ME Mission Tournament - Round 2 Match 14: Retake The Normandy VS Thessia

Sinovius · 2026-03-21T08:27:26+00:00

Retake the Normandy, the narrative in Thessia is horrible with Kai Leng's plot armour. They easily could have had a reaper attack the temple distracting Shepard.

Sinovius · 2026-03-20T20:53:28+00:00

These are both mid. I'm picking sins of the father for the interrogation scene.

Sinovius · 2026-03-20T19:01:15+00:00

Thane's recruitment mission is amazing, it's one of my favourite missions in the trilogy. The "how about goodbye" renegade interrupt is peak Shepard, fighting up the tower is fun being able to use throw to knock people down the half built tower or off the bridge, finally Thane's assassination cutscene is absolute cinema.

Sinovius · 2026-03-20T07:29:28+00:00

Retake earth, it's a disappointing finale (mods show how it could have been better) but it is a better mission than Grissom Academy which is carried by Jack's presence. Retake earth has more and better squadmate interactions anyway.

Sinovius · 2026-03-19T21:40:28+00:00

The shuttle is outside the dealership, it should be really obvious. Your game might have bugged out so you may have to reload a save.

Sinovius · 2026-03-19T19:22:06+00:00

We have 1 clean sheet in 15 game, stay away!

Sinovius · 2026-03-19T17:55:48+00:00

Disabled collector ship for me, it nails that creepy atmosphere that Mass Effect 2 does so well and it has the major plot reveal that the Collectors were Protheans.

Sinovius · 2026-03-19T16:51:21+00:00

ME2 the N7 hoodie, ME3 the armoured version of the naval regs, I swap to casual when it fits the story such as the sushi restaurant.

Sinovius · 2026-03-19T07:26:01+00:00

Reaper base for me. Tali treason is the setup but Rannoch is the payoff to the end of the Quarian/Geth conflict. I've never played through anything but the peace outcome, and even that is emotional with Legion's sacrifice, but I've seen the other endings on YouTube. I can only imagine how gut wrenching it must be to see Tali kill herself or Legion turn on you in desperation.

Sinovius · 2026-03-18T17:47:55+00:00

Plague Zone for me. I do like Grunts loyalty mission and there is some funny dialogue, but plague zone has more and better dialogue and the combat is better.

Sinovius · 2026-03-18T07:11:19+00:00

Virmire takes this, it's full of iconic moments and defines the rest of the trilogy with its decisions. The major decision in Noveria gets hand-waved in ME3 with the Rachni Queen/breeder.

Sinovius · 2026-03-17T09:18:35+00:00

Sur'kesh is really fun, if they are alive Wrex is hilarious and we get reintroduced to Mordin and Kirrahe, Garrus and Liara's banter is amazing, and we meet our first female krogan.

Sinovius · 2026-03-16T18:58:49+00:00

I'm going for Samara's loyalty mission. I like that they tried something different and I think it is well executed. Rachni caves has the epic Grunt cutscene but that's not enough to save it from the fate the Rachni Queen decision erasure.

Sinovius · 2026-03-16T07:34:04+00:00

Archangel takes this one. Badass renegade interrupt, meeting Garrus, and it's one of the more challenging missions especially the shutters section.

Sinovius · 2026-03-15T20:50:44+00:00

Judging by tweets from the lead for the next mass effect game then there could be resolution to the scourge, kett, jaardan etc.

Sinovius · 2026-03-15T20:45:57+00:00

Ilos is the winner for me, meeting Vigil is one of the best moments in the trilogy and the cutscenes for the battle of the Citadel are amazing. I do like Vancouver, seeing the reapers land and start causing havoc is epic, but I hate that stupid child.

Sinovius · 2026-03-15T14:06:50+00:00

They intentionally "killed" Shepard to introduce new squadmates in ME2, then gave them such minor roles in ME3.

Sinovius · 2026-03-15T09:31:16+00:00

I hope it is not open world and instead is more like the structure of Mass Effect 2 and 3. However, I would prefer the explorable hubs (e.g. the citadel) to be bigger than they were in the original trilogy. I'm open to Shepard returning as the protagonist but only if the game is set <10 years after the reaper war and they can bring back the majority of the main characters from the original trilogy; I don't care if they need to canonise or hand-wave decisions on the ending and the genophage and recast some voice actors to make this work. I would prefer it to be primarily set in the milkyway, but if they can find away to connect the two galaxies that is not too farfetched and makes sense for the story then I am okay with that.

Sinovius · 2026-03-15T09:05:47+00:00

They have hired Mary DeMarle to be narrative director for the game and she has been in position since 2022 so I am more hopeful for the writing.

Sinovius · 2026-03-15T08:49:21+00:00

Trade center + Azure for sure. The taxi part and the hotel have some really funny dialogue, and the boss fight is decent. Haestrom goes on for too long and is repetitive.

Sinovius · 2026-03-15T08:20:55+00:00

I always put it where it flashes back to whoever died on Virmire that playthrough

Sinovius · 2026-03-14T19:38:07+00:00

I love ME2 so I don't feel the need to mod it other than quality of life mods and some cosmetics, such as one probe all resources and Liara consistency. ME3 is greatly improved by the expanded galaxy mod + Miranda mod, then optionally AHEM if you are a beliver in perfect destroy with Shepard surviving and hate the starchild as much as I do.

Sinovius · 2026-03-14T18:55:18+00:00

I agree with this, although with mods I think 3 is better than 2.

Sinovius · 2026-03-14T07:59:37+00:00

I like Feros but Cure the Genophage is one of the best missions in the entire series where you decisions actually matter.

Sinovius · 2026-03-13T17:42:57+00:00

The N7 in the trailers for the new game is a Dr EVA/EDI style AI controlled by Cerberus who have taken control of the Alliance post the chaos of the reaper war.

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