>Male >Earthborn >Sole survivor >Male Shepard >Sheploo >Soldier >Garrus and Tali >Paragon >Talimance >Destroy ending with high EMS Yep, time for my 30th replay.

>Male >Earthborn >War hero >Sheploo >Vanguard >Garrus and Wrex >Rengon >Ash or Miranda <Refuse to play ME3 ever again

>>1134933 >Shepard Sheploo, Earthborn, Sole Survivor, Paragade >class Infiltrator >squadmates Wrex, Javik >planets Noveria, Maji, Sur'Kesh >quests Noveria planet arc, Genophage arc, Leviathan DLC >>1135663 3 was better than 2 doe

Batarian Lives Matter.

>>1136254 >3 was better than 2 doe It was even more streamlined then 2 and had even less player choice.

Should I replay the original series instead of LE? I've looked at nexus mods and LE has basically nothing.

>>1137738 >It was even more streamlined It literally offered more RPG choices be them narrative or mechanical (especially mechanical) than 2, what are you on about. It took 2's weak base and refined it with far better skills, skill trees and weapons. Choosing the last three ranks of all your skills means you can basically make a build tailored to your playstyle: weapon or power cooldown? melee or weight? self-reliant or buffing squadmate ammo? Same with the equipment weight, letting you equip any weapon you want but tying weight to power cooldown is easily the best choice they made in that game. You can make an Infiltrator that ditches the sniper for a shotgun paired with Tactical Cloak. Do you want to mod your weapon to do more damage or to weight less so you're under the weight threshold for your Power recharge (oh yeah it brought back weapon modding from ME1, which ME2 cut)? Only in replays do you get just how barebones 2 is compared to the RPG of 1 or the far better hybrid of 3. Don't get me started on the weapon description and lack of stats in 2, or even weapon variety in general: not counting the Heavy Weapons slot ME2 had 3 rifles (+3 from DLC), 3 shotguns (+2 from DLC), 3 snipers (+1 from DLC), 2 SMGs (+1 from DLC) and 2 pistols (+1 from DLC). Mass Effect 3 has 9 rifles (+10 from DLC), 9 shotguns (+4 from DLC), 8 snipers (1 of which unique to multiplayer then +3 from DLC), 5 SMGs (1 of which unique to multiplayer then +3 from DLC) and 7 pistols (+4 from DLC). Far more weapon variety and thus build variety that allows you to pull shit like https://youtu.be/ZPbB4qfsA14 even with squadmates. Or how about how it improved on the Paragon/Renegade mechanic? ME3 fixed the problem ME2 and to a lesser degree ME1 had where you had to mostly stay on one path or the other all the way if you wanted to hit lategame checks by coming up with a single Reputation bar that's filled by both Paragon and Renegade points whenever you make a choice. What choices does ME2 offer? Because it sure as fuck didn't let my Akuze Shepard tell Cerberus to fuck off and go back to the Alliance. How many ME1 choices mattered in it anyway? Where's my Human Council? Why were 90% of ME1 choices relegated to simple radio messages and emails?

>>1137788 LE has more mods

>>1137915 >It literally offered more RPG choices Ok I'm not even gonna take anything you said seriously.

>We have Cuckchan refugees unironically defending ME3 Holy fucking shit I'm speechless.

>>1137987 Refute him then

>>1137958 I will accept the concession

>>1136254 >3 was better than 2 doe no at best it was equal to 2, which wasn't good enough given the massive expectations the series had built up and on top of that the ending sucked. ruined the series and then Andromeda finally killed it.

Man I remember when 4/v/ mocked anyone who liked ME3. The user base that came during the last decade really lost its standards.

>>1137915 You're talking about combat choices which honestly I could care less about. Why can't you tell the alliance to fuck off given that you have the authority to in ME1 since we're bitching about allegiances? There's less dialogue choices that have an actual impact in ME3 than the other 2 games and that's a fact, ME2 having dialogue options with the most impact

>>1138091 ME2's choices genuinely impacted, the final mission at the Collector base. If you fucked around people did die.

