e62530 No.16416112
Just got the Mass Effect Trilogy for a couple bucks. Is there anything I should know? Is it worthy it? Can I play mainly with a shotgun?
Xbox 360, so no mods.
353fe5 No.16416116
2315d2 No.16416118
>>16416112
>Is there anything I should know?
Worth playing, and no one will judge you if you stop playing, or posting for that matter.
000000 No.16416137
>is it worth it?
yeah, it's actually a good series throughout when you factor in the extra content for me3.
>play mainly with the shotgun
yeah, but combat in me1 is perfunctory at best. Also, the bionic combat path is a meme, go full soldier.
e7e12a No.16416145
4401a8 No.16416150
YOU ALREADY BOUGHT IT, LITERALLY WHAT IS STOPPING YOU FROM JUST FUCKING PLAYING IT AND FINDING OUT?
5d71f5 No.16416152
>>16416112
Just play the pc versions. ME2 is not like ME1 and ME3 is shit.
91f86c No.16416159
>>16416112
yes shotty runs are fine
it's a solid meh to okay but starts to crater after the first game
7dc371 No.16416176
First game has the best roleplaying but god awful gameplay, second game has pretty good gameplay but less roleplaying and the third game is a 3rd person shooter with choices that don't matter.
98d5bf No.16416189
>>16416112
There's excellent HD texture packs for PC -the ME2/3 ones are called "ALOT", forget what ME1 one is called. There's also mods for 360 controller support. PC didn't have it for some reason might just be ME1, I can't remember. I played through the series this way in 2016 and it's pretty great. Vanilla looks like ass, so don't even bother.
ME3 with all the DLC is a really good end to the series. Most of people's lingering bitterness is from the original endings.
98d5bf No.16416198
>>16416176
>choices that don't matter
Not curing the genophage but telling the krogan they were healed was pretty fun.It's really fun to play from a human-supremacy position since you can exterminate a couple races and with a guide, choose whatever teammates, like the diversity nigger from ME2, will die.
a44c7b No.16416202
So was it ever explained why Saren needed the conduit when there was literally nothing stopping him from just going onto the Citadel the regular way like an ordinary person?
>>16416189
I don't want to have to get a fucking bioware account just to experience the endings that should've been included in the base game.
98d5bf No.16416203
>>16416202
You can pirate all of it. I did.
707125 No.16416206
>>16416202
>So was it ever explained why Saren needed the conduit when there was literally nothing stopping him from just going onto the Citadel the regular way like an ordinary person?
He needed to bring his entire army of Geths over to invade or he wouldn't have gotten close to the citadel's control panel.
91f86c No.16416207
>>16416206
no, it was that the original signal/coordinates for the Citadel to bring in Reaper fleets got changed by the last Prometheans, so Saren had to go to the conduit to change it back
e62530 No.16416209
Is it hard to 100% the first game? Can I put at least 70hrs in it?
a44c7b No.16416213
>>16416112
Waifu wars when?
Team Liara here.
6af44d No.16416214
>>16416112
The first game is mediocre, I could only tolerate playing through it once and all the rest are pure garbage. I quit playing Mass Effect 2 after about 3 hours of game-play. If the 3rd game is as bad as people say, then I will never know.
98d5bf No.16416216
>>16416209
100%ing isn't hard. You can just explore all the planets. Dunno how much time it takes. I think I put in at least 50hrs. The text descriptions and lore of everything is really good, especially with the music that plays during the menus.
98d5bf No.16416219
>>16416213
They don't even have vaginas. Jack is best girl because I like broken beautiesand Miranda is sterile.
734146 No.16416223
>>16416112
>Is there anything I should know?
Yes,you just wasted $2
ad2474 No.16416302
Play the first and stop there. Despite is clunky gameplay and awful inventory management its a fun and good RPG. ME2 and 3 are inferior experiences as a whole, with bad writing and choices but at least they play a lot better. But then at that point you're playing shitty Gears of War instead of a TPS/RPG hybrid.
adcbad No.16416339
>>16416213
Team Ashley reporting in. I like Liara too though.
93f428 No.16416348
>>16416219
>they don't even have vaginas
Then how the fuck does birth work? I get the not needing a male partner bit but that doesn't make any sense.
Do they just use their biotics to beam down the child like a Star Trek transporter?
31f151 No.16416352
>>16416219
>miranda is sterile
Miranda is a dude.
78358d No.16416356
Wow, Gaylo with roleplaying. Sounds totally fun and not at all boring as shit.
