The Mass Effect 3 Breakdown (spoilers)

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- Cured the Genophage
- Met Wrex
- Have not completed on Insanity yet
- Have earned "Long Service" Medal
- Have achieved 100% Readiness
- Male Shepard twice, Female Shepard twice
- Saved both geth and quarians
- Most popular squad mates were Garrus, Liara, and Tali
- Let Garrus win half the time, fairs fair
- Never shot Mordin.
- Two inflitrators, engineer and an adept/ vanguard .
- Generally play as a pragmatic paragon (if I'm going to be shooting them anyway might as well do it in an interrupt)

Just out of curiousity did anyone side with the salerian Dalatras?
 

Sarge034

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Ok let's see...

Number of hours played- 700+ total across all three games
Genophage- Cured
Wrex- Met
Survival- ...? WHAT DOES IT EVEN MEEN!?!?!?!?
Galactic readiness- 100%+ (N7 alone at this point is 100%)
Insanity- Complete
Long service medal- Acquired
Shepard- Male
Most popular squad mates- Tali and Garrus
Garrus shootout- Shepard won
Saved- Quarians and Geth
Mordin- Did not shoot
Class- Soldier
Enemies killed in ME3 multiplayer- A lot
Paragon or Renegade- Mix, paragon with renegade when it feels right

I originally killed Kaidan but I ended up killing Ashley in ME1 because she ninja romanced me. I was saving my Shep for the awesome that is Tali

No squad deaths unless scripted.
 

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Wow, only 3.8% of people shot Mordin? Now I feel like a jerk. Also, Kaiden seemed surprisingly unloved.
 

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Hugh Wright said:
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Just out of curiousity did anyone side with the salerian Dalatras?
I did! Just once.

That must include the 3.8% that shot Mordin, plus however many shot Padok Wiks, and whatever percentage kept Modrin/Padok alive with Wrex and Bakara dead.
 

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Beat the game on Insanity, and played as an engineer. That must make me a very small percent of players. That so few people beat the game on Insanity is odd, cause once you max your level and fully upgraded powers and gear you pretty much can mop up in the game pretty easily (Aside from a few points in the latter part in the game which were ridiculous).

I liked the resolution of getting both Geth and Quarians on my team, in part because it reminded me of the resolution of the Dalish-Werewolf feud I brokered. That closing of the arc also felt like putting in the work through earlier installments would help me get everything in the finale.

Reached the 100% Galactic Readiness for the battle, even reached an EMS of over 6K for the sake of overkill.

Oh, and in the Genesis comic, I decided to save Kaiden partly because all the guys were saving her because they were boning her. I also didn't like that she was a bigot, so I didn't want to drag around Archie Bunker cause she had hooters.
 

Happiness Assassin

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This data seems to imply that most people who bought the game were new to the franchise, or at the very least didn't import a save.
 

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Happiness Assassin said:
This data seems to imply that most people who bought the game were new to the franchise, or at the very least didn't import a save.
Or imported an ME2-only save.
 
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Okay, interesting stuff to compare myself against.

I played ME3 single-player 4 times all the way through. In those, I had imported a game from ME2 for all of them, but I'm playing on PS3 so I haven't gone through all 3 games with one save.

In my first playthrough,
I was a default male Shepard.
I saved Wrex.
I cured the genophage.
I did not shoot Mordin.
I saved the quarians at the cost of the geth.
I won the shootout with Garrus on the Citadel. I was playing a soldier and figured we were equal weapons experts. Plus, I wouldn't insult Garrus' intelligence by throwing a competition with him. He's my best buddy, I won't lie to him.
I don't think anyone died during the game, but just because I didn't notice anyone's corpse before the beam doesn't mean there weren't any there. Also, I never recruited Ashley, because after I romanced her in ME1 and then left her for Tali in ME2, I thought it would be awkward with her around :/
My most-used squadmates were Tali and Garrus, with Liara and Vega close behind I think.
I was actually about the same level of paragon/renegade as the graphic, about two parts paragon to one part renegade.

Over all 4 playthroughs,
I played male Shepard and Femshep both twice. I was a soldier first, then an adept, then an infiltrator, then a vanguard.
I saved Wrex 3 out of 4 times. A game without Wrex is a lesser game indeed.
I cured the genophage 3 times.
I still did NOT shoot Mordin. Shame on you who did.
I killed the geth twice, the quarians once, and once managed to save them both.
I chose twice to beat Garrus on the Citadel, when I was a soldier and when I was an infiltrator. When I romanced him, I let him win, but in the 4th game I didn't do that part at all, because Garrus was already dead. In fact, most of my squad was dead in that game; I think only Jacob and Thane survived the suicide mission. I wanted to see how the game would compensate for all those deaths.
Again, I'm never sure who actually survives the charge to the beam on earth. I remember seeing Garrus dead once, and Javik in a different game. I can't really say more.
Overall, my favorite squadmates are the same as above. Plus Javik, I guess, but somehow I don't use him a lot.
I've been overall paragon 3 times, and once a renegade.

