Mass Effect Franchise Playthroughs [SPOILERS WILL BE DISCUSSED]

[hubbe01]

Hello Hello

I thought we could use this thread to tell the stories of our Mass Effect Franchise playthroughs by using this template I made

THE TEMPLATE CONTAINS SPOILERS BEWARE (BIOWARE heh)

Name :
Gender :
Alignment : Renegade / Paragon / Gray
Pre-Service History : Spacer / Colonist / Earthborn
Psychological Profile : Sole Survivor / War Hero / Ruthless
Class: Soldier / Engineer / Adept / Infiltrator / Sentinel / Vanguard
Specialization Class (Mass Effect 1): Bastion / Nemesis / Commando / Shock Trooper / Mechanic / Demolisher / Champion / Destroyer / Guardian / Raider / Agent / Assassin
Bonus Talent (Mass Effect 1 , 2 ,3):
Biography : Adding a little RP feel to your Shepard by adding a little prehistory about him/her with help of your Pre-Service History and Psych Profile.

Mass Effect 1 Major Plot Decisions

Did you recruit everyone?
Reason:

Feros: Sparing or Killing the Colonists and Shiala.
Reason:

Noveria: Saving or Killing the Rachni Queen.
Reason:

Vermire: Who survived? Ashley or Kaiden.
Reason:

Vermire: Spare Wrex.
Reason:

Citadel: Save or Kill Council.
Reason:

Citadel: Who became the human councilor? Udina or Anderson.
Reason:

Romance : Broshep Liara or Ashley
Femshep Liara or Kaiden
Reason:

Mass Effect 2 Major Plot Decisions

Imported ME1 character?
Yes / No

Did you recruit everyone?
Reason:

Did you do everyone's loyalty missions:
Reason:

Mordin loyalty mission: Maleons genophage Cure Data: Destroyed or Saved.
Reason:

Legion loyalty mission: Rewrite or Destroy the Heretics.
Reason:

Samara's loyalty mission: Kill or Save Mornith.
Reason:

Suicide Mission: Who survived?
Reason:

Suicide Mission: Destroy or Save Collector Base
Reason:

Romance: Broshep Miranda, Tali,Jack, Kelly or Samara
Femshep Jacob, Garrus,Thane, Kelly or Samara
Reason:

Mass Effect 3 Major Plot Decisions

Imported ME 1&2 Character?
Yes / No / Only ME 2 Import

Tuchanka : Destroy or Cure Genophage.
Reason:

Rannoch : Who won? The Quarians, The Geth or Quarian & Geth Alliance.
Reason:

Earth: Which Ending? Destroy or Control the Reapers or Synthesize organics and synthetics.
Reason:

Romance: Broshep Miranda, Tali, Jack, Ashley, Steve, Kaiden, Kelly, Liara
Femshep Thane, Samantha, Garrus, Kaiden, Kelly, Liara
Reason:

You can use this template or use your own its up to you and if you want something added to the template just tell me and I fix it!
There are a lot of different Shepards out there and I wanna hear about them all!

I'm currently on my 3rd playthrough of the franchise, My 2nd I finished like 2 days ago where I played Mass Effect 3 for the first time and I loved it.

[hubbe01]

ANYWAYS SINCE I STARTED THE THREAD I GET TO GO FIRST

OH AND SPOILERS WILL BE HAD BE PREPARED

Pictures
ME1 : http://imgur.com/qr8oH8T
ME2 : http://imgur.com/SFcHxYd
ME3 : http://imgur.com/2PWpRJ4
Name : Jack Shepard
Gender : Male
Alignment : Gray
Pre-Service History : Earthborn
Psychological Profile : Sole Survivor
Class: Vanguard
Specialization Class (Mass Effect 1): Nemesis
Bonus Talent (Mass Effect 1 , 2 ,3): ME 2 Warp Ammo and ME 3 Reave (Was my first playthrough on PC so I didn't have a bonus talent on PC)
Biography : Jack Shepard, An earthborn orphan who's parents got killed in crime alley by a vicious Thresher Maw in Got...WAIT WRONG BIO. Lets just start over Jack Shepard, An earthborn orphan that grew up on the street of New York where he learned how to survive by the local gang League of Assassins and their fearsome leader Ra's Al Ghul so he one day could return to the city and avenge his parents death and beat up criminals as Bat WAIT WAIT STILL WRONG BIO. Okay lets do this again but fast, Jack Shepard, Earthborn orphan, parents boo-ho lets get on with it alright back where we drifted off. Young Shepard learnt to survive on the streets of New York with the help of the local gang called the Reds. Shepard with his quick wits and badass attitude quickly rose in rank in the gang and was satisfied with his life until he meet his childhood friend Toombs who had joined up with the Alliance convinced Shepard to join the military, see space and kill a lot of parents killing Thresher Maw..Okay he might not have mentioned Thresher Maws anyways SPACE.