93f428 No.16416364
>>16416356
>gaylo with roleplaying
Hey buddy I think you got the wrong door. Destiny's two blocks down.
a16b27 No.16416375
>Is there anything I should know?
First game is great, second is a good sequel, but the third is the one EA fucked up with regards to role-playing and the plot. It's pretty disappointing and genuinely feels rushed.
>Is it worthy it?
Sure.
>Can I play mainly with a shotgun?
Yes, though you're going to have a bad time if you don't learn to deal with enemy snipers.
>>16416213
Liara best girl.
>>16416352
>source: my ass
31f151 No.16416455
>>16416375
In the shadow broker dossier it states the reason miranda can't have children is because she just a genetically modified man who was a clone of her father or something.
ca3683 No.16416475
>>16416112
>Just got the Mass Effect Trilogy for a couple bucks. Is there anything I should know?
Stop playing after ME1
>Is it worthy
No
>Can I play mainly with a shotgun?
Use one yourself for buying two shitty games.
a44c7b No.16416516
>>16416455
She was made with two copies of he father's X chromosome. That makes her a girl.
Even without a gender, Liara is still best though.
27a862 No.16416533
>>16416213
>Asari
>Go around whoring themselves out for multiple decades
>Quarian
>Probably virgins only having sex a few times in their life
98d5bf No.16416766
>>16416533
Their pussies are caustic wastes because they're sandniggers
31f151 No.16416853
>>16416516
Exactly. Her chromosomes had no female donors. She's just two halves of a man, and can't have kids.
b9a515 No.16416855
>>16416475
>Stop playing after ME1
this
d06b67 No.16416870
353fe5 No.16416904
As you can see OP, ME only attracts one type of conversation
e51b3c No.16416914
>>16416137
>go full soldier.
Don't. Especially not in the first ME, in second and third fine but in the first soldier is the most boring fucking way to play.
178b6c No.16417115
>>16416339
>Team ashley
KYS
55cbdb No.16417140
a44c7b No.16417197
>>16416853
Two X chromosomes in humans is by definition female.
Just because she’s sterile doesn’t make her a man.
4853b1 No.16417307
Mass Effect 1: Captain Kirk with psionic powers, banging space hoes and saving the galaxy in your rocking space bus.
Mass Effect 2: You're on a mission to solve everyone's daddy issues. Then you fight a skeleton boss from an old Contra game… for some reason. “You will know pain, Shepard.”
Mass Effect 3: You get your missions from eavesdropping on conversations. You also have to listen to your fag shuttle pilot cry about his dead husband. I kid you not. I wanted to stab out my eardrums with q-tips after listening to that shit. Oh, and pick red. Green or blue is for faggots.
707474 No.16417320
>>16416112
Only the first game is good.
Second one takes a big fat shit on gameplay and lore from the first game because Dean Takahashi is bad at games.
Anything past #2 needs to be thrown into the incinerator.
Anyone saying #2 is best is a nigger.
a31b88 No.16417322
>I just gave money to cuckware
kys faggot
4e3109 No.16417334
>>16417322
Not if he bought it used, seriously, the one good thing about gamestop is how they get companies to kvetch about "Muh lost profits on used game sales"
fc70ce No.16417364
>>16416112
1 has ok story and shit gameplay, fuck makoniggers
2 has good story just because it has nothing to do with the main story but with getting to know your team and good gameplay
3 has a fucking hell of a buildup with an ending that will shame generations to come with a bunch of plotholes and fan backstabing but unfotunatedly it has the best gameplay of all 3 which kinda shoots itself with all guns being garbage and customization system being just as shit as the first one
4b869e No.16417374
Just play the first game. None of the sequels should have been made.
76c715 No.16417930
>>16416213
I prefer ME1 Liara, I can't stand the slutty voice they gave her in the later games.
>>16416339
Shame that they toned down her character because of a few triggered Biodrones.
fa492d No.16417933
play the first one for the best experience.
76c715 No.16417958
Which class is the best one if you want to start with a new character? I always end up playing as an adept.
>>16417911
I used to think that ME2 was the best game in the series but I was wrong, it's ME1. You can explore, go anywhere you want.
ME2 is a big downgrade in terms of gameplay. From the introduction of the thermal clips (to appeal to the shooter crowd) to the streamlined powers.
Fun fact: the way they re-designed the powers in ME2 was based on Dean Takahashi's review of ME1. He never finished the game because he thought it was too difficult. In reality he didn't know that he could assign points to the different powers and change the loadout and the armor of Shepard and his squad.
