Is it worth to play Mass Effect for the first time even though I know the ending?

The Illusive Man is not well written. You could see him being indoctrinated from a mile away, which on it's own wouldn't be terrible but the fact it was so overt you could more or less tell from meeting him the first time just made every interaction with him afterwards pointless. If they had bothered to actually make it a gradual thing and put some subtle hints into his dialogue then yes, they would have properly utilized his potential. But the writers at the time honestly couldn't help themselves and wanted to write the "bad guy pretending to help you" trope really damn badly.

The extended cut added a "good ending" if you pick Destroy, get 5000+ war resources and go Paragon

No. It’s shit. The real question is: now that you know how it ends why would you want to?

No but a game is ruined by being a movie

ME3 TIM - I agree, ME2 TIM was good though
I forgot to add Thane, I liked him a lot as well

I would like you to point out where I said it did something original. I'm well aware science fiction has a history and the likelihood of coming up with something completely new is almost impossible.

actually i'd argue 3 is way more enjoyable if you don't have the highest of expectations for the ending

I really think it would have been better if he ended up truly being good. That's why he was so enjoyable in ME2.

>Best worldbuilding
>Literally a compilation of sci-fis greatest hits

>Mass Effect
>not zoomer

He was a militant human supremacist, no way he was ever going to be depicted as a good guy

Yea, Mass Effect was looked down by older Bioware fans, just like KotOR was before it.
The world's a funny place.

Only the first game is good, it was 90% finished before EA bought Bioware, same with the first Dragon Age. Its why they were both so promising.
Mass Effect 2 is the game where they literally said "We want the Call of Duty audience", and 3 was a rushed, unfinished hack job.

Anyone that tries to tell you "mreh don't listen to those haters the third game is excellent except for the ending, the trilogy is a masterpiece otherwise" are fucking faggots that just really really like the dating and sex scenes cause they're fucking losers.

If you're interested in Mass Effect just play the first game, because it stops being a cool series immediately after the first one. If you're craving more after that just play Dragon Age: Origins instead of wasting your time with EA's "RPGs" for retarded normies.

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ME1 was groundbreaking back in 2007, but if you replay it in 2020 the flaws are extremely apparent
And I'm not talking about trash shooting mechanics

You mean the guy who, instead of being 30 today, are now almost 40?

Mass Effect is from fucking 2007 dude.
Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale are the boomer games that zoomers have never played and won't get, Mass Effect was literally made for them and its the only thing they know Bioware for.

Played them as they came out, couldn't finish 1 because it was shit and finished 2 despite it being shit simply because they'd polished the gameplay a little. Nothing confuses me more than the love for this hackjob franchise.

Play all of them and play the DLCs too if you can. You don't get those kinds of experiences anymore, and they actually vary from game to game
1 is almost full RPG, 2 is a bit more action-y but retains some elements, and 3 goes all out on action but at that point you're so invested in the story and characters that it doesn't even matter

jouney not the destinationmy young zoomer

>muh cyclical history bro lmao
No, things are objectively worse in some regards and better in others - boiling things down to "old people always hate what's new" is asinine Americlap shit.

At this point Mass Effect is several years older than Baldur's Gate was when Mass Effect came out.

1 has terrible gameplay
2 has no story
3 has an awful story
It would be better to wait for a remake of 1, maybe they can fix it

To add to this, if you can't afford all of the DLC - get Citadel, and either From Ashes or Leviathan
Citadel is fan service but it's great, FA adds a great character (that was supposed to be key in the OG ME3 script, but the EA jews threw it in the garbage and shipped the character as day 1 on-disc DLC and Leviathan clarifies certain plot points

I'm not making that point at all, I think Mass Effect is clearly a more simplistic RPG than games 10 years older.
People's tastes are built in their youth, so people recognize things being worse in some regards but are incapable of seeing that the things they hold as the gold standards are similarly a simplified or worse example of what came before their taste was established. This is especially the case with mass-market media, where the primary goal is to make something that is enjoyable by as many people of varied backgrounds as possible, which tends towards a simplistic melding of works within a media as time goes on.
With WRPGs in particular, people prefer what they grew up with, seeing what came before as hard to understand or poorly laid out and what comes later as watered down and simplified.

I'd say so. ME1 has a ton of jank but the best world building and dialogue, also a lot of great quests. ME2 has the best characters and quests in general and the combat is ok. ME3 has good combat but the dialogue is gutted to all hell. However, ME3 still has a couple of good quests and some of the hardest choices(pre-ending) to make.

It's not even about games. "Kids these days" is as old as human civilization. It's just human nature to assume the new generation of kids is stupid, because you're looking at them through the eyes of an adult that is hopefully smarter than he was when he was a kid.

ME3 TIM is full retard and you can easily see it. ME2 TIM is a well written rich megalomaniac cult leader.

and here's why that's a good thing

Worth playing for ME2 yes.