#mass effect 3 scenery

[missgamerin]

Mass Effect 3 Scenery I Ardat-Yakshi Monastery

[fukiana]

MASS EFFECT 1: LEGENDARY EDITION (Bioware, 2021) Milky Way / Artemis Tau / Knossos System / Therum

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mass effect legendary edition 🪐

[selfpossesedghost]

Sur'Kesh

Mass Effect 3

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Mass Effect Legendary Edition 💜

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[saruin]

I can agree that Veilguard has its issues, there are some things I’m not a big fan of and some choices that as someone who’s played through the entirety of the series multiple times and read the books/comics don’t make a lick of sense to me, but overall it’s a good game imo. I’ve been taking my time and exploring in it but to me it read like if DA2 was given time to be fleshed out properly while still being new. I think because of the lore and previous writing they wrote themselves into a bit of a corner, but that’s was inevitable at some point. If this is supposed to be a soft reboot then maybe that means the next game goes back to having that more open choice RPG feel people are saying it’s missing

Personally, I went in with no expectations because I love this franchise and I know most of my headcanons and thoughts aren’t EA’s world state, which is fine. But I’ve been really enjoying the game. The combat is a bit of a learning game curve compared to what we’ve had before but the heart of the games has always been the story and the interaction you have with your companions but that’s just me. People can be mad and upset and complain about being a “DA purist” or complain that they don’t like the art style but at its core everyone has a different experience and connection to the game and no single DA game looks like another. The styles are all different! And if something doesn’t match with your story for your player character you can literally write fix-it fics and headcanons if you’re really mad about it *cough cough all of us who wanted the Hawke/Varric romance that they scrapped*

At the end of the day, I’d say take everything everyone’s been saying about the game with a (large) grain of salt. Take your time, explore, and enjoy it. It’s a got beautiful scenery, you can pet the cats and Mabari, and the cc for both Rook and the Inquisitor made me tear up because I literally haven’t seen my girl in 3 years and here she is with pretty flowing hair and still (in my mind because I haven’t seen her in game yet) is a rebel with a cause

Sorry for the long rant and rambling also, it’s just neat seeing creators and blogs I follow on here get excited about what is pretty much my favorite game series when in my offline experience is that it’s a very niche series to like. Also love your content for sims btw! I always get excited seeing when you’ve got something new cooking

Thank you for this. I think it's easy for people to forget that everyone doesn't experience games the same way. I don't listen to critics and I ignore people's opinions on stuff I'm genuinely excited about because I want to judge it with my own two eyes. I appreciate other people's perspective but I don't have to agree with them, what fun is that.

I remember when I was about to start playing Mass Effect and was asking friends for input (cause I didn't understand at the time that people could be extremely biased) I was told over and over again that ME3 was the worst game ever and to not even play it, to just get the story online somewhere. Well I ended up playing it despite their opinions and ME3 is my favorite game in the series.

Thank you again for giving me your opinions and I'm so happy you're enjoying the game. Also thanks so much for liking my content 🩷

[painterofhorizons]

So far, I have already played ~6h of a very casual mass effect 3! Is it possible to casually play mass effect after all?

Things I have (not) done:

Gave Shep a new hair cut, because why not.

Only started 3 without playing 1&2 first, meaning I used Genesis, which fucked up some of my normal playthrough decisions - and I'm just shrugging it off.

Have not stressed about in which order to do the missions yet. Just going with the vibe/how much time I have.

Said in Genesis that Shepard had something with garrus in 2 and then told him to stay friends in 3 (which kinda breaks my heart a little, but I don't like the flirty vibes and it does fit the story, and again: why the heck not).

Strolled through the Normandy and citadel just looking around enjoying the scenery.

Disabled subtitles - I'll understand what I understand. 🤷

Only took screenshots to get nice pics of my dudes but not to lay down the script for canon.

Forgot to save before cut scenes so I end up with whatever decision I'm making on the first try.

And let me tell you, it's fun so far.

(for real. I don't think I have ever played mass effect casually, as much as I adore it, it always feels like sometjing huge - but I'm trying to just say screw it and enjoy the way this time)

[bioware-bard]

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! get to know your mutuals and followers (ू•‧̫•ू⑅)♡

Received this message in my inbox right before my latest depressive episode, am currently trying to crawl back out of that dark pit, so this should be interesting.