The story was ridiculous, especially the prologue, they didn't need to kill the character.
ef68ff No.16417996
>>16417958
the gunplay and movement and powers were all better in me2. the exploring in me1 was shit, all planets looked like random-generated turds with no meaningful or memorable quests. driving around was pointless, the tank felt like a rubber ball.
>Fun fact: the way they re-designed the powers in ME2 was based on Dean Takahashi's review of ME1.
It was real in your mind?
595018 No.16418019
>>16416213
Legion all day every day
53c995 No.16418021
>>16416112
Play the first game, then read pic related, and realize that 2 ignores it and 3 shits on you actively.
f53978 No.16418023
>>16416213
Liara and Garrus were the only acceptable romance options, everyone else was terrible.
53c995 No.16418026
>>16418019
he was the best part of ME2. While I liked the individual missions of your crew, the overall story was fucking worthless
>game opens with you being killed
>lol no you're back now
>just used as a way to make your crew from the previous game scatter and makes you have to recruit them
>except two of them
>wrex is being mr alpha king on his planet so that's okay
>Liara is just being a cunt even if she was your romance option in ME1
Tali is pretty adorable in ME2, but the idea of the sun going nova due to dark matter is never followed up on because that would have made sense that the reapers were trying to stop the heat death of the galaxy and so innocent lives justified the means.
eb22e6 No.16418031
I had completely forgotten how common purple space negress waifus used to be around imageboards.
9b5388 No.16418057
Guys I have an idea, you know how asari reproduce psychically? well because of this the children wont be half human they will just be asari with 1 or 2 human genes. So I propose what we do is lobotomize the asari, at least the part of their brain that controls biotic powers and then forcefully impregnate them with human seed.
If that doesn't work we will simply give them artificial human wombs so they will be effectively forced to carry human children leeching off their bodies. if its successful we might be able to do this with other species effectively doubling or even tripling the human population.
b49598 No.16418074
Liara is a lie and is only good for dickgirl porn.
595018 No.16418104
Asari are really fucking ugly, how does nobody else see this?
2d86da No.16418123
>Can't fuck EDI.
What's the point of even playing?
595018 No.16418133
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>>16418123
>EDI
>not Blasto
fa6acf No.16418135
Mass Effect 2 was probably really comfy to create but the problem is it entirely stopped worldbuilding on major scale after that, it mostly builds on what already exists, ME3 is mostly but fan service and tying up loose ends
Same problem with Andromeda but much worse, they should have created a new galaxy full of new things, instead were 90% backtracing with all the species that were established in first Mass Effect, and theres unfinished new aliens that clearly are not developed to the fullest, Ankara lack anything that makes them different enough while Kett are entirely lacking in motivations, almost stock villain level boring standins
I want back the original Mass Effect-level storytelling and worldbuilding where you are always discovering something interesting, and same situation with Dragon Age Origins that established so much
ad2474 No.16418137
>>16418021
I'm still upset about ME. The series had such potential. 2 being a massive side story that accomplishes nothing was lame. My idea was to make 2 about a Reaper created civil war and the player can either stop the war to keep a strong army or ignore it go find a way to fight or stop the Reapers. So you either end the game with most of the galaxy still in tact and alive or you have the super weapon/virus/code to beat them.
Then 3 has several choices which impact the finale and decide your ending. Total bad ending, the Reapers win. Bad ending but with Shepard going into cryogenic sleep to warn the next cycle and help them beat the Reapers. Neutral ending, perhaps the original plan of sacrificing humanity so the rest are left alone. Good ending where the Reapers are stopped but Shepard dies in the process and then the best ending, they are stopped for good and Shepard lives happily ever after.
0f83ca No.16418153
>>16416213
Follower of Blue Ass here.
4815d3 No.16418156
>>16416112
>Can I play mainly with a shotgun?
I like the cut of your jib, anon.
2138bb No.16418168
>>16418156
>spectre shotgun
>rail extension V
>rail extension V
>high explosive rounds X
>lift
sending enemies into orbit is one of my favorite things to to in me1
76c715 No.16418175
>>16417996
>It was real in your mind?
It's true though. He bragged about it.
03f1d2 No.16418182
>>16417197
>>16416516
>>16416375
Independent of what other anons wrote.
Let's face the real issue:
It's a guy with a wig. The real perfect women as trannies imagine themselves.
Just can't have children.
Just has a penis instead of a vagina.
Just look at that manjaw. Who are you trying to fool?
It's clearly the face of a man and the sign of everything going downwards with bioware and the progressives taking over.
