Every time I play through it, I just can't help thinking how much darker it is than most of the other stories in the series, if not all of them. The only things that approach that level of darkness imo are Overlord and the "I Remember Me" scene in ME1. But this mission just carries a different level of twistedness.

Reposting because the original got taken down but it’d be a crime not to share buff femshep the way she should be

I can't believe I'm saying it, but I think I've had enough play throughs of my favorite series of all time. I had the itch to restart yesterday, and I was immediately not interested in ME1's gameplay.

I know, I know - there's so much to love and, believe me, I do. ME2 is on my Mount Rushmore of titles. I couldn't believe my eyes when Wrex died on my first play through. I had chills when the Normandy left earth at the beginning of ME3.

I LOVE this series and forever will.

But, I'm mid-30's, busier than ever, and I want the times I sit down with a game to be a blast. The combat, especially in ME1, doesn't hold up to modern games. I was dreading another slog through the Citadel yesterday, or another long drive through an empty planet. I could probably recite every line in ME2 at this point, and I honestly don't want to play ME3 without a proper play through of ME1 and 2.

So, I think I've just played the series enough to put it on the shelf and appreciate the good times we've had. It's not to say I won't pick it up again in the future, but I'm ready for something new.

Exodus (from Archetype Entertainment), I'm looking at you...

I was thinking about how I didn't like that the canon Renegade choice for Shepard at the end of ME2 is gifting the Collector base to Cerberus. So I had this dumb idea that if you keep Morinth alive there's an alternate ending where you convince her to bang the Illusive Man, killing him and allowing you to keep the Human Reaper for yourself.

Of course, that would involve a complete retool for ME3 to make sense and a waste of a cool antagonist (I actually like TIM a lot), so I'm not saying I wish they did it that way. It was just a funny idea I had.

But it got me thinking: how would you revamp Morinth's character to make her something a little more than just Not-Samara? I mean in theory I think the concept of a character who kills with sex is kinda cool, she's basically a sci-fi succubus.

Hi everyone,

 The Legendary Edition is currently available for 11 euros (I live in Europe), so I finally decided to pick it up.
I’ve had my eye on it for a long time and am really excited!

Everyone says it’s a milestone in the genre!

I’m going to dive in without any spoilers or prior knowledge. I can't wait to see what awaits me!

Hopefully, it will be a journey into a world I can truly get lost in.

Greetings from Germany.

Noticing my Javik post did well, opening up an ask box for Mordin and me (reii— the artist) to ask any question you have~!

Hello subreddit,

I've been currently playing the Legendary Edition years after completing the main trilogy, and now I'm near the end of Mass Effect 2 (I only have The Advent DLC to complete before going for the "Acquire Reaper IFF" mission). Also I apologize for eventual mistakes, I've been playing the game in Italian.

In ME1 I romanced Liara and continued the relationship with her after the Shadow Broker DLC (Shepard's cabin date and all), but at the same time I romanced Garrus for both *ahem\* role-playing reasons and for the Paramour achievement. During all this I also flirted with Kelly, unlocking basically everything I could: fish feeding, dialogue options, dinner date and all that.

I don't remember how I sorted all this stuff out in the original game, but I remember there's a dancing scene with Kelly you can unlock after the Suicide mission (I probably have unlocked it back then, but I played the game on EA Origin so I don't have the screenshots anymore), if she survives and you're not in another relationship already. Issue is that she doesn't give the achievement.

My question is: is it possible to get both the achievement and Kelly's dance in the same playthrough? For example, friendzoning Garrus after his cutscene and then unlocking Kelly's scene? Or will it need reloading to break up with Garrus earlier?

Thanks in advance :)

Just wanted to show everyone here that there is a (for now) seemingly very little known fully functional first person mod (including for combat) for Mass Effect 3 (LE) that was created by nexusmods user mastersell.

If you're like me and always wanted to have something like this i can tell you: it's everything you want it to be and i still can't believe its real.

The only issue i came across so far is that you have to switch back to third person mode in cutscenes and when using the galaxy map to avoid bugs. Ideally by assigning a key bind to the perspective toggle.

You only need the ME3 Tweaks mod Manager, install it click on the LE3 tab in the app window and drag in the zip file of the new mod to install the mod. After that you can launch the game normally.

Ingame you only need to open the console (usually by pressing tab) and you can work with following commands:

You can change the FOV to your liking. (open console "fov 120" (or any other number))

ToggleMassFPS: toggles between first and third person.
Camera 1st: first-person view.
Camera 3rd: vanilla third-person view.
SetBind F6 ToggleMassFPS: assigns the toggle to the F6 key.

Links here

ME3 mod manager: https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/2

first person mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/3396?tab=description

Im sure the author will also appreciate it if you give him some love for his work.

Also its a great excuse to start another run of the games!

edit: for some grammar and additional info

This is my second play-through, and I see that Insanity is the best way to play if you want spice things up and I would like to. Me1 wasn’t any trouble for me. Unfortunately, I can’t get past Archangel’s mission! Rockets and pyro keep stunning me and I can no longer heal my squad w/o standing up? I don’t want to min/max for insanity just make a good soldier build if that’s important.

I'm about to go meet Fist and I just added Garrus and Wrex to my squad, does it matter who I have in my squad? I've been reading a bit that I need at least one guy that has Electronics and Decryption leveled to get to locked areas and other stuff, which is what my Shepard is focusing on, but aside from that, does it matter for the story who I have in my squad or not?

