I'm playing Mass Effect for the first time, it's the first game in a while I've been obsessed with since probably God of War. Can't wait to get home and play!!
I'm glad there are first time players enjoying this title, I was 20 when this game came out originally, if I could give one piece of advice, it would be don't be quick to any decisions, think them over because they WILL effect the game later and not just the one your currently on.
Played them when they first came out, thought this would be a just a little reminiscing....I am completely hooked..I think before I was so impatient to find out what’s happening I didn’t take my time and soak it all in...now I’m just enjoying in full a rich, wonderful universe and it feels like I’m playing a new game
That’s great to hear! I think the same thing happened to a lot of players with the ME3 ending. Everyone wanted to see how it ended so badly they forgot to enjoy the journey.
@@MrGeoff-iv6re the entire third game is the ending, I get that the closing couple minutes are disappointing but I never understood why people let that sour their view on the whole thing
Hi im new to this series and love rpgs... I am just on the fence about them as i think they re dialogue heavy but im just sooo tempted lol... Any advice? thanks
@@Memphise101 they are dialogue heavy but it’s great dialogue with excellent voice acting and a fantastic sci-fi story. Plus, to a degree, you control how much of the conversations you want to engage with. It’s a very cinematic RPG... hell even the codex entries are voiced. The choices you make in one game are imported into the next so you really feel like it’s your sci-fi saga. Give it a shot, I bet you’ll love it!
@@Memphise101 They are very dialog-heavy but that's what makes them great. Everything is fully voiced so it's not daunting at all. Just sit back and enjoey the story.
So I had an issue just today to this point, I'm not going to go into detail because I don't want to spoil the ending of ME1 but basically at the end game planet, I forgot to do something very important that made it where I could not move forward and I couldn't go back to do the thing, luckily I had a save from the Normandy bridge from just before I landed on the end game planet.
@@Timmothy2012 life saver right? I remember back in the day playing the first game, dying on some random side quest and getting sent back to an old save, losing 3 hours of game play. After that I learnt to make multiple saves, before I head of to do any mission
Same here. I haven't played the original trilogy in years, maybe a year or 2 after the 3rd one released. Andromeda really soured my taste for a while. But playing through it again felt fresh again.
My favorite spacefaring series that rivals Star Trek and Star Wars is back! I preordered the limited edition vinyl soundtrack, the legendary cache, and just got the game on PS4. Can't wait to jump back in!
to me if it has native 1080p support then don't waste your time on it. In fact the whole Diablo 2 remaster will be the first and probably only remaster I ever buy.
In my opinion one should not try to stick with paragon or renegade, each player in each playthrough give an identity to Shepard and make choices accordingly, that's what makes mass Effect so good
There is a mod that uses the sum your paragon and renegade points to determine if your persuasion or intimidation works. That lets you play either way without consequence.
First time really getting into these games and i got the notification i was approaching the 300 item limit. I've been scraping by with a few credits and all of the sudden i sold my old loot and was a millionaire. Love these games
Before you beat it, try to max out your money. If you reactivate as a spectre in the second Game, your bank account gets reactivated as well. Have in mind its all on you to get reactivated as a spectre.
Oh, god...that 300 limit and the painfully slow interface for selecting and scrapping items drove me mad. Don't spend a million buying the best armors for Tali at the end of Mass Effect 01... You know you are not bringing her for the end-game campaign. You get to keep that million and spend it at the start of ME:02
My first ever play through and just started the 2nd one and I am absolutely sucked into this story man. The characters are so believable and organic, you get a true connection to them. The details and nuances of this game are incredible and was sooo ahead of its time. I definitely believe Bioware is refreshing ppls memory on the story and for ppl tht haven't played it getting you caught up for the new ME4 coming out. Brilliant idea and I am now a believer lol.
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@@williamt2700 While I understand your sentiment, time is our most precious resource and it is a very finite one. We should all value where we spend our limited time here. "No cost to you". Agree to disagree
I picked the legendary edition up on release as I missed this game growing up, the story through ME1 so far is amazing, utterly addicted to it and can’t wait to carry my story on through the next 2 games
@@2wenty7RC I can understand that ahah I wonder everyday if I'm going to do that lol. Quick question, do you know if you can use the default face for Shepard (male or female) and still customize the haircut?
I’m new to mass effect ( somehow ) even as a grown man haha.. Just started number 1, and I’m very impressed at the effort put into it thus far.. You can DEFINITELY see the influence from other games into it, and vice versa..
