I wish I moved a little faster when not in combat.
Some updates on where I am in the game:
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I just found Liara’s mother and ended that long-ish mission. I chose to release the Rachi(?) and save its species. Reminded me of Ender’s Game and I think saving a species is the right thing to do. Hope this doesn’t come back to bite me in future games.
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I have now found Liara and her mother. This leaves one main quest left and it is now time to do sidequests for awhile.
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I speak to all people on the ship, including Joker and support staff, after each major or minor mission. Kaidan has expressed romantic interest in my Shepard. I want to help Tali with her pilgimage, but I have not advanced her story to a point where that has come up. Everyone else tells me backstory, but I don’t see any new quests popping up yet(I haven’t checked yet).
Anyway, continuing to progress. It has taken 8-9 hours of gameplay to reach where I am at. I did not quite fully explore the full lab that Liara’s mother was in, but I have explored almost everywhere else fully.
What was your opinion of the fight with Benezia’s commandos? Some people have complained that it’s annoying to keep getting knocked down by their biotic powers.
On Normal difficulty level, I found the battle to be long and repetitive, but did not find that this was an issue. It went on one round of bad guys too long, though. We survived, but I don’t think I had much left when it was over.
Definitely the hardest fight in the game so far.
More to the point, did you notice that Counselor Deanna Troi herself was the VA?
I did not notice!
The voice acting in ME is one of the highlights of the series, IMO. If you’ve played a lot of older Bioware games, some of the main cast will be familiar - Jennifer Hale (FemShep) and Raphael Sbarge (Kaiden), for instance, previously played Bastila Shan and Carth Onasi in SWKOTOR, Seth Green (Joker) has been in any number of productions, and Keith David (Captain Anderson) is instantly recognizable as Goliath in Gargoyles, Frank in They Live, and the president in Rick & Morty.
There’s one particular VA in ME2 who I was really surprised to hear in a video game, but I won’t name names for now.
I guess I had forgotten that Dwight Schultz (Howlin’ Mad Murdock/Reginald Barclay) was the voice of Navigator Pressly.
Indeed.
One of the things that made the game shine. (Gets even better in ME:2)
It’s so common to go cheap on voice acting and writing but this game shows how doing it well is a real gem.
I’m pretty sure I know who you mean, but there are several other recognizable performers throughout the cast who might also qualify, behind that one big name. All do terrific work.
(My wife is Iranian born, and one day a while back she overhead me playing the game and asked, “waitaminnit, is that (Iranian actor she’s a huge fan of)?” I said yep, and she said wow.)
Thanks, I’m actually doing that sidequest now.
I love the Iranian actor that your wife is a huge fan of. I really love their work in Mass Effect.
The whole game has great voice acting. Truly outstanding.
Not that anyone cares but I figured out my problem was a hardware issue. My CPU fan went on the fritz, would occasionally stop and the PC would halt. That just happened to coincide with me getting the game.
I have good fans too…not really supposed to break and fans kinda live forever but…shit happens.
Fortunately, I have two fans on my heatsink so, once the problem was solved, it was trivial to get the other fan to take over.
I have no doubt you all wanted to know that. 
Well, we are your fans.
The Mako controls really well in the Legendary Edition, by the way. I have had zero issues, to be honest.
Supposedly you can change the Mako to the original handling. Not sure how easy that is to do (I have not looked in to it). But if it is easy it might be worth checking it out so those new to Mass Effect can experience the bouncy Mako.
I heard that, but thanks, no thanks. I’m happy just playing it the regular way. I guess I could for 1 planet if it is an easy switch flip.
I’ve made no changes in settings. The game(ME1) is running very smoothly.
I can only imagine the load times on PS3 based on the elevators and doorway loads. I listen to elevator conversations, but the elevator rides are very quick.
That’s a shame. It’s not Mass Effect if you can’t spend half your time on the Citadel jamming out to that sweet sweet elevator music.
That’s weirdly great and not great at the same time.
Nostalgia I guess.
Yeah, my Mako is more grippy and has only flipped over once. I haven’t had a single issue.