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Anonymous No.723094501 >>723096203 >>723096320 >>723096565 >>723096703 >>723097883 >>723098965 >>723103528 >>723109570 >>723110289 >>723118374 >>723120272 >>723120305 >>723124627 >>723134216 >>723140491 >>723146968 >>723149326 >>723154887 >>723160932
ESTABLISHING SECURE CONNECTION

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Anonymous No.723096203 >>723096626 >>723098965 >>723161919
>>723094501 (OP)
>Earthborn
>Sole Survivor
>Infiltrator
>Paragade
>Jack romance
>Destroy ending
Yep, it's gaming time...
Anonymous No.723096320 >>723098965 >>723147913 >>723156590 >>723157251
>>723094501 (OP)
i only like ME1
but i know if i play ME1 it won't feel right if i don't continue and play ME2 and ME3 as well
thus i'll never play ME1 again
Anonymous No.723096459
>Male, default Mark Vanderloo Shepard
>First name John
>Earthborn
>War Hero
>Soldier
>Paragon, but take renegade interrupts in ME2/3 (paragon interrupts take preference though)
>Liara romance for all three games
>Sacrifice Ashley on Virmire
>Keep everyone alive in ME2
>Destroy ending in ME3
Yup.
Anonymous No.723096536 >>723160656
Great game, but this is the ugliest (male) character creator of all. All my niggas looked like FAS burn victims. I couldn't stand to look at them. It drove me to play femshep, which was a blessing, because I realised how atrotious male Shepard's voice acting was and still is.
Anonymous No.723096547 >>723100915 >>723116067
>save file didn't transfer to ME3
>Wrex is dead in the default save
Worse than the ending
Anonymous No.723096565 >>723098965
>>723094501 (OP)
>vanguard w/ shotgun
>fucking Liara
>fucking Ashley
>fucking Tali
>fucking Samara and Morinth at the same time and not dying
>convincing Ashley to join Cerberus
>killing every disgusting alien with Ashley by my side
Anonymous No.723096626
>>723096203
Anonymous No.723096703 >>723098965 >>723109397 >>723116670 >>723134523
>>723094501 (OP)
>colonist
>war hero
>engi
>paragon but still killed the rachni queen and doomed the krogan
>romance ashley and then ditched her for miranda
>made sure jacob died in ME2
>destroy ending in ME3
Anonymous No.723097883 >>723098594 >>723104646 >>723107569
>>723094501 (OP)
Anonymous No.723098594
>>723097883
Shepard's face always looked the weirdest in 2 for some reason. It's like his face is ever so slighly smaller than it should be for the size of the head
Anonymous No.723098807 >>723099309 >>723102545 >>723108470 >>723116891
what other games do chaste romance right
Anonymous No.723098965 >>723099376 >>723099563 >>723108758 >>723111143 >>723116821 >>723117647 >>723117913 >>723118319 >>723128954 >>723129771 >>723130418 >>723137790
>>723094501 (OP) >>723096203 >>723096320 >>723096565 >>723096703
You amateurs can't come close to my degree of autism. I got my shit planned out in Excel.
Anonymous No.723099309
>>723098807
>Samara
>chaste
1k years in lmao
Anonymous No.723099376 >>723162179
>>723098965
Anonymous No.723099563
>>723098965
>Jian
Oh my Mentor!
HE'S A JIAN
HE'S A FUCKING JIAN
Anonymous No.723100915 >>723116142
>>723096547
Isn't there a backstory choice selecting comic in 3?
Anonymous No.723102545 >>723104738 >>723106169 >>723109576 >>723166290 >>723166545
>>723098807
>absolute whore in her "maiden years"
>"rewards" Shepard for committing to her with a hug
what's her appeal anyway when you have an asari crewmate who will impale herself on your dick at the first opportunity
Anonymous No.723103528 >>723104739 >>723108470 >>723109769 >>723150936
>>723094501 (OP)
Oooouuuuummmmmm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GXVXYl3_8c
Anonymous No.723104646
>>723097883
I don't know how people can play the remaster
Anonymous No.723104738
>>723102545
Model tier jawline and Billie Eilish's mom voice. Most Samarafags probably think with their dick on their first runs.
Anonymous No.723104739
>>723103528
Videogames peaked here
Anonymous No.723105128 >>723108980 >>723118450 >>723162171
Anonymous No.723106169
>>723102545
in my mind, shepard is male morinth. so jack and samara are the only ones that would spark interest. everyone else is a massive shepardsexual, or inexperienced. so it's a forgone conclusion that shepard could fuck them if he wanted
Anonymous No.723107569 >>723107686
>>723097883
>we'll flashbang, ok?
Anonymous No.723107686
>>723107569
Underrated/10
The most famous catholic (1889-1945) No.723108470
>>723098807
>>723103528

Mmmmmm

a sexy space amazon milky breast for lunch
Anonymous No.723108758
>>723098965
Anonymous No.723108980
>>723105128
Sadly, or funnily depending on how you look at it, picking the human male fighter as your main is the best way to have the most well-rounded party composition in games like this, because the rest of your squad mates will be various flavors of OC DONUTSTEEL
Anonymous No.723109372
did the various background profiles make literally any difference even in the first game except for like 1 different side mission for each
Anonymous No.723109397
>>723096703
>paragon but still killed the rachni queen and doomed the krogan
Absolutely disgusting
Anonymous No.723109570
>>723094501 (OP)
>Earth born
>War hero
>Soldier
>Paragon
>Ashley romance
>Sacrifice Kaidan
Anonymous No.723109576
>>723102545
She's way fucking hotter than Liara. Liara has a weird ugly fat face.
Anonymous No.723109647 >>723115746
I save the krogan despite it potentially dooming the galaxy because I value my friendship with one (1) krogan and can't bare the ME3 showdown with him
really you should've gotten punished more for being a goody two shoes, renegade you get nothing but suffering, paragon is endlessly rewarded for no real reason
Anonymous No.723109769 >>723158109 >>723159173
>>723103528
Mass Effect 1 was pure magic. Too bad they went the ultra-casual route after.
Anonymous No.723109773
>Male
>Colonist
>Ruthless
>Sentinel w/ Fortification bonus power (essentially god mode)
>shitload of guns, 200% weight penalty
>never bother taking cover, never die
Anonymous No.723110193
Its a shame BioWare never got to make sequels for Mass Effect. At least we'll always have ME and our adventure with Shepard.
Anonymous No.723110289
>>723094501 (OP)
The moment you heard this, the entire tone of the game was set. Absolute fucking audio masterpiece. I miss this Bioware.

https://youtu.be/VJ3JEnymeAI?si=MiLfcRh3oBh0n6Em
Anonymous No.723110495
https://youtu.be/ZYnjoRbODfQ?si=qycBQBww-BgTrjjB&t=263
>4:23
I miss when I was happy.
Anonymous No.723110505 >>723110784 >>723110928 >>723112485 >>723112509 >>723127005
Will we ever have something like Mass Effect again?
Anonymous No.723110784 >>723112509 >>723113321 >>723114189 >>723140362
>>723110505
Exodus might recreate some of the magic but it's too soon to tell
Anonymous No.723110928
>>723110505
It was one of the last exhales of an industry that no longer exists after the 2008 economic collapse, before the need to endlessly chase trends, by talented people who actually gave a shit about what they made, before the need to morally posture on social media. New Bioware doesn't even have the balls to create a character like Garrus anymore, a loose cannon cop willing to shoot first and ask questions later, and his morals and ethics are shaped by your path as a Paragon or Renegade, or Ashley, who's not even a racist in the typical sense but simply believes her own species' needs come first in her priorities before others. If new Bioware WAS to write any of these characters, they'd not only not be companions, they'd be comedic punching bags to crush.
Anonymous No.723110964 >>723118213 >>723120070
What are some cool space games? I'm not even talking about ME-like, could be FTL or something but I just want more space kino.
Anonymous No.723111143 >>723136009
>>723098965
>1
>2
>3
>6
>5
>4
What kind of autism causes this?
Anonymous No.723112485 >>723113248 >>723129257
>>723110505
There is no way in hell Mass Effect happens again. That perfect mix between devs of old with budget of the new. Before EA got their grubby hands on them, before the financial crisis, before Gamergate, before the enshittification of DLC, before devs actively hated players. The modern equivalent of Mass Effect 1 would be Baldur's Gate 3, and if you've played both you know just how different in style and presentation they are.
Anonymous No.723112509
>>723110505
No.

>>723110784
>Exodus
No fucking chance.
Anonymous No.723113248 >>723113683 >>723118584
>>723112485
Well put. ME came out at the perfect time. Games are just too expensive to make now so anything like ME just can't happen.
Anonymous No.723113321
>>723110784
Never trust new projects made "from the creators of your favorite old game!". See Mighty No. 9, Shroud of the Avatar, Back 4 Blood, Callisto Protocol. Karpyshyn might've had it in 2007 but he was okay with and wrote Cerberus in 2, then killed Revan in that 2011 novel, then didn't do much for the next decade. What I can tell you is that from the outside looking in, Exodus' universe looks beyond bland compared with Mass Effect's.
Anonymous No.723113683 >>723113783 >>723113970 >>723114619
>>723113248
Halo 3 was made by 100 people in three years, and it still mogs every modern shooter for the content it gave you.