I played all 3 games and MEHEM and suggest you just stop after the first Mass Effect.
All the pain you'll go through just isn't worth what you get.
Which is basically just the MEHEM community made ending of ME3. The rest is just boring progressive SJW propaganda,
Yes I know Bioware always had a problem with the progressives but with ME2, it just turned to shit.
595018 No.16418184
>>16418182
She's so ugly, fuck.
68857f No.16418195
>>16418182
What I don't understand about Miranda is how faggots keep acting like she's actually desirable in any way. Her face is ugly. Her personality is horrible, and ironically she's wrong about essentially everything despite constantly claiming to be perfect. Her body that faggots can't shut up about doesn't even look like a human body. Her "ass" looks like two pillows stuffed into her suit. Human asses do not look like that.
ad2474 No.16418206
>>16418195
Marxist faggots are incapable of doing a character like Miranda right. She has to be ridiculously sexy but a woman being ridiculously sexy is just some male fantasy that objectifies women. Also the facial capture tech of a decade ago was the shits.
2138bb No.16418210
so who are the real space jews? Quarian or Volus?
2d86da No.16418214
>>16418182
Why'd you post a photo of Michael Jackson though?
755fc2 No.16418222
>>16418206
The IRL model looks like shit, so it's less the technology and more their choice of model.
fcb440 No.16418239
>>16416213
>blue space babe #437
>not the mysterious, sexually-repressed space gypsy with a literal sterile pusy who canonically downloads the most intense vibrator software she can find while fantasizing about your big augmented N7-cleared humie bod
>>16418210
Volus are the merchants and super-Jews, they actually redirected the space holocaust onto the space gypsies and rewrote history so well not even the conspiracy theorists suspect.
bd0492 No.16418245
>>16416112
Good luck trying not to fuck your gay crew
755fc2 No.16418252
>>16418239
Space gypsy would be okay if her limbs weren't mutated stumps. Quite likely the most tolerable BioWare female NPC ever.
80c9b7 No.16418255
>ME thread pops up the second I finish a modded ME2 playthrough
Cool. I hadn't ever played Arrival but just got done with it and I really have to ask besides jews, why isn't this in the base game? Or even given away for free before ME3's launch? I was always so confused as to how Shepard gets grounded back on Earth put behind some Alliance desk when the last thing I remember doing was taking out a human Reaper and saving everyone's asses. Also
>Implying Batarians are people
>Implying Jack isn't best girl
>Implying Tali isn't best if you insist on being a filthy xenoloving racemixer
Going to get started on modding ME3 now since there's actually a substantial amount out there a lot more than I expected. Is Andromeda worth playing even for a laugh while drunk or something? I'm one of the very few people who actually think this series had something special before it was cut down by it's short-sighted creators and I'm morbidly interested at just how much they fuck up lore/established world-wise
>>16418249
DELET THIS
2138bb No.16418284
>>16418255
>shaved head tattooed psycho bull dyke
>best girl
you couldn't be more wrong
80c9b7 No.16418293
>>16418284
>bull dyke
>not knowing she's the straightest girl on the Normandy
>posts blacked content
2138bb No.16418294
>>16418255
what mods? most i've done is model swap in me1 so I could play as a glitchy looking Turian
>>16418290
pls no ban
de5b0e No.16418303
>>16418290
There is literally nothing wrong with not liking black people
fa6acf No.16418309
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Mass Effect 2 had incredible cinematic trailers
755fc2 No.16418315
>>16418309
ME did have some good aspects, mainly the cinematography (though I imagine the trailers were done by an outside studio like the ones for TOR were), music and voice acting.
The art direction was a mixed bag, the weapons look especially stupid, almost like Nerf guns, and you can tell some soy addicted faggot that never held a real weapon in his life designed them. Sadly, writing and gameplay are complete and utter trash in all three games. They're in this weird middle ground between a simplistic RPG and a clunky third-person shooter and seem unable to make either aspect work correctly.
Also, I still don't quite understand why the most elite of agents of the galactic ZOG government has to go around looting chests to get his equipment. They'll give you a ship but won't fork over cash to arm your band of faggot misfits?
76c715 No.16418327
>>16418255
>Is Andromeda worth playing even for a laugh while drunk or something?
Yes but play as Sara if you want to experience the tism effect.
