Mass Effect

It's not just the ending of 3. It's everything outside of:

Leviathan

Taking Back Omega

Drunk Tali

there were workarounds before april 2025, but it seems like they don't work anymore.

I've played through ME1, 2 and 3 twice, good and "evil" playthrough, all three times I was a heterosexual man Shepard who romanced Liara and killed Ashley because that's what normal people do. Very little changed. I can't see a reason to go through it all again a third time or forcing myself to make different, retarded options.
I like the entire trilogy, and I think ME3 is unfairly maligned because people are retarded and had unreasonable expections on BioWare. They're simply not good enough. Hopelessly overrated, always has been.

Omega DLC is shit

I asked grok a few weeks ago and it turned up nothing. Time to set sail.

people are retarded and had unreasonable expections on BioWare.

As a zoomtard it's crazy to go back and look at the reaction at the time. People were legitimately expecting BioWare to change the ending after release.

People were legitimately expecting BioWare to change the ending after release.

They did. It was even shittier before the patch.

I thought it was boring but at least it wasn't the total dogshit that you find in 95% of 3.

I like it, though killing Nyreena was cheap and gay.

just edit the config file, guide is on steam discussions

Finally find female turian

She's a dyke and you can't fuck her

I think Leviathan is actively damaging. Reducing the Leviathans to fucking morons that forgot to program the Reapers to

If sythetics_kill_organics = True

>then don't
Like, come the fuck on. Come. The fuck. ONNNNN!
You expect me to believe these mother fuckers were in charge of an entire fucking galaxy? These fucking morons?
I mean what was the reasoning?

For some reasons our organics keep making synthetics that keep killing organics

Maybe we should make synthetics to find a solution to synthetics killing organics

Think we should tell them not to kill organics beforehand?

Nah, it'll be fine

It also undermines the Quarians to begin with, but that's just par for the course, because the Quarians are fucking idiots that got exactly what they deserved. If anything they didn't go far enough.

i liked it, especially music
youtu.be/HuwL12aCaFI?si=eiyLp_pgTqCIcXJh

The only things I liked from ME3 was Mordin's sacrifice, meeting Jack on Grissom and Grunt surviving the Rachni mission. The rest of the game is mid, the level design is absolute shit, and the worst in the entire franchise, worse than ME1, worse than ME2's chest high wall bonanza, worse than ME:A's open world fuck ups.

I stop playing after the prologue as siding with a group like Cerberus shatters all of my immersion and I know the game doesn't even provide decent options at undermining them

You expect me to believe these mother fuckers were in charge of an entire fucking galaxy? These fucking morons?

they were sabotaged by one of their slave races that used to build all of their stuff. They intentionally built in a flaw in the logic of that AI because they realized they are slaves to an unknown race that breeds and uses them as builders and food.

source?

my ass

I was waiting for the big reveal of "Illusive Man put a control chip in you to keep you docile and loyal to Cerberus" but it never came.

Even then, that's equally dumb.

Why are our organics making synthetics that end up killing them?

I don't know. How about we have one of our organics that made synthetics that killed organics, make synthetics that tell organics how they can make synthetics that don't kill organics

Won't that backfire in a spectacular fashion?

Nah, it'll be fine

I hate liara. bitch is mad obnoxious.

dumb

It worked fine for them, presumably for millions of years, since they were so advanced. Why not make another AI to deal with a chore problem? Narratively, it works well with them being ultra-arrogant and above everyone else in their minds and goes along with the theme of unforeseen consequences (we created geth and fucked up, we uplifted krogans and fucked up, etc.). My point is it's working storywise; it's just not polished, obviously, for the reason that existance of Leviathans is a narrative patch for the ending.

What would you guys say are the hardest combat encounters on Insanity? For me it's the first combat section on the collector ship, and that part in ME3 with the 3 geth primes.

finaly get romancable turian waifu in the next game

its fucking shit

Vetra was the best thing about Andromeda
her sister was cute too

I just beat ME2 on PS3, so at 12 fps, on insanity for the platinum a few months ago. Horizon was a nightmare.

more like best romance since it actually did something interesting with the potential house of cards-like dynamic

Yes but what i meant is that the game is doodoo, monkey paw shit

You don't.

It worked fine for them

If it got them killed, then it patently didn't.

