Presidents Play Mass Effect 2 | Episode 1

[@SarkagianGaribaldian]

WE’RE SO BACK

[@manfromhamaslume]

we so barack!

[@dwayneflanders6086]

ON MA MOMMA WE LITT!!!

[@tannerfrost7153]

Let’s friggen gooo boys!!! 3 is still my favorite but 2 is the most hype!

[@nananamamana3591]

WE MAKIN IT OUT OF THE SKILLIAN BLITZ WITH THIS ONE

[@DinoPuncher]

WERE BACK LIKE NEVER BEFORE

[@AdamM-ud7hr]

“I’m Commander Shepherd, and this is my favorite Mass Effect Content Creator on the Citadel” For real, clicked so fast when I saw the notification. :)

[@AaronVillarreal-i7p]

You can have my employee discount 😂

[@duross101]

I'd like, but 420 is such a a great number to stop on

[@tarheelpro87]

“HEY EVERYONE! THIS MASS EFFECT CONTENT CREATOR DISCRIMINATES AGAINST THE POOR!”

[@AdminAbuse]

Shepard

[@redwings0142]

"The Citadel DLC has a better stealth section than Kasumi's loyalty mission". Heck the Arrival DLC has a better stealth section. JOKER has a better stealth section.

[@blackjoeishere]

What stealth section? I know only slaughter some batarians section

[@plumdowner1941]

Wait, her loyalty had a stealth section? Where?

[@Urubu_de_terno]

Wait... Arrival was a stealth mission? I got that Admiral Hacket wanted to avoid a war with the batarians with the reapers closing in but there was no punishment for killing the batarian guards. The only thing that makes that mission hard is the lack of squadmates and Kenson being the WORST partner possible, indoctrinated or not.

[@ShadowWolf0020]

​@Urubu_de_terno during the part to find Kenson, as long as you don't fire your gun (first Varren the exception), use your powers (yes, even Tactical Cloak), and take the alternate routes, you can get all the way to Kenson without a fight. After that though, it goes back to normal gameplay

[@friendlyreaper9012]

​@@Urubu_de_ternothere is an achievement in the original me2 for reaching Kenson undetected. It was really janky to do without a guide.

[@commandercrrritt6165]

My radiancy is priming right now

[@egementopcu3950]

she prime my radiancy till im

[@movieman175]

I think my thumb broke the sound barrier with how fast I clicked on that notification.

[@_zurr]

"They call Miranda an ice queen but maybe they should be calling her a snow bunny instead." YOU DID NOT

[@nananamamana3591]

Commander Shepard, meet General Butch

[@foxwhite3852]

I don't get that one

[@RomanNardone]

​@@foxwhite3852urban dictionary snow bunny ...

[@anthonyvtuber]

I even paused the video when I heard that. Like holy shit these AI do not play around lmao

[@goofychopstix]

@@foxwhite3852are you familiar with an affliction commonly known as “The Fever”?

[@TheSoapster385]

We're making it out of the Omega 4 Relay with this one 🔥🔥🔥

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

Probably not Jack though.

[@Megatron_95]

4:26 STOP BLOWING HOLES IN MY SHIP

[@brianalloway52]

Genuinely, my favorite series on KZbin right now. Also, Steve Blum's voice was not wasted in this game, as he is also the voice for Grunt

[@Godzeller3143]

Steve Blum is ubiquitous, and yet you can never truly prepare yourself for him to show up as a voice actor.

[@brandypoo]

THANK YOU

[@benjamingrant6203]

The fact they even made him Wilson at all is a crime

[@Hellhound23691]

Oh Prime Radiancy! Our Prometheus! What fire do you bring to us?!

[@augustday9483]

That out-of-ammo situation in Kasumi's loyalty mission is exactly why no amount of lore will ever make thermal clips make sense. Why would ANYONE willingly give up INFINITE AMMO just for faster reload? Ain't no way the people of the galaxy would agree to this.

