Is Mass Effect 2 the greatest compilation of play styles ever?

A couple years ago, I played through ME 1, 2, and 3 in succession. When I was done, I was like "yep, never having an experience like that again."

Took awhile to come down off that high

Best game ever to me. I've played it about a dozen times.

I know I'm in the minority, but I like ME1 better. The universe seemed small in the second game compared to the first. I never got to experience that sense of awe of driving around on a foreign planet in the second game. The Firewalker missions were fun, but you didn't really have much freedom in them. That sense of exploration is one reason why I am really looking forward to Andromeda.

Plus, come on, every knows that the probing for resources system was one of the worst things in any of the ME games. Though the inventory of the first is a close second.

It's up there.

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Keybinding, CHECK 

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God dammit.

This is a metric for you. I do agree, especially on PC.

I agree, I've always thought ME1 was the better of the two. I just remember not being able to put it down, ME2 just didn't feel the same.

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A couple years ago, I played through ME 1, 2, and 3 in succession.

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I played 1, 2, & 3 for the first time last year. Played them twice in succession. Really great games and yes that includes 3 because by the time I played it, it had the expanded ending and I didn't need to play some multi-player BS to get the best ending.

All 3 games were loaded with emotional moments. MORDIN!!!

I started 2 weeks ago. I'll finish this weekend and I'll probably jump right into 3.

My only beef with 3 is the overly large reaper invasion. Too many ships. By the time I finished gathering troops, getting their loyalty and getting all the quests done, every planet in the universe would be a burnt husk.

I skipped playing 1 this time because I hate the Mako that much! Although I do love the hell out of the closing song at the end of 1.

Great story, choices and gameplay.

I love the entire trilogy, but ME2 probably had the weakest story of all three. There was hardly any major plot advances. Most of the game was centered around the personal storylines of the crew members.

Of course key binding is part of your criteria for what makes a game great

ME2 was great. The biggest issue I had was they went too far in the opposite direction from ME1 in regards to items. There was item overload in ME1. They removed all of them in the 2nd and just had a few customization items.