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Multiplat Mass Effect 3

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Yeah I enjoyed the story in the first one, but after the gameplay refinement of 3, I kinda dread having to go back to it (yay elevators!) to start up a FemShep playthrough.

Enjoyed playing through the third game so much. Not a fan of the ending, but the whole journey getting there was great. Sure there will be an epilogue of sorts coming out this year, which I beleive will be better than rewritten endings.
 
No.1 was a brilliant game, with some somewhat frustrating aspects

Elevator rides, mako, planet exploration, repetitive side missions with more or less identical settings (a cave, a bunker etc)

But the actual gameplay, rpg aspects and story were fantastic. You'd be crazy to discount it if you were a ME fan
 
Mancey said:
But the actual gameplay, rpg aspects and story were fantastic. You'd be crazy to discount it if you were a ME fan
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Exactly.

How long do you reckon a playthrough would be with minimal mako/side missions? My first playthrough was over 30 hours, but I think for my next playthough I won't worry a whole lot about the less important side missions.
 
If you rushed through it...i reckon under 20 would be easily doable
 

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NumberNine said:
Cheers. Though I'll probably go all OCD when I get into it anyway.
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I just did a new Engineer from ME1 to 3, plan was to skimp the side missions. Reality is I went through and did all the Mako stuff. :o Even picked up a couple of ME1 achievements.
 
NumberNine said:
Exactly.

How long do you reckon a playthrough would be with minimal mako/side missions? My first playthrough was over 30 hours, but I think for my next playthough I won't worry a whole lot about the less important side missions.
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I did a story only play through of ME1 a week before ME3 came out and it only took me 14 hours
 
Mancey said:
No.1 was a brilliant game, with some somewhat frustrating aspects

Elevator rides, mako, planet exploration, repetitive side missions with more or less identical settings (a cave, a bunker etc)
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inventory limit.


just about to start the final mission on me 3. loving it so far.


just caught garrus and tali hooking up.
tali: I'm using you for your body Vakarian
garrus: ...and i'm ok with that.

stay boss, garrus.
 
Ant_ said:
I just did a new Engineer from ME1 to 3, plan was to skimp the side missions. Reality is I went through and did all the Mako stuff. :o Even picked up a couple of ME1 achievements.
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what I did love about the Mako missions though was feeling like a space explorer and being on other planets. ME2 lost that a little via scanning and limited missions outside. ME3 fixed it with some absolute EPIC missions being set outside.
 
- My "100%" of ME1 took about 50 hours (excluding pinnacle station and bring down the sky)
- My 100% of ME2 took 43 hours
- My ME3 100% on insanity is so far on 26 hours (up to the first meeting with quarians).

Also am I the only one who thinks that ME2 is by far the weakest of the series? It's gameplay is better than 1, but it's story is weak compared to the other two. After finishing the series I don't see any relevance to the 2nd story at all except for being introduced to Cerberus in more detail and the introduction of the Illusive Man.
 
No doubt the story of 2 is the weakest, think that's been well documented.

Basically the majority of the game is going from place to place recruiting squad members. There's no real revelation or conclusion throughout the game

But yeah, gameplay was a fair bit better than 1, so it's hard to call it the weakest.
 
Jabso said:
I don't know what people are complaining about with the ending. The ending itself was pretty good IMO. The only thing it sorely missed was
an epic boss fight
even if it did include that I wouldn't change the ending(s).
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agreed. i liked it for the most part.

the ambiguous, open-ended and kinda melancholic ending reminded me a bit of the ff7 ending.

not much is revealed aside from the world/galaxy being saved and red xiii running on the cliffs/joker and some crew members landing on a planet still alive.

i loved the "cycle" part of the storyline. i wish there could have been a little more dialogue on that when speaking with the catalyst.

i agree with whoever said they could have fleshed out the illusive man's character/ending though. bit meh.
 

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Mancey said:
No.1 was a brilliant game, with some somewhat frustrating aspects

Elevator rides, mako, planet exploration, repetitive side missions with more or less identical settings (a cave, a bunker etc)

But the actual gameplay, rpg aspects and story were fantastic. You'd be crazy to discount it if you were a ME fan
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Fair assessment mancey :thumbsu:

Hasn't aged well but it's certainly not David Caruso in that regard, 5ish years of big budget 3rd person shooter refinement will do that. I found it very arduous replaying it last year (to bring over a save into the sequels) but have fond memories. Coherent science fiction, cool alien/ship design, hot lesbo action, snappy (for video games) dialogue trees and presentation. At the time I found it eat to look past what were some pretty shoddy shooting bits and all it's other shortcomings.

Won't rank the games in terms of favouries since I enjoyed them all greatly. As to which I'd rather play now, given the choice (and talking singly player only), I'd choose 2, 3, 1.
 
Wow, i'm slowly staring to realize that my opinions of the series are very much in the minority :o:confused:. (2 being worst, broshep > femshep, no need for a bossfight, etc.)

So who was your favorite non playable character across all games. I have two I can't split. It's either Liara or The Illusive Man, because both are really well written and have very good voice acting (Martin Sheen is outstanding and probably my favorite voice actor in the franchise)
 
Hey I agree with you about Illusive and the lack of a boss fight!

Although if there's any truth to the indoctrination theory maybe there kinda was a post modern boss fight at the end, lol

Kinda on the topic, the last 2 ME's use some fairly big names in their vocal talent and I've no idea why games in general don't make a bigger deal about having stars in them. Nearly barred up over New Vegas's cast; pretty much a b-movie dream team and there's nothing on the box to tell you about it!
 
The guy that played Saul tigh on battlestar has become the Kevin bacon of video game voice acting
 
Mancey said:
The guy that played Saul tigh on battlestar has become the Kevin bacon of video game voice acting
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Patrick Stewart likes to voice.:thumbsu:
 
Man, doing a playthrough with my adept femshep on insanity.

Its hard man. Just did the salarian base...****ing cerberus were ****ing me up with turrets. 3 bullets and you're dead

atlas at the end was also ridiculous
 

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I'm doing it with my NG+ level 60 soldier. I'm just about to do the Rannoch mission.

I have taken Garrus and Liara on every mission, because I need Liara for biotics and Garrus because he is good support and has overload for shields.

The hardest mission by far for me was Grissom Academy. Then it was either Geth Dreadnought or Ex-Scientists level.

I'm trying to get all the achievements for all 3 games. ME2 and 3 i just have to beat it on Insanity to have them. ME1 i have a lot of work to do
 
Balony_pony16 said:
Im a bit slow...only started playing ME2 recently...should I finish that game before starting ME3?
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Yes, your character and every decision you make carries over into 3.
 

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