What went right ?

>>376899178
Not a single thing.
Terrible sequel, terrible game on its own.

>>376899312
(You)

Bioware gave a shit.

>>376899178
Only the story is good.

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>>376899178
WiiU port

the world building

>>376899178
Relation with characters.
Went by ME1 without knowing you could talk and do things with you friends.

Then again, ME3 does it better.

>>376899178
Most of the cast was likeable, Vanguard/Adept were fun, Renegade prompts were over the top.

>>376899178
Pandering to retards and turning it into a shooty bang bang Gears clone resulted in great sales. Of course, it eventually killed the franchise.

>>376900183
Ate you attempting to defend the awful gameplay of ME1?

Take off your nostalgia googles. It's a clunky mess.

>>376900340
You're gay

>>376899312
*slap*

Shepard had more character in general, with more entertaining interactions with npcs compared to the first game.

>>376899312
Agreed for the most part. There were some neat additions like some of the new small-time species and more details on the Batarians, and Mordin was a good character, but little beyond that was worthwhile.

>>376900340
>Take off your nostalgia googles

I replayed it a month ago. Neck yourself, pleb.

Daddy Issues:The Game

Better gameplay.
Yes, it was bland, boring and safe, but it was more enjoyable to actually play than ME1.
That said, the story was shit. Not only wasn't it interesting in itself, it affected nothing in the overall story.

>>376899178
Great Climax :)

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>>376899178
Best Shepard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PjTuSQNLI4

>>376899178
They realised that going halves with Action and RPG is usually a bad idea, and an Action game with RPG elements is not only more profitable, but more solid overall.

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ME2 and ME3 become better games combat-wise when you turn power cooldowns off, enable biotics/tech on shielded/armored enemies, and play on insanity. ME2 is the black sheep in terms of combat, because it has ME1's clunkiness with none of ME1's crowd control options and open combat, especially since the encounters are designed around fights that would be more at home in Gears

Looking around the ini's showcases that thermal management like ME1 was in it at one point, and things like non-global cooldowns with powers/tech were default options as well, but given the smaller encounters that require more cover/tactics, it's pretty clear ME2 took a major action-y turn at one point in it's development, to the point where hardcore/insanity are the only way to play without the game feeling trivial, especially since you can make your own biotic detonations. I blame consoles, especially since this is the game that broke 360/PC exclusivity

For all of ME3's faults, combat is fun as fuck with everything unlocked

>>376900340
I replayed it last month. It IS better than ME2. It's a bit clunky but atleast there's some cooldown management and shit, the powers actually do something. ME2 is just a bad cover shooter.

Vamp

>>376899178
it's regression , nothing went right reddit

>>376899178
Why do people like Mass Effect again?

If you look at it as a shooter with RPG elements rather than a full-fledged RPG, a lot of things went right. Too bad it was a sequel to an RPG.

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It has the best OST in the series and that's not debateable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBLOvSb56Vc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsD2FjmLsw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCk4RiKH9H0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apHaczj6vxw

>>376903801
ME1 was a shooter with RPG elements, dunce.

>>376899178
Two things: Your squadmates got more intersting, and Bioware were sensible enough to realize they can't make an action game so they just copied Gears of War
>b-but biotics
Shut the fuck up
Other than that the story is riddled with plotholes, the world building isn't consistent this time around, the RPG elements are weak, your stats don't matter, the paragon/renegade QTEs are the dumbest thing ever since you have no way of knwing what they'll do

>>376903954
This.
Also the galaxy map music is always amazing.

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>>376902182
Also: my hottest take is that ME3 is a better game than ME2, that's not ME3 IS THE BEST EVER, it's just superior to ME2. It's still not that hot after Tuchanka, and takes an even bigger dump during Thessia, but as far as satisfying combat and a consistent story/narrative goes, it feels like you're doing things of substance in comparison to ME2, and Shep feels like an actual character that's part of the story, as opposed to everyone around you getting most of the screentime/writing, with the most Shep gets being "YOU'RE COMMANDER SHEPARD WHOA" dicksucking