Why not make another AI to deal with a chore problem?

How about doing that, but not retarded?

Narratively, it works well with them being ultra-arrogant

That doesn't work. If you're ultra arrogant, you're getting fucked. Unless you have some clear signs of degredation, you don't go from super competent, no mistakes, to full on holocaust the next. I don't accept it. Historically, that has not happened. You can be crippled, and then eradicated. You can have circumstances beyond your control. Man made fuck up on this scale has never been witnessed by anyone. Willingly making the mass suicide/extinction machine. I find it unacceptable, and a mere badly written plot device to justify something, simply because the writers wanted/needed it to. These always put people off. Like the great M. Night Shamalamadingdong twist in TLoU that the Fireflies need to kill Ellie. Go fuck yourself game.

My point is it's working storywise

I'd say it's serving, but not working, without undermining something greater, and thus making the setting worse overall. I'd say it's the worst way they could have gone about it.

Anything with Scions or those flying bug things was horrible.

Kill all Turians and Turian fuckers. Kill all Quarian and Quarian fuckers, kill anyone that wants Batarians as squadmates.

that fucking mission in the orphanage in 3 where you are resucing jack. I think its like an outdoor atrium area with multiple enemy spawning locations and those turret dudes. Was awful to do on my biotic that early in the game

Idk, never played 'em

Whats wrong with the EA launcher

flying bug things

You mean the praetorian? The thing that keeps reapplying it's barrier?

I played both games for the first time on insanity ~10-15 years ago w/o DLCs anther other stuff and didn't know much about the game mechanics. The hard parts were the end of the Horizon mission, the ambush on the Collector ship, and the Grissom Academy.I had played MP shooters for days back then, so I wasn't new to all that stuff.

It's shit, often crashes games with its overlay, sometimes it will crash games while trying to start them up, and is overall a shitshow.
You're better off cracking the game, than playing it as EA wants you to.

Diversity is our strength

How does one stop the yearly (or seasonally) urge to replay the entire trilogy?

Remember how awesome the world was when these games came out and then think about the world today. You'll realize that it's like visiting the graves of people you once knew.

Turians are based. Quarians will be used as fleshlights for the new Human-Krogan-Turian empire.

Kill them all.

and I think ME3 is unfairly maligned because people are retarded and had unreasonable expections on BioWare

No, it isnt unfair to expect basic fucking writing competency and not have retarded plot convienience that breaks the narrative. It isnt unfair to expect you choices to matter when they promised this over and over again. It is not unfair to expect a good ending after spending $180 over the course of three games.

I dont care that you have gotten used to or were born in slop and have infinite forgiveness. Its fucking dogshit and was one of the beginnings of everything wrong with what vidya has turned into, down to the devs getting asspained and screaming that gamers were "entitled" for expecting a satisfying conclusion. Fuck you, you arent going to do the zoomer faggot bullshit where you play an older, rightfully shit on game and go "a-actually it was ok guise you were all over reacting". No, go eat a fucking dick.

Turians = Boring
Quarians = Mid
Asari = Kino + horny
Krogan = Kino
Salarians = Boring
Geth = Kino
Volus = Funpilled
Elcor = Cringe reddit humor
Hanar = Kino
Drell = Cuckolds
Protheans = Super fucking boring omg
Yahg = Cool
Vorcha = Mid

Truth. Total zoomer death when?

Your post seems like you are arguing with yourself.
You have X amount of money and work hours to create a DLC that would explain the origins of the Reapers; this is what they came up with. You would do better? I don't think so. There is always something you can fix, but in 99% of cases, good enough is enough. Maybe not for you, but for a lot of people to buy the DLC.

Go fuck yourself game. I'd say it's the worst way they could have gone about it.

You can't change it anon. It's over.

I don't care about changing it. I know it's done. It's still bad for the franchise.
I would do better, yes.

Yes

Shut the fuck up Trashley.

orphanage

It's a school

I think even the devs knew what a pain in the ass they were because you only fight 2 throughout the whole game

expect basic fucking writing competency

From BioWare? Who has *always* been overrated at this aspect? Yeah maybe if you're underage or retarded, or both. They were the Marvel/Disney slop of CRPGs even back in the Baldur's Gate 1 days.