This is the hardest line of dialogue in any of the games and in a dlc of all things and it is proof that your choices mattered the most in ME2

>>1137915 I kneel >>1138091 >Why can't you tell the alliance to fuck off given that you have the authority to in ME1 since we're bitching about allegiances? Because the game *starts* with Shepard as an Alliance Commander, which he has been for 11 years and counting. It's not a switching of allegiances, it's the one you're told to accept if you're to immerse yourself in the universe presented by the devs in the first entry. That's who Shepard is by default, REGARDLESS of player choice. You might be Earthborn, or a Spacer, or a Colonist, but you're always an Alliance soldier. Might as well ask why are you forced to be an N7. Fairly different as anon said from an entire sidequest chain where you're shown how retardedly evil this random terrorist group is then the direct sequel forces you to work for 'em (even if they could have been personally responsible for the slaughter of your entire past squad and at no point are you allowed to bring it up). >There's less dialogue choices that have an actual impact Define "actual impact". Nothing in ME2 matters. See >>1138221, in fact. The dialogue option is available regardless of what choices you actually went with, with Shepard's tone remaining the same. You don't need to have been a Renegade in the past for the threat to be sold, or for specific narrative choices to have been made. Shepard simply switches "dude I let the Destiny Ascension be destroyed" with "dude I let human ships be destroyed". Same way your Spectre status has zero impact to such a degree you might or might not even have it and NOTHING changes, because that'd be too much effort. No options are opened or closed to you, Shepard will just switch "Spectre" with "former Spectre". Where's the "actual impact", when the decision doesn't inform the situation, the characters or the narrative? Same way Liara is obsessed with you, even if you let her go crazy in Therum and were awful to her in the short time aboard the Normandy. Same way Garrus is forced as your best bud, even if you never even recruited him. Same way the choice between Spectre/C-Sec you made with him was handwaved away so he could be scripted to me Omega's Batman. Same way the Council forgot they believed the Reapers to be real during ME1's epilogue. Same way geth weaponry in ME1 did not, in fact, use thermal clips. Same way so many other things were handled because they cared more about spectacle than cohesion. ME2 opened that floodgate.

ME3 had the least choice in the series. Did some jewtuber make a video essay defending it recently?

>>1134933 >male >Earthborn >War Hero >Vanguard >Jack romance >Wrex, Thane, Zaeed, Javik, ME3 Kaidan >planet Solcrum >Cerberus sidequest with Kahoku in 1, the Ardat-Yakshi monastery in 3 >>1137987 2 gets worse the more times you replay it, it's like the game desperately tried to not be a direct sequel to the game it was a direct sequel to. And Andromeda isn't even remembered

>>1138640 The game doesn't advertise half the choices it bears in mind. Tons of quests are full of things like pic related. And did you know the Virmire Survivor can like Shepard enough to survive the coup but *refuse* to join the Normandy, even if Shepard asks for it? Or that Grunt can in fact die in the rachni cave, it's not a guaranteed fake out? Even text-only based differences like >>1138221, in previous games they were the exception while in 3 they're the norm, to such a diminutive degree literally 99% of players out there haven't noticed 13+ years later and probably never will, yet the care to create said variations is still there. For example depending on what you tell Victus at the end of the Tuchanka storyline his reasons for appearing on Earth will change. Or depending on how many artifacts you click on in the Thessia monastery, as well as how much you push the Investigate dialogue options, the argument between Javik and Liara will also change (quite a lot). Want a specific example? When the dalatrass calls you with the offer to sabotage the genophage cure, she will say: >"Commander, you cannot allow the diplomatic pressures of this war to cloud your judgment" but if you expressed sympathy for the krogan during the summit she will instead say: >"Commander, you cannot allow your misguided sympathy for the krogan to cloud your judgment" Small change? Sure. But it's there when it didn't need to be. ME3 does this, plus it remembered to be an actual sequel to the Reaper threat of 1, plus this time around it had to keep in mind and acknowledge choices not from one but two previous sequels (one of which blew its load a game too early and made it possible for any one combination of 12 squadmates to be dead and already written off the story). With all that in mind, "ME3 had the least choice in the series" is just... well, funny.

>>1140505 none of that matters tho

The mental gymnastics are wild.

I wanna fuck Garrus. That's all.

