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    Mass Effect

    Game » consists of 21 releases. Released Nov 20, 2007

    Humanity is still a newcomer on the futuristic galactic stage, and it's up to the charismatic Commander Shepard to investigate the actions of a rogue agent while under threat from a dangerous synthetic race known as the Geth.

    What was your Mass Effect Ending?

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    #1  Edited By papercut
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    #2  Edited By papercut

      Been thinking a lot about Mass Effect 2 lately and I was wondering what you, the people, may or may not have done at the end of your Mass Effect play through. Feel free to include information on other things you think will have an impact on your ME2 play-through and what you did such as... 

    • How Lived? Ashley or Kaiden?
    • What up with Wrex?
    • What did you do with the Rachni Queen?
    • Ever dance with the Volus in Flux?
     
    OK maybe not the last one but you get the idea.    
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    #3  Edited By natetodamax

    Well, on my most recent character I destroyed Sovereign (so I guess the Council is dead?) and elected Anderson (which I do every time)

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    #4  Edited By mordukai
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    #5  Edited By papercut
    @Mordukai said:
    " A & C. 
     
    If I had the chance I would probably put a bullet right through Udina's eye ball.  
     
    @papercut:  
    I thinks this will Interest you.  "
    I agree and thanks for the link, i didn't see it before.
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    #7  Edited By General_D23

    Yeah, did each of them at least once. Main is council dies/Anderson nominated. Ashley lived, Wrex lived, Rachni lived. Pretty much a perfect Paragon run until the end.
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    #8  Edited By Brunchies

    I did the council lives and elects anderson one, I haven't played the game multiple times yet. 

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    #9  Edited By Suicidal_SNiper

    I left the council to die and elected Anderson. I really really wish I could of murdered Uldina though...
     
    Ashley lived, Wrex Lived, Rachni died.

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    #10  Edited By Lies

    Council dies/ let the politicians sort it out
     
    Ashley lived, Rachni lived, Wrex lived
     
    Saved Feros, for all it matters

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    #11  Edited By crystalskull2

    Ashley lived,Wrex lived,Rachni lived

    Saved counsil,nominated Anderson

    The Perfect Paragon.

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    #12  Edited By quezen
    @crystalskull2 said:
    "

    Ashley lived,Wrex lived,Rachni lived

    Saved counsil,nominated Anderson

    The Perfect Paragon.

    "
    same. but saying "anderson" is the best choice isnt really true, I mean even for godness sake, there might be better candidates, just because you like someone doesnt mean he is "the best candidate".
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    #13  Edited By Yummylee

    C. Because ''I intended to have them die all along'' muuuuuuwhahahahaha And of course, Keith Richards isn't an annoying jackas, quite the contrary of course, so he got my vote over Uldina.
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    #14  Edited By Griddler
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    #15  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

    To the best of my recollection the council lived and I nominated Udina. However I do remember all the much earlier stuff in the game much more clearly; Ashley lived, Wrex died and I freed the Rachni Queen.

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    I repeated the ending until I got the right outcome.
     
    Council lives, Anderson is king and Rodenberry smiles.

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    #17  Edited By Yummylee

    Theres also the options of when u don't choose who is nominated and say its not for you to decide, I remember making that choice with one of my characters too.
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    #18  Edited By Venatio

    A
     
    I saved the council, nominated Andersson because Udina was an asshole, spared the Rachni, saved Ashley because Kaiden annoyed me more, saved Wrex and I was kind to the annoying fan 
     
    And I got it on with Liara, I was playing a female character
     
    Yupp, I was the perfect Paragon

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    #19  Edited By pweidman

    I let teh council live, and I think I nominated Anderson...smoothed things over w/Wrex, and chose Ashley over Kaiden.  Slept w/Liara, and I can't even remember the whole Rachni Queen biz...been too long.  This thread reminds me that I gotta at least go back thru the campaign missions again b4 ME2.  Looking forward to taking my saved character over as well:).
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    #20  Edited By Dany

    Council lived, Anderson promoted, wrex is alive and killed kaiden, spared the rachni, gave tali her data...i think i went with liara...

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    #21  Edited By CL60

    Council dies, nominate Anderson.

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    #22  Edited By Jimbo

    I went super-serious, mission first, pro-Humanity, pro-military lady but still ended up as a Paragon somehow.  I think I let the Council die and maybe chose Udina.  Anderson couldn't hack it in the Spectres and Udina stuck it to the Council the whole way through the game - granted he is clearly the pantomime villain choice, but there it is.
     
    It kinda seems like to be a Renegade you need to be a jerk just for the sake of it.

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    #23  Edited By raidingkvatch

    Picked what it was first time round since I've had all of those at least once. I let the council die, not out of malice, but because I thought all forces should concentrate on stopping the Reapers, I nominated Anderson because in a time of war you need a general not a politician, My 1st Shepard didn't let emotions cloud his judgement.

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    #24  Edited By Milkman

    It's tough to remember but I'm pretty sure I did "Council dies, nominate Anderson".

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    #25  Edited By AndrewB

    Wow, I can't remember half the decisions I made in Mass Effect. I know I saved the council and promoted Anderson, I know Wrex is still alive, but I don't which I chose out of Kaiden or Ashley (I remember playing that scenario both ways, but I don't remember which I decided on). I was romancing Liara, but I had to look up her name because it's just been that long.
     
