I was responding to the whole story debacle, not the gameplay, you illiterate nutsacks. People gave Bio shit for that final boss in ME2 but I loved every goddamn ridiculous fucking minute of it. It was awesome.
In terms of story:
Mass Effect 1 - Pretentious garbage
Mass Effect 2 - Lighthearted fun
Mass Effect 3 - Pretentious garbage
Mass Effect 1 is easily the best ME game. How exactly is it pretentious?
It's early morning here but I can always think of two major reasons:
1. The Reapers and their totally not retarded motivations. There's no way you can write your way out of the premise of "evil spaceships destroy the universe every 50,000 years" and not have it sound retarded, but Mass Effect 1 pretended like it was serious and the fans bought it, hoping for a conclusion where all would be revealed and the secrets of the Reapers would be completely plausible. In that sense, I'm laughing my ass of at all the idiots who are upset that ME3 ended with Bio pulling a Deus Ex. How the fuck did you think it was going to end?
2. It's touted as a game where your actions "truly" have consequences, yet none of these consequences actually happen (!) or they're only minimally seen/heard of in MASS EFFECT 2 & 3. I'm very much okay with consequences carrying over throughout games but it would've been nice if the things I did in ME1, that should've directly affected ME1, happened in ME1!
Mass Effect 2 doesnt even have a story.
How do you figure this, exactly? I've asked about this many times and none of you "ME2 didn't have a story"-tards ever seem to want to answer. I don't know what exact requirements a story must have according to you, but Mass Effect 2 is about ending a secret threat against humanity while the Reapers prepare to fuck up Earth (ME3). And hey, also, in between story missions you have all these mini-stories (loyalty missions), so I suppose, sure, ME2 didn't have a story, it had STORIES.
Mass Effect 3 is pretentious but just comes off as incompetent.
It's both, honestly. If it hadn't been for the whole "finishing part of the epic trilogy, all will be revealed" thing, ME3 could easily have gotten a pass for their retarded shit just like ME1. If Bio had announced that they were going to make a ME4 before they released ME3, I'm SURE most fans would've been like "it's cool, they're gonna answer everything in the next game!" "Awesome, I'm gonna do some jungle action with Garrus! Maybe help Earth start anew and then we'll stop the Reapers FOR REAL!" Because that's how Bio operates and I'm sure that's why some morons were upset that ME2 largely ignored all that stupid Reaper cycle shit in order to focus on an enemy whose motivations were over-the-top silly and never pretended otherwise.
Compare:
Mass Effect 1 Reapers: We're powerful, amazing, godly and our motvations are not for you to question, mere mortal!
Mass Effect 2 Collectors: Eh, we're just kidnapping humans for some evil stuff. Stop us if you dare.
Mass Effect 3 Reapers: We're powerful, amazing, godly and we destroy all life so it won't be destroyed and it makes sense!