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clericofshadows · 5 months ago

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hope you don't mind this ask. but what are your favorite pc mods to use for the Mass Effect games?

oh man, there's so many... all my mods for sure ;)

and here's a link to the Mass Effect Modding discord!

but in all seriousness, here's a list. this isn't an install order nor does it list all requirements for mods, but it does have all the mods I can't live without or have used before and enjoy. read mod descriptions closely, watch for compatibility sections, and you'll be fine. I won't really mention cosmetics beyond listing some devs (including myself, to be transparent) who focus on that kind of thing, because this list will get even longer and cosmetics tend to be more on a case-by-case basis. I also won't list texture mods because I don't use them.

this is also not exhaustive and I will definitely forget some lol. browse nexus, there's definitely lots of things I probably looked over/missed.

also, do not use synth's guide, period. it's now unsupported and I'm tired of troubleshooting it on the main modding server.

LE1

LE1 Community Patch - Necessary for any playthrough.

Same-Gender Romances for LE1 - Makes Kaidan and Ashley available for same gendered Sheps, also functions as an optional flirting mod of sorts.

MELLO - Restores dynamic lighting for LE, makes the game closer to how it looks to OT.

Alliance Uniform Consistency - If you're like me and prefer ME3's Alliance uniform style, this mod backports them to LE1.

Skip Minigames (LE1) - Self explanatory.

Charted Worlds (LE1) - Marks more items of interest on UNC maps

Black Market License (LE1) - Gives more vanilla loot from "hidden" manufacturers, so weapons and an armor set that was previously inaccessible without console commands.

Private Message Terminal (LE1) - Adds a message terminal to the Normandy.

A Little Help From My Friends (LE1) - Requires Private message terminals, adds emails and collection assignment support from different characters.

Eclectic Emails (LE1) - Requires private message terminals, adds various emails to LE1 to flesh out the story and characters.

Galaxy Map Trackers (LE1) - Tracks discovered and undiscovered missions on the galaxy map

Pinnacle Station DLC - Brings the Pinnacle Station DLC back to LE.

Kaidan Alenko Overhaul (LE1) - Gives Kaidan a higher poly face and new hair

Casual Hubs for LE1 - Shepard and squadmates will wear casual outfits in some situations

LE1 Diversification Project - Overhauls ME1 with lots of asset diversity, cut content, and mission changes. Read the Article page for more details! (This mod has some hard requirements, read the description)

Advanced Weapon Models for LE1 - Backports ME3 weapon models to LE1.

Normandy Rapid Transit (LE1) - Adds the Normandy to the rapid transit fast travel points.

Mira Puzzle Be Gone - Tired of the Towers puzzle in Noveria? Me too.

Children of Rannoch - A Quarian Overhaul (LE1) - My personal favorite "visible Tali/visible quarian" face mod

Elements of Comparative Weaponry (LE1) - Gives better description information on weapons

No Skill Check Required for Loot (LE1) _ Take whoever you want without worrying about skillchecks.

No Armor Skill Required - Equip armor without worrying about skills

XP Rescale (LE1) - Increases XP rewards

ME3 Alliance Armor for LE1 - Backports the ME3 marine armor for marines to wear in LE1

Mako Squadmate Banter - Adds the elevator banter to the Mako (Please note this mod has a hard requirement)

Mako Infinite Boost - Self explanatory

No Sexual Harassment (LE1 and LE2) - Removes a variety of things, such as sexist dialogue and the weird Sha'ira touching. I personally just remove the Sha'ira stuff.

Virmire Savior Mod (LE1) - Lets you save both Kaidan and Ashley on Virmire (note, do disable Kaidan Alenko Overhaul if using this mod)

Hot Labs Restored (LE1) - Massive cut content restoration for Noveria

Caleston Restored (LE1 - ALPHA) - Restores the cut planet Caleston that used to be the place for Liara's recruitment mission.

Punch Charles Saracino - Why punch a reporter when you can punch Terra firma?

New Outfit for Matriarch Benezia - GIves Benezia some more practical outfits for her appearance.

