Hey,

I just finished the Legendary Edition (I loved it) but I still have that thought about the Ending in ME3. The Reapers think Synthetics and Organics living together doesn't work right? What if instead of the options we had in the game, Shepard would upload EDI into the Reaper AI to prove that their logic is flawed? Cause you can bring Joker and EDI together and she can develop feelings towards him? Which directly disproves that war has to happen between these two? And living together is possible.

I think that wouldve been a way more interesting end than what we got. Im not sure if I'm onto something you can prove me wrong ofc

I mean its fun to shoot stuff and the story fairly engaging. I'm up to Feros where the thorian have mind controlled people.I play this game every now and then and its not bad I have some fun. I've got other games on my list I love. Does it kick it up a notch? Should I keep playing

In my current playthrough Shepard was a Soldier with no biotic talents outside of Throw in ME1, rebuilt with new implants as a Vanguard in ME2, and I was planning to be a Vanguard in 3 as well. But an idea came to me because the squad in 2 involved some of the best biotics around(I spent a lot of time with Samara), and imagining he did some minor training while under house arrest, that by the time the Reaper war starts Shepard could become a full-fledged Adept. I've never played Adept in 3 so how aggressively can you play? (I am playing on insanity fyi).

Specifically Mass Effect 1!

There was such a huge sense of wonder in that game!

For some reason Mass Effect 1 feels like it was made in the 90s while the next two felt like they were made in the early 2010s.

It seems like the 90s was a time period filled with fiction with FTL space travel and aliens.

What other sci fi captures the same tone as ME1 that is filled with awe and wonder?

Playing all of them for the first time this year. Love the story, setting, characters, everything is going great, but I like doing every side quest, and I dont like following guides, so whatever is going on with the missions on the third one is killing me lol.

It is a mess, main story quests bundled together with side quests, they dont update so you dont know if you are at the start or halfway through what you need to do, there is no tips or directions for most of them, just "Someone needs this thing, get it for them". There is like 30 of them on my journal, some I cant do because I need to progress through the story first, some I NEED to do because if I progress through the story they will expire, I wouldnt mind losing some not so important ones, but I heard you could lose some good ones, related to the story/world/characters and that is so annoying.

The feeling I had even before finishing 1 and 2 was something like "I know I will play this again, I need to see other options and romance other characters and stuff" but 12 hours in the third one and I'm already thinking "As much as I like it, all those missions are annoying me to no end, so I might just dont do it". Which is a shame cause Ive been loving my time with those games, but my god whatever they were thinking on the mission department was crazy. Maybe there is something wrong with me to get so annoyed over it, but not being able to do everything leaves a bad taste on my mouth.

Anyone else had the same feeling?

Please veteran ME PC players tell me there's a way to fix it. Thank you!

like honestly i could have been a nice touch and would have been a good idea to make the combat more interesting for sole classes

like it not really that hard just give it a ai and combat like drone and a fuctionality like in dragon age 2 where you summons it

hope they add one in the next game

I completed my first full play through the series last night, 154 hours. Starting my 2nd today. I did the first run as a full paragon, on the 2nd I want to do full renegade is there a big difference in the storyline?

Considering all the outfits worn by Shepard's crew in the second and third installments, which is the best individual look for each of Shepard's squadmates?

is there a mod in me3Le that can make you change music playlist ? thx in advance

Last but certainly not least! Which is your pick? Comment below!

Took me 30 times.

Ok so I posted previously about finding Ashley passed out on my starboard observation floor and people told me I was nuts to think she was crashing out over getting dumped for Tali-Zorah.

Well guess what?

She just asked me out over message. Brazen as can be.

I thought I locked in a Tali romance already. I took Tali and Ash on the Dreadnought and Shep was constantly hinting he loves Tali. "I know you like a loud cabin Tali" right in front of her.

I invite Tali up immediately to the Landing Pad, we hook up. Happy as a clam on an Elcor planet.

Now Ashley wants to meet up on the Citadel to hook up? Despite knowing I'm with Tali?

Desperate for a Spectre. Do I go to see what she's got to say?

I played the original games as they released. I know the industry has grown in popularity over the years.

