Doobie_wop said:
d21lewis said:
I guess I'm reading too much into things but I detect a sense of "Sour Grapes" when it comes to Mass Effect 1. I'll drag Uncharted into this just to illustrate a point. We have a game that was universally praised by critics and gamers alike. we had a sequel that improved on the original in every way. Now, while the stories in U1 and U2 aren't as closely tied together as the stories of ME1 and ME2, wouldn't you agree that the two compliment each other very well?
Now I'd rrecommend U2 to any gamer that can hold a controller. I'd recommend that they play U1 first if it was possible. If they couldn't play U1 for some reason, I WOULD NOT pretend that U1 was such a terrible game that it's not worth playing or that it's better not to play it at all.
With all of that said, I ask this: Play Mass Effect 2. I think it's one of the best gaming experiences of the year. Don't hate on Mass Effect 1. It's a great game, too.
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SPOILERS!
The first Uncharted was a very short experience and it's faults (bullet sponges and screen tearing in the first 2 hours) doesn't make it feel like a chore to play. Mass Effect 1 is a long game and so it requires some heavy investment, the time it took me to become a Spectre was probably around the same time it took for me to finish Uncharted. With a long game, it needs to be fun to play and I found that Mass Effects combat was sub par, the frame rate was really bad, the game tore like hell, my squad AI was stupid and kept getting me killed and I was just not very happy with the overall experience.
I usually have a really high tolerance when it comes to games,, but when a few key issues like gameplay and a really bad frame rate come into play, it really hinders my experience and I'd rather not spend the next 20 hours going through all that.
I've read and heard that Mass Effect 2 fixes all these issues and it's a much more stream lined experience and that's what I wanted out of the first game. Like I mentioned earlier, I'd rather wait until I can pick the PS3 version up for around $30, because it matches up to what I want, which is a pretty full Mass Effect experience, without playing the first Mass Effect.
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