Imagine the Virmire Sacrifice as the Cerberus assassin instead of Kai Leng

Kai Leng was a terrible character from terrible novels. No one wanted him in the games. He could barely handle a Drell with space cancer and couldn’t even kill Anderson and Sanders, but they want us to expect us to believe that Leng is Shepard’s equal? To me I would just have him executed on Omega since Leng DID kill Aria's daughter.

But yes storywise, it's better. Shepard was haunted about not being able to save either Kaidan/Ashley. TIM would use the Virmire casualty as Plan B should Shepard turn against his interests.

#Mass Effect #Kaidan Alenko #Ashley Williams #Commander Shepard #Femshep #Shenko #Shepley #Shepard x Ashley #The Illusive Man #Kai Leng #Cerberus

dalekofchaos

Fixing Kai Leng

The problem with Kai Leng is Mac Walters desperately tried to convince us that Leng was Shepard's ultimate equal when he could barely hold his own against an aged Anderson and a Drell with terminal cancer and in the end he was a tryhard egdelord that would make Kylo Ren embarrassed.

The solution to this is make Leng deeply connected to Shepard's personal history. Making him be a ghost from Shepard's past with a personal connection would have made this character much better. His backstory could change with whatever your selections are for Shepard.

#Mass Effect #Kai Leng #Commander Shepard #Femshep #Femshep x Kai Leng #Cerberus #The Illusive Man #Spacer Shepard #Earthborn Shepard #Colonist Shepard #War Hero Shepard #Ruthless Shepard #Sole Survivor Shepard #My Changes

dalekofchaos

Harbinger and The Illusive Man

Something I think would’ve fixed Mass Effect 3 while also keeping the plot and the dynamic of The Reapers and Cerberus as the main threat is making Harbinger the big bad and The Illusive Man as his puppet or as The Illusive Man could’ve put it his “partner”

My other ME3 metas

ME3 mistakes

ME3 ending fix

#Mass Effect #Mass Effect Legendary Edition #Mass Effect 3 #Commander Shepard #Femshep #The Illusive Man #Harbinger #Cerberus #The Reapers

dalekofchaos

Anonymous asked:

What do you think could've improved the Mass Effect 3 ending if it's the same story?

Before I start my other ME metas

How I would change the ME Trilogy

How Harbinger and The Illusive Man could’ve worked the villains of Mass Effect 3

ME3 mistakes

Okay a few things first

It's explained by Vendetta that The Reapers have a backdoor to The Citadel. Harbinger took The Illusive Man there to commandeer and transport The Citadel to Earth. There, was that so hard to explain Bioware?
Prior to Priority:Earth, Hackett explains that there is an evacuation plan for when the Crucible will go off. Hackett will also explain that The Council evacuated the Citadel and is on board the Destiny Ascension
If you romance Jack or Miranda, we are given the chance to invite them for the final fight.(This is just me being bitter that they were excluded in ME3) this way we can get a proper paramour scene for Jack and Miranda

First of all there is no Starchhild(more on that later) The reason why Shepard even dreams of the child is to symbolize Shepard's guilt for not being able to save those on Earth and to symbolize the innocence lost in the beginning of the game. That is all the dreams needed to be. I mean the final dream could've just showed Kaidan/Ashley, Mordin, Thane and Legion together just to show the friends who died.
There would be a montage of cutscenes to showcase all the War Assets we acquired throughout the game
During the fight to reach the beam. When Shepard saves his crew, we would see multiple ships firing Thanix cannons to distract Harbinger, that way we don't just get Harbinger just letting the Normandy escape "it's okay Shepard, take your time" Or hell, why not go big and go home. Have LEVIATHAN fight Harbinger. That way The Normandy can get away safely and Shepard and Anderson can make it to the beam.
We would see Anderson carrying Shepard so they both reach the beam. While on the Citadel, we clearly see Shepard and Anderson together
The Citadel Tower and the Master Control Terminal looks as it did in ME1
We get the same talk as we got with the Illusive Man, but this time we know how and why he got onto the Citadel and we know how Anderson is on because he was with us
The final moment with Anderson happens and when Anderson passes, Shepard will walk and activate the Crucible via the Control Terminal
No Starchild. No Control and no Synthesis. The Crucible exists to solely destroy The Reapers.
EDI and Synthetics are safe. The Catalyst would focus on The Reapers.
As the push for the fleet to evacuate the beam, the crew of the Normandy in the shuttle goes to get Shepard off the Citadel. We either play as Shepard's love interest and the most used squad member.(So in my case Jack and Garrus.) Shepard is secured and the Normandy crashes onto the planet that it did in the actual ending
We see a montage of Reapers being destroyed
Extended Cut ending, but we see The Geth and Quarians together in the ending montage. The rest of the Extended Cut plays out as it did and closes with Hackett saying "The war is over. The Reapers have been defeated. Against all odds, and in the face of the greatest threat this galaxy has ever known, we survived. We suffered many losses. The relays are severely damaged, but we won. This victory belongs to each of us... every man, woman, and child. Every civilization, on every world. Now, as we take our first steps toward restoring what we lost, we must remember what it took to win. This wasn't a victory by a single fleet, a single army, or even a single species. If this war has taught us anything, it is that we are at our strongest when we work together. And if we can put down our grievances long enough to stop something as powerful as the Reapers, imagine what we can achieve now that they are defeated. It will take time, but we can rebuild everything that was destroyed. Our homes, our worlds, our fleets and defenses. All of this - and more. Together, we can build a future greater than any one of us could imagine. A future paid for by the sacrifices of those who fought and died alongside us. A future that many will never see. And while we still have many challenges ahead of us... We can face them together. And we will honor those who died to give us that future."
The final scene is Shepard putting Anderson's name on the Normandy Memorial and our love interest comforting Shepard

