The End: A Rough Landing

So the Normandy's in space, running from ...

... I have no idea what that is. Is that the same thing going from mass relay to mass relay? If it is, why the hell is it targeting the Normandy? If it's not, what is it?!

... something's wrong with that image.

I'll leave it to you, though.

The, uh, space thing? The space thing makes the Normandy, um. Explode?

And thus, the Normandy crash lands.

People start getting out of the Normandy:

Y'all buckle your seatbelts, I'm about to yell a lot.

In the original ending, in destroy, EDI popped right out of that ship like nothing happened. And people said, "Wait, if all the reaper tech shut down, how the hell is EDI still alive?"

So Bioware cut her out of the extended cut, but I refuse, REFUSE to let them off the hook. Just because she's not in the cut scene doesn't mean she's not there. And anyway, if all the reaper tech is shut down, how was the Normandy still flying? It should have just hung in space.

There's a third catch to this that we'll get to, but let me reiterate: the space child is a lying little shit.

The second person out of the ship is always your love interest.

The third is always Javik.

It's supposed to be the squadmate that you had the highest 'friendship' with, but I've never found a good definition for what 'friendship' was, and anyway why in the world wouldn't mine be Liara? Every time I play this game, there's Javik, right in the ending, climbing over Liara to get out of the ship.

I suspect this part is bugged.

This is a fight that I have more with Mass Effect nerds than Bioware. Prove that they didn't crash land on Earth. You can't. They're in Brazil. Fight me in the parking lot.

A Favor, MSPals

Follow me on a journey.

When I was doing Mass Effect 2, any time a story began on the Normandy, I was able to do these little introductory comics of just general quality-of-life stories on the Normandy.

Now Mass Effect 3, that game mostly takes place off the Normandy, so I didn't get to do them as much.

But I miss them! Since we just completed Cronos Station, would you all ... would you all be cool if I just took an entry and played on the Normandy for a bit? It might be my last chance.

Honestly, there's much more Mass Effect after this, muuuuuuuuuuuuch more, but you do understand what's next, right?

Anyway, let's go.

I thought this was where the sex scene was, true story. I still think this would be a better place for some Bioware brand bangin.

"How to draw a scuba mask on a Prothean," and other problems that the Bioware art team doesn't have to solve but I do.

Oh man, remember in Mass Effect 2 when Joker would watch porn in the cock pit? Good times.

Not drawing porn! I mean, I draw Mass Effect all the time and that's basically porn, but still!

Enjoy that censor bar.

oh my god the face on chawkwas

In certain conditions, you can get a scene where the dudes of the Normandy gather to play poker. I didn't get them, but enjoy this anyway.

It's also possible that I don't know anything at all about poker.

... something about Mass Effect universe characters sittin and chillin with a little X Files.

NEXT TIME: it begins

Citadel: Peak MSPixel

You guys, I'm sorry, I've been in the cosplay mines. (Real talk, if you're going to DragonCon, hunt me the fuck out.) Can I make it up to you with a double long MSPixel?

First, let's discuss friends. Does the following ever happen to you?

I'm not kidding, I don't sit and watch very well. I think that's why I find video games so much more appealing, at least I'm doing something while I'm watching. (I'd love to watch more anime, because I think there's a mirror universe somewhere where this blog is me drawing out anime episodes poorly instead of video games poorly.)

Also, if we're hanging out, I'd like to ... I don't know, talk to you? Do stuff with you? Make a fucking memory? Not just stare at the damn screen.

And of course, no one ever wants to watch something I would actually want to watch anyway.

What I'm saying is, I'm glad Shepard has the same problem.

... isn't Fleet and Flotilla a video game in the Mass Effect universe?

I think Fleet and Flotilla is supposed to be some sort of take on Buffy, but I'm not sure, because like I said, I don't sit and watch stuff real often. I decided to make it Quarian Dr. Who instead.

...

Oh my GOD. Okay. Let's workshop this scene.

Stuff that is good:

• I'm pretty sure the melody is one of the love themes from Mass Effect. If I'm right, that's boss.
• The lyrics are actually pretty.

Stuff that is bad:

• Literally everything else.

I mean, this is fucking hard to watch. You get second, third, fourth and fifth hand embarrassment from Tali singing.

This has to be the most diplomatic line in the trilogy, and this is a trilogy with actual diplomats.

Let's all agree that there's only one good singing scene in video game history.

Moving on, Vega and Cortez want to come over.

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Jesus Christ, this game is horny. I'm not sure how we can outdo ourselves here.

Switching gears, a story for you. Let us travel back in time, briefly, to when Citadel first came out. I was working on completing it, but I had to work slower than other Mass Effect nerds, because there was, of course, MSPixel to draw.

This kept happening:

I'm not kidding, there were so many of you that felt I needed the next scene in my life. Thank you, by the way, I love it when you all talk to me.

(PS, if you need dem links, go follow me on Twitter or Tumblr.)

What was the scene?

This was the scene.

EVERYONE GET AMPED: THIS IS THE 400TH CITADEL DLC IMAGE!

You know the damn game gets hornier than this? And I'm not even talking about the sex scene.

Urdnot Wrex, sir, you are a liar! We all know you're not the fittest krogan at all!

You know, I almost did Final Fantasy 13 instead of Mass Effect. I could have been trying to remember the difference between fal'cie and l'cie right now instead of drawing a bag of nut ice.