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Questionable Questing

Valette-Serafina
Valette-Serafina
I'm assuming you're playing through two or three, rather than one.
Vanguard is pretty cool.
Klerg
Klerg
Two, of course. I tend to avoid 3, why I've barely played over 200 hours of ME3.
Valette-Serafina
Valette-Serafina
I liked the way 3 shook up the gameplay. Pity about the story.
Klerg
Klerg
Yeah, the gameplay was awesome. Best parts of 1 and 2, I felt. But there were so many bugs at the beginning. The number of times I had to restart entire missions because Evil Ladders of Doom... and then the unskippable forest scenes, not so moving when the only dead crewman was ashley, and I didn't give a shit about her.
Klerg
Klerg
Sure Mordin and Thane made me sad, but they were going to die soon anyway so no real guilt there...
Valette-Serafina
Valette-Serafina
Earth was pretty sodding terrible. All that buildup for such an underwhelming climax.

ME2 did it so much better.
inverted_helix
inverted_helix
I only ever played ME1 and ME2. I didn't play ME3 because I didn't like the direction ME2 went. I liked the huge number of side quests in ME1 and the large degree of items and point system for skills that made it an RPG. ME2 was mostly just a plain FPS and I didn't think it that interesting.
Valette-Serafina
Valette-Serafina
That's a rather narrow view of what makes an RPG.
Klerg
Klerg
*shrugs* To each their own. ME3 did regress a bit back towards your definition of an RPG as it had a much larger item selection available, and I guess a lot of those quests I did were technically sidequests since they weren't 'priority' missions that advanced the plot.
Klerg
Klerg
But, the plot was terrible. What I'm saying is if you find it in a bargain sale for $5, buy it, and pick up the citadel DLC. If not... Just don't do what I did. I preordered the collector's edition, and bought every DLC as it came out, hoping it would somehow salvage the game.
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