I never finished the third one. I kinda want to revisit and finish the trilogy sometime. I remember enjoying the RPG elements but looking back on it, it really glorifies the military, you're basically the space CIA if I remember right. You also team up with Garrus, who's a vigilante cop and the Space Fascist in the third one, whose genocidal racism is treated like "haha he's like your racist grampa lol".
Great couple games, not enough full frontal Krogan nudity, 8.5/10
I don't really play g*mes often but I did love mass effect. I didn't think too much about political undertones because I would never expect good politics from a space based rpg lol.
They built such a cool and detailed world only to shit it away after the first game
Like the gameplay improved in terms of fluidity, but damn did the storytelling go downhill
And it made sense with the fact that the story is essentially an investigation into Saren and his dealings
With 2 the story starts getting real wobbly, what with forcing you to work with Cerberus because (insert reasons here) and the story basically just being "You need dudes to save everyone"
3 is just gibberish outside of a few particular quests and please don't get me started on the ending
The first one was lightning in a bottle with the world building, and they’ve been flailing trying to recapture it ever since.
Pretty much. They did a star war and got further than most people ever get in a lifetime
Great games. Expecting good politics in your AAA titles seems like a recipe for disappointment.
I loved the first and second but tried to reply them a few months ago and couldn't so take that as you will
I don't know if it's intentional that the only non-shitty faction is the Geth. But I always found that deeply hilarious considering the central theme of the series.
Quarians are basically Israel in space.
Turians are fascist and also forced the Volus into living under their protection.
Asari are hoarding Prothean tech for the benefit of its religious caste and also keeping slaves.
Salarians are a whole species of CIA agents, fighting proxy wars using other species and then genociding them when they're done.
Krogans just kill everything.
Batarians are open about their slavery and racism against other species, which the council uses as an excuse to treat them like shit even when they do the same stuff but with a veneer of respectability.
I can't remember much about the Vorcha other than them doing all the grunt work in pirate gangs.
Protheans are like the amalgamation of all the other groups worst traits.
What few leviathans are left, just sit back and watch the reaping every cycle.
Hanar keep the Drell as slaves just because they helped them out one time.
But the Geth just sort of chill on their homeworld and it's the Quarians that always start shit with them. Also they help all the races that treat them like shit during the war against the reapers even though they didn't need to pick a side in that fight.
Edit: the entire human race is basically modern day America just with better tech. And a fuck tonne of the military was in bed with Cerberus.
Playing ME2 currently and I think it's great with the exception of planet scanning mechanic. Can't decide on the optimal level 30 soldier build.
I tried really hard to like it but just couldn't. Those games are just so unbelievably ugly and boring
And it's weird because I love KOTOR