LE2

Unofficial LE2 Patch - Necessary

LE2 Prologue Framework - Necessary for many mods

Early Recruitment (LE2) - Early recruitment of Tali, Samara, Thane, Legion, and access to Illium and Tuchanka pre -Horizon

EGM Weapons in Cutscenes (LE2) - Weapons you hold will properly appear in cutscenes.

Trigger Buttons (LE2) - Trigger story mission with a button press rather than forced into them

Cerberus and Alliance Uniform Consistency (LE2) - If you're like me and prefer the ME3 fatigues/uniforms

Anderson and Hackett Consistency Mod (ME2LE) - Anderson and Hackett wear their ME3 dress blues.

Risky Suicide Mission (LE2) - Makes the suicide mission in LE2 feel more like a suicide mission. Best used for a brand new playthrough

Cerberus Weapons (LE2) -Gives the game more Cerberus weapons, backported from 3

Modern Weapon Pack - Backports weapons from 3

Casual Hubs for LE2 - Shepard and squadmates will wear casuals on and off the normandy in some scenarios

Expanded Shepard Armory (ME2LE) - Large armor and casual mod, also allows you to select armor right before a mission

Virmire Savior Mod (LE2) - Continuation of Virmire Savior 1, allows one Virmire Survivor to confront you on Horizon while the other is a temp squadmate

One Probe All Resources - Use one probe to gather everything

No N7 Armor in Liaras Apartment - Removes the creepy armor in Liara's apartment.

F.I.S.H. Mod (LE2) - Kelly will feed your fish without flirting with her

Renegade Scars for All - LE2 - LE3 - If you're like me and love renegade scars and want them on always

Nos Astra Mineral Exchange - Adds a trading market to LE2 for resources and currency.

Same-Gender Romances for LE2 - Continues the same sex Kaidan and Ash romances from 1, adds Tali and Thane for same gender sheps. LE3 mod isn't out yet.

Oriana looks like Miranda's Twin (ME2LE) - Oriana's face is changed to Miranda's

Easy Armor Stats (LE2) - Armor stats are moved above descriptions

Skip Minigames for LE2 - As the title says

Bonus Bonus Powers For LE2 - Freely add or remove powers from Shep's loadout

Combat Evade Maneuvers - Adds a biotic dash for roll evade

Recovered Powers - Gives Shep 4 new powers

HD Romance Photos - Adds a larger photo for ME1 romances

Optional Flirting Mod (LE2) - Makes flirting options more clear and some actions optional via interrupts

Zaeed's Wholesome Revenge (LE2) - Save the workers AND kill Vido on Zaeed's loyalty mission if completed fast enough

Geth Pulse Rifle on Lower Difficulties - Don't want to play harder difficulties but want this gun? This mod is for you

Full Weapon Recovery - Recover all special weapons on the Collector ship

Skip Mass Effect 2 Prologue - Skips straight to character creator when starting a new game

Truly Unrestricted Weapons LE2 - Shepard and squad can equip all weapon types

Children of Rannoch - A Quarian Overhaul (LE2) - The LE2 version of the LE1 mod. Also has an optional addon for even more armors.

Extended Romance Scenes - Ports LE3 romance scenes for LE2 romances

No Shared Power Cooldowns - Removes the shared power cooldowns.

Kaidan and Ashley LE3 Armors for Horizon (MELE2) - As the name says, gives Kaidan and Ashley their ME3 armors in Horizon. Softly incompatible with Virmire Savior (the squadmate who is in your squad won't have the updated appearance)

More Gay Romances - Jack and MIranda can be romanced by Femshep

New Squadmate Casuals (LE2) - Casual outfits for various squadmates. (Note that a lot of the Squadmate armor mods have their own casuals, so choose options accordingly if you want a specific one to show up, as this mod will override most)

Platonic Post Horizon Emails - Get a new email from Kaidan/Ashley if not romanced post Horizon.

LE3

LE3 Community Patch - Necessary

Expanded Galaxy Mod (LE) - A massive overhaul of the galactic war system, Normandy, additional squadmates on some missions, and many QOL features that can be modified via settings.