552a5c No.16418350
>>16418290
pilled and redmemed
>>16418303
this
3442b2 No.16419665
>>16416219
>Jack is best girl
Absolutely. It's a shame they dropped her from your team in ME3, with that they dropped the ball in term of her character so she lacked in some places due to being non-important character, I can only imagine how good it would be to have her in your team permanently. She's that kind of a passionate girl which loves you so much it also inspires her to become a better human being too. It's like her writers knew that women need men to keep them in tact which is surprising since BioWare are leftists.
>>16418135
>ME3 is mostly but fan service and tying up loose ends
It looks like it was heavily inspired by the first game. So much they decided to get rid of companions from the second game completely. I guess fanboys of the first game cried real hard so BioWare decided to make ME2 almost completely irrelevant which ironically basically killed it. I guess they realized that they fucked up since they made Citadel DLC where you could play some shooting range minigame with your "virtual" crew from ME2.
958c43 No.16419678
>>16417307
>Mass Effect 3: You get your missions from eavesdropping on conversations. You also have to listen to your fag shuttle pilot cry about his dead husband. I kid you not. I wanted to stab out my eardrums with q-tips after listening to that shit.
"STEVE!"
76c715 No.16419689
>>16417307
>You get your missions from eavesdropping on conversations.
…and they don't tell you where to go and the devs got the great idea to put the journal into the same folder as the codex so you can't track your missions.
ad2474 No.16419959
>>16419665
>BioWare decided to make ME2 almost completely irrelevant
They did when they made ME2. The entire game is a big side story of no real importance.
>Reapers are coming, have to stop them
<Shepard is doing routine stuff months later
>Shepard gets attacked by the Collectors and is killed
<Lol we'll bring you back with cellular regeneration, so our character isn't really the same anymore
>Cerberus helped us so we better stop these colonies being abducted
<Multiple colonies later finally get some revelation that they are tied to the Reapers
>Better stop these Collectors
<Solve everyone's daddy issues and bullshit instead
>Surely the council and Alliance can help, I did save the galaxy after all
<Everything from ME1 was made redundant, no one trusts you or wants to help because reasons
>Well fuck, lets take them down with just our one ship
<Do suicide mission, fight big baby Terminator, secure Collector ship or give it to Cerberus, the idea being this ship will be some big Macguffin or even a Deus Ex Machina in ME3
>Its not
ME2 starts with the Reapers still coming and ends with them still coming. ME2 starts with the galaxy being idiots and endings with them being idiots. ME2 starts with Shepard having no strategy or information or weapon to fight them and ends with him having no strategy, information or weapon to fight them. Its an immense waste of time. ME1 has you go on a big space adventure, tracking down Saren and uncovering his scheming and conspiracies, before the big revelation of the Reapers jumping the story into new territory.
55cbdb No.16419978
>>16419959
The only plot relevant part of ME2 was the DLC where Shepard has to blow up a solar system.
736d32 No.16419991
>>16418182
Yvonne Strahovsky is a real person, and an actual woman
ad2474 No.16420017
>>16419978
I forgot about that part entirely. Something like that should have been saved for the ending. Detonate all the Mass Relays to trap the Reapers in a dying star or something, but it destroys like a quarter of the galaxy or at best closes everyone off forever.
a2b41c No.16420046
>>16419978
Which dlc was this ?
3442b2 No.16420049
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16419959
I don't think you understand where I'm coming from. You see, aside from Arrival DLC which became irrelevant in ME3 and was a big meaningful part in ME2 it has some other salvageable parts, mainly the characters since the game was heavy focused over your party members, don't forget another important part in ME2 plot which went absolutely nowhere and was completely forgotten by the writers: a dying star which actually had big potential. I'm not even going to mention how The Illusive Man suddenly decided to go full retard without good explanation or what happened to Shepard after his fight against boss skeleton from Contra, this shit is just fucking ridiculous and only amateur writer would make such a lazy as fuck job at writing story. TIM from ME2 and ME3 are absolutely different characters.
Almost everything just went to waste with characters too being pretty irrelevant to ME3, basically it's treated kind of like a shitty bonus, like ME2 wasn't even an official game and they put them like some irrelevant NPCs from a small side quest or something.
A good writer would at least try to connect previous game to the next sequel. Allow me to take my crew from the second game and make further development of those characters, make Arrival DLC important to the story and develop a dying star plot you blatantly dropped, do a better job with a Cerberus, just make ME2 more relevant so it wouldn't look out of place as an absolutely separate game, for fuck's sake. But in truth they decided to make ME3 a sequel to ME1 which I find unfortunate. I wish ME2 was just a separate game at this point, it deserved a better fate like all its characters except for a nigger and Miranda perhaps.