>>1141089 Seems enough people disagree, even ITT. It also seems it being true makes some anons seethe hard enough to not wanna direct reply to the post at hand

>>1141364 I never replayed the series because overall it was a massive let down on its original spec, but I fondly remember ME2 for the wow factor it had. ME1 - amazing game pushing the boundaries, so you forgive the janky combat and exploration ME2 - great combat, more exciting cutscenes and story telling. Feels like a big step up in overall quality, so you forgive the lack of continuity between it and the previous game ME3 - quality pretty much the same as the previous game, plays out in almost exactly the same formula as the previous game overall good but you've seen it all before so you can't forgive the shitty ending They fucked themselves by being overambitious in the first place, all those claims made about continuity through the series turned out to be pretty much technically impossible.

>>1140505 >"ME3 had the least choice in the series" is just... well, funny. ME3 is just where the bad writing and plot holes ultimately accumulated to such an extent that they could no longer be ignored or paved over with superficialities. Choice wise there's a ton going on under the hood, sure, it's just that none of it really mattered enough to wow me. "Neat, character says X instead of Y" did little to bandage the gaping wounds, and on each replay I did, the more and more I realized that the real issue was the main story itself and its failure to truly branch. Even offering two or three major pathways through the game would have felt more satisfying, especially if those pathways were only unlockable from choices made in ME1 or 2. Instead it was mostly a series of modular islands where choices influenced things in a bubble (mostly.) Anyway this series was an abusive relationship for me. It seduced me, gaslit me, robbed me, raped my dog and deported my mother. It took years of therapy to recover from the psychological damage it inflicted and I still find myself going back to suckle on it like a broken needy whore for semi-annual replays that always end in frustration, disappointment and self hatred. I read Shamus Young's Mess Effect retrospective three times trying to make sense of what this thing did to me. At least the citadel DLC is the greatest piece of fan service ever conceived. Strangely sublime after all the suffering.

We love Jack here

>>1137723 True. Who would we genocide without repercussions if batarians went extinct?

>>1137723 Indeed if we strap them to the front of the ship they might absorb some Reaper laser fire.

>>1141828 ME2 did not have great combat. Vanguard is literally the only class in that game even remotely fun to play because it isn't forced into the shitty fucking Gears "hug the cover" playstyle. People who defend ME2s playstyle belong on a depopulation list.

>>1155837 kek well funnily enough during my one and only play through all those years ago I did in fact pick vanguard so you may have a point. That said the combat is still miles better than ME1 and dropping the Mako was a genius move.

I played through the trilogy recently. 1>3>>>>>2 in retrospect. 2 does not hold up. I remembered about shepherd dying at the beginning of 2 but seeing it play out again really reminded me how stupid it was. I gaslighted myself into thinking the illusive man was in cahoots with the collectors because the recovery of shepherd was so implausible. everyone says the cast was the best of the trilogy but it feels bloated. for sure thane and grunt could have been cut and made way for legion, a much more interesting character, to come in earlier. the gameplay is also weak, and this falls to balancing more than gamefeel. yeah it's certainly less jank than 1, but the contrived 4-types-of-health system, obviously concocted as a band-aid fix to overpowered biotics, only results in clogging up utility in favor of simply using whatever skill deletes a certain type of health bar. they also removed A LOT of gear customization, and having each character's skill pool be only 4 skills makes the late game leveling unexciting. however, although also poorly balanced, having actually different weapons to use was nice. I will say the introduction of paragon/renegade QTEs was pretty great. I played paragon, but I found myself hitting almost every renegade QTE possible just to see what certified thug move shepherd would pull next. 3 massively improves on the direction 2 took gameplay-wise but the story is so bad. I wanted to see if it was just the ending that sucked but no it's basically all trash from the jump. there are also barely any choices being made in dialogue. also why did they hate liara so much after 1 god damn

>He's still trying to force the ME3 was better then 2 meme We have IDs and we can tell you're IP hopping.

>has gay romances >exclusively gives gays the worst possible romance options >gives lesbians and straights good waifus/husbandos bravo bioware

>>1177960 >Alright team, what character should we use for a male/male romance?

<idk, this dude The worst attack on The Gay Community in history. How did they get away with it?

1 is king. 3 is a fairly fun shooter with some good moments like Tuchanka but is trash overall. 2 is trash and ruined everything, not even a decent shooter.

