Mass Effect General Thread

[Miller]

You can always just use a save editor.

Sure but I wanted to play the game legit.

 

[Snekposter]

But at least I still have the Miranda butt cutscenes.

https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/393
https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/392
You have no right to complain about the lack of buttshots.

 

[Lance 45]

Got around to finally trying out the pinnacle station DLC for mass effect 1.

Whoever designed Ahern's mission was smoking some serious stuff. 100% sure it was just Ahern bullshitting how difficult the real mission actually was. Its more difficult than any other mission in the series and actually fighting the reapers and collectors.

 

[alphabetnigger]

Got around to finally trying out the pinnacle station DLC for mass effect 1.

Whoever designed Ahern's mission was smoking some serious stuff. 100% sure it was just Ahern bullshitting how difficult the real mission actually was. Its more difficult than any other mission in the series and actually fighting the reapers and collectors.

It sucks that they lost the data for Pinnacle. I've been going on a slow full trilogy run and it would've been nice to playthrough everything without busting out my PS3.

 

[HeyYou]

It sucks that they lost the data for Pinnacle. I've been going on a slow full trilogy run and it would've been nice to playthrough everything without busting out my PS3.

https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/832

Also already fixed. LE genuinely is worth it and probably the best way to play the games with this and the Miranda butt shot restoration mods (if you're into that) now that a lot of the other great original mods were ported over, like EGM. Unless you're playing on console (my condolences).

 

[alphabetnigger]

https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/832

Also already fixed. LE genuinely is worth it and probably the best way to play the games with this and the Miranda butt shot restoration mods (if you're into that) now that a lot of the other great original mods were ported over, like EGM. Unless you're playing on console (my condolences).

I've actually never played mass effect on PC. Right now I'm on 2 playing on PS5. Im pretty sure I have it for PC, next time I play through it I'll have to fuck with mods

 

[Lance 45]

I don't remember mass effect 1 ever being so full of instant kill rng bullshit where enemies can just randomly choose to ignore your shields.

 

[Kharash]

Was watching a Feral Historian video about Andromeda and thought this ending clip was amusing.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Khar'shan delenda est.

Kill Batarians. Behead Batarians. Roundhouse kick Batarians into the concrete. Slam dunk a Batarian's baby into the trash can. Crucify filthy Batarians, defecate into Batarian food, launch Batarians into the sun, stir fry Batarians in a wok, toss Batarians into active volcanoes, urinate into Batarian gas tanks, Judo throw Batarians into a wood chipper, twist Batarian heads off, report Batarians to the Spectres, karate chop Batarians in half, curb stomp pregnant Batarians, trap Batarians in quicksand. Crush Batarians in the trash compactor, liquify Batarians in a vat of acid, eat Batarians, dissect Batarians, exterminate Batarians in the gas chamber, stomp Batarian skulls with steel-toed boots, cremate Batarians in the oven, lobotomize Batarians, mandatory abortions for Batarians, grind Batarian fetuses in the garbage disposal, drown Batarians in fried pyjak grease, vaporize Batarians with mass effect fields, kick old Batarians down the stairs, feed Batarians to varren.

 

[Burt Ryan]

I haven't played through the trilogy in atleast 5-6 years, and restoration mods and community patches are, as always, a Godsend.

My next playthrough I want to play it with the Diversification Project mods as well. The lack of female Turians in the trilogy up until the two ME3 DLCs is a tragedy.

 

[Glory To Arztotska]

Funniest way to play Mass Effect 3 is Engie Shep with Tali's Defense Drone power, while also bringing along Tali herself as well as Legion (or his Temu copy if Legion's not alive).

Bury anything hostile in drones.

 

[indomitable snowman]

I think my first ME3 play-through was pretty based. I didn't have my previous saves so it was whatever blank slate the game starts you with.
I sided with the Geth and killed all the Quarians.
I didn't have Mordin or his data from ME2 so the Genophage was never cured
The Destiny Ascension was never saved in ME1 so the asari got fucked.
I chose destroy so the Geth died. Pretty sure the Humans and Turians were the only species left in the end. All in all, a successful multi-genocide ending. I think the elusive man would be pleased.

 

[Burt Ryan]

Just got done with my replaythrough of the Citadel DLC.

I kept imagining how it would be made today, in terms of cutscenes and other scenes that "have no facial expression" from Shepard, like watching Thane videomessages where he bids you farewell. There's only one line that today could come off as "the SJW type of writing", and it's when Kaidan asks Traynor to taste the dish EDI is cooking, because of the curry she's putting in, and Traynor replies with:"Why would I taste curry? Is it because of my skin colour?" and Kaidan responds:"You're a Human with taste buds. Like me."
The writing and fanservice hits all the right spots, and the story of the DLC is actually quite great. The DLC could've just ended after the fight on the Normandy, but they kept going with the Party and all the small moments, like Wrex putting an ice pack on his dick after all the Krogan sex he had to do.
All in all, this DLC was so fun to replay. Wrex during the Citadel Archives mission was literally immortal and was canonically the strongest being in the universe. Same thing for the Armax Arena, bringing along Wrex and "N7 Typhoon" Garrus on Super Elite was basically a sleeper.