On a side note, does anyone know the genre of music in embed? I can't find shit like it no matter how I search, tried to search using dark space ambient, dark space techno, hard space techno and other terms like it. I swear I heard music like this before and probably in some movie/series, but I just can't find it.
>>16420046
See above.
79d720 No.16420051
Play me 1 and 2 and trash 3
55cbdb No.16420103
>>16420049
>I wish ME2 was just a separate game at this point, it deserved a better fate
A large chunk of the problems in ME2 would have been avoided by making it a spinoff instead of a mainline game.
They go to all that trouble to wipe the slate clean. Kill and resurrect Shepard, destroy his ship and give him a new one, scatter his crew and have him gather a new one, and burn his status and allegiances and forge new ones. They should have just made it about a different guy, and saved all the bullshit.
The shift towards 3PS over RPG elements wouldn't be near so bothersome if it were a side game too. It's okay for those to be a little different.
A side game wouldn't need to follow directly off ME1, nor feed directly into ME3. It wouldn't be a problem for it to be largely irrelevant or lack urgency next to the other Reaper threats. If you'd been some merc hired to look into these colony disappearances, and meanwhile Shepard was out doing whatever to face the grander threat, it would have been fine.
3b6742 No.16420179
>>16420049
The worst parts of ME3 was ME2. The writers shitty donut steel bond villain wrestling with ME1 to control the story of the "planned" trilogy. The shit everyone loves and remembers from the games is the shit that was setup in ME1.
>A good writer would at least try to connect previous game to the next sequel.
>Allow me to take my crew from the second game and make further development of those characters,
>But in truth they decided to make ME3 a sequel to ME1
Well, fuck, if only ME2 was a sequel to ME1.
>I wish ME2 was just a separate game at this point
So do I. That way I could have my Star Trek vidya and you could have the COD game you want.
>it deserved a better fate
No, it didn't.
3442b2 No.16420219
>>16420179
>you could have the COD game you want
Speak for yourself. Although the shooting handles better in ME2 compared to the first game I despise any kind of terrible shooting which includes "your Star Trek vydia", bulletsponge enemies was the biggest reason why I constantly dropped the game. But it's no wonder we're not allowed to have good gunplay in video games, especially in RPG.
Anyway, ME2 is good in its own way and obviously as a standalone title, it's an interesting space military/cop game and there is nothing like it exactly yet. As for ME as a series itself, there are better series or games set in space, though I do find it way better than Star Trek in term of world building and plot.
Ideally I'd like to see a true action role-playing game set in space with neither action nor role-playing elements lacking in some aspects.
3b6742 No.16420336
>>16420219
I fail to see how a pop n shoot cover shooter is even remotely better.
<you could have the COD game you want
>Speak for yourself
>bulletsponge enemies was the biggest reason why I constantly dropped the game
Never noticed, not even on insanity.
>But it's no wonder we're not allowed to have good gunplay in video games, especially in RPG.
Because of consoles and their users who want TTK to measure in microseconds.
3442b2 No.16420533
>>16420336
>I fail to see how a pop n shoot cover shooter is even remotely better.
Combat is handled much better in ME2, in ME1 it's rather awkward and clunky. The only downgrade I can think of is slow movement and that you cannot play aggressively in ME2, not at hard difficulties. I don't remember having fun with weapons in the first game, so it's just better to play as biotic there, no, actually not even as any biotic class, only as adept. Adept class in ME1 is probably the best compared to the rest games. Infinite ammo was a good concept, but guns suck in this game.
Now, I think they did improve gameplay in ME3 drastically, even pistols became much more useful and shotguns feel like shotguns, it's very satisfying to headshot enemies with a shotgun, a sniper rifle or especially with a pistol and I'm a sucker for pistols, there aren't many games which treat pistols not as a secondary weak weapon. Combat in ME3 isn't perfect, but thankfully you can avoid annoyance such as taking covers and play very aggressively. Too bad you can't break limbs there or at least damage them like in GTA4.
Weaponry is the strongest part of ME3 and I guess we can thank people who were responsible for multiplayer since many great guns were introduced there first.
>Because of consoles and their users who want TTK to measure in microseconds.
Consoles aren't the only problem. People simply do not appreciate good gunplay in video games anymore, just like many can't into games with complex level design and of course game developers nowadays are talentless hacks. Bulletsponge enemies for one is just bad and lazy design which is mostly used to make games "difficult", and it's just one thing which is wrong with. Yet nobody seems to give a fuck about it.