>>1134933 >Shepard (gender, background, military service, class) Sheploo, Spacer, Sole Survivor >class Adept in 1, Soldier in 2, Infiltrator/Vanguard in 3 >squadmates Wrex, Thane, Javik >planets Noveria and Virmire were peak, planets in every other game suck balls. I guess Mars' song was neat >quests Peak 15, Kasumi's DLC, Tuchanka, first half of the Citadel DLC >>1178075 Steve was a bro, I liked how they gave more personality to the shuttle rides. Samantha > Chambers too

>>1134933 Male Earthborn War Hero Vanguard Garrus, Liara, Miranda, Jack, Javik, Kaidan Eletania The finale of ME1 from Ilos to Citadel, the finale of ME2 from Reaper IFF to Suicide mission, the Leviathan DLC, Citadel DLC, Javik DLC and the finale of ME3

>>1134933 Will a Batarian die every time I post in this thread?

Is Andromeda really that bad? I got it on sale but stopped because of the Marvel dialogue. I'm considering trying it again, but I'd probably be better off replaying the trilogy.

>>1204100 and to be more on topic (sorry for not including this in my first post) >Male, earthborn, sole survivor >Vanguard >Noveria >ME1 finale, Genophage, Rannoch, Suicide Mission >Garrus, Tali (I know), Wrex, Legion

>>1204100 >Is Andromeda really that bad I really tried to give it a chance. I'm someone who can be easily entertained. This painting that looks better than anything else in the game sums up my feelings quite exactly. Mass Effect 1 and even 2 and 3 are able to give you the feeling from that image. But in Andromeda, it's just a poster on the wall. The vibe of 70's science fiction with a mysterious galaxy for you to discover is all but dead. Characters are completely flat, dialogue is extremely boring. Art design is way too busy and the environments can be legitimately awful looking. Gameplay has taken 1 step forward but 10 steps backwards. Class system is stupid. It has some of the most depth of skills of any Mass Effect but it comes off feeling so cheap and worse than any other because there's so few skills you can actually use at once and there's no skill wheel and there's no squad commands either. The only good thing about the game is this classic Mass Effect 1 concept art painting and the Galaxy Map is almost seamless to traverse which is really cool. When you park in front of a planet, you are actually in front of that planet, and being able to turn around and look at planets and points of interest in full 3D is great.

>>1204612 Truly a post that will forever live in infamy.

>>1134933 >Shepard male spacer ruthless >class vanguard renegade >squadmates Thane and Wrex >planets Illium and Omega >quests Thane's recruitment mission. It had a great buildup as you climb the tower and ends with an iconic reveal with a perfect sunset camera shot. You also get back at that bitch Nassana for using you to kill her sister in ME1. Mordin's loyalty mission is also quite juicy. You get to see him trying his hardest to justify the genophage even as he's confronted with the bodies themselves. While Mordin is still in denial at this point, he's learning firsthand that the actions of both species regarding the genophage had dire concequences.

>>1134933 Sheploo Earthborn War Hero Soldier Renegade Garrus, Wrex, Legion, EDI, Jimbo ME1 Virmire, finale, ME2's hub worlds, finale, ME3 Rannoch, finale, but not the endings. Fuck all the retarded-ass ME3 endings. >>1137723

>>1208249 You spelled Batarians wrong

>>1208249 >Always chimping out and resorting to violence They were literally uplifted before their time. As in, 150 years too soon at the very least if they're to be compared with humanity's trajectory between our last nuking vs when we first establish a colony on Mars in the ME timeline. The frog niggers saw a planet without spaceflight that NUKED ITSELF and thought "yeah you know what let's introduce them to the intergalactic community because we fucked up and now we need cannon fodder to help us defeat the rachni *we* unearthed from a dormant relay because we cannot walk 10 steps without fucking up". Then once that threat was over and they realized they couldn't just put the Klingo- I mean the Luxa- I mean the Krogan back into their shithole planet without them asking "so yeah anyway why did you use us as dispensable shock troops that wasn't very nice" they decided to deploy a fucking biological weapon against them they're still suffering the consequences of thousands of years later. >MUH THEY REPRODUCE LIKE FLIES Maybe the frog niggers should've thought about that before uplifting them. Need I remind you they try to do the same thing with the Yhag by ME3? We should've blown up a Salarian relay in Arrival, they're the worst of all the alphabet agencies combined.