Miranda Mod (LE) - Puts Miranda on the Normandy post Horizon and can bring her on missions. (Note: Some conversations do use AI voice cloning)

N7 - A Spectre's Gift - A new mission added to the game with some Andromeda references

Spectre Expansion Mod - I don't currently use it, but in the past I have. Requires EGM's Galactic War option, and provides a lot of new choices and mini missions and text based opportunities to influence war assets. Also has a small non-combat mission.

Skip Geth Consensus - As the title says.

Project Variety (LE3) - My personal preferred content overhaul for ME3, includes countless options, restore cut content, new areas to explore. Definitely a mod page to read very closely, it is a HEAVY mod.*

Virmire Savior Mod (LE3) - Continuation of Virmire Savior from previous games. One VS is chosen on Mars to be part of the story, and the other joins you post coup

Audemus' Happy Ending Mod - THE Happy end mod for ME

Kaidan Alenko's Hospital Stay - Gives Kaidan a shirt to wear while in the hospital + a new face texture.

Ashley Williams' Hospital Stay - Gives Ashley a shirt to wear while in the hospital + a new face texture.

Omega Hub - Beta - Adds Omega as a hub

Take Earth Back - Massively overhauls Priority: Earth

No Shared Power Cooldowns - Removes the shared power cooldowns

Dreams Remade - Overhauls the dream cutscenes

Kaidan Alenko Overhaul (LE3) - Gives Kaidan a higher res face and new hair, plus new armors and outfits (Also available for 2, but isn't compatible with the Prologue Framework currently.)

Padme's Cabin Additions and Memorials (LE3) - Adds some new decoration to the cabin

Apartment Additions (LE3) - Allows you to invite your LI to the Citadel Apartment

Thane Can Live (LE3) - Thane can live post coup

Optional Flirting Mod (LE3) - I don't currently use it since it's incompatible with Virmire Savior, but makes flirting options clearer

Citadel Epilogue Mod (LE3) - Play the Citadel DLC post-ending

Pinnacle Station Apartment (LE3) - Ports the Pinnacle Station apartment to LE3 and you can invite your LI.

Shut Up Leng - Removes Kai Leng as much as possible from ME3

BETA Bonus Bonus Powers for LE3 - Customize Shepard's and squadmate power loadouts

Ashley Consistency Project (MELE3) - Ports Ashley's LE1 hair and head to ME3, adds new armors and a zipped up version of her outfit.

More Gay Romances - Jack and Miranda can be romanced by Femshep

*Note that PV has a lot of mods built into it, so there's lots of mods I've likely left out because I use PV.

Cosmetics authors for various games. This includes outfits/hair for Shepard. SEARCH THE APPAREL CATEGORY ON LE NEXUS FOR BEST RESULTS. This list also isn't exhaustive, but I tried to include authors who I've used their outfit/armor/hair mods, and made notes if they also have stuff in the squadmate armor category.

If you want Squadmate Armor mods, both the APPAREL and CHARACTER category will give you results.

clericofshadows: I primarily do male shepard casuals and armors, with a handful of exceptions for femshep (Guardian Armors for Shepard, my port of the Destiny 2 x ME collab), as well as squadmate armors

MorningAngel: Both male and female shepard, does causals and hair, and I mean lots of casuals and hair. Squadmate armors as well

Munchyfly: Squadmate armors and various casual/armors for shepard

Bejeweledhanban - Squadmate armors

spiderbabes: Hair and clothing for femshep

Rngdshep: Primarily armor, casuals for femshep, some mshep mixed in the femshep mods

Beckaboo: Some causals, some armors, and squadmate armors.

zebbros: Male and femshep casuals, some squadmate armors

MentalHygiene: male and femshep casuals

Padme4000: Male and femshep casuals and armors, some hair

Poucinette: Hair mods

Horography: Casuals for both male and femshep

Marcus22Khaar: Some hair, some squadmate armor mods

mithran56 and nanuke: both authors have some armors and casuals, some squadmate armors (often collaborate on each other's projects)

Kinkojiro: Armors for both male and femshep

Mistyvail: Armors for both male and femshep

Dsetzu: Armors for both male and femshep

jasonntodd: Armors and casuals for femshep, and some for squadmates

I think that covers most things? There's a lot I most definitely left out, so browse Nexus!

