From Tumblr: Notes from my current Mass Effect (whole trilogy) playthrough

[lizbee]

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/29WgntR at July 21, 2016 at 06:40AM
liz-squids:

• Why haven’t I been playing as an Engineer all along?
• …okay, I hardly use any power other than Incinerate, BUT I CAN BLOW THINGS UP and also hack geth, that’s quite awesome.
• My engineer!Shepard is named Yoshimi. She has a blackbelt in karate.
• I’m running ME on the Bootcamp install of Windows on my MacBook. This creates some fun bugs, like how, throughout ME2, I was continually getting stuck in high places, unable to move or even change weapons until I was finally killed (or survived to the next cut scene).
• And that is how I killed a thresher maw with nothing but a handgun and my powers.
• I wish there was a mod to give Miranda and Jack proper clothes. 
• Also, I think my Shepard is a lot thinner in ME3, and it’s kind of weirding me out, like, she’s meant to be a space marine, and she can throw James Vega over her shoulder, but she has no musculature whatsoever.
• I think there’s a mod for a buff Shepard, but honestly, I feel like I’m already pushing it with the Bootcamp thing.
• Jacob is hella boring, but he looks like Kanye West, and that is the entire reason I romanced him.
• I’m slightly bitter that I can’t romance Anderson or Hackett, stop judging me. 
• The second half of ME2 was really slowed down by my need to stop and sing “Dear Theodosia” to Grunt every time he turned up.
• I hate Cerberus so much.
• Even before the Illusive Man endorsed Trump, I hated them. 
• I’m up to the Grissom Academy mission in ME3, but it’s so hard to play, because it’s basically TERRORISTS ATTACK A BOARDING SCHOOL IN SPACE, and that needs to be a YA novel, like, now.

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Comments

[settiai]

I think there’s a mod for a buff Shepard, but honestly, I feel like I’m already pushing it with the Bootcamp thing.

Shepard still isn't nearly as buff as I'd like, even with the mod, but it's definitely better than the vanilla game.

[lizbee]

Maybe I'll give it a go -- it really bugs me that she doesn't look remotely like a marine.

[settiai]

If you can get it to work, I highly recommend it. I don't use nearly as many mods for Mass Effect as I do Dragon Age, but that's one of the ones that I always keep installed.

(Also essential for me is the Ashley Legacy Project for similar reasons. Because Ashley Williams is a marine, damn it. She should look like it.)

[kerravonsen]

because it’s basically TERRORISTS ATTACK A BOARDING SCHOOL IN SPACE, and that needs to be a YA novel, like, now.

Well, that's obviously the plot for your next novel, then.