The Mass Effect 3 Breakdown (spoilers)

[LetalisK]

Ha! Take that Talimancers, she only lived 39% of the time! >

That leaves you with like the torso and leg to the knee. You can pick the leg. I'm assuming you'll take the lower torso for...um...obvious reasons.

I don't know why I'm proud of that.

 

[thethird0611]

This just proves that the target audience for ME3 weren't ME fans and RPG fans, but rather CoD fans. Why else would SO MANY players not meet Wrex and play with soldier class? There's nothing wrong with soldier class, don't get me wrong. But look at the statistics. If it didn't include casual shooter crowd you can bet the statistical difference between soldier and other classes wouldn't be that great.

Yeah, this is 100% wrong, and ill elaborate.

First off, please stop roping CoD players into something as a bad thing. We have already seen there are many people who enjoy CoD as well as ME.

Now, the soldier class... I played the soldier class, why? Because I like to focus on heavy damage from weapons. I dont want to worry about my biotics or techs, so it fits perfectly. I usually have a biotic and a tech on my team though to balance it out. Being able to focus fire on an enemy, without worry about techs/biotics is a very good strategy, and it is EXCITING. You dont have to have tech/biotics for it to be exciting. So maybe people like the simplicity of it? Maybe some people played through only once, and playing as a soldier has a relatively low learning curve?

Also, the soldier class has been in sine ME1, so that invalidates your statement, since ME1 was for sure not built for CoD players.

EDIT: Also, with people making multiple playthroughs, im guessing more people will pick up at least 1 playthrough of Soldier, unlike Tech or Vanguard.

Now, Wrex, as people have said before, many of the players probably came in at ME2 or ME3, and if they didnt get the Genesis pack for ME2, then dead wrex. Mix that in with the renegades, and tada.

 

[Gizmo1990]

How did the people playing manshep stand it? His voice acting is soooooo bad next to femshep.

Also the 3.8 % of people who shot Mordin are dead inside.

And I think that the only reason that Vega is popular is because he has the most health out of all the team and he really helps on insanity. I hate the guy but he is a great bullet shield.

 

[teebeeohh]

how about you give as Tali at beginning? the writing is really easy?
Oh hi tali, what are you doing here? me? just dropped Kaiden of at the hospital. Oh you wanna help fuck up the guys who did it? sure hop on. Oh you can't tell me why you are here? no problem i do trust you(or alternative freak out).

and how the fuck is vega so popular? it's not like i actively disliked the guy, he was just less useful than others in combat and his lines were neither insightful nor funny. i guess if he was around longer i might have grown to like him (since the only other new crew member is Javik and he is really useful and funny and everything he says is interesting because his perspective is so vastly different).

and i guess survival is how often people die in combat and how like they are to be revived(which i never do since i get xp for not using medi-gel), since the character with higher health and shields live longer.

 

[prophecy2514]

wow only 4% of players finished it on insanity. ME3 was never that hard guys geeeeeeeeeez.

 

[excalipoor]

Ha! Take that Talimancers, she only lived 39% of the time! >

That leaves you with like the torso and leg to the knee. You can pick the leg. I'm assuming you'll take the lower torso for...um...obvious reasons.

I don't know why I'm proud of that.

I'll take the upper torso and head, so I can listen to that sweet, sexy accent of hers. We'll fill the rest with some cyborg shit.

How did the people playing manshep stand it? His voice acting is soooooo bad next to femshep.

Because femshep is even more irritating. So monotone and... breathy.

 

[Doom972]

64% of people never meeting Wrex is surprising. A lot of people must have just jumped into the series late.

I haven't completed it on insanity, female Shepherd, naturally. And of course I didn't kill Mordin. I miss him so.

I think that this means that a large number of players, if not the majority of players, didn't play ME1 or didn't import their ME1 saves.

OT:

I'm surprised about there being that many more paragons than renegades. It's always tempting to just punch your way through people's faces.
As for Vega being popular - I think many players just took him on a lot of missions for his power, not his personality. Personally, I preferred Javik (though I guess not everyone got the DLC).
Lastly, I'm surprised about most people choosing the Geth over the Quarians: In the first game they help the reapers, in the second you can make them work against the reapers by eliminating or converting the Heretics, and in the third game they apparently lied to you, because they're still working for the reapers.

 

[Professor Lupin Madblood]

How did the people playing manshep stand it? His voice acting is soooooo bad next to femshep.

The best way I've heard it put is that while Mark Meer can be pretty brick-like in his recitations, he improves throughout the series. Compare some of his ME1 lines with some ME3 lines and you'll see the difference. Jennifer Hale, on the other hand, stays at about the same level of quality throughout the series. She's better in ME1, about the same overall in ME2, and worse in ME3.

Then again, I've only played through the series once, with MShep, so grains of salt and such.

OT:

I feel like I'm the only person who actually likes Kaiden, and apparently I am indeed part of the 1.5 per cent. Take that, plebs!

