EA The Official Mass Effect Thread - Part 2

[psylockolussus]

I just finished the first game. The remaster looked great for a 2007 game. I was surprised though that it wasn't really different from Andromeda. All the planet hopping which had the same looking structures was so repetitive and a bit tiring. I wish they made more effort to differentiate those side planets. I also didn't like how linear the eXploration with the 3 main planets. And I was unaware that you can't go back and finish side quests after you finished the main game... like I hated that part. Story wise, its nothing eXtraordinary but I have some fun playing this. I just wasn't wowed by it.

I started Mass Effect 2 right away after I finished the first game. Graphics wise, it looks much better, but I don't think I will fully dive in into it yet, just because hopping around those planets is really time consuming and tiring.

 

[gohei_]

I just finished the first game. The remaster looked great for a 2007 game. I was surprised though that it wasn't really different from Andromeda. All the planet hopping which had the same looking structures was so repetitive and a bit tiring. I wish they made more effort to differentiate those side planets. I also didn't like how linear the eXploration with the 3 main planets. And I was unaware that you can't go back and finish side quests after you finished the main game... like I hated that part. Story wise, its nothing eXtraordinary but I have some fun playing this. I just wasn't wowed by it.

I started Mass Effect 2 right away after I finished the first game. Graphics wise, it looks much better, but I don't think I will fully dive in into it yet, just because hopping around those planets is really time consuming and tiring.

Just so you know, ME 2 has less planets but each one is different. So you won't get the same repetiveness as in the first one. The battles are also much different.

 

[Iceman]

Just so you know, ME 2 has less planets but each one is different. So you won't get the same repetiveness as in the first one. The battles are also much different.

Yeah ME2 is much better on that front and the action is massively better too. One of the best games I’ve ever played.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

Some people dont like ME2 cause it feels like a side quest from the main story, but I LOVED ME2.

 

[OtherwiseKnownAs]

The Suicide Mission is perhaps one of the greatest sequences in video games.

 

[BrollySupersj]

Yeah ME2 is much better on that front and the action is massively better too. One of the best games I’ve ever played.

Mass Effect 2 is, for me, a big reason that the story of the Reapers should have been confined to one game. And the rest end up being different adventures with varying threats.

 

[Iceman]

The Suicide Mission is perhaps one of the greatest sequences in video games.

That and the ME3 Citadel DLC are 2 of my all
time favourite parts in any game.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

That and the ME3 Citadel DLC are 2 of my all
time favourite parts in any game.

Citadel is the main reason they should've had a "happy" canonical ending cause it feels like it fits after the final mission.

Mass Effect 2 is, for me, a big reason that the story of the Reapers should have been confined to one game. And the rest end up being different adventures with varying threats.

I think the overall Reaper threat was fine, but I do agree that if it had been a one and done I'd have been ok with it, and that different big bad enemies per games would've been just as awesome.

 

[gohei_]

Yeah ME2 is much better on that front and the action is massively better too. One of the best games I’ve ever played.

Oh yeah. There is nothing wrong with the firefights in the other games but 2 is just way more intense. 3 is similar but it just feels a lot more easier.
Playing as an adept is just way too much fun in ME 2.

 

[Iceman]

Oh yeah. There is nothing wrong with the firefights in the other games but 2 is just way more intense. 3 is similar but it just feels a lot more easier.
Playing as an adept is just way too much fun in ME 2.

Yeah it’s great. I feel like people who only play as the soldier class are missing part of the experience.

 

[DKDetective]

Yeah it’s great. I feel like people who only play as the soldier class are missing part of the experience.

Nah, soldier is a must if you are playing Mass Effect as the Babylon 5 simulator it was intended to be. Soldier is the straight man human character surrounded by a weird and wacky supporting cast. It may not be as wacky gameplay-wise, but it is a lot of fun from a roleplaying perspective.

 

[Iceman]

Nah, soldier is a must if you are playing Mass Effect as the Babylon 5 simulator it was intended to be. Soldier is the straight man human character surrounded by a weird and wacky supporting cast. It may not be as wacky gameplay-wise, but it is a lot of fun from a roleplaying perspective.

