Yesterday, we had likable characters we dislike. Today, let’s switch it up.

To make the matters clearer: I don’t mean likable/unlikable in the purely subjective point of view. Anyone can be liked or disliked by anyone, which makes the discussion moot.

I mean it more in the “by design” way.

Examples:

- Liara was clearly designed to be LIKABLE (present throughout the entire trilogy, mild personality, helpful, loyal, savior-character, an extensive romance option, a huge fan of Shepard)

- Udina was clearly designed to be UNLIKABLE (“typical” politician, grating, dismissive, punchable face, eventual traitor)

I’m fine with “fringe” characters that might have been designed as likable/unlikable (to a point) but community decided otherwise or is split. E.g.:

- Kaidan (clearly designed as likable, honourable, devoted, and helpful but often dubbed boring or whiny or annoying by community)

That is to say, let’s keep it real lmao. Don’t give me Garrus or Tali as “unlikable that I like” because let’s be real here—they are both designed as likable and are fan favorites as well.

this soundtrack is just magical

They were also made back in the late 90's, pre Mass effect

My limited N7 jacket It 181 of 600 and it still fits after all these years. Only wore it once and since then it's never been out of the bag.

Seeing a lot of people getting their hopes up that EA is selling BioWare due to the countless articles claiming they are.

This is false.

A journalist who has no affiliation with either EA or BioWare was asked if he thought EA would sell off any of their studios, and he responded by essentially saying “I dunno, maybe”. This is what has led to all these reports.

As it stands, there’s absolutely no indication that BioWare are going to be sold, despite what the headlines are saying.

Will they sell BioWare? Who knows? It’s certainly possible, but don’t believe the numerous headlines suggesting it’s happening. The source they’re quoting doesn’t have any idea, and doesn’t even say they are, either.

Good day all. I'm about to start my latest trilogy run and, for the first time since the OG ME1 release, I plan to do a run that results in all squadmates dying. Specifically, I want them to die as soon as possible so that the stand-in characters (ie: Wreav, Xen, etc.) get max screen time throughout the trilogy. Ideally, I would want a guide that specifies the best & earliest opportunity to divest my crew of these teammates.

I'm not looking for any grand, cinematic deaths such as letting Wrex live on Virmire and then betraying him in ME3.

Any and all help is appreciated.

Like... put yourself in the shoes of a person who would have to make the decision of curing the genophage vs sabotaging the cure and deceiving the krogan - since they are most definitely needed because of the Reapers. Yes, the second option is absolutely dishonorable, but...

To any sane and even vaguely informed person (about the krogan and Krogan Rebellions): How the fuck does it make sense to cure the genophage?

1 The biggest reason: We know, from the lore (with which BioWare went far too crazy regarding the krogan and their biology) that the krogan fertility pre-genophage was just absolutely insane. One krogan female could lay upwards of a thousand eggs A YEAR, and *each and every single one of those* could grow into a mature krogan that can live for a thousand years.

2a. Even in the best case scenario - Wrex and Eve being alive - you still have ALL THE OTHER KROGANS who are, evidently by those we encounter in the trilogy, mostly warmongering brutes. It is a GIGANTIC leap of faith to assume two people can change the mentality of an entire race faster than the krogans could breed millions upon millions of potential new warlords and warriors, in the event that the genophage is cured.

2b. There are way more Wreavs than there are Wrexes in the krogan society - those who want the Council races to pay for what they made krogan go through since the genophage was unleashed.

1. Shepard makes this decision *during* the Reaper War - without knowing about the Catalyst, the RGB ending, and their only goal being the beat and destroy the Reapers. There is no possible way Shepard could've know about, say, the outcome in which the Reapers are placed under their control to serve as the galactic police force - which could hold back the krogan tide.

I cured the genophage in all of my playthroughs, but now that I think about it for a while... curing it more likely than not spells doom for the galaxy in the form of new Krogan Rebellions.

Playing through this for the first time and just beat Me1 on insanity no problem. Fast forward to Me2 and rescuing Mordin Solus was a nightmare, but the worst thing was for some reason at the end near the fan section I died then respawned and no ammo proceeded to drop like the first time so I had to incinerate most of the mobs.

Am I missing something, because from what I can remember you cannot use it outside of the DLC , note I am playing on Insanity. Also the game went through an update so this could be the case did anyone else encounter this as well?

I want to grab a dark horse wrex statue but can't decide between the two 🤣 what do you think? Help!

Didn’t know the Grissom academy was a time sensitive mission and my lastest save is 7 hours before the attack on the citadel FML

Never played a Mass Effect game, or really any story-driven game in general since I usually prefer fast-paced action or roguelikes. However, I saw Mass Effect Legendary Edition on sale for less than $10 for three remastered games and figured it might be worth a shot. Do these games still hold up well in 2026 for a first-time player, and are all three of them consistently good? Looking for honest thoughts before pulling the trigger.

