badgenome said:
Haha, yeah. He was such an earnest, well-meaning, stick-in-the-mud dorkball in ME1. My heart leapt when I caught up to him in ME2 and he had become the turian I always knew he could be. ME1 laid a great foundation for things to come, but I really don't see how anyone can really think it's the best of the series in either writing (hey my names ashley n i hate aleins lolz! yay humies!) or gameplay (a footshot is just as good as a headshot!). |
If I did have to give an area in which Mass Effect was stronger, it would be setting and background. Sovereign was a genuinely terrifying enemy, in a way that Harbinger the Glowing Collector wasn't, and that pathetic Kai Leng definitely wasn't. You had a much greater sense of story progression than in ME2, which was basically "Collectors are attacking! Go hire people!" for the entire game. The individual cooldowns made it feel like more of an RPG and less of an action game. There was a huge variety of environments and even some free roaming with the Mako. And then part of it is just nostalgia.
I love ME1. ME2 is the more enjoyable game, in my opinion, and has better combat, but it didn't really evoke the same emotion in me as ME1 and ME3 did. I think ME3 is the best in the series because it took bits of both (add in the Mako, more teammates and a sensible ending at launch, and it would have been near-perfect for me).
EDIT: Also, this music track:
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