>4 player campaign co-op, online or split screen
>10 multiplayer maps
>A constant rotation of Bungie-selected public matchmaking playlists
>Custom games with the ability to change any number of settings you wanted
>Map editor
>Built-in recording and video editing

A thousand people can't do this now, as proven with Halo Infinite which released without split screen co-op, without the map editor (added years later), and its match recording was broken, and it had like four fucking maps on release.
Anonymous No.723113783 >>723130090
>>723113683
find me who asked
Anonymous No.723113970
>>723113683
The theater mode still blows my mind. Halo 3 was the biggest game of that generation until GTA V so had all the time and talent it needed. Its dev costs and team are tiny compared to today and something like ME would have been a lot smaller or at least had less budget. A ME equivalent just cannot be made in today's industry.
Anonymous No.723114189 >>723118869 >>723140362
>>723110784
I have a feeling Exodus will be quite good. They were smart to outsource most of the gameplay to Certain Affinity, so they're not punching above their own weight. I also got the prequel book, and if the game is anything like it in terms of lore, then I won't be disappointed by how they use the Time Dilation stuff.
Anonymous No.723114212
>colonist
>sole survivor
>vanguard
>renegade
>tali
>destroy
yeah this is it
Anonymous No.723114619 >>723115528 >>723115734
>>723113683
The truth is that the reason why games could get made then was because we didn't have Jason Schreiers around blowing the whistle on crunch-culture. That started happening at the end of the PS3 era, and by then you had representatives from big companies appearing to defend it in interviews. Then social media culture happened and people really started politicizing Crunch and big parent firms like EA put in a few safeguards against it. They still crunch a lot but they're prevented the kinds of conditions that led to Mass Effect 1 or Halo 2 and 3.

The truth is plain and simply that those projects got made by teams that were ran by a slave driver boss. Casey Hudson was brutal on ME1. They had a bigger project scope than Dragon Age Origins, a game that took the DA team 8 years to make, and began development around the same time as ME1, and ME1 was done in 4 thanks to some "stunts" made by Casey Hudson. For one thing, he lied to the staff about a deadline with Microsoft after a big meeting. Turned out it was fake, and he just made it up, but he got the team to work in crunch-mode.

When ME1 wrapped, one of the designers wrote a review of Casey Hudson to the CEOs and called him "psychopathic, inhumane incompetent monster." and this is part of why there was an exodus during ME2. He described ME2 as a "graveyard for employees I used to work with."

But Casey got it made in 4 years. Otherwise there was no way that Mass Effect got produced with the kind of budget it had, over 8 years. There's no way a game like ME1 ever gets made again, unless you allow that insane amount of crunch, and the industry just doesn't, anymore. Same reason why the GTA head quit after RDR2.

People like Schreier want to end the AAA industry. The jews got their money out of it. now they want it shut down.
Anonymous No.723115528 >>723115818
>>723114619
You're the first person I see voicing something I've been thinking about for some time now. You look up interviews of classic, beloved games between the late 90s and early 2010s and there's *always* crunch stories about living in the studio for weeks sleeping in the couch barely seeing their wives back home. Yet somehow, at the end of the day, the games released were industry behemoths like Diablo, Halo, San Andreas, Mass Effect. Games that, once all has been said and done and people look back on them decades later after the dev crunch has been forgotten about, will stand the test of time and be forever idolized.
The idea with taking crunch away is fine. On paper. But the industry has demonstrably proven it doesn't work out. Either, as you said, games that could be done in 3-4 years are done in 6-8 so by the time you blink and there's just a duology you are 15 years older; or you don't rush your devs so they can do a month worth of dev time in three, you wait a decade for the new game and when it comes out it's Cyberpunk, or Starfield, or Veilguard. I don't know man, surely we've lost more than we've gained? Surely some times, asshole project managers that treat you like an 1800s negro are the ones that get shit done?
Anonymous No.723115734
>>723114619
Or he's just a fucking grifter that ruins things like the spiteful mutant that he is.
>le jews want to le ruin le industry
Bullshit. The biggest industry jew of them all was Kotick, and he didn't give a damn if the goy had to crunch to push out money makers faster than ever.
Anonymous No.723115746 >>723116476 >>723129081
>>723109647
There's no reason why krogan can't change or evolve until they limit their own birth rates themselves.
Anonymous No.723115818
>>723115528
The real issue is trying to get people on board with that. Game dev massively underpays compared to other software jobs but you also have to crunch far more too. Back then you had far better work environments and teams that really got along, plus people loved their work, their craft. Now its thousands of strangers being misled on a bloated behemoth of a game while the love of the medium is sapped away.
Anonymous No.723116067
>>723096547
There's literally multiple websites out there that let you download completed save files based on your preferences.

Or you could just use a save editor.
Anonymous No.723116075
The removal of crunch isn't to destroy the industry. It's to turn it into a massive fraud and embezzlement racket. Instead of spending 50 million to take 2-4 years to deliver a San Andreas, they can take 8-10 years and 500 million to shit out a Concord. They can use a metric fuck ton of cost overruns, delays and "consultants" to fritter away and squirrel away half a billion dollar of Blackrock money to all their friends and family.
Anonymous No.723116142 >>723116567
>>723100915
No that's only in 2.
Anonymous No.723116171 >>723116287
What's this crunch you folks mention?
Anonymous No.723116287 >>723116365
>>723116171
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crunch_(video_games)
Anonymous No.723116365
>>723116287
Thanks.
Anonymous No.723116476 >>723116717 >>723117159 >>723129081
>>723115746
Yeah like, if Wrex and Bakara are both alive I can see the krogan sort of reigning themselves in, maybe going for compromises like only being allowed to colonise worlds with dangerous flora/fauna similar to Tuchanka. OR starting up a system like the salarians have, where mating and having kids is organised by contract and strictly enforced to ensure there's no overpopulation.

The main concern just comes from whatever happens after Wrex/Bakara inevitably pass away, whoever takes over needs to be someone who PROPERLY understand why they can't overpopulate again, and that possibility is a bit up in the air given that right now, krogan leadership is still decided by a sort of "might=right" perspective. We just got lucky that Wrex was strong AND reasonably smart.
Anonymous No.723116567
>>723116142
Nope, there is one in 3 that lets you make important choices from 2 in case you didnt have anything called Genesis 2
Anonymous No.723116670 >>723117047 >>723117263 >>723117490
>>723096703
I still think its hilarious that the only black party member the entire trilogy is a dude with a non present dad who cheats on his girlfriend and knocks up the side hoe
Anonymous No.723116717
>>723116476
If Wrex is clever he's gonna groom Grunt as his successor. With a krogan's lifespan, we're talking about the next couple millennia being covered.
Anonymous No.723116821
>>723098965
Waaaay too much effort kek Mass Effect isn't a serious enough RPG for all of that
Anonymous No.723116891 >>723117164
>>723098807
>Samara
>chaste
She literally has multiple children, the only reason shes not getting her back blown out by Shepard is because shes heavily depressed, in her 60s biologically and has too much shit to worry about
Also im pretty sure there isnt any "romance" with Samara, she just laments that she cant ride Shepards Destiny Ascension due to the current circumstances
Anonymous No.723117047
>>723116670
I too love it when non-racists inadvertently end up being more racists than anyone else purely by circumstance.
Anonymous No.723117159
>>723116476
Krogan kroganing (heh, excuse me, my face is tired) isn't really all that bad. It's an excellent wake-up call for humanity to become stronger.
It's not impossible that krogan will just kill themselves too.
Any smart krogan biologist, however few of those there are, likely understands that their species ultimately is maladaptive as it is now.
They're too predisposed to an ineffective survival course that only seems superior to others at first glance.
Anonymous No.723117164
>>723116891
You can have something with her in the Citadel DLC if you show interest in 2 then don't romance anyone else in either 2 or 3
https://youtu.be/Df6ASAfbse8
Anonymous No.723117263
>>723116670
And for some reason is passive aggressive about the Normandy.
Anonymous No.723117490 >>723117572 >>723117783
>>723116670
Seriously, him deciding not to be with Shepard in the interim time when she was arrested is one thing, but moving on to a new girl + knocking her up + planning to propose to her within the span of SIX MONTHS is insane, there's legit no way they can make that look okay.
Anonymous No.723117572
>>723117490
>SIX MONTHS
WARNING
WARNING
Anonymous No.723117647 >>723136009
>>723098965
I did the same thing for ME1, except I kept mini saves off of the main one that handled the permutations of the important choices. So I had, for example, two Vanguard Shepards, one male and one female, with every possible combination of major choices as well as Paragon and Renegade versions of these characters.

