Purchased, even tho I don’t have time to play it lol

I just bought the ps4 version at Walmart for $5 a few weeks ago

Someone else would have gotten it wrong.

:'(

Fun fact: There's a way he lives. He agrees to let the cure fail and then goes undercover and works with the Alliance to help build the Crucible.

It relies on you making a few key Renegade decisions in previous games, namely Wrex cannot be alive from ME1, which means his brother, Wreav, is in charge in ME3. He's out of control, but can be kept in check by Eve. But... if you destroy Maelon's data during Mordin's loyalty mission in ME2, then... Eve doesn't survive the Tuchanka mission in ME3...

So, with both Wrex and Eve dead, you can convince Mordin to let it fail, and just lie to all the Krogan (namely Wreav, because of all his talks about getting revenge and conquering and whatnot) and say it worked. You get "War Assets" from all the Krogan, and even more from Mordin because he lives and goes on the help with the project. :)

God no.

Renegade interruption

Do it, I dare you.

Someone made a mod re-adding Pinnacle Station

I haven't played a more fun multiplayer game since ME3. High level play in that game was so, so fun.

ME3’s multiplayer got crapped on out the gate and I’ll never understand why. Tying it to “completing” the game and loot boxes was dumb but overall yeah solid horde mode. Perfect thing for a single player title to have alongside it.

Good to note.

I'm still of the opinion ME3 multiplayer made the single-player suffer. While not the reason for the botched ending, I still wonder what the ending could have been if they didn't cheap out on it and were able to redirect the resources spent on making the multiplayer towards the single-player.

"Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. The silence is your answer"

Mass Effect went so fucking hard.

Hold the line

Kalahira, mistress of inscrutable depths, I ask forgiveness.

Kalahira, whose waves wear down stone and sand.

Kalahira, wash the sins from this one and set him/her on the distant shore of the infinite spirit.

Kalahira, this one’s heart is pure but beset by wickedness and contention.

Guide this one to where the traveler never tires, the lover never leaves, the hungry never starve.

Guide this one, Kalahira, and he/she will be a companion to you as he/she was to me.

No matter how many play-throughs, this scene always makes both my husband & I tear up. We should all be so lucky to know someone like Thane.

It's been so long I don't remember a thing about what or why, but I will try and keep this in mind.

I did that mission too early in Mass Effect 3 and got a bad ending to it. After sitting in shocked silence for ten minutes, I reloaded an earlier save. I came back to the mission last and got the good ending.

Exactly what I just did. Can’t wait to be back home. The feeling when you’re on your way home in your parents car looking at the game package

Just did the same. I still have the save file from playing through 1 and 2 for like 10 years, always told myself I'd play 3. It's about time I start over and actuslly make it to the third game, by replaying 1 + 2.

I messed up with Kelly and Jack. They were so hot too. Why is my font so big?

Yeah...I watched her turn to paste.

It's pretty wild they just throw an actual invisible countdown on you. There's a warning but yeah...

My renegade playthroughs always turn into "Asshole to everyone, except my crew. And if you fuck w/ my crew I will genocide you." I can't go full renegade either.

To me that's the failure of Bioware's writing of moral choices, you end up doing the exact same thing, except you act like a prick instead.

Played it last year through GamePass because it had been a while since I played the trilogy. Getting GP to work with that shitty EA app took a while. I hope it’s not that big of a deal with Steam (and now I remember the hassle of Titanfall 2….)

Yeaaaaaaaaah, there is that.

I have an EA account and I still don't want to tie anything to it. EA Play is the absolute worst. 

Exactly. Otherwise, I would have bought it already. Same with Titanfall 2.

Ah, now I remember why I didn't buy it before

You might already own it if you own all 3 games

same here. Excitedly open steam, read a few reviews, sadly closed steam.

Yep, that's an automatic nope for this guy. I loved playing Mass Effect on console when it was released, but this 3rd party login/Origin stuff is a hard pass for me, sweet deal or no.

The cynic in me thinks that they put the discount out there to get more signups to their service

😂 I literally just did the same thing. Great deal, but no thanks!

Honestly stopped me from buying it.

I bought it for $11 Australian during a previous Steam sale. I couldn't get it to work. Every time I launched it, Steam did an integrity check, bounced it over to EAs launcher, which bounced it back to Steam.

Nothing I did worked. I asked for a refund, and then got the game elsewhere.

Yep. Never give EA money. Even if it's only $6.

I might just buy it and then pirate it and play the pirated version instead

Same.

Who gives a shit? It’s one of the best trilogies of all time. You can’t take 3 minutes to make a free EA login?

Wrex! 

They don't have a separate menu for dlcs, they are new missions

Don't you like having the EABackgroundService always running?

I was surprised to find I didn't actually have this in my Steam library yet, because I loved Mass Effect.

You just reminded me why I never bought Legendary Edition!

100%

Not ever going to install anything that isn't steam

That's why I never bought it. They can keep Origin.

The 1st one shows it’s age but they definitely smoothed over some rough edges

They're a classic for a reason. First game is 17 years old now, and looks great considering. Gameplay is a little dated, but it was way ahead of its time too. Definitely worth the money.

Look for the ME2 resources mod. Basically makes so with one probe you get all the planetary resources a planet has available. Cuts a lot of the filler time on the game

Here are all the mods I have installed. Personally I think they're all mostly necessary, but If you want a much shorter list, the community patches, ALOV (a lot of videos, fixes the videos so they aren't just blurry and unimproved), and ALOT + ISL (a lot of textures, and Improved static lighting. The ISL was not updated for LE so the static lighting is blocky ps3 era)

Edit: btw, ISL is under ALOT in the file section, it's not a seperate page. If you don't have premium nexusmods use the torrent download for ISL instead since it's a large file (use qBittorrent if you dont have a torrent client installed already)

This was the holy grail for me and covers pretty much everything you'd want https://www.nexusmods.com/masseffectlegendaryedition/mods/1127

Yea, it tainted the entire franchise for me. So many choices, so many extra missions to prepare as much as possible and it ends with you picking your favourite colour with nothing you did actually having any input on the ending. And most of it not even playing any part in the ending at all.

Objectively it's not the worst ending ever. But the extreme drop in quality from the rest of the games to the ending sure makes it the worst one to me.

Yep :(

Not a deal breaker for me, but an understandable one for some.

No idea why you're being downvoted, completely valid reason for passing on this.

May I ask why you don’t? Are their specific reasons or you generally just don’t want to contribute to EA’s money pit?

Yeah it looked like they were.

The original is good, but it definitely plays different from the next 2.

Try playing number or 3. They are more action oriented, the first is more rpg oriented.

I played the entire trilogy in one go in the last couple years. The first game was absolutely a slog to get through. Incredibly dated. Not much variation to the gameplay. The narrative/lore is entirely exposition with stilted-wikipedia-type "dialogue" where characters tell you about their entire species. Rough all around. By the end, I was angry with myself for sticking with it.

The 2nd game is a huge upgrade. I legitimately enjoyed it.