Poll: Which Mass Effect was the best?
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Mass Effect 1 by a country mile.
It had the best story, lots of exploration and intrigue, and best of all - mystery.
ME2 was the worst. Improved combat a little, but damaged it considerably by wrecking the power system. The Shadow Broker and Overlord DLCs were much better than the core missions, too.
ME3 was the second best. Had the best combat by a huge margin, but the whole game was very linear and restricted, lacked mystery and any sense of exploration bar one or two missions.
If they remade ME1 with ME3's combat and graphics, it'd be perfect.
It had the best story, lots of exploration and intrigue, and best of all - mystery.
ME2 was the worst. Improved combat a little, but damaged it considerably by wrecking the power system. The Shadow Broker and Overlord DLCs were much better than the core missions, too.
ME3 was the second best. Had the best combat by a huge margin, but the whole game was very linear and restricted, lacked mystery and any sense of exploration bar one or two missions.
If they remade ME1 with ME3's combat and graphics, it'd be perfect.
Mass Effect 1. Even with all of ME3's improvements, Mass Effect 1 is still the awe-inspiring, space exploring, classic where I can make characters that eat Geth Colossi and Thresher Maws for breakfast even without my tank.
Through that is just considering the single player. ME3's multiplayer puts it about even with ME1 in my opinion.
Through that is just considering the single player. ME3's multiplayer puts it about even with ME1 in my opinion.
Agreed, ME1 had the best story and bad guy (Kai Leng was terrible) even if the combat was outdated.RatRace123 said:
ME3 has best combat and gameplay though while ME2 has the best music IMO.
ME 1 for the story, exploration with true roaming, and characters. I hated every single new character in ME 2 and 3. My ME 2 playthrough in anticipation of 3 had only Garrus, Tali, Legion alive. I also didn't get any of the DLC for 2. 2 also stole my romantic interest away (Liara), and I lost any desire to continue on that character. By the time Lair came out, I'd forgotten the game.
Mass Effect 1 is still my favorite.
Mako, all classes have grenades, and a more general feeling of FUCK YEAH!
Then Mass Effect 3. Because it really was a beautiful game until the very end.
And Mass Effect 2 comes in last...because it isn't as replayable for me as the others and has the hammerhead, and it felt more railroaded, but it had more areas to deviate from the paragon/renegade track. It wasn't as obvious what was good and what led to stupidity besides the final mission.
Mako, all classes have grenades, and a more general feeling of FUCK YEAH!
Then Mass Effect 3. Because it really was a beautiful game until the very end.
And Mass Effect 2 comes in last...because it isn't as replayable for me as the others and has the hammerhead, and it felt more railroaded, but it had more areas to deviate from the paragon/renegade track. It wasn't as obvious what was good and what led to stupidity besides the final mission.
Sparrow said:
I enjoyed the Mako bits, though I know they were horribly flawed and pretty bad. If they did it like the bits in the Overlord and Firewalker DLCs for ME2, it'd be great.
There we go then: Remake ME1 with the combat, graphics and item mechanics etc. of ME3, and the vehicle sections and side-quest scale and depth of ME2's DLCs.
ME3 had the best combat, and the Tuchanka part of the game was awesome. However the rest of the game was rushed and awful.
ME2 had the best characters.
But nothing compares to the general experience that was ME1. I really enjoyed it, all aspects of it, it felt like a refined KoTOR. I loved it.
ME2 had the best characters.
But nothing compares to the general experience that was ME1. I really enjoyed it, all aspects of it, it felt like a refined KoTOR. I loved it.
I did not read the rest of your post, for incredibly obvious reasons. It's only been a few weeks since its release, do NOT assume this stupidly. I'm currently playing it and it's going to be literally months before new sales of such a hugely popular game die off.Sparrow said:
I want to say the first. With an original setting I absolutely adored, an awesome crew line-up, great antangonist, amazing dialogue best story of the series and incredible music it blows almost everything I have played out of the water.
However, everything came together so damn well in sequel. Gameplay, music and structure were better, even if the overall story-arc was lackluster and the recruitable NPC were almost too many. I can't look back at the first time I played Mass Effect 2 without starry-eyed nostalgia and admiration, even if the first and second kin of melts into one single experience since I played them so closely (Bought Mass Effect on experiment and found it so bloody magnificient I went out and bought the sequel immediately after finishing the first one).
However, everything came together so damn well in sequel. Gameplay, music and structure were better, even if the overall story-arc was lackluster and the recruitable NPC were almost too many. I can't look back at the first time I played Mass Effect 2 without starry-eyed nostalgia and admiration, even if the first and second kin of melts into one single experience since I played them so closely (Bought Mass Effect on experiment and found it so bloody magnificient I went out and bought the sequel immediately after finishing the first one).
For me, it's:
ME3 > ME1 > ME2
Not that I dislike ME2. Not by a long shot. But I think ME3 took a lot of good cues from both of its predecessors to make it the best game in my opinion (even though... yes, like many others, I hated the ending). ME1, though, had an amazing feel to it. It's the sort of thing that you can't quite quantify... that feeling that a whole new world was opening up to you... really, really amazing. What took this down for me was the gameplay elements. While I liked the Mako for making the galaxy feel huge, driving it was like trying to ride a particularly stubborn elephant while you were blindfolded.
ME3 > ME1 > ME2
Not that I dislike ME2. Not by a long shot. But I think ME3 took a lot of good cues from both of its predecessors to make it the best game in my opinion (even though... yes, like many others, I hated the ending). ME1, though, had an amazing feel to it. It's the sort of thing that you can't quite quantify... that feeling that a whole new world was opening up to you... really, really amazing. What took this down for me was the gameplay elements. While I liked the Mako for making the galaxy feel huge, driving it was like trying to ride a particularly stubborn elephant while you were blindfolded.
I liked many elements of mass effect and it is still my favorite but some elements of that game were tedious. The constant land roaming was annoying but was not improved by removing it altogether. The swapping out bits of equipment constantly was also annoying but that was not improved either by removing the variety of mods and different armors either. Customizing your squad mates armor was neat and having icy rounds on the sniper was cool no pun intended. The different models and animations for the later weapons was also nice. Whilst they did improve on mass effect in mass effect 2 it's not the way I would have done it.
I'm going with ME2 because you could get Grunt and Legion as team mates and ME3 really disappointed me when I found out you can't get any krogan on your team.