Through the military service Shepard learnt discipline and soon the young gang rascal Shepard was gone and replaced with Man Shepard. He had finally found his true calling and even here Shepard rose in rank due to his wits and badassery which led up to his first command.

The mission was simple, a distress beacon from a colony in the outskirts of Alliance Space had reached the Alliance and Shepards unit was sent to investigate. They arrive at the colony and everything had been smooth flying, no enemy contact but there was also no colony citizens either it was as the entire colony had vanished in thin air. Shepard found an dusted over sign "AKUZE" it read, later they found the distress signal still no sign of the colony citizens nor any activity at all it was like a ghost town.. more like ghost colony....AS Shepard shut off the distress beacon the ground started to tremble.

It was over in a minute Thresher Maws rose from the ground like shark out of water and Shepards unit was wiped out in an instance, the only survivor was the command of the unit himself and now he was alone on a distance planet in a ghost colony surrounded by vicious Thresher Maws.

A month later, a new distress beacon arose on Akuze and Captain Anderson and his unit was sent to investigate. On arrival they found Shepard and in the Alliance records this got known as the Akuze Incident.

Nobody knows how Shepard survived the Akuze Incident all we know is Shepard is a badass and Anderson saw that and quickly recruited him to his unit.


Mass Effect 1 Major Plot Decisions

Did you recruit everyone?
Reason: Yes, Shepard needed a strong crew against Saren so he wasn't picky who came along. Saren is most definitely a Thresher Maw in disguise probably the one who killed Shepards parents too EVIL.

Feros: Sparing or Killing the Colonists and Shiala.
Reason: Shepard spared the colonists and Shiala because he doesn't kill innocents and he strongly believes in second chances.

Noveria: Saving or Killing the Rachni Queen.
Reason: Shepard saved the Rachni Queen because she was a hotty with a booty nah but he didn't wipe out an entire race, except Thresher Maws BECAUSE *** EM #TRIGGERED

Vermire: Who survived? Ashley or Kaiden.
Reason: Kaiden because Bros before Hoses and Ashley is annoying.

Vermire: Spare Wrex.
Reason: Shepard and Wrex are bros and bros don't kill bros alright bro?

Citadel: Save or Kill Council.
Reason: Shepard saved the Council since he reasoned that if the council died then political boring stuff would happen and if there something Shepard hates more than Thresher Maws its politcal boring stuff JK HE HATES THRESHER MAWS MORE BECAUSE *** EM #TRIGGREDAGAIN

Citadel: Who became the human councilor? Udina or Anderson.
Reason: Shepard choose Anderson because they are bros and Udina is an asshole and politician and probably a Thresher Maw in disguise.

Romance: Liara
Reason: Because Shepard wanted to try some white in blue if you know what am sayin.
Shepards favorite berry is blueberry IF YOU KNOW WHAT AM SAYIN.
Shepard Thresher Maw wanted to try some blue soil IF YOU KNOW WAIT?! THRESHER MAW!? #TRIGGERED #TRIGGERED #TRIGGERED
Liara isn't a Thresher Maw right?.

Summary: it was my first playthrough of Mass Effect 1 on PC which I previously played on ze xbox 3 fiddy. So I tried more renegade options than paragon options still ended up with full bar paragon and like 75% renegade. In my opinion most of the renegade options was not evil at all more of a realistic and serious choice compared to paragon sugar sweet answers. So thats why I wrote gray as alignment because I though my Shepard was more "witcher neutral" in the first game than a paragon or renegade. I 100 % in my own sense the game by exploring all the planets by scanning and MAKO (WHICH SUCKS BTW) and doing all the sidequest.

Mass Effect 2 Major Plot Decisions

Imported ME1 character?
Yes

Did you recruit everyone?
Reason: Shepard recruited everyone since he needed a strong team against the collectors.

