I've been wondering: if the Reapers won and the galaxy followed another cycle, what race or races would be the most likely to evolve and take over the Galaxy after Asari, Human, Salarian and so on are gone?

It's a corporate outpost full of suits, backstabbers, and espionage that sits miles away from an incubator full of mad science lunacy.

And it's so cozy. Like it gives me warm fuzzies.

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I wanted to start doing a new series of posts where we give some love to the many voice actors who help bring our favorite characters to life! To start with, I shine the spotlight on Ali Hillis- the voice of Liara!

She did a great job in developing Liara's vocal evolution, from a bashful introvert to a bold broker. What do you think of her performance?

I’ve stated in previous post that I am a Novice in the Mass Effect world. Put it off for decades because for some reason it just didn’t pull me in when watching videos. Legendary edition was $5 so I had no more excuses lol. Loved it and I hate myself for waiting this long. Here are my own rating/review of the game as a casual gamer.

1. Mass Effect 1: 8/10
   - Once I landed on Eden Prime I knew I made a mistake not playing this game. It already felt like it was going to be huge and with the updated graphics it looked very good. Even the combat, while dated, was fun enough to play. A very fun game and intro that is really only held back by it being clearly dated. Reminds me of when I replayed Oblivion (not remastered) a few years ago and thought this games a 10/10 in 2006, but today it’s a little rough. Very simplistic gun play and the world exploring (while impressively big for the time) was very hollow.

2. Mass Effect 2: 9/10
   - Other than being utterly confused as to what was going on in the opening like 3 hours, this game immediately improved on everything gameplay wise for me. And not only that, but true world building and exploring. The assemble a team aspect of this game really opened up all the other species, planets, and history of the world. I genuinely found everything about this game to be a blast. Only reason it’s not a 10/10 to me is retrospective. This game really does feel like a filler episode to me now that I’ve completed the series. 1 & 3 are truly aligned, but 2 almost feels like a fever dream once you start playing 3. Like “oh Shepard retired from Cerberus and is back with the alliance and all those teammates are gone and most won’t come back.” Absolute blast though

3. Mass Effect 3: 8.5/10
   - This game was an 8 for me for the first 20~ hours. It was so confusing flipping back to the Alliance and not having the team I assembled just a game earlier. The fighting “improved” but to me became too “Gears of War” style and combat felt really easy. I barely died in this game. They also took away ALOT of things that I loved with 2. Also there was legit a 15 hours worth of DLC I accidentally played in a row that had me stop and forget what I was even doing in the main mission?! That being said it is undeniably MASSIVE. A blockbuster if there ever was one and once we got into the last 15~ hours of the main story it was go time. Frankly I don’t understand the gripe with the ending. I beat it last night and was sitting there wondering if I picked the right choice for an hour and flipped in my mind like 10 times. I chose Destroy. I get none of the choices you made during the game really matter to the final decision, but it worked for me. Maybe I’m simple. Overall the game was a lot of fun once it kicked off and the third act is some of the biggest I’ve played

Overall: I loved the series and am an idiot for waiting this long. It does bug me that every game kind of felt like a soft reboot? Like the continuity of the 3 games was pretty sloppy for me. Most of the time playing 3 I would just catch myself wondering what even was 2 about?? I loved the RPG-ness of the game and even though as it went on it became less RPG and more action game (as is the trend anymore), I still found a lot of joy in the decision and actually had to think before choosing unlike most games where they give you a choice but there’s no real choice at all unless you’re playing evil. I know my rating will tick some people off (it seems like if you ask 3 mass effect fans to rank the games you get 3 answers), but I truly loved the game.

It's a corporate outpost full of suits, backstabbers, and espionage that sits miles away from an incubator full of mad science lunacy.

And it's so cozy. Like it gives me warm fuzzies.

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The battle of the sniper rifles continues with these two powerhouses! Vote for your pick in the comments!

Adept is pretty lame in ME2. I almost considered changing to soldier based on spending most of ME2 using an assault rifle.

However, along comes ME3 and suddenly the poor lads are being shockwaved into a wall, pulled into the sky, exploded and then slammed into another singularity before poor James even gets to pull out his gun.

Give the poor Cerberus goons a chance before being hurled off a cliff.

The stuttering sound Geth make isn't speech. It's just the noise they make when transferring data packets to each other. It's impossible for David to be able to do that. Speech doesn't suddenly become a data packet like that. He would have to say an enormous string of 1s and 0s absurdly fast. I feel like this goes against their own lore they've established.

Clarification: The wasted potential could be anything.

PS: I enjoy reading the comments.

Why didnt the Leviathans consider that the catalyst would consider them and their creation of AI as a problem as well? If they’re such a brilliant apex species, wouldn’t they consider putting in a few lines of code like “if species = Leviathan do not exterminate” lol?

We've narrowed down the best snipers- but which of these is your favorite? Comment below!

This is a long shot but I need help looking for a fic on fanfiction.net. Many years back had read a post war fic with Shepard/Miranda. Shepard was a vanguard biotic. I think the major plot thread was that there was a 3rd evil Lawson sister pursuing Miranda, Shepard and Oriana with the aid of Kai Leng.

In the fic the Reaper War had progressed much differently and there was no space child or 3x colour ending. Shepard had been arrested and placed on trial due to his actions in the war and placed under house arrest. Both Miranda and Shepard had a strained relationship in part because they had been infected by reaper tech and could not have a physical relationship.

Do you think James would have been a more beloved character if he had been given more screen time and introduced in the first game—or at the very latest, the second?

I did a quick google search and seems like no one else is having this issue with the LE yet i am. the only thing stopping me from charging across the battlefield one by one knocking all the baddies out is that my charge bugs all the damn time.

is there a minimum distance? My shepard NEVER charges when the target is close enough for a melee yet when i google there is no min distance i can charge it seems?

min distance aside, like 30% of the times i try to charge across , i press the hotkey or via tactical pause, my shep doesnt charge too. so annoying.

Anyone having this issue? I have -80% recovery time yet this is not the problem. i can clearly tell when its still recharging, not only that, sometimes i can charge across the battlefield and knock em all out like pinheads, so its not my re-charging time. anyone knows how to fix this?

Just appreciating the machine and its sacrifice.

I found the game to be completely unplayable without mods, predictably. I got 10 hours in and decided one of my mods was OP, so deleted it and loaded up a similar, less powerful mod (specifically, more skill points). Wasn't sure how that would affect an ongoing playthrough and I wasn't THAT far in, so decided to start over fresh. Now, whenever I try to land on Eos for the first time, the game exits without warning, no error log, nothing, right at the tail end of the landing cutscene.

Any insight? Is the extra skill points mod breaking my game? It's the only thing I've changed.

Mass Effect feels like such an interesting cross section of genres, im curious what other games the community plays.

Just curious if anyone else got this weird shadow of Liara while at the Port Hansan Plaza merchant (Noveria)? Doesn't seem to be causing any problems, the merchant still works, so not really a big deal. Playing Legendary Edition on Xbox One.

I am finishing ME legendary edition 100% run, tried to make an Atlas hijack achievement. Fight was still on, enemies were running. Tried to enter with standard action button but the circle was turning green and nothing was happening. There was electric current visible on Atlas mech but couldn't get it. Am I doing something bad or just a bug?

I stripped a shield and kept shooting at pilot until glass shattered and he died.