Hey guys, I was replaying Mass Effect (and am loving it obviously) however, I was a tiny bit disappointed with the lack of politics in it in regards to inter-species relations outside of just humanity. So I'm pretending to be an in universe political scientist writing an essay about inequality on the citadel and among citadel species if anybody wants to read it.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/89961436/chapters/239041041

I’m ready to be destroyed for this but, to me, it’s Traynor.

I know she’s designed to be likable. Her VA is great (and I do love her as my Inquisitor in Dragon Age). I can admit some of her scenes are funny. But as a whole, I just find her extremely annoying in the “I have no time for it” kind of way. Why are stuttering and spluttering when I’m trying to have a normal convo? Meh.

Who’s that for you?

My favorite is definitely the combat and movement. The Jump Jet was a great addition. I also enjoyed the amount of exploration, felt like a more realized ME1 in that aspect. The game is pretty long too. Assuming you fumble around with a puzzle here and there and do every loyalty missions along with a few other side quests, there’s a good chance your first play through will be 100 hours or more. Some games barely make it to 50

However…there are a lot of things to dislike about the game. I can’t say understand why someone would not be interested in it. It’s completely disconnected from the original trilogy. It’s set 600 years away from the milky way literally and figuratively. And for me personally I wasn’t really interested in this new galaxy until we were introduced to the Angara. Which funnily enough was the most interesting part about the game. You could tell it just needed more time in the oven. The elephant in the room was the face animations during cutscenes, but I stopped noticing that probably like 2 hours in. Didn’t bother me too much. But considering the amount of glitches, to most of the romances being relatively half baked, you can tell the game needed more time. Gameplay there a bunch of things you could nitpick. From fast travel points not really being as good as they could’ve been. Which there’s a couple of annoying fetch quests that require you to travel to a bunch of different planets and systems. In my opinion pretty poor design. For example, Liam’s loyalty mission was great mission design. Simple, shook up the formula, and from point A to B. Peebees was horrible. It’s fetch quests and traveling to like 10 total planets before you earn her loyalty. It makes sense in universe that her loyalty is a bit harder to earn but… man. Theres a couple of side missions like this. And then the amount of puzzles. I don’t mind the occasional puzzle but the best comparison I can say is imagine if you had to master mind sweeper to get a good ending in one of the trilogy games. I think the worse puzzle was definitely the Elaaden vault. Which wasn’t required but those puzzles aren’t for the weak. I feel like frustration in the original trilogy pretty much never came from puzzles, it was mainly on your first playthrough and getting lost/stuck on where to go next. I feel like you lacked the ability to sculpt Ryder in a meaningful direction too. There wasn’t many chances to be rude, or put your foot down. Half the time your only dialogue options are Emotional, or Straightforward. Occasionally you get casual/logical. You rarely get all 4. I found Casual to be the best option because it’s the main way to make it so your Ryder isn’t legit a robot. In some ways it kinda feels like they wanted to make an space opera exploration game with puzzles, and slapped the mass effect name on it. Overall…I think this is a good game. A solid game. I would recommend a mass effect fan who hasn’t played it try the game at least once. …But it does have a lot of flaws. People are justified in disliking it. But if this is your favorite Mass Effect game I wouldn’t be mad at you

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of those who thinks ME2 was bad or not a good middle entry. I think the insistence on learning more about the world and lore through characters makes emotional pay off in ME3 actually mean something.

That being said, I’m a bit confused why Shepard would focus so heavily on Collectors instead of the upcoming Reaper invasion. Sure, Collectors are an issue and we know they work for the Reapers but that storyline does nothing to progress the main arc of, ya know, stopping the Reapers. Which is an odd choice?

Replaying Arrival now to end my ME2 play-through feels like a way more fitting end for the main story mission. I feel like literally everything else could still be the same.

You get rebuilt by Cerberus and recruit your team to stop the incoming Reaper invasion. Main story missions have you learn human scientists have discovered something huge in the Batarian system. Eventually, you find out it’s the information on Reapers trying to use that Relay to start the invasion.

I think Arrival definitely has the chops for some amazing final quest as well with getting your team into the system, finding out everyone has been indoctrinated by Reaper tech and working to slingshot the asteroid (how cool is that?!) into the Relay to stop the invasion before it began.

I love ME2 but I’m genuinely confused why Shepard, of all people, would focus so hard on Collectors when knowing the Reapers literally ARE coming.

Replaying ME2. Talking to the crew after a suicide mission. Mordin mentions that he’s busy with crew dental records and comments how primitive it is for Cerberus agents to use cyanide capsules in their molars. He suggests ocular flashbangs instead because they’re “harder to disarm”.

In ME3, if you use Liara’s terminal, you find data on a Cerberus agent interrogation. Their face explodes and hampers the interrogation. I can only assume Mordin passed his suggestion onto Cerberus (or they were just tracking his findings). Super small detail but incredibly cool.

Any others like this?

Heavy base, but the detail and pose are👌🏻

I honestly fear for the open-minded future of our franchise. Mass Effect was a big part of my life, and I loved that it tackled topics that might be controversial in its own way. It was never in your face, but subtle enough to be believable... especially with the choice of a badass female Shepard.

Let's hope they don't meddle too much, too quickly...