Writing > Just in general, yeah. The action of writing, putting words together and forming sentences, creating images in the reader's mind. The feel and sound of skin brushing on paper, the scritches of the pen as it moves. Then the rush when an idea comes to mind, one that excites you as it fills a gap, solves a problem or is just fun.

Reading > Being transported to different worlds, realms and universes just by words on a page. I can't wait to get my hands on Sarah J. Maas' latest Crescent City book. Seriously, I'm not excited about much right now, but this book? This book I need in my life and I might spend some grocery money on it, because fuck it. It makes me happy. :D

A good book to TV adaptation > Netflix's atrocity that they blasphemously call The Witcher is a good example of how not to do it. You know which one did get it right? Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The season finale was yesterday and I can't wait for season 2! Everything about this show was great: the casting of the characters, the adaptations to the story, the sceneries and sets. Seriously, some of the shots on the show are exactly what those locations looked like in my mind when I was reading the book. Also, the new live action Avatar: The Last Airbender looks really good. Might have to borrow my dad's account to check it out.

BioWare Games > I'm way behind the times and only started playing BioWare games 3 years ago and started with Dragon Age: Inquisition 'cause, you know, I'm backwards. XD After finishing all of the Dragon Age games, the Mass Effect Legendary Edition was free for me with my Playstation subscription so I was like, "Eh, why not." (I thought it was just a shooter in space. I was stupidly ignorant.) That was about a year ago now and I am so glad I found these fandoms. Also, they're definitely my new comfort games: I played some Mass Effect 3 and Andromeda the past couple of weeks.

Comfort Characters > I can't talk about my favorite video games and then not mention the characters. Or, just share some gifs because it would be an entire essay if I started about why I love these characters.

[missgamerin]

Mass Effect 3 Scenery I Priority: Palaven - Menae

[wellthebardsdead]

So I played a bit of Starfield and. I hate it.

“Oh but it’s just skyrim in spa-” no, no it’s not. It’s got none of skyrims lore, the story feels like generic insert space sci-fi here. And I got bored of it after trying and I mean REALLY trying to get into it for 7 hours.

“Oh but it’s got heaps of content and gameplay time-” I don’t care, if it can’t hook me in after 7 hours it can’t hook me in at all. I didn’t enjoy the fallout games and I don’t like sci-fi. The 3 sci-fi related things I’ve enjoyed are mass effect, Overwatch and dr who.

Sci-fi to me feels too close to our modern times, lifeless, boring, space is cool yes but it’s been over done to hell and back and there’s little room for added creativity when bound so closely to our reality. One of if not the main conflict of the game is called ‘the colony wars.’ Okay so it’s the Jedi verses the empire, or the entire plot of outer worlds, like- you have the whole universe to be explored and we’re still focused on bullshit civil fighting like we’re already dealing with here on earth?

“Oh but there’s a rare mineral to unlock the secrets of the universe” rare mineral yeah, so Avatar then. And we start the game off as a miner, a drone worker and our whole task is to mine for this rare ore, soooo exciting 🙄.

Yes skyrim has a civil war going on, the elder scrolls certainly has its problems. But it’s so disconnected from our reality and full of mystery and intrigue that alone can get you invested, the scenery and art is captivating and full of life and starfields like fallouts is lifeless. At least fallout had some rustic charm to it, starfields is too clean, too polished, too lifeless.

Honestly I regret spending the money on it, and even more so I spent my one day off playing that instead of baldurs gate, skyrim, bloodborne or literally anything else.

[bergwerkderbilder]

Tag Masterpost

I'm doing my best to tag and organise all my posts, so have a list. I usually also tag places, quest/tale names and characters. Will update the list with new tag series as needed.

endless Witcher 3 gifs

Kaer Morhen gifs

Novigrad gifs

Redania gifs

Skellige gifs

Velen gifs

White Orchard gifs

Witcher colour palettes

Novigrad in colour palettes 

Oxenfurt in colour palettes

Redania in colour palettes

Skellige in colour palettes

Toussaint in colour palettes

Velen in colour palettes 

White Orchard in color palettes

Witcher 3 Scenery - screenshots

Witcher Sacred Spaces - temples and altars ect.

