r/masseffectlore • u/Ryandowninavan • Aug 20 '26

Mass Effect

I want to talk about Mass Effect. Nothing in particular comes to mind, I just find myself wanting to chat with someone about it. Nobody around me knows Mass Effect or anything, so I can't talk to anybody that would care or know what I'm even talking about. Listening to the lorecast, really makes me wish I could join them and talk shop. TLDR, would anyone want to chat about ME?

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u/RussoTouristo Aug 20 '26

The trilogy is pretty good but narratively is a huge waste of potential. They had a good start in ME1, then gave us the filler episode no one asked for in ME2 and then tried to pack all the reaper war in one final game and it felt underwhelming at best. And the lore behind the reapers turned out too trivial.

All in all it was good games with tonnes of top quality content.

P.S. And Andromeda has never happend, obviously.

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u/SerDankTheTall Aug 20 '26

What’s Andromeda?

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u/RussoTouristo Aug 20 '26

Exactly.

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u/Ryandowninavan Aug 20 '26

I think Andromeda was E.A. being like "we know what were doing". I think narrative wise, it's not bad, actually playing it, is a horse of a different color

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u/RussoTouristo Aug 20 '26

The only redeeming quality is combat, that was a huge improvement. But you could just play multiplayer for that.

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u/Ryandowninavan Aug 20 '26

Agreed, the combat was pretty smooth. I do like the Kett storyline. They ended it with room for a sequel. I wonder if the next ME will be about that, but I heard it was a part of the OT storyline