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So I'm replaying this from the beginning as a Renegon Shepard (can't bring myself to do certain things like wipe out all the colonists at Zhu's Hope and waste Wrex).
I'm struck by a few things:
1) I forgot how clunky the combat metrics of the first game and how annoyingly long all the recharge times for powers were.
2) The second game was really ****ing hard on higher difficulty levels. I zoomed through an Insanity playthrough w/ a Sentinel in ME 3 w/ two or three deaths total, but I've died dozens of times on Hardcore in ME 2 w/ an Infiltrator. The balky use of cover, the need to constantly switch weapons, and the lack of powers are all really frustrating.
Ultimately, it helps me realize and appreciate how great the gameplay of ME3 is. Ending issues aside, it's a quantum leap from the first two games.
If I had to rerank these I'd probably put them in this order:
ME 3
ME
ME 2
I realize that's the opposite of most people, but my favorite Star Wars film was ROTJ.
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