Mass Effect Legendary Edition (Digital Download, Xbox One / Series X|S)

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As someone who played through all three ME games I cannot recommend this enough ! Graphics are a bit dated compared to today's games but you'll love it for the plotline/story and characters .... some strange advice.. if you really want to get hooked on the game, play Mass Effect 2 first... then after being blown away by that go back and start a new game with Mass Effect 1, play ME 2 again (which you'll want to because it's such an awesome game) and then finish up with ME 3 ... the ME 3 final ending is one you'll either love or hate but either way I loved this series enormously (personally I enjoyed the ME3 ending though I know there were others that did not, huge controversy over it but I recommend you NOT google search that or it will spoil the whole ME3 ending for you)

Trust me at this price you want to go ahead and grab it ... it includes all the DLC if I recall correctly and the only reason I'm not jumping on it is I purchased all three games prior to the legendary re-release and the DLC that came with it a long time ago.

And yep I read about that whole censorship thing, here's a reddit thread that says what was actually censored, apparently not much

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuIn...ually_got/

https://censorship.fandom.com/wik...0worldwide.

Now here's where things get crazy.. someone asked if there's a mod to restore what's missing (basically it's the camera angle for one character, Miranda, and her, ahem, posterior and that's it as far as censorship strangely enough ! If I understand correctly that is ) ...

There was a mod made back before the release of ME legendary by someone who was unhappy about the original Mass Effect 2 with the camera paying so much attention to Miranda's posterior so they made a mod to shift the camera angle to not focus so much on her posterior.

Then the same person who made the mod found out about the censorship in the Legendary edition, basically said "there should be no censorship enforced by the video game publisher" (or I'm guessing the mod creator said that anyways, they didn't say that in so many words but that's the conclusion I would reach personally) and put out a mod that restores the camera angle exactly to where it was before just like in the original game.

https://www.nexusmods.com/masseff...escription

or if that link doesn't work just google search "Miranda Butt Shot Restoration (LE2) nexus mods"

apparently there was some censorship of... once again... Miranda's butt in ME3 so here's another mod that deals with both ME2 and ME3

https://www.nexusmods.com/masseff...?tab=files

or just google search "Miranda Butt Shot Restoration (LE3) nexus mods"

see also

https://www.pcgamer.com/mass-effe...y-edition/

( I know, why this obsession about Miranda's butt in the game? There's a whole controversy about how Miranda was too sexualized and the camera shouldn't be focusing on her butt during this really intense personal conversation she's having with Shepard but .. still that's the only thing the video game publisher, Bioware, decides to focus on? Why the fascination with just Miranda's posterior while everything else gets ignored that could be controversial ? The romance scenes are, erhm, steamy put it that way and from what I understand those where not censored at all so.. why the focus on the butt? )

You'd have to do a bit of research on the ME3 tweaks mod manager

https://www.nexusmods.com/masseff...ion/mods/2

Here's a youtube video showing you how to do it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzm0FBg4OI

there's a lot of love for ME in the nexusmods community (free to join nexusmods by the way) so there's a ton of mods to make say a female Shepard or male Shepard (the character you play in the video games) more "pretty" or "handsome" and to customize Shepard's appearance like say this one for example

https://www.nexusmods.com/masseff...escription

it takes some work but it's a labor of love .. a lot of PC gamers love to tinker with and improve the appearance of their character this way.

It's also censored and is missing dlc from the first game if it matters to you