Did you do everyone's loyalty missions
Reason: Shepard needed loyalty since there was no room for errors in the presumed Suicide Mission AKZUE CANT HAPPEN AGAIN.

Mordin loyalty mission: Maleons genophage Cure Data: Destroyed or Saved.
Reason: Saved genophage, sacrifice not in vain, might save genophage later?

Legion loyalty mission: Rewrite or Destroy the Heretics.
Reason: Be wary Heretics THE END IS NIGH. Shepard killed the heretics since Legion told him it would probably lead to complications with the copy pasta data feature they installed in the new OS.

Samara's loyalty mission: Kill or Save Mornith.
Reason: BANGED MORNITH no wait didn't want to die so Mornith had to die, She sure was hot there just something Shepard loves about them Asari.. and blue berries.

Suicide Mission: Who survived?
Reason: Everyone survived, Shepard made damn sure that Akuze Incident wouldn't repeat itself again and the ghost of Akuze was finally laid to rest after the successful suicide mission.

Suicide Mission: Destroy or Save Collector Base
Reason: Destroyed the Collector Base because Illusive Maw is most definitely one of those pesky Thresher Maws in disguise and if Saren didn't killed Shep's parents it was Illusive Maw.

Romance: None
Reason: Shepard decided to stay faithful to Liara because and angry Liara is an scary Liara even more scary than a Thresher Maw.
Is Liara an Thresher Maw?

Summary: Once again I pick mostly renegade options due to my previous statement in the Mass Effect 1 summary but still ended up full bar Paragon and 75% renegade. Its weird that Shepard with the Akuze Incident background (Sole Survivor) agrees to work with Ceberus because you basically find out that Cerberus was behind the Akuze Incident in ME 1. I actually agreed with most of what Illusive Man was trying to do in ME2 in my opinion he wasn't evil he just wanted to save humanity and stop the reapers.. in his own way. I also 100% this one as well with scanning all planets and probing most of them (ESPECIALLY URANUS WINK) and doing all the sidequest. I decided to stay faithful to Liara because I wanted to see how the romance scene played out before the suicide mission and man it sure was touching

PS I got the Shadow Broker DLC so I did get some giggity with Blueberry.



Mass Effect 3 Major Plot Decisions

Imported ME 1&2 Character?
Yes

Tuchanka : Destroy or Cure Genophage.
Reason: Cured the genophage to support the best bro of the broinverse Wrex.

Rannoch : Who won? The Quarians, The Geth or Quarian & Geth Alliance.
Reason: Shepard made sure there was gonna be Qurian and Geth Alliance because Quarian did the Geth wrong and the alliance would make everything alright again hopefully.

Earth: Which Ending? Destroy or Control the Reapers or Synthesize organics and synthetics.
Reason: DESTROY ALL THE EVIL THRESHER MAW REAPERS BECAUSE THEY KILLED ANDERSON AND NOBAHDY KILLS ANDERSON ON MAH WATCH. REMEMBER AKUZE!

Romance: Liara
Reason: Shepard stayed with Liara since they were meant to be it was destiny.
Liara is not a Thresher Maw.

Summary: First time I ever played Mass Effect 3 and it was okay I guess JK IT WAS AMAZING. Since it was my first playthrough I did all the discussion in a paragon style if that even was a thing anymore (Got kinda confused by the new dialogue system) Did all the sidequest and got like 7-8k War Assets since I scanned every system. In the middle of the playthrough I decided to get the DLC for the game so I got Leviathan, Citadel and Javik. Citadel must be one of the best DLC:es I ever played, the story, the returning characters it was really great and fine goodbye to an awesome triology. I don't get why people got so angry with the ending I thought it was fine even though I barely understood what the Reapers was up to even though Leviathans and that AI kid told me. Mind that I had the extended cut ending dlc so the end before extended cut may be trash I dunno. I stayed faithful to Liara because I wanted to see how the triology romance would play out and damn was it worth it, the goodbye rumbled my feels bags for real. There was a chance to meet Liaras "Dad" before Cerberus attacked the Citadel and I totally missed that and I will never forgive myself for that one.

[ticktock1231]

Sorry I am at work and don't have time to answer all the questions, did want to say I liked your "BEWARE (BIOWARE heh)" comment and all the anger towards Thresher maw's. It made me laugh pretty good. Thank you

[Mortehl]

I want to open this by saying that Mass Effect is my all time favorite franchise of any video game series I’ve ever played. Its my favorite fantasy world, and by far aside from my quibbles with the way it ended, in my opinion one of the best interactive stories ever told. Period.

