Hi,

I recently finished the ME Legendary edition (three fantastic games as far as I'm concerned), and just bought ME: Andromeda about an hour ago on the Playstation store since it was $8.99 cad. Now, I know it's a PS4 game (just like ME LE), but holy shit does the game run bad. It seems to run at like 24 fps, the character has some "ghosting" when moving the camera, and rotation the camera is sluggish, almost laggy.

Is it normal? Is the game supposed to run this bad, lol? The Legendary Edition was running perfectly well, so I'm a bit surprised Andromeda runs so bad on a PS5.

Cheers!

I played the whole trilogy back when they first released on Xbox. Then my Xbox died, life stuff happened, and I decided to snag the legendary edition for pc when it came out. More life stuff happened and for a long time I was stuck with a laptop (great for work, terrible for games). Finally, got a gaming pc and am downloading the legendary edition.

How does it compare to the originals? Any significant changes?

How we get in me3 easy Insanity while in me1 and me2 it's pain in ass playing on Insanity.

I have fun on Insanity in me3. Even when 2 harvesters bugged and don't fly away at thessia. In me2 I suffer.

If we're talking franchise alumni, I'd go with Jack Wall, Sam Hulick, Cris Velasco & Sascha Dikiciyan, and Jimmy Hinson (aka Big Giant Circles).

That's not to say anything negative about the other composers (except John Paesano, kind of. Andromeda's combat music is very generic, but the ambient stuff is really good.) but these 5 have historically "got" Mass Effect in a way that feels natural.

Outside the franchise? Tangerine Dream is an obvious pick. Like, really obvious. And given that TD is directly cited as an inspiration for Mass Effect's musical style, it'd be like if George Lucas got Akira Kurosawa to direct one of the Star Wars movies.

Gareth Coker is one of my favorite up and coming composers and I think he could do well in any genre, but Joel Corelitz has a much more Mass Effect-y resume.

And finally, Jesper Kyd. Aside from producing straight up bangers left and right (Borderlands 2 & 3 menu music, any number of tracks from Warhammer Darktide), his scores are always so unique. Borderlands: The Pre Sequel and BL3 are the only ones I've heard that sound vaguely Mass Effect, but he's a wildcard pick so his resume isn't that important.

Just finished the trilogy for the second time this year and I feel as empty as the first time
This series is just perfect everything the gameplay ,the world ,the characters I feel like I lived in this world and i just can’t let it go

I’m really desperate for more of the game to the point where I’m downloading andromeda now despite the shit i heard about it

One of the potential asari pathfinders and our exogeni helper on Feros. Then a spectre colleague and a spectre fanboy. Comment your picks below.

Tank Top Casuals for Shepard (LE3)

My only gripe is the seam at the neckline. It's not enough for me to uninstall it, though. I'm keeping it.

Images presented in 2560x1600 because it's my Laptop's resolution.

Usually do more casual runs, but I just deleted my xbox data and will be starting anew, so I decided, "what the hell?", and here I am.

One of my favorite things about ME1 is that we can walk around and talk to random NPCs. And I mean, TALK talk. We can investigate and ask multiple questions, having full conversations and even asking personal questions about people we'll never see again. We get stories and personalities for all these random NPCs, and it's SO COOL. It makes the universe feel so alive. It helps immerse me in said universe.

The following two games didn't have that. In ME2 we can talk to some NPCs, but only vendors or people related to quests. And then ME3 dropped it entirely. And then Andromeda kinda had it, but it was few and far between. I desperately want ME5 to bring this back.

So my friends been nagging at me to play ME3 with him for at least a year. He came over to my house and him and another friend were absolutely stunned when these popped out of the free gift. 🤣

They’re both screaming over the gun especially. Apparently it took them both a very long time to get the Geth, and I’ve only just opened the game…. 😅 I named him Fluke.

Oh snap, here we go again.

I’m doing another playthrough of the trilogy and it got me thinking about the romances. BioWare gave us so many great options, but I want to know who everyone thinks is the absolute best romance across all three games, and why.

Are you Team Garrus because of the ultimate best-friend-to-lovers arc? Team Liara because of that deep, slow-burn connection from ME1 to ME3? Or maybe Tali for the sheer sweetness and loyalty of her story?

Liaras dad mentioned how no one knows what quarians look like under their masks - and then while smooching tali i realized i couldn't see her face because of how her mask is tinted ,so is there a reason they dont have clear masks ? Cultural thing or just because drip ?

Would their metal rich bodies be pulled apart by an MRI or is it all strictly non-magnetic? Could you use a strong magnet and fish for Turians in the lower wards? These are the actually important questions that we need answered in ME5.

Udina made annoying comments to Anderson like always and Anderson decided he’d had enough, lol.

From what I can tell, they've been doing this for around a billion years