    My memory of Mass Effect suffers from a flood of other games surrounding it, and the fact that I only played through it once. If I weren't so engrossed in Dragon Age right now, I'd definitely go back for another run through while I've got the time.

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    #26  Edited By GregariousGreg

    For my first play through I wanted to be more renegade so I felt that killing the council and electing Udina was more evil so I did that. I saved Kaiden, didn't kill Wrex, killed the Rachni queen, and I danced with the Volus in Flux.

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    #27  Edited By ImperiousRix

    Wow, I'm one of the few whoe let the council die and nominated Udina.  I suppose I should be proud about that.

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    #28  Edited By karneh

    When I took the disk out, got on my knees, and shouted WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY towards the heavens.

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    #29  Edited By glyn

    I played a female badass-   i killed off the rachni -    i killed the plant thing-
     
    killed wrex
     
    let council die-   made humans take over-
     
    and also i let the mother f'ng g   UDINA take over instead of andserson.      absolutely hilarious.

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    #30  Edited By adam_grif

    I did all of them, but in the playthrough I'm trasferring to Mass 2, council dies and Anderson takes over. 
     
    Does anybody think that letting the Rachni live will come back to bite them in the ass? You fools!

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    #31  Edited By Giuseppe
    @papercut said:
    "  Been thinking a lot about Mass Effect 2 lately and I was wondering what you, the people, may or may not have done at the end of your Mass Effect play through. Feel free to include information on other things you think will have an impact on your ME2 play-through and what you did such as... 
    • How Lived? Ashley or Kaiden?
    • What up with Wrex?
    • What did you do with the Rachni Queen?
    • Ever dance with the Volus in Flux?
     OK maybe not the last one but you get the idea.     "
    I let Ashley live. I didn't kill Wrex and I let the Rachni Queen go.  
     
    And I let the Council Live and nominated Anderson.
     
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    #32  Edited By yevinorion

    In my lvl 60 file that I'm transferring I went Paragon and had Kaiden live, Wrex live, Rachni Queen live, Council live and Anderson represented. Although I was a bit of a dick to Conrad Verner...annoying bastard.

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    #33  Edited By penguindust
    @crystalskull2 said:
    "

    Ashley lived,Wrex lived,Rachni lived

    Saved counsil,nominated Anderson

    The Perfect Paragon.

    "
    This.  I was a good girl. So far on my runs, I just can't bring myself to go renegade or be an unfeeling bitch. (My "Shepards" are all women, obviously).  I don't really like being evil in any game, be that Mass Effect, KOTOR, Fable, or InFamous.  
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    #34  Edited By Branthog

    I just fnished this moments ago (after trying to play it twice since it was released and giving up). I played it in two days -- 17 hours one session and 18 the next. I absolutely loved the ending. 
     
    For me:
     
     

    • How Lived? Ashley or Kaiden? --- Ashley. I sent Kaiden with the other guys to the AA. They survived, but he didn't. I turned back to save Ashley (come on, I need some lovin' out there in the stars) and to make sure the nuke wasn't destroyed before it could be set off. My justification for who I saved was that I rarely used Kaiden, while I relied on Ashley's combat skills in three quarters of the missions and assignments, so she had proven herself to me as being more valuable. I felt bad making the hoice, none the less.
    • What up with Wrex? -- I convinced him to settle down (charisma - yeah!).
    • What did you do with the Rachni Queen? -- Let her go.
    • Ever dance with the Volus in Flux? -- Uh... Wha...?
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    #35  Edited By Dany

    My most recent one has me with Ashely, which i regret. I did not kill wrex. I aved the council and appointed Anderson.

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    #36  Edited By CenturionCajun

    Rachni Queen Freed
    Wrex Lived 
    Ashley Lived (I was trying to change her alien hating ways)
    Council Lived
    Anderson Appointed
     
    It's been almost two years since I played through so I only know these from sticking ME2 in and checking my decisions. I'm going through another playthrough starting at 50 (where I left off) and will probably just transfer that file over when I'm done.
     
     
     
    @adam_grif said:

    " I did all of them, but in the playthrough I'm trasferring to Mass 2, council dies and Anderson takes over.   Does anybody think that letting the Rachni live will come back to bite them in the ass? You fools! "
    I tend to envision in the climactic battle of ME3 an army of Krogan and Rachni rallying to my command. Wouldn't that be awesome.
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    #37  Edited By Teaspoon83

    Freed the Rachni Queen 
    Wrex Lived 
    Saved Ashley (I'm a guy, had to have her) 
    Let the Council Die to save the humans, not a alien racist thing. I felt like it was worth letting them die over several hundred of humans. 
    Anderson was appointed. Personal choice because I felt like the man deserved a higher rank somewhere rather than lose his job, ship and just more.  And I like him, good guy. 
     
    In the end, I'm not sure how I ranked, I was a mix of Paragon and Renegade.  Was a fun first time through and going again through the game to get the side quests and dlc completed. 
     
    By the way, I beat the Moon Base. Yeah, that was a pain in the butt, lol.

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    #38  Edited By natetodamax

    C, because Sovereign was a big threat and the Council was made up of ignorant morons.

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    #39  Edited By immike
    • Ashley died cause she pissed me off.
    • I let wrex live cause he was aight.
    • I let the rachni queen live.
    • I didn't know there was a volus in the flux!

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