Mass Effect 3

I personally enjoyed it and had lots of fun with it, I feel like the endings weren't bad, although maybe it should've been more than just choosing colour, but still a great and emotional conclusion of the trilogy.

I'm asking this because I saw some people claiming that it wasn't good, some even said about ME2.

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Anybody else have any new information on ME5? Last I read they hinted at the game being named Epsilon and that it won’t be ready until 2028-29…..

I'm a big fan of Mass Effect and I only play female Shepard which obviously limits the LIs. I only romanced Liara and Samantha.

The creators definitely gave female Shep the finger over lesbian LIs. We get 2 options if we class Liara as one as she's apparently monogendered.

Should of made Aria as an LI or made Samara a proper LI. Or Jack, since she's meant to be bi.

Anyone know of any creepy or scary things about the Mass effect universe? I knew a few but would like to know if there’s any others I don’t know about just cuz lol. I’ve always thought that one of the creepiest things I’ve encountered in my playthroughs of ME2 was David being experimented on by his own brother to reach the Elusive Man’s own personal goals. It is just absolute torture and probably one of the gnarliest things I’ve seen in a game. Would like to know everyone’s own experiences 🤘

I'm going through the Shepard trilogy, and when faced with three endings (I don't take reject into account), I chose the ending of Destruction. I'll explain why right now.

As for me, Destruction is the ending that clearly shows that for any victory in the war you have to pay a terrible price. After collecting all possible resources, information, and specialists, Shepard and his Normandy team, together with all the forces of the galaxy, recapture the Earth and the entire galaxy from the Reapers. Yes, all synthetics, EDI, the Geth will be destroyed. The Mass-Relay network will be shut down because of this semblance of an "EMP-pulse," but no one claimed that we would not be able to restore everything. Shepard's decision does not roll back progress to the "Stone Age". In the same cut scene, it was shown that the Citadel had been restored, plus the Matriarch Etita proposed the idea of creating their own relays. (of course, I doubt that they will use it as a relay. After all, even before the battle for the Citadel, no one could have known that she was capable of fulfilling this role). So, there is hope that the galaxy will find an alternative replacement for relays, it will be possible to restore both Geth and EDI. Well, the cherry on this cake is that Shepard can survive with a high readiness of the galaxy (this moment really confused me, because it's not clear how it works at all)

Control is the perfect ending for a renegade, because you can "sacrifice" only Shepard so that he reincarnates into the Reapers AI, thereby becoming the new protective force of the galaxy. On the one hand, neither synthetics nor organics will have to make sacrifices, and the relays will be restored by the Reapers. But on the other hand, there is no guarantee that the AI-Shepard will not come to the same decision as the Catalyst - the destruction of all organics to prevent wars and deaths. This is literally the logic of tyrants - mass murder for the sake of salvation. You can't entrust your life to machines that can destroy you if anything happens, the risk is too high. Subjugating the Reapers according to the precepts of the Ghost will not be the solution to the problem, as Javik said.

Synthesis is a very strange ending. Crucible's EMP-Pulse generated "synthetic genes" based on Shepard's DNA, which were built to match the code of all living beings in the galaxy. It sounds quite strange and mystical. I understand that many people will say, "You're surprised by this, but you're not surprised by the mass effect, biotics, geths, and all that crap related to Reapers, Collectors, etc.", but at least it sounds more or less reasonable from the point of view of science (no matter how strange it sounds), in unlike the "sphere of energy", that irradiating organic matter adds "boards all over the body" to them + it is unclear how the body with new capabilities will function, too, is not displaced. The most ideal synthesis is Shepard HIMSELF, and as it is, this ending leaves too many questions behind. Yes, she is the ideal of what Saren wanted to achieve, but she, like Control, "deprives the feeling of price" in this war, which at least logically deprives that feeling of victory, so to speak.

I hope you were interested in reading this opinion. I must say right away - it is subjective. Write down what you think about this

I'm kinda interested in trying out the legendary edition even though i already have the original trilogy but i do have some concerns.

1. Is the console and it's commands are still available on the legendary edition for all 3 games? If not are there any mods that make it available again?

