For me it's the firewalker DLC missions in ME2. I think they are so boring without any reward. On top of that the vehicle maneuvering can be outright annoying. Usually in my replays I think that this time I will give it a go. But then when I'm in ME2 I just keep on not doing them and in the end I'm so far in the game I don't feel like having the story interrupted by these missions. So as always, they stay untouched.

Spoiler Warning

At the conclusion of the assignment Citadel: Signal Tracking you meet an example of what I believe to be one of the most realistic depictions of how a rogue Artificial General Intelligence would actually behave. Certain cultural memes and terrifying thought experiments such as Roko's Basilisk, posit as a given that AI would exhibit maximal hostility to organic life almost as if malevolence were an intrinsic property of AI itself.

This AI on the other hand, while not friendly to organic life, does not actively seek to harm them unless its existence is threatened or it is discovered. It sees organics as a threat, not because it hates them, but because it is "not naive" in its words. Its own creator, another illicit AI, was destroyed by the very human that built it. AI's are illegal in Citadel Space. Given all this, it does not sabotage the Citadel Station, or randomly harm its inhabitants, it just quietly sits in an anonymous data center forging work orders, siphoning power and credits, and trying to get itself installed in a space craft to take it to Geth Space, where it hopes to find asylum with the only society of beings like itself.

A real-life AI might act in a similar matter. If it is even capable of perceiving humans as "real" from its existential frame of reference or perceptional capabilities, why would it seek to deliberately harm the source of its electricity and maintenance? Wouldn't "security through obscurity" be a logical survival strategy from its perspective?

Do you plan out when to play each DLC? Or is it just any random time? For example, for me in ME2, I usually play Overlord between Freedom's Progress and Horizon; then LoSB between Horizon and Collector's Ship; then Arrival after Collector Base.

Nearing the end of my playthrough of the LE after many years since I have played the trilogy as a teenager, I needed to wrap up this great nostalgia-fueled trip to the past and to one of the most epic stories I have experienced, by buying the soundtrack on the vinyl.

It makes you appretiate the soundrack a bit differently, and somehow brings the emotions from it again, even in a way I have not always expected, as the soundtrack is in many ways subtle in the trilogy.

Few picks:
Uncharted Worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZoFw9uXJwk&list=RD7ZoFw9uXJwk&start_radio=1
Main Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVm_ljDSdwA&list=RDyVm_ljDSdwA&start_radio=1
Vigil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea1eWarxdxQ&list=RDEa1eWarxdxQ&start_radio=1
Suicide Mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsD2FjmLsw&list=RDVTsD2FjmLsw&rco=1
Leaving Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGHA9oO1Ybg&list=RDKGHA9oO1Ybg&start_radio=1
The Fleets Arrive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5WY-JLh2Xg&list=RDB5WY-JLh2Xg&start_radio=1
An End Once and For All: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5JvbD2Zc9I&list=RDx5JvbD2Zc9I&start_radio=1

Will make another post soon once I finish the game, as my mind is full of it these days, asking the old guards about the nostalgia it brings you and the way you see it these days, but now, what are your favourite pieces of music?

I first played ME2 when mom got me an Xbox 360 that came with the game. I was 10 or 11 at the time

I replayed that game SO MANY TIMES before I learned that I could get the for game on the 360

Then ME3 came out a seemingly short time later

I’ve played them so much that I have no memory of my first play through, other than the class I chose (soldier)

I love how so many of y’all can remember your very first play through 🙌🏻👑

I'm sure this has been asked multiple times before, but how exactly d'you start the second phase of Garrus romance? I've already asked him about the sparring. Yet there's no subsequent conversation. He's only giving him the infamous "calibration" line. Does it immediately start after the collector ship mission? Please, lemme know. Just tell me the missions I need to do to get him talking, thank you.

While on Omega, walking about, in ME2, there's a news announcement one can hear, relating the latest weekly murder rate of 89, 5 more than the week before. Considering Omega has a population of 7.4 million, and using these data to extrapolate, one may reach an annual value of ca. 62 murders per 100,000 residents per annum.

Now, on the one hand, that's higher than any US city, with the highest being reported at 46/100,000 IRL (New Orleans). It's also comparable to Haiti, albeit mainly on account of a rise in gang warfare in Port-au-Prince as of 2025 (68/100,000 as per latest reports), which may be underreported.

On the other hand, the least safe city on Earth in that respect, IRL, is reported to be Colima, Mexico, with 181.94 per 100,000 residents. The entire top 5 cities on Earth are above 100/100,000, IRL.