I'll never consider playing the "other game", Andromeda. The only thing that enticed me a little was the female Turian, romance option too, in Ryder's party. But beside that, that game does not have a localized dub and one thing that I did fall in love with (despite recognizing a lot of its flaws with this playthrough) was the localized dub compared to the English dub.

For the following playthroughs, I'll play with the English dub, most of the times.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

I think the elusive man would be pleased.

It always bothered me how we can't actually join TIM and that he was made into a ridiculous villain in 3. Maybe, I do want a human-only crew and only care about saving humans.

 

[Glory To Arztotska]

I'd consider an all-human crew if it wasn't the fuckup freaks Cerberus saddles on you in ME2.

The fact that Jacob cheats on a femShep in ME3 makes me hate him no matter what good he does, and I don't even usually play a femShep.

And then there's Yeoman Chambers acting all nice and huggy-wuggy with me when if you read between the lines she ***might*** have brought the varren itch onto the Normandy II.

The thing I hate most about Mass Effect 2 is I never have an option to airlock these pieces of shit if they don't stop fucking up.

 

[Miller]

And then there's Yeoman Chambers acting all nice and huggy-wuggy with me when if you read between the lines she ***might*** have brought the varren itch onto the Normandy II.

>might
White women fuck varrens.

 

[Glory To Arztotska]

The only human squadmate you should need is based Zaeed anyway.

EDIT: And Kasumi too I suppose.

I think I just really, really, really hate the Cerberus squaddies.

I don't like Jack much either...'cept in combat. There she's both deadly and funny. "Hello dead people!"

 

[Snekposter]

The only human squadmate you should need is based Zaeed anyway.

Don't forget that you can take his grenade ability as your bonus power, and unlike in ME3 where grenades have ammo the only restriction is the cooldown. So all you need to do is just stack power cooldowns and toss those grenades at everything while bringing Garrus along to strip shield, or alternately Jack if you're up against Eclipse and their love of barriers.

God, I fucking hated how ME2 made barriers and shields completely separate so you had to swap out Garrus for Jack or Samara if you were up against guys who had biotics.

 

[Chunky Salsa]

I'd consider an all-human crew if it wasn't the fuckup freaks Cerberus saddles on you in ME2.

The fact that Jacob cheats on a femShep in ME3 makes me hate him no matter what good he does, and I don't even usually play a femShep.

And then there's Yeoman Chambers acting all nice and huggy-wuggy with me when if you read between the lines she ***might*** have brought the varren itch onto the Normandy II.

The thing I hate most about Mass Effect 2 is I never have an option to airlock these pieces of shit if they don't stop fucking up.

Chambers having a decent chance to literally be getting fucked by a varren is symptomatic of Bioware undermining their dramatic characters for no real reason. Just like Miranda being a gigaslut that trawls dating sites for random motel hookups.

 

[RSU 1741]

Yeoman Chambers

Chambers considers casual sex as acceptable in her role. Insert Spaceship Comfort Woman memes here. It's one of those cases where Bioware writers had an idea and did not consider the consequences: sure, a young attractive woman doing light psychological stuff and helping them emotionally sounds great.... until she starts fucking people and one can only wonders.

Just like Miranda being a gigaslut that trawls dating sites for random motel hookups.

You're supposed to find that one sad. See, poor Miranda is so perfect that she can't relate properly even on dating sites and everything is reduced to mechanical exchange. You should feel sorry for her difficulty in relating with "imperfect humans". The delivery, much like Chambers, makes her look like a gigaslut that only wants the cleanest, fastest fucks she can get.

Also she fucked Jacob, for Chrissakes.

kept imagining how it would be made today, in terms of cutscenes and other scenes that "have no facial expression" from Shepard

I'm slowly replaying all the Mass Effect games, and I've entertained some of the "love sidequests" for completionism (I never bothered when I played them ages ago because Bioware characters aren't attractive or interesting). I'm.... puzzled. We all know that the Bioware Romance tendency started with BG2 and then progressively degenerated, and Mass Effect should be one of the best Bioware games even in romance. I know that it's .... very easy to shit on video game writing, but how the fuck can someone find ME's romance writing even acceptable? It's incredibly bad and if it's not bad it's plain.

Romance scenes make Harlequin novels sound like Shakespeare. There's clearly a lack of skill in writing seductive characters, I mean, take for example Morinth: she's supposedly supernaturally seductive and charming, but her writing is.... plain. Compare and contrast to, dunnow. Jeanette Voerman from Bloodlines, where the combo of excellent facial animation/model quality and snappy writing makes for a quite interesting seductress.

Sometimes I feel it was all in the player's brains. Even worse in ME2 where the game has an entire DLC built to venerate Liara and there's so many team mates and not enough space to let them breathe.