Remember that you can literally just download the old versions of these games for free, and it's barely even pirating. Feels much better to play with their old launchers and reminding you of simpler (and less lgbt-oriented) times.
Still have the original
>>723803982the remaster fucked up the UI to make it console-friendly and the graphics have downgrades, that alone makes the original version superior
>>723804545That's not the version I'm talking about. They updated them to match the EA App version so now they just launch into the game with a DRM check.The original version, off the DVD has this nice launcher, and feels really cozy.
>Mass Effect 1>beloved spiritual successor of Kotor , instant classic>Mass Effect 2>pathetic Gears of War clone , covershooter in tiny environments , flimsy story about collecting psychopaths like pokemons and solving their Daddy issues
>>723803982>Less lgbt-orientedThis is the key. We don't care how upset it makes you. We don't care how much you call as chuds and incels. Gaming is a largely white male nerd community. Switching the pandering from that demographic to some imaginary college campus demographic will forever be the most retarded business decision in recent memory.
>>723805303>beloved spiritual successor of Kotorjade empire was the kotor successor, not ass effect
>>723805551I care that I can tell an obvious difference in "crowd vibe" between the time before Mass Effect was open to LGBT people and after. It wasn't bad in 2012 at all, and I welcomed Cortez and Traynor, and didn't even mind DAI's further exclusivity.But now it's fucking bad. Every Mass Effect thread has become retarded, and fans are fucking stupid and can't recite anything about the lore or narrative, and they reveal signs that they're looking at all the Futa Rule34 of the characters or fetish BDSM crap of it. They have shit taste, and back in the hey-day the franchise was popular because it felt prestigious, not because it was "inclusive".
>>723805896Nah. You can feel the KOTOR vibe big time when you play Mass Effect. The way doors are made, the sound design, the fact that the second level after the "rude awakening" opening is a "Space Station" where you have to do errands to get your ship is extremely copy-paste of KOTOR, and Wrex's "Fallen Glory of my People" vibe is very much like Canderous Ordo.Nothing wrong with that. It's the beauty of ME1. They wanted to push into brand new territory but the people with all the know-how at BioWare still thought they should work like they did on KOTOR, but like a Next Gen version of it, in a non-Star Wars setting. The result is a beautifully experimental blend between 2 styles. 2 and 3, and Andromeda suffer from standardization patterns on the other hand. They all do, really.
>>723806402the only kotor that's in ME is the writing, and they do the same shit in DA>you're the last survivor of the ship splodey and become jedi>you're the last survivor of the geth incident and become spectre>you're the last faggot and become grey wardenbiocuck has recycled the main plot of kotor through every game released since kotor save jade empire and anthembut only jade empire has stood the test of time, and only jade empire played like kotor, therefore it is the true successor whereas everything else just rode on kotor's success
>>723806402Aside from the fact that ME2s story is filler nonsense that does nothing to advance the main plot (until the Arrival DLC) , ME2 mainly suffered from jewish scheming.>we obliterated inventory managed and 99% of all weapons and armors, but in return you can buy 8 mini-DLCs with additional weapons and armors>we removed Companion managment but you can buy different skins for your comapnions now>mako is gone but you can buy the Tank DLC
>>723803982>2>superior to anything outside of the worst parts of Andromedakek
>>723806934You're not the last warden you braindead fucking cumstainYou don't become spectre for being the last survivor of the geth incident, you coprophile Fucking kill yourself
>>723806934Yes, BioWare favors monomythic archetype stories that resonate with players who like playing as heroes in an epic fantasy.So what. At least Shepard wasn't a Mary Sue in ME1. In ME3 he's kind of insufferable. When you help cure the Genophage it's like>5 Krogan leaders in a crowd, saving their own people>The female walks in and asks them WHO'S WITH ME?You pick Paragon. Shepards steps into the middle of the crowd>Shepard: I AM!Fucking obnoxious.
graphics are shittier and all the mods have moved to the legendary edition.
>>723803982>and it's barely even piratingKYS reddit
>>723806970I was ok with the regressions in ME2 when it came at a good tradeoff of superior game feel but it still has hub worlds (and more variety of them, albeit smaller than Citadel) and a mostly improved dialogue system.There's more actual choices in 2 overall than there was in 1, and it's all better animated, which I find extremely impressive. 3 doesn't impress me because it's about as well animated as 2 but with more twitchy looking faces, and 80% of it is railroaded so you're not even picking dialogue options anymore.I could understand if they fully motioncaptured and storyboarded every scene in 3, and went full Naughty dog, that they wouldn't have nearly as many choices, but it's clearly still running on the same kind of system, and they're just choosing not to make as much branching dialogue as before.That makes the RPG experience ruined in 3, but in 2 there's a really nice balance. I don't really care about the expanded skill tree in 3. It doesn't fix the problem of ME2's simplification and meaninglessness of choices that it took away from ME1's true Skill Trees, and with the devastating loss of dialogue branching, 3 just feels like a passive experience. It feels like I'm just looking at Shepard in a standard Action game with cutscenes in it, and that's the complete opposite of what the franchise set out to do.
>>723807240>t. didn't play eitherkek>>723807561>At least Shepard wasn't a Mary Sue in ME1yeah but after he gets spectre status he immediately starts to mary sue and by 2 he's full-blown
>>723803982>(and less lgbt-oriented) times.they have gay romances you fucking chud.
>>723806970>Aside from the fact that ME2s story is filler nonsense that does nothing to advance the main plotThe """main plot""" is some worthless "an ancient evil awakens" nonsense that was never interesting and the fact that 2 focused more on characters was its greatest strength.Illusive man and Cerberus > Reapers.
>>723805303ME1 was the most basic ass shooting imaginable. ME2 had the same RPG mechanics but with better gameplay mechanics. ME1 was nothing like kotor at all
>>723809148Retard >>723807906Double retard
Fuck ME2.A massive downgrade from ME.
>>723809374That anon is right. The real story was the journey of saving the galaxy. No one gave a shit about the main story, it was the way the player would create it.
>>723809498No, that anon is a revisionist imbecile who hopes no one will remember the fact people back in the day adored Sovereign, the Virmire reveal, Ilos and the entirety of the endgame. Go back to 2007/8/9 and see if there's anyone *not* hyped for the future of the Reaper plot before 2 threw it out the fucking window
>>723809430thane was coolmiranda is a slut, i avoided her and was still railroaded into having sex before the suicide run
