Mass Effect Legendary Edition - it's pretty gud

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Absolutego said:
that and a main villain with a toilet seat for a head. And an obnoxious omniscient narrator AI jabbering in your ear at all times.
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That sounds... annoying. I'll wait and see how I feel about it the prospect after I eventually finish ME3. It's going for $20 on G2A right now.

Does ME2 let you customize the Normandy at all?
 
White Devil said:
That sounds... annoying. I'll wait and see how I feel about it the prospect after I eventually finish ME3. It's going for $20 on G2A right now.

Does ME2 let you customize the Normandy at all?
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It lets you purchase upgrades for it that play a role in the final mission but they're not cosmetic. They kept re-making the Normandy between games. 2's has a totally different layout from 1's, same for 3 vs 2.
 
White Devil said:
Sooo, thread necro.

I got ME:LE for free I think on Amazon last year. Finally decided to sit down and play the first game. I had tried it at a friends house in 2007 when it came out originally but for some reason it just didn't jive with me, despite on the surface having everything a sci-fi nerds into. I loved Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire, so you'd think I'd have been instantly into this BioWare game when they were still in their prime, alas...

So I started ME 1 and honestly, I kind of regret not giving it a chance all those years ago. The menu systems, shit as they are, are such a nostalgic throwback. I love how much of an unrepentant asshole you can be as Shepard, the writing is pretty sharp and reminds me of the before times before Whedonisms took over dialogue in media. The character customization I thought sucked, but they all did back then. Knights of the Old Republic's was garbage too and took from the Jedi Knight games, which were as bad. That being said, I got my Shepard to not look like a mongloid.

I don't mind the RPG bullet sponge mechanics much, since I went exploring everywhere and doing side missions first before I even got Liara. Now I have everyone almost completely maxed out and I have all the Spectre guns for Shepard so I don't expect kicking Saren's ass to be that hard. I can understand why some people wouldn't like those mechanics because it does feel grindy but I'm only playing a few missions every couple nights.

The story itself doesn't feel that original (maybe it would have back in 2007) but it's fun and engaging none the less. I wanted to do a pure xenophobic playthrough but this being my first time playing, didn't want to miss all the optional content in the game because of that. Still, the Renegade dialogue options are nice. I wish the armor was more "customizable", in mods and appearance. I felt since the guns get two mod slots the armor should as well, though in my current playthrough I think I have all the top armors for everyone now so it doesn't much matter.

All that being said, I think I'm about halfway through the story and I'm enjoying the game. I hope 2 is as good and I'm seriously considering picking up Andromeda to try out after I eventually beat 3.
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I didn't think the story was meant to be original; the games are kind of a pastiche of older sci-fi films, down to the music style and the film grain option. It may have been the last game series able to look fondly to the past and celebrate it in an exciting new universe rather than just doing the "same old universe except now everyone's a flawless White woman or trans" thing. I remember thinking that it was Star Wars for people who were sick of Star Wars, like I was. It was like you were playing a movie from 1985, I loved it.

And you're right, Joss Wheden ruined absolutely everything.
 
PST Stan Account said:
I didn't think the story was meant to be original; the games are kind of a pastiche of older sci-fi films, down to the music style and the film grain option. It may have been the last game series able to look fondly to the past and celebrate it in an exciting new universe rather than just doing the "same old universe except now everyone's a flawless White woman or trans" thing. I remember thinking that it was Star Wars for people who were sick of Star Wars, like I was. It was like you were playing a movie from 1985, I loved it.

And you're right, Joss Wheden ruined absolutely everything.
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I think OG Star Trek is the better comparison than Star Wars, but I agree with your overall point.
 
Absolutego said:
I think OG Star Trek is the better comparison than Star Wars, but I agree with your overall point.
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Definitely. Traveling from system to system and getting missions from 5th Fleet feels very episodic and Starfleet-y. Having to deal with alien races in an uneasy alliance, unearthing new shit and metals, etc. It feels like a less optimistic Star Trek. The Geth are some kind of Dr. Who or Cylon bullshit though.
 
Absolutego said:
If you are feeling rather mid on the story you'll probably like 2 the most. It's definitely the game with the most overall polish. 3 might feel a bit slapdash and even people not invested in the story thought the ending missed the mark.
Unless you're one of the dudes who loves collecting feathers and whatnot in Assassin's Creed games, don't pick up Andromeda. The gameplay is extremely shallow, the writing is absolute garbage, and they borrowed too much from Ubisoft's notes on how to build open world maps.
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ME:Andromeda in terms of story and aesthetic is pretty much Halo 4.
 
