Mass Effect: Trying to keep my homie alive
So, this past weekend I got to a point in Mass Effect where Wrex, the loveable rascal, gets a bit huffy with a decision I made. Something about a cure for his dying race blah blah the guy we were trying to kill has a cure yadda yadda, whatever. The problem is, I like Wrex. I’m playing through Mass Effect much like the white knight I am in real life (sarcasm!). Nearly full Paragon (“nearly” meaning I made some smartass choices that knocked my Renegade status up a notch). That means I’m the classic “good guy”. The typical hero, the Captain Kirk, the Michael Knight, the Hermes Conrad….if you will. Wrex is the Billy Badass of the bunch. He doesn’t like taking crap from people, and would rather shoot his way through most situations. He’s my complete opposite in every way but he completes me. He’s like my wife.
So after getting him all riled up, I attempt to bring him down, but fail to the point where Ashley (who will be from here on out known as Toiletface) has to step in and shoot the guy in the back like the coward she is.
Now this brings up two things. First off, my optional responses after Toiletface puts a cap in Wrex are hilariously awful. I can either say, “Yo, bout time”, “Oh snap, thanks for getting my back, I ‘bout went to see Elizabeth”, or…and this is the worst of all, “Why the hell did you do that?!” The third one isn’t bad from the initial response, it’s bad because the aftershock response that Shepard gives after Toiletface explains it was either Wrex died or he would’ve shot me is classic Brady Bunch: “Ok, just don’t do it again”. What the hell?!? She just up and blasted the dude while I was negotiating with him and the worst reaction I can give her is “Just don’t do it again?” Okay sir, I won’t shoot Wrex again…damn you Toiletface.
The second thing this brought up is a personal choice I had to make. Do I go on and live out my choice, or do I go back and try to save him? I was torn, but I knew that if I had the option to somehow keep him alive, I would’ve taken it. After looking it up online (which I hate myself for), I found out my problem was simply not doing enough side quests to boost my paragon to the level which would allow me a secondary chat option that would’ve kept my homeboy alive.
So that’s where I’m at with this game that everyone has moved on from at this point. I’m sure you were interested to hear about it. I’ll be covering how I made it through the really hard parts of Tetris next.
Aaahhh blocks falling from the sky….
Run…
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Honestly, I’d just download a full paragon John Shepard from the website that hosts the profiles. Simply because A) Wrex is a badass, and 2) Wrex is a badass in Mass Effect 2 if you keep him alive. =/
This made me laugh. The same thing happened to me with Toiletface. Knowing what I know now (I’m from the FUTURE!) I would have done the side quests and killed the hell out of Toiletface instead. Seriously, that snatch pisses me off.
I couldn’t save him either and Ashley got what was coming to her shortly there after. Unlike you, I didn’t go searching the internet and didn’t even realize it was possible to keep him alive until I started playing ME2. I reloaded the game a couple of times and tried different conversations, but she still shot him in the back every time. So when her time came, I chose Kaiden. It had nothing to do with the fact that my female Shepard was getting a little space loving from Kaiden.
I’m probably not as far along in ME2 as Rer, but am liking my new Krogan well enough. I loved Wrex though. I’m thinking of doing what Rer mentioned for a new game on ME2 after I finally finish with my main Shepard.
Kinda pissed me off how both of them, regardless of who you choose, are little bitches in ME2. But whatever, I got a new posse!
Same thing happened to me last week and I did exactly what you did, I looked it up.
One of the things I find frustrating is feeling forced into making a decision I would prefer I didn’t have to make, but am forced to due to a lack of options.
I’m not very far into ME2, but when one of the things mentioned when importing a character is whether Wrex died or not makes me believe he is important somehow.
Must… resist…. spoilers….
Think I’m the only person that doesn’t want Ashley’s head on a platter. I used her quite a bit(With Tali) when I first started playing, I was also full paragon when I went through that part so I didn’t even know that you could kill Wrex until I played through as Renegade
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Honestly, I’d just download a full paragon John Shepard from the website that hosts the profiles. Simply because A) Wrex is a badass, and 2) Wrex is a badass in Mass Effect 2 if you keep him alive. =/
This made me laugh. The same thing happened to me with Toiletface. Knowing what I know now (I’m from the FUTURE!) I would have done the side quests and killed the hell out of Toiletface instead. Seriously, that snatch pisses me off.
I couldn’t save him either and Ashley got what was coming to her shortly there after. Unlike you, I didn’t go searching the internet and didn’t even realize it was possible to keep him alive until I started playing ME2. I reloaded the game a couple of times and tried different conversations, but she still shot him in the back every time. So when her time came, I chose Kaiden. It had nothing to do with the fact that my female Shepard was getting a little space loving from Kaiden.
I’m probably not as far along in ME2 as Rer, but am liking my new Krogan well enough. I loved Wrex though. I’m thinking of doing what Rer mentioned for a new game on ME2 after I finally finish with my main Shepard.
Kinda pissed me off how both of them, regardless of who you choose, are little bitches in ME2. But whatever, I got a new posse!
Same thing happened to me last week and I did exactly what you did, I looked it up.
One of the things I find frustrating is feeling forced into making a decision I would prefer I didn’t have to make, but am forced to due to a lack of options.
I’m not very far into ME2, but when one of the things mentioned when importing a character is whether Wrex died or not makes me believe he is important somehow.
Must… resist…. spoilers….
Think I’m the only person that doesn’t want Ashley’s head on a platter. I used her quite a bit(With Tali) when I first started playing, I was also full paragon when I went through that part so I didn’t even know that you could kill Wrex until I played through as Renegade
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