Is Mass effect trilogy worth playing ?

Only if you roll gay male shep.

Yes, even though 2 and 3 ruined the potential of 1 it is still such a great universe that it's worth the pain to play it through. Don't bother with Andromeda though.

t. 20+ play-throughs

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well i'm not saying it's bad. but it's a bit clunky.

Shepard.

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First game yes, somewhat.

Spoiler warning in pictures, don't enlarge if you haven't played the trilogy.

I always post this too late in these threads to get any feedback, so i'm just gonna post this now. Rate my intentional "worst possible" playthrough and give suggestions on how to make it worse if you can. The highlights are in pic related, but that's just the most important things that I could remember and that were worth including. I also did things like:
>never had drinks with Chakwas
>never visited Ashley in the hospital
>killed basically every "good person" NPC I could and spared all of the bad ones
>ignored all crewmates except when absolutely necessary
>etc

My galaxy was left an absolute train wreck with the threat of a resurgent Krogan under Wreav and absolutely no hope due to the fate of my Shepherd.

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Nigger

They should retcon ME3 ending (Shep survived and retired with his LI) and then set new game in the future where Krogans were cured (if Shep didn't cure them then somebody else did later) and now we face new Korgan rebellions. Or just a game set in Terminus systems - open new relays, new species and so on.

It is objectively extremely clunky (especially 1), but I also find them all to be very fun. Repeat 100% play-throughs are a bit rough, the absolute dread knowing you'll have to drive the Mako up the steepest mountains in the universe for several hours just to grab all the ores and Turian insignias is hard to describe, but 2 and 3 are much smoother.

Favorite classes:
>adept in 1, ragdoll city
>sentinel tank or infiltrator in 2
>angry vanguard in 3, demolishing everything with charge + nova

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worth adding, only once, so choose wisely. Paragon/Renegade decisions don't have as much impact as you'd expect.

Yes, but in hindsight it was ultimately nothing super special. The stand out stuff is mostly party member shenanigans, but even then there's some real fucking duds. The story wrapped up like shit and most of the bigger ideas went nowhere.

2 ruined none of the franchise's potential.

I AM A BIOTIC GOD

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This would be great, but they'd never do it. I also would like to see them just retcon everything and start over never introducing Reapers at all. This is all just idle dreaming though, that studio is so pozzed that I know they could never do anything competent with this IP again.

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it gets better in the sequels but the strenght is still in the story and world. combat that you do a lot feels more like an afterthought that they refined later on.

The main plot of 2 was more like a drawn out DLC than some massive continuation of the first game. It was a stop gap and basically none of it mattered in the grand scheme of the trilogy.

So it was at worst irrelevant and it ruined nothing. At best, it is a fun romp in the ME universe.

Oh yeah, 100% completion is a bit dull if you played it many times, but that's why you should replay it just once in a few years at most. I mostly just played Soldier. I don't like vanguard as much because it's too squishy and I prefer assault rifles over shotguns and don't like infiltrator in 1 because of how snipers feel in that game (I like snipers in 2 as a backup gun of sorts though).

Sounds cool, wish there were a tool to set up choices easily so I didn't have to replay 1 or 2. I have the patience to make the bad choices for one game but not all 3.

I love this ending, so glad developers put in the time to think of all the possibilities.

It did though, they stripped out all of the RPG elements in favor of shooter improvements (not worth it) and basically cemented that 3 would have to rush to introduce AND conclude the Reaper war which meant deus ex machina bullshit was basically guaranteed.
The reapers were a mistake, but it could've still been salvaged before ME2 came out and it wasn't. I just wanted to enjoy this damn universe and go on little space adventures, fuck bioware.

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Yes, but it's a trilogy where one of the installments is a sidequest. It's part of the reason 3 was trash, they had to have an epic final act without the benefit of a real middle chapter.

Choose

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>RPG elements
Like what, exactly? And I personally blame Arrival dlc more than the base game plotline.

1 and 2 yes, 3 is shit.

>ever picking ashley for any reason

Liara, always. I never romance anyone else.

>it's good if you pick the flecks of shit out of it

I have the first two, never played them though but I'm going to start tonight.
Should I even pick up ME3 or should I just come up with my own headcanon ending and leave it at that?

>It did though, they stripped out all of the RPG elements in favor of shooter improvements
Which doesn't stop anyone from re-implementing them in a future installment, as per the fanbase's wishes

>basically cemented that 3 would have to rush to introduce AND conclude the Reaper war
Why would ME3 have to introduce AND conclude the Reaper was, if the writers didn't want to? Was the point for the Reaper war to start in 2?

