I have never played Mass Effect 1 or 2. Do I need to play the first and second installment to understand the third? Will I be lost?

there was a game I used to play in my childhood on those big cabinet like consoles. I loved that game but I cannot remember the name now. Can anyone help me identify the game. I remember very vague details of the game: It was a side scrolling game, you started at left of the screen and progrssed...

I have an XBox 360 that hasn't been connected to a network for about three years. I finally got around to hooking it up today, it downloaded a bunch of updates and I created an XBox Live account (just a standard one, not Gold). However, I can't seem to get it to update any of the games. As in, t...

I picked up that artifact on a planet somewhere. Now there's a mission in my journal saying that I should find someone on the citadel who can use it. I've been running around the place a long time, but I can't seem to find anybody. Who wants the banner?

I just got my first onxy medal for building 1000 fortifications in Horde mode. Can I get an onyx medal again. So if through the next several months of playing I build 1000 fortifications again. Will the medal xp bonus pop?

What are the rewards for playing multiplayer on each difficulty? Are there differences in the amount of credits, experience and galactic readiness earned between bronze, silver, and gold difficulties?

Since one may import a character from ME2, this led me to think that if one starts with a fresh character, the enemies are most likely 'scaled down' to your level. Is this correct? Are there other instances of enemy scaling in ME3? Is it quite extreme (like it was in Oblivion for example, wher...

I recently opened a map which I thought was broken, because I could not load it anymore. I increased the memory for the Java VM to 8GB and now I can open it but it is impossible to play on this map, because there are thousands of cows! I think this is why the map could not be opened with 768 MB o...

Actually its not even a old version it's a mix of two old versions! I have a bukkit server up on gameservers.com. Things where going real good, installed pluguins, backuped my map often, restored a couple of times always went perfect. Then, I installed craftbukkit-1.2.3-R0.1-20120302.201515-7 b...

With all the possible permutations between choices in ME3 and in previous ME games, how many different endings are there in the game and what is the most effective playthrough method to see all the endings?

I'm trying to decide which group to help out, Blue suns, Eclipse or the Blood Pack. Which group is the best overall for help and supplies?

A new user was wondering about the three gates at the far left end of the Historia Crux. They apparently have no story significance and aren't unlocked normally. What are they for?

There are at least two quests where I'm supposed to buy something from Spectre reqs and they don't show up in the terminal. I just got finished with N7: Cerberus Abductions and I'm trying to finish the Benning: Evidence quest. The guide I'm looking at says the quest must be completed before comp...

This is not about mods. I am programming a software that helps people with a certain game, similar to keybinder and settingsmanager. As a side note, it will be open source. Is it possible to deploy software in here? Is it allowed to ask questions related to this software, when it is related to...

There are quite a few stores in Mass Effect 3, but not all of them seem useful. For example: I noticed that the store in Huerta Medical on the Citadel sells things like Flowers, and Candy Assortments, along with various book collections. Now, while i do have a jilted ex-lover in the hospital, I'...

WHen I started a new ME3 game, it asked me to choose if Ashkey, Kaiden, or Numerous died. Who are the numerous? I chose numerous because I hoped that means some no-names... but if numerous is the entire ME2 cast that would be quite fail. Who are numerous?

In the loadout menu, the interface makes it pretty obvious how to equip your weapons. But since having additional weapons increases your weight and power recharge time, how do you actually unequip one? I am playing the PC version if that matters at al

I can pretty well understand the difference between say, a situation that calls for the sniper rifle or the shotgun (one is better at long range, and one at very close range), but in what situations would I want to equip or activate a SMG vs an assault rifle, for instance? What situations are ap...

So I was playing a game last night where I was going for a Space Victory, toward the end of the game I went to war with Germany. After dropping the A-bomb on Hamburg and razing it to the ground I sent my workers in to clean up the mess. My conscience got the better of me. All that to brag and ...

My Shepard is a soldier and I love lobbing grenades around. I love grenades so much that I make sure my teammates have their grenade skills maxed out too. However, I feel like I've failed as a Commander, because my teammates seem far more skilled at grenade tossing than me. Their grenades alway...

If I'm playing the Gorgon and purchase for her a Helm of the Dominator, does the lifesteal apply to all three of my multishot arrows or just one of them? Kudos if you can explain how multishot does or does not work with any orb or buff placer effect period.

It seems that elemental effects don't happen on every shot, so when do they occur? Is it a random chance per bullet (meaning higher rate of fire= more elemental critical hits) or is it more complex than that? Borderlands had a very complex Elemental Proc chance system so I'm wondering if ME doe...

Do they have a weak point? Generally headshots do more damage to enemies, and an Atlus is a pretty fearsome foe. I know using biotic/tech powers can speed up the destruction by chewing through shields and then armor, but is there a particular point on it that I can be aiming for?

I know that biotic powers can detonate each other if one has a duration, but what about bio/tech combinations or ammo combinations?