Skip Mass Effect 1 or play it?

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Wow, thanks for all the feedback and replies. If I had a gaming PC or even a semi decent PC that could run Mass Effect and that doesn't crap out because compaq sucks, I'd certainly play it on that but I don't sadly.

I'm not new to RPG's at all. Fallout 3 is one of my favorite games of all time, I beat and just did just about everything in Oblivion, I've sunk like 70 hours into New Vegas without any of the DLC or finishing the game which I plan on doing, and I have done everything in Skyrim with like over 200 hours.

I've also played Pokemon of course, I played Valkyria Chronicles and though frustrating at times I loved that game and enjoyed the challenge of using strategy and tactics. I do hope the second game and the 3rd game gets dubbed and brought over to the states in a collection for the PS3.

This past month, I've started the Final Fantasy series with 7. It took me time to understand it but I love the story, music, characters and everything.

I've evolved into a well varied gamer and played quite a bit of RPG's so yes, I'm very familiar with the genre.

I just have one more thing I need help with....I could get Mass Effect 2 on 360 but I really don't feel like buying all of the dlc for it and I'm mostly a PS3 gamer anyways, so will it be fine if I just switch over to PS3 after the first game and can the comic mostly reflect well on choices and your character from the first game?