[@OutrightRegent4]

I always thought that if you run out of ammo the gun should be able to revert back to a cool down system instead of just not working. It already has a ton of smart systems, that little chnage would make thermal clips make so much more sense

[@danhilltraining]

This is one reason why my next playthrough will have mods! Over 1500 hours in vanilla legendary edition so I think I’ve earned that.

[@Urubu_de_terno]

It's even funnier in ME3 when we have two great ARs with infinite ammo in the form of the M7 and the Particle beam, the first one from the first contact war and the second from 50 thousand years ago.

[@heirofaniu]

​@OutrightRegent4 It should always have a cool down system and if you reach the overheat threshold you can eject and swap the thermal clip yo skip the cooldown.

[@GeorgeMonet]

All of Mass Effect 2 is noncanonical with Mass Effect 1. The story doesn't even make sense given the events of Mass Effect 1. It is like the two games were written by two different writers and the second writer's only knowledge of Mass Effect 1 is the promotional material. Which is pretty close to the truth.

[@Glep909]

I remember getting through ME1 on Insanity with little difficulty, and then getting killed again and again after landing at Freedom’s Progress. The Illusive Man really spent all of that time and money just to hear Shepard got folded by a robot someone got at space Walmart.

[@TheShepardN7]

LETS GOOOO!! I’ll be keeping a kill count for ya again. Excited to see the choices made.

[@AbhishekNarayan_ib]

someone did an autistic count down in the comments separating enemy types

[@matturso2224]

"Poor Turians are just as bright and just as talented as blue asari" - Joe, probably.

[@Mr22222n00b]

Joe has the opportunity to do the funniest shit ever during Samara's loyalty mission

[@Mr22222n00b]

Also the hoodie was actually in ME2, why mod it in?

[@minibotas9496]

They did rank that option very low due to how it leads to absolutely nothing. I doubt Joe will go for it. You know, unless Donald pisses him off enough

[@undercover5048]

​@@Mr22222n00b it's wasn't in me2 normally, i think it got added in the legendary edition. Soo it might been a old habit from the og trilogy.

[@gundam2600]

Oh man it’s gonna be a war if that happens

[@BDH38]

Shit, I had completely forgotten that due to the alignment of BarDonJoe this was a possibility

[@Mun3001s]

You should do the Jacob Taylor challenge run. Be unreasonably trustworthy in Jacob and follow everything he says: -Don't recruit Thane (Jacob doesn't like assassins) -Don't recruit Legion (Jacob's suggestion of throwing him out the airlock is so dumb not even the game acknowledges it) -Immediately do his loyalty mission to get it out of the way -Immediately go to the Reaper IFF once it's available instead of teambuilding -And at last, let Jacob hack the door in the Suicide Mission for the end he deserves

[@Glep909]

Take Jacob seriously, and he trashes your timeline before getting himself unalived. His ONLY contribution is recommending that we upgrade the Normandy’s armor.

[@Urubu_de_terno]

Nah it doesn't work knowing that after ME2 we're going to house arrest with our love intrest far and away instead of a beach knocking up former colleagues...

[@BlackMegas]

Ok why?

[@redraider9547]

Ok but why though

[@Xpwnxage]

That actually sounds like a fun run, doing stupid things I've never done before. Definitely would not continue that file into ME3.

[@DLo776]

dropped everything i was doing to watch this This playthrough is going to be good

[@bbsocc1]

It will be the funniest thing ever if Donald managed to win the election solely out of spite of Joe leaving Ashley on Virmire 😂

[@Grundychan]

🤣🤣🤣 that would be gold. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@krainex]

I dont think he will. Joe won against him when he was an incumbent and its pretty hard to win against an incumbent. Too much is stacked against trump

[@mikeoxlong3676]

​@@krainex Don't let your memes be dreams.

