Mass Alex: Mass Effect 3 - Part 03

Thank you! Great job people, The Big Ragu is pleased.

I'm commander Sheppard and this is my favourite show on Giant Bomb.

I demand longer episodes!

Wow, honestly wasn't expecting to see a new episode of this any time soon. Glad to be wrong.

Thanks for keeping this up!

@vinny Was that you saying "Zeon anything in here?" at 2:01?

They did do have done an episode confirmed o7

Y'all are galactic heroes for continuing this series during these trying times. Can't say enough how Giant Bomb still regularly putting this good good content has been helping me, and I imagine a host of other folks, cope with everything else happening in the world.

Other comments have already pointed out how ammo powers are "set and forget", but I've only seen one other comment mention the dialogue being a bit different in this game, so it's worth repeating just in case y'all missed it.

@vinny Just because talking to someone doesn't bring up a proper "cinematic" dialogue scene with a dialogue wheel doesn't mean they only have one line. Keep hitting that talk button till you exhaust what they have to say and start repeating one thing. There's some interesting back-and-forths between Shep Shep and her crew that y'all might miss out on if Alex just talks to them once and bounces.

Anyway, glad for this series to be back! I just finished my third replay of ME3 and the whole trilogy a couple of weeks back (inspired by watching this series of course), so it's all fresh again in my mind. I'm excited to see how Alex reacts to all of the wild shit that happens WHAT THE FUCK THEY HAVE A DRAGON is nothing lol, and how much will come back to Vinny when he sees it all again and if he'll have a different opinion now all these years removed from the last time he played this game.

After 3 episodes I can definitely see why this wasn't received well now. It's missing that effortless confidence of ME2. There's too many gimmicks, missing team members or just boring dialogue.

Still definitely seems more than competent, and a good ME. But I'm glad I finally understand the fan backlash.

We have our first Marauder Shields appearance.

Sheps face looks way better without the HD textures mod, or at least I think it's not on Alex's PC.

This worked great, I really didn't feel much of a quality drop due to the change in setup, I'm very glad you guys figured this out.

This was a resounding success, thank you very much!

@vinny As a simple request: When you do the Salarian Homeworld quest please nudge Alex to bring along Garrus and Liara. It triggers some of my favourite dialogue for the entire series. Thanks

Love this series.

I never played ME3 after loving the first 2...and I have to say I'm not exactly regretting that decision right now. There's just a lot here that seems thrown together. Giving final season Game of Thrones vibes.

@vinny You can bring up the map on the Normandy or the Citadel and it will call out all crew members or other characters that are relevant for a mission. You can also cycle through the maps for all floors/areas from anywhere so you can get an idea of where characters are before traveling to each place looking for someone. The map will not display NPCs who will trigger an ambient fetch quest so you still have to wander around to find those but it will display their location once you have the item and can return it to them to finish the quest.

Only recently beat ME3 so I'm having a good time following along.

@brazzle it's well worth playing. The combat was perfected in this one.

This only playing 30FPS for anyone else?

I know the recording situation is tough, but if it’s possible to get a bit more game audio next time that would be great.

Fuck, now I'm sad. Was just reminded of Legion and how his arc ends.

I might be not be remembering this correctly but I believe that when you're on the Citadel, or any location you can bring up the map, it will tell you if someone is in an area that you can talk to.

EDIT: Would you guys consider balancing the game audio to the voice audio a little more? Not that I don't love your sultry tones but the voice audio is really loud compared to the game and makes it hard to hear the game without blaring the voices.

Just a reminder to @alex crewmembers have more to say than just the first line. Usually they have 2-3 lines before they just keep repeating "Commander." or other lines like that.

Awesome job guys. This is a big help right now.

So glad this is still happening! Poor Garrus. </3

Great job on the video production, especially considering the circumstances.

I'm probably the minority, but Vega grew on me a lot, and he became one of my favorite characters in ME3. Like everyone, I was thinking why this meathead came out of nowhere, but the older sister-younger brother / mentorship relationship was really fleshed out well as the game progressed.

Besides, his Carnage ability is absolutely gnarly, wish you guys used his power more, especially on armored enemy units, tears them right up.

Oh man, you friendzoned Garrus.

Oh thank god we still get Mass Alex in these dark times!

Shame we're not gonna get that Garrus tango, Alex went for the wrong blue alien.

@mikachops: While the level of polish is a little bit lower than ME2, that's not the reason ME3 was disappointing to many. The main thing was the original ending being very underwhelming, and how a lot of critical story was paid DLC (like Javik, and the Leviathan DLC).

As someone with a pretty solid memory, it's amazing to me how you guys seemingly for get everything. I'm fully expecting Alex to one day ask what game they are playing and Vinny to shrug.

@nasher27: i suppose those things compounded with what I mentioned paint an even worse picture lol

Hey,

why the robot has tits?

Is it just me or are these videos not showing up under the Mass Alex show?

@shadowjester: Part 4 came out on April 1st. WHAAAAAAT !?

Completely missed that they got Mass Alex working again so now I've got three episodes to enjoy! The skybox for the attack on Palaven I think is one of the prettiest I've ever seen. The chaos framed against the giant reapers.

Alex isn't sure he wants to reconnect the phone lines so they can re-institute the presidency.

Low-key would've been rad if they gave you a choice to say no.

Vinny: "Jar...Ja...Jarr...Jarrik? Jarrod. Jared. Jared."

Abby playing PT:

I can't remember the last time I could say "what a strange time to look back on" after only a year.

My prothean's name is JARRETH!