I totally get that, and actually enjoyed doing one full playthrough as soldier. But this was one of my favourite games from a gameplay standpoint too compared to straight shooters or many magic-based games. ME2 being a much more competent shooter than 1 and throwing in all the biotic stuff on top just made it a dream. I LOVED the multiplayer mode in 3 and even in Andromeda. Very disappointed that all came to an end.

 

[BrollySupersj]

I always played as a solider. The powers in the other classes are great, no doubt. But I'm here to shoot. Mass Effect 3 had the best soldier class. I loved using carnage.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

I always played as a solider. The powers in the other classes are great, no doubt. But I'm here to shoot. Mass Effect 3 had the best soldier class. I loved using carnage.

When I wanted to beat the game on the hardest difficulty (insanity), from a Google search it was suggested that Soldier was the best class to get that done and that was the time I played as soldier. This was Mass Effect 2

My first playthrough of that game, I played as Sentinel, and then all the rest I've been vanguard.

 

[psylockolussus]

I finished the 2nd game and its definitely a lot better than the 1st and 4th game. This is probably one of the best games I've played, especially from the ps3 era. So I understand now why Mass Effect became so popular.

I kinda missed jumping through empty planets and riding the car inbetween main story missions in the first game, but the second game has fewer filler/copy and paste things despite being longer. I liked the cutscenes didn't really have samey camera shots. Games like Horizon Zero Dawn, the characters during the talking scenes had the same camera angle and it was very stiff in terms of cinematography. Mass Effect 2 felt really cinematic especially for a game that came out in 2010.

I liked recruiting members and everyone got a loyalty mission. Though I feel like 12 squad members were a bit much since it doubled the amount of the first game. I liked Miranda, Jacob, Thane and Jack the most out of the new characters.

It impressed me how they managed to differentiate almost every planet. Even the side planets which had a short mission didn't really feel carbon copies. I like the new Normandy and how eXpansive it was, though I miss the old Citadel from the first game.

I lost Grunt which was annoying because I got all the ship upgrades and finished all loyalty missions. I checked to see if I made a wrong choice and IGN stated he wasn't a wrong choice for that specialty role, so I'm assuming his skills weren't that high. I also didn't like how my romance with Kaiden didn't continue in this game. Yet Liara, who I found very clingy and I didn't choose in the first game managed to visit Normandy. So I missed 3 trophies from losing Grunt/no romance with Kaiden.

Without recruiting/loyalty missions, the main story was a bit short. However I already spent more than 50 hours into the game, so I can't really complain. If there is 1 real criticism I have for this game is I wish it didn't have too many optional dialogues because I really didn't listen to most talking scenes. But over all, great game.

Edit: I just found that I also lost Mordin. I will try to have romance with Jacob before Mass Effect 3, hopefully that won't take long as I've done all side quests.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

The one thing I'll give Andromeda is that I could fuse a Soldier/Biotic playstyle.

I liked Soldier since it felt like it fit who Shepard was supposed to be, an insanely well trained and bass Marine in a world with crazy powers, kinda like Cap is with The Avengers.

I did like playing Vanguard but since I loved ARs too much having to use Shotguns for that class was annoying.

 

[gohei_]

Yeah it’s great. I feel like people who only play as the soldier class are missing part of the experience.

I totally agree.

 

[metaphysician]

Huh. Yeah, in retrospect they probably should have given Shepard a bit of a "super class", moreso than they did, with at minimum a little bit of all three basic types. You'd still choose how much to specialize in each, but it'd be less "You either have soldier or biotic or tech skills" and more "How much of each do you want?" If you want to take just enough 'Soldier' to be able to use all weapons, while otherwise being a Biotic? You can do that. If you want to be a pretty standard Vanguard, but also with the cloaking ability from the Tech tree? You can do that, it just means sacrificing some of your Vanguard oomph. Etc.

 

[gohei_]

^ I strongly prefer to be more "locked in" to a certain class. I remember being put off by what they did in Andromeda, where you could switch it up as you go along (if I remember correctly), and the bonus skill in ME1 always felt a bit out of place.

