>>1468666 >ME2 wastes your time with shit that doesn't matter It's still the apex of the trilogy.

>>1468511 >Why was noveria a thing? Hey, don't you dare talk trash about Noveria! It has the comfiest hub after Citadel (and the comfiest hub theme by far), a nice balance of talking, driving and shooting, the most impactful decision of the starting three main missions (that ME3 wasted with its "fake Rachni queen" shit) AND you get to put down Kaira Stirling and Anoleis. In Feros and Therum you can only do that to one person. Also, you won't be surprised to hear that there was some cut content, which is why Noveria feels weirdly paced at times. >Its stupid how close these space ships are to each other but who really cares about that? I do :( The codex even emphasizes that only fighters and frigates enter the knife-fight range of 10km during space combat, but I guess the Citadel attack is something that can force any fleet to adjust their doctrine to on the fly. >Would have to go through the effort to make a pirated copy work on linux mint Oh man, I am a brainlet in that regard so I really can't help you there. I even used some mods on NexusMods to make my playthrough of ME2 more enjoyable, but if your main gripe with ME2 is the story - well, no mod can fix that.

>>1468911 >There was supposed to be a multiplayer FPS called Mass Effect Team Assault. It got canned in favor of ME3's multiplayer. That's disappointing to hear and makes me just a little bit more miffed over what happened to Mass Effect, but in retrospect I honestly doubt a whole game focused on co-op combat would have turned out well considering BioWare was already circling the drain while ME3 was getting made. Best case scenario would have been a B-team or third party taking care of it but that's basically a toss-up for quality in the games industry.

>>1469479 Gonna have to agree with Noveria being the best part of ME1. Just getting the garage pass had so many options, and slight variations to those options. Not to mention fucking with Lorik Quinn if you rat him out to Anoleis; "You refused to testify. Obviously, you hate justice and deserve this." Getting Gianna and Anoleis killed at the same time, and doing the smuggling fetch quest for the Hanar shopkeep anyway was also a good option. >The codex even emphasizes that only fighters and frigates enter the knife-fight range of 10km during space combat, but I guess the Citadel attack is something that can force any fleet to adjust their doctrine to on the fly. I'm willing to concede that any battle at the Citadel forces everything into a bottleneck. And it was an ambush. And no one took the threat of Sovereign seriously. Since the fleet made little attempt to evade Geth fire, I figured they were using themselves as shields since the Citadel itself hadn't closed yet. That said, that fancy GARDIAN point defense is never seen onscreen anywhere in the trilogy. No excuses for the Destiny Ascension being in such a piss poor position and not being able to do anything useful, though. >>1469566 In those days, if EA actually went through with that, they probably would have gotten Danger Close to make the multiplayer FPS instead of fucking Medal of Honor: Warfighter. Might have even saved Danger Close from closure just a little bit longer

Legendary, but the original had this problem (noticed it in the garage at Noveria). LoD doesn't always change when you scope something. That was a background harvester, so it MIGHT not have had a detail model, but I doubt it.

What is the least jewish character build?

>>1470572 Not sure what jewish means in this context, but I refuse to play anything but Soldier. Magic is for pussies. I use different ammo types because previous games tied it to inventory, so I don't consider it magic like Adrenaline Rush.

>>1470572 Use ancient runes to curse the coons. Using levitate you can pull them out of the sewers and with your handgun execute them. You can even use warp to instantly Auschwitz them on the spot. Make sure to sacrifice Ashley because she votes human first.

>>1470658 I just realized my mistake. You should romance Ashley since she is human first.

>>1470808 Yeah, I was confused about that part. I thought you might have misunderstood and sugested how to make the most jewish character.

Is Bioware so fucked that ME4 has no chance of existing or are we getting something by the end of this decade that makes Veilguard look like a work of Shakespeare?

>>1472328 By the time we get something concrete from ME, both "Exodus" and "The Expanse: Osiris Reborn" will have been released, so they'll have two ME-likes to be compared to. Also, unlike those two, ME has A LOT of baggage thanks to the divisive ending to the trilogy and the events transpiring in Andromeda (which they will certainly include in the game). In short, there's little to no chance we're getting anything that justifies that dev time.

>>1472442 I'm hoping that by the time they start working on it in earnest, they do a cultural reset and decide to make games.

Underrated waifu.

>>1439667 God femshep VA sounds so hot

>>1439667 >Femshep.mp4 Garrus must browse space reddit.

>>1439667 Garrus is genuinely great with femshep. Like Tali is with maleshep.

>>1474439 A lot of people never play as Femshep, or know Garrus is a romance option. There's some upset you can't get with Garrus as Maleshep, and while I understand as there is a serious lack of good M/M options as Maleshep, characters shouldn't be playersexual. Garrus is straight and that's fine.

