Kaidan Alenko-Space Husband Extraordinaire

I think it's got something to do with a combination of early hardware limitations (a tidbit that's rattling around in my brain is that the Xbox 360 capped out the 'gamer score' with its achievements at like 1750 points, with base games only having scores of 1000, so they couldn't exceed that with DLC), and probably the fact that if they spend so much time on DLC, it eats into development for other, newer games, with a cost-benefit of 'why are we pouring money and time into ten dollar DLCs that are a case of diminishing returns instead of a new sixty dollar game?' 

So the year long DLC cycle works for the industry, particularly with these franchise games, where while the prep work is done for the next game in a series, the DLC can be built and published and it manages to keep the franchise in people's minds while still building anticipation for future games.

So I did play a fair bit of the me1 patch/mod for Kaidan on PC but I couldnt finish it cuz i hated my shepard look lol. Im debating if to try again from me1 or if I should jump straight to me3 and check it out first the original way and then try the mod way. Is there big differences in a modded me3 acknowledging the romance on me1 or nah?

If you have time you could do ME1-ME2-ME3 without mods and try the slowburn, it's cute but ME2 is a heteronormative pain in the ass. ME1 too but at least you have Kaidan there. Or like Lee said, you could modify a save file for ME3 and going for the full romance without mods in the third game. Then try the romance again with mods in the entire trilogy. Since I saw you are playing DAO now my recommendation is to play with Rondeeno's mods 

In my case my first experience with Kaidan's romance was with the old s/s trick with the console command, although I used a save that I downloaded somewhere with the trick implemented. Then I played the entire trilogy again without mods to see the slowburn. Both with Sheploo. Playing the trilogy without mods was and will be a pain for me, I'm never going to do it again, that for sure.

I have a new custom Shep that will be my new canon and I want to do it with Rondeeno's mods in the future! I cant wait to see the content that homophobic ME team denied us.

Thanks guys! And yeah Davrin's boobs , its time to finally really romance the dudes i always wanted to romance Alistair and Kaidan but could not properly! I might stick to sheploo then, cuz I can't for the life of me do a good custom shepard in Me1 lol.

It takes some work.  I can make a good Shepard in each individual game but they don't import as well.  Change of hair color is annoying when I make some cute ginger whose hair continually darkens - or, worse, the beard turns black as the hair becomes brown.  So, yes, Sheploo is my most common Shepard.

I agree, first version was not perfect, but they updated it with patches for Andromeda, and it was good, and now with all those mods it's even better and hotter  

It's not that I actually ''need'' them, but some of them improve facial texture even better, also unofficial patch is a life safer for me, it fixes most if not all quest bugs I had. Also:

Sadly importing full meshes is not possible (yet), but there are some texture pens lol, it looks little weird, but butt looks so damn sexy, also moles and freckles for all presets including whole body for our sexy ginger preset 10 too

@lukensen Ah okay, well #FreetheDongs the struggle goes on! Here's hoping it'll come to pass someday.

Yeah, the facial animation wrinkles are possibly realistic in some ways-but it's exaggerated too much for the animated style of the characters themselves.