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Originally Posted by Pants
ME1 will always be #1 for me. Shit, it's probably my 2nd most enjoyable single player experience of all time (the first being KOTOR, of course).
Sure, looking back at it, the gameplay was a little clunky. The story was so engrossing, though, that it made the clunky gameplay completely irrelevant. I didn't notice any of it when I was trying to discover WTF were these Protheans and what in the world were the Reapers all about. I sure as **** didn't notice it as I was exploring the Citadel and all the planets, getting every sidequest and listening to every possible bit of dialogue in the game.
I remember sitting there completely mind-blown while listening to or reading the codex entries. Every little detail was explained with such elegance. The universe was fleshed out to the fullest. I had my own goddamn space ship. With a goddamn Galaxy map. I could go and explore all these different planets. Holy shit the dialogue was amazing... Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that ME1 was a true masterpiece as far as I'm concerned. Don't get me wrong, I think the next two installments certainly lived up to the standard but never completely captured that perfect ME1 essence.
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I definitely understand and empathize with this sentiment. ME was nevw and as novel as a space opera gets. Aside from the gameplay, I love the latter part of the second and early third act of ME 3, when you see Shepard plugging away but slowly deteriorating (mentions of metabolic scans on his armor showing tremendous stress) under the, literal, galactic weight of his/her burden.
The codex entries are definitely worth reading all on their own.
I've thought about buying Karpyshyn's (sp?) novels, but never actually pulled the trigger.
As an aside, I find myself wasting too much brainpower considering how Ender Wiggin would have fought the Reapers, because, goddamn, do I hate deus ex machina.