Maybe this should be fixed?

It seems that this would be a deliberate QoL choice (for the hamster) so that one could peacefully activate the hamster post head-acquisition without stressing it out. 

I actually never knew this was a thing, but I'll definitely be doing it on my next playthrough. 🙂

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@EA_David wrote:

I actually never knew this was a thing, but I'll definitely be doing it on my next playthrough. 🙂

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That thing isn't going anywhere near my ship, no matter how much Vega wants it.

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@EA_David wrote:

It seems that this would be a deliberate QoL choice (for the hamster) so that one could peacefully activate the hamster post head-acquisition without stressing it out. 

I actually never knew this was a thing, but I'll definitely be doing it on my next playthrough. 🙂

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You're blaming the hamster for this one?

It's only a "thing" when you click the husk head first though...not a problem if you only click on the hamster.

A "glass half empty" kind of person might imagine that if you click on the husk head before leaving the cabin, the hamster will never eat again!

A "glass half full" kind of person might imagine that eventually the hamster will work out that the husk head's bark is worse that in its bite...and flip it the bird after a while!

One design choice that I am annoyed with...I had no idea about that paddle fish "thing". I played as Fem Shep and I don't think that she got the option to have the yeoman look after her fish in ME2. Maybe years and years down the track I'll play badman Shep and get this "thing". Otherwise, it's disappointing that some of these "things" are impossible to get unless you know about them beforehand...but I did get that nice pay off in ME3 with that fan of Sheps...we didn't swap bodily fluids, but we did swap data for war assets...all of them!

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@Fred_vdp wrote:

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@EA_David wrote:

I actually never knew this was a thing, but I'll definitely be doing it on my next playthrough. 🙂

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That thing isn't going anywhere near my ship, no matter how much Vega wants it.

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I took the same view on my first playthrough. I.e. my FemShep just isn't that sort of girl!

Anyway, pretty much playing the same game with the same character on Insanity, I did get the husk head...just because it's a trophy. The only change I made on Insanity was wooing Liara. Banged James (my first score in the series) on Normal difficulty but it turns out he's not a "proper" romantic interest...so, choices being limited...Liara. Pity about the lack of choices though...human ones, I mean.

I think the human romances in ME3 are:

Kaidan Alenko

Ashley Williams
Samantha Traynor

Miranda Lawson (minor)

Jack (minor)

Diana Allers (minor)

But like the husk head, Diana Allers isn't getting anywhere near my ship. If they can a reporter from IGN in their game, they could also afford to get Mordin's original voice actor back. (Yes, I'm still mad about that! Talk about conflict of interest. :o )

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@EA_David wrote:

It seems that this would be a deliberate QoL choice (for the hamster) so that one could peacefully activate the hamster post head-acquisition without stressing it out. 

I actually never knew this was a thing, but I'll definitely be doing it on my next playthrough. 🙂

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...and it occurred to me yesterday that maybe I've got it all wrong...maybe the husk head is terrified out of it's brain every time the hamster comes out of its house?

...maybe there should be a sedative you can give the husk head to calm it down when you want to interact with the hamster?

...or maybe move the husk head to a less stressful location for it?

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@Fred_vdp wrote:

I think the human romances in ME3 are:

Kaidan Alenko

Ashley Williams
Samantha Traynor

Miranda Lawson (minor)

Jack (minor)

Diana Allers (minor)

But like the husk head, Diana Allers isn't getting anywhere near my ship. If they can a reporter from IGN in their game, they could also afford to get Mordin's original voice actor back. (Yes, I'm still mad about that! Talk about conflict of interest. :o )

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I had no idea about Diana Allers...so, real name...actual likeness too? I think on my Normal playthrough I left it open to romance her...discretely or after the war or something.

With Kaidan...he was so terminally dull that I thought it best to just let him die on Virmire rather than consumating my relationship with him! I thought that James was alright as a character but he made a bit of a * of himself in the Party...and Liara was really upset with my Fem Shep!...so, on Insanity, I formed my first relationship in the series with Liara and stuck with her...somehow I formed a relationship with Kaidan in the first game...and that prevented any sort of meaningful flirting with others in the game...which sucked. Not sure if FemShep and Liara will get down and dirty...looks like I'll have just one shot at it, at the party. Playing that DLC now...hope I can get through it on Insanity...the final fight with Shep will be extremely tough, I'm sure.

re Mordin...I thought it was the same guy voicing him. Actually, I was sad to see him die in the game...it's a pity that the devs didn't think anyone would care so they didn't make much of it. Very funny, but inappropriate following Mordin's death was the jokinng between Garrus and Joker in the cockpit. Bit of solemnity wouldn't have gone astray.

