But hey at least the DLC is also really good. But all of this would be fine if not for that ending, which by its lonesome shifts this from the best Mass Effect game to the second game, I really still hate it a lot all those years later. I'm not a big fan of how they handled the Genophage and Geth/Quarian issues, feels like they dumbed them down a bit for the Paragon/Renegade split, and they also made Renegade Shepard a total asshole in this one. So all good? Na, because some of the writing isn't that great. The combat's really great and a ton of fun with lots of variety in terms of weapons and powers, and I think I had 0 bugs at all. The LE upgrades are the same as ME2's except the DLC gear now costs a veritable fortune for some reason, and it has mostly the same qualities RE atmosphere and art design, for example it's by far my favorite iteration of the Citadel. Still, a more than worthwhile experience, and the DLC is great.Īh, ME3, I could in fact write an essay on you alone. Combat is a bit worse than I remembered, every single enemy having defenses and killing you in 2-3 seconds is not that great, and as Vanguard I got a couple of Charge-related bugs, especially on those damn platforms in the Collector Ship. Far better use of lighting and art/sound design already made this punch above its weight class a bit, not it looks pretty decent when you don't have to look at blurry clothing and armor textures in every conversation. The improvements are far less significant here- from what I can tell it's mostly higher-resolution textures and distributing the DLC gear in stores so it's not all vomitted at you the second you get on the Normandy- but the game itself is so good that it hardly matters. I also got a fair number of bugs, none game-breaking but enough to somewhat annoy me a few times. The poorest Mass Effect game, in my opinion, remains so, it's just less poor now. It's worth playing it at least once, but after that just get a save file or use the Genesis comic to generate a world state. I barreled through it doing only the important side-content, such as companion quests and Bring Down the Sky, and to me that was more than enough ME1. The spruced up graphics help as much but don't do much to compensate the first game's rather sterile art design and atmosphere. ME1 goes from being dogshit to play to just being quite meh, which is a significant improvement. I feel like I could write an essay on this series and a good pagelong on the remaster alone, but keeping it somewhat brief this is the single best way to experience the franchise by far.
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