I have beaten the game on Insanity, I have the Long Service Medal; in fact, I have the platinum trophy for the game, so I've done just about everything. I've played hundreds of hours in the multiplayer; no idea how much exactly, but a LOT.

So, yeah. That was fun, going back over the games I played.
 

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Eh...

I beat ME 2 on insanity and decided its not worth the stress of doing it again.

Anyways, I just finished a complete run through of the trilogy on ps3 maybe 2 hours ago. (My second time through ME2/3 first time through ME1)

I was a manshep
Paragon
Kept Wrex.. cuz he's my bro
Did all loyalty and smartly placed everyone in ME2 so had 100% survival
Spared Mordin (Though I shot him the first time through)
Played as Engineer in ME1 and as adept in 2/3.
Killed Kaidan on Virmire both times (as manshep and femshep)
Killed Quarians (both times.. cuz fuck the Quarians)
I did do enough multiplayer to get 100% readiness at one point
And as someone else said: if you didn't get long service on your first playthrough; you're doing it wrong
 

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Hmmm, I was curious to see what the percentages were for the different campaign game modes.
One was all cut scenes, one was all combat and the other was the default game.
 

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Boogie Knight said:
Beat the game on Insanity, and played as an engineer. That must make me a very small percent of players. That so few people beat the game on Insanity is odd, cause once you max your level and fully upgraded powers and gear you pretty much can mop up in the game pretty easily (Aside from a few points in the latter part in the game which were ridiculous).
Huzzah, so I wasn't the only one!

Agree on the difficulty too, I actually found Insanity with an Engineer slightly easier in the difficult spots (like the "defend the missile launcher" bit in the endgame, for example) than I did playing on Hardcore with an Infiltrator.

Sarge034 said:
Survival- ...? WHAT DOES IT EVEN MEEN!?!?!?!?
Yeah, that's bugging me more and more now too - anyone know what that actually means? Is it "still alive at the end of the game" or something based on the number of times they 'die' while out with you on missions? Because aside from Tali I don't actually know how you'd go about perma-killing any of the others on the list during ME3. I know Kaidan, Ashley and Garrus can be killed in previous games that carry through to ME3, but...
 

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...you can kill Vega?

Also, the reason why he's so "popular" is simple. If I'm guessing how they calculated who your most popular team member is correctly, then it's based on who you choose to be by your side through the majority of the missions.

You start the game where you have to go through the first couple of missions, where you absolutely have to pick Vega, simply because you have two team members, Vega is the other one and you can't play a mission with just one team member. Liara is someone that you pick up in the second mission and Garrus becomes a member in the mission after that. EDI pops up few missions after that. After that, you're stuck with these 4 (unless you picked up the "From Ashes" DLC) until you're halfway through the game. If you're the type that likes to rotate team members, then Vega has a statistical advantage of popping up as the favored team member.

HeWhoFightsBosses said:
Also, while I didn't hate Vega, HE WAS MORE POPULAR THAN TALI?!?!
Tali and whoever survived Virmire are at a natural disadvantage simply because you get them late in the game and it's possible for them to die during or around the mission where you pick them up. Provided that you do get them, you probably need to play the entire rest of the game, where you'll exclusively pick Tali/Virmire-survivor as your primary companion, while carefully cycling through the other team-members, in a way that they're login time doesn't end up surpassing the one you want to pick as your number 1.

I remember a similar stupid mess in the first game. ME1 had a sett of squad member achievements where if you played through most of the game with a particular team member, you'd end up getting an achievement that I also think gave Shepard the option to pick the unique power of said team member as an extra ability, whenever you started a new game. Getting Kaidan and Ashley was easy but it was more difficult to get anyone else. The reason why is because you play through few missions before you start picking up your alien team mates. Liara comes last, making it almost impossible to get her squad member achievement. I've even heard that it's impossible to get her achievement, unless you pick her up as soon as you leave the Citadel, keep her as your exclusive team-mate and do every single side mission with her, including the DLC mission.
Raikas said:
Hugh Wright said:
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Just out of curiousity did anyone side with the salerian Dalatras?
I did! Just once.

