I started with Andromeda. Drack was my introduction to Krogan. He showed me their grit. And at the end of 2024, I played the original trilogy. And Wrex showed me what Krogan are truly meant to be. Along with Grunt and Eve. Oh, the fun those four would get into if they were together.😎

ok so Im revisiting the game years later and decided I actually want to be good at it. Can someone explain the "shield boost" reference now? lol Thanks for these videos. Even years later. VERY helpful.

Chains, combos, companions? What are all these things, never heard of them. I play shotgun vanguard, everything gets deleted from point blank.

None of these tips are necessary for ME3. Insanity is much easier than ME2

There was a Halo RTS, sure why not a Halo RPG

A new studio should pick up greedfall

Soldier, Mattock, Adrenaline rush. Insanity on easy mode

Tony Stark would be proud of you :D

While I agree that ME2 is overrated, this video is mostly just a rant. Twenty Sided (RIP) made an excellent 'essay' on why ME2 doesn't deserve half the praise it gets. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZLVcoaHndBkmNk

Your HUD appears to be vastly different to mine and much more useful. I initially thought that you were playing ME2 or 3 and that's why it is different, but I am recognizing certain key fights that are in ME1.. but you have a much more colorful and intuitive HUD and menu system. Why is that? Is it a mod?

Reddit is telling to go eith engineer and vanguard. This video is telling me sentinel. What gives!? Which one!? Ahh..

So here's my issue. I got the platinum trophies on PS3 for ME1 and ME2. I didn't find insanity to be hard on either one, aside from a few missions, because you could just hide behind a barrier and for the most part would be fine. However, I found ME3 to be incredibly hard because even when you're in cover you get shot at due to the improved AI. I played as a soldier for all 3. ME1 and 2 on insanity were easier for me than ME3 was on normal. What am I doing wrong? I can't imagine the fight with that ninja guy on insanity. I barely did it on normal. Yet, like I've said several times, insanity on ME1+2 was pretty easy for me. What should I do if I want to do insanity on ME3?

Gotta shoot better though

This game is the proof that you SHOULD NOT trust "gaming journalists" opinions. Just remember, those guys dont play the games to enjoy then, they play it as fast as possible in order to make a review of it faster than the other guy. And it is, IF they play the game at all...

Came here after i finished my insanity run with soldier class. :D

And that is precisely what I dont like at higher difficulty levels for a game. There is a Clear favourite choice to beat the game. Combos are % of health so dmg will scale with difficulty.

I’m dying😂

Tbh dude I've always been the infiltrator type bc I never really got the combo detonations. Imo if I play Insanity, I just dont see the benefit of using biotics such as lift/pull or singuarity, even stasis... If I see a guy with shields I use my squadmates to use their overload on it... me with my infiltrator sniper, cloak and disruptor rounds? I just aim for the head and "pop" to stack headshot and damage multipliers... Part of the reason I dont bring squadmates who have things like lift or singularity, is bc the target needs to have no armor, shields, or barriers to be directly affected by it... I suppose that's just how I play: Direct counters... Overload on ahields, concussive shot and warp on barriers, swapping between disruption ammo for shields and warp ammo for those who have barriers and armor (which in ME2 usially is the collectors, and in ME3 the Reapers).

Sounds like you are conflicted.

After playing ME1, ME2 is just ass. The combat is repetitive and incredibly annoying. Always starting out with hidden enemies that jump out of nowhere and strip your armour at the start of the fight. In ME1 you could approach combat strategically, and the cover mechanic was just much better. No hidden enemies, you had gear to have an estimation of their approach and location. Plus half the good RPG and combat mechanics from ME1 were stripped out. Pretty much all the exploration and RPG element of the game was remove tbh, and replaced with an annoying action game that leaned on annoying combat. Ooh, and lets not forget the great story and characters and situation that ME1 had build up, it was just plain scrapped at the very start of ME2 and replaced with what could have been a spinoff game. Interactions in ME1 were good, including on the ship, in ME2 they were not. Generally the ship and crew were uninteresting in ME2 overall as a result. I know people love to simp on ME2, but the game is just ass compared to ME1. Anything else is living in denial, and that's ok, it's normal. Sorry guys, I'm an outsider and I don't really care either way, but I did enjoy ME1 tremendously. But hey, I also did get through ME2 and ME3, albeit with some suffering and disappointment, but it wasn't all bad, otherwise I would have not completed them (which was something I did consider during ME2 playthrough).

