To me story of ME1 is simple too if you remove the big twist. As you said, ME2 has its bits of mistery, and I didn't find the bits on ME1 that great to make that part of ME2 so disappointing. The core of the side missions are different, and more focused on the characters, but the missions focused on the world and other characters are still there, they just focused more on your squad. It's just a different focus on how the game goes IMO, it's hard to compare it. For me it's just a matter of taste.Terror_K wrote...
What made ME1's story superior was that it was a bit of a mystery that unfolded as you went and gradually altered the focus and significance as you went along, unwrapping things gradually and revealing what's really going on. By the time you get to the end the focus and intent is very different to what it was at the beginning, and on top of that each major place provides a different experience and situation to deal with, each with their own mysteries and aspects to uncover.
ME2 is basically just basically getting people for a suicide mission and going on it; there's very little mystery as to what's to come, no unfolding plot and little difference from one objective to the next. It basically consists of "try to recruit person, no mission to get person, get person, do loyalty mission for person, gain loyalty and take them on suicide mission" rinsed and repeated 10 times. Thankfully the quality of the writing and the difference in situations you come across stop it being overly repetitive and boring, but its essentially the same thing over and over and there's nothing really overarching narrative-wise related to it that unfolds and has you doing anything really different. Sure, there are the what I'd called "Illusive Man" missions that get more to the point of the plot, but they aren't as well done as ME1's were and the focus remains the same throughout. Sure, there's a couple of twists in ME2, but none that really change the purpose and focus of your mission or give it a truly new perspective.
Both games are extremely well-written, and Mass Effect 2 definitely has fantastic stories within the missions themselves, but the overall story is extremely straightforward and simple compared to ME1's; it basically comes down to "recruiting people for suicide mission" while ME1's shifts as it goes.
ME2 shifts as it goes too through the "Ilusive Man missions". It's hard to describe or make a comparison without giving spoilers. The big plot twist is at the end of the game which doesn't really give a new perspective or the focus on your mission, but it didn't make the story less engaging IMO.
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. Sorry for being so vague but the forum is spoiler free and I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. On virmire...