That must include the 3.8% that shot Mordin, plus however many shot Padok Wiks, and whatever percentage kept Modrin/Padok alive with Wrex and Bakara dead.
Well, looking at the statistic, only 8% choose to side with the Dalatras and not cure the Genophage. If you played a game, where Wrex is dead (64% of all players) and you didn't save Melon's Genophage research in ME2, then you don't have to shoot Mordin so the statistics don't surprise me. Also, you can't shoot Mordin, if he's already dead and for many, he was a notoriously fragile member in the suicide mission.

The fact that so many players ended up curing the Genophage actually surprises me a little, seeing how many players are playing without Wrex. It's hinted pretty strongly in the game that with Wreav in charge, curing the Genophage is a dangerous prospect. Wreav is likely to start another Krogan rebellion after the Reapers have been dealt with.
 
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Shocksplicer said:
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.".
Uh, no.

No no no no no no no no no.

How about "27% of people chose to give the persecuted if somewhat dickish people their home planet back instead of siding with the kitchen appliances and killing millions of mostly innocent people." Much more fitting.

Though obviously saving both is the best option.

OT:
Cool stats. A bit surprised at how few finished insanity. ME2 was far harder.

Though I did notice one stat that made me wonder something....

YOU CAN KILL VEGA? HOW TELL ME HOW RIGHT NOW.
 

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Sir Thomas Sean Connery said:
Cool stats. A bit surprised at how few finished insanity. ME2 was far harder.
I think the ending made allot of people disinterested in attempting another playthrough. Know quite a few people who haven't touched the single player since they finished it the first time.
Sir Thomas Sean Connery said:
YOU CAN KILL VEGA? HOW TELL ME HOW RIGHT NOW.
Also would like to know.

Edit: Ugh. Nevermind. I found out.

"If James is in the squad at the final push towards the Conduit, he will be killed by Harbinger if the Effective Military Strength is too low."

Captcha: "Grumpy cat"

...fitting.
 

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- Did not cure the Genophage.
- Hated Wrex but I met him.
- Have not completed on Insanity yet
- Have earned "Long Service" Medal.
- Achieved 100% Readiness.
- Female Shepard all the way.
- Only saved the Geth.
- Most popular squad mates were Ashley, EDI, Liara. In that order. Hated Tali, never used her.
- Didn't let Garrus win.
- I can't remember but I think I might have shot Mordin. He was all right but I just hated the Krogan so much I didn't want them saved. I might have let him go up and get killed himself. All I remember is there was no way I was letting the cure be released by me.
- Infiltrator, Paragon.

No stats on the romances?
 

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Happiness Assassin said:
This data seems to imply that most people who bought the game were new to the franchise, or at the very least didn't import a save.
Yeah, I was surprised at how many people didn't meet Wrex. It saddens me a bit to think of all the people skipping the earlier games...

HeWhoFightsBosses said:
Also, while I didn't hate Vega, HE WAS MORE POPULAR THAN TALI?!?!
The fact that she wasn't available until Rannoch may need to be taken into account.
 

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Tom_green_day said:
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.
Even though they're making another Mass Effect game?
 
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery said:
Cool stats. A bit surprised at how few finished insanity. ME2 was far harder.
I think the ending made allot of people disinterested in attempting another playthrough. Know quite a few people who haven't touched the single player since they finished it the first time.
That's actually a really good point...
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery said:
YOU CAN KILL VEGA? HOW TELL ME HOW RIGHT NOW.
Also would like to know.

Edit: Ugh. Nevermind. I found out.

"If James is in the squad at the final push towards the Conduit, he will be killed by Harbinger if the Effective Military Strength is too low."

Captcha: "Grumpy cat"

...fitting.
Feh.....

That's kind of annoying. I guess that means someone else has to die with him AND you get an even shittier ending.

Though it may be worth it to incinerate that Jersey Shore prick once and for all.
 

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about Tali, you need to realize that she comes in well over halfway through the game, effectively cutting her stats significantly, leaving only Ashley and Kaiden below her for the obvious reason that only a fraction of people even had Ashley/Kaiden alive in their playthrough

as to the rest of the stats i'm surprised that, of the people who couldn't peacefully end the war with the Geth, the more popular choice was to save the Geth over the Quarians, on my first playthrough I saved the Quarians, and the Quarians alone, sure their ancestors made mistakes, and they started the war with the Geth, but they were an entire race mostly comprised of people innocent in the struggle, while the Geth CHOSE to ally with the Reapers AGAIN, despite having the military strength to defeat the Quarians (they did it before didn't they) they had their reasons, but with the Reapers fighting to kill EVERY organic in the galaxy, those reasons just weren't good enough. don't get me wrong, on other playthroughs I made sure to have enough reputation to end the war peacefully, but if I have to choose, I choose organics every time