Then my 360 profile ended up getting corrupted when I was transferring my tag from my buddy's 360 back to mine during that holiday season when the 360 really blew up. That was when they had that major Live outage and ended up giving people some shitty Live Arcade game as compensation. Meanwhile, my profile was no longer linked to my HDD, which meant I couldn't access any of my saves or anything I had paid for and downloaded. I ended up modding that 360 after their customer support said there was nothing they could do for me.
Anonymous No.723117667 >>723118132 >>723119127
For me it's Noveria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX85F85Lg0c
Anonymous No.723117783
>>723117490
Especially knowing the Reapers were coming btw. He didn't only decide to hook up with a new girl, he decided that knocking her up when giant toasters would harvest the galaxy in the near future was worth the risk. What a guy.
Anonymous No.723117913 >>723118137
>>723098965
Is this the kind of person we want protecting the galaxy?
Anonymous No.723118132 >>723119127
>>723117667
It's the best planet/story arc in ME1, which means it's the peak 15 of Mass Effect to this day.
Anonymous No.723118137
>>723117913
That's the only kind of person who can protect the galaxy.
Anonymous No.723118212
Man, Caleston was great!
Anonymous No.723118213 >>723119190
>>723110964
Starfield
Anonymous No.723118319 >>723118652 >>723136009
>>723098965
>punch udina punch udina punch udina
>sneak in
What caused the change?
Anonymous No.723118374 >>723118734 >>723146170
>>723094501 (OP)
1 (LE) > 3 (LE) > 2 > 2 (LE) > 1 > 3
1 was always extremely janky diamond in the rough and even though the LE doesn't even come close to uncovering its true potential, it unlocks enough of it for it to be by far the best thing to come out of the series. The main quest is the best of all the games by far
2 is probably the most polished game of all time, literally every single cutscene feels like it was somehow hand-crafted and cinematic. The writing is much worse but every aspect of its technical presentation is so incredibly well executed that I can't help but love it the most of all the games in the base. The Legendary Edition is unironically worse than the base game though because the DLC pacing is terrible and the buffed ammo counts turn ME2 from the most challenging game in the series (Horizon, Collector Ship) to a complete cakewalk
3 is a complete mess and my feelings of it oscillate on the regular, but I think I comfortably prefer the game with all its DLC to 2 these days. Overall the best gameplay in the series and it has some really great arcs, but it also has some of the dumbest and most infuriating writing decisions and missed opportunities ever. Anyone that actually followed the marketing for the game before it released will probably never be able to see past things like Mac Walters hyping up the Rachni Queen or Emily Wong getting killed on Twitter
But overall, still the best completed sci-fi game trilogy ever (mainly because Halo 3 dropped so much of Halo 2's story)
Anonymous No.723118442 >>723118809
Every time I feel like replaying Mass Effect I remember that I'll have to do all the side quests in 1 and my motivation withers
Anonymous No.723118450
>>723105128
Should I do a soldier run? I still haven't gotten around to doing that insanity difficulty I kept thinking about.
Anonymous No.723118584
>>723113248
The only hope is someone with a dream and drive letting AI fill in the gaps graphically for character animations and models while they focus on the world and the dialogue. It might be possible in five years. I wouldn't put money on it though.
Anonymous No.723118652
>>723118319
nta but I had never done it before because the game very clearly pushes you towards Udina's office so seeing the scene where Anderson headbutts a turian and gets shot in the leg securing the Normandy's release was pretty weird. You know, seeing a 'brand new' cutscene in a game you know inside and out.
Anonymous No.723118734
>>723118374
>1 (LE)
Stopped reading right there
Anonymous No.723118809
>>723118442
Play 1 however you want then keep around an old, 100% save to import to 2
Anonymous No.723118869 >>723119641
>>723114189
What's Exodus lore? What kind of game is it? Will there be blue 3-titted women to fuck? What's the story balamory?
Anonymous No.723119127
>>723118132
>>723117667
Anonymous No.723119190
>>723118213
Suck start a shotgun. Starfield might be a good game mechanically but it is castrated and very uncool.
Anonymous No.723119367 >>723120473
Does vanguard suck in me1, or is it just me?
Anonymous No.723119641 >>723119914 >>723120491 >>723120907 >>723121947 >>723123895 >>723128727
>>723118869
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAKAZNQuLqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmJxSKn47EE
lol, lmao even, this is going to be a disaster on the scale of MindsEye
Anonymous No.723119914
>>723119641
I'll take what I can get, its only this and that new Expanse game that are gonna continue the ME style formula.
Anonymous No.723120070 >>723120682
>>723110964
I was just playing Mechwarrior Mercenaries. That's been pretty fun.
Anonymous No.723120272 >>723120676
>>723094501 (OP)
The first game i ever pirated was this and when it started with "establishing secure connection" instantly alt f4'd thinking i downloaded a virus
Anonymous No.723120305
>>723094501 (OP)
>Spacer
>War Hero
>Vanguard
>full lawful stupid paragon
>Tali

Kind of the Boy Scouts playthrough here I come
Anonymous No.723120473
>>723119367
Its fine. I love playing ME1 vanguard with Sniper as the optional skill.
Vanguard in 2 and 3 is fun for half a game, then just becomes a boring. MANGUARD is a meme
Anonymous No.723120491 >>723120895 >>723120897 >>723126307
>>723119641
>browns and women
no thanks
Anonymous No.723120580 >>723120729 >>723131328
Picking Tali over Liara its onions coded
Imagine picking a gypsy who you cant even see the face (ugly) over prime virgin Liara
Anonymous No.723120676
>>723120272
Anonymous No.723120682
>>723120070
Fun times. I, however, have run my last circle. Hope you're having a blast anon, do something retarded for me like akimbo UAC20 clan Hunchie.
Anonymous No.723120729
>>723120580
Liara is boring outside of LoTSB
Anonymous No.723120895 >>723121193
>>723120491
Bro I am so fatigued.
Anonymous No.723120897 >>723121421
>>723120491
Three seconds into the Citadel in ME1 there's a sidequest with a poo in loo
Anonymous No.723120907 >>723121338
>>723119641
>no xeno women
*sigh*
Anonymous No.723121193
>>723120895
That looks like the librarian grandma from the Prequels
Anonymous No.723121287
>Get legendary trilogy when it was $5 in a steam sale
>Play through all of ME1 doing everything
>Get to 2
>Stop after the beginning but where you help Tali find the autistic quarian
I knew from memory that limited ammo and the simplified powers and RPG mechanics would suck, but once I actually experienced them again it really hit me and I couldn't keep going.
Anonymous No.723121338
>>723120907
Those robot things though... Definitely would.
Anonymous No.723121421
>>723120897
In ME you play Commander Manly Fuckseveryone on a galactic saving adventure and most of your companions are either white-enough humans, based space frogs that turned the space lizards gay or hot alien bitches.

Exodus by comparison looks like discount Expanse with more DEI. I'll probably still give it a pirate.
Anonymous No.723121947 >>723122909 >>723125454 >>723148587
>>723119641
Wait, so you don't get to create your own character? You play only as this Jim fella from the two trailers, after he comes back from FTL decades later and his gf is dead, and he "puts together a team" for reasons? Lmao.
Also, yep, the environments/dungeons/astronaut suits look beyond generic scifi. Same with the robot enemies. In that sense it actually reminds me of Andromeda over the OT. Compare anything in that second trailer specifically with the originality of a turian or the N7 Onyx. I don't know...
Anonymous No.723122909
>>723121947
You do still customize your own character, the person in the trailer is just the default guy. It's just that you have a set name (Jun) and a set background.

The whole sequence in the trailer is just meant to be one of the possible options, since you'll be making choices that may lead into large time jumps with certain companions left behind.
Anonymous No.723122946 >>723123053 >>723123462 >>723124013
Was Andromeda as bad as I remember it being in the first like 3 hours I tried playing before quitting it?
Anonymous No.723123053
>>723122946
Yes
Anonymous No.723123462
>>723122946
There are nuggets of "man, what could've been" hidden behind 70 hours of Inquisition open worlds and Veilguard 0.5 dialogue
Anonymous No.723123895
>>723119641
looks abysmal and those videos have some of the least organic comments i've seen lately
Anonymous No.723124013 >>723125265 >>723126728 >>723127137
>>723122946
Its not even fun ironically. Its just bad.
That Suvi is mildly cutie is the only thing it has going for it.

Bad story, bad characters, bad combat, bad lore, bad weapons, bad set design, bad item design, bad voice acting, bad animation, bad jokes, bad drama, bad ship, bad premise.
It just sucks
Anonymous No.723124063
Just imagine we could have had enough 5 kino mass effect games if they simply didn't hire women.
Anonymous No.723124363 >>723125728
Earthborn
War hero
Vanguard
Console commands for max paragon and renegade because I want to choose whatever dialogue I want
Nuke kaiden (wish it could be Ashley and kaiden)
Romance Tali and then destroy the quarian floatilla
Anonymous No.723124627 >>723124673
>>723094501 (OP)
I get the urge to replay this every year around this time.
I see I’m not the only one.
Anonymous No.723124673
>>723124627
I usually do so in the spring
Anonymous No.723125265 >>723125947 >>723126367
>>723124013
>Suvi was meant to be romanceable by Scott but it was changed so last minute the game's official guide still show him in the screencaps for the romance
Anonymous No.723125454
>>723121947
God if we could have played Alec Ryder the writers might have accidentally made Andromeda decent.
Anonymous No.723125518 >>723125830
why don't they mention Shepards dad if you choose Spacer/War Hero, aren't both parents alive
Anonymous No.723125728 >>723136497
>>723124363
Do you warn the Batarian infestation in ME2?
Anonymous No.723125762 >>723125864
This thread is giving me the URGE but my backlog is big enough
Anonymous No.723125830 >>723125923
>>723125518
Don't you get an email in 3 from your parents?
Anonymous No.723125864
>>723125762
Don't treat vidya like homework, fren
Anonymous No.723125923
>>723125830
Fairly sure the only interaction you get is from the mom in Me1 and Me3
Anonymous No.723125947
>>723125265
Im not surprised to hear that.
Anonymous No.723125973 >>723130028
Any other mods worthwhile to beef up 3 a bit? I don't care about appearance mods, I use default shep for each playthrough.
Anonymous No.723126307
>>723120491
Haven't read Mass Effect: Revelation, have you?
Anonymous No.723126319
Anonymous No.723126367 >>723127653
>>723125265
Source?
Anonymous No.723126459
>mfw every time I beat the trilogy I reinstall Andromeda thinking it's more ME so it can't be THAT bad
Anonymous No.723126728
>>723124013
Mass Effect weapons are an excellent indicator of design issues. There are those since 1. Andromeda just shows it best. Otherwise guns are more or less robust.
Anonymous No.723126813 >>723127098 >>723127405
>replay me trilogy after a long time
>get to part where wrex says"Shepard my old friend"

