Live Blogs The Adventure of Failure Shepard or How Not to Play the Mass Effect Trilogy

lrrose2013-02-12 14:23:39

For the past few months, I have been planning to do a playthrough of the Mass Effect Trilogy where I make the dumbest decisions possible. I have decided to share this experience with you all.

This liveblog will chronicle the adventure of Lieutenant Commander Failure Shepard, better known as FailShep. Young Failure was born on the Human colony of Midnoir, where he lived until it was attacked by evil batarian pirates, who killed everyone he ever knew. FailShep was only sixteen at the time.

Shortly after, FailShep enlisted in the Alliance Military, where his squad was killed by Thresher Maws. FailShep's escape of the Maws made him a legend among the Alliance.

tldr; Failure Shepard is male, a Colonist and a Sole Survivor. Because this playthrough is going to be somewhat minimalist in nature, I'm playing as a Soldier and on the lowest difficulty settings.

Comments

Peteman Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 16th 2013 at 9:24:14 PM

This sounds like Shiva Shepard from SF Debris.

lrrose Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 17th 2013 at 6:49:49 AM

This is something I've been considering doing since before I discovered SFDebris. Trust me when I say that Fail Shep's screw ups will be even more glorious than Shiva's, even though they will probably be less funny.

Peteman Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 18th 2013 at 11:00:25 PM

Good thing the Reapers will stop Shepard and save the Galaxy.

Peteman Since: Dec, 1969

Mar 20th 2013 at 9:33:53 AM

I wonder, why was the survivor chosen over, say, ruthless? Fail Shepard got the job done, but got most of his squad killed.

lrrose Since: Dec, 1969

Mar 20th 2013 at 7:40:24 PM

Because Ruthless Shepard knew that s/he was going to get his/her men killed, but also knew that this would accomplish the mission. Colonist Sole Survivor Shepard just has horribly bad luck.