well, thas when i played it

… but they do.

^ this.

With Leviathan, Citadel, Omega, extended cut, From Ashes and the rest of it, ME3 had the most content in the trilogy as well as the best. It was a stellar game until the ending ruined 150 hours of Mass Effect.

Jack had the same haircut in 2 and 3.

The problem is ME1 gameplay was absolute garbage. The story was the selling point, but you had to suffer through a bad game in order to obtain that story. For example, your squadmates were completely incompetent and would get themselves killed as quickly as possible no matter what gear they had and what skills. The open world exploration was awful, too.

EA fixed that, to be fair, by making ME2 a very playable and well presented game with solid gameplay (mostly by removing the god awful Mako rolling around empty worlds full of 90 degree mountains). – i.e by completely restricting the game from an RPG with shooter elements to a shooter with RPG elements. And in doing so, ruined the series.

Mods don’t change the ending of the game, bro.

Otherwise, MEUTIM and ALOT mod will no doubt blow this out of the water.

I don’t remember, it was 10 years ago after all

It won”t even take more time. Literally just play the game and get all the war assets and you get the necessary war preparedness level.