I’ve been replaying the Mass Effect games and I’m really impressed by how great they are.
Someway, even if I really enjoyed them back in the days on my Playstation 3, I feel like it’s now even better now that I get to enjoy the Legendary Edition on my Steam Deck.
I think I might have been too young to appreciate all the work that goes into creating such a universe and how you can just spend time by listening to conversations, look at the world around you and get involved in all the politics and news.
I was also surprized at how integrated the DLC’s are. The other day I started playing the Omega freeing mission in Mass Effect 3, just to discover after a few hours that it’s not part of the main game.
Since I don’t remember my first playthrough, it makes me wonder how many of the DLC’s I’ve played for now.
I’m around 20 hours in Mass Effect 3 and I hope the end is as good as I remember (even if I know that some people where not happy with the end). For now, I don’t even know if there are many endings, so no spoiler please.
All of this, just to say that you shoud get the game if you haven’t played it yet. I got it for around 10$ if I remember, but it’d would even still be worth it at the 69$ they are asking for it these days) I can lower the TDP to 7/ 30 FPS and the game still looks gorgeous on the Deck’s small screen.
I feel like it’s even better than Cyberpunk 2077 while still filling my need of a huge world with a lot of tech stuff and background stories.
Some people are complaining about the always online requirement, but I think you can even avoid it.
I also wanted to add that EA has a bad reputation on Lemmy (and it’s probably justified in a way and not gonna get better soon), but they’ve created some great games over the years. Here is a list of the ones I’ve enjoyed just as a reminder:
-Dead Space 1-3 (3 is great despite everything people are saying)
-Battlefield 1
-Star Wars Jedi Survivor and fallen order
-Need For Speed Shift 1-2
As others have noted, EA acquires devs AFTER they’ve started an incredibly successful new IP and then grinds them into action games from whatever they were until the series has nothing left of what made it good in the first place.
Mass Effect 3 was the first major release with loot crates, for fucks sake!
That was still some of the best multiplayer gaming I’ve ever played. While it was loot crate based, it was far more customer friendly than the modern equivalent.
Agreed, I actually did like the ME3 multiplayer, and played a TON of it. With regard to loot boxes, I was happy that updates were free and progress was achievable without buying in (until I started getting horrible rng on weapon mods and just didn’t get any).
That being said, there’s no arguing it paved the way for the horrible modern equivalent.
For those curious about ME3 multiplayer today, it’s worth noting that purchases are only client side checks, and EA doesn’t care about the property enough to be banning anyone anymore (multiplayer didn’t make it to Legendary Edition), so you can buy all the boxes you want by spoofing your credits with cheat engine with no consequences
ME1 was incredible, despite some clunky annoyances and idiosyncrasies around some game mechanics.
2 was a step down.
3 was …yikes. They spent TONS of time hyping how much impact your choices would have on the final outcome of the series, and then… you get to choose the red ending, the green ending, or the blue ending.
And don’t get me started on Andromeda.
Overall, it got a lot more rails-y as the series progressed, because that’s just straight up an easier type of game to make.
Finally someone else who agrees 1 was better than 2. I still enjoyed 2, and I also had fun with 3 even though it was definitely the worst in the trilogy, but everyone seems to hype up 2 these days as the peak and I don’t quite get it. 1 was clearly the best imo.
I think I’d still say 3 is overall better than 1. The gameplay is just so clunky in 1 that even with the mediocre story, the gameplay of 3 puts it ahead.
EA has a bad reputation everywhere, and they mostly deserve it - even if you barely hear about said hatred anymore, because so many publishers and even a few indie devs managed to supersede their reputation.
*EA made good games. Not so much nowadays. Also, really it was Bioware that made these games, EA is the publisher that later bought them out after Mass Effect 1 had completed development.
I really loved the first Mass Effect game. The second wasn’t quite as good, and I only played the third because I was invested in the plot by then. They kept changing things that didn’t really need to be changed, and making them worse. I liked Andromeda a lot, too. It takes a while to get going, but the more you put into it, the better it is IMO.
I remember with ME2 (and around that time in general) we started getting “online passes” with games which was on top of already paying for Xbox Live. Sad times from EA and the other publishers.
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As others have noted, EA acquires devs AFTER they’ve started an incredibly successful new IP and then grinds them into action games from whatever they were until the series has nothing left of what made it good in the first place.
Mass Effect 3 was the first major release with loot crates, for fucks sake!
That was still some of the best multiplayer gaming I’ve ever played. While it was loot crate based, it was far more customer friendly than the modern equivalent.
Agreed, I actually did like the ME3 multiplayer, and played a TON of it. With regard to loot boxes, I was happy that updates were free and progress was achievable without buying in (until I started getting horrible rng on weapon mods and just didn’t get any).
That being said, there’s no arguing it paved the way for the horrible modern equivalent.
For those curious about ME3 multiplayer today, it’s worth noting that purchases are only client side checks, and EA doesn’t care about the property enough to be banning anyone anymore (multiplayer didn’t make it to Legendary Edition), so you can buy all the boxes you want by spoofing your credits with cheat engine with no consequences
EA is the publisher, not the game studio. They just aquire and profit from Studios that make good games.
And then they consistently enshittify them.
RIP Westwood, Maxis and many others.
ME1 was incredible, despite some clunky annoyances and idiosyncrasies around some game mechanics.
2 was a step down.
3 was …yikes. They spent TONS of time hyping how much impact your choices would have on the final outcome of the series, and then… you get to choose the red ending, the green ending, or the blue ending.
And don’t get me started on Andromeda.
Overall, it got a lot more rails-y as the series progressed, because that’s just straight up an easier type of game to make.
Finally someone else who agrees 1 was better than 2. I still enjoyed 2, and I also had fun with 3 even though it was definitely the worst in the trilogy, but everyone seems to hype up 2 these days as the peak and I don’t quite get it. 1 was clearly the best imo.
I think I’d still say 3 is overall better than 1. The gameplay is just so clunky in 1 that even with the mediocre story, the gameplay of 3 puts it ahead.
EA was publisher, bioware was the developer. Same company that created Baldur’s Gate, KotOR, NWN, Dragon Age.
I’d say they managed to create good games despite having EA as publisher (and eventual owner).
Oh yes you’re right, but then let’s say that a lot of great games were published by EA.
EA has a bad reputation everywhere, and they mostly deserve it - even if you barely hear about said hatred anymore, because so many publishers and even a few indie devs managed to supersede their reputation.
*EA made good games. Not so much nowadays. Also, really it was Bioware that made these games, EA is the publisher that later bought them out after Mass Effect 1 had completed development.
Yeh, Road Rash was the fucking shit, it was all downhill since then.
Oh yeah I forgot this one. I enjoyed it too.
I really loved the first Mass Effect game. The second wasn’t quite as good, and I only played the third because I was invested in the plot by then. They kept changing things that didn’t really need to be changed, and making them worse. I liked Andromeda a lot, too. It takes a while to get going, but the more you put into it, the better it is IMO.
I remember with ME2 (and around that time in general) we started getting “online passes” with games which was on top of already paying for Xbox Live. Sad times from EA and the other publishers.
Its a great trilogy though and ME1 is fantastic.