Sounds like it was the best version indeed then.
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OPINE: Mass Effect was best on PS3
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Sounds like it was the best version indeed then.
Your reasoning of "time matters" contradicts your conclusion, specifically because of when the first game was released, and the expectations surrounding it. I'd say that would have more impact than having a later game released alongside particular DLC.
Also, there were a noticeable number of technical hitches particular to the PS3 version. PC/360 versions are a better choice, I'd argue even in your retrospective line of thinking.
Also, there were a noticeable number of technical hitches particular to the PS3 version. PC/360 versions are a better choice, I'd argue even in your retrospective line of thinking.
SargerusBR
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PC has mods and better framerate/IQ/fps so...no.
Even though if you go by release dates, ME2 came first there...that's not something across the board everyone will experience. I know people on 360 that never played ME1 and got 2 when it came out, or that just didn't have a 360 at the time and likely had the same experience.
Though I disagree that the games work out of order anyway. ME1 just plays so much worse.
Though I disagree that the games work out of order anyway. ME1 just plays so much worse.
Performance-wise ME1 is better on PS3, the other games are better on 360. But that's not the topic.
VARIA
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Pretty much this.
It's hard not to see it this way.
paperspace
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The >1080p60 version is the best, imo!
LumpOfCole
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If I waited to play them on Wii-U, I wouldn't have read Mass Effect Deception. Therefore, the Wii-U version is the best.
I mean, I can't go back and un-play the original before playing 2 in order to actually evaluate but...The first game was the most compelling by a landslide, so I have to feel that having all of the twists in it completely ruined by playing 2 first just makes it a whole lot less interesting to begin with. You found two mysterious and it made you want to learn more? Great. The first game did that too. It's not like 360 owners went in and had all of the answers about the series, we just had a lot more going into 2 than you did.
The last couple hours of ME1 are the absolute high point of the entire series, and you lost all of that on PS3 by skipping that game initially, so I'm just gonna disagree.
The last couple hours of ME1 are the absolute high point of the entire series, and you lost all of that on PS3 by skipping that game initially, so I'm just gonna disagree.
Imbarkus
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Well, you haven't truly suffered with the Maaco unless you've played it with keyboard/mouse controls. Lack of joypad support made the PC versions a bit of a bummer, so I am replaying on PS3, gradually. We'll see.
Who's fool idea was it that someone would want to play on a platform with only chapter 3 available?
Who's fool idea was it that someone would want to play on a platform with only chapter 3 available?
Sorry man, your post rambled a lot, the main points weren't addressed that well. You needed to step back and re-edit it. In my opinion, you should have just wanked this N7 day, it would have been a better commemoration.
I give you credit for trying man.
Yea, but think how good it'll be when they go back and play the first two!
As a general statement regarding playing the games out of order can be done on any other platform, yes this is true. But before ME1 was released at the end of 2013, playing it out of order was your only option on PS3. This is something unique to this platform, and characteristic of it. You could of just as easily picked up a $10 copy of ME1 with your launch copy of ME2 on 360. People chose not to, for their own reasons.
Also, I thought the combat was excellent in 1, like I said it reminded me of Dragon Age Origins, which was the first Bioware game on PS3 and originally came out after Mass Effect 1. The nostalgia from DAO fell right on to ME1, making the experience even more special.
Yeah but then no one would come in here telling me im wrong about frame rates and IQ lol
No actually thats not what im saying. Its because the games were released out of order and totally screwed with the natural progression of expectations set by the series. There is no choice given in the matter. The act of experiencing art is art, and video games have millions of ways to be experienced. What I have presented is a specific experience with art that is fundamentally different than the norm, brought about by forces related to the art that are not a direct result of that art, ie marketing, release dates, availability. The experience of Mass Effect on PS3 only (2011-2013) is undoubtedly shared by thousands of people.
And its not a LTTP thread, I played the game over a year ago. Its less about ME1 and more about how taking a different approach to a series can lead to different results.
1&2 are very different starting points to the series. If you start with 2, you are a revived clone basically, with little knowledge of your past. Called it modern AAA design, but they expected 2 to be alot of peoples first ME game. You get the Kratos-style death and return of the hero, but all your powers and stuff are lost from before. Whether you agree or not, ME2 was more esoteric and intriguing to me because of my limited knowledge of the universe/events, like Shepard after Cerberus revives her.
Also trust me, nothing was lost by playing ME1 last, I loved every inch of that game and it made me appreciate the accomplishments of 2&3 more.
Thanks professor, glad to know I still get participation points
God I still waiting. Performance on console is terrible.
Audible Phonetics
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I'm a Sony fanboy but I preferred playing ME on my 360. It had the better overall performance and controls
Somebody who's only experienced playing Mass Effect 1 last simply cannot claim that nothing is lost as a result. How are you to know? You have no idea what playing ME1 first was like. Someone playing the original first would have likely had that heightened appreciation for the accomplishments in the sequels, because they already had the context that you didn't get until you later played ME1.
