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[Jvolikas]

For me, ME1 had the best story, best characters, best squad, and best overall experience when I was playing through.  I loved the planet exploration the first time through and everything from Virmire to the end is among the BEST moments in gaming.  While it had shortfalls (inventory management was a mess and the Mako controls got annoying fast) its good outweighs the bad immensely.

ME2 had better gameplay, and the suicide mission sequence was absolutely incredible, but the overall story felt weaker and I didnt like the lack of weapon/armor customization along with the tedious scanning.  

Both are still in my top 10 games of all-time, but I definitely think ME1 was better.

Modifié par Jvolikas, 10 avril 2012 - 03:39 .

[BadlyBrowned]

Mass Effect 1 had the strongest story, though I did enjoy Mass Effect 2's character driven story with the loyalty missions and such.

[elaf000]

The only thing I hated was the hours of wasted driving around, getting stuck and scanning in ME1, I preferred ME2 for the scanning even though it was still a bit long. Loved 3 for the quick and short scanning but not enough side missions with the scanning.

[Victia]

Jvolikas wrote...

For me, ME1 had the best story, best characters, best squad, and best overall experience when I was playing through.  I loved the planet exploration the first time through and everything from Virmire to the end is among the BEST moments in gaming.  While it had shortfalls (inventory management was a mess and the Mako controls got annoying fast) its good outweighs the bad immensely.

ME2 had better gameplay, and the suicide mission sequence was absolutely incredible, but the overall story felt weaker and I didnt like the lack of weapon/armor customization along with the tedious scanning.  

Both are still in my top 10 games of all-time, but I definitely think ME1 was better.

+1

[Thetri]

Its still my favorite game in the series.

[Asiant]

Overall, ME2 hands down

[Bomma72]

Started playing ME1 again (my favorite) but I am a little surprised at how uneven the voice performances are. Even the Virmire mission. Think if they ever make a directors cut they should redo some of the lines.

[Neothanos]

I do.

[Ownedbacon]

Mass Effect has the best story and all around best game. Gameplay can be clunky, Mako missions boring and elevators slow but there is just some kind of wonder in exploring this universe and interacting with all these great species and characters.

[AnuzaGray]

ME1 had its strengths and weaknesses.

I absolutely despise the Mako, but I hate vehicular combat in all forms unless the game is built around that, ie a flight simulator.

The inventory was a complete mess with no way of efficiently removing large quantities of items.
Their were entirely too many weapons and items and far too many of them sucked. I think that there were about 3 variants of each weapon that at X were worse than many weapons at VI or VII. Completely pointless.

ME2s squad was much better character wise. Wrex, Liara, Garrus, and Tali were good from ME1. Kaiden and Ashley were both meh and I didn't care at all that I couldn't recruit either one. My least favorite squad mate from ME2 was Jack and she was still better than Kaiden and Ashley.

ME2 had better combat, better quests, better dialogue, awesome cinematic interrupts, and better squad mates. It arguably has a 'worse' main quest, but ME1s main quest had been done to death.

ME1 really, really felt like a variant of KotOR 1, but KotOR 1 did pretty much everything better.

ME2 > ME3 (despite the ending) > ME1, but all of the games are at least an 8/10 in my book and better than all other Bioware games since KotOR.

With a better ending I would probably place ME3 on par with ME2.

[-Skorpious-]

Mass Effect will remain my favorite game for a damn long period of time considering it took the industry an entire decade to knock the LoZ:OoT of that pedestal.

[Esmeraldita95]

ME 1 > ME 2 > ME 3

ME 1 has the best story, the best Citadel and the best soundtrack.

ME 2 has the best characters and final mission.

And ME3 ... well, it has space magic and good combat.

[goofyomnivore]

ME1 is my favorite, but ME2 has more replay value. But if I judge them on one playthrough I'd pick ME1 every time. Saren/Sovereign>Collectors/Harbinger, Council Spectre>TIMs Agent Noveria>Illium/Omega, ME1 Citadel>ME2 Citadel, etc.

Outside of Miranda and Mordin none of the ME2 exclusives were better than the VS, Liara or Wrex I thought. So yeah ME1 is far better for me other than the gameplay.

Modifié par strive, 10 avril 2012 - 04:01 .

[CerealWar]

Ah, ME1. Back in the days when everyones' biggest complaint were the elevator sequences.

[Sesshaku]

Jvolikas wrote...

For me, ME1 had the best story, best characters, best squad, and best overall experience when I was playing through.  I loved the planet exploration the first time through and everything from Virmire to the end is among the BEST moments in gaming.  While it had shortfalls (inventory management was a mess and the Mako controls got annoying fast) its good outweighs the bad immensely.