Didnt expect to have some tears form
Anonymous No.723127005 >>723127925
>>723110505
Owlcat's expanse game might get close.
Anonymous No.723127098
>>723126813
Are there any mods yet that fix the the trilogy? Visually I mean.
Anonymous No.723127114 >>723127237
>mfw no Wrex romance option where it is revealed that it's him who sent the breeding request and you accept
Anonymous No.723127137 >>723127959
>>723124013
Tempest is one thing ME:A did right, if more unusually.
Unlike the "216 m but it's actually 450-500 m long and still has less crew than actual IRL modern battlecruiser" Normandy it isn't 2 or 3 ships in one, is to scale, and is more reminscent of what SR-1 was meant to be originally.
Anonymous No.723127237
>>723127114
>Wrex is too shy to ask femshep out
Pliable like a puppy
Anonymous No.723127405 >>723127953
>>723126813
there are "people" out there who killed wrex
Anonymous No.723127653 >>723128535
>>723126367
>"the game's official guide still shows him in the screencaps for the romance"
If you mod the romance, you can check his VA has the lines recorded too
Anonymous No.723127686
What is the mod list for the trilogy remaster again?
Anonymous No.723127925 >>723127992
>>723127005
nah that IP sucks ass no good aliens no fun retrofuturism
Anonymous No.723127953 >>723128060
>>723127405
I motion Ash to shoot him regularly.
Sometimes I even shoot him myself in ME3
Anonymous No.723127959 >>723128642 >>723128839 >>723128952
>>723127137
The Tempest is retarded
>yeah let me waste space on this top of the line explorer ship with a deluxe captain's quarters triple the size of any other room in the vessel
At least the SR-2 had the excuse of TIM being a drooling moron purposefully wasting billions wanting to buy Shepard's loyalty
>also, lol no mounted guns because we won't need those exploring a brand new galaxy, you silly goose!
Anonymous No.723127992
>>723127925
Also has that bitch who played Ada in WTRC and RE4R.
Anonymous No.723128060 >>723129219
>>723127953
Shooting Mordin then the Virmire Survivor then Wrex in 3 is unfathomably kino
>"I... know... what... you... did... Shepard..."
Anonymous No.723128162 >>723166532 >>723167348
Anonymous No.723128535
>>723127653
Appreciate it, m8 Pity there's so little concept art beyond the books
Anonymous No.723128642
>>723127959
Yeah tbf even in ME1 the captains quarters were much bigger than a normal crewmans, but it was still reasonable and made sense as a privilege of rank, but andromeda pushes it to a ridiculous degree with so much fucking wasted open space, you could cut that room in half and it'd still be spacious as hell.

Meanwhile the rest of the crew are still slumming it in barrack style bunk beds (that don't even look like they'd fit bigger crewmates like Jaal/Drack/Vetra
Anonymous No.723128727
>>723119641
this literally looks worse than andromeda
Anonymous No.723128839
>>723127959
I bet its the brain AI lying to you about the room
Anonymous No.723128952 >>723129468
>>723127959
Just because you dislike it in terms of worthiness in certain aspects of its assigned mission doesn't mean it's bad as an actual spacecraft.
It's a scout vessel made with mental comfort for an AI implant user in mind, and speed. It's not meant to battle at all, it's probably has all area meant for GUARDIAN arrays swapped for sensors.
Anonymous No.723128954
>>723098965
Anonymous No.723129081 >>723129149
>>723115746
>>723116476
Complete retards.
Anonymous No.723129149 >>723129842
>>723129081
Krogan did invent the nukes. They aren't hopeless yet, and they aren't a problem for peer breeding forces.
Anonymous No.723129219 >>723129340 >>723129401 >>723129795 >>723137004
>>723128060
>Shoot Mordin in 3 because his character was much more interesting in 2, and his inclusion in 3 was pointless and embarrassing.
>Shoot the Virmire Survivor in 3 because its painful to see how much worse they are now than when they were in ME1. Better to mercy kill them before they have to see what else ME3 has to show you.
>Shoot Wrex in 3 because the Genophage Cure arc in 3 completely goes against everything him and his throne of rubble was building up towards in ME2.
Ill always appreciate the devs of 3 for letting me roleplay a shepard that would rather burn the galaxy to the ground because ME2 and ME3 are middling than actually engage with saving the world from the reapers.
Reject ending is still the best ending.
Anonymous No.723129257
>>723112485
Would love to see Larian try their hand at a high-budget sci-fi game with their newfound wealth.
Anonymous No.723129340
>>723129219
Retard
Anonymous No.723129356
On an unrelated note, Alpha Protocol deserved a trilogy or at least a sequel.
Anonymous No.723129401 >>723129643
>>723129219
>Shoot Mordin in 3 because his character was much more interesting in 2,
I love everyone that says this because they're telling to the rest of the world that they speedread ME2
Anonymous No.723129468 >>723130529
>>723128952
>in terms of worthiness in certain aspects of its assigned mission
That's all that matters. If your RPG has shit immersion it's a shit RPG. The entirety of the Andromeda Initiative makes zero fucking sense.
Anonymous No.723129643 >>723129807
>>723129401
2
>The Krogan can save themselves. I believe it scientifically and personally.
3
>noooo! They need super special salarian secret stealthy spore sprayers, everything I ever said or did was completely wrong.

it sucked.
Pretty much every party member in the entire series was only good in their original game anyway.
Anonymous No.723129771
>>723098965
fuck i'm in tears
Anonymous No.723129795
>>723129219
nah It's better the cure the fagofage beceause you're in league with space jews otherwise
Anonymous No.723129805 >>723129864 >>723146804
gameplay wise, is the me1 legendary edition worth playing over the original game?
Anonymous No.723129807 >>723131019 >>723154036
>>723129643
>every single dialogue option from Mordin's loyalty quest in 2 screams at you that he's coping with his last choice so goddamn hard he even turned to religion at some point
>"the Krogan can save themselves. I believe it scientifically"
>that's why I updated the sterilization once they started saving themselves by adapting biologically
Mordin is 3 is doing the exact same thing he believed in in 2, just overtly instead of being heavily alluded to which is how idiots (read: (You)) somehow missed it and unironically believe 2 Mordin is in favor of his last actions and doesn't feel utterly guilty for them
Anonymous No.723129842 >>723130738
>>723129149
They also nuked themselves so they could have a radioactive warhammer planet to fight forever on
Anonymous No.723129864
>>723129805
Do you like distinctions between classes to be taken away and the Mako having worse handling?
Anonymous No.723129949
>723129219
Trying too hard
Anonymous No.723130028
>>723125973
anderson's final conversation restored
dreams remade
immersive emails
n7 warmaster
reworked kai leng

and the new peom is so fucking good I genuinely prefer it over take earth back nowadays
Anonymous No.723130090
>>723113783
Anonymous No.723130418 >>723136009
>>723098965
I kneel anon.
I also plan out my playthroughs, but nowhere close to that degree.
Anonymous No.723130529 >>723135459
>>723129468
It makes zero sense to you because its actual purpose is too schizo for most to comprehend.
And because you, like most, operate on mundane personal assumptions of what is and isn't immersion-breaking.
Which, in turn, are fully predicated on your slop consumer expectations of stories as a medium that provides explanations in ways most obvious, yet also compatible with your personal knowledge, if and when they are provided at all.
Easy sense is typically the purpose of storytelling, obviously, and in terms of story telling it is a failure, but there's enough data to make sense of it, and of why's it went sideways.

The title "pathfinder" is funny in that regard, no one gets it, much like they don't understand what eezo existing implicates, or what one can do with it.
But because a tiny bunch of codex snippets and really short explanations exist, the fans nuh-uh a great deal of things and make any number of excuses from "muh suspension of disbelief" or "it's a fictional story" to "this is nonsense, that one ain't, you can't just make sense of it or say I don't get it!" or "devs didn't write it out", and so ME1-3 gets a slide depending on select individual ability to get it.

But Andromeda pushes this too far, and so most get filtered, a tiny bunch recognize stillborn design sentiments, and the tiniest few realize unpleasant implications.
Anonymous No.723130738 >>723130947
>>723129842
Can you blame men for liking big explosions? Nukes are cool! The Krogan just were enthusiastic.
Anonymous No.723130947 >>723133157
>>723130738
Actually I've thought about it a little, I think the salarians probably caused the krogans to nuke themselves
It all just lines up too perfectly with the Salarian approach of short term solutions with massive repercussions in the long term
Anonymous No.723131019 >>723131440 >>723135342
>>723129807
His main regret seemed to be moreso that the salarians (and himself) didn't account for the consequences emotionally for the krogan, they only saw it as a numbers game. "If we get their pregnancy viability down to X% then they should be able to reproduce at a sustainable level", but then the krogan basically just stopped trying to reproduce properly at all due to the depression of what happened to them. Too many krogan left their homeworld to just throw their lives away as mercs, and even the ones who stayed mostly just squabble for power.

