The Mass Effect Series
 

From reading the one thread about what people are looking forward to, ME3 was at the top of the list. ME1 was the reason I bought an Xbox 360. I was a fan of bioware from KOTOR. I played a little of ME1, and I went and bought a 360 and the game.

ME2 was amazing. Many upgrades, and some downgrades IMO, from ME1. I did think it had to many characters. I mean I loved all of them, but other than doing their character missions, they didn't add to the over all big picture. Or maybe they did. I am torn about that.

ME3 looks amazing. I Can not wait to play it.

Any other fans of ME want to share what they think of the games?

Well, I've been two hours into the first Mass Effect since I bought it during Steam's Thanksgiving sale. I have to say, as someone who downright hates RPG games, I actually did enjoy what I managed to squeeze in of this one. I guess it was the setting more than anything, as I can hardly stand most fantasy-based fiction. I should probably start up with it again.

Owning a PS3, I've only played ME2, But I was amazed by it. Preordered the Big version, does suck that it releases the same month as Streetfigther X Tekken, which I also preordered.

Since you have it on PS3, do yourself a favor and get that motion comic of ME1. Playing ME1 is ideal, but since you are on PS3, at least do the next best thing.

Huge fan of the series here. While most people got the 360 for Halo, I bought it specifically to play Mass Effect.

Gotta say, I'm use to the player characters in these kinds of games to be mute, but when I first started playing ME, it blew me away that the character was voiced.

I have the first game on PC, and bought the PS3 version of 2, I have the Collector's edition for 3 on Pre Order, normally don't bother getting collectors edition but all the stuff they crammed in there almost makes it feel worth the extra 20$ You gotta shell out. One more month..cannot wait!

See I could never play it like that. I would have to play all three games on the same console or PC. The joy of playing ME is that all your choices matter between games.

I know. At least Me2 on the PS3 has the Interactive Comic, even if it does only transfer over the main events, it's still better then nothing.

Yeah. Just make sure you do it a couple times. Just to see how ME2 changes with different choices.

My favorite game series right now. I too began to fall in love with Bioware thanks to KOTOR. Mass Effect was the first game I ever played through more than once. I played through the game 4 times to unlock every achievement and loved every minute of it.

ME2 was an awesome sequel and I think they did a good job streamlining most things (except maybe, scanning planets for resources?). They did a great job of pulling me deeper into the world, and I just thought the environments seemed all around tighter and more enjoyable to spend time in. The difficulty was ramped up a bit, never did my insanity run, and I never did play through any of the DLC yet.

VERY much looking forward to ME3, unfortunately I have a crap ton of games in my backlog right now, some of them being heavy hitters (like Skyward Sword, Dead Souls, Skyrim) but I know when my collector's edition of ME3 shows up, everything else will get pushed aside.

That's the plan. I just don't like how I won't have Conrad Verner in my game. Shooting him in the foot alllllllways cracks me up.

Yeah. They should have had that in the motion comic. Do they let you chose if the Rachni queen lives or dies?

Yes, here's the events you get to choose on:

Romantic relationship with Kaiden/Ashley/Liara

Saving/killing the Rachni queen

Saving Ashley/Kaiden

Saving Wrex

Saving the council

i LOVE Mass Effect. the only thing i regret in my ME2 game was doing the leftover missions before going in to the big last mission. now all my crew including that cute assistant i had is dead :,( i think i might do the last run on a previous save if i have one, i need to get ready for 3!

I did the exact same thing. I need to go reload one of my previous save to rectify this. Crap now I want to play the game again haha.

Before you get legion make sure you have done any and all side missions you wanted to do. Then make sure you have done ALL of your teams personal missions. This means once you get Legion, you talk to him and get him to tell you about his mission. You then do this RIGHT AWAY. Do not do anything else but legions mission.

I've done the last mission with Legion surviving, and I didn't have his loyalty.

But how many of your team died?

None. I had all of their loyalty missions done but Legions. I'm usually super careful during the suicide mission.

Did you use legion to do any of the tasks in the final mission?

Nope.

Try doing that. He probably will die. My original point though was this: If you don't go right to the final suicide mission when it says, READY TO GO, at the end, your crew will die :/

If you plan on going on any other mission after the crew has been taken, you
WILL lose a certain number of crew members:

0 Missions - Saves the entire crew!

1-3 Missions - Lose half the crew, and watch as Kelly Chambers is slowly killed

4 or more Missions - Everyone but Dr. Chakwas will die.

it was so depressing doing the DLC missions with nobody aboard the ship (i usually save those for last) that i dodnt really care what was going on because i felt like i had failed so poorly at the end.

speaking of the end, so far both of the games endings have been a little... awkward. so after the big climactic battle, theres a few missions left over, and it just feels mundane doing them, knowing that the big enemy is defeated and youve saved the day, but everybody in the universe is like, "so what, you saved the universe. big friggin deal! go do my menial collection task for me, and ill give you credits yada yada yada". i hope the last(is it the last?) game addresses this issue.

I never do the DLC/Side missions after I beat the main game. I like doing it all before I beat the game. Also, no one cares you did anything because they don't know you did anything :P I am also not sure what issue you think needs addressed. Can you clarify please?

I just paid for my pre order of the collector's edition...March can't get here soon enough!

i see your point, its true Shepard and crew are trying to defeat the Collectors, and all that anyone knows of them are rumors, so no one would know they've been defeated since nobody knew they existed in the first place.

however i still have a problem with how the endgame in ME2 was structured. you must go to the final battle mission if you want to save Kelly and the crew, leaving a handful of side missions incomplete. you can either do them all before the final fight, but as we all know you incur a penalty. its an incentive to leave quests unfinished, which is stupid. logically after you beat the final boss most people lose interest and consider the game done and move on. the side quests are put there by the devs to pad out the game. i guess we should thank them for un-padding their own pad?

i guess what im trying to say is, why have extra missions if the player gets penalized for doing them while the tension of the main story is still there? its a strange mechanic that seems unnecessary to the game experience to me, and should have been left out i think.