Mass Effect Trilogy

I think BW needs bigger autonomy within EA. The fact they've moved headquarters makes me hopeful EA won't meddle in their new games.

 

Today I thought of Salarians for some reason and how refreshing it is that they have shorter lifespan than humanses and how it makes sense and has tangible effect on how they behave...compared to most other fantasy/syfy races that have way longer lifespans and how little it matters/doesn't make sense usually.

 

Mass Effect is one of the worst RPG franchises. Watered-down KotOR. Only the first one is worth playing, barely.

 

I'll take ME1 over KotOR1 any day of the week.

 

I'll take ME2 over both of them.

 

It's more fun than Wizardshit. Best gameplay, best story, best music, full voice acting, pstt.

 

Why do co-op obsessed butt buddies always try to force it into singleplayer franchises? Fuck off.

 

Because ass allies don't play games for the story or anything. They can't give a shit about what's going on the screen they just want to shoot. Their brains just don't work that way. So even if they play alone they are still there for the pew-pew's and boom-boom's and that according to them is better played with a fanny friend.

 

I wholeheartedly agree with the first two sentences and disagree with the third one. ME1 is the worst game in series. ME2/3/A are at least minimally competent as popamole shooters, while ME1 sucks at everything.

 

New ME? But weren't mass relays destroyed in ME3?

 

They were damaged like the Citadel. But in the ending you see them being rebuilt.

 

...in a brilliant mobile farm game from great BioWare!

 

And I'll take KOTOR 2 over ME2

 

This is how I've always seen each game in the trilogy:
Mass Effect 1 = Star Trek
Mass Effect 2 = Star Wars
Mass Effect 3 = Independence Day

 

Hey screw you, at best ME3 is Independence Day 2 because the first Independence Day was great

 

/fixed

 

You got rated "funny" but that's actually a very solid way to approach the series, where each game stands in for a different decade of science-fiction pop culture.

Mass Effect 1 is the honeymoon phase of space exploration, the very notion of doing so is treated with wonder and a big part of the charm is simply the idea of meeting new alien races and cultures, and learning what they are about.

Mass Effect 2 is where space exploration and multiple alien races are taken for granted, and the focus shifts to individual stories and personal drama. While this is usually the most boring part of science-fiction from a pure fantasy standpoint, it's also the richest from what you can do with it. The expansion of nuances means it's no longer acceptable to treat races as single-behavior caricatures, but in turn you can just transpose good old Earth drama except with a science-fiction coating: cop show, espionnage drama, vampire romance, car chases, soapy sitcom... in space!

Mass Effect 3 is grimdark action sci-fi decade, rather focused on existential threats, grim battlefields, despair and gloomy piano over slo-mo heroism.

The games are big and sprawling enough that there is a degree of overlap, but the divide still remains pretty clean: the discovery of the Leviathan isn't treated with doe-eyed wonder because the war in well underway and the only concern is how useful they can be, and in Mass Effect 2 no one cares about the Vortchas, they are just more assholes in an ocean of assholes. The one race you are expected to learn about post-ME1 with child-like curiosity is the Geth, but only because it's a rewriting of pre-established lore.

Unlike most people I don't mind such an evolution at all, though for obvious reasons if a sequel is to see the light of day it cannot be a repeat of Mass Effect 1, else we will just end up with the race-bloat and degenerate contradictory lore overdose typical of these series that have kept running for too long.

 

Mass Effect 1 is sometimes praised for it's story, but should I remind anyone that it is a massive rip-off of Revelation Space by Alastair Raynolds?

 

Nonsense. Mass Effect 2 is an awfull third person shooter. No combat rolls, not blindfire, grenades were powers (lol) and even worse then in the first game, low damage and hard to aim.No real melee attack. Worse then even the first Gears, that is far better at this job. Elite enemies that are bloated healthbar versions of regular ones. Even more pathetic, enemy "biotics" who only used Warp, only the Harbringer troll used some kind of singularity in addition.(not counting dlc with Vasir) Enemy tech powers, only combat drone and fire attack. No enemy snipers.

 

You mean Star Control