ME3 is also elevated to "fairly-competent" status with mods, although I think the happy ending mod everyone fawns about kinda sucks, and I prefer just a straight beeline to the destroy ending without any of the other shittier ones as an option. I think this should've been the case with vanilla ME3, giving you varying degrees of not so shitty/shitty destroy consequences depending on readiness (which most shitters experienced because they didn't touch anything but priority missions)

Liara's time capsule could be the absolute rock-bottom shitty ending result, or for contrarians that REFUSED this option because of the fucking Geth or EDI, despite that too being an emergency DLC addition. Leviathan was also a giant revelation that shouldn't have been DLC either, and they could've played Shep's final fate ambiguous if the last thing he sees is one of them before some fade-to-light before it fires, but again, this was even MORE emergency DLC to continue a storyline that was deemed unneeded after ME1 (like relay usage and dark energy being tied)

The low points are more frequent than the high ones, but they're really nice high's. The Normandy cabin is the video game equivalent of Arnold's attic as far as comfiness goes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFlh9e1nXTM

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>>376903954
Nope, it falls short of the original there as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHkBFymRiOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GgcAhKrkK4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xT2g-539Tk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSbvxccw4ls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6w20wJ0ZYQ

They actually made use of the life support room.

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>>376906876
>life support room
>they put Thane in it

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>>376906771
>vigil

>>376899178
I still can't believe Mass Effect has fallen so far. Such a fucking shame. Who knows where this series would be if Bioware were still developing for Microsoft.

>>376899178
The combat was miles better than the sloppy unbalanced gunplay of ME1.

>>376906771
you're missing one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUKiOcV1SSc

>>376899762
>the world building
So if thermal clips are universal why do I have pistol ammo still when I run out of assault rifle ammo? Why if the advantage is to be able to shoot more do high heat weapons like sniper rifles still have the same time between shots as in ME1? How did an entire galaxy manage to switch to guns that only use thermal clips, why were there no people using the old style, why would a black market like omega not carry guns of the old style?

>>376899178

The characters were more interesting than in the first game. Loyalty missions were a good idea to get us to know them better.

>>376899178
Omega and Mordin. That's about it.

>>376900340
It's fucking leagues better than 2 though.

>no bind spacebar to fuckin everything
>proper armour and weapon builds
>ammo isn't a power
>sprint actually makes you sprint
>weapon accuracy and power directly linked to your character progress and weapon stats like a real RPG
>NO THERMAL CLIPS
>no bullshit weapon/weight restriction for shep or his m8s
>no GCD
>can actually choose to fight out of cover

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>>376903954
>It has the best OST in the series

>>376903954
Except you are fucking wrong.

>>376903954
>no clint the meme man mansell
how can it compare to ME3

For anyone who wants these games without giving EA emone.

Games with all DLC:
https://pirateproxy.cat/torrent/14809187/Mass_Effect_v1.02___DLCs_by_AGB_Golden_Team
https://pirateproxy.cat/torrent/14684082/_Mass_Effect_2_-_Digital_Deluxe_Edition___All_DLCs_repack_Mr_DJ
https://pirateproxy.cat/torrent/11108144/Mass_Effect_3_updated___all_dlc_s_Multi_7_repack_Mr_DJ

Tweaks and fixes:
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Mass_Effect
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_2 (*DO NOT* use vsync or high framerate tweaks, breaks the game)
http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_3

Mods:
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect/mods/1/

http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect2/mods/2/
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect2/mods/68/
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect2/mods/63/
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect2/mods/9/
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect2/mods/7/

http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/363/
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/173/
http://www.nexusmods.com/masseffect3/mods/350/

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ME3>ME2>ME1
prove me wrong pro tip you
Good. You opened this message. This isn't actually asari military command. They're busy tending to what's left of their planet.
So you survived our fight on Thessia. You're not as weak as I thought. But never forget that your best wasn't good enough to stop me. Now an entire planet is dying because you lacked the strength to win. The legend of Shepard needs to be re-written. I hope I'm there for the last chapter. It ends with your death.
-KL

>>376912005
Of course it's the Space Australian shitposting.

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>>376899178
Commander shepard and the entire squad died at the end, apart from joker of course who is the best character.

Cant wait for the sequel featuring joker as the protagonist...

they've reached it's lore, before fucked it up in andromeda. Tuchanka and migrant fleet were initeresting