What are your too ***SPICY*** to handle hot takes of the trilogy?

None of the game companies are anywhere close to the worst company.
Companies like Amazon or any of the banks have them looking like angels in comparison.

So Activision-Blizzard hiding a culture of rape and then thinking changing the name of one of their Overwatch characters is fine?
EA basically behaves like a bank on top of the pressure it places on its employees: buys a lot and liquidates when its own bad decisions don't turn good and then crunches rushes big games like Mass Effect 3?
I am sure someone will fill me on Ubisoft.

Never in my post did I say what these companies have done is fine. Saying “Company B is worse than Company A” =/= “Company A is good.”

But comparing that, as terrible as they are, to things like employees not even getting bathroom breaks or throwing impoverished families into the street in the middle of winter is silly.

Well there's the restoring of the pillers and curing the vampires of the bloodthirst that could be considered for a plot. But I'm unsure if Raziel's could be removed from the sword seeing as his soul is apart of it, but maybe it could happen?

But yeah, would like more LOK games! 😉

Along with a remaster/soft remake of the other games.

I got sent this video by SirSourpuss, happy #N7 day:

That's just a reminder of what it means, if the community had to come up with two coumunity patches and more ongoing fixes then something is wrong.

Bioware: "We can't bring over Pinnacle Station."
Modders: "With the tools given to us by Bioware we are releasing Pinnacle Station DLC."

Fans have just ported over Pinnacle Station to the LE, and fixed the Stasis issue in ME2 as well romances not triggering correctly post Suicide Mission, was the Answers HQ just a place where EA/Bioware made to focus issues so that modders located them easier and for free on one console?

Which says a lot about Bioware oh, this is another scene saved by modders:

The Reapers controlled the Rachni two times. First during the Rachni war and then later in ME3 to produce Reaper Troops

Personally, I don't think we have enough evidence to say the Thorian is dead. We know we hurt it but there's nothing to say it couldn't survive the drop. I'd be willing to bet it has roots pretty deeply into the planet. There is a "forest" that is actually one organism connected by a singular root system underground. That organism is actually about 80,000 years old.

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When you encounter the Rachni Queen the second time in ME3 you'll notice that the Reapers are having to convert her brood into Ravangers rather than just sending the vanilla Rachni out to fight; which really would have been much better suited to weaken the forces of the galaxy. After all, if Shepard was expecting the Rachni to help then sending sleeper agents through the allied fleets in order to backstab them at a crucial moment would have crippled the races of the Milky Way and could have easily cost them the war. 

Instead, when we see the Queen and what has become of the Rachni she hatched, she is in chains and her offspring have been turned into Reaper zombies. Now why would the Reapers have to keep the Queen under lock and key, and then forcibly control the Rachni troops in such an obvious way if the species was easily controlled?

Evidence seems to suggest that, once aware of their influence, the Rachni leadership is, for all intents and purposes, immune to indoctrination and their connection with their children so strong that only by physically installing control implants could the rank and file be made to follow Reaper instructions. 


Compare the Queen's resilience in ME 3, after roughly six months of captivity, to that of the Salarian STG team captured on Virmire in ME 1. Those special force troops, the best of the Salarian Union's black ops, were reduced to near mindless puppets just by being in the facility for a few days. And Sovereign wasn't even actively trying to break their minds as it's revealed that Saren was using the prison to observe the passive effects of indoctrination. We also know, from the codex entries, that the Reapers can manage the intensity of their indoctrination affect in order to mold a more suitable pawn. Quick and fast for a mindless thrall compared to slow and subtle for a more capable agent.  

So if the Rachni Queen is just being used as a baby factory to pump out bodies for the Reapers to huskify, then why does she still have her mental faculties intact? Surely one doesn't need higher level brain activity to be an incubator so clearly the Reapers were unable to break her mind nor force her to comply with their plans. And if the queen is unable to be broken then it stands to reason that the rest of the hive would be similarly resistant to indoctrination. 

This show's a level of fortitude that not even resident Space Jesus could muster as Shepard was showing straining against Reaper influence after only a few hours in the Arrival DLC, as well as in the confrontation with TIM in ME 3.



EDIT: As for the Rachni Wars, it's strongly hinted that it was the Leviathans not the Reapers that were behind it. 

Up until the use of the Geth and the Conduit, the Reaper plan has always been about a swift, decapitating strike to the head of galactic government. Utilizing the Rachni in such a way only served to bolster the resolve of the rest of the galaxy to resist them and only would have made taking the Citadel even harder. Plus, the Leviathans have been shown to posses a much more acute form of mental control; that not even Shepard could resist, so it would make more sense that they were the 'Sour Yellow Note' rather than the Reapers.

I would say that the Leviathans were trying to take over the Citadel to stop the Reapers rather than help their harvests. Their powers, will more focused than the Reapers is limited in range and to only a few individuals and their greatest strength has been hiding from the harvests every cycle. 

But when a Rachni migratory fleet stumbled upon them, or one of their orbs, I think the Leviathans saw their chance at stopping the Reapers entirely and tried to use the Rachni as their tools.