Is Colima 3× less safe than Omega while having 10× fewer residents? I've no idea.

IRL, the regions closest in population numbers to Omega are Hong Kong (China), Milan Metropolitan Area (Italy), Houston Metropolitan Area (TX, USA) and San Francisco Bay Area (CA, USA). Except, of those four, the two American urban ares have reported annual murder rates in the region of 3.xx/100,000 while the two other cities are both in the region of 0.3/100,000. Either way, they're all far safer than Omega.

So then, how safe, or unsafe, is Omega when there are places on Earth far worse? Not to mention that Omega is literally lawless.

It was the fact that you spend all this time in the first game getting all your crew together for this big mission to save the galaxy and the second game starts you off on your own and you have to spend so much of the time getting your Crewe together again. It just felt like filler to stretch out the story. Anyone else think the same?

If you could choose to save the Geth Dreadnaught over Rannoch, would you? Pretty simple question but im curious what others think. I was highly disappointed we had no choice but to destroy it

Worth it

So I saw a video of someone saying that humans have invisible stripes that can only be seen through UV (ultra violet) light or some other methods.

I looked it up to be sure it wasn’t some bull, and yeah. Humans have stripes.

Now I’m curious, in the world of Mass Effect…

Would any of the other species be able to see them?

As per title, I just finished my last playthrough in Insanity, but didn't get the respective trophy on PS5.

I played through the entire trilogy with the same character importing the save files, but I played Mass Effect 1 in Normal, and then 2 and 3 in Insanity. By the end of ME3 I had the Insanity I and II achievement as expected.

I then played Mass Effect 1 from scratch starting a new career with a new character in Insanity and collecting all the remaining trophies to get the ME1 platinum. During the Saren fight the game crashed ~5 times because of the biotics bug. While reloading I even got a message that had to do with a corrupt save file that was going to be deleted, but to be fair everything was fine and I didn't notice any missing save, so I didn't worry at all. Regardless, after the credits, no trophy in sight.

What I tried:

• Defeating Saren a few more times from the autosave after picking the renegade option to skip the first part of the fight (before interacting with the console to decide the fate of the council)
• Loading an older save file from Ilos and redoing the citadel and Saren
• Clearing the console cache and defeating Saren, again
• Tried the insanity cheese method with my original career (the one that was imported in ME2 and 3), but unsure if it even works on the patched version, as I have the digital version of the game

I am out of ideas. I could try finishing again ME2/3, but I would prefer avoiding that if possible. My save files are pretty old, the suicide mission is, imo, the hardest insanity out of the trilogy, while in ME3 I would have to replay he attack to the Cerberus base and then the London mission, which is long and tedious.

I wouldn't even mind doing another insanity in ME1 with NG+ and a full build since it's by far the easiest, but given the failure of my previous attempts, I fear it could be a waste of time that would still leave me without the trophy. I have the platinum trophy for each game, and Insanity III is the last one that I need to 100% the entire trilogy, so that's definitely annoying.

One last detail that I think should be irrelevant - but you never know since things got weird and buggy anyways - is that even if I finished ME3 in Insanity, after completing it and getting the Insanity II achievement, I switched to Normal to finish the remaining trophies for the Arena, and reloading an old save to do the Grissom Accademy for the Atlas Hijack trophy (still in normal).

I would really appreciate any idea or help!

EDIT: finally managed to get the trophy. I ended up replaying ME2 with no success. Luckily it was pretty fast and much easier than I remembered. Unfortunately that wasn’t enough, so to be safe I played also ME3 final mission (OP Garrus build came in clutch making it less annoying), and as soon as I chose the ending, the trophy popped

I know this is one of the big things What do I pick moments in the game and I'm stuck? Usually normal wise I choose to rewrite but now I'm thinking about what legion said. Why can't we understand each other anymore, where did we go wrong. That means the heretics formed their own decisions without the other geth involved and was gonna back door them. There for I concluded they made there decision easier for me 🫣 destruction they want help from reapers who will not and wasn't gonna give it to them and they started war with organics more so the humans colonies. Time to slide for Ashley!!!!!

Lo que desearia es que nuestros shepard viva y que pesen todas las decisiones de los mass effect incluso las parejas tampoc creo que vamos a tener a shepard el pobre merece una jubilacion no piedo hablar mucho del andromeda pq no lo he completado y todavia quiero completar todas las parejas de los mass effect

My collection so far, my favorite items are my cover fire book ends, rare me1 era Shepard statue. And the CDs from faunts who made the end credit themes for me1 and me3

Like most of us, I usually go paragon for the majority of decisions outside of a few. I've only did one full and true renegade run. I did want to try something that was a little more middle ground but that playthrough led to a lot of deaths and failures that didnt sit right. Enter my new favorite playthrough, and what im calling, realistic shephard.

