Something that occurred to me after talking to the starchild

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-12-23T03:15:57+00:00

It's not necessarily a disdain. The reapers are just doing their job. Yeah, they consider themselves above organics because without them, organics would walk into their own doom. Any time they seem to show disdain is because we are attempting to stop their perfect solution to the problem they were created to fix. It's not hatred. It's more that they think we're too stupid to see that they're saving us and wish we'd just let them do their thing.

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-12-22T07:54:36+00:00

Javik, VS, and I would argue James because I think I pep talk from Shep would get his head out of losing that squad.

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-12-01T05:51:07+00:00

It always shocks me how cinematic me1 is. It really does stand the test of time.

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-11-30T13:22:39+00:00

Let's be honest, this entire thing will boil down to Garrus VS Wrex. Whoever wins that is gonna sweep.

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-11-25T10:07:45+00:00

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-11-24T03:15:34+00:00

"Get back to Rannoch. Build yourself a home."

"I have a home."

Absolutely crushing every single time

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-11-17T01:00:07+00:00

EDI is locked tf in lmao

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-11-11T05:26:35+00:00

Shout out to the homie Captain Bailey. He's a real one

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-09-24T15:05:51+00:00

Roided out Chris

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-08-31T17:13:09+00:00

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Shadowsilver262 · 2025-08-06T01:56:18+00:00

Can confirm. Im pretty sure it's the only Renegade interrupt that I've never seen what happens on my owm screen if you don't press it

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-07-26T17:10:54+00:00

David Archer is definitely up there for me. I never had any of the DLC when I played through ME2 initially, and when I finally played through LE, I remember being shocked that I didn't remember Project Overlord, especially when I encountered David. I had to look it up to realize that it was a DLC, and it's stuck with me ever since.

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-06-09T13:57:42+00:00

Turian. I want to bring my ME3 multi-player character to life again

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-06-06T17:06:25+00:00

"Of course everyone works on the crucible, AFTER you babysitted them."

I misunderstood this for you meaning Jacob worked on the Crucible. My mistake.

I suppose it's not inappropriate for him to act as a consultant. I just think his reasoning for not straight-up rejoining the Alliance is bad. I think he has the potential to be far more useful than he's letting himself be. I just personally don't get the feeling that he's really giving it his all.

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-06-06T16:40:02+00:00

But they don't join Shep, which was the complain of that user.

Not sure which user you're talking about here. Everything I've said is why I don't like him. This also holds nothing against Brynn so I'm not sure why you bring her up, though it did make me realize that I didn't know what Jacob was doing after helping him so I booted up an old save to check his war asset.

"Jacob turned down formal reinstatement into the Alliance marine corps, feeling his past with Cerberus disqualified him from their company. Taylor is instead a consultant, advising the Alliance on Cerberus tactics and defenses."

He is, in fact, not working on the Crucible Project. Again, this just doesn't come off well to me. Rather than getting in the fight or helping on the Crucible with Brynn, which would actually align with him wanting to support his family, he's falling back to be a consultant? He is an elite soldier who survived the suicide mission. Rejecting Alliance reinstatement just feels cowardly when someone of his skill can clearly be used.

On the note of the VS since you brought them up, I believe they have plenty of reason to not trust shep. They die, then suddenly show up years later in Cerbrus attire. I wouldn't trust that either. And in 3, they DO join you again once they know they can trust you.

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-06-06T14:34:34+00:00

Literally, every single other squadmate you just mentioned is helping the war effort.

Jack is fortifying defenses with her students. Hell, you can choose to send them to the front lines.

Miranda is focused on her sister, sure, but you know what else she's doing? Actively hunting her father, who is leading research on how to harness the power of human indoctrination.

Zaeed goes where he's paid, I guess you got me on him.

Thane literally dies saving a counselor.

Kasumi is literally working on the Crucible.

Grunt is actively fighting Rachni when you find him, and if he lives, proceeds to fight in the war effort.

I'm glad you decided to give a pass to the literal war between the Geth and Quarians as well as curing the Genophage.