[@DMRTheseNUTS]

@@krainex Funny that this channel uses presidents, but neglects actual politics happening in the US rn. Either way, MAGA has a violent movement ready to go, while Joe is losing support because of his shift towards right wing policies and his Christian Zionist behaviour on Gaza. This is NOT a simple election.

[@C00kiesAplenty]

We did it boys.

[@terracottafred5126]

I had literally just gotten to the end of episode 10 when I got the notification! This day is truly magical!

[@handbanana1553]

Praise Jenkins, thank you for this.

[@madma5855]

Let’s fucking gooooo! The best president ai channel has returned. It’s funny because I finished watching the mass effect 1 video so this is perfect.

[@Mornay-t2r]

Imagine if Joe doesn't die once in mass effect 2, since it's his game. 1 is Obama, and 3 is Donald's. Edit: is it strange that this is my most liked comment on KZbin.

[@daniels7717]

Sleepy joe proving why he survived so long as a politician 😂

[@ThelastofNazarick]

Nah he has the archangel mission and god is that one unfair on squishies. Jacks is actually pretty easy but in mordins the rocket vorcha regen faster than most low level powers can deal with especially with their armor burst. The multiple krogan in grunt and the basement section of garrus are wild hard if your shield isnt working

[@slashkamei]

Ain't no way, I played up to the Collector's Ship with the same class and ended up tapping out near the second half cause I kept getting skill checked. Joe is going to get folded something bad if he has to play any of the Collector missions

[@minibotas9496]

@@ThelastofNazarickas an engineer I had to cheese the basement segments with the Black Hole cannon. It may not deal damage to armored targets but FOR SOME REASON it staggers even the Krogans. The opening section of the garage was fucking hell on earth with that many armored Varren and Vorcha everywhere and constantly respawning tho. I took Mordin with me and left Zaeed with Garrus to give me more time, and I barely made it.

[@Mornay-t2r]

@@slashkamei hey, you never know, joe might surprise us

[@Nerbatsu]

I like how youtube recommends Mass effect play throughs as if this is just another one of those. This is way more than that. It's like an episodic comedy of three presidents hanging out together. That also survived a zombie apocalypse after surviving the reaper invasion.

[@LJAndrews1986]

The Don isn't forgetting the betrayal of Joe from the first game. The suicide mission is going to be peak

[@kietakas]

Joe can still sabotage Somommy loyalty though

[@LJAndrews1986]

Indeed he can , its gonna be a hell of a run, I can't wait to watch Joe rack up the deaths next episode

[@elpoiro]

_Honey do we finish watching Fallout tonight? _Yes of cour... Wait a sec KZbin notifica... Nope ! Change of plans, the presidents started Mass Effect 2 !

[@ledelste]

Dudes. Steven Blum, besides playing the roles you mentioned when Wilson appeared, is the voice of Grunt. GRUNT. Re-record the video to pay appropriate homage to our big Krogan badboy.

[@mikeroylance289]

I'm kind of hoping Barry kept silent about that for a bigger impact when Grunt actually shows up. Have faith, friend.

[@thunderomen2175]

Yea im thinking about it to to save the surprise when grunt starts to interact with the bois, just imagine trump lol​@@mikeroylance289

[@ledelste]

@@mikeroylance289 I like it

[@ledelste]

@@mikeroylance289 the power of Jenkins is with you friend

[@mikeroylance289]

​@@ledelste Then I shall fear no darkness. Not even from Dark Space.

[@cainabel404]

Irrespective of how many views this series gets over the coming months and years, I think all of us here today know we're watching something timeless. Instant classic. Peak content. The banter doesn't quit.

[@DLo776]

agreed it doesn't even feel like ai just sounds a natural conversation between 3 mass effect fans

[@Nockblock]

I’m just gonna say hi to my future self for when I come back to rewatch this.

[@danhilltraining]

Time to watch this 30 goddamn times before the next one even drops!

