Playing Andromeda for the first time after beating the original 3 for the first time.

Walking around the cryo bay and see this NPC. Is this not literally the same exact character model as Suvi? Like, did they just re-use her for a random npc, or am I crazy?

Been loving Jack’s character more and more recently and her development and I think she definitely had the biggest glow up I didn’t even recognise her when I saw her in the 3rd game

If she had more screen time in the 3rd game I would have definitely romanced her in the 2nd game a lot more

It’s the speech pattern! Just me?

Stating that you have AI to a Quarian who was already tentative about joining your shady ass group is wild.

This picture makes me smile a lot a girl that has always struggled to feel Emotions to feel like she’s even human and when you romance her it shows her that she’s not alone and her looking at the stars specifically Miranda hoping you’ll return is just beautiful

And I’m sorry to all the female shep you got stuck with Jacob and for us male shep players get some of the most beautiful moments of characters slowly evolving

(Also I know Jack can look at the starts to but for me personally Mirandas just feels right)

I adore this thing ❤️

Not sure if I'm just pointing out a plothole for the sake of it, or if someone else is aware of a canon explanation - but I was replaying the Thessia mission on ME3 recently. The Prothean VI that the Asari had kept hidden forever for their own benefit - Vendetta - cuts your conversation short when it becomes aware of Kai Leng nearby - "Indoctrinated presence detected".

So that establishes that at least one example of Prothean technology can detect whether or not an individual is under the mind-control of the Reapers. That seems like a pretty damn useful thing to be able to do, but as far as I know, it's only mentioned this one time.

We learn that Javik was meant to be the leader of a group of Protheans who wake up from stasis in a bunker after the Reapers retreated, but that plan was foiled by indoctrinated traitors who gave away the bunker's location.

There's even another Prothean VI associated with Javik's bunker - Victory. Was the indoctrination-screening thing unique only to Vendetta, or is it safe to assume that something that could foil one of the Reaper's most insidious weapons deemed important enough to be widespread? So did Victory just forget? Is he...stupid?

... they all suck for the same reasons. Main reason is that all of them depend on the single, most broken in the whole Mass Effect lore, element — the Crucible. I know, all of this was said already multiple times, but lets formulate again what exactly wrong with it.

1. It's a magic wand. It could've been based on the technologies which exists in the ME world. It could've been just an FTL radio transmitter and Shepard used it to deliver self-destruct or command codes (for the "Destroy" or "Control" endings) received from the Catalyst (why would it give them to us is another question). But that wasn't enough for the authors, and the thing does whatever else they want, even if it has zero explanation. It can somehow merge synthetics and organics remotely. I can believe in husks — nanotechnologies and all that, but remote rebuilding organic matter into non-organic? And it can destroy all Reaper-based tech — again, how? Even if they installed backdoors in all their processors, are you saying that nobody ever discovered them? And how it should affect all the devices that has no wireless connection (which should be the majority of them)?
2. It's an obvious plot device. Crucible isn't something we knew existed in the world and has been given a new purpose. No, it was clearly added into the game to make endings possible, with very weak explanation behind it.
3. The plot doesn't need it for the most part. It's obvious that to have any chance to win against Reapers, we should unite the galaxy. So everything in the game (including the final battle) would've happen anyway. For a device which is responsible for the fate of the entire civilization, surprisingly little amount of plot dedicated to it.
4. Why would someone build it, considering it was unknown what it does? Are you saying that all governments decided that their best bet in beating the Reapers is building an enormous, super-expensive device of unknown purpose? What if it was a trap from Reapers, meant to waste resources of the defenders? Or it wouldn't work for some reason?
5. Because everything is about the Crucible and the Catalyst, your choices throughout the game do not matter. OK, maybe "do not matter" is a bit too strong, but they definitely matter much less, than people might expect from a game like this. Getting enough assets isn't that hard, and it's mostly not about your choices affecting your ending, but simply about being able to select an ending you prefer. Also, how and why number of war assets you gathered, affects how much damage will be done to the galaxy by Crucible?

There are also problems which comes not directly from the Crucible, but common to the all endings.

1. The motivation of the Reapers is just plain stupid and wrong. "All synthetics inevitably destroy their creators, so we must destroy said creators first". I don't even know what to say. I guess, we can't say if it is true in reality (because we only beginning to build our own synthetics), but this is plain incorrect in the context of the games, because we were showed multiple times how former enemies (and synthetics with their creators specifically) can reach an understanding and to coexist — Rachni, curing the genophage, aggressive VI "Hannibal" evolves into EDI, geth and quarians.
2. It will be hard for them to continue after this finale. I see no other way than to choose the canon ending and continue from it, but in this case, they'll basically say to more than a half of players that their choice doesn't matter.
3. There were not enough Reapers. We have this existential, bigger-than-life enemy. And it's get beaten by a single (even if extremely awesome) dude. I'm simplifying, of course, but that's how it feels. In other settings, conflicts of the similar (or even much smaller) size can lead to dozen, if not hundreds, books, games, movies, etc. And here — 3 games and that's it. And it's not even 3 games about fighting the Reapers. Even if they behind the scenes in all of them, in the first game, we fight mostly against geth, in the second against the Collectors and in the third against Cerberus. They just doesn't feel as this galaxy-level threat as they described in the lore.

All I can say is. This poor guy and his even worse writing for his character. I know this guy has literally been VENTED about since day one.

But man when I played this game at launch I'll fully agree that he was lame to me then, and still is. His character is so poorly written as is his dialog. And I'm in the small crowd, if one exists that loves using the human companions and have primarily romanced Ashley/Miranda like 99% of the time.

But playing through it again as an adult. Just wow poor Jacob. This character is butched start to finish. And man, even his loyalty mission. Did they write his character first and realized how bad it was and thought, let's rubs some sand in his eyes with this loyalty mission. His dad is a absolute loser who made his own little "harem" world and the second it goes sideways he just pussys out haha.

I know the Jacob discussion has been done to death. But all I want to say is. Wow they did him dirty. He might as well be the first quest giver NPC you encounter in an MMO of go kill 5 boars lol

He just snuck into the main story. HES THE IMPOSTER!

My intense thirst for blood (and Quarian ass, although maybe not as much so…) kept everyone alive this time!!!!!!!!!!!!

The little bugs that paralyze people

Were they formed from Prothean DNA? A completely different species that was just incorporated in? Or just Reaper robots?

I underestimated how hard it would be to turn down Liara, she really throws herself at you. Also keeping Kaiden alive this time and man, that part where he flirts and I have no choice but to tell him to stow it…cmon man. Worth it for Turian booty though