Mass Effect Andromeda was such a weird fucking game. They could have literally set it in the milky way, had you explore a recently opened relay, have that relay explode and little about the story would have changed.
 
Johan Schmidt said:
Mass Effect Andromeda was such a weird fucking game. They could have literally set it in the milky way, had you explore a recently opened relay, have that relay explode and little about the story would have changed.
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That would involve creativity and the inability to tease Quarian/Asari expansions as DLC for their dead-on-arrival game.
That aspect of Andromeda has the most greasy EA fingerprints all over it.
 
Johan Schmidt said:
Mass Effect Andromeda was such a weird fucking game. They could have literally set it in the milky way, had you explore a recently opened relay, have that relay explode and little about the story would have changed.
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I was really hoping that it would be a retelling of the Reapers story in a new death/rebirth cycle, where the player knows more about what's going on in the universe than the characters because of the context from the trilogy, but less about Earth and Humans since it's not our Earth. Showing how certain events and evolutions are inevitable, what was different in this cycle from the others, which alien species developed the same and what new ones appeared...I clearly had too much hope.

Also, since I wasn't terminally online to complain about it then - the original ending to ME3 was perfect and I'm sure that all of the titty babies who complained until they changed it were part of why they went so bland and safe with Andromeda and killed the series.
 
I got the Legendary Edition for free and Andromeda for $3. I'd never played the series before and the trilogy's been eating my free time with playthrough after playthrough bc it appeals to my world building and lore autism a lot.
I know Andromeda's largely panned but I'm going to check it out after this last trilogy run just to see if it's worth the $3 I paid for it
 
PST Stan Account said:
the original ending to ME3 was perfect
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Purple Pepsi: Zero said:
I got the Legendary Edition for free and Andromeda for $3. I'd never played the series before and the trilogy's been eating my free time with playthrough after playthrough bc it appeals to my world building and lore autism a lot.
I know Andromeda's largely panned but I'm going to check it out after this last trilogy run just to see if it's worth the $3 I paid for it
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Andromeda isn't the worst, it's just not great. Entirely too much hamfisted LGBT shit that doesn't fit in at all, and almost no likeable npcs. There's also a lot of stuff that just doesn't make that much sense. It does have a few good points, but they really are outweighed by the dumb shit. It's sad, because there really was solid potential there, but they really shit the bed on it. The game mechanics and controls aren't bad at least, and it has way more weapons variety over 3, which is nice.
 
I actually liked Andromeda far more than I did ME3. MEA definitely has a ton of problems - a lot of shit writing being a core issue - but as a video game in general I had a lot more fun with it than I did Mass Effect 3.
 
Tor Lugosi said:
I actually liked Andromeda far more than I did ME3. MEA definitely has a ton of problems - a lot of shit writing being a core issue - but as a video game in general I had a lot more fun with it than I did Mass Effect 3.
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I thought I enjoyed ME3 more than I did, but on a replay I just really liked the great multiplayer. It felt rushed in places and too short in others, weird game.
 
I bought a used copy of Andromeda after all the patches were applied and went in with extremely low expectations. Honestly? It's a decent experience on its own. Not necessarily good, but serviceable enough. They just fucked up hardcore in regards to what could've and should've been, so it's more of a disappointment than anything. I legitimately liked Drack and Vetra.
 
I liked 2 the most but that's because most of my favorite characters all wound up being introduced there: Grunt, Legion, Mordin, Thane, etc. As for 3 I have the luxury of never playing the original ending that rightfully pissed so many fans off so I didn't wind up as angry as I thought I would be when it finally happened (even if it was bullshit). 1 was great and it shows its age in the best way possible, sort of like Dragon Age Origins. You can tell it's from that era of games and it's not something you could ever recreate today, even if Bioware was still good and not a shambling corpse.
 
The Fair Lady said:
I bought a used copy of Andromeda after all the patches were applied and went in with extremely low expectations. Honestly? It's a decent experience on its own. Not necessarily good, but serviceable enough. They just fucked up hardcore in regards to what could've and should've been, so it's more of a disappointment than anything. I legitimately liked Drack and Vetra.
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If it was the first mass effect game to come out I don't think it would have been shit on as much, but I definitely don't think it would have been regarded as stellar by any means. The krogan were the only part of that game that they did a decent job with. The terminal entry on the krogan trying to figure out dating was absolutely hilarious to me.
 
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