playing through Mass Effect 1 the last few days. Man, that game feels somewhat badly designed. It feels like it wants to be both a #crpg and a shooter, and it doesn't quite pull it off.
Also the Legendary Edition I am playing has so many spots that are too dark to see it feels like walking through the game blind at points. If I have to use the map to find the exit of the room there's definitely something wrong.
one of the best parts is actually the parts where you drive around the Mako on various other planets. There isn't much to actually do, but the scenics are sometimes really nice.
@kyonshi the Mako sections were very divisive but I loved them, the series leans harder into being a shooter in later instalments, it feels more polished but loses something in the story parts I feel
@kyonshi Yeah, Mass Effect 1 was real rough, but 2 is a huge improvement.
It had magic, but it definitely was not in the gameplay mechanics or level design. The characters, world, and (to a lesser extent) the story carried it through.
also frustrating: Feros had a few "one-way drops" that really shouldn't have been. I could have climbed them, and I'm a 40yo fat guy with a desk job and bad knees, not the first human spectre.
which became really frustrating when I was trying to leave via one of them because I just couldn't see the actual exit in Feros. In the end I had to use a walkthrough to figure out that there was a dark corner I had missed.
it also... doesn't really have interesting characters. So far the most interesting is John Shepard himself, and he is as boring as a bit of stale bread. And that still is better than the others.
@kyonshi Hm. I really loved Wrex & Garrus right from the start, and Tali was fun, too. The human woman was grating with her space racism and the human man was actually pretty good, but took time to open up. The only crew member I never really liked was Liara - she was too fan-servicey for me.
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