An Annotated Mass Effect Playthrough, Prologue
I don’t know how long I’ll end up doing this for, but I thought I’d give it a shot.
I try to play the Mass Effect games at least once every other year now, last time I did ME1 was early 2018 so it’s time. Also, doing a bunch of work on Masseffectsaves back in the fall kinda gave me the ME-playing bug. It’s nice not feeling like the site is horribly behind where it should be anymore.
I’ve been excited to play through now since there’s now a ME1 Recalibrated mod, and though the changes are relatively minor compared to 2 and 3, I’m glad they’re there.
I’m also using Mass Effect Overwritten which fixes a bunch of stuff in the codex / subtitles (not that I play with subtitles on but you know). Then FPS Counter and Post-Processing Effects, except I turned off that mod’s color correction because I wanted the colors to be true-to-game. (But no film grain.) And of course, MEUITM, ALOT, including the shadows redone addon, and ALOV. The game is just so, so pretty now (for a 13 year old game!), and the shadows redone addon and ALOV are such great additions. The cutscenes are just so much better especially.
Once again, all praise to the Modders, everyone who contributed textures to ALOT and CreeperLava for putting it together, C3Anderson for MEUITM, GiftFish and the ME#Recalibrated teams for fixing so many little bugs, etc. It’s amazing the love and care that’s gone into the games by the fanbase after the games have come out.
I’m re-recording a lot of videos this time, and screenshotting, since the game is now about as perfectly pretty graphic/texture wise as it’s going to get both mod-wise and hardware-wise. Now that I have a 2060RTX and 32 gigs of RAM I mean… it’s not going to get any better.
I know not many people go digging for Mass Effect screenshots anymore, so I’m not sure I’m going to upload to Flickr anymore unless there are people who actually want me to. Mostly I’m doing these for me, for my rotating desktop wallapers, I’ll probably be replacing a lot of my older screenshots for these, and for inspiration for photosets, even though getting any notes on tumblr anymore is like pulling teeth. =\
But yeah, expect photosets and gifsets for awhile. :) Already have one queued. If you’re not interested, blacklisting Mass Effect or “annakie’s mass effect stuff” will work.
I’ll be doing, once again, my canon Shepard (Female/Paragon/Vanguard/Spacer Sole Survivor/ faithful all the way to Kaidan). Maybe after this I can redo other Shepards, but it feels almost like wasting time if I’m not spending time with the Shepard and Kaidan that I love the best, you know?
Maybe this will be the last time to play this Shepard before a Remaster comes out. A girl can dream, right? But even if that never happens, the modders have taken the games that extra mile so they look and feel the best they can.
