Board 8 > Do you miss out on a lot if you start with Mass effect 2?

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I don't have a PC, only a PS3, so just curious if ME2 is a good starting place or if I will be missing out on a lot of important stuff. I know it has some comic or something beforehand, but is that really a decent substitute?

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You'll be missing out on some things that can affect your game in some slight ways - the comic just covers the main choices. Other than that, I don't know much about the PS3 version.

Um, yes.

Do not do that. Just my opinion but not playing ME1 you miss out on a lot. I'm not sure if the comic can properly prepare you for ME2 or not, and there are a good amount of decisions to make in ME1 which are critical to ME2 as well as ME3.

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As I recall, doesn't the comic force you into going Renegade for the big choice at the end of ME1?

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The problem with the comic is it doesn't let you build your Shepard. I think for ME, it's very important to start playing Shepard the way you want to from the get go rather than in the middle of the series.

But if you have no alternative, I dunno. I keep thinking eventually they'd work the issue out and get ME1 over to the PS3, but at this point it doesn't look likely.

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I think you should play ME1 first. It has a much better story and are a great way to introduce you to the universe. The story in the second one is terrible and even though everything else is improved I like the first game better so I think you should give it a shot. If you play the second one first it will be hard to go back to the inferior gameplay of the first one.

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Basically, it's fairly important to play ME1 before playing ME2, but not to the extent that you should miss out on ME2 if you aren't able to play 1.

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ME1 has a better story, and does a better job of world building, so it's fairly important that you play it. You can get by with playing ME2, but it won't be the same without the first one.

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well, this is disappointing. I had hoped it was not so important. I really hate skipping games in series, but I really have no way to play the original. anyway, thanks for the input, guys.

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The whole PS3 comic thing is only good if you've already played ME1, don't like all your decisions you made for transferring to ME2, but don't want to play ME1 again.

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Microsoft did eventually come out a winner even though ME2 went to PS3, I'd say. Its hard to recommend it to anyone who hasn't played the first.

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I played the first on PC and then used the motion comic for my big decisions going into 2. Can't imagine just starting with 2 without having played the first game though, yeah.

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I started with ME2 and had a lot of fun (Only got halfway through though), but then went back and played ME and now I wish I hadn't started with 2 because the first is a lot of fun as well, and cleared some stuff up for me and I'm thinking I'll enjoy the rest of ME2 even more now. Make of that what you will.

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There's 14 gay sex scenes in mass effect 1 that are not worth missing

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I ran into this same problem as well. I basically ended up watching a YouTube playthrough of ME1 to make sure I was up to speed on the story. The comic in ME2 is basically the Cliff Notes version. It leaves a lot of stuff out and only has six of the first game's major decisions.

If you don't want to watch a playthrough online, then there's not much else you can do besides just playing ME2.

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oh yeah this topic reminds me are you male shepards looking forward to being able to have gay sex with Garrus in ME3

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You'll miss out on planet exploring. A lot of people didn't like it, but planet exploring was ****ing awesome.
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oh yeah this topic reminds me are you male shepards looking forward to being able to have gay sex with Garrus in ME3
I wanted to bone Wrex and Garrus the entire time.

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Personally, I used a saved game editor for ME2 so I wasn't stuck with just making the main choices.

Play Mass Effect 1 at least once, cause 2 rendered ME1 unplayable for me, and I don't think I'd even consider going back and playing it again.

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Garrus is basically space alien cop Bruce Willis

and by that I mean anyone should want to bang him regardless of gender or sexuality

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