Mass Effect 3

[Trainwreck2100]

im pissed there were no achievement for the EC

[resistanze]

I played ME1 again, still fantastic, FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC. remember the high hopes you had for the trilogy after ME1?

Yup, I cleared ME1 again a couple of days ago. One of my top 5 games of all-time, tbh. I'll try to ignore everything after it.

[Trainwreck2100]

mass effect 2 wasn't THAT bad that you have to ignore it. Also i believe ME1 was made before bioware got bought by EA, and then went to shit.

[vander]

mass effect 2 wasn't THAT bad that you have to ignore it. Also i believe ME1 was made before bioware got bought by EA, and then went to shit.

it wasn't that bad to play, the final fight and how everything effected the outcome was fantastic,

but from a story perspective it was shit, and only detracted from what ME1 would have been as a standalone. nothing but recruiting missions and geth 2.0 (collectors) all being moved along by the sudden introduction of Cerberus and it's unlimited resources. and in the end, what happens in ME2 relevant to ME1? pretty much nothing, they introduced a new enemy and you defeated the new enemy.

i still think that if they had made ME1 with recruiting missions and a decisions/outcome based ending like ME2, as well as more detailed and varying "bases" and "mines". would have been the greatest of all time.

As it is, I'm like resistanze, Mass Effect is in my top five, and I'll just ignore the existence of 2 and 3, and I'll probably never play 3.

[resistanze]

it wasn't that bad to play, the final fight and how everything effected the outcome was fantastic,

but from a story perspective it was shit, and only detracted from what ME1 would have been as a standalone. nothing but recruiting missions and geth 2.0 (collectors) all being moved along by the sudden introduction of Cerberus and it's unlimited resources. and in the end, what happens in ME2 relevant to ME1? pretty much nothing, they introduced a new enemy and you defeated the new enemy.

i still think that if they had made ME1 with recruiting missions and a decisions/outcome based ending like ME2, as well as more detailed and varying "bases" and "mines". would have been the greatest of all time.

As it is, I'm like resistanze, Mass Effect is in my top five, and I'll just ignore the existence of 2 and 3, and I'll probably never play 3.

This.

Mass Effect 2 was a good self-contained game to play, but had nothing to do with part 1. It threw everything in ME1 out the window, and you spend the entire game chasing Bug People and solving daddy issues. They even kill the main character and are able to resurrect him like Jesus, just because Cerberus has money?

I expected ME2 to be about discovering the Reaper threat, gathering resources/allies, maybe finding information from past cycles regarding any weaknesses (or even if they were lazy, the superweapon should;ve been introduced here). Instead as you said, you chase down bug people and dispose of them all in the same game, with the Reapers still coming.

Not to mention the Council has amnesia, again. At the end of ME1 the Reapers were real, then in ME2 they were fake, even after a Reaper exploded all over the Citadel. And what happened to the Human-led Council they talked about at the end of ME1?

I honestly got into ME because of the story and characters, I'm not a heavy RPG gamer. But after ME2 I knew that magic was gone, tbh.

[Trainwreck2100]

I'm doing the insanity play through and it reminded me how shitty the new characters were in this game

[DirkDoesWork]

This.

Mass Effect 2 was a good self-contained game to play, but had nothing to do with part 1. It threw everything in ME1 out the window, and you spend the entire game chasing Bug People and solving daddy issues. They even kill the main character and are able to resurrect him like Jesus, just because Cerberus has money?

I expected ME2 to be about discovering the Reaper threat, gathering resources/allies, maybe finding information from past cycles regarding any weaknesses (or even if they were lazy, the superweapon should;ve been introduced here). Instead as you said, you chase down bug people and dispose of them all in the same game, with the Reapers still coming.

Not to mention the Council has amnesia, again. At the end of ME1 the Reapers were real, then in ME2 they were fake, even after a Reaper exploded all over the Citadel. And what happened to the Human-led Council they talked about at the end of ME1?

I honestly got into ME because of the story and characters, I'm not a heavy RPG gamer. But after ME2 I knew that magic was gone, tbh.

I don't want to be "that guy," but the Lazarus Project was named after...Lazarus. I know I'm ready for the Leviathan of Dis DLC, which has basically been confirmed by Mike Gamble himself and the VA for the Leviathan.

Shepard is basically space Jesus though, so I take your point.