 Hello hello hello I'm Philip Magnus and today I'm going to play Mass Effect 3 which came out in 2012. Why am I playing a 4 year… no… 5 year old game for the simple reason that Mass Effect Andromeda is coming out soon. And honestly I've wanted to get back into Mass Effect 3 for a while now. I haven't played any of the DLCs so I'm going to change that now and I'm just excited to actually play with Shepard… a male female? I'm gonna go with uh huh huh huh huh huh, that's confusing, yeah let's go with female. I thought I played the last game as a female Shepard so you know what I'm going to go with. Ok, I'm obviously going to go with roleplaying, Jade Shepard, what do I care, um Chargill default? Yeah, I'm going to go with… nah, so confusing, let's see, no, let's go with the default appearance because I will make a horrible Shepard, oh it's been so long since I have played Mass Effect, I remember nothing, nothing at all. I think I'm going to go with Infiltrator, they can combat specialists with the unique ability to clothe themselves from visual and technological detection, fun, their inventory is stacked with a wide variety of weapons, equipment and powers, ooo cool, very cool. Am I going to go with Infiltrator or with an adept? I haven't played with an adept of any, oh I must go with Sentinel I'm afraid, yeah I'm going to go with Sentinel, haha, yeah um so let's just stop for a second and let me explain what Mass Effect is all about if you've never seen it and if you're my girlfriend watching this, in Mass Effect, you're inverting this gigantic AI creature's space civilization, very old, very ancient, destroys basically everything in a long cycle of I think 50,000 years, the AI creatures are called reapers and they are unpleasant, this is the third game of the series and it is good, it had a lot of problems, a lot of drama unfolding around it because of the business model EA went with and a very very bad ending of the game but hey it happens, it happens all the time, what can you do? So I'm gonna go with, hmm, Erdborn, Colonist or Spacer, you know I think I'm gonna go with Spacer, no I've probably went with Spacer before, I'm gonna go with Erdborn, I want to do things differently, soul survivor, war hero, Brutless, throughout your military career you held fast one basic rule, get the job done, called calculating in brutal, hmm, you know I'm gonna go with Brutless because that's something I don't think I've gone with, whoa, psychological profile, the deaths of numerous squadmates, basically throughout the first and the second games you can do all kinds of, you can take all kinds of different choices and depending on what you do you get many different outcomes this is the beauty of mass effect, it's greatest strength, no I have never played with a dead Ashley Williams so I'm going to go with Ashley Williams having been killed, why for no reason other than to see who the hell Kaiden Alenko is, yeah, alright, I'm so excited, so very very very excited, let us see, about my production the people who are after your money with an incredible amount of deal sees not all of which are worth it, how bad is it, we just lost contact with two of our deep space outposts, there's something massive on long range scanners, is this what Shepard warned us about, 30 FPS videos, how long do we have cinematics, lovely lovely lovely, and I'm being sarcastic right now, this is us, bad things are going to happen to us, in 2157 humanity discovered it was not alone in the universe, 30 years later they found a peaceful place among dozens of galactic species but this idyllic future is overshadowed by a dark past, reapers, sentient rays of machines responsible for cleansing the galaxy of all organic life every 50,000 years are about to return, holy shit, it's a little child thing, I hate the child things, they have always scared the bejesus out of me, guys or other gal, I honestly remember a single bloody thing about this game and that's the beginning, I don't even remember the ending, commander, you're not supposed to call me that anymore James, not supposed to salute you either, we gotta go, the defense committee wants to see oh I bet it does reapers coming in the house, oh no that's my ex-captain I need to up my tracks I need to up my tracks I'm certain, I am I don't remember the game looking so much better they're just scared, none of them have seen what you've seen we've all reviewed your report, seen the data you've collected but it's all just theory to us, you've been there in the trenches fighting them you know what they came up with that way they grounded me, took away my ship you know that's not true, the shit you've done any other soldier would have been tried, court martial and discharged no no it's your knowledge of the reapers that kept that from happening it keeps saving them and they are not thankful one of the biggest problems of this game was that basically a lot of the freedom you had in making choices in Mastract 1 and 2 was taken away by blunt secondary character Caden, I think, yep oh he's a major now fancy that was hurtful