more fandoms under the cut

Ghost of Tsushima

Ghost of Tsushima endless gifs

Ghost of Tsushima in colour palettes

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Scenery

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey in Gifs

Assassin's Creed Odyssey in Palettes

Cyberpunk

Night City gifs

Cyberpunk 2077 in colour palettes

Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardians of the Galaxy in gifs

Guardians of the Galaxy in colour palettes

Horizon Zero Dawn

Horizon Zero Dawn Scenery

Horizon Zero Dawn endless gifs

Horizon Zero Dawn in colour palettes

Mass Effect

Mass Effect 1 in gifs

Mass Effect 2 in gifs

Mass Effect 3 in gifs

Mass Effect 1 in colour palettes

Night in the Woods

Night in the Woods in Palettes

Oddworld New and Tasty

Oddworld N&T in gifs

Movie gifs:

The Road to El Dorado in gifs

Samurai Champloo in Gifs

Studio Ghibli

Laputa: Castle in the Sky in gifs

My Neighbor Totoro in gifs

Spirited Away in gifs

Star Trek Wrath of Khan in gifs

[selfpossesedghost]

Under the Water

Mass Effect 3 - Leviathan DLC

[l8rose]

In my downtime while I was sick, I finally got around to doing MEL earlier this month (boy is that version of the Mass Effect Trilogy buggy as fuck) and I was still stuck by how ridiculous the dream sequences were in ME3. Especially the Scenery.

So, while thinking of my recurring nightmare, I thought of the scenery that haunts me (cause it’s the same damn place each time) and realized the trees in ME3′s dream had no actual reference from my FemShep’s life (of course there is also the “why-am-I-attached-to-random-child-I-saw-like-three-times-as-opposed-to-friend-I-left-to-die?” question but I’ve already whined about that). It’s supposed to be an important dream to make us feel like Shep is suffering for failing everyone but the trees make it feel even more out of place.

We don’t see any stand of trees like that in any of the games. Depending on the background that Shep has, they don’t even grow up near trees. Two of the three options for pre-service history has Shepard living somewhere with very little trees (ships/stations or on the streets of a big city) while the third is a colony off in the Attican Traverse with non-Earth flora. I suppose Shep could have visited a park or two while taking a break from saving the galaxy but it goes very against the character type, especially since the events from the full trilogy only take place over 3 years and Shep was dead for 2 of those.

I get that they were probably going for the idea of being lost and needing to connect but there were so many other impactful scenes that they could have chosen to base the dream around. Like basing it on Virmire, a planet where you make more than one decision that impacts the rest of the trilogy. Heck, if they wanted symbolism, using the scene from ME2 where you’re forced to walk through the busted Normandy to rescue Joker during the opening would be full of symbolism. Shepard literally dies right after so that would have been a full circle nightmare fuel.

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Writer Ask game! Tagged by @n0rmandysr1 tagging @breadedsinner @shu-of-the-wind @vhenadahls 1. how many works do you have on ao3?

11

2. what’s your total ao3 word count?

189116

3. what fandoms do you write for?

Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate

4. what are your top five fics by kudos?

My love for you is Paralyzing

Stolen nights among the stars

Tender Love warms Cold Hearts

Being by your side

Make me forget my worries

5. do you respond to comments?

ALWAYS!! (unless it's condescending or hate, then it gets banished)

6. what’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Ending? I do not understand what you mean. Most of my one shots are happy endings, my long fics get angstier, but don't have endings yet.

7. what’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Probably Make me forget my worries. A smut one shot.

8. do you get hate on fics?

Not really, mostly condescension

9. do you write smut? if so, what kind?

YUP! usually it's smaller scenes, and usually F/F, though I have my one M/F one-shot.

10. do you write crossovers? what’s the craziest one you���ve written?

Nope

11. have you ever had a fic stolen?

No.

12. have you ever had a fic translated?

Not that I know of.

13. have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, but I would absolutely love to! just struggle with time management too much.

14. what’s your all-time favorite ship?

I think I am legally obligated to say MerriHawke. though Karlach/Myra is owning my whole ass right now too.

15. what’s a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

All of them? Honestly, Tender Love warms Cold Hearts is like... kind of my fave, but also the hardest to write.

