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Mass Effect 3
Sir William:
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--- Quote from: Sir William on 2014-09-30, 17:29:32 ---So, I was sitting there, playing ME2, seeing some familiar faces and realized- as much as I like knowing what's going to happen, it'd be more fun to see it as it happened so I get all the references. I came across a trilogy pack (brand new unopened) in Gamestop that had all three together in one box so you know what I did. Graphically speaking, it isn't as jarring as I expected- and of course, it isn't as cool as the other installments (weapons and tactics are understandably rougher) but I'm getting a kick out of doing it from the beginning.
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Awesome! You won't regret that at all. :)
I highly recommend getting all of the mission DLC for ME2 and ME3, and import your savegames from one to the next. And yes, you'll probably find yourself playing ME3 again to see how your choices, and the characters you met, get carried through. :) Everyone who is on your team in the first two games (who survive) will appear again in the third. If you didn't see them in the third, and now you're getting them on your team in the first two, it's probably because it treated it as though you never recruited them.
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I've already decided that I'd have to see it through all the way to the end and tbh, I really enjoyed 3 so why not? I was but a few hours into 2 so I didn't see anything major in the plot dept (even though I know how its all supposed to work out). I'm nearly done with 1; its almost like a job because I just want to get through it to get to 2 (which is the one I don't know).
Naythan, you can get them really cheap. I think 1 and 2 are like $6, 3 was $9. I went and bought the trilogy pack brand new so I could get all the DLC codes that came with it. I fully intend to explore all of that! I've played alot of space-themed games, this is the best one, hands down, I've ever played. Oh sure, Wing Commander was great, especially for its time, one or two of the Star Wars games were good, Star Trek however, was horrible- great for a tv show but sucky for a game (its all very slow and ponderous), StarCraft was a great series of games but Mass Effect- takes the whole cake.
Sir Edward:
--- Quote from: Sir William on 2014-10-07, 14:32:55 ---I've already decided that I'd have to see it through all the way to the end and tbh, I really enjoyed 3 so why not? I was but a few hours into 2 so I didn't see anything major in the plot dept (even though I know how its all supposed to work out). I'm nearly done with 1; its almost like a job because I just want to get through it to get to 2 (which is the one I don't know).
Naythan, you can get them really cheap. I think 1 and 2 are like $6, 3 was $9. I went and bought the trilogy pack brand new so I could get all the DLC codes that came with it. I fully intend to explore all of that! I've played alot of space-themed games, this is the best one, hands down, I've ever played. Oh sure, Wing Commander was great, especially for its time, one or two of the Star Wars games were good, Star Trek however, was horrible- great for a tv show but sucky for a game (its all very slow and ponderous), StarCraft was a great series of games but Mass Effect- takes the whole cake.
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Yeah, I always take it with a grain of salt when people tell me how great a particular game is. Not all of them appeal to me in the same way. But I'm SO GLAD I believed people on this one. It's truly epic as a trilogy. It's engaging, and you come away attached to all the characters, and feel like you've lived through the adventure with them. I love the fact that the story really captures the psychology of the different characters and factions, feels like an established, living world, and as the story progresses, you can feel the desperation, loss, and sacrifice start to weigh on people.
It warms my heart to find people discovering it too.
Sir Douglas:
Dang it, guys...now I'm going to have to add another series to my list of "Games I'd Like to Try...Eventually".
I've heard great things about it pretty much since the first one came out, though.
Sir William:
I'll tell you Douglas, I only decided to play the 3rd one a month or so ago. I'd heard of it, but having played other space themed games, which were good, they didn't grab me and make me want to find others. So, while I heard of ME, it was mostly PC players I heard about it from so I discounted it from the start, seeing as I don't play PC games anymore. Previous experience has taught me that most games built for PC and ported-to-console tend to fail miserably at some point. Except this was no port.
I think I've gone on enough about how epic this is, and I'm like Sir Edward- one man's epicness is another man's God-I-wish-it-would-end-already. lol
As Sir Edward noted, the story arc and the characterizations are very approachable; even the Paragon Shepard isn't the stick-in-the-rear douchebag those types of characters normally end up having to be like. I think that having the ability to decide how you will respond to a given query or conversation, and have that response carry weight only adds to the immersion into the game. People you talk to remember your words (and actions) from previous encounters- so that subsequent contacts with these people will be colored by their perception of you.
I'm usually not a jerk, so I don't play as one but I have to say, there's one or two personalities in the game that make you want[/it] to be one, just to deal with those people; but I didn't want any hits on my ratings so I kept it civil. I think I like it so much because a lot of your responses, and the conversations you have sort of play out like real, normal people would talk. It is all very well voice-acted and mo-captured; naturally the earlier games aren't quite so slick looking, but considering how old they are, they're pretty damn good looking. 3 looks amazing.
I'm actually going to be sad when I reach the ending in 3 for the final time; it has been a journey.
scott2978:
I told you guys :)
Just save yourself some grief, and start out playing the whole trilogy from 1 to 3 getting all the DLC for ME2 and ME3. The ME1 DLC you can skip.
There simply is no equal to the Mass Effect trilogy. There is no series of games with the same breadth, depth and character as Mass Effect. There are other good games, great games even - but no trilogies of them where each game plays the same character through a single story across 3 games with the storytelling passion cranked up to 11. My inner gamer wept when it was finally over knowing there was nothing else like it in existence to continue the feeling.
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