#Mass Effect #Mass Effect 3 #Mass Effect Legendary Edition #Commander Shepard #Femshep #David Anderson #The Illusive Man #Garrus Vakarian #Miranda Lawson #Tali'Zorah #Liara T'Soni #Kaidan Alenko #Ashley Williams #Asks #Anon

dalekofchaos

Mass Effect Trilogy Remastered Wishlist

I know it's most likely not coming out till like next year possibly. But these are some things I'd love to see in a possible ME Trilogy Remake

Automatically obtain all DLC free, hopefully including the pre-order stuff(I want the N7 weapons, Hoodie and Defender Armor damn it)
Updated graphics
Updated combat
Kaiden is romancable for Male Shepard in ME1 and Ashley is romancable for Femshep
Tali, Jack and Miranda are romancable for Femshep
James is fully romancable in ME3 for Femshep
Squad interactions like we got for ME3 for the entire trilogy
No forced Avenger and Predator weapons in cutscenes, no matter what loadout weapons you have, those weapons will appear in the cutscenes.
Romance scenes that do not cut to black or fully clothed
If we choose Spacer, we get to see Shepard's mother. Earthborn, just more details on their life on Earth. Colonist, PTSD flashbacks to Mindoir
Replace the dream sequences of the child and replace it with PTSD sequences from Shepard’s past(Skylian Blitz, Torfan or Akuze and the events of ME1 and ME2)
Add General Petrovsky's uniform to Mass Effect 2's Casual outfits
More casual outfits in ME2 and ME3 in general
For ME3, add a vehicle. I'm coming up with a blank for names, but something that combines the firepower of the Mako and the speed/versatility of the Firewalker
Resolutions to all the side missions we did in ME1 and ME2 in the galactic news and the outcomes revealed in ME3
Add Jack, Miranda, Grunt, Kirrahe or Padok and Bray to the squad in ME3
Ashley looks more like Ashley Williams in ME3 and not a Miranda clone. See here for more
We get to see Tali's face. It could either be just on Rannoch and the romance scene or hell just have it be because of the Geth's help, Tali can now live on the Normandy with the ability to show her face. Any option could work. We deserved to see Liz Sroka model Tali's face instead of the BS photoshop Examples for Tali’s face
Make Harbinger more of a presence in ME3. Have him "ASSUME CONTROL" during fights. Give us a voiced confrontation between Shepard and Harbinger. Make it clear that Harbinger chose The Illusive Man and convinced him of together they could uplift and empower humanity over the lesser races and you could even throw in that cancelled Reaperfied TIM boss battle while the Normandy and fleet fights Harbinger. Even reveal Harbinger as the Catalyst. Harbinger is the AI that convinced the Leviathan that harvest was the only way to survive and justifies the harvests not because organics and synthetics can't coexist, but because of the dark matter crisis. You could either. Destroy Harbinger and The Reapers, while the united races would discover a way to stop the dark matter problem. Give in to Harbinger to harvest humanity to save the galaxy. Control The Reapers to stop the harvesting and to work together to stop the dark matter crisis.
If we choose destroy and have enough EMS, than we get to play as the love interest and most used squad member as they come to rescue Shepard. And an epilogue showing what happens to Shepard and all our favorite characters, showing that EDI and the Geth could either be restored or rebuilt(and with the knowledge that peace is possible and in a galaxy free of the Reapers and the AI's false "solution".) and showing what the races coming together in unity could do together united. And showing Shepard and their love interest together with their children instead of the Stargazer.