16. what are your writing strengths?

Definitely combat.

17. what are your writing weaknesses?

Finishing fics? Scenery and descriptions

18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I sometimes put sentences in Elvhen in my DA fics, mostly because it is important to the characters too. And believe the context or game knowledge is enough to translate the meaning, but if it isn't clear in context, it is translated to english.

19. first fandom you wrote for?

Technically She-Ra, though that was more of a test fic. Dragon Age is my real Fandom start.

20. favorite fic you’ve ever written?

Tie between Untethered, my OC fic about DID that, despite being BAD in a lot of ways, is still a very meaningful and important story to me. But also Tender Love warms Cold Hearts for it's worldbuilding.

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Writing Game

Tagged by @alyssalenko Thanks, fran!

Tagging: @ma-sulevin and @pigeontheoneandonly, if you want to play!

How many works do you have on AO3? 44. Though a couple of them are collections of Tumblr ficlets, so the number is higher if you count those seperately.

What’s your total AO3 word count? 183,424. I like to be brief, heh.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

About That Uniform

It's no secret that Artemis Shepard--Hero of the Alliance and Savior of the Citadel--hates Cerberus more than anything in the galaxy. The Illusive Man entrusts Miranda Lawson with the task of securing Shepard's loyalty by any means necessary. But who is seducing who?

2. The Fantabulous Vaction of One Harley Quinn and Her Girlfriend Poison Ivy

Harley's been burning the wick at both ends and Ivy knows just the thing to help. But it takes more than just a change of scenery to get Harley to let go.

3. Traitor Martyr Spy

Against all odds, Cerberus Spy Miranda Lawson and Alliance Marine Artemis Shepard have fallen in love. But Miranda is on the run and Artemis has turned herself in to Alliance custody--and the Reapers will arrive any second. Can these two defy all odds a second time?

4. Trust Exercise

Harley wants to try something new, but Ivy isn't sure her girlfriend is ready to see that part of her.

5. Three Robins Rose Has Kissed and the One Who Kissed Back.

Rose Wilson has a type and it is former protégés of Batman.

Do you respond to comments, why or why not? Of course! I know it takes a lot to leave a comment on someone else's work, so I always respond, even if it takes me a while to get to it. Plus, comments always make my day week month year life

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? 

Uuuuuh. There's a lot of contenders for that one. But I imagine it's gonna end up being Traitor, Martyr, Spy. Y'know, when I actually finish the thing. Honestly that's probably why I haven't finished it yet. The pandemic hit and suddenly I needed to cheer myself up, haha.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending? Probably The Fantabulous Vacation of One Harley Quinn and Her Girlfriend Poison Ivy, A Valentine for Esteban, and in general, @scifi-ginger and I's Kord Center Mall Fics are on the fluffier side.

Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the strangest one you’ve written? See aforementioned mall-verse fic. We basically threw our favorite fandoms together in a mall-based AU and it just spiraled from there.

Have you ever received hate on a fic? Kinda? I got a really weird, borderline biphobic comment on Not Your Hanar With Tits, which is basicaly an analogue for unicorn hunters.

Do you write smut? If so, what kind? I mostly write smut, haha. Non-smut is the exception to the rule. Um...mostly queer, often kinky, with lots of feelings included.

Have you ever had a fic translated? Not that I'm aware of.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I’m aware of.

Have you ever co-written a fic before? Fics, no, series, yes.

What’s your all-time favorite ship? Oh come on, you know it's panphobic to make me choose! XD I'm currently a sucker for Jayrose, Poisonquinn (more commonly known as Harlivy), and Shenko, among others.

What are your writing strengths? Mmm...I would say angst, writing trauma in a grounded way, queer and queer coded romances. And possibly smut.

What are your writing weaknesses? Finishing a fucking fic, oh my God.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? I try to stick with idiomatic phrases, and the limited words I know (usually Spanish.) But other than that I try really hard to avoid relying on Google Translate, as I don't trust it one bit.

What was the first fandom you wrote for? Digimon. Yup. Those fics are still on FF.net, if that site still exists.

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

Spare Parts for Mass Effect, Three Robins for DC Comics, and of course, I have a soft spot for all my Tumblr ficlets.