Who else is replaying Mass Effect 1 and/or 2 in anticipation of 3?

[micrometers]

I actually find 3rd person shooters to be far superior to 1st person shooters.

It's also more realistic. Let me explain. If you are in a firefight, you know where your body is and where not to put it.

A FPS game does not allow you to realize this. It just gives the view but doesn't help you as much with positioning. Things like cover are kind of impossible to implement in a FPS. At the same time, the shooting action in 3rd person shooters is just as good as in FPS games.

 

[Beev]

Anyone know why they dont have the mac+pc option available for borderlands? Or why steam doesnt have it at all on mac anyway?

My guess is that since the Mac version came out over a year later that no one bothered adding it to Steam, more or less.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

My guess is that since the Mac version came out over a year later that no one bothered adding it to Steam, more or less.

ah, i see. I wanted to buy it on steam for this reason, but for like 8 bucks shipped from amazon, i got the GOTY edition, so still a good deal.

 

[Doppel]

It's been a while, but are the cutscenes in ME2 choppy like they are in ME3? I won't go into detail on why it's BULLSHIT that the cutscenes are choppy to begin with (it's fucking 2012, people).

No excuse, I agree. I don't recall any choppy cutscenes in ME2. I remember maybe one choppy part of play, but a few choppy play from ME1.

Countless times i had to replay the same part. the worst was when i actually took the time to re-equip my squad and all that BS, only to find out when i died, all of it when away. Thered be times when id ay to myself, o crap this might be tough so i better save, and then i cant because the fight started already.

Auto-save in the game is worthless, but you can always manually save. Of course, you need to wait while it saves; in ME2 and 3 you go to menu, click save and you're instantly back in the game. Also, in ME1 you cannot skip cut scenes so if you die in a fight you have to watch the stuff go down again. That is absolutely insane in how annoying it is.

 

[TallBill]

First four hours of ME are boring. Story gets better, as does the game. ME2 is clearly the superior game in every measure, literally every one save its story which is weaker, but it's a great game and better than ME. If you're 10 hours into ME and still don't care, then I'd just stop playing and stop wasting more time on it.

I got 8 hours into ME when it first came out and I shut it off.... however I loved playing all three in sequence starting two months ago. I guess I'm more patient for story as I get older.

Wanting to try playing all three again on insanity.

 

[Nvidiaguy07]

Auto-save in the game is worthless, but you can always manually save. Of course, you need to wait while it saves; in ME2 and 3 you go to menu, click save and you're instantly back in the game. Also, in ME1 you cannot skip cut scenes so if you die in a fight you have to watch the stuff go down again. That is absolutely insane in how annoying it is.

You cant save if theres an enemy. So if you think your good, and get into a battle, you just have to hope you saved in the last x mintues, or get ready to re-play whatever u missed. Takes however minutes to save, which takes away from my whole "blow through the game" experience.

 

[Dessert Tears]

Yes, it clearly is. Nostalgia corrupts memories. The game play of ME2 is far superior. I simply won't entertain anybody's opinion to the contrary; they're wrong. I bet if you took people who played ME1 and 2 back to back, both for the first time without a long time lapse between them (forgetting the annoying parts of ME1), as I did, you'd find a wildly different poll result.

Everything from frame rates to load times to menus to cut scene skipping, all is better in ME2. ME1 was clunky and felt old. ME2 was polished. Its story was certainly weaker, but in every technical area it shined.

You have a point, but ME1 and 2 are hardly Assassin's Creed 1 and 2. The gripes that ME1 fans like myself have aren't with the technical polishing (that's always good), they're with changes to gameplay mechanics. I hate the thermal clips and the single power cooldown. I like the customization allowed by the ME1 inventory, but I can see why players disliked managing it.