595018 No.16421286
>>16418023
Bioware claims to be all progressive, but they severely misunderstood what their gay fans actually wanted.
Legion and Garrus are far more popular than the gay nigger was, but you can't romance Garrus as a male and you can't romance Legion outright.
55cbdb No.16421426
>>16421286
You misunderstand. Bioware wasn't trying to appeal TO gays. They were trying to appeal to WITH gays, to the social justice crowd. For that purpose their gay romance options are effective.
5fd2cb No.16421444
>>16421286
I wanted to cuddle Legion so fucking badly, I don't care if he has no concept of love.
e80389 No.16421643
The third game wasn't so bad. Besides the ending and some of the more gloomy elements of the story, I liked it. The ends to Wrex's and Mordin's stories were great, I think. RIP, Mordin. Had to shoot you in the back for the greater good.
595018 No.16421806
>>16421444
There are mods for that, if you're so inclined.
e72f62 No.16421828
>>16421643
>Killing Mordin
7be61e No.16421834
>>16421806
>miscegenating a Quarian with a Geth
595018 No.16421864
>>16421834
The only Geth-on-Geth porn out there is gay, if you think that's preferable.
e80389 No.16422006
>>16421828
>letting him cure the genophage
e72f62 No.16422024
>>16422006
Been a while since I played 3 but isn't it just an altered version of the genophage that increases Krogan births but not to a degree they fuck like rabbits and become disproportionally large as a population?
e80389 No.16422063
>>16422024
It's been a while for me too, but I remember Mordin's motivation being that he considered the mountains of dead Krogan babies to be murder. Doubt he'd want any phaging going on. Besides, the Krogan population was self-sustaining with the bio weapon. If he'd been able to lessen the effect of it in some way, their population would explode.
f7d4b2 No.16422111
>>16418182
I'm looking but I just don't see what makes her so ugly in your eyes. She looks fine and is the only half-way decent ME girl thats not some gnarly alien.
Ashley looks way fucking more like a tranny and I never see you niggers bring her up.
68857f No.16422136
>>16422111
You clearly aren't looking very well.
>Ashley looks way fucking more like a tranny and I never see you niggers bring her up.
She never gets brought up because no one ever claims that she looks good. In particular, she doesn't remind you that she's perfect, both in looks and intelligence, every single time she opens her mouth unlike Miranda. Also Ashley is never seen again after the first game unless you're a white knight, so that's part of the reason she doesn't get mentioned as often.
e80389 No.16422615
>>16422111
JAW
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Look at the jaw, man.
92718a No.16423049
>>16417930
What did they do to Ashley in the sequels? I've only played the first one.
c9f9eb No.16423125
>the mass effect trilogy
what are you talking about anon, there was only ever one mass effect game
are you counting KOTOR?
035848 No.16423187
ME1 still has the best combat out of them all. Nothing compares to slamming a shipping container into a Turian's face with biotics.
ad2474 No.16423195
>>16423049
She was a pro-human conservative who didn't trust the aliens, especially as they were on board a top secret, state of the art Alliance stealth ship. She learns to tolerate them and by the end is OK with them but of course she is big meany doo doo head to many BioDrones so they had her just be some generic space soldier later on.
b0bcb7 No.16423265
>>16423187
ME2 Vanguards were fun, when they didn't bug out. The main problems are that 1) a fair amount of attacks will 1 shot you on higher difficulties, without any way to distinguish between 1HKO attack and insignificant buzzing of low caliber shots I'm ignoring enemy Snipers and their special ability, and 2) enemies get really bullet spongy. I'd still say ME1 is more overall enjoyable than ME2, but it's not all that much better on an objective level.
df2bda No.16423463
>>16422006
Or you could do this.
76c715 No.16423528
>>16423187
The only thing I miss in ME1 is the biotic combo. I loved the detonations in ME3.
841d9f No.16423681
>>16421828
>>16422006
>>16423463
>not secretly conspiring with the salarian dalatrass to sabotage the genophage
>not keeping it a secret from mordin and wreav
>not pulling the gun on mordin only to let him walk away because of his impassioned speech and ultimately unable to pull the trigger, seeing him go off to fix his mistake as Shepard has to contend with an uncertain future for the krogan yet ultimately satisfied that he didn't betray Mordin
I can't find a clip for this exact outcome currently but it's definitely the best and most dramatic path.
4e3109 No.16423801
>>16421286
Bioware doesn’t want to appeal to gays because they know their audience is a bunch of Fujoshis. Hence why the gay options in ME3 were Kaiden and STEVE! They put the yaoi factor into mass effect.
fbb779 No.16426120
>>16418327
I like how everyone looks uncomfortable and is trying avoid eye contact.