I can’t even begin to count the number of hours I’ve invested into playing, thinking about playing, strategizing, shooting-the-bull with other people, posting on forums, or otherwise I’ve spent on this series. I’m heavily invested in it and I still talk about it despite the trilogy being completed for years now. I’m friends with a concept artist who worked in Bioware Montreal and who conceptualized and drew the sketches for a majority of the monsters in ME 1 and ME2. (He left the company during the ME2-ME3 hiatus before they began working on it again. I have custom sketches in storage he drew for me that rank among my prized possessions. Heh.

I’ve abandoned saves with well over 90+ hours of time investment because I became irritated with minor decisions I made back in ME1 before and to say that I’ve played through multiple times would be one of the greatest understatements ever. I’m going to take the time to share my Paragon story and I -might- do the others if I don’t get distracted and start playing the whole damn series over again.


Name : Mortehl (Aaron)
Gender : Male
Alignment : Paragon
Pre-Service History : Spacer
Psychological Profile : War Hero

Class: Soldier
Specialization Class (Mass Effect 1): Commando
Bonus Talent (Mass Effect 1 , 2 ,3): Electronics, Barrier, Energy Drain

Biography : I played Shep as a pure leader/hero. Justice, morality, and above all else loyalty to his team and to humanity. Shep felt the loss of every soldier, be they enemy or friend as though his flesh was being shaved with a razor. He recognized the stakes early and the weight of his responsibility was felt every single step of the way. None of his soldiers ever saw it, but if you knew where to find him, you’d see it.

Mass Effect 1 Major Plot Decisions

Did you recruit everyone? Hell Yes.
Reason: The Reapers. This is no longer about humanity. This is about everything.

Feros: Spared Colonists and Shiala.
Reason: Spared them, and spared Shiala especially. She was the only known person at the time to survive any form of indoctrination. She could be a source of information. She SAW and FELT every single bit of harm she struck. Death is swift and brings closure. Closure is not justice. Justice is giving Shiala the opportunity to atone for what she chose.

Noveria: Saved the Rachni Queen.
Reason: The fate of a species. What’s one species or all the species? This was an easy decision.

Vermire: Who survived? Kaiden.
Reason: Wow. I sat there the first time when it became time to make the call for 20 minutes before I finally decided. I sent Ashley on the suicide mission because she was a soldier. At his heart, Shep is a soldier too and he knew the tradition and he knew what was required of him. Its not that Shep doubted Kaiden, its that Shep absolutely did NOT doubt Ashley.

Vermire: Spare Wrex.
Reason: Because Wrex.

Citadel: Save Council.
Reason: Saved. Whatever else happened, that act would place the Galactic Council personally to a being in the life debt of humanity.

Citadel: Who became the human councilor? Udina
Reason: Udina. Shep needed Anderson as a soldier. And he kinda secretly suspected Anderson would rip the politicians’ lung or lung equivalents out by their nasal passages if he left him there for too long.

Romance: None.
Reason: He felt something for Ashley (Gonna confess I have a thing for brunettes.), weight of the universe was on his head.. He needed to stop Saren

Interlude: Shep was deeply effected by dying. His appreciation for just what exactly it was he was fighting for became crystalized. He realized his life, his reason for existence, his blood and flesh meant something.

Mass Effect 2 Major Plot Decisions
Imported ME1 character? Really? Duh? Of course!

Did you recruit everyone? Yes
Reason: I don’t want to keep repeating the same point, but Shep can feel the galaxy closing in around him. Every single minute and every single person lost to the collectors and the realization of whom they worked for made it clearer. He was going to need help, and need it bad.

Did you do everyone's loyalty missions: Yes
Reason: Loyalty and unity was the only way they were going to stop the Collectors.

Mordin loyalty mission: Maleons genophage Cure: Saved.
Reason: Because he was never happy with the genophage solution and because Wrex showed him that the Krogan were redeemable.

Legion loyalty mission: Rewrote the Heretics.
Reason: Rewrote - Shep was already starting to sense the deeper thread of the galaxy around him. Too often ‘people’ were choosing to destroy rather than build. He chose to build and pray he was right.