Wrex was one of the few with an actual fucking brain and even in ME1 said what the krogan need to do is stay on their world and focus on breeding for at least a few generations, then they'd be making an actual comeback, but no one listened to him (at least until 2).

Curing the genophage entirely just seems like such a MASSIVE leap in the other direction that its out of character for him, its just really short sighted, the potential risks of such a thing are pretty damn obvious, and Wrex/Bakara being in charge is the only real safety net for this plan. I would only really be okay with this choice if Mordin had made it clear that the salarians had a genophage 3.0 in storage and WOULD use it if the krogan got uppity again.
Anonymous No.723131262 >>723131345 >>723131408
What do people even want out of ME4?
I feel like everything was done in the trilogy, what little they've shown so far seems bad
>Geth are back
>Mass Relays are back
>Cerberus despite all the shit they did are back
it just seems like outside of finding Shepard they would just retread old problems
Anonymous No.723131328
>>723120580
You main Liara and fuck Tali in ME2 so she can goon over it by herself in her goonsuit
Anonymous No.723131345
>>723131262
Geth and mass relays are a given. I assume we're working off the destroy ending in which case it makes sense that they eventually fixed up the relays + the quarians remade the geth to symbolically honor them and treat them right this time.
Anonymous No.723131408
>>723131262
>>Mass Relays are back
How is this bad? They didn't use the ezo twist.
Anonymous No.723131440 >>723133228
>>723131019
He's an old man and probably sundowning
Anonymous No.723133157
>>723130947
A solid conclusion, you've done well. One can easily imagine some dalatrasses or the british or americans maybe? planning to liquidate their assets like that.
Anonymous No.723133228
>>723131440
>He's an old man and probably sundowning
In touch with his inner child?
Anonymous No.723134216 >>723134285
>>723094501 (OP)
>spacer
>war hero
>soldier
>ashley romance
>300,000 batarians (and counting) killed
>destroy ending
Anonymous No.723134285 >>723134707
>>723134216
>>destroy ending
Low EMS or high EMS?
Anonymous No.723134523
>>723096703
>colonist
>war hero
I usually chose this, loved that my character's backstory revolved around killing batarian slavers.
Anonymous No.723134707
>>723134285
High, naturally
Anonymous No.723135342 >>723160541
>>723131019
Wrong
Anonymous No.723135459
>>723130529
Its purpose is obvious in the same way your needlessly long posts is obviously trying to cover for your shit taste in awful ships
Anonymous No.723136009
>>723111143
I originally planned to play Sentinel after Vanguard, but then decided to go with Adept first after seeing how OP a Sentinel run can be with the right build:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZof1SOK8yk

>>723117647
I never had a console (parents didn't have money for it at the time), so it's wild to hear about the shit you had to go through with them. Hope you upgraded to PC.

>>723118319
It's roleplaying anon: the first three Sheps are generational Udina haters, while the latter three are more strategic/diplomatic, so they want to avoid any incidents between the two.

>>723130418
I respect how you summarized the character with one humorous sentence.
Anonymous No.723136392 >>723139442
I just keep replaying ME1 and pretending the rest of the franchise doesnt exist beyond that. Honestly its so much more healthy and cathartic.
Anonymous No.723136414
Anonymous No.723136497
>>723125728
Fuck no, Total Batarian death. My only regret is I cannot travel across multiple universes to blow them to hell in all timelines
Anonymous No.723136671 >>723137187
i remember doing a full playthrough on insane as sentinel>medic never shooting my gun in the first game, just healing squaddies and ordering them
Anonymous No.723137004
>>723129219
>Shoot the Virmire Survivor in 3 because its painful to see how much worse they are now than when they were in ME1
>he doesn't know that Kaidan gets better
Anonymous No.723137187
>>723136671
>Shepard, you're a soldier, not a medigel dispenser!
Anonymous No.723137790
>>723098965
Anonymous No.723139442
>>723136392
Eh, with MEHEM mod you can patch ME3 ending into something serviceable.
Dragon Age on the other hand is great if you only play the first game. I heard DA2 is worth trying but DA:I and DA:V really killed any desire to try out anything else in that franchise.
Anonymous No.723140362 >>723148497
>>723110784
>Exodus might recreate some of the magic but it's too soon to tell.
The Not-Normandy looks great in my humble opinion. More realistic than Normandy, though actually having a shape that's not a boring cylinder.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nJx9lo

>>723114189
>I also got the prequel book
Archimedes Engine and the upcoming Helium Sea actually take place after the events of the game. The game takes place on Lidon (which wasn't explored in the books IIRC) and the five Now and Forever Queens are all there doing their Celestial scheming, which is likely to affect or be affected by our characters actions.
Anonymous No.723140491 >>723141762
>>723094501 (OP)
Perfect timing. I've been reading the original four novels again; finished the first three and now I'm onto the final one written by Dietz. Of those that have read the novels, what do you think? I like Karpyshyn's work and I think the first one had the strongest story but all three of his are good reads. Not sure what I think of the fourth one.

>tfw ywn see your quarian qt's face rendered in game
Anonymous No.723141762 >>723142478
>>723140491
Are the books worth reading? I know Deception is a meme, but do the rest add something significant to the setting?
Anonymous No.723142478 >>723145971
>>723141762
I would say they do, yes. I think revelation adds the most background behind the events of the first game and fleshes out Anderson as a character more. Kahlee is also pretty cool and milf material; too bad you can't romance her in ME3.

The second story is pretty good too, but I wish they did more to flesh out quarian society more as that constitutes a good chunk of the end. Paul Grayson as a character is interesting, but I feel like he wasn't properly fleshed out.

I still love all of them, even Deception, because I'm a massive fan fanboy of the series and setting as a whole. The first three are definitely good books barring my bias with the first being the strongest. I highly recommend you check them out.

You can find them on library genesis or Anna's archive and buy the paperbacks for pretty cheap.
Anonymous No.723142749 >>723142920 >>723143979 >>723145897 >>723148572 >>723150661
what the FUCK was the point of the Collectors when the Reapers are arriving a couple of years later
Anonymous No.723142920 >>723145897
>>723142749
What's the point of ME2 in general?
Anonymous No.723143918 >>723145971 >>723146524
Why is Deception a meme? It's the fourth book, right?
Anonymous No.723143979
>>723142749
Collectors should have been a stand-alone villain faction, not Harbinger's stooges.
Anonymous No.723144261
Anonymous No.723145897
>>723142749
What the fuck was the point of Sovereign?

>>723142920
What's the point of anything, if all it takes to kill the Reapers is a light show?
Anonymous No.723145971
>>723142478
Thanks for the recommendation anon, I'll check the books out. If I can reciprocate, I'd recommend reading Archimedes Engine. It's a narrative introduction for the upcoming Exodus game (though it occurs after the events of the game), and it's the closest we'll get to a spiritual sequel to Mass Effect. You can find the e-book version here:
>ebook-hunter.org/exodus-the-archimedes-engine-by-peter-f-hamilton_674f51dc52f90e49b5fbf276/

>>723143918
>Why is Deception a meme? It's the fourth book, right?
I don't know if you have the time or willpower to go through this entire document but it's bad:
>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XBpMF3ONlI308D9IGG8KICBHfWKU0sXh0ntukv-_cmo/edit?tab=t.0
Anonymous No.723146170 >>723146242
>>723118374
>LE
Stop fucking shilling the Demaster you retarded fucking zoomers
Anonymous No.723146242 >>723146572
>>723146170
>still mad it didn't flop like /v/ "predicted"
Anonymous No.723146524
>>723143918
If I remember right it just doesn't line up with the lore of the series at all and is clearly written by someone with no oversight unlike the other books which were done by one of the games OG writers and lines up almost perfectly (warts and all) timeline and lore wise

If I remember right it was so fucking bad that bioware said they'r re-release the book with lore corrections but I don't actually think that ever happened
Anonymous No.723146572 >>723146650 >>723146778
>>723146242
>YES I LOVE CENSORED BUGGY GARBAGE THAT RUINS THE LIGHTING AND LOOK OF THE ORIGINAL

Let me guess next you're going to use the MUH FPS argument
Anonymous No.723146650 >>723148803
>>723146572
No, it's just more accessible and cheaper than the original trilogy.
Its flaws can be modded, but the OT also needs heavy modding anyway, specially ME3
Anonymous No.723146778 >>723146927
>>723146572
LE is a shit remaster, but not because of fucked up lighting or "censoring" but because there was no ME3 multiplayer nor any attempt to restore cut content that the original games couldn't include due to time constrains.
Anonymous No.723146804
>>723129805
ME1 gameplay is probably the only thing LE actually improves. It's still half-assed dogshit that requires dozens of mods to whip into a remotely playable shape.
Anonymous No.723146860 >>723146926 >>723167747
>Finally play Andromeda for the first time
>Really don't like it and hate that it JJ Abramsify's the setting even though (outside of 3) it has a lot more of a lived in look and feel in 2 or a Syd Mead inspired design in 1
>Get about an hour in
>Blah blah blah you're awake now in a new galaxy, pathfinders blah blah (BORING HORSESHIT NOBODY CARES ABOUT)
>Suddenly hear info about how there are rival factions on the ship and about how there were disagreements with how to run stuff
>Think "Oh cool this is setting up a system where there's 2 factions in the game that represent different ways to interact with the new galaxy and we'll have to choose between them and make choices throughout the game and it will probably result in a minicivil war scenario that will stretch out resources and manpower and will bring our ark to the brink of collapse
>That's a really cool idea I wonder wh-
>No the uprising was covered in a prequel novel they're just in the game to be a bad guy merc/human faction to fight

