Poll: ME3 aside, have you gone back and played any ME?
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I'm in the middle of a replay of the entire series from game one.
I don't care what anyone says; even though it tripped over its own feet face-first into a pile of broken glass in the last five minutes, Mass Effect 3 was the best game in the series. I'm really hoping that the Extended Cut DLC fixes it, but the ending will not stop me from enjoying the rest of the series, no matter how bad it is.
Side note: While playing Mordin's loyalty mission in ME2, I couldn't help but notice similarities between his justification for the Genophage and the Catalyst's explanation of the Reapers' purpose. Both were created to control a population to prevent greater destruction, "like gardening".
I don't care what anyone says; even though it tripped over its own feet face-first into a pile of broken glass in the last five minutes, Mass Effect 3 was the best game in the series. I'm really hoping that the Extended Cut DLC fixes it, but the ending will not stop me from enjoying the rest of the series, no matter how bad it is.
Side note: While playing Mordin's loyalty mission in ME2, I couldn't help but notice similarities between his justification for the Genophage and the Catalyst's explanation of the Reapers' purpose. Both were created to control a population to prevent greater destruction, "like gardening".
In short, yeah. However, I can only play the first game. My reasoning:jmesch04 said:
A lot of people are saying that Mass Effect 3 destroyed the rest of the franchise for them. For me it's done something similar and yet radically different - I now can treat the first Mass Effect as a standalone title again and it's awesome. To clarify - Mass Effect 2, while enjoyable, detracted from the first Mass Effect game by running counter to it aesthetically and narratively. Along with the the finality of the first game as I treat it now, the epic nature has been restored and I can once again smile like a lunatic when M4 - Part II plays.
If that makes any sense (I'm somewhat out of it, and I have no idea why)
No. Played ME1/2 twice already(I only bother with replaying games about once every second year, if that). Might get ME2 for PS3 just to get a real continuation for ME3. Don't buy 360 games anymore, so my past experiences in ME got randomized in ME3. Felt a bit dull at times.
I've completed 2 playthroughs of ME3 and started on a 3rd but I've also gone back and started a 5th playthrough of the series as a whole.
This latest playthrough is actually for a friend's benefit though - they'd seen another friend playing through bits of ME 1 and 2 and wanted to experience the whole adventure but without having to worry about doing ze shooting themselves. Being a huge fan of the series (cough totally not writing this while wearing an N7 Jacket >.> cough) I was happy to oblige, letting them name and design the Shep and make the significant plot choices and romance options.
It's been fun playing with an audience, making a social experience out of a single player game.
This latest playthrough is actually for a friend's benefit though - they'd seen another friend playing through bits of ME 1 and 2 and wanted to experience the whole adventure but without having to worry about doing ze shooting themselves. Being a huge fan of the series (cough totally not writing this while wearing an N7 Jacket >.> cough) I was happy to oblige, letting them name and design the Shep and make the significant plot choices and romance options.
It's been fun playing with an audience, making a social experience out of a single player game.
Nope.
Just can't bring myself to care that much anymore. It's such a damn shame. ME3 is amazing. It's seriously fantastic and pretty much pure fan-service. But the ending just negates all of it. It doesn't matter who lives or dies, what alliances you forge, or who you help. In the end, everyone's fucked no matter what you do.
Kinda dampens the whole thing for me. If that makes me entitled or irrational or childish... well then I guess I'm entitled and irrational and childish.
Just can't bring myself to care that much anymore. It's such a damn shame. ME3 is amazing. It's seriously fantastic and pretty much pure fan-service. But the ending just negates all of it. It doesn't matter who lives or dies, what alliances you forge, or who you help. In the end, everyone's fucked no matter what you do.
Kinda dampens the whole thing for me. If that makes me entitled or irrational or childish... well then I guess I'm entitled and irrational and childish.
I plan to eventually, just not right now. Just finished Prototype 2 and am playing through Dragon Age: Origins again (DA2 can fuck right off) and I'll probably make an Assassin's Creed run in preparation for the numerical third installment coming out in October.
I played entirely through ME1 three times: one paragon male, renegade female, and male on the hardest difficulty.
Played ME2 all the way through once with the paragon male account, go t2/3 of the way through insanity with renegade female and couldn't be bothered to farm up enough resources to get the shit necessary for the good ending.
Played through ME3 once, was disgusted by the ending and the fact that it made me install Origin so I immediately uninstalled it plus the cancer it brought and never looked back.
The game itself wasn't bad, some of the story turns weren't bad, but the fact that the renegade options make no sense and the ending is shit doesn't make me want to play it again.
Played ME2 all the way through once with the paragon male account, go t2/3 of the way through insanity with renegade female and couldn't be bothered to farm up enough resources to get the shit necessary for the good ending.
Played through ME3 once, was disgusted by the ending and the fact that it made me install Origin so I immediately uninstalled it plus the cancer it brought and never looked back.
The game itself wasn't bad, some of the story turns weren't bad, but the fact that the renegade options make no sense and the ending is shit doesn't make me want to play it again.
For me, it's not that everyone is fucked. I did kind of assume that everyone would indeed be fucked. My beef with the ending is that it consists of 10 minutes of WTF that explains nothing, operates on logic the playrt can prove is false during the game, provides no closure and ignores and negates what you have done in 90+ hours of gametime from ME 1,2 and 3.Irridium said:
I wouldn't call you entitled or childish though. Maybe irrational considering what the game is about. But hey, at least they could have ended the series on a bittersweet note instead of the pure unfiltered depress-a-thon that the ending is when you think about the consequences of those final minutes for the entire galaxy.
OT: At one point I was psyched to replay ME2 and then ME3 with my 3 Shepards, but after experiencing the soul crushing disappointment that was the trilogy's ending I haven't even touched a ME game again.
Where I do think the ending is bad. I have to agree It's about the journey not the destination.FriendlyDalek said:
I tried, couldn't do it. I actually sold the entire series for about $60-some two months ago.
And no, it's not just the ending. Mass Effect 3 is the biggest betrayal I've even seen. The ending was just the icing on the cake. I can't even play ME1 after that and ME1 is one of my favorite games.
And no, it's not just the ending. Mass Effect 3 is the biggest betrayal I've even seen. The ending was just the icing on the cake. I can't even play ME1 after that and ME1 is one of my favorite games.
I tried, I really did, I tried to start over, to play through ME3 with a renegade femshep (the opposite of my original) like I intended to after I beat the series before I knew how it ended. Honestly though? I just couldn't stay attached anymore, what had originally been a new and exciting experience was spoiled completely by the ending I knew was coming. Good games are like good books for me, I go back and I read them/play them again because I want to hear the story being told one more time. It's the reason I've beaten Bioshock 9 or 10 times since I bought it back when it first came out. It's the reason I still occasionally dust off KotOR and KotOR II and play through again. Mass Effect isn't a good book anymore, it had all the makings of one but the ending just killed it. A good ending can save a mediocre book, but as ME proved, a terrible one can absolutely cripple even the best story.