I finally got around to playing the Mass Effect trilogy (the Legendary Edition remasters, anyway). It's excellent.
In 2011, I gave up on ME1 after getting to a very difficult combat encounter that I was not prepared for and having no other saves to go back to. I essentially rage-quit the trilogy for over 10 years, lol.
Still about halfway through ME3 but I am already planning my second playthrough. Truly a God-tier set of games, IMO.
I've been using a mod to romance Jack as FemShep in ME3 and it seems to work fine if that changes anything for you.