Cool yeah just don't do anything fucking interesting Bioware that's great
Anonymous No.723146926
>>723146860
Yeah that was pretty retarded, they went out of their way to make the start of the game as slow and boring as they could.
Anonymous No.723146927 >>723147236
>>723146778
>LE is a shit remaster, but not because of fucked up lighting or "censoring"
Uh no that's exactly why it's a shit remaster zoomie
Anonymous No.723146968
>>723094501 (OP)
Commander Shepard.
Anonymous No.723147236
>>723146927
Anon, if I want better lighting or "decensored" butt shots of Miranda, I can just install the original trilogy.
What I can't get is functional ME3 multiplayer on a current-gen console or PC or having content (like original hub world for Therum or an alternate way to deal with Feros colonists, for example) that was removed from the OG trilogy due to time constrains.
Anonymous No.723147702 >>723148458 >>723148830
Cant believe this series never got a sequel.
So much wasted potential
Anonymous No.723147913
>>723096320
me1 is the only one I like as well. the writing in 2 was a huge step down so I stopped playing there

i was really surprised how much worse the writing was going from 1 to 2. I guess lots of sequels have that issue though
Anonymous No.723148458 >>723148546
>>723147702
Why is she so angry?
Anonymous No.723148497
>>723140362
Reject Star Wars looking ass
Anonymous No.723148546 >>723148830 >>723149097 >>723149734
>>723148458
She want a sequel to mass effect 1
Anonymous No.723148572
>>723142749
To waste your time on a game that really, REALLY didn't want to be a sequel. More happens narratively in half an hour of Arrival than 35 hours of ME2 base game.
Anonymous No.723148587
>>723121947
How do we got from Sheploo to this abomination?
Anonymous No.723148803 >>723150578
>>723146650
>Its flaws can be modded
No they cannot. Retards always regurgitate this to feel good about themselves but a modded ME1 will never, EVER look as good or as faithful to the original game as a modded classic ME1 with an ALOT, ISL, MEUITM and MERLIN combo, the latter of which doesn't even exist for LE.
Anonymous No.723148830 >>723148923 >>723149179 >>723150198 >>723167432 >>723167679
>>723147702
>>723148546
that's not what ME1 femshep looks like dumbass, she wouldn't exist without 3 + that rigged vote
Anonymous No.723148923 >>723149097
>>723148830
Why are you like this Anon?
Anonymous No.723149097 >>723149332
>>723148546
Yeah, I cab understand the frustration
Will Rigid ever make a full-fledged Femshep x Liara animation?

>>723148923
Frecklebeast is Femshep's canon look, whether you like it or not.
Anonymous No.723149179 >>723167536
>>723148830
>MUH RIGGED VOTE

Redheads >>>>>>>>>>> Everything else
Anonymous No.723149326
>>723094501 (OP)
Default male Shepard.
It's the canon choice afterall.
Anonymous No.723149332 >>723149734 >>723149879
>>723149097
this is canon femshep Anon
Anonymous No.723149734 >>723149879
>>723149332
>>723148546
>Check their patreon page
>makes $16k a month from Blender Smutt

God it's so fucking tempting to put my 3D skills towards porn
Anonymous No.723149879 >>723150503 >>723151860
>>723149332
Memes and gooning aside, I was really disappointed that Bioware didn't give Femshep at least a little bit of muscle.
She doesn't have to look like Kassandra in AC:O, but there's no way she'd be able to fold anyone with twigs for arms.

>>723149734
What's stopping you, except the lack of drive and/or talent?
Anonymous No.723150198 >>723150815
>>723148830
Most overt traits are the same as in the final vote choice, red hair, green eyes, somewhat sharp jaw.
>rigged
So what? Pretty much all Shepard variants were hot.
Anonymous No.723150503 >>723150815
>>723149879
That'd be a bitch to model for them considering that all human female bodies are mostly the same. Meanwhile Ashley is fit, Miranda likely has superior muscle potential, Kasumi must be athletic and acrobatic, Samara should have cyclist hips and hardcore sprinter/endurance hunter physique, and Shepard is outright superhuman. That's a lot of models.
Anonymous No.723150578 >>723150656
>>723148803
The problems with Mass Effect are gameplay related.
Anonymous No.723150656 >>723150796 >>723150815
>>723150578
Given LE worsens and dumbs down the gameplay, I doubt it
Anonymous No.723150661
>>723142749
>Saren needs to trick an army of geth and breed an army of krogan to attack the Citadel
>actually nvm the Collectors were there all along and chilling on the sidelines
>Cerberus is an Alliance black ops group that went rogue 6 months ago
>actually nvm it's an independent organization that was there all along created by a glownigger two decades ago
>human-only Council? Influencing Garrus to go with C-Sec or the Spectres? Nerdy Liara? What's that?
Anonymous No.723150796 >>723151218
>>723150656
How? All it did was give the games controller support, it didn't address the fact that there's no reason to pick anything but soldier in ME1, didnt get rid of the retarded weapon restrictions in ME2 classes, nor it added anything from the Expanded Galaxy mod.

Should have given ME3's gameplay to the entire trilogy
Anonymous No.723150815 >>723151076 >>723167536
>>723150503
Fair point anon. Guess that's the same as Joker and Cortez having the same physique.

>>723150198
>rigged
I can't find a clear answer what happened during the voting process. Weren't the hairstyle choice and color separate picks?

>>723150656
>Given LE worsens and dumbs down the gameplay, I doubt it
It's literally the same gameplay both with ME2 and ME3.
Anonymous No.723150936 >>723151515
>>723103528
Imagine what this series could have been if EA didn't get their grubby hands on Bioware.
Anonymous No.723151076 >>723167536
>>723150815
>Weren't the hairstyle choice and color separate picks?
Yep. Those too were hot picks. IIRC blonde and blue eyes won, but red and green is better imho. It's a combo Shep already had, it's only proper.
Anonymous No.723151218 >>723151278 >>723151515 >>723152097
>>723150796
It took away class weapon restriction, really noticeable with snipers. They downgraded the Immunity skill, they downgraded the Marksman skill for pistols, they added new , *far* worse handling driving controls to the Mako and also turned every single Thresher Maw into a boring mini-boss with phases (and dumbed them down by marking them on the minimap even in quests where their existence was meant to be a surprise), the gravity is also for some reason way higher which makes the Mako less usable without the extra boost, less fun since it doesn't play like a lunar lander anymore and it also impacts some of the ragdoll physics on top of it. The whole thing, as 90% of demasters under the sun, is utterly fucked.
Anonymous No.723151278
>>723151218
Only thing I noticed was the Thresher Maws being exclamation marks, though it doesn't say what's there.
Anonymous No.723151515 >>723160518
>>723150936
Don't put the whole blame on EA. Both Andromeda and Anthem exposΓ©s that Schreier published on Kot@ku really show that the studio didn't know what they wanted from the game or even what they were doing most of the time. Then again, Schreier likely has a vested interest in keeping himself in good graces of game publishers, so he might've lied outright. Not that anyone in Bioware ever totally refuted his claims IIRC.

>>723151218
Fair point. I played the OG ME1 in 2012 (I think?) so in my mind the driving was always shit. The weapon restrictions in ME1 were obnoxious though, so I don't mind them being gone.
Anonymous No.723151860
>>723149879
Meanwhile, Chadpard...
Anonymous No.723152097 >>723152303
>>723151218
Class weapon restriction always was an irrational and unintuitive thing when one thought about it.
An N7, like any proper spec-op, should be able to use every gun properly, not be unable to use fucking ironsights.
Or having to limit gun carry load in-spite of armor likely having eezo in those cool mag holsters.

