re: Mass Effect & Mass Effect 2

I enjoyed both of them, but I think I can appreciate the first one more as a whole. Second game took out a few of the RPG elements and they tried to make it just a little too streamlined. I hated the inventory system in ME1, but it seemed like they just totally scrapped the idea of inventory in the second game. I like some management of equipment and tweaking stats.

Also, the story in the second really doesn't seem like it goes a lot of places. You spend most of your time recruiting your team rather than advancing the story. The collectors plotline wasn't nearly as interesting as trying to hunt down Saren, IMO. The ending of the first game seemed to be on a much grander scale than ME2 especially with regard to some of the choices you can make at the end(Paragon/renegade choices).

I am interested to see how they plan to handle the Reapers in the third game. I hope that Earth doesn't play too pivotal of a role. It would be better to have a lot of skirmishes with the Reaper invasion at various planets/systems IMO.