Fr

Problem is, people play an RPG for the RP. People play a Shooter for the shooting. When a franchise starts out as an RPG with a secondary combat system, and then releases a game from the same franchise people expect an RPG with a secondary combat system. While ME2 fixed a lot of the combat from the first game, they made the RP secondary. The acting is atrocious, while the visuals are stunning, but isn't that true with any BioWare RPG? To this day, SWKOTOR 1 and 2 are still the greatest games ever released by BioWare, and for me, Mass Effect is just OKAY.

The only tactic that reliably works is just find the best position ( usually the furthest cover), hide your squad mates, wait until enemies stop shooting or your shields are full, shoot/use ability, hide, repeat. It's extremely tedious and boring but trying to move, "flank" and have will only lead to you dying and having to reload the game

How to break the game: Step 1: Pick Vanguard Step 2: Equip Venom Shotgun. Step 3: Watch everything die in literally seconds

Mass Effect 1 has always been the best in the series. Rose colored glasses and a broader audience made people think 2 was the best. But thats never been the case. 2 piggybacked off of 1 so much, but did more harm than good. Terrible story structure and awful rpg elements. Mediocre combat, being just a gemeric 3rd person cover shooter.

This was a great listen post Veilguard

I really like ME2 but has very empty spaces with almost nothing to do and is very stripped of options when compared to ME1. I miss being able to choose my own Omni-Tool.

Playing as an Engineer, the combat drone is my pal in clutches since it distracting enemies saved me a lot of frustration in most scenearios. Also allows your squad member with sniper rifle to get an easy headshot.

A power cooldown bonus of +200-100% from weight capacity is acceptable imo (no need to always be at 200%). This gives you enough of a buffer to let you bring heavier and more interesting guns or even more than 1 (like a sniper and a talon pistol for close-range encounters).

Sovereign being the source of their aggression is more likely than the Leviathans. One, the Leviathans do not want to be found, the DLC makes that painfully obvious when they spend most of their time discouraging and killing those getting close to them. Two, Virgil the VI talks about how Saren was not his first agent and has likely spent centuries planning a way to take back the Cidadel. More likely, he sent the signal, didn't work, and used the Rachi as a way to probe the galaxy and possibly take over the cidadel. When that failed, waiting, gathered allies and information before brute forcing it in ME1 due to possible desperation.

Abilities: best ignored, shoot enemies in the face.

Bro how does any of this work? I’m so confused. At least a spreadsheet

Thanks for the video. I was dying on Voeld.

Oh man, ME2 felt so rough to play after ME1.

Tip from someone currently in insanity. If youre going for the achievment of beating all 3 in a row, just skip Arrival and Overlord. Shadow Broker is worth the run, but youre already running all 3 so youll already have the best outcomes for the Krogan and Geth Quarian war so assets wont be a problem. Overall I can sum it up to one thing. This game has given be a headache today. 😂

As someone whos TRIED so hard to enjoy ME, The combat of 1 broke me from finishing it (Legendary Edition play through) and I heard EVERYONE say that 2 has better combat for it to just be about the same; and Im forcing myself to eat this game since If I skip 1 and 2 whats the point of playing 3. The characters and world are fucking awesome but ME interfacing with this universe is just a slog. This is coming from someone who is beaten Bachelor and the Haruspex of Pathologic. idk what it is about ME. just been a challenge.

Idk about all that doo hickey. I just know ME1 has simple combat that feels rewarding with progression and exploration. While every other game always tries to be super tryhard, with artificial difficulty spikes just to get you to rage. There is a hidden agenda for games to provoke this rage response, that's why (pvp games) and ME2 is an all around downgrade from a mechanical pov regarding the combat. The equation to making a satisfying experience isnt rocket science, its very simple but the hidden agenda always gets in the way bc for whatever reason we're not allowed to have good things. I have my suspicions but even though the culprits are very obvious most ppl are too lazy to think for themselves and see who is doing his to them. We are in a dark ages and under oppression, but since they cant identify it they outsource for their controllers to tell them what it is. The oppressor is not gunna tell you they are the ones doing it, unless its to their subconscious cause then they can get away with it.

ME2 has worse graphics, less functionality, and worse combat than ME1. Idk how they went backwards on a sequel. It doesnt have mako driving thats only good thing.

What? Just put Ashley and Garrus in your squad with the N7 Typhoon and remember to keep up.

