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Could the Salarians and Turians have handled the Krogan expansion in any other way?

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This was a submission for streamily.live. It was a last minute drawing...took maybe 6 hours or so(on and off). They host voice actors from gams and anime and they choose art to sign and use at cons etc.

The fact that Anderson casually dropped such a massive piece of foreshadowing so early in the first game, only for it to fly completely over my head, genuinely blew my mind. I wouldn’t be surprised if plenty of other fans missed it, too, simply because of how casually it was mentioned. I’ve played through the trilogy somewhere between 11 and 15 times, dating all the way back to the original releases, and somehow I’m only now realizing that Anderson speculated the Prothean beacon might contain blueprints for an ancient weapon of mass destruction. Little did we know, that would ultimately become the very solution to stopping the Reapers.

As much as I absolutely love this trilogy, the ending of Mass Effect 3, even with the Extended Cut, never quite sat right with me. I didn’t outright hate it, but I always felt the narrative direction was somewhat underwhelming, almost like a convenient way to wrap everything up. I assumed BioWare had gone that route because of development crunch, time constraints, or perhaps financial pressures. I never really looked into it and just chalked it up to one of those possibilities.

But hearing Anderson say this again genuinely gave me one of those lightbulb moments. It completely changed how I looked at the trilogy’s conclusion. The idea of an ancient weapon capable of destroying the Reapers was being floated from practically the beginning! Now I’m wondering if that was always the intended direction, and the real challenge during Mass Effect 3’s development was figuring out how to make that resolution work narratively while still giving weight to the countless decisions we’d made across all three games.

It doesn’t necessarily change how I feel about the execution of the ending, but damn, it certainly gave me a newfound appreciation for just how early the groundwork may have been laid. After all these years and countless playthroughs, I can’t believe I’m only just now connecting those dots.

Just finished the LE series yesterday. What. A. Ride. Like so many others, I'm left wondering how in the unholy eff I managed to go all this time without playing it, especially since I love big story-driven games like this. Even more especially given how much I love DA:O. The Shore Leave DLC was one of the best bits I've ever played in any game for the dialogue alone.

But man, I'm feeling the blues now! Honestly unlike any other game I've played. Probably the closest for me was Cyberpunk, given the same rather bleak story arc and ultimate ending choices. But this is hitting harder, probably because I played through all the games back to back, pretty much every day. Whatever it is, there's a pretty huge ME-shaped hole in my life right about now.

I've spent a few hours already combing through posts here, from debates over the right ending choice (team destroy here) to memes to hypotheticals about the future maybe-game. Just wanted to say... Y'all rock! Glad I found this subreddit.

How did the rest of you deal with this? I know the obvious answer is start a new run, and I'm sure I will at some point, but right now it just feels... Wrong. Kind sad, actually, weirdly like a betrayal (even more so thinking about a Renegade male Shep run, opposite to what I did). I bought the comic collection on Kindle to fill out some lore, but even a few pages into Redemption I'm feeling bleh because Liara was my romance across all three games.

Just time, I guess?

Match 2 of the Music Tournament! Pick your favorite track to move on to Round 2!

Had to be me. Someone else night gotten it wrong

Never sat down, and watch this whole Blasto ads before. This is actually funny, the whole thing was like 10 minutes long, and it's pretty coherent too.

Some of you may already know that a LEGO knockoff set of the Normandy is available in some retail stores... however, I’m not posting this to draw attention to the set itself, but rather to its miniature, abstract crew members. I believe this scale works reasonable well with the Normandy itself 😄 Can you identify them all?

So i wanna get on this game again, loved every one but idk which versión to get, ik that the LE versión is the best way to play it now but idk if my computer will run it, idk that much about specs other than ram and processor but even those i know just the basic stuff, so i wanna ask if you could tell me if my laptop could run it, oh and i don't mind playing it at 720p (btw sorry for my bad english)

In the beginning of the DLC, you get a mission complete after destroying the satellite. Does this mean my fish will be dead when I get back to the Normandy?

Currently replaying Mass Effect Trilogy Legendary Edition about to finish the first game. Not sure if it was the classic edition or this legendary one, but I remembered somehow romancing BOTH Garrus and Thane in the second game. This carried into the third game and didn't lock me into one when I transferred the saved. Was anyone able to recreate this? All my saved data was on another hard drive that got corrupted 😭

I thought it was bittersweet by the third game (because we all know what happens to Thane)

Just beat 2 last night as a Vanguard. Good freaking lord you guys weren't kidding that Vanguard was going to be difficult. I struggled till about mid game then from then on every fight was just a slog.

I'll also never laugh at Husks again. I got soft locked at one point cause one of my saves was just before I got swarmed. I couldnt kill them fast enough and was bullied so bad.

Loaded up ME3, trying Vanguard again since I want to do something new.

Apparently this is a known glitch? I haven't played mass effect trilogy on my ps5 for about a month. I loaded up my save where I just beat the gameplay sections of the Citadel DLC and my female sheppard was at the apartment exit where the game asks you to go out and buy party supplies. I loaded up this save last night and after doing a couple character interactions in the hub area where you do a movie shoot scene with Javik and/or meet Garrus at a dance club where he awkwardly tries to hit on a female turian, I realized, "wait a minute, in this last playthrough I was fem shep. Why the hell am I playing as male sheppard?"

I went to load game and "switch career" and it was the only career/profile I played this year (In early September last save) and I even loaded an earlier manual save (in this same career) that wasn't an autosave/quicksave and apparently that's the only known way to fix this issue since when I loaded up that save I was back to playing as fem shep leaving the apartment. Also, this glitch is apparently known to get rid of all your credits which I had zero when magically playing as this male sheppard but when I loaded up the manual save that put me rightly back as fem shep, all my 500kish credits were magically back.

Do you guys know of this glitch and have you experienced it before? Its pretty funny that it took me a couple minutes to go, "hold on a minute. Wasn't I fem sheppard in this entire trilogy playthrough I did earlier this year. What the hell?" I'm 100% positive I didn't load a previous career/profile/different sheppard because like I said I loaded saves in this same career and 2 of them had me as male sheppard and the slightly older manual saves loaded me as fem shep. Crazy.

I find it so frustrating i cant change class on NG+. I want to give other classes a go but i cant bring myself to start with nothing again. I have to hunt the pickups in every area and i cant bring myself to ignore them.

The text often has the same contrast as the background and is difficult to read, does it happen to you too?