I liked Mass Effect 2 a lot more. just the entire game, except the combat and the token human squad mate. better combat sounds like a nice improvement, but it's like uncharted 3 improving combat; I'm not playing these games for the combat. It didn't have what I liked most about Mass Effect 2. I mean, right after Mass Effect 2 I went through it again as female Shepard. I planned to do the same with ME3 but it gets plain dull for long stretches.
It wasn't bad or anything. Just felt like a long middling shooter. The coolest moments were being dropped off in the shuttle all in real time. Otherwise, it was the same thing for the entire game. A good number of side missions were just single player horde mode in on. Other side quests are "scan planet; deliver to dude on citadel." Also never understood planet scanning and the reapers thing. I just out raced them and didn't get the point of it.
best parts of the game for me were the bro moments with
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Garrus and Thane. When disease ridden Thane busts out of nowhere and stops Liu Kang from assassinating the counsoler, I was like THANE YOU SO FUCKING COOL WRECK HIS SHIT FUUUKKKKYEAAAAAAAHHHHHH.
And me and Garrus shooting bottles on the Citadel. Garrus was my bro the entire game. Just like old times. Garrus is fucking awesome.
Vega was alright too. Jacob and Karth are the most boring characters ever.
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When Jacob shows up in that one side quests, I completely forgot that he was in the mass effect universe. I kept expecting Zaeed and Samara, but with Jacob, who remembers Jacob.
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after the point of no return the game went on way too long. All the Earth stuff flat out sucked. Having shoot outs on alien planets or sci-fi stuff is at least somewhat interesting. The streets of London? don't care. At one point my Shepard was like "It's good to be home," but I specifically chose 'Spacer' as my origin because who cares about Earth. there's also mention of my mother in the game, but she never shows up. it seemed like all choices were ultimately vapid and made no difference. not just choices from the past games, but the choices you were making in ME3 didn't seem to matter. The entire progression was a contrived trading operation to make build and protect a super weapon. and in the end...whatever. I chose the ending where I could just walk in a straight line. Didn't matter at that point.
although I said the choices don't matter, some of them are hilarious. my favorites were (re: space fucking)
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-I Love You
-Let's Fuck
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-Hey, I'm eye candy too.
-I prefer vagina, thank you very much.
not a choice, but I liked the moment where you get drunk and wake up next to Aria.
oh, and the game looks pretty nice, but the demo section/intro is butt ugly. I don't know what happened there.