>which meant deus ex machina bullshit was basically guaranteed.
Well, introducing several kilometer long unbeatable space squids in a TPS kinda does that.

>The reapers were a mistake, but it could've still been salvaged before ME2 came out and it wasn't
How would ME2 deal with a threat that wasn't fit for the medium to deal with, in a way other than the one we already got?

>I just wanted to enjoy this damn universe and go on little space adventures, fuck bioware.
Didn't you go on a little space romp in ME2? Isn't that exactly what you are asking?

Worth pirating

No, but the first two games are masterpieces. I guess I'm not really qualified because I purposely avoided playing 3.

All I know is shotgun sentinel with Morinth's MC ability in NG+ combined with the hack and assault armor pretty much broke the game. Infiltrator with the anti-materiel rifle was fun too.

I wanted Tali in 1, I wanted Liara in 2.

I seriously wish that guy had been recruitable as a BIOTIC GOD class, but only if you keep him zooted at all times. If his drugs wear off he's useless. By the end of the campaign he would be a totally deranged crackhead.

Don't Asari look like how the person they are with kind of see or imagines them, so like one night you could be fucking a sweet bluberry alien, the next night it could be a horse or something

Whatever user, to me it was an okay game. Just wish they made an ending that would have let us do more games that take place in Milky Way after ME3 and Shep retired.

No, it's that every species focuses on the part of them that most resembles their own race.
A turian literally is like "wow look at her head ridges"
They still have the head ridges when a human looks at them, the human just focuses more on the humanoid face

What was wrong with the original ending? I don't remember what happened, but I know that it wasn't bad

No. They have features other races find attractive. That's it. Anything else in that discussion was mocking internet theorists.

Sniping in one sucks. Even when you're fully trained the scope bobs around like a fishing lure on a river. Just makes it annoying and arguably nauseating.

Strachild crap about purpose of Reapers and all of that shit.

>Yes, but it's a trilogy where one of the installments is a sidequest.
So it's a sidequest. I don't subscribe to that, but lets go with that.

>It's part of the reason 3 was trash
There are many reasons that 3 was trash, writing being one of them and many UI and other technical issues being the problem, fucking around in a war is also another, needing to mask the fact that you are pitted against an enemy that cannot be fought in a plausible manner in a TPS, because ME1 introduced it and there's no way around it, but ME2 being a "sidequest" isn't it.

>they had to have an epic final act
No, they didn't.

>without the benefit of a real middle chapter
Alright. Let me rewrite ME2 into "the epic quest to the secret MacGuffin that kills the Reapers". ME3 rolls out, 6 months in-universe after the events of ME2, Reapers roll into the Milky Way, boom, they're dead. What's the rest of the game?

The first game is.

I started off with pure Soldier too, it's definitely a fun & good class for all 3 games. My last insanity run was pure soldier.
>vanguard too squishy
eh, I wouldn't agree here. In 2 maybe, but in 3 it can be pretty OP if you just chain charge and nova.
>assault rifles over shotguns
I basically always get the assault rifle upgrade on the collector ship unless i'm doing soldier or infiltrator, so that's never been an issue for me.
>infiltrator in 1
Yeah i'm not a fan of that either, adept in 1 is godly AND fun as hell because of the biotic mechanics, I just toss everyone around/ warp and use Wrex to finish them off.

based and niftu-pilled

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So is the second one.

>wish there were a tool to set up choices easily so I didn't have to replay 1 or 2.
I'm pretty sure there is? There's a save editor and that comic DLC "Genesis". I've never bothered with either of them because i'm too autistic not to just play through myself, but i'm pretty sure the save editor lets you do basically everything and the Genesis comic thing allows you to pick all the major stuff. I'm not sure how it would handle minor things though (like Conrad Verner and ME1 collections for example) but it might be worth looking into if you're about that.

You might think it's just another generic space shooter, but it's an unforgettable experience. I do wish it kept the more serious and grounded tone in ME2 and 3, but they're still good sequels.

so THAT'S why they call it Mass Effect "3".....

(also, I choose all. Ash for 1, Miranda for 2, Liara for 3)

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Not really. The characters are fine but the whole thing is a huge sidequest, the main conflict is way less interesting and every mission was not so subtly turned into shooting corridors. It's been a while since I replayed 1 though, so maybe it is the same and I just felt like 2 was a disappointment, like there was nothing to explore at all. Also, fuck retconning ammo back into the universe.