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I think that Mass Effect had pretty good writing in the first game but the later games are pretty bad. Disco Elyseum has great writing, you might check that out
by empiko 6y ago
I think that Mass Effect had pretty good writing in the first game but the later games are pretty bad. Disco Elyseum has great writing, you might check that out.
- OnlyLys 6y agoThe atmosphere of the first Mass Effect was incredible. After more than a decade later, I still have fond memories of that game. The second one though, didn't really click with me, and I stopped playing the series there. Maybe with EA games being on Steam now, I could give the third one a try.
- airstrike 6y agoMake sure to get all of the DLCs as it will make the third episode immensely more enjoyable
- moomin 6y agoI have a different take here: ME1 I loved, it did some incredible world-building and the reveal of the true bad guy will stick with me. However, ME2 is my favourite. It’s an appreciably smaller story, but it’s all about the characters, and they’re engaging people. The first visit to the nightclub is cracking. ME3? Failure from start to finish. The opening scene just basically says “the last two games were completely irrelevant”. The ending is not only unsatisfying, it relies on stuff that was barely established even in the first game and not even mentioned in the others. It’s a textbook case of failing to stick the landing. (And the less said about “choose your favourite primary colour” as an ending the better. Should have just had one ending and made it a good one.)
- paulmd 6y agoME1 was groundbreaking for the time but really has not stood the test of time all that well. The gameplay mechanics are significantly rougher than ME2, ME2 feels like a shooter with strong RPG elements and ME1 feels like KOTOR where you get to aim the guns, it is very much an old-school bioware RPG title. The mako planet exploration is excruciatingly bad. Droid scavenger hunt on the citadel is excruciatingly bad. Endless elevator rides are excruciatingly bad. There are some sequences that felt tedious but the story is definitely the best part overall. ME2 is definitely the apex of the series by modern standards. Also you forgot to mention ME:A. Maybe your face was tired? ;)
- moomin 6y agoI haven’t bothered playing it. Hardly even seems canonical and the reviews described it as worse than DA:I, which... did not impress me.
- paulmd 6y agoFrostbite engine is such an unwieldy monster that it has killed the last 3 games that tried to use it, all of them top-tier AAA franchises no less (BFV, Anthem, ME:A). It is optimized for two things, Battlefield and FIFA, and it is even cumbersome for that (see: BFV's lifecycle and the numerous long-standing bugs that plagued it). It was never designed for an RPG and things like inventory systems and facial animation did not exist and had to be invented (badly). But EA is all-in on the "everything has to run frostbite company-wide".
- SeanBoocock 6y agoThis characterization is inaccurate and misleading. A game engine is a basic framework with which to build a game - responsible for things like platform abstraction, memory management, and the basic rendering pipeline - but much of what is identifiably part of any specific game lives on top of that. Unreal Engine and Unity don’t ship with “inventory systems” and neither are “designed for an RPG”. Having worked on multiple Frostbite and multiple Unreal games, both engines are capable of building a wide variety of games. The discrepancies in my experience aren’t technical but organizational. It is hard to compete with the scale of Epic’s developer support organization and the wider industry inertia around their technology.
- account42 6y ago> ME2 feels like a shooter with strong RPG elements and ME1 feels like KOTOR where you get to aim the guns, it is very much an old-school bioware RPG title. Funny, that difference is exactly what I most disliked about ME2.
- dmos62 6y ago> Disco Elyseum Thanks for reminding me of it! I loved it. I didn't finish it though and might come back to it.
- pansa2 6y ago> I think that Mass Effect had pretty good writing in the first game but the later games are pretty bad. I really enjoyed the first Mass Effect and its three-way balance between storytelling, exploration and combat. I was really looking forward to playing Mass Effect 2, but its storytelling didn't seem as good as the first game and exploration was almost non-existent. ME2 is more focused on combat, which seems to be what most people want (ME2 gets fantastic reviews), but to me that's the least interesting part of a game. I never played Mass Effect 3, but I hear it is even more combat-focused.
- dmit 6y agoI think ME2's great reviews were mostly driven by the excellent cast of memorable characters you got to assemble throughout the game. Such an upgrade over the BioWare trademark mild soup of forgettables in ME1, and also the biggest reason ME3 was maligned after relegating most of those beloved characters to a 5-minute scene.