Mass Effect Legendary Edition

There is an alternative way to force unlock Paramour 2/3. I romanced Liara in ME1 and was going for Thane in 2.

I made a save before the launching into Omega 4 Relay and had the romance scene with no achievement.

Force quit the game during the story cutscenes and reloaded the game and launching into ME1 and loading a random save. Overwriting that save and quitting to the main menu and then to the launcher.

What this does is remove the "Resume" option for ME2 on the launcher so you have to manually go into the main menu to load the save. I loaded my pre-Omega 4 save and made out with my frog man and got the stubborn achievement.

I then repeated the exact same steps again and was able to get Paramour 3 as well.

Sorry if this guide is confusing...everything made sense in my head, not sure if I transcribed it well.

Since the latest patch, this cheese method is no longer available (confirmed in comments from Paramour III). Seems like you are going to have to get this one the "old fashioned" way now and do as the description says.

There is a way to cheese this achievement (and Paramour III), which I found by complete accident.

Playing through ME1 I triggered the Liara romance scene and the Paramour achievement unlocked, I then realised I did not make a hard save prior to the romance starting. No spoilers but it is the point of no return for ME1.

Once the achievement popped I dashboarded and reloaded my save and went through the same sequence again, and to my surprise the Paramour II achievement popped.

Naturally, I did the same thing again and the Paramour III achievement popped.

By complete accident. But ill take it.

Playing a NG+ and romancing the same character in both saves counts. I romanced Liara on my first playthrough, and romanced her again on my Insanity NG+ save.

VIDEO RECAP:

Achievement is Bugged.

Save before going to ilos, go to ilos, unlock the achievement, reload that save, repeat.

VIDEO:

DISCLAIMER You need to have the disc version to be able to do this.

This guide will give you the ability to unlock Paramour I, Paramour II, and Paramour III all in ME1. Prior to being updated, you were able to dashboard once the achievement unlocked, force quit the game, restart the game, watch the cutscene again and get all three achievements that way. Unfortunately, as discussed in other guides this was patched. But what if there was a way to go back in time prior to this being patched?

My issue with Paramour II was discovered too late. If you romanced Liara in ME1 and rekindled your relationship in ME2 through the shadow broker DLC it will not give you Paramour II. Not wanting to do an entire playthrough of ME2 again, I thought there must be a way to go back to and unlock it how others did. I figured out a way to do it with the Insanity achievements so I figured it would work the same way.

Step-by-Step walkthrough

DISCLAIMER You need to have the disc version to be able to do this.

1. Play ME1, online, updated, up to when you are going to into the end-game sequence and go to Ilos.

2. Make a manual save here.

3. Fly to Ilos, if you correctly romanced someone, Paramour I will unlock. You now know that this save will work. After it unlocked, dashboard and force quit your game.

4. Go to your game and uninstall it. Disconnect your xbox from the internet and reinstall the first disc of the game.

5. Start MELE and go to ME1 and hit resume, be sure to still be disconnected from xbox live.

6. You will now be back at the hardsave you made prior to the Ilos jump.

7. Fly to Ilos again, go through the romance scene, and once it is over and you see your ship flying through the relay, dashboard and force quit the game.

8. Go to you xbox settings, reconnect to xbox live, after about 15 seconds, your Paramour II will pop without even launching the game.

9. Disconnect from xbox live again. and repeat steps 5 through 8. Paramour III will unlock.

You can now reinstall and update the game.

Congratulations!