because I honestly don't know you at all we've lost contact with everything beyond the soul relay whatever this is, it's incomprehensibly powerful you brought me here to confirm what you already know the reapers are here oh no how unexpected how do we stop them we don't stop them this isn't about strategy or tactics this is about survival the reapers are more advanced than we are more powerful more intelligent they don't fear us and they'll never there must be some way we stand together if we're gonna have any chance at surviving this hmm we have to stand to get this that's our plan Admiral, we've lost contact with Lunabase the moon? it couldn't be that close already I think yes, of course it could easily? it's literally like slicing butter with a hot knife it's about to happen very very bad things good question, I guess we will take the ring to Mordor yeah, what she said I mean, I said what a dramatic experience however will I survive this? aye, the main character it's not like I've blot armour or anything yay, a tiny gun for a very big machine such unpleasantness okay, can I play now? just a quick little thing graphics of course seriously? that's all the graphics options well that's stressful yep moving moving moving let's run away okay I'm sure this will not be hard as I have died all many times before here is something to shoot at come boys jeez, I have forgotten more than yeah, of course I mean, why would I not take out the husks unless, you know God, I have forgotten how to shoot I have forgotten how to shoot a gun in one of these virtual video games alright okay not all that hard not laser again it is very annoying isn't it? alright let's find a way out an enamel pack that medkit alright jeez, I have seriously forgotten how to play I don't suppose I could you know okay watch it oh yeah, right you could do that flex those muscles shepard hello child with little starship version toy version of the Normandy that's the one and so will you get out of there nope no one can shepard in here you're a pre-written seriously Anderson I literally held the door open for you do you think I do not know where to go you'd think there's an admiral would get that I'm trying to help someone child debt one sure way to make people care if you don't annoy them enough with whoa that look in her eyes that's total crazy right there that's what they do we need to go to the citadel talk to the council the fight's here it'll be everywhere soon enough you said it yourself the Reapers will destroy everything we don't stop them kind of weird that they start with us right yeah I don't think so that has to come for something really really something quite little I was just about to say that guess I remember something after all alright read explosions at least take one of them out that's some nasty exploding our ships are doing some very nasty stuff oh I remember those guys yep it doesn't work alright hold on show yourself that's better that's annoying that's just annoying let me how about I just go there and what are you alright I am over here do you want a better nut let's get to that gunship let's run towards it in an apparent lack of delusional bravery alright it works well enough hey fellas die please thank you you how about you we don't want them to get nice going Admiral hey we found what we had to good excellent I think the controls are doing the best Inquisition had such great controls uh oh plenty of those freaks around let's reload and get all over it good good good very good let's finish him off oi leave the shields alone mate gotta get my shields recharged recharged I mean glorious combat alright how about you mate need a bit of help dying I'm really low on I was just about to die in a foolish skirmish a darling ship of mine how I have missed you I wonder if I can kill Caden off it'll be very nice of course you know you're making my points mate democracy sometimes sure will in 60 hours time in game time no certainly not in game I wish here it comes little child dead and he's not shooting at us hard to believe why are we even staying in the same place ah Bioware you will never stop trying to manipulate our feelings in such blatant obvious ways that's why we love him and hate you mostly hate him ah yes Shepard is Jesus that's all you need now tantant and raw credits and that was the game folks where's Anderson where are we going see that's why no one likes you you ask way too many obvious questions leaving yeah we are Anderson wants us to go to the citadel get help for the fight you wouldn't order us to leave he just did soldier without help this war is already over then you can drop me off at the nearest depot cause I'm not you don't want to go we get it yeah but this isn't a democracy we're going to the citadel you want out you can catch a ride back from there huh, one moment so we will defeat them unconventionally no, boggy technology not even 150 years in the future does it get any better first up, Mars the joy of shooting at Martians I don't know yet but if it helps us win this war grab your gear yay there will be gear grabbing