Goatseye said:
Wow. The first person on VGC that could understand the difference between the first ME and the sequels. I was so disappointed by the Gearsification of it, that couldn't even reach the greatness of Gears itself. The worlds' diversity and space atmosphere were lost in the transition as well. They lost all the space opera feeling by casting aside Drew Karpyshin (writer of the first ME) and focus on being a dating sim. |
Yeah, the drama was more tacked-on in the two sequels and the action elements started to override the core mechanics. The characters in the ME series had real potential but it became a dating sim, like you said, with every woman (or man) on the ship wanting to jump your bones after three conversations of a semi-personal nature. To make matters worse; if one did enter in a "relationship" with someone, it hardly mattered and I never cared about it, nor did it affect the gameplay or story in any profound manner.
In contrast; The Last of Us is a game that made me sad when a character died, even if I didn't know much about them, they were much more realistically fleshed out and seemed to matter more to the universe, the only time in ME I was fazed was when Garrus was killed in the "suicide mission" but this was simply because I was irritated since I had planned on losing a different member and the save was too old and I wanted Garrus' abilities in combat.
I still like both ME 2 and 3 but I find the first one to vastly superior to the others, it's like the set out to create one thing with their trilogy, only to change the whole recipe in the sequels, I was sorely disappointed when I started playing ME 2 and it threw me headlong into a long shootout in narrow corridors; it told of what was to come.
Not to mention how easy ME 2 and 3 were, there were instances in ME 3 where I could stand in the middle of the battlefield facing husks and just melee everyone without taking any damage.
