At long last you can get sexy with Joker in Mass Effect 3
Seth Green may love NFT apes, but Joker’s heart can now belong to you.
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There’s no shortage of characters to romance in the Mass Effect trilogy. Depending on which version of Commander Shepard you’re playing, you can enjoy deep relationships and clunky cutscene coitus with Ashley Williams, Liara T’Soni, Kaidan Whatsisname, Miranda, Jack, Garrus, Tali, Javik, that weird fish guy everyone stans, that non-fish guy everyone hates, and a handful of others.
But when you’re horny in space, is that really enough? How about one more?
Thanks toThe Hatboy Projectmod, you can now add Jeff “Joker” Moreau to your seemingly endless list of intimate conquests in Mass Effect 3. The mod “creates an all-new romantic narrative for the player to explore” with the quick-witted and endearing pilot of the SSV Normandy. There are new branches of dialogue, custom-written romantic versions of conversations, new ambient voice lines, the option to go from flirting to a committed relationship, and yes, even a “romance scene that is in keeping with the other vanilla options.” A traditionally awkward Mass Effect sex-cutscene, in other words.
How is this possible? According to modder SpaceD0lphin, the mod required lots of “patience, technology, duct-tape and prayers.” You can see a bit of the mod in the launch trailer below, including new voice lines for Joker that seem to be a mixture of spliced existing dialogue and AI voice acting software (xVASynthis credited on the mod’s page).
It’s pretty convincing—that really does sound like Joker’s voice actor Seth Green, and only occasionally is there a tiny bit of awkward inflection that doesn’t quite land. Still, it’s extremely impressive.
If you want to see more, there’s tons of video clips atThe Hatboy Project’s YouTube Channel, and you can learn how the mod came together at thedevblog here(a good place to start is with this deep-dive on someparticularly tricky dialogue).
Joker isn’t available to romance for both versions of Commander Shepard, unfortunately. “BroShep,” as I’m just learning he’s called, can’t knock boots with Joker, only the Jennifer Hale “FemShep” version of Shepard. The mod is also only compatible with the original Mass Effect 3, though a Legendary Edition version is in the works. You can find it here atNexus Mods.
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Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he’d stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He’s also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.
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