[@Darkmage1293]

1:48 - Ironic, considering Trump was caught on camera looking up directly at the Eclipse. I thought there would've been a callback to that.

[@andrewsmith9179]

Once I saw the notification, I was like. Yes, sir. Love. This game can't wait to avoid working at my job while watching this one.😂again i'm super happy to see this series blow up. 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@bluespartangaming7440]

dude i love the personality/characteristics you give them.

[@Grundychan]

This is great and im.not ashamed to say ive already listened to the whole video twice and watched it once. Amazing work and keep it up.

[@dontjudgeme58]

Just what I needed after a long, shity day at work. Mcdonalds and Presidents play mass effect. Thank you

[@forfoxsake3302]

I fractured my thumb on the like button the moment this dropped. But I think I made my point. Thanks for the hour length premier , this is gonna be dope!

[@Elite7555]

5:20 Why even make a secret of Shepard's identity? He's either a reinstated SPECTRE, who always have dubious dealings (see Tela Vasir), or he's just a hired gun for Cerberus, with which these people certainly have dealings with. So even if he raised some eye brows, he wouldn't be completely out of place in the first place.

[@theunderachiever2334]

WE ARE BACK BABY

[@sketchstevens5859]

Prime Radiancy is cooking again. 2 missions in 1 episode and some lore drops

[@zrodred]

Peak part 2 has begun

[@nirbhaysharma1214]

Mass Effect 1 presidents playthrough was greatness. I am genuinely so happy that 2024 will forever be the presidents play my favorite video game trilogy and I am so grateful for the amazing work you do to make this happen!

[@dominicdhotman9090]

Random passers by asked me why I've been screaming in joy for the last 15 minutes. I said: "The Presidents of the USA are playing Mass Effect 2" They locked me up in a mental ward, but at least they let me watch KZbin in here. Best day of my life!

[@T0NK0]

Dude i rewatch these so often to relax and/or sleep. Literally throwing this on and passing out in like 5 minutes... thank you so so much.

[@lukebarroso449]

THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES!!!! Really enjoying this series.

[@shadowpleaser8312]

my entire life has been leading up to this moment

[@seamore6996]

I like the more emotional moments between the Boys. It makes them feel even more like three bros just playing games together it’s just a nice touch

[@jezen0227]

Ohh Here we gooo!! My favorite mass effect will always be 2!!

[@carlosvalenzuela6961]

After watching the entirety of mass effect one and hear about the old days before ai voice over the presidents called a time where creators had to cut and edit existing lines , all I can say is Manslayer ran so Prime Radiancy can sprint 😊

[@MrWagnerous]

I was so hyped when I saw this video pop up. Best Mass Effect content anyone has made in in YEARS. Bioware not excluded.

[@kotorandcorvid4968]

Javik: Finally!

[@MrTappers7]

BarDonJoe Returns! Let the shenanigans commence!

[@thunderbeast13]

Always look forward to these! Great content to relax with after a long day. Appreciate you keeping this up!

[@drontesmakor1983]

Oh that ending, what're you planning, Barrie?

[@justinbrush126]

If I had to guess, he wants to engineer circumstances to let Donald intentionally screw up the Jack romance and open up the way to Barack romancing Miranda.

[@corycyr6677]

Killlig Kasumi in the suicide mission?

[@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem]

​@corycyr6677 I'd say Jack, because Joe has apparently moved on from Kasumi.

[@KatrionaAvalon]

I think he’s going to trigger the Jack/Miranda fight early and make it so Joe loses out on romancing Jack. Doubt he’d go as far as losing out on Jack completely. If it’s Donald doing the Suicide Mission, though, that’s a different story.

[@drontesmakor1983]

@@KatrionaAvalon given he already did the finale of ME 1, I imagine either Barrack himself or Joe'll do the SM.

