I think Mass Effect 2 is the most balanced. The first game grants you more opportunities to explore, but most of the environments are rehashed and many of the missions are boilerplate. Mass Effect 3 lies at the other extreme. You can't really explore outside the main storyline and most of the missions are lame fetch quests. Who thought it was a good idea to scan planets for mission items? Anyway, which one if your favorite?
Which Mass Effect installment is your favorite?
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Ambiturner
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2. I prefer the more emphasis on action than the first while the story is a tie between 1 & 2. Didn't play ME3 multiplayer, but there's no way it makes up for the dogshit that was Kai Lung and the abortion of an ending
Gavinmad
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You're wrong. ME3 could have murdered your firstborn and ME3 multiplayer would have made up for it.
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1.
As silly as it sounds I separate the multiplayer from ME3 because it's so different from the game, was made by a different studio and is basically the culmination of building and refining a combat system from three separate games. I feel like crediting ME3 because of the MP almost does a disservice to the group that made it and gives undue credit to the couple of dicks who ruined ME3. I'd be excited for a standalone ME multiplayer game but honestly I'm so burnt out from that gameplay from putting in several hundred hours into it I probably wouldn't play it much.
I like 1 better than 2 because:
1. It was more sandbox oriented.
2. It was original and fresh.
3. I liked driving my mako around.
Objectively speaking 2 is the best, just because the mechanics were better, the squadmates were excellent and the storyline was incredible.
As silly as it sounds I separate the multiplayer from ME3 because it's so different from the game, was made by a different studio and is basically the culmination of building and refining a combat system from three separate games. I feel like crediting ME3 because of the MP almost does a disservice to the group that made it and gives undue credit to the couple of dicks who ruined ME3. I'd be excited for a standalone ME multiplayer game but honestly I'm so burnt out from that gameplay from putting in several hundred hours into it I probably wouldn't play it much.
I like 1 better than 2 because:
1. It was more sandbox oriented.
2. It was original and fresh.
3. I liked driving my mako around.
Objectively speaking 2 is the best, just because the mechanics were better, the squadmates were excellent and the storyline was incredible.
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spronk
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i'd have to say 1, 2, then 3. 2 is probably the best story, but without all the stuff you found out in 1 i can't imagine it being as good, so 1 sets everything up and did an amazing job building a really, really cool universe that was just so immersive. I've also replayed 1 & 2 a few times, haven't touched 3 since that dogshit ending. 90% of 3 was great, but man I just feel the bile in me rising as I think about the ending, GODDAMN IT
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I'd prefer the murder of my first born to ME3
Also might be different if you have RL friends (obviously I have none) to play the multiplayer with. Random assholes online irritate the hell out of me.
ME2 was easily the best game & story.
ME3's multiplayer was great, but like Tuco said it really was practically a totally separate game. Plus, ME3 was just had too much garbage. The shitty ending, Kai Leng, them throwing out the entirety of your resource gathering and making it all pointless, etc. You did get to bang Tali though so there is that.
ME3's multiplayer was great, but like Tuco said it really was practically a totally separate game. Plus, ME3 was just had too much garbage. The shitty ending, Kai Leng, them throwing out the entirety of your resource gathering and making it all pointless, etc. You did get to bang Tali though so there is that.