#mass effect #ask #anon #mass effect mods #mass effect modding #cleric's mod recs

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edains · 17 days ago

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Appearance Modification Menu LE1

El's ME1 Complexion Tweaks

femshepping's Personal Complexions

Hair Mixtures Part 2

Mira's Armory for Shepard (LE1 AMM Add-On)

Wraith Eyes

#mass effect #ashley williams #maureen shepard #edain's screens

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dragonflight203 · 1 year ago

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Mass Effect 1 replay, part two of Noveria:

-When you get to the garage, you fight several geth. Tali immediately suggests the geth were packed in Benezia’s luggage.

I know this is this the conclusion no matter the squad combo, but I can’t help but wonder – is this something the Quarians used to do? Pack the geth up like luggage when traveling? Is that where the idea to sneak them in like this came from?

-Tali to Matsuo if you go renegade referencing what the geth are up to: The same thing that happens to all species, Captain. Evolution.

Interesting to see Tali acknowledge there that the geth have been developing over the last hundred years, just like any other species would.

-In Aleutsk Valley, there are numerous flipped over vehicles. Some of them have crates and/or near bodies nearby.

Did the geth kill them? Is this why travel is considered so dangerous – because the geth are killing everything that moves?

-There continue to be intro enemy cutscenes, just like on Feros. Baffled why a Geth Colossus got one, though – I have killed so many of those guys by this point.

-Neither Tali nor Liara have a clue what the rachni are. I can’t remember – does Wrex hint at recognizing them?

-The Administration area is mostly tables. Where are the chairs to these tables?

-Amusingly, the menu for the Mira core mini game defaults to using omni-gel. Bioware knew people would want to skip it.

The decryption mini game for other objects defaults to playing the mini game.

-When introducing Shepard to Mira, paragon is spectre and renegade is Alliance.

Spectres are entitled to secure access by default. Alliance only has it because of the emergency.

Neutral is to ask for more info, learn about the types of security access, then pick. Neutral again defaults to spectre.

Again, I feel the game was going somewhere with Spectre = paragon and Alliance = renegade, and I really want to know what it was. Shepard being forced to pick between the Council and the Alliance?

-And in the memory core, we learn Benezia has moved on yet again. Your princess is in another castle.

-Binary Helix should pay Shepard a consulting fee for everyone they fix for them.

-If you ask Mira for a damage report after fixing the tram and the reactor, she says there are over a million issues in non critical systems. Kudos to Bioware for taking the easy route of reporting no errors.

-The salarian gate guard, I presume, killed himself because the rachni were loose… Oof. Dark, and fitting for the atmosphere Bioware wanted for Noveria. Bad things are going down.

#mass effect #mass effect 1 #mass effect 1 replay

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maryellencarter · 18 days ago

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okay, i have sorted out the mods i want to use for a mostly sort of vanilla playthrough of mass effect 1 legendary edition.

* the community patch, which describes itself as an "unopinionated bugfix mod" and provides helpful basic fixes such as "You are now properly able to toggle helmets when accessing the Squad screen using the hotkey" and "Sprinting while getting in the Mako no longer causes the Mako to not have crosshairs". also includes fixes for notorious bugs like the conrad verner me2 import flag

* "casual hubs" mod to make shepard and squadmates wear fatigues instead of armor on the normandy and in certain parts of the citadel and noveria. also a separate mod (adams fatigues) to put engineer adams in fatigues instead of dress blues while at his workstation

* "charted worlds" to put minerals, thresher maws, and hidden points of interest onto the maps of uncharted worlds, "galaxy map trackers" to put pointer flags about missions you haven't done yet on the uncharted worlds in the galaxy map, and "keepers finders" to add plot marker points to the locations of unscanned keepers on the citadel

* "dr heart experiments" to use an unused unique zombie model instead of the thorian creeper model for dr saleon's experimental critters you have to kill. "eden prime red sky restored" to make eden prime look like it did in original ME1, because apparently legendary edition decided continuity with the javik dlc was some sort of a goal. "myriad pro begone" to change certain fonts back to the original mass effect text font instead of a default adobe acrobat font.