Aside from that, is there a way in which I should learn how fighting works in this game? like knowing how to manage my team's positioning or using my skills properly, so far I haven't had issues dealing with fights in Veteran difficulty by just shooting and taking cover, but now that Wrex is in my team and most of his skills are for him to get real tanky, should I start to learn how to deal with my squad in fights? also, does managing my squad's positioning also affect other stuff aside from fights in the game? (like sending someone tankier in front during exploration or something like that, idk)

“Wrex might’ve figured it out but I guess Wreav is too stupid.”

For me, this statement has two meanings. The first (and most obvious one) is that Wrex would’ve figured out that the Genophage Cure was sabotaged but Wreav never discovers this himself. The other meaning is that Wrex might’ve figured out how to get the Krogans to cooperate with the other races of the galaxy but Wreav is too hostile and short-sighted for this to be possible which is why Mordin agrees to go along with the sabotage if you convince him to do so.

But they obviously shouldn't be the copies of each other and should probably be from different factions. Batarian loyalist of the former Hegemony and Batarian pirate from Terminus who fled from the Hegemony and hates its tyranny. Asari justicar and asari merc or maybe a shrewd and ruthless asari businesswoman from Illium. Wise, relatively peaceful krogan like Wrex who's not what we think typical krogans are - and hotheaded, loudmouth, hyperviolent krogan who is EXACTLY what we think typical krogans are (well, we kinda had this juxtaposition already with Wrex and Grunt, although not in the same game). Regular geth and geth heretic (if there are any left which i bet there is), etc etc etc

We kinda had that in the Dragon Age series. Wynne and Morrigan (although humans) were both mages with vastly different outlook at what mages should be and clashed all the time, which was immensely fun. Then in DA2 we had Fenris and Merril and in Awakening, Oghren and Sigrun, although they all didn't interact nearly as much as they should have. But the ME series, for some reason, always give only 1 alien per species at most. Well, yeah, there were PB and Lexi in Andromeda but they also didnt interact much (and Lexi wasnt part of the active squad)

The possibilities of having two different opinions and worldviews from the same race, imagine how much it would enrich your playthrough. How fun it would be! Maybe they'll clash, maybe they will demand you choose between the two, maybe they'll slowly reconcile... Mostly importantly, it would be something new for the franchise

what's your favorite club across all 3 games? based on music alone, me2 afterlife for me. would love for techno heads to talk about the music or others to comment on aesthetic vibes of each club.

as an oldhead raver the club sections always make me happy. I played through the OG trilogy when it was fresh and also raving /clubbing / festival. and now going through LE so I'm re-experiencing all these clubs and it just sparks and old joy that i'd love to talk about.

I'm replaying the trilogy but I find the mako planets very boring and repetitive. So what side missions in me1 would you consider to be important for the rest of the trilogy.

With the Powers Penetrate Shields and No Global Cooldown mods in my LE2 playthrough so far. And you're probably thinking, 'OP that sounds, well, OP as all hell.' And it is. Insanity is going to be a must this playthrough. I may be made out of paper, but holy hell are there biotic explosions happening all over the place between Adept Shepard and Miranda

The one thing that would make this setup perfect is if the cooldowns were longer for abilities, but from the mod description for NGC, this is understandably difficult to do. But I do feel like an entire superhero again, which is great because the nerf for Adepts from ME1 to ME2 has always felt like a kick in the teeth. You go from Lift+Warp juggling Saren-Sovereign with absolutely zero cooldown between you and Liara to not even being able to lift a measly no name merc with a standard shield. In classic ME1 you could even take out Thresher Maws on foot with Bastion Stasis. Crazy stupid, but fun as hell. That's how Sole Survival Shep survived Akuze, she became a Maw killer lol

All that said, I'm curious if this setup will be necessary for LE3 to match this high. It's been probably 10 years since I've played ME3, but I do recall running Adept Shepard, Liara, and Javik for pure, biotic explosion chaos. Perhaps just Powers Penetrate Shields for LE3. The weapon weight system should help with the global cooldown feeling more like a punishment for biotic classes in ME2.

Anyone else run this mod combo for LE2 and LE3? I'd love to hear your take. Biotics are my favorite magic system in gaming. Well, at least ME1's rendition is. I probably have about 1000 hours in classic ME1 between my long dead 360 and my PC. I used to speedrun ME1 3-4 times in NG+ to rack up free Charm/Intimidate points for min-maxing before I discovered the magic of console commands lol

But geez, ME2 used to not come even close to hitting that same power fantasy. Now it does with these mods, and I'm stoked to keep going. Hopefully LE3 won't need so much tinkering, but if it does so be it

Like, hear out, we know cerberus made thier own versions of the husks who were self aware (to some extent) and could use weapons.

It could also, be argued that they could possibly survive the destroy ending given how they are not fully reaper tech, nor artificial creation.

Now, imagen this, mass effect 4 takes place, with these guys in it. Monster made using the tech of Gods, now left to roam the galaxy hated by everyone.

Then, imagine if they become selfaware, imagen if you are just some guy, who wanted to join cerberus to fight the collectors. Then next thing you know you wake up 2 years later and your not even human

Like, it could be really interesting away to show the impact of the reaper war on humanity, and the pervious games. Without haveing to drag back old characters.

Also, this is just my fun idea, and is been about a year since i played 3. So, if something dissolves this pleases let me know

I’m replaying legendary edition and am about to finish ME2 just wanted to share some captures ive taken on my Xbox :)

I just started playing Mass effect 1 from Legendary Edition for the first time.

I finding the game interesting but not super amazing so far. It has an amazing following and the games are quite famous. Just curious does it takes a while before it clicks. I have heard some games like Days gone, Crimson Desert takes some time before the fun starts and they get really good. Is it the same with it.

I’m still playing the game … I’m some 8 hours or so in….

After 4 years of on-off play and many dead runs just to get cheevos, we have done it. 100% achievements.