Soundtracks: 1) ME2 2) ME1 3) ME3 Worldbuilding: 1) ME1 2) ME2 3) ME3 Main story: 1) ME1 2) ME2 3) ME3 Side stories 1) ME2 2) ME3 3) ME1 Combat 1) ME3 2) ME1 and ME2 tie because ME1s combat isn't fun and ME2 streamlined the rpg mechanics (it did make the classes feel more different however) Graphics: 1) ME2 2) ME3 3) ME1 Sound Effects: 1) ME3 2) ME2 3) ME1 Cutscenes: 1) ME2 2) ME3 3) ME1 Dialogue choices: 1) ME2 2) ME1 3) ME3 Romances: 1) ME2 2) ME3 3) ME1 Squad mates: 1) ME2 2) ME3 3) ME1 That's everything I could think of. The winner should be obvious even though I'll admit ME2 is not perfect and I understand that not every metric is equal to each other, ME2 however feels like a culmination of everything Bioware did great over the years and trimming down all the weaknesses they had in their game design. People like to act as if you dicking around doing unrelated missions to the mainstory to progress in the mainstory isn't peak bioware when Kotor did that for the majority of the game. This shit is the epitome of classic bioware. But despite that they still managed to tie the unrelated shit all together in ME2s ending with a loyalty system where any squadmate can die, which is exactly why I think ME2 is fucking awesome

>>1273177 Oh right two more things I could actually add: Voice acting: 1) ME2 2) ME3 3) ME1 Level design: 1) ME2 2) ME3 1) ME1 (if I have to see the same reused assets one more time) Hub worlds: 1) ME2 2) ME1 3) ME3

>>1273376 >two few* Thought of hub worlds last second and forgot to edit that out

https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/451 Possibly the best mod I've seen for mass effect 3 ever lol

>>1285115 Are you memeing? The actual best mods I've installed are weapon sound overhauls for ME1 (which ported the much better sounds from 2 & 3 in place of them), unlimited sprint, probe all, no mini games, and modern weapon pack (which took all the weapons from ME3 and inserted them into ME2)

>Shepard (gender, background, military service, class) My favourite was an Adept. Can't remember his history, I think he was part of some great tragedy but I can't recall fully. >class Adept. I thought vanguard would be fun but shotguns suck. First play through I thought the game was mediocre because of that class. My second playthrough though I got Adept and I loved throwing people around and pushing them off. Being a space wizard with a gun was the best. >squadmates Garrus and Wrex. >planets I like the snow planet. >quests My quest is to be a space cowboy. I want to shoot bandits and fuck squaws, or in this case shoot aliens and fuck other slightly sexier aliens. I have only played the first game though. I think Ashley is underrated.

>>1135663 Pretty much this, except I never played ME3 in the first place because Dragon Age 2 was so fucking shit that it killed my faith in Bioware as a developer.

>>1273177 >>1273376 Holy shit taste, never post again

>>1293276 >no argument Dispute anything I said. The only things ME1 had going for it was it's world building and main story (which wasn't even that good anyway, and took it's core elements from Star Control 2 so it's not original). Everything else about ME1 is horribly dated both from a graphical standpoint and gameplay one. Everything besides ME1s world building and short main story is either average or totally subpar. I can bet that most of you faggots who've played ME1 haven't even played it that much anyway (because news flash idiot, there isn't even that much replay value even in it), you just have rose tinted glasses that clouds your judgement. I would have preferred another game in the series with the same design philosophy as ME2 over how ME3 ended up

>>1290981 That's like comparing apples to fucking dragon fruit. The fact you think these games are even comparable is the shittiest take

The sad thing is that despite all of MEs shortcomings in the trilogy, LE1 didn't really get anything substantial but a shiny coat of paint when really the combat should have been remade because it fucking sucks as it is. It sucked back then and it sucks now

Just realized that Mass Effect 1 and 3 are cuck shit and ME3 just built off the same underlining principle that ME1 did: >if you're racist xenophobic you are more prone to reaper control; if you're xenophobic you are going to lose in other words In ME1 you see it with the krogans under sovereigns control, Cerberus which experimented on husks and had entire operations overrun by them, and Saren himself. ME2 was a breath of fresh air from all that shit and it could have proven that despite their failures in ME1, all those fucked up experiments could have all paid off in understanding how to defeat the reapers. Instead, we get a return of the same theme in ME3 undoing everything we had done in ME2. A pro human group that is willing to fight for what they believe in all ruined for sjw cuckoldry