* "easier feros persuasion check" because there's no fucking reason to force a 12 charm / 10 intimidate persuasion check in order to reach the required threshold for helping the feros colony survive. "paragade persuasion", which adds together your paragon and renegade skill points and uses the total to unlock persuade options in the style of me3's single reputation bar, so you can persuade the preaching hanar and general oraka at the first points you're likely to encounter them instead of having to artificially avoid them until after becoming a spectre. "UNC morality" which unlocks the paragon and renegade missions at certain player levels instead of requiring the paragon/renegade meter checks. together these three mods mean i can do noveria without the lorik qui'in glitch for the first time ever, and go to feros before noveria if i want; i am told benezia is an easier fight in legendary edition anyway but i don't trust that

* "skip minigames" removes a bunch of the fucking frogger decrypt minigames (no more decrypting dead salarians for their id tags!) and makes the rest bypassable with 0 omnigel. "mira puzzle be gone" adds a 100 omnigel crate to noveria so you can skip the towers of hanoi puzzle if you want (i'm so bad at towers of hanoi). "no skill check required for loot" allows you to access lockers and terminals even if they want hard decryption/electronics, without speccing into those skills, which means i could play something besides engineer if i want; i always play engineer so i have both of those skills and am not locked into dragging tali everywhere.

* "morlan's famous iconic armor shop" adds a tab to morlan's famous shop (you want many good supplies, yes?) that sells the default armors for each squadmate in leveled-up variants -- so you can have, for example, wrex in his red Mercenary armor, but in the heavy variant and at an appropriate level. especially helpful for tali because quarian armor is rare as all fuck. "replenish grenades" adds a grenade box to the wall by shepard's locker so you can refill whenever you want, like the medigel box in dr michel's clinic, because otherwise grenade refills pretty much only happen on feros.

* "no sexual harassment" makes harkin use the same dialogue to femshep that he does to maleshep. i legit teared up when i first found this one, okay? i always play femshep because i like jennifer hale's voice better, but half my routing on the citadel has always been centered around avoiding harkin so the microaggressions wouldn't trigger my dysphoria. which means i miss out on an entire story moment with wrex. don't get me wrong, i adore barla von, but having choices is what these games are all about

* "punch charles saracino" just amuses me. this is the guy you encounter during your final stop on the citadel who wants you to endorse his xenophobic political campaign. in vanilla you can choose to endorse him or speak against him, but given how The State Of Everything has changed since 2007, i think i will like having the option to punch him

* "xp rescale" allows you to reach level 60 in a single playthrough, since legendary edition is no longer set up to really really want at least one newgame+ completion before you import to me2. as i understand it this might technically be possible in legendary edition if you grabbed every single scrap of xp possible, but there are a few missions i prefer to complete without killing everybody, so i'm taking a mod just to make sure. "respecialization console" also allows me to respec talent points if i change my mind about a build.

* "unlimited sprint and boost" allows me to sprint for more than three seconds at a time, which should help with getting around the guant hub worlds.

* and finally, "same-gender romances" will let me romance ashley as femshep, and also includes conversation tweaks to keep me from being stealth romanced by kaidan and liara!

#jt plays mass effect

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thexgrayxlady · 10 months ago

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I wish I had written that bit of an AU in which Mira never joined the Alliance, but gets hired to steal the Prothean Beacon and kicks off the plot anyway.

#mira shepard

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tropicalfreckles · 1 year ago

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remembering I still gotta finish this some day. It's the background and body armor that is taking me forever to commit to lol

#mira shepard baby i swear i'll do you right #my art #wip

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kaidanalenkosprmanager · 9 days ago

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Sophie Oliveira-Shepard Alenko-Oliveira and Kaidan Alenko-Oliveira - ME3 (2/?) "I want to be your strength. Your soft place to land." Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition (2021) + Bonus