#Mass Effect #Commander Shepard #Femshep #Liara T 'Soni #Garrus Vakarian #Tali'Zorah #Tali'Zorah Vas Normandy #Tali Zorah #Jacqueline Nought #Miranda Lawson #Urdnot Grunt #Urdnot Wrex #The Illusive Man #Harbinger #Captain Kirrahe #Padok Wiks

dalekofchaos

The Illusive Man should have been revealed to be Armistan Banes

#Mass Effect #The Illusive Man

dalekofchaos

How I would change the Mass Effect trilogy

I made a similar post before. But I think I should do it for all three games.

dalekofchaos

Changes I’d want If Mass Effect Trilogy got remade

If The Mass Effect Trilogy ever gets remastered. I would change nothing about the first two games other than the obvious graphics update, visible sex scenes(no clothes for ME2) Miranda, Tali and Jack romancable for Femshep and DLC included. But for Mass Effect 3. I’d want all the DLC content including the Collector’s Edition and Pre-Order Bonuses.Things I would want changed.

No James. James adds nothing to the game or the series. He was only put in the game to appeal to the COD fanbase. He has no character and no personality. We have established characters like Grunt, Jack, Miranda, Zaeed,or Kasumi, but instead we get James, someone no one cares about as a character. We have been waiting years to see Ashley/Kaidan again and they are forced to be knocked out for a good portion of the game. Ashley/Kaidan are important to the story and to Shepard. If anything, James should have been the Jenkins/Wilson of the game and died on Mars.
The full squad for ME3 should be Ashley/Kaidan, Liara, Garrus, Tali, Grunt, Javik, Thane, Padok Wiks, EDI, Jack and Miranda.
Remove the Multiplayer aspect and give us a War Readiness rating of 100%. It’s teadious and tiring to get readiness to 100% in Multiplayer, especially when some of us only play for the campaign
We would recruit Grunt when Wrex comes aboard and Wrex brings Grunt. Grunt chooses to stay with Shepard. “Wrex may be my clan leader, but Shepard, you are my battlemaster”. When we first meet Miranda on the Citadel, that is when she decides to go with Shepard. She can help Shepard stop Cerberus and right her wrongs while he helps her stop her father and help Shepard stop the Reapers. As for Jack, I feel like they gave Jack a good direction, but we are given a choice have Jack stay with her students or invite Jack to join us. Jack’s students would be well taken care of while Jack joins us to stop Cerberus and The Reapers. Thane would recruitable when we approach him in the hospital. Thane assures us he is healthy enough to go on one last suicide mission. But prior to Priority Tuchanka, Thane goes to the CItadel to visit Kolyat and he is hidden when the Cerberus attack happens. When Kai Leng makes his attack. Thane easily kills Kai Leng. Thane resumes his journey with Shepard, thus Thane is given a proper send off as befitting his character instead of being killed off because EA forgot about Thane.
Dedicated romance scenes for Garrus, Tali, Thane, Jack and Miranda instead of the cut to black bullshit. It’s completely unfair that Shiara, Shepley and Shenko got dedicated romance scenes in the end but Shakarian, Shiros, Shiranda and Shepard/Jack got screwed over.
Have it be revealed that The Salarian Dalatrass was indoctrinated. There is no way Udina or Cerberus knew about the transfer on Sur'Kesh. The only way Cerberus could know is if the Dalatrass told them. On Priority Tuchanka we see her treachery revealed and as she tries to stop Mordin we get the renegade/paragon interrupt to either kill her or jam her gun. Regardless if we sabotaged or cured. The Salarians gives us both their fleets in the end.
Replace Diana Allers with Emily Wong or Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani. Diana Allers served no purpose and she was just annoying. If we have to have a reporter on the Normandy, let it be with someone we actually know and have a connection with. With Emily it would be cute and could possibly lead to a romance. With Khalisah, it would be fierce and would send a strong message to the galaxy. They only threw Allers in because they wanted Jessica Chobot in the game. They had enough time and money to model Diana Allers, but not give Tali a face?
We see Tali’s face on Rannoch. No bullshit photoshop. We get to see her face on Rannoch. If we romance her or not we get to see Tali’s face and Liz Sroka actually gets to face model for Tali. And after Rannoch, Tali can be on the Normandy with no need to wear the mask.
Thane would kill Kai Leng on the Citadel. Even a sick and weakened Thane could kill Kai Leng. Kai Leng could not even kill an aged Anderson and Kahlee Sanders in the novels and they expect me to believe that Thane, one of the most skilled and efficient Drell Assassins would be so easily killed by Kai Leng? No, fuck no. Leng is overconfident believing he’ll kill the Salarian Counciler and Shepard all at once and then Thane comes out of hiding and blows Kai Leng’s head off. Thane killing Leng would’ve been better. The only reason why Thane died is because EA forgot about Thane. Thane should be our squad member and Thane should’ve killed Kai Leng.
In the battle for Earth, we see every war asset in cutscenes and it shows how effective they are in the end.
Harbinger is focused on as the big bad, while The Illusive Man is his indoctrinated puppet, much like Saren was Sovereign’s puppet. Every so often when we are fighting Cerberus or Reaper forces, Harbinger ASSUMES DIRECT CONTROL. Mocking Shepard, mocking his allies. In every major mission. Harbingner is there. On Rannoch instead of the Destroyer Reaper, the Destroyer sends the hologram of Harbinger. And then we get the big Shepard and Harbinger confrontation. Telling Shepard that Tuchanka and Rannoch has changed nothing. Our species has the attention of those infinitely your greater. That which you know as Reapers are your salvation through destruction. You will surrender your potential against the growing void. and then Shepard orders the orbital strike to destroy the Destroyer Reaper.
Keep the planned Illusive Man boss fight in. After the exchange of dialogue Shepard, Anderson and TIM have, TIM realizes he has been destroying humanity and that everything he has been doing the whole game and he wants to fight it but Harbinger is too strong, so he shoots himself. and that’s when Harbinger “ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL and that is when we get the Reaper’d Illusive Man under Harbinger’s control.

