Baldur’s Gate 3 is the first RPG that touched me and moved me like ME1-3 did, with the first really being the absolute stand out from the 3 in terms of narrative and story telling quality. I would love to see BioWare knock something out of the park like this again but I reckon those days are long, long gone
@@hyperglance68 yeah I think as a generalisation that is fair. ME2 is terrific though. The pacing is much better, and while not nearly as narratively complex or interesting as the first game, it does a great job of putting a rocket up your butt and making you feel the urgency. The combat was a step forward and brilliantly fun. As a trio, they almost exceed the sum of their parts, assuming you’re willing to squint a little at the ending. BG3, otoh, is the exception that proves the rule (in the bread proving sense of prove). BG3 isn’t just a terrific game, it’s a love letter to the RPG genre and quite frankly the most staggeringly brilliant game in at least a decade. How does anyone get close? Perhaps in the RPG genre - and not counting the new wave of frustration porn Elden Rings, et al - we only get a truly defining one every decade or so. Caveat - I don’t really JRPG so YMMV
@@Benislionheartme2 combat is too reliant on cover shooting and the design of the combat is just sending waves of enemies. Thr biotics took a big nerf and on higher difficulties aren't really that useful anymore. The story is pretty much useless, as it just redoes the first Mass Effect and doesn't really play into ME 3 that much either. Even the overheating mechanic got rewriten for just regular shooter now Most side missions worth talking about are either just recruitment ones or loyalty ones Over all, i would dare to say that the only thing holding ME2 are the characters.
Ashley does get better looking in following installments, and gets her shit pushed in later too. But she just ain't worth losing good boi for. Same with Tali. She just can't even compare with gethy boi.
Whoa, the ATHF bomb scare - I did not expect to be reminded of that. And ME1 came out the same year as the iPhone! And that's when Britney melted down?
Enjoy your only ever blind playthrough, you don't know how much most of us wish we could forget everything about the game to be able to replay it for the first time !
@@6k911Channel Ya mean aside from the fact a remaster looks worse than the original game in the series, the fact it makes graphical lore changes that make no sense, the fact it changes the genre of the first to step in line with the worst of the 3 games. The fact that they altered mechanics and quests? The change in mechanical design?
@jnewgot I mean the second and third one look almost identical, the first one fixes a LOD bug that was messing with PC players forever, and what quests and mechanics are you mentioning? As far as I can tell, even the bugs from the originals carried over, like waypoints not disappearing.
@@6k911Channel A lot of the quests 1 - 3 were changed, some things added, some stripped out. Mostly it made the second game easier which is pretty funny. A lot of the general mechanics of the first game were changed to be closer to 2 and 3 as ARPGs. The gunplay is very different from the original, and so are some of the guns for that matter. Bug fixes are a Red Herring, and you can keep it. Goodbye.
@@IgnoreMeImWrong I can't find anything about quests being changed, the only differences seems to be the change to weapon restrictions to ME1, some added cover, and some difficulty tweaking (like the OP Krogan Battlemaster fight in ME1)
This franchise will always be near and dear to my heart.
One of my all time favs!
I just finished ME1 for about the 20th time and have moved onto ME2, again 😂
Same
I like the games when LORE is narrated
I loved how epic the ending of ME1 felt.
Yeah I thought the ending was pretty good too!
One day I'll play the game without doing all the sidequests. One day.
Can't beleive I missed out on this nostalgia.. Awesome video though!!
Such a good game - such a great RUclipsr!
Thanks!
Baldur’s Gate 3 is the first RPG that touched me and moved me like ME1-3 did, with the first really being the absolute stand out from the 3 in terms of narrative and story telling quality.
I would love to see BioWare knock something out of the park like this again but I reckon those days are long, long gone
Thanks for sharing and yeah I feel the same. I just think sequels in general rarely ever do better than their predecessors.
@@hyperglance68 yeah I think as a generalisation that is fair.
ME2 is terrific though. The pacing is much better, and while not nearly as narratively complex or interesting as the first game, it does a great job of putting a rocket up your butt and making you feel the urgency.
The combat was a step forward and brilliantly fun.
As a trio, they almost exceed the sum of their parts, assuming you’re willing to squint a little at the ending.
BG3, otoh, is the exception that proves the rule (in the bread proving sense of prove). BG3 isn’t just a terrific game, it’s a love letter to the RPG genre and quite frankly the most staggeringly brilliant game in at least a decade.
How does anyone get close? Perhaps in the RPG genre - and not counting the new wave of frustration porn Elden Rings, et al - we only get a truly defining one every decade or so.
Caveat - I don’t really JRPG so YMMV
@@Benislionheartme2 combat is too reliant on cover shooting and the design of the combat is just sending waves of enemies.
Thr biotics took a big nerf and on higher difficulties aren't really that useful anymore.
The story is pretty much useless, as it just redoes the first Mass Effect and doesn't really play into ME 3 that much either.
Even the overheating mechanic got rewriten for just regular shooter now
Most side missions worth talking about are either just recruitment ones or loyalty ones
Over all, i would dare to say that the only thing holding ME2 are the characters.
Ashley does get better looking in following installments, and gets her shit pushed in later too. But she just ain't worth losing good boi for. Same with Tali. She just can't even compare with gethy boi.
Skill Issue if you ain't uniting Geths and Tali in ME3
I used to puck Kaidanbover Ashley in my first play throughs, but after i once pucked Ashley i have been choosing her ever since
Friends came by during a scene with liara..... just sitting there like "look i can't skip it!!"
lol it was my mom for me :/
@@hyperglance68 lol ouch at least my friends were gamers too, a mom tho.. who knows what she thought
Great video! Mass Effect 1 is certainly a unique experience unlike any other.
Yup definitely agree with you on that one!
The best mass effect ❤
Whoa, the ATHF bomb scare - I did not expect to be reminded of that. And ME1 came out the same year as the iPhone! And that's when Britney melted down?
Yup def an interesting year.
I didn't realize Mass Effect came out the same year as the iPhone, Halo 3, and the Britney meltdown either.
Oh damn I just bought the Mass Effect Trilogy for PS3.
Nice!
Enjoy your only ever blind playthrough, you don't know how much most of us wish we could forget everything about the game to be able to replay it for the first time !
2007 really was a year for games man now games are garbage
Neat
...Why are you talking about ME1 but using that shithouse Legendary edition?
What's wrong with LE?
@@6k911Channel Ya mean aside from the fact a remaster looks worse than the original game in the series, the fact it makes graphical lore changes that make no sense, the fact it changes the genre of the first to step in line with the worst of the 3 games.
The fact that they altered mechanics and quests? The change in mechanical design?
@jnewgot I mean the second and third one look almost identical, the first one fixes a LOD bug that was messing with PC players forever, and what quests and mechanics are you mentioning? As far as I can tell, even the bugs from the originals carried over, like waypoints not disappearing.
@@6k911Channel A lot of the quests 1 - 3 were changed, some things added, some stripped out. Mostly it made the second game easier which is pretty funny.
A lot of the general mechanics of the first game were changed to be closer to 2 and 3 as ARPGs. The gunplay is very different from the original, and so are some of the guns for that matter.
Bug fixes are a Red Herring, and you can keep it. Goodbye.
@@IgnoreMeImWrong I can't find anything about quests being changed, the only differences seems to be the change to weapon restrictions to ME1, some added cover, and some difficulty tweaking (like the OP Krogan Battlemaster fight in ME1)