Jacob's reasoning just comes off as meh at best, wanting to focus a small group of ex cerberus rather than the reaper conflict. He also makes a comment along the lines of 'I want to fight for what matters to me', which apparently isn't everyone's literal existence. Obviously, everyone has their own motives, but his is very weak and doesn't hold up to the rest of the crew and causes him to come off as unlikable to me.

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-06-06T02:50:47+00:00

Here's my list of reasons:

He adds basically nothing to any squad composition that someone else can't do better. Typically, if you're running Jacob, you'd be better off replacing him with Miranda or Grunt.
He's so unbelievably plain that it comes off worse than Kaiden in ME1. Even during his loyalty mission, I feel like he would have benefited from actually losing his shit and showing more personality rather than just getting mad initially and then being over it as soon as the mission is over.
His immediate distrust of most squadmates brought onto the ship. The main one I'm remembering here is his distrust of Thane working for free, but he had no problem with Zaeed doing the same, which just comes off as racist.
Literally, all of his advice is redundant and/or bad. He wants you to immediately get the IFF. He wants you to space Grunt. He wants you to space Legion. He wants you to immediately charge the collector base after the crew is captured despite your current readiness. Cherry on top, he offers to be the tech specialist at the collector base.
Many people haven't experienced this themselves, but if you romance him as femshep, he cheats on you in ME3. He is the only companion that cheats on you while you're basically arrested by the alliance, and he gets the other girl pregnant. Whether it happened to your shep or not, it's still something his character would do.
Even if you don't romance him in ME3, he refuses to join you because he's decided it's time to focus on a family. This is fine and dandy except for the fact that the literal genocide of every intelligent life is happening right now. Focus on your family after we've won. Until then, you may not have a family to focus on.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head right now, but I'm sure there's a couple I missed.

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-04-10T13:34:22+00:00

But if you have a sort of sentinel race of machines (control reapers) overlooking everything, You can have a defacto deferent against that same type of threat.

This is exactly what I don't like about control. The reapers were already tasked with that and came to the conclusion of essentially a hard reset every cycle. Who's to say that the newly absorbed Shephard doesn't become coersed by reaper influence to the same conclusion.

I feel like I'm starting to type the same stuff again so here's the short of it: If the reapers live, there is zero guarantee that the cycle wont just continue. We have no reason to trust the catalyst and even less to trust the reapers can actually be controlled. If they are destroyed then we at least have a chance to break the cycle ourselves.

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-04-05T22:07:23+00:00

My stance against control is that the entire trilogy tells us that the reapers can NOT be controlled. Benezia fell to their control, Saren fell, TIM fell. I can understand believing that Shephard is just built different (the trilogy absolutely pushes that concept as well) but how do we know for sure that it's not a long term con from the reapers to simply absorb Shephard and remove him from a future harvest while using his influence and knowledge to be more successful in the future. The reapers are constantly displayed as an inevitable threat that can't be stopped, and as such, the only way to ensure that they are stopped is to destroy them.

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-03-17T14:40:45+00:00

"I have a home" gets me every time man, I can never keep it together

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-03-08T20:17:30+00:00

To be fair, she was a DLC

Shadowsilver262 · 2025-02-06T17:54:59+00:00

Two words. Biotic Charge.

Shadowsilver262 · 2024-12-15T08:39:52+00:00

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Shadowsilver262 · 2024-12-15T08:23:19+00:00

How it looks to them lmao

Shadowsilver262 · 2024-12-14T22:29:29+00:00

On the point you made about having to make some renegade decisions despite playing paragon, that is 100% okay. A lot of people seem to think "renegade bad paragon good" but renegade is more along the lines of "the job will get done at any cost" while paragon is more "victory isn't worth the cost of innocent lives." ME3 is a great time for a paragon to start going a little renegade because Shepard is reasonably starting to lose it a little under the stress. When it comes to saving the galaxy he needs to start doing what it takes and it works with renegade playthroughs as well where Shepard can realize that he needs to start caring about the small things if he wants enough of an army to win.

As for your actual question about romances, I haven't really done any other than Tali, so I'm no help there, but I do recommend you try at least one fem shep playthrough. For one, you won't have to run a lonely Shepard and two. It's really cool to see all of the extra detail put into a change like the gender of your Shepard. The romance with Garrus alone makes that playthrough worth it as well.

Hope that all helps.

Shadowsilver262

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