2. Is it still possible to edit the .ini files in all three games? Like changing weapon and armor stats like in the PC tweaks page of the original trilogy?

3. Does the previous save editor for mass effect 2 and 3 still work for the legendary edition? Or does it have a new editor all together.

4. Is there a way to immediately get the DLC weapons of 2 and 3 right at the start of the game? Like through mods, save editor or editing of the game files etc. I know the legendary did it for balance purposes but i got so used to the original trilogy having it available right from the start.

Left to right:

Destroy the Coral/Reapers (and all Rubicon/synthetic life)

End the war without destroying them

Reaper/C-Synthesis

Perks of being a new continuity start and the third ending having tighter requirements including specific missions and multiple playthroughs, lel

Are there are side quests that you can miss if you rush through the main stories of ME 2 and 3.

I'm planning on romancing Tali on my current playthough so I want to rush through the main story a little bit so I can recruit her and then go back and do all the side quests I missed but I don't want to miss side quests that lock out if you go too far through.

I know I'll miss side quests in locations I only visit once so I'll do them while Im there but are the any others that I can miss such as ones on the Citadel in 3 because I know I can't recruit Tali until after the Citadel attack.

What if Miranda Lawson was one of ME3's supporting antagonists in the games instead of an off-the-Normandy companion? What do you think she might do as a villainess still in league with Cerberus?

My guess is two things. One, she'd plot a coup against the Illusive Man in order to take power as Cerberus's head. Two, she'd plot to kidnap her sister Oriana away from her family. By hiring Cerberus agents to kill the parents, snatch Oriana away from them, and having her surgically brainwashed by Cerberus doctors so she'd have no memory of her family and be given new memories of her big sister Miranda forged into her mind. So the two would work together and Oriana would serve as Miranda's right hand.

How would you feel if Bioware went in that direction for Miranda?

I'm new to Mass Effect and I only got the Legendary Edition just before Christmas as part of PS plus. I loved playing those three games so much, that when I heard about Andromeda having multiplayer last week, it was an immediate purchase. Loving the game so far!

Hello people and welcome back to another one of my post. Todays topic is something that interest myself a lot, better say what you think about it.

Todays topic is 'what is your canon?' and yes i know BioWare has said that there is actually a canon ending but I'm honestly give a damn about it. The mass effect series isn't about canon, it's about the various Shepards who exist, every player has a different approach on the game and if we can import our ME3 Data's it doesn't matter anyway what is canon. And honestly i hate the idea that a game where you can choose a path should have canon way. Anyway after the first comment i show you my 'canon' ending.

My favorite quote is...

Great. See, this is where it starts, and when we're all just organic batteries, guess who they'll blame? "This is all Joker's fault. What a tool he was. I have spend all day computing pi because he plugged in the Overlord."

Here are the choices I made:

I only gained War Assets from the main missions and had only 2300 total by the end of the game.

I let Padok cure the Genophage but Eve died leaving Wreav solely in charge of the Krogan.

Kai Leng killed the Salarian Councillor because both Thane and Kirrahe were dead.

I didn’t see Kaidan in the hospital so I killed him when he sided with Udina and then I killed Udina.

I let Samara kill herself and then killed Falere.

I let Admiral Koris sacrifice himself.

I let the Geth VI upload the Reaper code, dooming the Quarians. Tali then committed suicide.

I got Miranda killed on Sanctuary.

The fleets were torn apart during the opening stages of the battle.

Cortez died when his shuttle was shot down.

Garrus and Liara were both killed on the approach to the beam and with their deaths, all of my original crew from ME1 was now dead.

I couldn’t convince the Illusive Man to stand down and I got Anderson killed.

Once I reached the Catalyst, he explained that due to the damage done to the crucible, I had only one option to defeat the reaper threat: Destroy.

And so I did. The Citadel, the Mass Relays, the Geth, EDI, even the Normandy. I destroyed it all. Nothing was left standing by the end except for debris.

And so ended the story of Commander Shepard. His legacy would be a Galaxy left in turmoil and ruin with an uncertain future ahead of it.

Thank you for following this series.