The deceased's names on the crew deck...most of them I haven't heard of...some of them I have. All from actual, in game characters in the series?

Oh...one dry run I banged that Traynor...didn't do it for reals though. Not appealing to me. God, I'm so fussy!

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@deefleece wrote:

The deceased's names on the crew deck...most of them I haven't heard of...some of them I have. All from actual, in game characters in the series?

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Twenty of the names on the wall are crewmembers of the original Normandy. You don't interact with them, but you can collect their dogtags at the Normandy crash site in Mass Effect 2.

I was a bit disappointed that in my last playthrough Zaeed wasn't on the wall. He wasn't loyal in my last ME2 run bu he did survive. Then he died in his sidemission in ME3. But I'm a bit sensitive about Zaeed because I liked his voice actor (Robin Sachs), who died shortly after recording the Citadel DLC. He was a BioWare veteran (Saul in Knights of the Old Republic, Mayor of Redcliffe Dragon Age, Zaeed in Mass Effect 2)

Mordin was indeed a different voice actor. Michael Beattie was Mordin in ME2, William Salyers (from The Regular Show) played him in ME3. I think Salyers is great, but it still annoys me that his voice is slightly different. But I got used of it after a few missions.

I liked his final scene a lot. The people in this video surely responded to it emotionally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJpQOjcu3Xk&list=PLGxCL8JAojAMyvOeu_TN6nHov1Xf98hcp&index=42

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@Fred_vdp wrote:

Mordin was indeed a different voice actor. Michael Beattie was Mordin in ME2, William Salyers (from The Regular Show) played him in ME3. I think Salyers is great, but it still annoys me that his voice is slightly different. But I got used of it after a few missions.

I liked his final scene a lot. The people in this video surely responded to it emotionally:

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With Mordin, I was meaning that after his final mission, your crew is pretty indifferent about him...sort of all "meh". He's actually one of my favourite characters in the series...if Ashley died, I'd be all like "meh". Why did it have to be Mordin?

When other main characters died in ME3, the crew were really respectful and sorry to see them go...not really the case with Mordin.

However, Mordin's actual death was handled well in the game. Like I said, it bugged me having the comedy of Garrus and Joker in the cockpit after that mission.

I did have a dry run with choosing Legion's side on Tali's home planet mission, without using Paragon/Renegade options...that was even more moving, the way that Tali died there. But good thing that I remembered Tali's mission being tough in ME2, re conversation options required a lot of P/R points to get good outcomes...I left Tali's mission in ME3 to near the end, so could get the optimal outcome.

Back to Mordin...in ME2 he mentioned someone on your crew having sex with a varren...which put me off bagging Chambers in that (not that I could anyway, as Fem Shep, I think)...I thought she might have been the one! Or maybe Grunt. My main suspects!

Why was Beattie dropped as the voice of Mordin? I really didn't notice in any case.

I am curious...if I'd kept Kaidan alive in ME1, would he be as annoying/cold as Ashley in later games?

P.S. you buy off Origin? Do they have DRM?

They never revealed why Michael Beattie wasn't in ME3. Before the release of ME3 I noticed Mordin had a different voice in the gameplay demo, so I sent Beattie an email to ask if he was in the game. He said he wasn't and couldn't reveal why, by my guess is he wanted to be paid more. Beattie was praised a lot for his performance in ME2 and he knew about it, so it makes sense that he wanted a raise.

Kaidan is a nice guy in ME3. He's not the most colorful character of the bunch, but I usually let Ashley die because her Marksman ability in ME3 is bugged.

I bought the physical collector's edition. No matter where you buy, you have to activate through Origin, which is a form of DRM. There was a massive outcry when it was announced a single player game would require you to play through the Origin client, especially because at the time Origin used to datamine your hard drive for marketing purposes. (This is no longer the case.)

People then suggested using "sandbox" software, which allows software to only read and write files within the sandbox and nowhere else. Back then, simply mentioning the word "sandbox" would get you permanently banned from the BioWare forums. This was back when Chris Priestly was the community manager, and he used to ban people for even the most minor offenses, or even things that weren't offenses at all. He once banned a forum moderator who made a post about how he didn't receive his pre-order bonuses from the Origin store. Chris Priestly no longer woks for BioWare or EA, however, and has since moved on to CD Projekt Red.