>>1134933 >M >Space born >Sole survivor >Soldier >Tali (beause CUTE and Garrus because "just like old times") >Noveria >Suicide Mission And i still think that at the moment we played this mission, we reached the peak of gaming cinema. For me at least, nothing comparable ever came out after it. But seeing the changing narrative, i still have hope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXze6zVpFc

>>1328475 kill every asari npc because i can't kill liara

>>1391854 Shit taste. Jack's the best romance in ME2 next to Tali or Garrus if you're a fag.

>>1391854 bald girls are extra naked, very cute tsundere

>>1400122 But you can fix her, she becomes a teacher in 3.

>>1400122 i have lived my life dedicated to sticking my dick in crazy, its not the worst.

>>1391854 >manjaw It’s wide to be sure, but the chin would be pretty small for a man.

>>1391854 Jack's not ugly until they put hair on her and fix all her emotional problems in the 6 months between 2 and 3. >>1134933 >Male >Earthborn >Ruthless >Soldier >Tali/Garrus >celibate in 1 (though I'm going to play very soon, and might do Ashley in 1 despite her not getting hot until 3), Tali/Tali in 2/3 (if I make it through 3, which I've only done once) >Renegade (beat up Khalisah all 3 times), but I white knight and Paragon for Quarians >Omega >Archangel >Synthesis ending so Tali can eventually get naked

Weird that this spammer posts at approximately the same time of day.

>Female >Colonist >War Hero >Vanguard >Tali, Garrus >Renegade >Femshep/Garrus >Ilos, Ferros, Noveria, Rannoch, Eden Prime >Priority: Rannoch, Priority: Tuchanka, Omega Archangel arc, Quarian Flotilla/Tali arc, Suicide Mission There's no Shepard without Vakarian

>German/Joan Shepard >Spacer/War Hero every playthrough >Infintrator/Enginer (Love tech classes) >Full Paragon. Everyime. We all win together. >Rotate squaddies. Tali or Garrus. Did a playthrough of ME2 with just Kasumi and Zaeed once. Like Samara, Garrus, Wrex, Liara, Tali, Ashley. Don't really like Miranda, Jacob, Kaiden, James. I like all planets and all quests. I'm a completionist.

1 down. >Renegade >Soldier >Ashley romance >got Tali her Geth data >spared Rachni queen >helped Helena Blake and left her alive >saved the council (never done it before, even as a Paragon) >Kirrahe lived >Wrex lived >picked Anderson because he's a real bro

Ok guys you convinced me to replay mass effect. But now comes the hard part. Which class should I play? I have already played Adept and vanguard and dont want to do them. Any suggestions?

>>1442963 Infiltrator

>>1442963 Solider.

>>1443133 Went with this. Only problem is that I cannot make good looking women to save my life. She looks more like Helga shepard than Holly shepard. She is also going renegade because my two other characters that I completed the game with were paragons.

I've played this series so much that I can't pick the game up without being bored to tears and quitting 30 minutes later. I know for a fact that I have to at least have 1,000 hours on it when combining the time I played on my Xbox 360 and on pc. Literally the only thing I played for an entire summer was Mass Effect 2 when it came out. And I'm talking pretty much every obsessively for at least 6 hours The only way I'd play it all over again is if someone redubbed the entire series for comedic effect like in video related. I will never forget the magic this video game series was. And even though it definitely has it's faults, I still loved all of the games and remember them fondly

Another clip

What are the best mods for legendary edition?

>>1449042 https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/2454

I enjoy incel runs, where you go through all the games but don't romance anyone and also try to be as caustic as possible. Pretty sure the games gets a bit confused in ME2 because it shows a picture of you longing for Liara before the end mission which is funny. can't remember what happens in 3, only played it once.

>>1450361 Even if you romance someone else, Liara assumes you're married and tries to rape you constantly. She's Mac Walters' fat, ugly, autistic pet.

While extreme, this sums up why I don't mod games. Mods suck, and modders suck more.

