This game really didn't age well
>Shepherd dying and then immediately coming back life not even five minutes later
>The council seems to have caught a case of mental retardation between the first game and the second, because they suddenly don't believe the reapers exist, despite the fact that they and the entire galaxy were nearly annihilated by a Reaper not even five years ago
>The council AND the human military then go on to treat Shepherd like a mentally ill retard, going as far as to refuse to help Shepherd with the collectors threat, despite their connection to both the protheans and the reapers
>Sole Survivor Shepherds are not allowed to confront or oppose Cerberus in anyway, despite the fact that Sole Survior Shepherds KNOW Cerberus was behind Akuze, an operation where Sole Survivor Shepherd's entire squad was wiped out by a Cerberus experiment
>Gun lore raped too appeal to the Call of Duty audience with the inclusion of thermal clips that somehow became a universal standard in less than 5 years
>Biotic gameplay nerfed to hell and back
>the removal of the mako
>Pigeonholed into always choosing either the top options if a paragon or the bottom options if you're a renegade. If you deviate from this formula, then you'll lose every speech check in the game because of the way the dialogue system is calculated for speech checks. I.E. you can't roleplay
>The Virmine survivor refuses to trust you (even if you're then lover), because Bioware was too cheap to have a companion that would fluctuate based on your imported save from ME1 (half of the players would see Ashley, the other half would see Kaidan)
>began the bioware trend of side quests not having the zoom in cinematic dialouge camera during side quests (not counting your squad mate ones)
>the fucking terminator wannabe reaper at the end of the game
Mass Effect 2
didn't read, have sex
Tldr fuck off idiot
>these are the "people" who defend mass effect 2
>Shepherd dying and then immediately coming back life not even five minutes later
You know exactly they just wrote this retarded shit so they could generate hype by showing shepherds "death" in the trailer.
You can literally smell the EA-Suit telling the devs how "totally cool" the idea would be.
His points are valid and you two need to seriously consider suicide.
And yet it is still my fav game in the series.
>the removal of the mako
This is a good thing. Mako was shit
>I want the gays of war gameplay!
>Being nostalgiac for the tedium of driving around giant fucking mountains in a barely controllable shitmobile
>the removal of the mako
Please tell me you didn’t actually miss this. That thing was so fucking boring and pointless. It was removed BECAUSE people hated it so fucking much.
Because they couldn't get it right
All I remember is mining a lot and the weird monster baby final boss
I actually just got around to finally playing 3 and finishing 2's dlcs this year. Played 1 and 2 on release.
1 >>> 2 = 3
Still upsets me how many people bought into EA's publicity and honestly consider 2 to be a GOTY quality game. I had a lot of fun with 2 and 3, and I honestly gotta give credit for just how many things from 1 and 2 were acknowledged in my playthrough of 3. I feel like they managed to achieve something special in that regard. However on a whole the series is "messy" as fuck.
The Mako was smooth as fuck once you learned how its physics worked, and could go right up those mountains, the only thing awkward about it was that its gun couldn't shoot low at all but killing things with the Mako is a waste of XP anyhow you should always get out and engage, or soften them up a little with the Mako turret before getting out for the killing blow if they have big shields/health
Mako was good, the problem was that 90% of environments you used it were filler planets which environments were randomly generated during a single afternoon.
2 had the best companions out of the bunch, that was its real appeal. 1's were too sidelined most of the time and 3's were godawful.
You are autistic
The only thing better in 1 is the story which is just generic ancient evil shit anyway.
The reason people like 2 better is the superior characters and gameplay.
Sorry do genuinely like overheating cool down weapons or is just some autistic lore obsession thing?
The gameplay is 1 is fucking dogshit stop trying to defend it.
I can agree with everything exept the part about the mako. That thing was ass.
Based
>didn't age well
It wasn't good back then either, only brainlets ever thought Mass Effect or Dragon Age were still good after the first games.
Anyone that wasn't retarded could tell EA had taken over and all the talent had left the studio.
Anyone that still cared about """""Bioware""""" by the time Mass Effect 3 came out only had themselves to blame.
Hell, there are some people that unironically believe the franchise is amazing right up until the ending and every other part of 3 is still totally worth it if you ignore the ending. These games are "good" in the same way shit like Bioshock Infinite was. Its a pretty shit game when you actually look at it, but buy did normies see commercials for it and hear that it was good.
Get off of your phones if you think OP is tl;dr
This isn't fucking twitter.
>Nooooo stop having fun!!!! Reeeee Normie! Everything sucks everything is shit!
I'm contemplating even bothering with 2 and 3 after my current run of 1. No one will claim 1 was a masterpiece but the potential was there and it oozes soul. They butchered the shit out of ME with 2 and 3.
You'd be having more fun if your taste wasn't so awful.
Also if I wanted to talk to normies about normie games that they barely care about I'd go to work and ask my co-workers if they play games, not go to a message board dedicated to talking about videogames.
If you don't care that much and just play entry level garbage on easy mode for funsies, why even come to Zig Forums?
The fuck you ever gonna talk about here that anyone is ever gonna care about?
You just here to react to posts with reaction images and say snarky shit as if entry level opinions matter to anyone?
Based, krautoid BTFO.
Yes, ME2 didn't allow me to turn my late game sniper rifle into a howitzer that cleared entire groups of enemies with a single shot.
Mass Effect 1 and Dragon Age Origins only have so much potential because they are 99% finished before EA bought Bioware out.
Every game in either franchise since the buyout is not a real Bioware game and it shows, EA clearly chased all the bioware devs out the door early on and thats how we ended up with shit like Dragon Age 2 being pushed out the door in an unfinished alpha state and its main focus being gay sex because thats what EA heard was popular about the first one.
None of this stuff is about aging, those flaws were apparent when I first played it in 2010. What do any of those things have to do with with game's age?
Still love it to bits.
Sounds like someone got filtered.
>2 had the best companions out of the bunch, that was its real appeal.
>superior companions
>everyone has daddy issues that you have to fix
>superior companions