I always play on the easiest difficulty. Shepard is supposed to be the absolute best. But on insanity a Cerberus soldier can take him down with a few hits but their shields take clips upon clips? Makes no sense. I blow through every mission on casual like an N7 boss

For me that intro not make any dam sense. Shepard is dead as a door nail and gone. Lack of oxygen so Shepard is braindead. Than a planetary re-entery on top of that. The hero of the first game dies, and no way that Shepard comes back from being brain dead and a planetary re-entery. Because I know that going into a world that has a atmosphere the air will become plasma hitting its target going down at like 27k kph. Shepard comes back to join a terrorist org. if Shepard was going to die, at least makes Shepards death mean something, they didn't. I do really wonder how Cerberus, a small splinter cell become a full faction, with ships, stations, a ton of people working for them from nowhere. The Legendary Mess Effect 1, they fucked up the controls on pc. They made space bar the everything key. There are 21 keepers not 20. I know this because I remeber them all. I have done that missions far too many times. Also there are many games that has done good world building. Mass Effect 2 had a a ton of plot holes, one that makes me head scrach the most what I heard, is that the collectors whated to buy Shepards body from the shadow broker, first of all what body? Than if they where intressted in collecting humans to bring back to their station in the center of the galaxy to make human juice for their human reaper. Planetary re-entery kind of makes a body into ash, yet Liara stole that body or whatever rests of it, bring it to Cerberus and Shepard gets back from the dead? HOW? My head cannon is that Liara has a copy of Shepards mind due to the Asari mind meld in the first game to get access to the protan thingy. So they just made a clone and Liara put a copy of Shepard into the Shepard clone. Mass Effect 3 ending was not a good ending at all, they can have done anything else, they did Red if for blowing the reapers to kingdom kong, the thing you whated sense day one, blue is for indoctrination and Shepard becomes a AI, green is so dumb and makes least sense of all the endings. Shepards atoms somehow gets all over the galaxy, there are to few atoms in a human body to do that, also it changes the DNA on all living things, everyone seens only green now, because of their eyes glowes, eyes work with absorbing light to be able to see at all. Than plants gets tech and they glow, how are the plants going to do photosynthes now if they lack the ability to absorb light. Robots get emotions. Also ME2 is pokemon people with daddy issues, that they removed weapons that overheat and mods for armour and weapons into bullets. Just bullets and nothing else. That 4th ME3 ending is the biggest finger to any player, oh well you shoot the star kiddo and everything ends. The reaper wins. The whole thing keeps on going for a totally new wave of organics evoliving and going to make ai and the reapers come back and end them all. This time around the keepers will not ignore the signal. Playing ME2 made me ask a lot of times: What was the point of ME1? Like the back door on Ilos was used to shut off the knowed access that the reapers had to the galaxy. In ME2 you can see them driving into the galaxy regardless, so what was the point of all that? Than in ME3 they have named that beam up to the Citadel as the conduit, nah, that thing is on Ilos.

I’ve never played mass effect and I’ve been looking for a new game to dive into. I got the legendary edition with all of the mass effects and I am very excited. Very. The gameplay looks, meh, but I hear the story is amazing and all of my friends love this game.

Oh god I cant Express how much this game sucks. Let me attempt to list them: 1. Your allies die in the first minute of any battle. They dont seek cover unless you specifically direct them. 2. Your weapons deal near negligible damage AND they are not accurate. Maybe 1 in 5 shots actually hits the enemy. 3. Tou have levels where you are fighting - after the first minute- 8 or 9 or more enemies by yourself. I'm stuck in like the first missions- at a boss battle with an armored turtle that is invincible- and after 35 attempts at passing it, have now thrown this bullshit game in the trash.

And super repetitive

Garrus and Miranda for the win!

Best combo: Shepard as Sentinel, Miranda, Kasumi or Garrus. Still mops up on insanity.

I have played this game so many times and dont get bored lol, interesting to see ppl squad choices, for me it was kasumi and grunt as an infiltrator, dude is a tank while being two rogues is amazing

Easiest Insanity build: Soilder, M7 Avenger from the Citadel DLC and the Silent Pistol from its beginning. Avenger is your workhorse, and pistol is your delete weapon.

I got into mass effect from listening to you talk about it on split the veil. I only played MELE but i love it and its now one of my favorite series ever. Thanks for doing what you do!