Having finally completed Mass Effect 3, Camine reflects on the series she's invested so much time and emotion into, from the ending backwards:
What turned out happening was a fortunate overlap between the writers' tastes and mine. I wouldn't choose Destroy myself, but I respect it. I adore Control and Synthesis. I wish more games had a Synthesis ending. I loved it in the Deus Ex franchise and I loved it in Mass Effect 3. Merging all life into a single harmonious consciousness is my go-to solution for most problems. It works for war, it works for poverty… even missing objects are more easy to find when you can tap directly into your buddies' awareness of who borrowed them last. And what's an ushering-in of a new era of unbreakable peace without a Christlike sacrifice? I love those. It's a fail-safe instant win button, guaranteed to make me break down into wrenching sobs every time. I'd already been breaking down into wrenching sobs during everything that came before the endgame, so I ended up feeling very drained after I quit out for a break. I'm still tired now.
One of the best things about the Mas Effect series is the companions you meet along the way. So here is a tier list of all the companions from Mass Effect!
To think that Bioware at some point was capable of doing games like this, you see those characters and remember them like good old friends, and now check ME Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard etc and wonder what the hell happened.
some in andromeda are decent, I agree with peebee and Vetra being good companions. Except Liam he's trash tier
it's like bitch but your shirt back on, your not blue or spikey get away from me
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
Based on one narratively fitting ending in Mass Effect 3, Prothean squadmate Javik is highly unlikely to return in the next Mass Effect game.
He was one of my least favorite characters. I wish they would have done the Proths different.
