Mass Effect (video game): Difference between revisions

** The message in the Prothean Beacon.

** In ''Bring Down The Sky'', there are three missing miners you have to find as part of a side-quest, one of which leaves an [[Apocalyptic Log]] that is ''definitely'' a [[Tear Jerker]].

* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: Mass Effect itself, which is the effect on matter that causes it to gain or lose mass and enables anti-gravity (And artificial gravity) and Faster Than Light travel.

* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: You can recruit up to six squadmates, but you only take two with you at a time.

* [[Battle in the Rain]]: Virmire, although It does not show up on the Xbox 360 version and the PC edition requires extremely high performance graphics equipment.

* [[Beat]]: Punch out reporter Khalisah Al-Jilani and you may hear (5:08) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiITTLJ2dw8 this] in a Citadel elevator:

"We'll have exclusive footage later today." }}

* [[Betting Minigame]]: The Quasar slot machines. Unfortunately, nowhere near as fun as [[Knights of the Old Republic|pazaak]].

* [[Broken Faceplate]]: In ''Bring Down The Sky'', a survivor of the attack mentions that the batarian terrorists killed engineers working vacuum by smashing their faceplates.

* [[Broken Record]]: Makes [[Most Annoying Sound]] '''THAT MUCH WORSE'''.

** "ENEMIES EVERYWHERE!" "GO, GO, GO!" "ENEMIES EVERYWHERE!" "I WILL DESTROY YOU!!!"

** Shepard: "I've lost shields!"

* [[Incredibly Lame Fun]]: Quasar is an incredibly dull adding game with two buttons, yet it has entire casinos dedicated to it.

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: An Elanus officer down the Rift Station, standing alert to repel the [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|rachni]] forces.

* [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Guns]]: Spectre Master Gear. Comes in all four weapon flavors, expensive as hell, and [[Game Breaker|utterly devastating]].

* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]: Occurs in several places, most prominently in a "one-way" drop on Feros. It's only about the height of Shepard.

* [[Japanese Honorifics]]: Captain Matsuo uses these. The encounter drives home the fact that you're using [[Translator Microbes]] and everyone isn't really speaking English. The event also leads fans to suspect that there is a hardcore Otaku on the [[BioWare]] dev team.

* [[Join or Die]]: Saren's response to Shepard's resistance is this. Join the Reapers - 'cause if you don't, you're guaranteed to die.

* [[Join the Army They Said]]: If you speak to the surviving marines on Nepmos after helping them [[Hold the Line]], they'll say, "'Join the marines, see the galaxy.' Hell."

* [[Just Think of the Potential]]: A sidequest involving a dead soldier's body and whether or not it's right to keep it from her husband for study.

*** [[Worthy Opponent|"I like your style."]]

* [[Shut Up, Kirk]]: Shepard gets handed one by Executor Pallin while discussing humans on the Citadel:

'''Pallin:''' Good. Then fight for it. But don't expect the rest of us to just sit back and let you take it. }}

* [[Sidequest Sidestory]]: the Cerberus quest line from Admiral Kahoku.

* [[Someone to Remember Him By]]: One sidequest revolves around a scared soon-to-be mother, worried about the safety of her child after the father died of a heart defect.

* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: Here and there.

'''Shepard:''' "[[Memetic Mutation|I've had enough of your snide insinuations!]]" *punch to the face* }}

* [[Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness]]: Ten tiers. Four weapon types. More than a dozen manufacturers, each of which with multiple models of the same type of weapon. It rapidly gets confusing.

* [[The Three Trials]]: Sure, you can explore the galaxy, but the plot is prepared to wait as long as it takes for you to visit Therum, Noveria and Feros. {{spoiler|Oh, and check out that mysterious transmission from Virmire, would you?}}

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Many, ''many'' characters, who all seem convinced that ''their'' group of badly armed, badly trained thugs will somehow prove more apt at killing you than the other ''dozen'' groups that have tried the exact same thing on a dozen different planets. Special mention must go to the ExoGeni research team that has been overrun by Thorian Creepers. They themselves note that they were unable to defeat the Creepers, and that your ability to drive them off saved their lives, but they ''still'' think they can beat you. You have just killed the creatures they could ''not'' kill, but with the right dialogue choices they still attack you. Wrex puts it best:

** Subverted when Shepard encounters a pair of thugs while fighting through the club of a local crimeboss. The Renegade dialogue choice "I just killed fifteen guards to get in here. What do you think I'll do to you?" convinces them to leave.

* [[Town with a Dark Secret]]: Zhu's Hope is essentially the sci-fi version of this.

* [[Wham! Episode]]: Virmire is basically Planet Wham. {{spoiler|Not only is the true identity of Saren's ship Sovereign revealed (specifically, as an [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Man Behind the Man]]), but you find yourself forced to leave one of your crew members to their death, and possibly [[Player Punch|kill another yourself]].}}

* [[Wham! Line]]:

** Also, this line from the conversation with {{spoiler|Vigil on Ilos}}:

* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: Multiple levels can have the final conflict resolved peacefully if you have enough Charm or Intimdate points and you get the villain to surrender voluntarily. However, to ''get'' to this point you often need to shoot your way through the initial guards, and afterwards you will still be congratulated on resolving the issue peacefully, despite the guard bodycount.

* [[Where It All Began]]: {{spoiler|The final confrontation occurs in the Citadel Tower, also one of the first places the characters visited after the introductory mission.}}