ME2 had better gameplay, and the suicide mission sequence was absolutely incredible, but the overall story felt weaker and I didnt like the lack of weapon/armor customization along with the tedious scanning.  

Both are still in my top 10 games of all-time, but I definitely think ME1 was better.

[clarkusdarkus]

easily the best of the series, mass effect 2 wasnt far behind tho, the 3rd game insults both of them

[Hepzi3]

Combat wise ME3 has it nailed. But I cant stand ME3, so ME1 is the best in the series by far.


I was much more invested in ME2's characters, but it doesnt matter if plotwise nothing that happened in that game mattered in ME3,and it didnt. In ME1 We go and set up the epic Sci Fi trilogy. ME1 was amazing.

[sp0ck 06]

It had the best story and vibe, but a lot of awful gameplay and interface issues, as well as serious technical problems, horrible controls, and a myriad of other issues.

I think ME2 was the best and most complete game out of the three.

But each had its own weird issues, problems and design oversights

ME1: Controls, especially Mako, copy paste uncharted worlds, badly designed classes, serious framerate issues, horrible map, awful inventory system, very unbalanced gameplay

ME2: Oversimplification of skills, tiny "hubs", strange plot pacing and development, limited weapons/armor without DLC, incredibly lame planet scanning minigame

ME3: Bizzarre "overhear and fetch" side quests, worst journal ever, a lot of autodialogue, oh and the ending.

Its like they couldn't make a Mass Effect game without having weird side effects.

[SolidisusSnake1]

MakeMineMako wrote...


Mass Effect 1 was, by far, my favorite of the three.

This. It was the only game that truly made me feel I was a Space Explorer, so much variety and freedom despite its mechanical short comings.

[Dasha Dreyson]

I liked ME1 the best. Part of that is because I don't really like stories where a character is killed off and brought back. I've seen two stories ever that I truly liked where that happened (both of which specifically dealt with oddities in an afterlife). I enjoyed the rest of ME2, but I kept shaking my head whenever the whole being dead thing got brought up. For me, ME3 suffered a bit from the whole died thing and then there was the ending. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy the rest of ME3 immensely. (I do like time travel stories as long as they establish clear rules and follow them -- so you know, whatever.)

I felt that combat did improve with each game, but that's not what I played ME for. One more thing: Tuchanka and Rannoch ftw.

[ed87]

ME2 > ME1 > ME3

[Nyila]

ed87 wrote...

ME2 > ME1 > ME3

Yeah, that's my opinion too.

[deryita]

I was really blowed when I first played ME1. I was telling all my friends that this was my fav game. I loved the combat because of the pistol heating thing. Then in ME2, they added those thermal clips which I hate!
I loved liara, tali, garrus and wrex.I played ME1 for 4 times. ME2 for 3 times. ME3 for 0. I am at the last mission but I will not finish it until summer. I am waiting for the extended cut. I cannot bear the ending scenes.

[grey_wind]

I played ME2 first and loved it. When I went and tried ME1 I was surprised at how jarringly uneven the voice acting was in quality compared to the sequel. Still a good game though.
Ultimately I think it comes down to the novelty factor; most ppl started with ME1 and that's where the universe was introduced to them that they fell in love with. Add in the twist with Sovereign and all, and it's easy to see why ppl adore it. But because I already knew all the major plot developments and the setting wasn't new to me when I played it, it lost a lot of its impact I suppose.

[Dan Willis]

ME2 beats ME1 in almost every way. It can be argued that ME1 has a stronger story, but they both suffer from the "we're exploring when we should be worried about the main plot" device. ME2 corrects the cripplingly bad control schema for XBox (I have heard from my PC friends that ME1 on the computer is awesome but I can't comment) and you don't have the tedious "which weapon is minutely better than the one I have" inventory management system.

The Characters in ME2 are deeper and more interesting and they didn't keep throwing Liara at me as a love interest (seriously, how easy is she in ME1?). Ashely was boring and Kaiden was actively creepy. I think the loyalty missions helped in 2 because we got involved in the support characters and that deepened our connection to the game. Half of what pissed me off about the ending of ME3 is that most of those characters that I cared about got no resolution.

Lastly, the ending mission of ME2 hit the perfect note. You made the calls, you decided when you were ready, you assigned squad members to support roles, and what you decided determined who lived and who died and how things played out. Even at the very end, you had the decision to keep the collector station or destroy it. (A momentous decision that made absolutely no difference in ME3) This was an ending you made and it satisfied on almost every level.

ME1 was a great game, if hampered on the Xbox by control issues, but ME2 fixed those issues and built a truly epic story of defiance in the face of certain death. Is is perfect? No, but it's pretty damn close.