>>1442963 Of all the interesting ayylums in Ass Erect, I don't know why people fawn over the blue chicks.

>>1450592 Because they are hot you xenophile. Go on and show off your hipster taste with your hot hanar porn.

>>1450592 With the exception of Liara and the goblins in Andromeda, they're cute.

>>1443344 >we think we found the signal ET was using to phone home, we're looking into that

I hate the thorian boss. its awful. Just shoot tanky zombies until they die and then kill 3 clones of the same asari. I had her executed because I choose to be a bitch this run. I unironically like Ashley. The dialogue here reminds me of my own struggles as a right wing man who has to deal with other more extreme people. But i am currently playing as a woman so I can't get her pregnant. "your choices have consequences!" they lied. Even if I played a man I can't get her preggers. Her face doesn't look super great or anything but it somehow looks better than the newer bioware games.

>>1453395 I dislike Feros as a whole. People complain about Noveria, but I like it (I do that first, and never take Liara because she's fat).

>>1453736 Feros is terrible and doubly so if you play a Paragon your first time around. Trying to save the colonists was a pain in the ass. Noveria's a breeze by comparison. The worst parts are all with the Mako.

>>1460951 I would argue that moral choice is one of the few good ones. Being a paragon actually takes a bit of effort instead of just having a choice between being an asshole and not being an asshole.

>>1461789 I actually agree with you, it's nice to have your choices actually be reflected in the gameplay, though I still think it's a pain to actually play.

>>1450597 >>1450650 >passive aggressive normalfags

Any hopes for the new ME game? EA gutted a lot of the studio, but the ME team was largely spared. In fact, reports make it sound like the ME team is partially responsible for the Dragon Age team being completely decimated due to corporate ratfucking. The two teams didn't like each other and towards the end of Veilguard's development, the ME guys had to come in and actually finish the game. Later company meetings with EA didn't go well for the Dragon Age guys. >>1453395 Bosses being lazy bullet sponges has been a thing forever, even in good games. Maybe Mass Effect shouldn't even have bosses, its gameplay isn't well suited to them. >>1462085 Your second reply isn't aggressive at all, be nice! But I'm surprised it took four days for anybody to call the guy unironically saying "hipster". That's not even modern normalfaggotry, that's old ass early 2010s normalfaggotry. Casuals used to go on /v/ in 2013 and say that if you didn't like Battlefield 3 or Bioshock Infinite.

>>1462085 I have a strong distaste for Liara, especially considering even if you go to Therum first, you see her after much better and hotter representatives of her race (her mom, Shaira, Tevos, etc). Not only is she unattractive, but she appears to be kind of dumb for a doctor. This is further reinforced by the fact that Ali Hillis is a terrible actress. It's all capped off by the fact that she's the writers' pet and is forced on you. Later games have her assuming a relationship regardless of whether you romanced Ashley or Kaidan/went celibate. She's very rapey, and the dread of talking to her is increased by her fat-faced unattractiveness. If Samara tried to rape the character, I'd likely not mind.

>>1462196 >If Samara tried to rape the character, I'd likely not mind. What do you think of Morinth?

>>1462216 I always killed her, but I'm about to go to Omega for the mission, and I'm going to save her this time. She looks almost the same, but the weird headdress Samara has makes her sexier.

>>1462241 >save her this time Too bad for what happened to her in 3. The writers did her dirty.

Guys help, my game got infested by shadow people. How do I fix? can you guess what my other companion is? >>1462137 >Any hopes for the new ME game? Of course not. They made andromeda, The people there clearly aren't interested in making good games. >hipster Dude is giving people shit for taking the more popular choice. There is no other word for people like that. I am also just tired of every sci-fi game having some guy complaining that people are jerking it to the humanoid aliens. Like god forbid someone doesn't want to jack it to a ball of eels. >>1462196 If you dont mind it its not rape. Its just aggressive femdom.

>>1462439 Verify integrity of game files. If you're running modded, wipe your game (delete the game directory after uninstall so it deletes all lingering files) and reinstall. Your saves are stored under your profile directory, so they'll be intact.

>>1462439 that was always a classic bug on the original. something about not liking cpu's with multiple cores (been so long since i've had to trouble shoot it i can't remember the spesicfics) If i remember its only that one bit, next area fixes it.