I was just surprised that it was normal to expect a studio to rewrite an ending. I've never seen that happen before.

They didn't rewrite the ending, just fleshed it out a little. It's still bad. The intelligence controlling the reapers taking the form of a child to lecture you is honestly the worst way they could have ended things.

2 and 3 are just too dumb to play. also the beginning of 2 is so spiteful and mean spirited towards shepard as a character it feels malevolent

BioWare sucks.

Shit, you sound like a pussy.

how? he sacrifices himself to save joker

theres a noble sacrifice and then theres forcing the player to watch shepard get slammed around the normandys bulkhead by explosions, drift into space while his air starts leaking, and then notice the air is leaking and fucking choke to death in space before burning up on reentry as he falls into orbit. its actually bizarre replaying it because they spend so much time on shepard fucking dying one of the worst ways possible

Its fucking dogshit and was one of the beginnings of everything wrong with what vidya has turned into

True, for many people this game was their first hard reality check. I still remember being mad that no review mentioned dogshit writing and broken promises about the ending. At least it taught many people some lessons about preordering, being hyped etc.

sacrifices himself to save a cripple

literally jesus tier hero

Shepard, I heard you're siding with Reapers, to abduct women

beginning of 2 is so spiteful and mean spirited towards shepard as a character it feels malevolent

Mein Neger, Cerberus spends a shitload of money to bring him back from the dead because he's unironically The Chosen One™.
I can see the argument that the game discarded many aspects of the previous entry to make way for new additions (Normandy was literally destroyed so you can use their brand new ship, Ashley/Kaidan abandoning you for the most nonsensical reason ever, Liara being so different as a character it borders on fanfiction, Council ignoring the Reaper threat like the ending of the first game never happened so you're forced to work with Cerberus, etc), but to say they hated Shepard is just wrong.

Council ignoring the Reaper threat

I mean their reasoning made sense no? Shepard never proved that the reapers were real, they had no reason to change their opinion. For all they knew sovereign was still just Saren's ship and Shepard was just going schizo from touching the beacon.

This. It doesn't even really make sense that Anderson and Hackett believe Shepard at all either. Even his party members are a stretch. They weren't all there for the convos with Sovereign and Vigil.

Be Black Isle Studio

Parent company asks you to publish an RPG made by a no name studio

Oh shit the game is good

Wait no! Now people have forgotten about Fallout 2!!

Decide to one up the upstarts by using their own engine to make Icewind Dale

Release it way before Baldur's Gate 2 comes out to mess with Bioware

People still by Baldur's Gate 2 despite your attempt at sabotage

Spend next few years playing second fiddle to new guy

Pitch idea for BG3 and get shot down

Bioware goes on to become a big name studio

Years later, studio is firmly in the cuck she'd

All the talent jumped ship and either went to Bioware or Obsidian

Obsidian clung to the rivalry and ultimately became as pozzed as modern Bioware

Nobody won this war.

all the ME1 armor has cameras attached to it. the sovreign conversation was recorded. the saren confrontations were all recorded. its just bad writing

Nobody won this war.

Why'd Legendary Edition change Port Hanshan so much?

What did they change?

where did you get this?

it-

it could be a fabrication!

mass effect 3 retroactively created this plot hole

Best companion?

Mordin > Garrus > Thane > Wrex > Grunt
Fuck the rest frankly

In 1 Wrex being both a tank and having biotics. In 2 Miranda for having overload and warp and having that passive buff to allies. In 3 Garrus if you spec him right shreds through anything.

What's the Krogan stance on biotics anyway? Do they distrust them like Humans or Turians?

Wrex, Garrus and Mordin are by far the best companions. Some of the others are also okay but not on their level.

Played my first run as a soldier/sniper, what should I do for the next?

Adept

Soldier every time. Magic users are sissies.

Because of pic related, and because the dlc for the original versions of the games are pain to acquire.

that's why I don't play it

not because I'm on a phone

but because of that

you believe me, right?

What?

Malarkey

It's funny how the fags who post here keep repeating the same lies, even after getting BTFO every time. The council didn't believe Sovereign's claim of there being thousands of reapers waiting to attack. They thought Sovereign was a single threat, and the fact that it took so long for the reapers to show up in 3 made it seem even more farfetched.