No starchild. It’s Harbinger. Harbinger taunts and haunts Shepard throughout the game He uses the memory of that child to haunt Shepard as a symbol of humanity lost. After Shepard activates the Crucible. Harbinger appears. He explains to why and how The Reapers were made. the AI Leviathan created to solve the equation is Harbinger all along, Harbinger manipulated The Leviathan into giving it Reaper form and birth at first it did what it commanded and what they asked of it was to look at the dark energy building up which back then was only an anomaly that Leviathan was concerned with but then the first harvest began and Harbinger and The Reapers were born. As for why the cycles of harvest happen, the explanation is the original ending of Dark energy. The Reapers as a whole were ‘nations’ of people who had fused together in the most horrific way possible to help find a way to stop the spread of the Dark Energy. The real reason for the Human Reaper was supposed to be the Reapers saving throw because they had run out of time. Humanity in Mass Effect is supposedly unique because of its genetic diversity and represented the universe’s best chance at stopping Dark Energy’s spread. We have a choice either Sacrifice humanity, allowing them to be horrifically processed in hopes that the end result will justify the means or use The Crucible to destroy The Reapers and find a way to stop the dark energy from spreading and it shows it is hopeful with a united galaxy. Also if you choose Destroy, we see Shepard using the Citadel tower control to activate The Citadel. And once we choose destroy, Shepard’s squad comes to evacuate him off The Citadel and it depends on who Shepard’s love interest and whoever you are with the longest for your squad and they rescue Shepard. Then after that we watch as The Reapers are destroyed on Earth, Thessia, Tuchanka and Palaven, we see an interactive epilogue of how our choices effects the Galaxy and how a united galaxy is capable of anything, even to stop the dark energy’s spread.

dalekofchaos reblogged

leethaxodon

I am actual trash

#Mass Effect #Text Post #Grunt #The Illusive Man #The Reapers #Kai Leng #Commander Shepard #Femshep

dalekofchaos reblogged

neyala

mass effect + text posts/tweets

#Mass Effect #Text Post #The Illusive Man #Grunt #Commander Shepard #Javik #Zaeed Massani #Mordin Solus

dalekofchaos reblogged

kaidaned

inspired by the rest of these stupid things

#Mass Effect #Text Post #Jeff Monreau #Miranda Lawson #The Illusive Man #Samara #Liara T'Soni #Samantha Traynor #Jacob Taylor #Commander Shepard #Kaiden Alenko

dalekofchaos reblogged

witchofthekorcari

Mass Effect characters - The Illusive Man [x]

#Mass Effect #Video Games #The Illusive Man

dalekofchaos

Moments from Mass Effect 3 that ruined the game, besides the ending.