Samara's loyalty mission: Killed Mornith.
Reason: Shep understands duty and there was no way he was going to allow her daughter to continue feeding on people.

Suicide Mission: Who survived? Everyone was loyal.
Reason: Shep at his point knows his people. They’re not just his soldiers. They’re his family. His limbs. His fingers and toes. He knew who to send and knew he could count on them.

Suicide Mission: Destroy or Save Collector Base
Reason: Saved. I really wanted to just turn the whole thing over to the UNC. I think that’s what Shep would’ve ultimately done. He saved it though because he NEEDED intelligence on what the Reapers were planning now that he had thwarted the attempt to build a human reaper and the whole Citadel route into the galaxy.


Romance: Tali
Reason: He fell in love with her because she was fearless. She wasn’t afraid of the armor Shep put up to cope with his pain and he understood her decisions as well.

Interlude: The weight of the 300,000 Batarians who died was crushing. Before the Admiralty ever summoned him, he ordered the SR-2 back to Earth to turn himself in for it. He HAD to do it, but he understood the responsibility he took when he made that decision.

Mass Effect 3 Major Plot Decisions

Imported ME 1&2 Character? Yes Imported.
To the point where I refused to play the game when the portrait bug hit with the launch despite waiting for the game at midnight for my collector’s edition.

Tuchanka: Cure Genophage.
Reason: For the same reason he’s stood by Wrex since the beginning. Loyalty and trust.

Rannoch : Who won? Quarian & Geth Alliance.
Reason: I went into this earlier. The galaxy needs to change. ‘People’ need to change. The Quarians were going to welcome their children into the fold if I had to drag them by their breathing apparatus into the future.

Earth: Which Ending? Destroy Reapers

Reason: @#%@%#!@%!@#%(!&@%&@%#(!@#%(@&%(!@#%&!@(&%!@(#%&!@#%(&@(%&@%(&!@(%&!@#%&!@#%&!@%&!@#% CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE CURSE. He chose Destroy in the end, and as he was running to the conduit and started shooting it, he prayed to whatever deity might be listening that he felt the death of every synthetic lifeforms in the universe before he died.

Romance: Tali. His one love of his life.

[Mortehl]

I just found this on Reddit. This is an alternative ending to Mass Effect that someone created. Its 30 minutes long and I have to say, after watching it I feel a true sense of closure with the Mass Effect series.

https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/com ... ding_made/

[hubbe01]

[QUOTE="ticktock1231, post: 30095, member: 39876"]Sorry I am at work and don't have time to answer all the questions, did want to say I liked your "BEWARE (BIOWARE heh)" comment and all the anger towards Thresher maw's. It made me laugh pretty good. Thank you [/QUOTE]
ALL THRESHER MAWS DESERVES TO DIE oh and I'm happy to have entertained you =] When you get off work you should really fill in the template I'm looking forward to see it!


[QUOTE="Mortehl, post: 30215, member: 63499"]I just found this on Reddit. This is an alternative ending to Mass Effect that someone created. Its 30 minutes long and I have to say, after watching it I feel a true sense of closure with the Mass Effect series.

https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/com ... ding_made/[/QUOTE]
Please Mortehl if you gonna post a link you better have a feels train warning because damn it started raining in here during that excellent video. I also enjoyed your Paragon Shepard playthrough, I also romanced Tali in my first playthrough of Mass Effect 2 on xbox just because I wanted to see what was behind that mask but alas Bioware trolled me =[

I'm currently playing through the trilogy once again (Yes I started playing ME1 directly after I finished ME3) but this time as a renegade FemShep (Yes I might have a problem of not being able to stop playing Mass Effect) where I am doing or at least trying to do opposite decision compared to my earlier playthrough. I currently have finished ME1 and on my second wave of squad recruitment (WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHEN DID I EAT OR SLEEP LAST?! YOUR NOT MY MOM) Imma post up a new playthrough when I'm done with this one (if you are my mom reading this then I'm sorry for yelling earlier) AND I still look forward to see all different Shepard playthroughs out there!