#mira makes gifs ✨#sophie shepard #kaidan alenko #shenko #mass effect #mass effect 3 #me3 #dailygaming #otp: you’re real enough for me #heyyyy i’m back with more shenko content bc these two live rent free in my brain :)#you know how i always say ‘this is coolest shit i’ve ever made’ well guess what this is my favorite set i’ve ever made :)#this is my favorite cutscene in ME3 and probably all of mass effect and no one can change that #the way that they look at each other? the softness? the gentle touches? rent. free.#those last four gifs? my favorite 4 seconds in mass effect #soph having horrible nightmares and insomnia throughout her life is very canon so this cutscene is everything to me #it's something about the hurt/comfort of it all. it resonates so well with them. it's spawned so much of their characterization for me :)#i thought about dialogue relating to something non-reaper related but i just wanted the gifs to do the talking this time #the little like half second blurry shot of the picture frame was part of the inspiration for this set :)#it was too important to me to NOT render something out to put in the picture frame by their bed :) and it was going to be on inta’sei #but then i settled for a mission on illium that takes place between ME1/ME2 that’s just the two of them that i will pen out as a oneshot #at some point™️ the render inspired a great many ideas for it. and i had to do a bonus to get a better look at it ;)#i’ll probably throw the actual piece up in the future lol but it was nice seeing it in game :) and kaidan’s tattoos and his piercings :)#it ain’t a mira gifset unless i do something slightly convoluted to show off little pieces of canon :)#thanks for listening to my mini rant :) have a good day like always friend 💙

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crescent--moons · 29 days ago

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Playing Veilguard kept giving me the OT Mass Effect vibes in many ways and since the last time I played was when the LE released I thought "why not just go back and do a full run again?"

Welp, now I'm in full ME brainrot mode with a thick layer of nostalgia that I can't shake off (Kinda expected it though lol). Decided to do something different this time though, and played as mshep all the way through 1 to 3 and absolutely loved it!

I cried like a baby at the end (Again). I've been replaying the OT for the past 13 years and the ability the series has to inflict emotional damage on me is unparalleled lol

So here is a list of my thoughts, laughs and tears, basically my feelings old and new cuz I need to dump them somewhere lol

(Although the OT has been out for a long time, since the LE was released I've noticed a substantial amount of new players consistently popping up which is awesome, so spoiler warning just in case)

- Mordin still remains unbeaten as my favourite overall character (love the layers to his personality and the redemption story arc is chef kisses)

- Thane, Liara and Kaidan are still my top 3 romances

- Shep & Grunt's dynamic is awesome and hilarious (especially in ME3)

- Biotic charge my beloved

- The way Garrus says "by the goddess" when poking fun at Liara at the party STILL makes me bust a lung

- Mshep looking at VI Mira on Noveria and asking deadpan "why do you look like a librarian?" Took me tf out

- The sequence showing the Normandy SR-2 for the first time in ME2 STILL makes me tear up

- The OT soundtrack is fantastic (No, I don't listen to the Noveria track on repeat, why do you ask?)

- Playing all 3 games with mods was great

- Tali saying Emergency Induction Port is STILL one of my favourite moments

- Javik and the Airlock is the best duo in the Milky Way

- "I am Commander Shepard and this is my favourite store on the Citadel" is forever iconic

- Shep being a Hamster owner and lover speaks to my soul

- Saren and The Illusive Man are still my favourite antagonists (Honourable mention: Shep's clone)

- Aria saying "I am Omega" for the first time is top tier cinema

- Destroy is still the choice I prefer out of the three vanilla ones and I always thought that once the extended cut was included, the ending was fine (might still be a controversial take, dunno and don't care tbh)

- HOWEVER now that I have the happy ending mod I'll never go back lol

- Default mshep is too handsome for his own good and Mark Meer's voice fits the face so well like- *faints* I should have given mshep a shot years ago already lol

- ME3 opening sequence up to the title screen is STILL one of my favourites across all gaming (yes, I cry every time pls help)

- Still not sure if bringing Shep back in a future game would be a good idea (too many strings attached imho) Probably best to keep them as the legendary "The Shepard" and let them rest (is this controversial too? Dunno, don't care)

- "Ah yes, "Reapers". We have dismissed that claim." has been living rent free in my head since the day I heard it lol

- I've always liked both Jack and Miranda but since this last playthrough I really grew to love them (might be an age + wisdom thing on my part lol)

- Planning on shaking it up again on my future replays and going for femshep romancing Jack (thank you mods lol) in one playthrough and finally commit to a full Renegade shep on another

- I should go

#mass effect #mass effect legendary edition #mass effect spoilers #commander shepard #femshep #mshepard

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