James Vega. The man adds NOTHING to the game or the series. He was only put in the game to appeal to the COD fanbase. He has no character and no personality. We have established characters like Grunt, Jack, Miranda, Zaeed, Kasumi and Kirrahe, but instead we get James, someone no one cares about as a character, hell I would rather deal with Ashley/Kaiden because they are important to the series and only giving them back halfway in the game WAS STUPID and it would be better if he died on Mars and be the Jenkins/Wilson of the game. The squad for the game should be Ashley or Kaiden, Liara, Garrus, Tali, Grunt, Javik, Thane, EDI, Jack and Miranda.
Any of the ME2 romances are screwed over. We get one scene and a cut to black.
The Salarian Dalatrass was either indoctrinated or incompetent, I am going with the latter. The Salarians uplifted The krogan to wage war, but guess what? YOU ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WAR TO END ALL WARS! The debate to cure the genophage was pretty pointless. Especially since The Reapers could invade your home planet at any moment. Just cure the genophage, get some Krogan on your side and go kick Reaper ass. "A bully has few friends when he needs them most" Kind of an ironic statement don't you think? Seeing as how you almost alienated your only remaining potential allies.
Legion’s death is pointless. He could’ve easily copied and paste the Reaper code without sacrificing himself in the same manner when he was broadcasting the Reaper signal to all Geth.
Tali does not show her face, they did not think getting a actress to model for Tali's face, like her voice actress was important but they spent so much money and so much time in making Jessica Chobot into Diana Allers, yet they spent no time in giving Tali a face and gave a us a cheap photoshop of it that only appears in a picture and nowhere else. Tali could have shown her face on Rannoch. She could have returned with no need to wear the mask, hell the Geth could have made it so.
The only romances I care about Jack, Miranda, Tali, Garrus and Thane. Are screwed over in favor of Liara.
They changed Mordin's voice actor
EA simply forgot Thane's existence. The man had five years left in my opinion. And oh BULLSHIT if Anderson can take down Kai Leng twice, there is no way in hell Kai Leng could kill a master Drell Assassin.
Cerberus as the villains is stupid. I think Cerberus should have been on our side in ME3 and The Batarians should have been fighting for The Reapers. Makes sense Cerberus has just been a rouge organization doing what the job no matter what the cost(even if the cost is atrocities) and instead of indoctrinating themselves they could have just been studying reaper tech to prevent indoctrination and preserving humanity and The Batarians have always held a grudge against The Alliance, The Council and would of wanted revenge for Bahak/ Viper Nebula. The fact that there are no consequences for what we had to do in Arrival from The Batarians just doesn’t make any sense and you’d think this would give The Batarians the motive to turn to The Reapers. Hell in the Terra Nova DLC in Mass Effect 1 it seemed to me that Balak was already indoctrinated and Balak’s revelation of the “Batarian rebellion” makes it seem like they would be the perfect tools for The Reapers.
Harbinger and The Reapers are reduced to side villains. I hate the fact that Harbinger barely appeared in Mass Effect 3. You’d think being the first Reaper would be the main threat right? “LOLNOPE YA’LL GET CERBERUS” My problem with Cerberus and no Harbinger is Too many Cerberus, too few Reaper forces in plot. We fight Cerberus more often than the reapers. Hardly any boss fight and the one with Reaper Destroyer on Rannoch was more an interactive movie than fight. During the Horizon mission in Mass Effect 2, Harbinger was solidified as the Big Bad. It was menacing and ominous, with just the right amount of annoying. It taunted us throughout the game, telling us how insignificant we were, and how our actions were pointless. It was willing to posses drones through the Collector General to fight us personally, and when we killed the host, it tossed them aside. Harbinger even gave the typical “You haven’t seen the last of me!” villain rant. It made any fire fight frustrating, and that made me want to kill it even more; I hated Harbinger. Many games fail to do that. Harbinger was an enemy which I looked forward to defeating. I had the desire to annihilate. In Mass Effect 3, I got a codex entry and a cameo. Harbinger just swoops in at the last second and blows my friends and I to hell, then flies off. Personally, I would have loved to hear Harbinger’s menacing monologue, it drove me on. I would have felt a deeper motivation to take the fight back to Earth if it told me how much destruction the Reapers were causing, how many lives were lost. I felt cheated when I got to the final mission, only to suddenly realize it was largely absent from the game. Harbinger has been replaced. Replaced by the Illusive Man and Kai Leng. The former is an old acquaintance, albeit one now controlled by the Reapers. The latter is a space ninja from a terrible book.

#Mass Effect #Mass Effect 3 #Tali'Zorah #Tali'Zorah Vas Normandy #James Vega #Legion #Salarian Dalatrass #Dalatrass Linron #Harbinger #The Reapers #Cerberus #The Illusive Man