Draft said:
ME1 has a better story and better music. ME2 beats it in every other aspect.
But I guess you could argue that story and music are like 2 of the most important things in a RPG, even an RPG that's basically Gears of War with stat distribution. :lol
Well I really liked the story in ME2, I also really liked the story in ME1. If I had to choose I would say I liked the story in ME1 more, but but a tiny margin. I also really liked the
mission and the implications that meant.
As a whole package, I vastly preferred ME2. The story (in my opinion) may be a bit better in ME1, but all the improvements in ME2 made it a much better game. A (slightly) better story doesn't really help when I have to sit through annoying as hell Mako segments or crawl through identical pre-fab dungeons (in the sidequests) to get to that story.
Also the previous comment about ME2 mission structure ("GET QUEST -> GO TO HALLWAY -> SHOOT OUT IN HALLWAY -> QUEST COMPLETE"), I've only picked up Liara so far (after doing lots of side-quests on The Citadel) and it has been a couple years since my last playthrough of ME1, but the Liara mission was literally: Mako-segment, shoot some geth, talk to trapped Liara, shoot a couple more Geth, activate a laser (by hitting a button the aforementioned geth were standing around), talk to Liara, fight one krogan and 4 geth, mission done. In fact, if I recall correctly, every main-story mission has a big Mako segment, seriously, fuck that shit.
A lot of Mass Effect missions is a lot of shooting, yes. Is it a bad thing? I don't think so, I like rpgs and I like shooters. The story in the loyalty missions is awesome, and while I wish there were less shooty ones and more that were like Samara's loyalty quest or the first half of Kasumi's, I thought the story in almost all the loyalty missions were far above most of ME1.
The music, eh. I get that a lot of people really like the ME music, but to me the music did it's job and did it well, in both games. I never thought "wow the music in ME1 was a lot better" when I was playing ME2, nor am I thinking that the music is much better now that I am replaying ME1.
Also calling Mass Effect "Gears of War with stat distribution" is pretty exaggerating, but I get that you are being facetious and intentionally reductive.
Ok after reading through my post I just realized this thread has been de-railed into a "ME1 vs ME2" discussion. Let's talk about what the coming DLC instead, right now I'm speculating/hoping it has something to do with Wrex. Would love to team up with him again, by far my favorite companion in ME1, and seeing as the last DLC was with Liara, I hope this one has Wrex in it somehow.
Lyphen said:
Oh jeez, that laptop was actually being updated all this time? I never read it.
My first playthrough of ME2 was on a copy of the game I borrowed from a friend, so I didn't have the cerberus network code (or Zaeed or Normandy Crashsite) and therefore never saw any Cerberus News. It wasn't until November that I got my own copy of the game to play through again that I noticed there were news updates.
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