r/masseffect • u/LazyNubbz • 7h ago

VIDEO Let's all just sit here for a minute...

A new game could have never recaptured this feeling anyway.

Thank you, BioWare.

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u/CasualDoty 5h ago

Hot take

It's the best mass effect.

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u/LazyNubbz 5h ago

Not even a hot take imo. I love them all but nothing beats ME1.

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u/CasualDoty 5h ago edited 5h ago

My entire friend group thinks I'm insane for this opinion.

Here is my (admittedly rage bait reduction of me2+3)

Me1 was great for the jank and the RPG elements.

Me2-3 are pick your adventure gears of war.

Edit: all three games are great, no argument, I just love rage baiting my friends lol

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u/LazyNubbz 5h ago

I absolutely love all 3. I think ME1 has the best storytelling, ME2 has the best cast of characters, and ME3 has the best gameplay. But ME2 has never been my favorite because it diverts too much from the Reapers, and I never cared so much about the Collector storyline, especially because it ultimately leaves you where ME1 ended anyway (imminent Reaper arrival). But taken all together, it's still perfect.

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u/gizmostuff Wrex 5h ago

I've always thought this was the case until very recently. The last few years people have really softened to ME3.

ME1 just hits differently. The music. The tone. The exploration. It's just done way better than the other two.

The amount of effort they put into the codex was really impressive to me. That wasn't a thing back then and gets really overlooked imo. The other two got to inherit that feature.

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u/LazyNubbz 5h ago

I'm the same way. ME3 has always been my second favorite.

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u/chillaquile 2h ago

ME2 is hella fun and great but I’ve also always felt the same regarding the story diverting a bit

Hot take
ME3 ending while underwhelming in its scope it was never as bad as the online hate made it out to be

Same with andromeda, although its story was weaker imo it was a pretty solid game

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u/Lowlife_Of_The_Party 4h ago

I've got a soft spot for ME2 because that was my intro to the series, but I agree. The friend that got me to play 2 had me convinced that 1 was too much of a pain to play & was worth skipping. BOY was he wrong

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u/LazyNubbz 4h ago

I'll fight him.

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u/Sockerkatt 4h ago

I’ll join. Let’s take that dude down.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe 2h ago

3 really improves on a lot, but 1 is still indisputably the best.

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u/Naramis_15 5h ago

I think it also depends on when you play each game. I happened to only get into ME with ME 2 and played the first ME in... 2011 or 2012 or so. So by that time, the original version felt really outdated and janky to me and I hated that compared to ME2. With that in mind, my order is this: ME3 > ME2 > ME1. If I had played ME1 first, though, and closer to its release, I might've liked it more than I did.

Either way, all three are great games in their own right. Just clarifying here so nobody thinks I hate ME1 because I don't.

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u/Alpha_Apeiron 5h ago

Except ME2.

All goated though, even parts of Andromeda

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u/LazyNubbz 5h ago

I finished another playthrough of the trilogy a few months ago, and as much as this makes me want to start another one, I'm really wondering if I want to play Andromeda again. Only did it the one time, and maybe I will appreciate it more on a second playthrough.

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u/Alpha_Apeiron 5h ago

I haven't played it a 2nd time personally, despite playing the trilogy about 20 times.

I'll try it again some day maybe, there were good aspects to it.

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u/aavillagomez 3h ago

Absolutely it is. Lore with so much mystery left. The best story. The worst combat, but also glitchy fun combat. I remember lifting enemies so high in the air with biotic powers.

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u/chillaquile 2h ago

It’s the best one, yea sure it’s wonky at times and the legendary edition fixed a lot of it but none of the other games came close to the feeling of ME1

Im commander shepherd and this was my favorite game series on the citadel

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u/pimpmcnasty 4h ago

Yep. That's my opinion too and I think it's my favorite game ever on most days of the year.

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u/701921225 2h ago

Definitely my favorite

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u/scratforever1 3h ago

Hard Agree!

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u/ButtholeSurfur 22m ago

Wait is that a hot take?

The best story IMO and these are story based games .