[thewarlock]

I will be posting the saves as I do them, and editing in anything I might have missed off the top of my head while going through them one more time. As with all games I get really into, I tend to spend a good 1000 hours on them, but sadly for me most of this for the ME series was on Xbox 360, and I didn't get the PC versions till ME 3 released. I only have 189 hours on ME 1 and what I call an imperfect playthrough, and an hour on ME 2 for PC, so I have a lot of catching up to do :p

My setups going to be a little different to the template, as I've got... a bit more info than you'd expect for a mass effect save as I go through as much as I can, if not everything that passes on into ME2/3, even the smaller bits that don't really make that much of a difference or contribute to anything. I'm also keeping all my ME2 and 3 stuff until I'm putting in the rest of that games info

General Info

Name: Marcus Shepard
Gender: Male
Alignment: Paragon
Pre-Service History: Earthborn
Psychological Profile: War Hero
Class: Soldier

Background:
So you want to know about Shepard eh? I hope you know this is going to cost you after recent events... We had to get past spectre level clearance for some of it, not your typical run of the mill security. I'll give it to the council, they certainly try to put up a good defence, the shadow broker themselves had to get involved. Ah, that's also an extra fee, just so you're aware.

Anyway, the official records show him to have grown up in one of the earth colonies, petty crimes, small time gangs (The Tenth Street Reds ring a bell?), that sort of thing. However the spectre database is a different story. Infiltration, assassination, control over some of the largest gangs on the planet. You name it, he did it. The guy was a real piece of work and that was before he was even 18... Just goes to prove that a kid is the last person you'd expect to be slipping you some poison at the bar I guess.

Eventually the Alliance caught on and got a spectre involved, Shepard was caught and forced to join the military, special squad designed specifically to control him... He showed promise in every field, able to adapt to whatever situation was thrown at him and could pull his team out of any problem, even when the odds had been stacked against him. Guess the indoctrination - or whatever you want to call it - worked, as only a few years into his service, Shepard found himself the leader of a unit during the Blitz and managed to hold off until reinforcements arrived, saved Elysium, earned himself a bunch of medals and took to military life with ease. A professional child assassin turned army war hero, it's almost scary at how easily the Alliance changed him...

We found some traces of information that could lead to them working with Cerberus but that's beyond even spectre level classification, someone knew we were looking and they are attempting to keep us out at all costs... We'll get through eventually though, I'll have more at a later date. If you want some of the finer details be sure to contact us in the usual way, and payment is to be sent within 48 hours of receiving this message. It's been a pleasure working with you, and we do hope you come to us again should you need any sort of information at all.

- K

Mass Effect 1

Playthroughs: 3 - First = main story + some side missions (max renegade for achievement), Kaiden + Wrex. Second = Main Story + Some side missions (max paragon), Ashley + Garrus. Third = 100% completionist run (max paragon), Liara (romance) + Tali.

All companions recruited, all missions and assignments completed, all achievements minus the mastery achievements earned. Completed final run on Insanity difficulty. This includes the task of finding all light metals etc, 34/20 Light metals, 36/20 Rare earths, 34/20 Heavy Metals, 10/6 Gas Deposits, 16/10 Asari Writings, 10/7 Prothean Data disks, 12/10 League of One medallions, 4/3 Salarian ID Tags, 17/13 Turian Insignias. If there were any I missed, they're on a planet that can't be reached in this galaxy.

Got word from the higher ups that you weren't fully satisfied with K's report, and you would like to hear about everything when it comes to Shepard. Well, you were right to choose us to do it, as we won't miss anything. It's going to cost you a pretty penny though, enough to fund a mini working model of the Normandy. Well, not like you weren't already aware of that from the start... You should already have been filled in by another colleague on the official details, so lets get started.

If you were to look up the description for "paragon" in the galactic dictionary, you would see a picture of Marcus J Shepard (even we couldn't get his middle name, strange that...) and a caption saying "This is my favorite word on the citadel" or something along those lines. The man was a hero in the publics eye. Someone who would help with even the smallest of tasks, and could never be led astray by the thought of money or personal gain. As one of his colleagues would say, a bloody icon.

