Did u enjoy Mass Effect 3?

[Shammikit]

So I see many state that Mass Effect is one of the must play games. Usually it turns out gud when I buy a game that many people recommend. Witcher 3 and Life is strange are 2 examples that immediately comes to mind as I got them solely because thousands of people recommended it and I loved them. So few months back I got Mass Effect 3 because of its highly positive reviews. some even said its the best game they ever played and now I gave it a try. Played it for a couple of hours and....... I found it to be very boring. I should state that I have not played the previous mass effect games and I wonder if this has something to do with this. However from what I played so far, it didnt feel like a direct continuation. Maybe there are characters and stuff from the previous games, not very sure. Anyway the story soo far felt soo predictable as the typical alien invasion stuff u see in other games and movies happened. The dialogs and the gameplay was meh so far. IDK if things improve as I progress further, however one of my friends who also got the game and played it a bit further than me also said it was a very boring and he completely stopped. Im also wondering if i should keep playing further as Im not feeling even to launch the game at this point. Or should I go back to the first games and come back. How did u feel about this game?

[dizmo]

You'd really be better off playing the other games in the series first. It's a story, so you're kind of missing 2/3 of it.

It also just might not be your game. It happens.

[boggy77]

if you don't want to play the first two games, at least spend a couple of hours on youtube with one of those videos that explains the plot of the first two games.

[Just Monika]

As a trilogy, Mass Effect needs to be played from beginning to end. If you skip to the end, all you see are a lot of storylines concluding that you didn't really built up a connection to so there's little to no emotional impact when there should have been one.

 

Mass Effect 2 and 3 also carried over certain key decisions that you made from the previous game (if you still had the game save file) and that made the game feel "alive" where your decisions throughout the series actually mattered. Granted the story doesn't change from these decisions, but they're enough to make you feel like you had some influence on it. Starting from the last game in the series completely eliminates this factor and the game ends up feeling like it ended before it started. You never get the satisfaction of seeing the end result of all the decisions you've made, and only see the results of decisions that you (the player) never made.

 

I also highly recommending watching playthroughs, Lets Plays, or at least the cutscenes from the previous games in order to get a better idea of what happened in the story.

 

Personally I did really enjoy the Mass Effect series (1 to 3). What kept me going was wanting to know what happens in the next game, my emotional investment in the characters, and wanting to know how the story would end.