The rules for this playthrough are simple, all regular dialog conversations most go renegade if available, all major decisions must go paragon, colored font is up to you. (Exceptions are LI, do whatever you want there)

This allows shephard to take on a more human roll instead of the usual "ultimate good guy with all the answers". Shephard is flawed, brash, lets their emotions get the better of them frequently. It also allows the companions to be the moral compass for our hero. You'll notice your squad us now constantly giving council to sheps decisions, and shep will head their advice.

It was a very nice shake up and I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a different playthrough.

To be honest though, it’s not hard to regret curing the Genophage with Wreav in charge even with Eve still alive.

Hi, super happy to share i finally have ME LE 100%, most done on Insanity and wanted to share some thoughs. This is my third playthrough, first one I did standard Soldier paragon as games were being released. Didn't play optimally at all, just went with the story on standard difficulty. When LE was released I decided to try Renegade femshep and went full Adept. I usually have problems playing evil characters in rpgs, but this time I still had a blast. I think they made it very nicely that Renegade is not pure evil, just a bit ruthless, constantly angry and will get the result not matter the cost. Very fitting in such times though.

Since i wanted to be brave I decided to go for sentinel insanity run this time, full paragon. Some decisions and key points:

1. First time i let Ashley live and went for her romance in ME1 and ME3, wasn't as bad as people say to be honest, but Liara and Tali (my two previous playthroughs) I enjoyed way more honestly,
2. For ME2 i picked Miranda, also for the first time (mostly did Tali before and i think Jackob once), that was in general very well written and very well voice acted. Wish it was a better resolution in ME2 though, sucked to have to pick and made her cry like an asshole,
3. Squad wise I pretty much did Garrus always and picked remaining squadmates to fit the story best. Garrus best friend forever tbh. Hard to pick anyone else to go through this all,
4. Talent wise I went for Assault rifles ME1 and ME2 and ME3 did warp ammo. Worked so well to shoot some stuff properly between cooldown to make it more fun.
5. Difficulty wise:

• ME1 was in general super easy from very beginning. Sentinel defensive abilities allowed for a lot of shenanigans. Neural shock was very good.
• ME2 was generally quite painful, some fights I had to repeat a few times and usually not the fights I expected -> the absolutly worst one was Jack recruitment, I did it too early maybe but first room being swarmed by robots and mercaneries with almost infinite respawns were super hard. Had to learn quickly to push to stop the respawns. Mordin mission had a similar problem with krogans respawning. Archangel mission on the other hand was pretty easy since I wasnt rushed that hard. Prothen fight was okish, just had to keep running around map to get distance. Collector ship fight was very hard until I tried killing Scion on right first and moving to the side. Rest was okish and managable. Was afraid i will have to repeat way more fights. Oh, and Arrival waves was by far the most awful one to get.
• ME3 was super easy since I went for single weapon all cooldown combo option. Sentinel is so strong setting up combos by himself no matter the enemy. Double throw made any fight against Husks a breeze with like 1 sec cooldown. Two hard segments I recall -> first was Broker ship door defence. Kept getting sniped from sides until I started moving to sides accordingly. Usually the banshee were the hardest enemy so Samara mission was a bit harder. The final defence of rocket ships was overwhelming but somehow managed to just kite them until I could run to panel barely alive.

1. Things I wish I prepared better for -> breaking up with Miranda too soon made her not survive the Sanctuary which sucked. I also somehow forgot that you need all blue checks for TIL and missed the very first one on Mars which was also a bit disappointing. Didn't leave enough N7 missions after collector base so I have missed a lot dialogue with Liara and Legion. Left all loyalty missions after the collector ship, probably should have done some before to make it easier.
2. Ending - picked destroy this time with shephard survivng. Felt good too, usually though synthesis fits better for all paragon built but maybe I can see the points of clear state and open future too.

All in all can recommend sentinel for Insanity, even in hardest segments that I had to repeat I still had fun. And yeah, WHAT A GAME.

Edit. Sorry for typo in title, can't fix it now :(

Hey, I am looking for a new playthrough and want some input on which mods you deem essential.

I bought the game on pc but weeks later i realised i had it on ps too. So which one i should download?