 

[XtremelyBaneful]

GQ magazine ranked Me2 in its top 10 greatest video games ever

The 100 greatest video games of all time, ranked by experts

 

[psylockolussus]

After playing all Mass Effect games. I feel like on paper I should love this franchise. I can hop to different planets. I have my own spaceship. I have an entire squad that can join me on the missions. I liked most of my squadmates and Joker. The cutscenes are cinematic. However I just don't find the conflict with the Reapers and Cerberus interesting, just like how I didn't find the plot of Andromeda interesting.

I don't like that the fate of the characters is depended on how I played the game especially the actions I made in the previous games. Its unique. I haven't seen anything like it in any games, but it made the games overly complicated. I had to look it up online when someone didn't survive, to see if I did something wrong. Some characters will survive, if I let a certain character died in the previous game, so I can't really keep everyone alive anyway. Then their replacement character, like the one for Mordin in the 3rd game, got the same ending because Wrex survived the first game. There was also this one story mission that I missed. It sucked that the game didn't warn me about it. It was with the Geth and, it would have gave me better options if I finished that and my reputation was already in the highest level. I kinda felt bad that I got the bad scenario with Legion. It punched Shepherd and I chose the destory the geth because there were only 2 choices. I didn't have a separate save file to revert things too. There are just too many characters/decisions to track all the possible scenarios and I'm not even that 100% hooked into the main story. I got the Synthesis ending which is the best ending since it was the most peaceful out of the 4 endings.

ME3 is inferior to ME2. I just don't find a lot of missions engaging. The structure of the game wasn't better. ME2 felt quite fun in comparison. I don't like you can't holster the weapon. I was surprised that this is the only Mass Effect game that there's no part in the game in which you can control a vehicle. I liked the apartment segment which is the DLC of the game but this was a meh ending for a trilogy. I kinda feel sad that Shepherd didn't have a good ending in which ze rejoined zir team though I was more sad for Kaiden.

I don't have any expectations for the next Mass Effect. I think it will probably be as long as Andromeda if not longer. But I hope the villains/main threats are more engaging.

 

[Iceman]

GQ magazine ranked Me2 in its top 10 greatest video games ever

The 100 greatest video games of all time, ranked by experts

No.6, nice.

 

[Karelia]

Cool to see this thread still poppin. I bought the Legendary Edition awhile back during Black Friday, finally popped it in a couple weeks ago. Just platinumed ME2, going to start 3 shortly. Man, ME1 definitely got some needed updates. I swear the PS3 version for me had quite some glitches/bugs in it, at least from what I remember.

These games are just so good. I wish they could bring back Drew Karpyshyn to write the new games. He is a phenomenal scifi writer in my opinion.

 

[Iceman]

Cool to see this thread still poppin. I bought the Legendary Edition awhile back during Black Friday, finally popped it in a couple weeks ago. Just platinumed ME2, going to start 3 shortly. Man, ME1 definitely got some needed updates. I swear the PS3 version for me had quite some glitches/bugs in it, at least from what I remember.

These games are just so good. I wish they could bring back Drew Karpyshyn to write the new games. He is a phenomenal scifi writer in my opinion.

What’s happened since 3 has been one of my biggest disappointments in gaming. I thought Mass Effect was going to be a title that kept coming out with high quality for life, and that the multiplayer would also take off (which I thought was amazing - best co-op mode since Gears 2 Horde) supporting it that much more. EA really F’d it up last gen.

 

[Karelia]

What’s happened since 3 has been one of my biggest disappointments in gaming. I thought Mass Effect was going to be a title that kept coming out with high quality for life, and that the multiplayer would also take off (which I thought was amazing - best co-op mode since Gears 2 Horde) supporting it that much more. EA really F’d it up last gen.

I want to say I beat Mass Effect Andromeda, but I really wasn't invested in the game. The original trilogy, I stay dialed in to it. Even now with my current play through. I don't think I ever played Mass Effect online! Guess I was missing out.


I wasn't crazy about the ending(s) for ME3. I think not having Drew Karpyshyn there made it suffer a bit. He said last year his ideas for the ending, and they sounded a bit more interesting. That said I loved the Citadel DLC!