This isn't about if you still enjoyed it or not. You can't say for sure that you wouldn't have enjoyed it more before, when it was first released and was one of the most impressive experiences available on consoles.. If you can claim that nothing is lost in playing ME1 last, then the whole premise of your thread becomes invalid because you're then essentially claiming that the order of each game is unimportant.
Zeouterlimits
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God I hate bad thread titles.
Glad you liked ME1 OP, it's certainly the best in the series.
Glad you liked ME1 OP, it's certainly the best in the series.
Doug Heffernan
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No, just no.
The first game wasn't even available to play until after Mass Effect 3 released.
The first game wasn't even available to play until after Mass Effect 3 released.
ROUGE_BLOCK
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Well OP that is your opinion. However it seems like a giant bible justifying your confusion with the later sequels, and revering ME1 as a holy experience because you finally got all pieces of the puzzle to fit in place.
I played the games in sequential order as they came out, great games indeed. However, I would've been damn confused starting at ME2. Best experience for me was playing them in order on the 360 because well that is the way trilogies are written to be experienced.
It's cool though you had like a biblical experience with these games and grew to love them.
I played the games in sequential order as they came out, great games indeed. However, I would've been damn confused starting at ME2. Best experience for me was playing them in order on the 360 because well that is the way trilogies are written to be experienced.
It's cool though you had like a biblical experience with these games and grew to love them.
Krappadizzle
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Maybe you should have said this then. Halo MCC is a game that I imagine a lot of people will be doing similar things with as well.
Nothing lost doesnt mean nothing gained. As a counter-point, someone who played the first game first cant say that something is lost by not playing it first. You dont know what Its like to walk in to the sequel blind. I was "lost" I suppose, but as I said the game and narrative was built to accomodate people that never played the first. Shepard has amnesia and people need to explain basic plot elements to her because she doesnt know them. Its a familiar trope, you can find it in many places.
TheUnsunghero26
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BioWare disagrees (24 mins in).
First game has problems on everything (360 has bad screen tearing and pop in when not installed, PS3 has long load/save times and is prone to audio problems, no motion blur), but 360 and PC have more content (Pinnacle Station). For ME3, it's not even close.
Yea, but if something is gained by playing it last, then that says something is lost by us playing it first. Now, I'm not going to claim that definitely isn't the case for the same reason (I've never experienced playing it last). Your entire thread premise is based around what you've gained by playing it last. I (and others) have detailed things we gained by playing it first. You can't claim to have not lost these things, because you haven't experienced them the same way.
What we're really arguing here is if the things you believe you gained playing it last outweigh the things we believe we gained by playing it first. Not many of us believe it does, simply due to our recollections of just how fucking awesome the universe of Mass Effect seemed at the time of the original game's release, before the sequels scaled back some of those ideas into the realm of feasibility. Had we played the sequels before, we never would have viewed these aspects in the same way. When you get a description of the Reapers, someone that's already played ME2 can picture the huge Terminator knockoff. Someone who hasn't played ME2 is probably thinking more along the lines of "god in machine form".
TheUnsunghero26
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I'm reminded of EA's marketing for ME3. "With Mass Effect 3 there's never been a better time to start!"
That's not true at all though, the sense of 'wtf is going on' in regards to the period of lost memory shep has is present REGARDLESS of whether you played one first or not, that's very different from knowing what happened in 1 prior to playing it.
Playing the first game and then playing the second we still had no idea what happened during those two years, the narrative of 2 does not assume that you have no idea of the plot of the first game, however. In fact, it operates very strongly assuming that you know what is going on in the overall story. You can 'appreciate' the end sections of ME1 in hindsight all you like, but at the end of the day the reveals of the Reapers, the Protheans and the cyclical nature of what was happening were completely out of the blue if you went into the first game blind. None of that is preserved if you play it later, none of it. It was actually a mind-blowingly well thought out twist at the time, and while I have no doubt that the game from Ilos and the Citadel remained extremely intense and exciting, the sense of being overwhelmed by the exposition that accompanies it has no chance to be there.
tldr: Everything we 'didn't know in ME1 that was meant to be a surprise, was a mind blowing surprise if you play it first. This is not preserved if you play 2 and 3 first. Flipside - everything you didn't know in ME2 when you start the game up? That same shit is totally unknown to ME1 players as well since it's all about a gap in Shep's memory.
feint_ruled
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I had a similar experience to you OP, I kind of see where you are coming from. I played and loved ME2 but as a PS owner only I had resigned myself to never being able to play the first one. Hence when it arrived it was like discovering a long lost opening chapter of a beloved book.
(No one is saying it is in anyway technically better on PS3 of course - I have seen watercolours completed quicker that it took that game's textures to draw in.)
(No one is saying it is in anyway technically better on PS3 of course - I have seen watercolours completed quicker that it took that game's textures to draw in.)
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