[@xedalpha1]

"The gun that did WHAT?!" Okay, so that got me 😂

[@raylenc9760]

The legendary Trio is back to tackle the daddy issue installment, let's fucking goooo

[@LostTheNecromancer]

Thanks for all the vids you have put out. 🤗

[@benjamingrant6203]

Just watching this in the background once again and I just realized something The Kassa Locust that Shepard picks up is said to be “The Kassa Locust” like the actual gun that was used to kill 3 presidents but what doesn’t make any sense is that the Kassa Locust uses Thermal clips like every other gun Thermal Clips weren’t invented until 2184 the Assasination of Enrique Aguilar and Ying Xiong happened in 2176 so realizing this I had to channel my inner Obama and found this part in the wiki “A quick trip to the extranet reveals one of the weapons has the same serial number as Lang's original. If it's a fake, it's extremely well-made.”

[@TheWolfSage100]

Ive never actually been hyped for youtuber drops before wtf bro FUCK YEAH🎉🎉

[@shapeflesh4589]

I enjoyed Barack and Donald's chat at the end.

[@garycannon4644]

Yeah Obama is planning some shit lol

[@kerbalremedies1848]

You literally couldn't get these episodes out fast enough, they have me in stitches every time. Also love the lore titbits from 'Barry'

[@Halthior]

It's on! Let's go! The moment that notification came up, I clocked out for my lunchbreak.

[@RustCohle072]

The boys dropping a new video is like Christmas coming early. I wonder which one of these three ol' codgers will die the most this playthrough.

[@Affirmbuttress]

"Shepard is a great soldier but his decisions seem inconsistent" *cuts to the ghosts of three dead presidents arguing over his controls while driving his corpse like a flesh mech*

[@theoldfashionedgamerguy665]

You're getting really good at the banter between these three. This is the best written one yet.

[@froloffanton]

My week just got better

[@benjamingrant6203]

59:42 That Kassa Locust bit killed me

[@benjamingrant6203]

This comment didn’t age well

[@ryanhobart7599]

Yeeeeesssss praise be to to the future of this spectacular channel 🙌

[@hansno1475]

Well done as always! Forgot about the gun that killed two presidents bit. That had me laughing

[@nananamamana3591]

Obeezy makin' sure to secure his Miranda route early, the master at work.

[@sheridanmovieguy]

I can already see what will happen: Don and Obama will work together to kill Jack and get with Miranda (likely by siding with Miranda in the argument thus losing Jack's loyalty and then making her do the biotic barrier at the end) then Joe will get his revenge by breaking up with Miranda in 3 which will get her killed by Kai Leng.

[@undercover5048]

​@@sheridanmovieguyJack doesn't actually die by being chosen for the barrier, even when unloyal. She just gets one of your crewmates killed... soo yeah killing Jack need to be done somewhere else in the suicide mission.

[@sheridanmovieguy]

@@undercover5048 Yeah I just remembered that. I guess they could send her as the second fire team leader? Or send her back with the crew members since a crewmate will die if they're disloyal there. Second fire team leader is about the only time I can think of her getting an actual death scene though.

[@undercover5048]

@@sheridanmovieguy i mean they could also Take Miranda as the biotic and then take kazumi and jack as sqaudmates, this would result in the death of one those two by the seeker Swarm.

[@Appoduece]

After having just watched the entire 6.5hrs of ME1 during a bg3 playthrough, I'm in this until the end now :)

[@Arcrhid]

Never have I clicked so fast on a notification. Let's. Fucking. Go.

[@ColinPeddicord]

You nailed the dynamics between these three. This is my new favorite video series on KZbin and I picked up mass effect again

[@Mattstopher]

President gamers LPing the trilogy makes for really comfy content while gaming myself, thanks so much for making these

[@Headshooter309]

So excited to see how much the presidents fight. This series has been great so far.

[@legibleginger]

All the mass effect novels references is so good! Maybe a ranking video or even just a vid making fun of Deception in the future?