Surprised that Tali was so low on the popularity list, since so many people like her oh wait you have to play for twenty hours to even get to her and Legion goddammit.

 

[Raikas]

- I think survival rate means how much they die in combat? Insanity makes sure they do.

I cant see how that could be it since Liara and Tali survive more than Kaidan, and with Barrier maxed out, he's a tank. It must mean story-deaths.

- Saved both. I don't know how you can't unless you try.

If Legion or Tali is dead (or either one wasn't loyal at the end of ME2), it's impossible to save both. You could call not keeping them loyal not trying, but Tali died on the suicide mission really easily - even when loyal. So it's not that unusual to have an import with her dead, I which case you're not making peace no matter how hard you try.

 

[deathbydeath]

The video they released alongside it is actually really touching, or I'm going soft. They've wrapped up the trilogy, then polished it, put a bow on it, set it in cement and dropped it into the ocean. No way they are milking that trilogy any more.

Eh heh heh. There's no way the Mass Effect IP is going away without pulling either a Dead Space or a Tony Hawk. Probably a mix of both.

Besides, I doubt you're going soft; Bioware's just really good at fan service. That's probably the only reason most people didn't call 2 and 3 out on their bullshit).

Also, your second sentence is completely wrong. No, bad DBD! No more bitching about Post-ME2 Bioware!

 

[jthm]

Soldier is a horrible class. Mark Mears is a horrible voice actor! (okay, not horrible, but femshep is voiced a ton better) Renegade is a much more satisfying game in most cases (not all, but most)... No wonder so many people had the game ruined for them by the ending. We didn't play the same game.

 

[Shocksplicer]

27% of people saved the Quarians? That should probably read "27% of people weren't paying attention when it turned out that the Quarians were the bad guys in that conflict.".

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Those poor 64%, they really missed something in Wrex.

Can't believe Vega of all people is that popular. Meh.

Gotta say, I think those 2 might be linked... Those who already had a "Wrex is dead" senario, are those who've jumped on late, you meet Vega right from the start and he's a big solider man, many probably just kept playing with him not really knowing anything else... That's my theory at least.

 

[Immortal_Engines]

27% of people saved the Quarians? That should probably read "27% of people weren't paying attention when it turned out that the Quarians were the bad guys in that conflict.".

Aside from the robots who have been shooting at you for three games, and jumped into bed with the main antagonists at the first sign of trouble?

Sarcasm aside, the only reason the Quarians were the 'bad guys' was because Bioware beat the player so hard with the Geth sympathy stick that they could be sued for assault.

 

[SageRuffin]

It always kills me that Engineer and Adept are the least popular classes - those are my favourites!

My guess is that while the two classes were borderline broken in the first game, they both got the fuck beat out of them with the nerf bat (heh), had said fuck put back into them, then got it beaten out of them again in the later installments. Powers/Abilities like Sabotage and Singularity haven't been anywhere near as good as they were in the first game, while other powers/abilities like Lift and that one tech power that lets you completely shut down your opponent's offense (Deactivate? Debilitate? I just remember it started with a "D") are completely non-existent. Seeing changes that heavy to some of the classes probably warranted some people thinking it wasn't worth it. Again, that's just my guess.

It also didn't help that ME2 onwards greatly favored the more "gunplay-heavy" classes due to the changes in the combat engine. But again, that's just conjecture.

 

[bossfight1]

That's not the breakdown of Mass Effect 3. This is, man:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiN8gL40d84

...The guy in the vid sounds like Graham Stark...

Also, while I didn't hate Vega, HE WAS MORE POPULAR THAN TALI?!?!

 

[ZehMadScientist]

3.8% of the ME people are heartless monsters that deserve to burn in hell for all eternity. How could you shoot the guy!? I know that his voice changed, but still! It's Mordin mawfuckin' Solus! Those bastards!

And I pity those who did not get to chill with Wrex. They're missing out big time.

As for my stats:

- Cured the Genophage
- Met Wrex
- Have not completed on Insanity
- Have earned "Long Service" Medal
- Have achieved 100% Readiness
- Male Shepard twice, Female Shepard once
- Saved both
- Most popular squad mates were Garrus and Tali
- I beat Garrus in my renegade run as ManShep, I let him win as Saint Femshep and beat him again in my true run.
- Of course I didn't shoot Mordin. I wouldn't be able to live of the guilt if I did.
- Infiltrator in my true run, Vanguard as Renegade Shep and Engineer as Saint Femshep.

 

[The]

How the ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuck did nearly half these people play as soldier? It's so dull!

Many may have just started as default Shep, so they just got Soldier.

 

[Meatspinner]

How the ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffuck did nearly half these people play as soldier? It's so dull!

Each to their own I guess.

I always felt that the other classes took their sweet time in fights. The soldier doesn't fap about and just kills.

Also who doesn't like a slow-mo bullet monster