Good game or overrated slop?

>>713273160 (OP)
The first game is space opera game kino. Fuck every adhd riddled kid that complained about the mako missions and rpg elements. 2 destroyed the potential of the series and now there's basically no hope of bioware competently growing the rpg systems of the first.

>>713273160 (OP)
Good game, even if it's a little wooden sometimes

>>713273160 (OP)
Almost a masterpiece but still kino only held back by the tech of the era

>kino
>slop
2 posts in, will gen z ever learn to use proper adjectives?

>>713273160 (OP)
I was going to say it's slightly overrated, but judging by the replies in this thread it's VERY overrated.
Stiff as a third person shooter, streamlined and casualized as an RPG
The best parts about it are the moments it genuinely captures a feeling of space exploration with the Mako or docking with an unknown space station.
Characters are ok.
A lot of the writing is Star Trek tier, and not in a good way.

>>713274504
Chap, its quite swell. The bees knees if I do say

>>713274567
>The game that was never meant to be a space exploration game doesn't have space exploration.

>>713273160 (OP)
1 is the only good game in the series.

>>713273160 (OP)
good slop

>>713273160 (OP)
the 1st couldnt even play it cause my MC always looked shit

>>713276945
you made a custom Shepard retard?

>>713275865
the fuck are you talking about

>>713273160 (OP)
KOTOR if it was gay and lame

>>713274229
>only held back by the tech of the era
How so? Maybe my lack of imagination, but hard to imagine what better tech would have improved. Maybe it would have made things worse. Limitations breed creativity and all that

>>713273160 (OP)
Half of ME1 is a great space RPG in a cool setting.
The other half is copy-pasted planets with one out of four copy-pasted dungeons.

>>713277221
KOTOR was also gay and lame
Both are mildly improved by their direct sequels but are still gay

>>713273160 (OP)
good

>>713277094
I'm saying ME1 wasn’t built around space exploration mechanics, so whining that it didn’t deliver on that is like buying a steak and complaining it’s not sushi. The exploration stuff was flavor—just enough to make you feel like you’re in this big galaxy before it throws you back into conversation wheels and corridor shooting. It’s not No Man’s Sky and never pretended to be.

>>713273160 (OP)
overrated.

>>713281426
Anon you buffoon, you goofball
I am saying my favorite thing about the game was exploring unknown planets with the Mako or docking with unknown space stations
Or any of the moments the game captures the feeling of exploring its universe.
I'm saying it DID deliver on that fantasy for me.

Also No Man's Sky is terrible for that feeling imo. It's not a space exploration game so much as it's a procedural generation algo exploration game.

I prefer 2

>>713282882
Damn man sorry to hear about the brain injury.

>>713273160 (OP)
Slop, just play Star Control 2

>>713273160 (OP)
Bit overrated and combat/movements feel janky in the first game, but it's ok game.

>>713273160 (OP)
Never played it, but from 2nd hand experience the first 2 are kino. An original attempt at a new starwars/startrek IP. Great dialogue which Bioware used to be known for. Major choices about which of your crew lives or dies. Very distinct races and characters. Even has inter-alien racism and genocide options.

>>713275865
>Starfield Fan
"Oh god a plot? Characters? I don't want THAT shit in my game!"

>>713282967
no, that'd be if I said I like Andromeda the most

I hold the unique position that ME1 indeed has the best atmosphere, ME2 is the overall best game because it has some "sandbox elements" to it, or "open world" elements perhaps is a more appropriate description. ME3 overall is just a complete dogshit game because it's very linear and the ending is boring.

Story wise:
Mass Effect -> Mass Effect 3 -> Andromeda -> Mass Effect 2

Gameplay wise:
Mass Effect 3 -> Andromeda -> Mass Effect 2 -> Mass Effect

Character wise:
Mass Effect 2 -> Andromeda -> Mass Effect 3 -> Mass Effect

>just started watching Farscape
>finally understand the Claudia Black thing
what a woman.
also, ME should be left in its grave, I haven't trusted BioWare for about 13 years now. Let it die peacefully instead of resurrecting the corpse or easy money

>>713273160 (OP)
Extremely good sci fi vidya. The sequels are disposable trash for normalfags.

>>713284117
I feel like 1 is only first with regards to story because it's the most consistent not because the actual story is that interesting. With regards to characters I always thought the characters were pretty meh and I love mass effect. Doesn't help that you can only talk with characters after missions and at some point their conversations just drop and you listen to the same stock answer. The romance also always plays out the exact same. Also basically no party banter in 1 and literally zero party banter in 2 and in 3 it's pretty easy to miss. Always thought that Dragon Age Origins did characters way better than all of ME. Way more conversations and being able to talk literally whenever youn want, party banter that dwarves pretty much the entirety of ME and if you don't like them you can pretty much kill all of them.

>>713283282
>Very distinct races and characters
lmao cmon

>>713284117
The jetpack in Andromeda is so fucking retarded

>>713285810
Kinoscape.

Overrated schlop and what's worse, console schlop.

>>713285810
Based Farscape chad. I feel as though the Asari have to be at least loosely based on Zhaan but I haven't found anything that proves it really.

>>713273160 (OP)
I like it a lot, even more than 2 and 3.
It's janky but the limitations make it good in a strange way.

>>713287385
>big-tittied blue ladies with "the fourth sensation"
>renowned among other species for "their appetites"
I think you're 100% correct. Mike Gamble stole that shit

>>713287543
Not the only thing they stole

>>713287624
Paying homage to your heroes usually produce the best games.

>>713287715
And looking at the quality of gays in space it wasn't a homage but a retarded rip off.

>>713287809
It's only a reflection of yourself so that just means you're a fag.

>>713288397
It's only a reflection of the game's target audience- smelly consolefags.

>>713273160 (OP)
First one? Good.
Rest of the series, overrated.

I say this as someone who has played through the whole trilogy 12+ times

It's both. Mainly because the shit people rate highly about it is fairly retarded, like pretending the basic additive skill system or copy pasted guns with slight number changes are complexly nuanced. Or that it's good for biotics to solve combat and play the game for you on any difficulty.
>fuck up a huge plot point for Saren by never giving him his non-Reaperized model so like 90% of his scenes make no fucking sense, have to fix it with a mod
>Shep directly asks Sovereign what the Reapers motives are, and the writers basically just admit then and there they have absolutely no fucking clue so they lamely dodge it
>some big choices are very retarded and nonsensical, like allowing the Council to die under the expectation they would have no succession system and just let the Alliance install a pro-humanity Council in spite of just demonstrating how unreliable they are
I would say one huge advantage though is that ME1 is not afraid of letting players miss or skip content with dialogue. 2 and 3 love forcing weak shooting galleries while 1 often let you avoid combat altogether with interesting dialogue.

>>713273160 (OP)
amazing game totally worth playing today

>>713277076
I always play as my custom sheppard. my custom sheppard looks great.

3 was so bad i don't play bioware games anymore.