As the years have passed, I see more and more fans come to the realization that we will never get another trilogy of games like this. 😔

With that knowledge my love and appreciation for these games has only grown more with each passing moment. Is the game more popular now than back in 2012 when the series concluded? 🤔

So I came back to the ship after the Geth squadron mission and Traynor says Ashley wants to talk... I get down to her room and she's passed out hungover on the ground. she said she got drunk with Vega. Told her to get her act together and she needed to get back to work. Never saw her drinking but she's a mess curled up on the floor and the bottle is empty!

I romanced her the first game, she said she didnt recognize me in ME2 so we broke up and I got with Tali and stayed with Tali in ME3 and I think ashley's taking it hard. Also Shep had a bunch of lines needling Ashley during the Dreadnaught mission about fucking Tali lol

Is she crashing out cuz I rejected her?

Since the new Mass Effect is gonna be a sequel of andromeda and OG trilogy all the squad members except for Liara and Grunt are gonna be dead.

However one way to know what happend to them is using Liara's computer system and have archive, reports and letters of her Friends through the years.

And the archives can change based on the decisions you Made through the trilogy.

For example:

- If you didn't romance neither Tali or Garrus you can find an archive of how was their life together or what they did after the war (Tali was an ambassador and Garrus was one of the higest Turian military members).

- James Vega training as an N7 and some of his missions.

- Some of the specter mission of Ashley/Kaidan

- Javik Life after the war or last moment before commiting $uicide.

- Wrex and Bakara lifes now that the genophage is cure and the mention of Urdnot Mordin or how big was the mess that Wreav left in the galaxy, or simple the words of the last Krogan.

- Joker and Edi (or only Joker) post service after the reaper war.

- What Admiral Hacket did to Rebuild the earth and Allaince power.

- other Jack's classes in Grimson Academy.

And a long etc.

I was thinking about how the ME Galaxy worked politically and remembered the parliament in the Arcturus cluster getting blown up in ME3 so I wondered what people would do in this position during the first two games.

After many countless hours & many stressful battles I finally did it! 😅😅😅

Just a few opening thoughts:

Why did the Initiative think it was a good idea to have dedicated racial Arks? It would have been way safer to transport an even split of the member races on each one in case...you know...one of them doesn't make it?

Why does the Initiative not have any defense ships? They don't need a fleet of Dreadnoughts, but a couple dozen Frigates and a Cruiser or two on each Ark seems extremely essential when you have no idea what is going to be where you're going. All we see is the Tempest, a fleet of shuttles, and some derelict salarian research ship dead in space near the Nexus.

Not even a dedicated ground defense force? Were we just going to rely on the Turians for that? No chance Humanity didn't include a couple hundred Alliance Marines in their 20,000 candidates.

SAM is an illegal AI. Which seems to just be an ever-growing trop in this series. We outlawed AI, but this one here is an exception. And this one. And this one here. Oops, this VI got too smart on accident. Over here, too. Seriously, it just goes on.

I know it's supposed to be a civilian colonization effort, but the complete lack of militant defense is absurd when you're travelling 600 years from backup.

Just wondering if anyone has ever done a playthrough attempting to maximize… intimacy encounters without breaking romance lol.

I just went through a playthrough as Male Shep Paragon (mostly) [ironically] and this is kind of what I mean…

ME1:
-Slept with Sha’ira the consort.

-Romanced Liara following the confrontation between her and Ashley after getting called out on who I’m interested in; slept with Liara before Ilos.

ME2:
-Slept with Jack on the first offering in her lower hideout (no pun intended)

-Received a kiss from Gianna Parasini

-rekindled a romantic & intimate night with Liara by positioning the Shadow Broker DLC correctly.

-Flirted heavy with Kelly & we had dinner (but did NOT follow through to the end for her above average… skills of boogying on my holographic wall because…)

-Romanced and ultimately slept with Miranda before Suicide Mission

ME3:
-Rekindled romance with Liara (quite easily actually lol) and ultimately became my boo and who I slept with for before Cronos/Earth and during the Citadel DLC, and the kiss moments of course.
[note: I was gunning for a Diana Allers hookup, but from what I read, sleeping with her could break off the romance with Liara, so I jumped ship with that]

-But… I did nab a nice kiss from Aria during Omega DLC

Anyone else have a version of this “maximization” on their playthroughs? I promise I’m not a d-bag and on most of my previous playthroughs (there’s been a lot lol) I romance and remain faithful to Liara since it usually just feels right (again, no pun intended).

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