595018 No.16426147
>>16423801
Fujoshis love human/non-human romances, though. My sister is one, she has posters of that shit in her room. It would have been even more popular with them to have a cute alien guy to date.
7e5253 No.16426194
>>16426147
Dick her to set her straight.
7bf37d No.16427007
>>16416855
>thermal clip image
pure rage.
7bf37d No.16427016
>>16423187
launching enemies into orbit when hip-firing sniper rifles with the right ammo and mods was pretty fun too.
25161c No.16427668
>>16416855
>codex reason for the clips was that it cut down on time for the heat sinks to cool down
>guns are actually slower to reload in game
>you could get heatsinks in the first game that would give you infinite ammo anyway
93f428 No.16427720
>>16427007
I didn't mind the change in gameplay but that was such a lazy handwave.
>guns that shave off a chip from a metal block then accelerate it with mass effect fields
Just claim that advances in shield tech made the regular size rounds ineffective so they modified it to shoot larger ones. This has the unfortunate side effect of bringing back limited ammo via replacement metal blocks.
It also gives a justification for why gore starts popping up in the third game.
4e3109 No.16427756
>>16427668
>>16427720
>BioWare creates a somewhat unique weapon system in the first game
>Casualize it for the second
>Actually make the guns inferior to ME1, where with the right upgrades you could turn a shotgun into what amounted to a cannon firing grape shot and a sniper rifle into a rail gun.
>Fans complain so much that you through one gun that works the old way into a DLC but make it shitty out of spite.
>The only character in universe who complains about the switch is the reoccurring gag character, and he’s treated as foolish for preferring the other system.
87939e No.16427780
>>16421444
>concept of love
abfa73 No.16427920
>>16416203
I bought these games secondhand, and this is the best answer.
ME1 has shit mechanics but does the RPG thing really right. ME2 is a tedious Gears knock-off that jumps the shark, but people hang on for the characters. ME3–enough has been said there story wise–they almost nailed it and dropped the ball hard. Combat felt like the game was built around it, rather than a necessary evil. Lots of great moments. It's why the sharp contrast thrown by the story caused the shitstorm it did. They're mostly good games, but EA is also EA, and they are still charging out the ass for DLC. So fuck 'em and pirate everything. I have done like 5 runs through the trilogy.
Pics barely related.
8dbb68 No.16427965
>>16426147
They do have that though if they play as FemShep.
73aa56 No.16427966
>>16418290
You shouldn't be doing that nigger.
9116d7 No.16428192
>No Hanar or Elcor companion in any of the games
I want real aliens on my team of misfits.
>>16423681
>Finally find the clip of it on youtube
>It's deleted
Goddammit that was the best scene scene in the whole game.
595018 No.16428217
>>16428192
What bothers me so much about ME are the alien designs. Too many of them are humanoid.
295b3f No.16428227
>>16416213
This isn't the Splatoon thread.
295b3f No.16428236
>>16418206
>>16418222
yeah, their choice of female model had the same jawline. It was sunk from the start. At least they used models and didn't just make some sort of awful fantasy person
76c715 No.16428261
>>16428192
>>No Hanar or Elcor companion in any of the games
Imagine giving a bunch of Cains to a Hanar or put one on the back of an Elcor.
8cbf20 No.16428458
>>16418222
the model is fine, they just fucked it up. almost every other character was done better.
>>16428236
it was sunk from the start cause bioware is fucking inept. remember "andromeda was the B-team" and all that shit?
7bf37d No.16428923
>>16427756
all in the name of market penetration through accessibility (retard-friendly gameplay)
295b3f No.16428973
>>16428923
>>16427756
Sniper rifles were still ridiculously good in the second game, though that had to do more with their class abilities which made them ideal for killing literally anything in one shot.
93f428 No.16428990
>>16427756
Fun as shooting krogans into orbit is getting the explosive ammo upgrade for a shotgun turns the game into easy mode. Anything that doesn't die from the first shot gets knocked over anyway.
595018 No.16439675
668b3c No.16439989
>>16439675
When your only other choices are two bland faggots and a guy with a terminal illness, of course he's the best choice.
e509f2 No.16445862
a9d7b6 No.16445889
The Suicide mission of ME2 is still one of my favourites in gaming and there really was no more sci-fi RPGs after Mass Effect died a death by three colour in three.
50de01 No.16467508
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