Favorite Video Game trilogies

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Shadow1980 said:

brute said:

Mass Effect 2 fixes all the gameplay problems of Mass Effect 1, and 3 gets even better (gameplay wise). I highly recomment giving MAss Effect 2 a try and see if you will like it.

Good. The combat mechanics in ME1 felt so clunky. I got about 2-3 hours into it and was thinking to myself "I have to deal with this for another 30-40 hours?" Shame, too, because the story and setting seemed really interesting, but to me gameplay is the most important aspect of a game. I may eventually sit down and slog my way through it, but I honestly could think of better games to waste my time with. At least ME was a gift.

One question, though: Do I really need to finish ME1 to really get into the story of ME2? Or are they their own self-contained stories?

I don't think that you need to finish ME1 to get into 2 (Seeing as how in PS3 almost everyone that beat ME2 at it's release liked it even though ME1 was not on PS3 at the time), but it would make it better and you will understand a few stuff more, I recommend beating ME1 then playing 2, but if you don't want to go through it all, just read it's story online (Mass effect wiki is a good place) just to better understand it.