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Subject: Favorite Mass Effect game?
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Poll: Favorite Mass Effect game?  [closed]
ME1:  27%
(4 Votes)
ME2:  67%
(10 Votes)
ME3:  7%
(1 Votes)
Total Votes: 15

ME1 had the best story and the most RPG elements.
ME2 had the best characters and the most customizable ending.
ME3 had the best combat and... well, that's about it, really.

ME1: 9.5/10
ME2: 9.5/10
ME3: 7.5/10

The series really ended on a low note.

  • 12.31.2012 4:20 AM PDT
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ME1 because of Kaiden.

  • 12.31.2012 4:22 AM PDT

Call me Stu

ME2

  • 12.31.2012 4:23 AM PDT

I am the Thorian, known as Species 37 to you people. I am an ancient sentient plant that is fifty thousand years old. My ability to hibernate for thousands of years makes my real age impossible to guess though you are welcome to try.

ME because I'm in it; I'm only mentioned in ME2 and ME3.

[Edited on 12.31.2012 4:25 AM PST]

  • 12.31.2012 4:23 AM PDT

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My favourite is still the first one, but ME3 did have the best combat. Going back and playing ME1 with the power recharge times is rather annoying.

The perfect ME game would be ME3s combat, with everything else about ME1. (Apart from the inventory screen).

  • 12.31.2012 4:24 AM PDT

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What house has a rocket pod, has legs, and has a long narrow barrel that probably shoots something powerful?

Sounds like you're describing the lower half of my body, actually.

All of them.

  • 12.31.2012 4:30 AM PDT

This is a tough one. ME1 and 2 had incredible campaigns but 3 has that horrible ending. But the rest of the game itself is near perfect. ME1 is simply amazing. Going back to it now I can notice a lot of the annoying gameplay elements though.

And ME2 had one of the greatest final missions and ending in any game I have ever played.

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO CHOOSE!?

  • 12.31.2012 4:53 AM PDT

Your average nice guy on The Flood.... D: ..... WAIT A MINUTE....

Mass Effect 3 because of the synthesis ending... wait- WHAT ARE YOU DO-

*Screams*

Yeah definitely Mass Effect 2 for the suicide mission.

  • 12.31.2012 4:56 AM PDT
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ME2 > ME1 > ME3

All great though.

  • 12.31.2012 5:02 AM PDT


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ME2
Simply put, this.

  • 12.31.2012 5:04 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

ME1 - 8.5/10
ME2 - 8/10
ME3 - 4/10

While ME1 had its problems with the clunky combat system, frustratingly bad inventory UI, repetitive environments and popping textures, none of these issues stopped me playing it 19 times through. It's easily the most immersive one of the three for me, especially when it come to side quests because they often interlink which gives your actions some consequence and reward. The Prothean Sphere on Eletania, for example, is something you can only access through the Consort's trinket - which can only be gained by doing Xeltan's quest too. It's amazing how instances like these reward you for doing all the extra stuff, some critical lore is learned, the mystery carries over to ME2's Firewalker missions, and is finally explained in ME3 - only you need to pay 1600 MSP for that particular mystery to be solved...

ME1 has some of the best missions built up through the awesome environments and atmosphere, Ilos and Virmire stand among my favourite missions of all time because of this. Ilos captured a feeling the rest of the series failed to replicate, it was a call-out to the mature, mysterious, alien sci-fi stories of the 80s which ME1 was so in-touch with.

And the villains? Saren and Sovereign are easily the best in the series, the former has some great dialogue and clear motivations, while the latter was absolutely terrifying. Sovereign had his own God-complex sorted out, you were nothing to him and the conversation you have with him on Virmire is unforgettable.

I stand as one of the few who liked the Mako sections on uncharted worlds, it could have been improved but the worlds were stunning and actually made you feel like you were part of a GALAXY, rather than the various shooting galleries in ME2 and especially 3.

  • 12.31.2012 5:13 AM PDT