And since omni-tools can automate and have solutions that should be useable by any user - which would only make classes more diluted, - classes should've been realized out in other ways.
Instead ME class system tries to abstract military complexity into an unironically videogamey general package of roles that are somehow mutually exclusive, yet aren't properly fleshed out beyond 2-3 skills.
An Infiltrator may get a pass on access to cloak tech and subdermal implants - barely, seeing as they wear armor of varying thickness, and seeing as N7 can commission such items if necessary, - but an Adept can do anything Vanguard can, an Engineer can't engage in any combat engineering other than omni-tool spam that any class should be able to do, and every class is a Soldier.
Anonymous No.723152303 >>723153160
>>723152097
>RPG class restrictions BAD
No, I like my warrior not being able to use daggers because that's thief territory and I like my Engineer not being able to use snipers because that's Infiltrator territory. If that wasn't the idea, that wouldn't have been the original intent, and you cannot pretend the pajeets that worked on the LE made the change because they had in mind the mentality and in-universe roleplay of N7 soldiers and not just the idea of making things easier for normies
Anonymous No.723152434 >>723152601 >>723164228
Shiala remains best girl.
Anonymous No.723152601
>>723152434
Anonymous No.723153160
>>723152303
>that's thief territory
Imagine you're alone, without any guns, and surrounded by enemies. You trip down and they attack you. You have a tiny attack window to win a combat sequence, and you can't easily get a weapon.
But because you only have fists, and your enemise are armored, your first attack won't tackle the enemy just right.
Sucks to lack a boot dagger, doesn't it? If only you had a dagger in this awfully specific scenario.
Or a grenade at least! Guess you'll just die lmao
It can't be helped.
>cannot pretend
Oh no, I don't contest LE fuck ups. I'm just saying that the series could've been more unique.
It's the same with thermal clips and ME guns. Every gun you use is actually programmable. You don't need to pick up Widow when you can simply tweak power output in you Mantis.
And if you were to boost a Widow? Battlemasters and Geth Juggernauts would vaporize above legs.
You could even have shotguns shoot in programmable spread patterns - precisely too. Or shoot slugs.
Or even have stocks! Ain't that an idea?
Programmable rate of fire in all your guns, can you imagine that? Truly this is an actual, working Prothean technology! Unbelievable! No one out of a billion or more firearm users could've thought to press up a button on their own gun, no sir!
Anonymous No.723154036 >>723154382
>>723129807
He doesn't believe the krogan are going to use science to cure their own genophage, he thinks they are capable of reorganizing themselves socially and politically to rebound.
In 3 he forgets that and thinks that only a salarian with salarian technology can save them.

He doesn't change his mind about the genophage in 3, he changed his mind about the krogan.
Anonymous No.723154382 >>723156236
>>723154036
He made his decisions based on the information he had. Then changed his opinions when confronted with new information. That's all you can ask of a scientist. New data, new perspective. When he talks about sticking around to observe the results after implementation, you can tell he has some reservations about the ethics but he’s watching from afar. He doesn’t talk to the krogan he’s effecting, most of the ones he observes probably being males reacting in anger and bloodthirst. Then he meets the females who've been taken to Sur’Kesh. The women that Maelon experimented on. They’re clearly desperate, vulnerable, willing to try anything, he sees their shame and guilt at not being able to birth their young. And it hits him that he caused this. Not a thousand years ago when the Genophage was first introduced, but now. Taking the krogan back several steps was his fault personally. His responsibility. Evolution was trying to bring the krogan back to equilibrium and he helped stop it.
Anonymous No.723154887 >>723155619 >>723156236
>>723094501 (OP)
So have anyone read any good fanfics lately?
I'm still looking for a tolerable Garrus fic. People have a weird interpretation of his character, always make Sheppard a bottom pussy too.
Anonymous No.723155619 >>723156371
>>723154887
Garrus is the second most Flanderized character after Liara. You can even not recruit him in 1 but regardless by halfway through 2 he's your BFF forever.
Anonymous No.723156236
>>723154382
Nicely said anon.

>>723154887
Sorry anon, the only fanfic of ME I ever bother to read is exclusively smut of the futa variety.
Anonymous No.723156371 >>723157731
>>723155619
>Flanderized character after Liara
Liara isn't even flanderized. She's just a completely different character in 2 and then changes again but as much for 3.

It's baffling desu.
Anonymous No.723156590
>>723096320
you can keep replaying me1 until you hit the level cap
that's like 3 playthroughs
after that it's like whatever, move on with your life or play the bureau xcom declassified, it's a lot like me1 and just as short
Anonymous No.723157251
>>723096320
I think 1 is the most self contained. If the overarching story ended there and we never got sequels it would have still felt satisfying to play. 2 is also mostly isolated. Main portion is hanging out with your space friends, the story is mostly irrelevant catalyst.
Anonymous No.723157498 >>723157778 >>723157914 >>723157967 >>723158037 >>723158492 >>723167217
should i play the legendary edition or the originals on my steam deck
Anonymous No.723157731 >>723158128 >>723158393
>>723156371
>be Liara
>be saved by a living, breathing larger than galaxy glownigger Chad straight from sci-fi tales
>lose your mother in a very tragic way with this heroic man at her side
>meld with the aforementioned glownigger and his warm, brave heroic being
>experience Prothean horror message with your entire being
>discover and stop a conspiracy in less tthan few weeks
>learn knowledge that uproots literally everything you knew about history
>after succeeding at halting plans of cosmic evil in a bombastic, improbable and heroic race against time fucking lose him and many of your friends you've just met

Liara is a smart, highly educated, bit naive and very optimistic, but ultimately turbo hormonal kid neck-deep in cosmic horror.
Whether she is focused on Reapers or she realizes that events vastly exceed any displayed info in games, beyond Reapers, beyond so many things, deep inside she knows things are fully fucked, so fucked none of you can comprehend.
And she, being smart, disregards herself and pulls a Benezia, TIM and Shepard all at once.

How the fuck would YOU end up if you were in her shoes, when you can't even clean your own streets?
Anonymous No.723157778 >>723157890
>>723157498
Do you like
>shitty lighting
>no butt shots
>me1's combat being mangled
then play the legendary edition. Personally I own all the OG versions and just play them.
Anonymous No.723157890
>>723157778
i have all the og versions on steam already luckily. thanks anon
Anonymous No.723157914
>>723157498
Intuition tells me remaster would work better purely because it's core was tweaked to work on modern PCs. You probably wouldn't notice as much Remasters terrible 720p upscale of cinematics and fucked up lighting on a smaller screen and lowest settings too lol
Anonymous No.723157967
>>723157498
If you play the legendary edition get mods to fix the lighting and ass shot censorship. and play mass effect 1 with the original level curve instead of the legendary edition version.
Anonymous No.723158037
>>723157498
Original version doesn't work with controller.
I've had stuttering bugs with legendary edition on the generic planet landing mako missions.
Anonymous No.723158109 >>723158975
>>723109769
>ME1 wasn't ultra casual

Why do nostalgia 30 year old boomers act like they weren't born in the generation that literally pioneered the casualization of games.

ME1 released with combat that started the Gear of War "muh cover shooter in everything" garbage ontop of the disgusting wheel system (blue = good, red = bad morality). Casualization is unironically good sometimes because you all clearly still loved ME1
Anonymous No.723158128
>>723157731
Calm down Liara, I was just asking why you turned into a criminal bitch after the first game.
Anonymous No.723158393 >>723162875
>>723157731
>>722992993
Anonymous No.723158492 >>723159384
>>723157498
Anonymous No.723158664
For me, it's Liara
Anonymous No.723158975 >>723160765
>>723158109
Dumb frog poster, he said ultra-casual.
It was ME2 that leaned very heavily into cover shooter mechanics. 1 had them, but it was incredibly tacked on, irrelevant. Just there to grab attention of general console public. Played better manually peaking around corners. Very comfy and efficiently free roaming.
1 was still on a level of previous Bioware games. But truly changed into TPS in 2 and a proper hyper causal cinematic arcade shooter in 3.
Anonymous No.723159082
Batarians are in this thread right now
Anonymous No.723159173 >>723159378
>>723109769
Mass Effect 2 on Insanity is more difficult than Mass Effect 1 on Insanity.
not that either game is actually difficult
Anonymous No.723159378
>>723159173
True, 2 insanity is hard for all the wrong reasons though. The side quest with two Mechs in a tiny room was ass cancer as an adept.
Anonymous No.723159384
>>723158492
What really grinds my gears is people will say this is more natural lighting and makes it look more realistic (never mind killing the atmosphere) meanwhile the monitors emit foggy light
Anonymous No.723159481 >>723159724
>mods for 2 that make the combat smoother
>completely fucks game balance in an already easy game
Anonymous No.723159724
>>723159481
>make the combat smoother
What is there to change? It's already very basic and just werks.
Anonymous No.723160518
>>723151515
>Andromeda
Didn't they want to make AI randomly generated worlds or something?
As well as map predictive facial movements to words so they could write more dialogue without having to manually sculpt all the animations?

I imagine what it could have been but there was so much utter garbage in it. I didn't care one iota about the 'plot twist', the Ryders, the autistic black guy. Then there were the gay rulers of that pirate city and female krogan empowerment or w/e. I don't know, I didn't finish it.
Anonymous No.723160541 >>723161564
>>723135342
care to explain why?
Anonymous No.723160656
>>723096536
>because I realised how atrotious male Shepard's voice acting was and still is.
There it is, the AGP calling card.
Anonymous No.723160659 >>723160946 >>723161009 >>723161439 >>723161557 >>723162545 >>723166046
Hot take but Reapers are by far the worst part of the whole trilogy.
Anonymous No.723160765 >>723160952
>>723158975
ME1 is ultra casual you dumb boomer fuck.

>Even more dumbed down GoW 1 combat
>fucking DIALOGUE WHEEL
>good = blue
>bad = red
>inventory system had zero complexity
>builds all amounted to far to similar combat (even Engineer/Sentinel/Vanguard)

Nigga, what fucking depth did the game or its RPG systems have besides which colored tits you wanted to suckle on
Anonymous No.723160932
>>723094501 (OP)
>male default shepard BUT white
it's gaming time!
Anonymous No.723160946 >>723161968
>>723160659
Not focusing on them was the worst part of the trilogy. Saren and Sovereign were great, then 2 decided to not advance the Reaper plot for 90% of its runtime instead going around fixing your crew's daddy issues.
Anonymous No.723160952 >>723161327
>>723160765
Give me an example of a not casual RPG, faggot.
Anonymous No.723161009 >>723161138
>>723160659
>worst part of the whole trilogy
I feel like collectors were way more retarded
Anonymous No.723161138 >>723161472
>>723161009
Collectors were cool as a mysterious alien races that pops out every now and then to steal people and do experiments. As Reaper created bug slaves they were shit. ME2 really shat the bed.
Anonymous No.723161327 >>723161676
>>723160952
Fallout 1.