Overhead that ME4 was in development, so Im playing mass effect trilogy for the first time. I can't believe I haven't touched any of them when released. But it's pretty cool to run it straight thru. Now I'm a die hard fan while in the end of ME2. Definetely gonna pick up ME4 on release date
Mass Effect has affected me in ways i cant explain. The lore detail alone gives my nerdy space mind shivers. You are telling me your guns basically have a slab of metal inside for a “magazine” and everytime you shoot it just slices off a shard at your enemy? Thats super in depth world building let alone all the alien species, planets, governments, etc.
The worst thing about the first game is the loot pickup. As far as I am aware you have to go into your inventory after each battle. This is not documented anywhere.
I have always felt that the gear inventory was better in ME1 than 2 or 3. yeah, you have to go into your inventory to switch, which you can do at any time, instead of having the option immediately upon gaining a new weapon. but in 2 and 3 you can only swap weapons when you pick up a gun, find the very rare workbench/locker thing, or between missions. I think the reason for this is that the amount of loot you pick up in ME1 compared to ME2 and 3 is FAR greater. you have a chance of picking up armor, weapons, armor mods, weapon mods, ammo mods, omni-tools, or biotic amps with every enemy killed. imagine having a popup asking if you wanted to switch gear every time you got a kill? sounds pretty clunky to me. hence you need to check your inventory to see what you picked up instead. I do wish they identified the loot when it was picked up though, instead of a generic "inventory" notification. know what I got so I could either swap to using something better right away, or not waste my time looking at crappy loot until I am ready to scrap it or sell it.
@@ChrisJohannsen Mass Effect 3 is actually pretty incredible, right until that final dialogue lol Like barring that final piece of that final mission the game was just as incredible as the prior ME IMO.
If all you rate a game of, is how you felt about the ending, then I feel sorry for you. Mass Effect 3 was easily the best game out of the series and continued a good story into a fairly logical conclusion.
Ah yes. Paragon vs. renegade balancing issues. This is a myth we dismissed long ago. In the original me1, 2 & 3 games, building up one faction meant giving up opposite choices no matter how illogical these choices were. While it was reworked each game, at no point was it more apparent than in me2. If you made as many as 2 wrong picks in the entire game, it would prevent you from picking choices later that kept the peace between Jack & Miranda for instances. There was a workaround, however. In me1, on noveria, where you gather evidence against Analaious, a taurian, you can pick options with him in the bar that provide either paragon or renegade points. Once done, you can then simply begin the exact same conversation with him again and repeat it once more for the same reward options. Infinite number of times. You could optionally max one, then turn around & max the other. In me2, when meeting Wilson in the games begining, pick the 2 dialog options that grant renegade or paragon points, save the game, and camp out, then back in. The scene repeats but your previous choice saves its points. This takes longer than the me1 route(about 3 hours of work) but you can max out one or the other. I heard it could bug the game if you went 100%, but 1200 points in gave you about 90% faction. At that point, you can pick whichever dialogue options you wished in the rest of the game fairly safely without being railroaded into 1 path or the other.
11 things the game doesn’t tell you: 1.) tali is best girl 2.) garrus is best boy 3.) tali is best girl 4.) garrus is best boy 5.) tal ... I think we all know where this is going. In all seriousness tali’s kit is brokenly overpowered in mass effect 1.
Tip #3 is somewhat superfluous, I think. Talking with your squadmates IS the game. Shooting bad guys is what you have to do so you have something to talk about with your buddies.
Classes: Soldier (Combat) Adept (Biotic) Engineer (Tech) Infiltrator (Combat/Tech) Vanguard (Combat/Biotic) Sentinel (Biotic/Tech) It's kind of like paper/scissors/rock (especially by #2) but not precisely.
The best tip. If you want a bonus power from the start of the game. For example you want to play as an Adept but you lack overload to deal with shields. Sure you can use squad mate. But how about having that as an extra power. Simple. Start game as an engineer or infiltrator and as soon as you are on the bridge start casting overload. Once you done it 25 times you get an achievement and the power is now unlocked as a bonus power for you to select when creating a new character. So after go back start Adept class and select the Overload bonus power. You can do that with any power you want as bonus power. I am starting the game of ME1 with an Infiltrator that also has "Warp". So now I can deal with any protection. Shields, barriers, stop regeneration of Krogans, I can melt armor and health. Just with Overload and Warp.
