 

[Stammer]

Right, but my point with that point was that every quarian you meet in the game is basically some kind of mix between Tiny Tim and Superman. All of the other species, especially the asari, have a ton of diversity in how they act. Compare Liara to Aria-- they have completely unique personalities. Now compare Tali to the quarian you have to help on the Citadel-- both are characters we're forced to sympathize with and stand up for.

I'm just asking for a quarian who ISN'T innocuous. That's all. lol

 

[DecMcGuinness]

I just don't understand why everyone in the galaxy hates quarians and yet they're all basically saints to begin with.
What about Talis' side-mission in the Migrant Fleet some of the ship captains/judges were far from friendly to say the least.
Also if they show Talis' face during ME3 or the movie I will die a little inside

 

[Stammer]

They were friendly, they just didn't know the truth. Honestly if you knew someone who left your home town and was suddenly caught sending weapons of mass destruction to terrorists you'd be pretty pissed off at them.

Besides, as it turns out it was true that Tali was (albeit not of her knowing) doing just that. I think they were totally in the right to be suspicious about her.

And yeah, I really really hope they don't show her face at all. >_<;;

 

[Grifff]

I want the resource mineing gone

 

[Jimmy T. Malice]

I don't know about all quarians being innocuous. Prazza and Admiral Qwib-Qwib certainly seemed like jerks.

 

[GundamSentinel]

"Geographic conditions indicate an aesthetically pleasing view nearby. Organic lifeforms may wish to take note."

Scenery porn, lots of it. Mass Effect 2 had me gaping a couple of times (especially the DLC), I'd like some more of that.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Better loading screens... Maybe put codex entries I haven't read yet up there. <-I actually like that idea.

That's a brilliant idea! It'd make a lot of people read more of them, too. Also, it'd look less weird to my housemates since I wouldn't be stopping to spend 15 minutes reading codex pages every now and again...

All I'm asking is that the ending doesn't involve any crappy 'we need the power of hope/love/heart/children's card games to defeat the reapers' bullshit at the end. Also that the ending doesn't go all 'Now wait for ME4!' on us.

 

[kalt_13]

Wrex and Mordin in the same party. Grunt was always too busy with his own stuff to clash on the geneophage, but i'd love to see Wrex's take.

This would be awesome. Wrex would probably kill Mordin once he found out Mordin was involved. If they can't be in the same party an encounter between the two would be good as well.

 

[staika]

1: I'd like a few more weapons, I liked how in mass effect 2 you just had to upgrade your weapons instead of getting 2000 models of the same gun with different stats, but I would like to see a little more variety in the types of guns they give you.

2: A little more customization weapons with sheaperds armor, that was my favorite thing they added to mass effect 2 so if they could expand it with a few more options I'd be very happy.

3: More in depth in the romance, the romance in mass effect was always really easy all you had to do is basically agree with everything they say and then do their side quest and bam romance complete, That's fine but i'd like it if it went more in depth and not as easy as agree with love interest A and disagree with love interest B.

4: What they do with the Kinect in the 360 version, This intriques me the most about Mass Effect 3, just what are they planning to do with the kinect in this game and while I'm not too optimistic that it will be full control with the kinect (that would be sweet as hell) but I am curious to see what they do with it.

 

[putowtin]

I'm a sucker for romance, so i'm hoping for romance that consists of a bit more than:

Do quest, Receive sex.

and not just before the very last mission
for example: I got my female Shepherd and Garrus to hook up in ME2 (been wanting to from the moment they first met in ME1... wow that sounded like a tacky romance novel... sorry!) If their not together at the begining of ME3 I'll be most put out!

 

[ecoho]

Better loading screens... Maybe put codex entries I haven't read yet up there. <-I actually like that idea.

That's a brilliant idea! It'd make a lot of people read more of them, too. Also, it'd look less weird to my housemates since I wouldn't be stopping to spend 15 minutes reading codex pages every now and again...

All I'm asking is that the ending doesn't involve any crappy 'we need the power of hope/love/heart/children's card games to defeat the reapers' bullshit at the end. Also that the ending doesn't go all 'Now wait for ME4!' on us.

no i have a good idea whats gonna end up killing the reapers but i dont know how to do spoilers very well(only works half the time) so i wont post it here, but it will come down to one choice that will ether bite you in the ass or pull it out of the fire.

 

[Vonnis]

There's only two things that would seriously annoy me if they happened:
1) Tali dies.
2) I see a Quarian (any Quarian)'s face.

As long as neither of those happens, I'm pretty much okay with anything. Yep, that would include a return of the Mako. Both ME1 and 2 are fantastic, so I'm interested to see what Bioware has in store for the third installment.

The only thing I want is a dialogue option with the Turian council member that literally has Shep say, "Ha! I TOLD you so!" once the Reapers finally appear. I've been waiting for that option since the first game.

If Shep would have a dialogue option for the Turian council member consisting of nothing but 'Ah yes... "reapers"' and he'd actually make the fingerquotes, I'd shit myself laughing.

 

[theamazingbean]

JET PACKS! Although I might expand that to fun gameplay to go along with the impeccable writing.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Better loading screens... Maybe put codex entries I haven't read yet up there. <-I actually like that idea.

That's a brilliant idea! It'd make a lot of people read more of them, too. Also, it'd look less weird to my housemates since I wouldn't be stopping to spend 15 minutes reading codex pages every now and again...

All I'm asking is that the ending doesn't involve any crappy 'we need the power of hope/love/heart/children's card games to defeat the reapers' bullshit at the end. Also that the ending doesn't go all 'Now wait for ME4!' on us.

no i have a good idea whats gonna end up killing the reapers but i dont know how to do spoilers very well(only works half the time) so i wont post it here, but it will come down to one choice that will ether bite you in the ass or pull it out of the fire.

It's a hypothesis; you don't even need to spoiler it. Unless you happen to work for Bioware's writing staff, that is?