Or just for the bantz. Cyberpunk 2077. That's right, a literal looter shooter mogs your game in terms of RPG mechanics every which way. That's how casualized Mass Effect 1 was
Anonymous No.723161439
>>723160659
RUDIMENTARY CREATURES OF BLOOD AND FLESH
YOU TOUCH MY MIND, FUMBLING IN IGNORANCE, INCAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING
YOU EXIST BECAUSE WE ALLOW IT
AND YOU WILL END BECAUSE WE DEMAND IT
Anonymous No.723161472
>>723161138
To me collectors are what make 2 my favorite.

No other game ever has every really done what 2 did before. New aliens shows up and threaten all human life in the galaxy. Gather a crew and straight up just go to their homeworld and dunk on their shit.
Anonymous No.723161557 >>723161873 >>723162000
>>723160659
Sovereign and the whole thing with indoctrination was cool, especially if you read Revelation. It was just wasted. Hell the peak narratively in the franchise is talking with Vigil, which is nothing but answers to your questions about the Reapers and their cycles. In comparison you get to *enter a dead Reaper* in the sequel but it doesn't amount to anything other than the rushed recruitment of an admittedly cool squadmate five minutes before the main quest ends. Even the Dead Space-y idea with the Leviathans was cool, it's just that it should've been the focus of a full game slowly uncovering the mystery like in 1 and not a DLC.
Anonymous No.723161564 >>723161726
>>723160541
I'm sure he'll be here nine hours later, anon
Anonymous No.723161676
>>723161327
Right ok
Anonymous No.723161726
>>723161564
I can dream.
Anonymous No.723161873
>>723161557
Yes this pretty much nails it for me. It's not that I don't like sovereign in 1 or anything, but just the way they handled reapers makes me dislike the whole thing so much. Like I can't believe the best reaper related content we got since ME1 was a fucking Leviathan DLC. That shit was easily one of the best parts about 3 like I literally couldn't believe it was dlc when it first came out since it's so essential to the reaper plot imo.
Anonymous No.723161919 >>723162120 >>723162231
>>723096203
>Infiltrator
Literally the most homosexual class
Anonymous No.723161968 >>723162179
>>723160946
No, the "crew's daddy issues" were the best part of ME, anytime reapers showed up in any of the games shit went to retardation fast - writers couldn't write themselves out of having to fight invincible villains
Anonymous No.723162000
>>723161557
Legion having shit ton of cut content from early game is still so trippy to me.
Anonymous No.723162120
>>723161919
Talking a lot of shit for someone within invisible headshot distance
Anonymous No.723162171
>>723105128
Kek I do this every single time. I did it in bg3 too
Anonymous No.723162179
>>723161968
>the "crew's daddy issues" were the best part
>>723099376
Anonymous No.723162231
>>723161919
Infiltrator is the best way to beat inferno difficulty.
Anonymous No.723162545 >>723162991
>>723160659
Has anyone here read Revelation Space? How much of Mass Effect is a ripoff of it? I've read a lot of people saying that the reason the Reapers/Dark Energy plot was shut down because they literally were just copying some scifi books
Anonymous No.723162875
>>723158393
>asari live for a thousand years
>which means that they must be retarded
I mean, the argument has merit, salarians are the smartest species and they live up to 40 years, krogan live 2k years and they're retarded, but it's demonstrably not applicable.
Anonymous No.723162901 >>723163012
Commanduh
Anonymous No.723162991
>>723162545
Haven't read that one. ME is a copypasta of so many Star Trek parts, with a dose of Stargate tho. I remember rolling my eyes every now and then while playing it back in the day. It's a melting pot.
I'm under an impression that Dark Energy plot was dropped due to writer who worked on it originally leaving during 3 development.
Anonymous No.723163012 >>723163338 >>723165000
>>723162901
>body built for sex and babymaking
>infertile
What went wrong?
Anonymous No.723163338
>>723163012
something something comedy = tragedy
Anonymous No.723164228
>>723152434
BRUTHA
Anonymous No.723165000
>>723163012
She's a clone of her papa so she's not a real woman
Anonymous No.723166046 >>723167285
>>723160659
I've seen this opinion quite a lot over time. While I don't dislike the Reapers and think BioWare should've done more to move their plot forward in ME2, I've come to think it may have been for the best if they were permanently trapped in dark space after the first game and the sequels focused entirely on other villains.
Anonymous No.723166290
>>723102545
You can bang her in the Citadel DLC I believe
Anonymous No.723166532
>>723128162
>In the 6 months between games every gun was converted, even the ones on the planet Jacob's dad crashed on
Anonymous No.723166545
>>723102545
>what's her appeal anyway
She's the best looking asari in the games. Would never romance her but she is ridiculously hot.
Anonymous No.723167217 >>723167287
>>723157498
Just gonna copypaste this mod list for LE that another anon posted a while ago.
Essentials:
>Unofficial/Community Patches
Good general bugfixes that should be installed first. 1 and 3 are named Community Patch, 2 is named Unofficial Patch because of some retarded drama with it being a slightly different team or something, but they're all solid and stick to pure bugfixes. Get this if nothing else.
>MELLO, LEUITM, LEUITM2
Three mods for 1/2. MELLO fixes the borked lighting in the legendary edition, the two LEUITMs improve textures generally.
>ALOT/ALOV
The go-to texture/video improvement mods, mostly obsolete in Legendary but does fix a couple minor autistic things.
>Myriad Pro Begone
This might just be my own autism talking, but I find this mod invaluable because it replaces the ugly ME2/3/LE font with the original font that was used everywhere in ME1, which gives the whole game so much more sovl. Highly recommend.
>Genesis Begone
Undoes the shitty changes to the ME2 intro that the Genesis dlc made.
>HUD Enhancements
Not super knowledgeable on this one but apparently it fixes a lot of controller/mouse issues people were having.
Anonymous No.723167285
>>723166046
Hindsight is 20/20. The truth of the matter is, had anyone asked players in 2007/8/9 if they were hyped for Shepard fighting the Reapers after his statement of "the Reapers are still out there and I'm gonna find a way to stop them!" during the first game's epilogue, they'd have said yes. Because Sovereign met expectations and they thought the sequel would be Mass Effect 1 again, but even better. Kinda didn't happen, did it.
Anonymous No.723167287
>>723167217
Other:
>Pinnacle Station
For 1, remakes a dlc that was absent on PS3/Legendary because they lost the source files. I personally don't like it because it's poorly-designed challenges made by a team outside of Bioware that forces your Shep to act like a retard in order to finish the story, but it's there if you want it.
>Eden Prime Red Sky Restored, Remove Feros Color Filter
Restores the original look of Eden Prime and Feros.
>Saren Stages
Uses concept art to restore cut content where Saren's appearance was going to change over the course of the game, kinda neat.
>Diversification Project
For 1 and I think 3, adds a shitload more npcs and other ambient environmental shit in an attempt to be more lore-friendly and consistent in-between games, I haven't played enough to fully recommend it but worth checking out.
>Take Earth Back
Adds way more content to the endgame of 3, I haven't played it yet but heard very good things.
>Charted Worlds, Galaxy Map Trackers
Makes ME1 a bit easier to navigate.
>Audemus' Happy Ending Mod
Self-explanatory.
>Citadel Epilogue Mod
Turns Citadel dlc into a post-happy ending mission.
>LE1 Definitive Audio Overhaul
Adds sounds from 2/3 to 1, I like this because I find 1's audio design really monotonous.
>Primitives
Texture overhaul focusing on faces. I actually hate the way this looks but loads of people seem to love it.
>Retrofits
Series of mods adding new enemy types and shit to 3. Don't know enough to fully recommend but looks neat.
>Appearance Modification Menu
Allows more character customization, particularly for 1. I don't really care about that sort of thing but there's a lot there if you want.

Modding is a bit complex because you have to use two separate programs: ME3Tweaks Mod Manager for content mods, and MassEffectModder for texture mods. Install content mods first, then texture mods. Don't alter mods after textures are done. There's a google doc out there that explains more.
Anonymous No.723167348
>>723128162
The funniest thing was they admitted some playtesters where so retarded they couldn't understand the overheating mechanic of the previous game.
Anonymous No.723167432
>>723148830
I fucking knew she was originally a brunette.
Anonymous No.723167536 >>723167606 >>723167654 >>723167805
>>723149179
>>723150815
>>723151076
Anonymous No.723167606 >>723167805
>>723167536
Anonymous No.723167654
>>723167536
5>1>2>3>4>6
Anonymous No.723167679 >>723167805
>>723148830
By the way do you have the sliders to recreate the original FemShep for 3 and the remasters?
Anonymous No.723167747
>>723146860
Is the novel any good?
Anonymous No.723167805
>>723167536
>>723167606
This poll was always retarded. She was a redhead in 1/2, why the fuck did they think about changing the default for 3

>>723167679
https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/1375