>>1474445 >There's some upset you can't get with Garrus as Maleshep Like Anita Sarkessian, for instance.

>>1469479 >>1470335 Yeah I don't really get why people would be upset with Noveria. It's a much better world than Feros and Therum was a glorified UNC mission since Caleston was cut from the game. I liked Port Hanshan a lot and kind of wish the first part of Noveria before Peak 15 was longer and had a bit more intrigue. It's always one of the parts of ME1 I like revisiting. >>1474071 Bakara/Eve is okay and she has some good dialogue but it's hard to look at her and some of things she says as anything but Bioware really starting to take the identity politics pill. Yeah ME3 added fag romance but that was optional and didn't involve a character preaching at you. I don't really think she's a terrible example of it but there's definitely an undertone of current year BS, like when she takes the gun from Wrex to shoot the enemy and says she can take care of herself (after a full mission of protecting her where she had a health bar).

>>1474629 >when she takes the gun from Wrex to shoot the enemy and says she can take care of herself That had been a cancer in games/movies/shows/etc for decades already. Remember Aliens with the loader scene at the beginning? >Where do you want it? >O SNEEZY GIRLS CAN DO JOBS YOU GO GIRL Other examples are Alyx, and every time a woman roundhouse kicks a gun out of a man's hands. "You go girl" predates the identity politics bullshit.

>>1474758 >Remember Aliens with the loader scene at the beginning?

>>1474773 Of course she crashes.

>>1474629 The only problem with Noveria is the tedium that comes with repeat playthroughs. Yeah, that applies to literally everything in ME1, but even if you like Port Hanshan, running back and forth just to get on with the rest of the quest gets old fast, especially in the original Xbox 360 release and (first) PC port, where running outside of combat was slow and annoying. Most runs now, I just turn in the Hanar's smuggling shipment to Anoleis at the first opportunity to skip 35 minutes of elevators, dialogue and shooting. > I don't really think she's a terrible example of it but there's definitely an undertone of current year BS, like when she takes the gun from Wrex to shoot the enemy and says she can take care of herself (after a full mission of protecting her where she had a health bar). Bonus points for playing FemShep, as autodialogue forces her to condescend to Wrex. "You should listen to them. Women have lots of good ideas." To the guy the game already established the only reason the Krogan aren't extinct is due to the leadership and tactics of females...

Doing that stupid stealth mission in the Citadel casino. God, it's gay.

>>1486440 Who was your date?

>>1486497 Garrus, even though I'm not a fag.

>>1486539 >Taking a guy even though you aren't a fag The only acceptable male answer is Wrex since you don't get to hang out with him much.

I forgot this leads into the party, and I'm forced into it without having Tali yet. Uninstalled.

>>1474629 You want to know what else is even worse than that? Her blaming men for all problems and the femshep specific dialogue with her. Both were cancer and she would have been better off just not being in the game while mordin figures out a cure for the genophage without her. It's just a plot device to put in some woke shit

>>1490309 >Playing Citadel DLC without your full roster What the fuck? Why? Not that Tali is useful in gameplay for that DLC or anywhere else in this game. >>1490330 What's disappointing is that she admits that they let sterile females be used as bait in tribal disputes. There were bits of good lore about the Krogan from her, and then there's the other feminist shit we've already mentioned. I could have sworn the first game tried to remind Shepard, and you in turn, that aliens think differently from people. The fact that the Turians dindu nuffin over bombing civilians at Shanxi. Even a minor exchange with Executor Pallin showed that off. >I should let you go? >"Let you go"? Do humans consider conversations a form of imprisonment?

>>1493956 I only ever beat the game once (and it looks like it's going to stay that way), and I forgot what is what. The main issue with the game is the fact that every mission is an obscenely long chain of sub-missions. It's so gay.

>>1494510 Level design was shit ME2, got worse in ME3, and somehow, ME3 DLC made it even fucking worse. It made Andromeda feel like an improvement at times, until I remember that it's Andromeda when someone flaps their gums.

>>1138221 >"You're bluffing" Stupid bitch, she must have been pissing her space jammies. I never played any of the DLC but I have LE, just haven't gotten around to playing it. I should go all in again, I did love Mass Effect back in the day I've just been depressed a lot so doing anything I want is an uphill battle.

>>1474758 >"You go girl" predates the identity politics bullshit. No, it doesn't. It IS it. You're just too brainwashed to see it because you were raised on it.

>>1505480 It was a marketing thing that had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with throwing a bone to potential women viewers. If a girl roundhouse kicked a gun out of a man's hands, some girlfriend or wife that watched it with her SO would tell others about it.