That's a whole lot of qussy.

>>1465265 This view in particular gives me KOTOR vibes. So quaint.

Almost done with 2. Reaper IFF is next.

>>1465668 Are you me? I'm about to go to get the IFF. Cleaned up everything on the galaxy map except LotSB or Arrival

>>1466873 I finished it last night. I'm dreading starting 3.

>>1467673 I'm done with my playthrough as well. I'll have a small break and figure out what mods I wanna install for ME3 to be worth the effort. I already downloaded a couple of cosmetic mods and a few big ones that upgrade the game, like Expanded Galaxy Mod and Dreams Remade. I dunno if you plan to do the same or will play it in all of its faulty glory.

>>1463952 >no Quarian femboys A dark day

I finished it! I have some thought about the game. Why was noveria a thing? No seriously why? I know we went there to get the matriarch but in retrospect the whole mission just seemed so pointless. Maybe its because I went into the maintenance tunnels instead? Then the game wouldn't let me leave the room until I had detonated a bomb killing everything. Then I took the tram and boom I was back on the ship. Never saw the survivors again. I cannot help but feel that this entire mission was a waste, like if we had just left the matriarch there nothing would have really changed. I think we got info about the conduit there but we get that from virmire as well so who cares? The final battle is fun. The big space battle looks fucking awesome. Its stupid how close these space ships are to each other but who really cares about that? I do not. I also considered sparing the council this time but I choose not to. I am surprised that Garrus actually wanted to spare them. I dont know why but I figured he would be totally for sacrificing the council. I think ambassador udina is a slimy fuck. He goes along with the council grounding me but then he effectively wants to make a human first reich when the council is gone. I am surprised you can just tell the both of them that you deliberately killed the council so humans can takeover. All in all I had fun revisiting mass effect. Now I am once again wondering if its worth the effort to pirate the second game. Would have to go through the effort to make a pirated copy work on linux mint. Shame they didn't release mass effect on GOG, would have made my life so much simpler. They only released DA:O on GOG and none of the other newer bioware games. Not even DA2. While I am talking about EA I think they really fucked up never making a space battle game based on mass effect. Whether its a strategy game or just dog fighting in space I think it would be cool. They have cool ship design we just never directly control it.

I miss ME3 MP. I have zero hopes for the next Mass Effect game's single player, but I'm holding out a tiny amount of hope that MAYBE the core combat gameplay will be decent and thus the multiplayer might be decent. It's not gonna happen, but it's at least theoretically possible.

What did she mean by this? Also, just cleared Palaven and Grissom (always do Grissom first for the Mattock).

>>1468546 As repetitive as it was, I had a lot of fun in Multiplayer. There were a lot of interesting classes and builds back then. >>1468511 The Council as a whole was a mistake. That starts in the first game, where they're just useless and perpetually hesitant to do anything because they fear starting a war with the Terminus Systems. Only for ME2 to reveal that the Terminus Systems are populated with Rogue humans not part of the Alliance and a mix of three mercenary factions you spend the whole game playing Gears of War with. I mean, it's a legitimate fear to not want to play Gears of War with them, because that kind of gameplay is absolute shit. Having that Renegade option to suggest making an all human Council, only for the replacement Council to never appear in ME2 and then just be shitty substitutes of the old council in ME3 just goes to the list of choices that don't matter in the trilogy. I'm not even bothered by it anymore after realizing how much ME2 wastes your time with shit that doesn't matter and how rushed ME3 feels because ME2 didn't properly set up anything useful with the plot ME1 started.

>>1468546 >>1468666 I always found ME3's multiplayer oddly interesting since it allowed actually playing as other races you don't usually get to control (unless I'm forgetting something like a mind control ability that might have existed). Felt really neat and made me wish there was a co-op Mass Effect game that played more like the later Lost Planet games did.

>>1468804 >a mind control ability Closest was Dominate, which didn't make sense from a lore standpoint and was basically just the organic version of AI Hacking, but didn't let you control your victim like that LOKI you operate in that small part of Arrival. >made me wish there was a co-op Mass Effect game There was supposed to be a multiplayer FPS called Mass Effect Team Assault. It got canned in favor of ME3's multiplayer.

>>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.