It was only right that the council looked to make him a spectre, and so the testing began. A simple covert pickup job to Eden Prime. If only it wasn't so much more... The attack on Eden Prime by the Geth was an attempt to take possession of a Prothean artifact so that Saren could gain more information about the Reapers and how to release them. We believe it is safe to say that by this point, he had already been indoctrinated for some time (comes with using a reaper as your personal ship I suppose). After getting that information they were going to blow the entire site up, ending humanities dreams of interstellar colonisation and with the death of Nihlus, he hoped to destroy all hope of humans getting a chance at joining the council and spectres. Unfortunately for him, Shepard and his crew were still able to save the colony, and at the same time gained a clue linking him to the entire thing. He was able to revoke Saren of his Spectre status and got promoted to a Spectre himself. This was of course, with the help of his newly gathered crew. Garrus, a former C-Sec operative that attempted to go above the law to catch law breakers one too many times, and had a hatred for Saren that ran deep. Wrex, a Krogan bounty hunter working for the Shadow Broker who's goals linked with Shepard, and Tali'Zorah, a Quarian with information stripped from a Geth related to Saren and the attack on Eden Prime.

With his new Spectre status, Shepard could now access more classified items in the shops to help in his mission of tracking down Saren, and while leaving to browse those new wares, the Shepard that we all know today started to shine through. As we said before, Shepard helped people with just about anything, as long as it was for a good cause. It started as simple as helping out the Salarian named Chorban with his scanning of the Keepers, and moved up to anything between helping Helena Blake hunt down some crime lords and helping Admiral Kahoku search for his missing crew. I'm not authorised to give you a full report on each of these missions, but I've been told you can hear more on them with an upfront payment of 5,000,000 credits per mission. I assure you, the information we will provide will be more that adequate.

Moving on, Shepard was seen to be spending a bit of time at the Consorts place. Sha'ira was even willing to just let him through, while the rest of her clients usually have to wait months, even years just to get a chance at an appointment. Seems even the pros of the sensual world can fall for this mans charm. We have information that two disputes between her and an Elcor, as well as an Alliance military officer were quickly cleared up shortly after their meeting, however that was still not enough to save her from the rumors of intelligence leaks, and she had to leave the Citadel only a few years later.

That's about all I have time for atm, if it gets too long doing this I'll have to put it into a pastebin or something. Let me know :p More edits to come as I play and progress! Not sure how this sort of shadow broker report feels, so I might end up changing it to a sort of biography thing instead (since after all, Shepard WILL be alive by the end of 3 with the mod I have installed)

Choices that effect ME2/3 (not in order, will maybe look through it when I can, just putting them down as I remember them):

• Saved Conrad (paragon option)
• Completed UNC: Asari Diplomacy side quest
• Convinced Helena Blake to stop her life of crime
• Let Fist live
• Returned Nirali Bhatia's body to her husband for burial
• Saved the Council (rip Alliance fleet but *** the human council)
• Anderson for human council seat
• Assisted Emily Wong
• Feros saved, all quests to help out completed
• Saved Shiala (Thorian Asari)
• Helped Parasini arrest Anolias on Novaria
• Saved Rachni Queen
• Spared Wrex
• Let Ashley survive (Kaiden is just too plain and boring, and also that's a no go on the BL thank you)
• Bring Down the Sky installed
• Saved Kate Bowman
• Saved hostages, let Balek escape
• Pinnacle Station installed
• All achievements for DLC earned
• Romanced Liara - I refuse to romance the racist human. No. Bad Ashley. You're lucky Kaidens boring
• Convinced Garrus to become more Paragon
• Helped Tali with her pilgrimage
• Convinced Major Kyle to stand down
• Refused to support Terra Firma political party (extremist racist party, no thanks)
• Convinced Rebekah Petrovsky to get the gene therapy

Most of the later ones are small changes, like an email from Nirali or a change in conversation between the Pertovsky family, but they are changes nonetheless!


Mass Effect 2

Playthroughs: 1 - 100% Paragon, Tali romanced (WOO who cares about Liara I was waiting for this!), main companions were Tali and Garrus, the original two and my two favorite characters. All companions recruited, all loyalty missions completed. I am actually a bit surprised but it seems I didn't have the DLC for ME 2 on PC. Had to quickly fix that, but I remember doing them on 360 so nothing really new to me.

