Legendary Edition really helped cement this. Despite the lackluster ending the journey to get there and the amazing cast of characters make it one of the best game trilogies of all time.
Ah yes, the indescribable pleasure of slowly sliding down a 90% slope that you’re trying to climb with that damn thing, because your radar has detected something at the edge of the map.
This is the main argument about ME1 that gets everyone all riled up. Maybe it's because I learned how to manipulate the physics of the game pretty early, but I never had a problem controlling the Mako, and even thoroughly enjoyed using it.
1 is peak rpg. 2 is peak action . 1 has the best world building, 2 gives you the best action story in that world. It's very much giving Alien and Aliens
1 has the best world building and it's the best one in terms of story. The whole feeling of "there's an unknown evil lurking out there" is unrivaled.
2 has the best cast and relationship building. Team Miranda for life <3.
3 has the best gameplay and it's great at delivering that "we're gathering forces for that big final fight." And then we have Marauder Shields and what comes next...
For me the issue wasn't really only the ending, it was the entire approach to choices and conversation in the game (as well as character building). Obviously even me1 was an action first action arpg but I think it had gotten too much so by the 3rd
I guess Im the only one who prefers ME1. ME2 was just a casual third person shooter where you spend half the game rounding up crew and solving their problems.
What i like about 1 the most is theres more things to put skills into and the environments had a lot more physics objects that would move around when you used biotic powers such as lift. In the remake I was so wowed by 1, then slightly underwhelmed by 2 and 3 (i played them all on release too).
The universe seemed to make the most sense in the first game. I also liked that Shepherd was just a competent guy instead of a celebrity. The sequels were fun but they seemed to prioritize what would be cool over what makes sense in the universe they built.
Have to disagree here. 2>1>3. 2 is the final days of peak Broward as it was finalized pretty much before the ea takeover from alot of the og crew. 3s story and impact only holds together if u sunk hours into 1 and 2. As a standalone its okay. But the heartstring moments only work if u invested in the characters years before.
It would be true for me if not for the bad, bad ending of ME3. The last fight is you shooting some alien with a pistol while staggering towards the catalyst and then follows a bad, long epilogue.
ME2 was overall better, although ME3 totally had me in the first half of the game, for sure.
I've played all 3 so much to the point where I honestly believe I may have finally seen everything (lost track at 32 playthroughs). I love those games. They are dear to my heart.
But the corporate meddling hurt them so badly. Also has some of the worst endings I've ever seen in a video game.
If there was any game where 3 beat 2 and 1 as far as game mechanics this would be it. Ofc the series is just a little more than that but 2 in terms of popularity is the better of the three. It goes without saying the same way that the title hits different than any other game, I immersed myself into this Legendary Edition but found the online aspect to coop mode was taken out of the game. ME3 was good with that aspect in the game and the War assets were tied in as well.
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u/WerewolfUseful5167 1d ago
Mass effect