@@kangkudos1225 hmm good point, i never thought of it that way. im not a big fan of the first game either, it gets so much better from ME2. have you gotten to the 2nd game yet. everything is improved on in the sequels imo edit: but i just realized that system still remains in the sequels
@@vipset87 -- Just finished ME:2 -- It's an incredible narrative experience. I finally got to touch the Gold Standard from BioWare's Golden Age. Impressed with how far they were able to take one theme _("There's Nothing Like a Good Cause to Bring Out the Worst in People")_ and explore it across so many characters and perspectives
I beat 1 on Insanity and last night I jist beat the derelict collector ship on Insanity. Mass effect 2 is substantially harder than 1 on Insanity btw. You need to know what you're getting into at all times and be prepared before hand. I love the challenge.
There's a cheat that still works: On Noveria, when you talk to the Turian head of Synthetic Insights for his garage pass, and after you finish the mission to get the data, you'll talk to the Internal Affairs chick. Go ask the Turian to use his info to bring down the Salarian running Port Hanshan, there's a Renegade/Paragon reply worth 25+ a pop. Once you're done getting him to agree, immediately talk to him again and ask him about Benezia; it'll give you an option to ask something else, and you get to ask him again about using his data. Keep doing that until you max out your Paragon/Renegade meter (tho you still need to put points into the class tree to unlock dialog options).
Sped through the story of the first game when it first came out, I enjoyed it but really didn't sink my teeth into it. Replaying it at a deeper level currently and I really missed alot of stuff that makes this game incredible
This is gonna be my first time playing the older ones I've put in a few hours in Andromeda and can honestly say this is one of the only games I can't wait to play; Andromeda hasn't been bad but to hear it the worst one definitely has me hyped
2 things,first you never mentioned advanced classes such as nemesis/medic 2nd you forgot to mention many of the quests/sidequests now effect the readiness in later games now that multiplayer is removed for LE.
3:24 One mistake that I did with the original ME1. (as I'm writing this, I'am replaying the (OG) PC Version again. Though my original playthrough was on the XB360)
My Sheps Male shep : ME1 soldier whose exploits sends him on a slippery slope of galactic fuckery. ME2 Cerberus enhanced him with with adept biotics becausethey are incapable of not experimenting and they kept the clone in case it botched . ME3 Shep adapts and combined his skillset and abilities and mastered the class of Sentinel
@@sarasunshinemt4444 I don't know... I think there is a strong argument to be made for Vanguard in 3. charge and nova almost negate the need for guns entirely, while making you just about invulnerable at the same time. that's a hard combo to beat. particularly if you pick up Energy drain as your bonus perk.
5:14 In case I assumed correctly, IF I were to play ME1:LE, untrained weapons are more like Garrus+Pistols? As in, although the OG ME1 says that he is trained to use Pistols, I can't allocate any "Lvl points" into "Pistols", as it's abscent.
For some reason I never played this game when it first came out and now I decided to start with this and I'm so happy I did! No idea why I was stubborn lol
Only thing I don't like about the old Trilogy compared to Andromeda was how they handled the Karma system. The ME Trilogy forces you down a path in order to have more dialogue options as opposed to choices made because it's what's you feel is right.
A lot of the assignments in ME1 don’t roll into 2 or 3 since there is a ton of them. They aren’t all worth doing. Most of the important ones are on main story planets or the citadel. Only a few others are relevant.
@@Aleadfarmer904 thank you. That's the reporter right? If so, love those parts. Also, nassina dautlis, probably murderd that name. Asari, shows up in me2.
@@lobal2 oh the reporter too, but Helena Blake is the merc that wants you to kill her two bosses to take over the syndicate. She shows up on omega in me 2
When I first played Mass effect it was on CD. It had loading issues and about 50 percent of the time when it was on a loading screen it would freeze my computer and my setup would need a complete reboot. It made the loading screens almost unbearable and yet I still played through. I liked the game so much I played though the bugs and still did a second playthrough as soon as I finished the first. I didn't play again, and when I played ME2 and ME3 i was not able to link the first game choices and that bothered me seeing Ashley dead when it shouldn't have been her. haha. But still I played each game many playthroughs. Now I am playing the legendary edition and loving it. No crashes and no freezes, and I am taking my choices all the way through as I take my time going through all the games one more time.!
2:50 Wrong You can max charm and intimidate by gaining points. Requires multiple playthroughs however you can get 12/12 points into Charm and Intimidate without ever putting a point in. Giving you the full 102 points for actual skills.
