Why is it garbage? Uhm, discounting the missing exploration and the lacking endings. Do-nothing-ending best ending.
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I actually loved that one more than 2. I like the dark tone and sense of urgency. 2 had too many issues taking out rpg elements. 1 is still the best.
I liked the gameplay of 2 more, 1 just had uuh too much exploring boring planets.
(Im a completionist)1 had best story though.
Lord Lakely
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ME1 is pretty tedious to get through on replay, I've found. The story is good but the progress is way too slow (and you need to do almost every sidequest to get enough XP to defeat the endgame boss battles and ME1 has the worst in the franchise). Oh and I hate Williams, so the Virmire dilemma isn't *really* a conundrum for me, I always saved Alenko anyway. ME2 is bae though, streamlined gameplay, excellent characters, a decent exploration system and a good storyline.
(i also love ME3, sorry not sorry. The ending sucks if you take it at face value but I always assumed that was some reaper indoctrination trick to have you join their mechanical consciousness. Pick destroy and assume the entire star child convo is a lie, and the ending becomes a lot more satisfying all of a sudden)
(i also love ME3, sorry not sorry. The ending sucks if you take it at face value but I always assumed that was some reaper indoctrination trick to have you join their mechanical consciousness. Pick destroy and assume the entire star child convo is a lie, and the ending becomes a lot more satisfying all of a sudden)
Alexander's Hetaroi
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Decided on Sweden because of the key.
Pretty sure they want to save Eleanor and the Ottomans for the last two spots. Eleanor for the surprise of leading two Civs and Ottomans for the last hurrah hype.
Pretty sure they want to save Eleanor and the Ottomans for the last two spots. Eleanor for the surprise of leading two Civs and Ottomans for the last hurrah hype.
The ending. After so many years of emotional investment it was like a kick in the nuts.
You forgot that IKEA also reduces amenities and gives a food malus representing the dropping birth rate from increased divorce.
Give Mass Effect Andromeda a try. It's so abominable it'll make you fall in love with every other bad game you've ever played. MEA made me forgive DA:I every one of its faults.
There's a lot I love about ME3, but I think it's portrayal of the Reapers as glorified battle droids complete with droid control ship rather than Sovereign's chilling proclamation of "each [Reaper] a nation unto itself" was highly disappointing. I think ME3 should have gone one of two ways: there simply is no winning and Shepard and crew die in a glorious but futile struggle against the inevitable (this is why Refuse is my preferred ending) OR Shepard wins by sowing dissent among the Reapers resulting in a Reaper civil war. The deus ex Starchild was cheap, for sure, even if Shepard does die. ME3 has some great emotional moments, though, and it's the only game in the trilogy I can say is genuinely fun to play. (ME1 had the best story, though, and ME2 the best character development--even if you could skip ME2 without missing much of importance to the overall story.)We agree then.^^
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Eh, I would have found a happy ending even cheaper than the one we got.
Give Mass Effect Andromeda a try. It's so abominable it'll make you fall in love with every other bad game you've ever played. MEA made me forgive DA:I every one of its faults.
Despite my misgivings, I played ME:A. My expectations were met, enough said about that.
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Could never finish ME:A. It's not a good game for a completionist. It's agonizingly dull. Too much busy work. Open World games are massively overrated. I blame Bethesda.
yeah the planet exploration in 1 was mentioned, but I found the clunky Mako alright and fun in a weird, clunky way. Who doesn't like running over monkeys? ME3 was great, except for the ending. We can all agree it was horrible.
I guess I should attempt to stay on topic. As for the first looks, I think most people will get it right this week. At this point, it's going to continue to get easier and easier to guess. I would expect the 9th first look to have a 100% guess rate.
yeah the planet exploration in 1 was mentioned, but I found the clunky Mako alright and fun in a weird, clunky way. Who doesn't like running over monkeys? ME3 was great, except for the ending. We can all agree it was horrible.
I guess I should attempt to stay on topic. As for the first looks, I think most people will get it right this week. At this point, it's going to continue to get easier and easier to guess. I would expect the 9th first look to have a 100% guess rate.
Moderator Action: Enough about the Mass Effect franchise. Back to speculating about the next First Look.
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