• Told Kasumi to keep the greybox
• Killed Morinth
• Garrus let Sidonis go
• Kal'Reeger survived
• Tali not banished from Floatilla
• Encouraged a cease fire between Quarians and Geth
• Kept Genophage cure - SPOILERS (highlight to see): Hardest choice for me, as this guarantees Mordins death in 3, while letting Wrex die and destroying the cure allows for you to potentially save him, and Mordin is awesome. So is Wrex though...
• Indoctrinated the heretic Geth
• Saved hostages, full paragon with Zaeed and still gained loyalty
• Released David from Project Overlord
• Attempted to warn the Batarians in Arival
• All members survived the Omega 4 Relay
• All kidnapped crew rescued

Mass Effect 3

There aren't many choices in ME3 to show sadly so I'll keep this one nice and short, but will edit in anything I feel needs adding while playing through it. I use the Mass Effect Happy Ending Mod as I hate the actual ME endings. However if I WAS going to choose one without the mod, I would probably go with green aka merging synthetics and organic life into one. The mod however forces the "destroy" choice and allows Shepard to survive.

• Cured the Genophage - My Shep has been pushing this the entire game (rip Mordin)
• Quarian + Geth Ceasfire (Yay!)
• Tali romance (giggity)

I never liked the forced multiplayer to allow for the "best" endings but once again, the MEHEM sorts that, so I no longer have to care about it :3 I will post my save files for 1 and 2 as and when I finish them. I just restarted my first run of ME1 so it'll be a few hundred hours till they get put up here :p

Until then, if you fancy a shep that matches mine, there's the info for you!

[hubbe01]

Thecheken I don't want to be rude or anything but I want you to look over your post and compare with what I mention in the first post

[QUOTE="hubbe01, post: 30086, member: 20104"]thought we could use this thread to tell the stories of our Mass Effect Franchise playthroughs by using this template I made[/QUOTE]

What I mean by this is I want to know the STORY of your Shepard, what made him/her tick, what choices did he/she do and why. Your background is good but just writing down things like how many gas deposit can you get and what choice determine what outcome IS NOT THE POINT. What you wrote after your excellent background looked like a copy paste from some mass effect wiki or guide (again sorry if I'm being harsh) What I want out of this thread is a STORY not a GUIDE.

Let me make an example out the blue.

[QUOTE="thecheken, post: 30293, member: 25488"]Saved Conrad (paragon option)[/QUOTE]

Is what you wrote, instead of making it look like a check off list you could write it like this

Shepard saved Conrad from embarrassing himself and his imaginary wife in front of the whole galaxy by reminding him what a gun looked like at the front seat. Her/His simple reason was that Conrad is an idiot.

I'm not forcing anyone to use my template but I don't want to see any guides or wiki copy pastas that stuff I can read elsewhere. I can read that you really love the game Thecheken and your not alone about that just remember to write the STORY of your Shepard and not the GUIDE of the perfect Shepard.

[QUOTE="thecheken, post: 30293, member: 25488"]I never liked the forced multiplayer to allow for the "best" endings but once again, the MEHEM sorts that, so I no longer have to care about it :3 I will post my save files for 1 and 2 as and when I finish them. I just restarted my first run of ME1 so it'll be a few hundred hours till they get put up here :p [/QUOTE]

They fix this in the Extended Cut now you only need War Assets to get the best ending which still isn't as good as the modded ending that almost made me punch a baby out of sadness =[

[thewarlock]

I'll be editing it into a story as I go, I just wanted to get everything that I remembered doing down so it's there I'm terrible when it comes to things like writing stories so I have to have it all down like that beforehand or I'd go off on tangents all over the place lol

Extended cut fixed the war assets? At least that's something... I'll stick with the MEHEM though, MUCH better than the terrible writing of Mac Walters... If only Drew had worked on ME3

[Mortehl]

Thechecken, check out the youtube video I linked and the reddit thread that goes with it. Absolutely stunning video and audio work, plus a nice big fat middle finger to certain idi..people at Bioware.

[thewarlock]

Yeah I saw that Mortehl. Only flaws for me were the music, the Miranda romance and that Wrex was dead (seriously, if you're gunna have Wrex die, at least make it so the genophage isn't cured and you save Mordin!)

There's a load of great "happy endings" out there, but thankfully not many of them are mods or I'd be spoilt for choice :p

[hubbe01]

Hello Hellooooo I'm back, Sorry for being kind of absent but the main reason is that I've gotten a job so all the free time I had before has gone down quite a bit and I've been working on a spoiler free Mass Effect Franchise Playthrough guide as well so a lot of time has gone into that project too. There is also my on going femShep playthrough which haven't been able to play in over a week =[

Keep posting your Mass Effect playthroughs or discuss Mass Effect games in general or don't I'm not a cop.
btw Cohh is doing a Mass Effect franchise playthrough how amazing isn't that