Should probably point out that any class can use any weapon in Mass Effect 1. Mass Effect 2, the original rules still apply. I started playing as a vanguard in number two and I still can only use shotgun, pistol, or machine pistol
There was a way around that restriction back on the Xbox 360 version. Mods my friend. Used to run with the Claymore shotgun and the Revenant assault rifle.
to all you NOOBS playing for the very first time, im so incredibly jealous and bitter towards ya. i wish i could experience this for the very first time again
@@tg.tyrant2302_ nice. ME1 was good for its time but doesnt age as well today for some. wait till you play ME2 tho, thats where you walk away knowing you just played a masterpiece
@@Tenderleaf Bruh, I have the game. Played it three times. I know this to be true, I’m ME2, tire stick with class based weapons until you go to the collector shop and get the assault rifle , shotgun or sniper rifle training at that point
You should only invest in Charm/Intimidate if you only want to do 1 run through as normally these are the worst stat investments as you can get 4 points in one or the other per playthrough for free without using up any of your actual talent points you earn from leveling.
This is incorrect. You need a high level of paragon or renegade to be able to complete certain situations. I won't spoil it but some situations can be totally bypassed by having a high paragon or renegade..
While that is technically true (at least in classic game mode) most people probably aren't going to be doing multiple playthroughs of ME1 before moving on, since there is no wait between games. If you prioritize RP I would say it's actually best to pick your route early, and only invest in one or the other, maxing it out asap. This way the points used on non combat skills are minimized.
I got this game from the discount bin from gamestop for 20 dollars i think it was. Was not disappointed. I remember the last dlc being very disappointing and coming out hella late. Mass effect 2 was out already like wtf were they thinking.
Płaci gościowi kilka miesięcy łącznie 250 zł, drze się na niego i w ogóle nie zastanawia jej, czemu dalej się z nią zadaje. Myślała, że przyjaźń z taką sławną osobą jest nagrodą samą w sobie 😛
ME1's side missions are not all essential. I used to keep a list of side missions that's relevant to the story and/or later in the series. Howeever, the biggest problem I had with them was the terrible MAKO controls and gunplay in a cookie-cutter level design, and since LE fixes at least two of those problems, I might try to finish them all this time.
what class do you choose? what class is the most fun? since ME1, ive always chosen soldier, even when replaying the game. what class would you recommend?
Soldier is the most suited class for the first game, but the other classes can be fun. Vanguard is my preferred class and is an absolute blast to play in the sequels. Experiment with the classes, I'm sure you'll find one that suits you.
@@vipset87 Despite being a lifelong fan of the Mass Effect series, I never had any money as a University student when Andromeda came out so I never got to buy it. I will buy it this time around though! Nostalgia can’t stop me from the mixed reviews this game got
Junk tippp... all you have to do is click the junk bin next to each item (to the left) once you select all your items you prss convert junk once or sell junk once and it dumps everything.
ME1 allows you to max out charm or intimidate and get better than half of the whichever one you didn’t max out even if you really embrace the RP aspect (under classic mode- haven’t played with legendary scaling). Edit: Enjoy the RPing while you can because it really gets nerfed in the later games, especially in 2.
You could, but firing them outside your specialization was like blindly firing the weapon without aiming it at all. Now you can actually use a sniper rifle on adept class, you just won't be able to use assassination for those extra damage points.
Pro tips: - Having 2 maxed out abilities in ME:2/3 is better than having 4 or 5 abilities with a few points in each. - Always make sure to have someone in your party who can take out shields with abilities like Overload, Warp ammo, Energy Drain. (especially if you play biotic). - "" and armor targets with abilities like Incinerate, Shredder ammo. - The secret to winning the game on insanity is learning how to take out shields, then armor, and crowd control on red health bars (stun, freeze, pull/singularity) - Use companion abilities (Shift key on PC) - Dont wait for them to cast stuff. Got a lot more info if people want. Played the trilogy for a thousand hours.
One tip I'm glad I'd learned from a friend before playing ME2 was talk to Jacob after completing his Loyalty Mission, or talk to Tali after completing her Loyalty Mission mostly because they can give you Upgrades to the Normandy-SR2 now while at first they seem like simple cosmetic choices, they actually insure that all of the remaining crew aka the squad survives the initial part of the Suicide Mission.
It's not triggered by his Loyalty mission. I'm doing ME:02 right now and i've already upgraded both the ship's guns and armor and the only loyalty mission i have done so far is Kasumi's Stolen Memories