[@keksentdecker]

just finished the full ME1 Presidents 5 hour vid, nice to see you keeping it going also we were robbed of a kasumi romance, her jumping around on the gunship got me falling for her the whole 50 feet down to the ground 😔

[@timothy705]

Fun fact. If you can shoot the head off the giant mech with a high damage weapon without killing its body it will detonate like a nuke with the same energy as the Caine instead of just exploding a little

[@Mgamerz]

Fun fact: when you save the collector base for the illusive man, he is supposed to use a cigar (it's all hooked up for use and has its own unique model). However, the only time the camera ever looks at him, shows him having a drink instead.

[@CozyButcher]

...Cozy still no forgib for killing Ashley. But still nice to see you're already on the 2nd very well done fren!

[@Losojostristes]

No amount of progress or execution would have made Jacob telling maleshep "I wish I knew how to quit you" palatable lol. Thanks for the vid!

[@N_COutdoors]

HELL YES!!!

[@jabawakee99]

last time i was this early anderson was still fighting in first contact!

[@rexcaliborb0i226]

i absolutely love this trilogy especially with presidential commentary. Its so entertaining and captivating, thanks dude

[@enhasa5653]

And this one is for our boys - o7 SALUTE!

[@SpiraLnEmisiS]

Love this video! Lost the opportunity to get a SANJI One Piece reference when talking about a cook on the ship 😂😂😂 great stuff. Keep up the good work

[@enhasa5653]

WERE BACK BOYS. GET YOUR BLANKIE AND WARM MILK AND SETTLE IN

[@regularsizedrudy5340]

This dropping juat shifted any other plans i had for the rest of the night. Thanks man

[@pistolpew3377]

I was supposed to sleep… “was” We. Are. SO BACK

[@Spinosaur101]

Dude out here dropping back to back bangers, let's fucking gooo!

[@cassidepowers7006]

Been having a bad few weeks, trying not to find my 13th reason. This series helps a lot. Was close to breaking down at work and as soon as I got off I saw the upload, it actually made me smile, so thank you for continuing the series.

[@ninjamadmax8]

I guess the Kassa Locust was a warning sign if current events are anything to go by 👀

[@DeathBringerArmageddon]

I love this series. Absolutely my favorite

[@michelvanderlinden8363]

Okay, something to note here... it was *NOT* Captain Anderson who insisted on Joker being the Normandy pilot. It was a Turian named Invectus. He was sent as an overseer of the Normandy construction, and to see which pilots would be suitable to fly it. When Joker asked if he could ever pilot it, Invectur outright dismissed him, saying a cripple would never be allowed in it. After Joker stole the Normandy, pulled his stunts and evaded all sorts of fire and ships, he surrendered to the authorities, and it was Invectus who personally defended Jeff, and outright demanding he would be the chosen Pilot, for circumvending security, performing excellent while under fire and adapting to the situation, AND finishing the required trials... with time to spare. Captain Anderson agrees with Invectus. But it was only because of the Turian's outright demanding that Joker be selected pilot, that this came to pass. Say what you want about him, but real recognises real in that story.

[@stanloona515]

FINALLY

[@papajohns435]

yep i was beginning to go insane without these episodes when you finish 3 I will be blowing my head off

[@GodDamnRider]

How is Trump able to be here when his on trial? Oh yeah, because this is Peak Effect 2 and no amount of years on the guy is going to stop the asari-mancer and their big blue milkies

[@roaringthunder8069]

Im surprised nobody mentioned that Gardener shares a VA with Udina. Gardener for councilor.

[@planetzdr]

I was debating playing either Tell Tale’s Walking Dead or Mass Effect 2. Now I have a reason to play Mass Effect 2.

[@Unbid581]

I can't believe this didn't show up on my feed!!

[@jackinthebox1993]

Oh FUCK yes 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@SpaghettiPunch4545]

Prime’s the only guy out here still making this president content that I crave. When this first started I was like no way he’ll get through the series but here we go baybeeeeeeeeee