Not enjoying ME1 that much. Skip ahead to ME2?

[Zirbiss]

I played ME1 about 10 years ago. Forgotten most of it. I feel it hasnt aged that well. Combat feels stiff and akward, and the Mako driving sections with the big empty areas are plain boring.
Should i skip ME1 and start playing ME2? How much better is that game? (only played ME1 before)

EDIT: I played through the main story. To be honest, the combat and AI behaviour is plain bad by todays standards. And too much of the leveldesign and enviroments felt like bland rooms and corridors just thrown together without much care. Just started playing ME2, hopeful it improves over ME1 in the areas i didn't like. And so far it's better.

[Tony]

well if you don't care about some of choices that show up in the second you can just jump into me2 if you do care you can use a save and do it that way

[Deadly-Kitten711]

I will admit, there are parts of ME1 that can seem a bit dull. Hanging in there and just getting through it would be my personal advice, just because there is a lot of people that you will run in to from ME1 and gaining those acquaintances is helpful in the long run.

[PocketYoda]

ME1 was and still is the best i do not get what people dislike about it, for me the others just got worse and worse.. Two was passable but dumbed down, three was a mess, Andromeda yeah.. nope.

[Banana Duck ඞ]

ME1 has the best gameplay of the 3 games in certain ways (no god awful global power cooldown, health regen/medi-gel is better etc), and its now even BETTER after they improved the gameplay of it in this remaster. Yeah the UNC missions are awful, just avoid them, i just do everything in the 1st game except for the awful UNC missions, they are all copy/paste and driving miles across empty barren areas is boring af. The game is pretty good if you just do the main missions and maybe the citadel missions imo, in fact... the 1st game is the best of the 3 imo.

[ShadowAngel]

Originally posted by DanteYoda:

ME1 was and still is the best

The writing and the dialogues are certainly the best of the franchise. Drew Karpyshyn had free reign over it and it shows.
But some gameplay parts are indeed tiresome. Even as a veteran gamer (30+ years), who has no problem with some amount of tedous playtime stretching, there were parts in the game i just disliked. The Mako stuff is the biggest one, the controls were crap, and driving over an empty planet with just a few scripted spawns was boring as hell (worse so on a subsequent replays) also the insane amount of armors that aren't even that different from each other

As Duck says the UNC missions were awful.
In terms of gameplay, the second was the best and most fun all around, tight design, not overdoing the "free world/space" aspect (Me3 went bad again with it) and until the DLCs the writing was still strong as well, before Mac Walters took over and rammed the game at a wall with 300 kmh and danced around the debris think it's fine.

As for the OP: Skipping the first one makes you miss out on a ton of great moments, a ton of great crew binding moments and you'll miss out a lot of fun dialogues in the second game that reminisce stuff from the first

[alexander_dougherty]

I prefer ME1 and ME3 to ME2... ME2 wasn't terrible, but it oversimplified the weapons, and the shield mechanic wasn't there at all... they compensated it with the damage reduction research, but they dumbed it down too much to get it on consoles.

ME3 brought back the mechanics the games needed. I know fans of first person shooter games hate the shields, but they are essential for the sci-fi feel, otherwise just play a Black-ops game... the downside to ME3 is they were trying to tie up all the loose ends and it shows, the plot for ME3 requires you to have played the previous two games, or a lot of it makes little sense...

[ADhalism]

i picked up ME1 3 times before i finished it. But somewhere in post-Virmire bit i fell in love with the game. I think that the game is the weakest in the series but it's still worth playing.

[BIGDOJO]

i love the mako, lol

[srfrogg23]

There should be a short "Last time on Mass Effect" style of quiz before ME 2 that you can take that will let you decide on some important events from the first game before you start the 2nd. It's all spoilers, in my opinion, but it will get you caught up on the key bits of information from the first game. Otherwise, you will get the default ME 2 storyline without any of your decisions impacting the overarching storyline between all three games.

[ADhalism]

Originally posted by srfrogg23:

There should be a short "Last time on Mass Effect" style of quiz before ME 2 that you can take that will let you decide on some important events from the first game before you start the 2nd. It's all spoilers, in my opinion, but it will get you caught up on the key bits of information from the first game. Otherwise, you will get the default ME 2 storyline without any of your decisions impacting the overarching storyline between all three games.

yea, the shuttle ride

[=Palynzer=]

ME1 its boring as hell., plus the gameplay its very bad and slow.
ME2 outperforms it in every aspect, is the best, no matter how much fanboys say.
Skip it or just do the main missions to finish it

[WESTG4M3R4L1F3]

im not enjoying paying 60 bucks for a remake. problem solved. thats it

[n#n#m#]

Originally posted by Zirbiss:

I played ME1 about 10 years ago. Forgotten most of it. I feel it hasnt aged that well.
Should i skip ME1 and start playing ME2? How much better is that game? (only played ME1 before)

Yep, you can skip ME1, ME2 is on a whole another level. The only thing ME1 does at this point is universe setup, but you can just read codex entries for that.

[The Relentless]

Originally posted by srfrogg23:

There should be a short "Last time on Mass Effect" style of quiz before ME 2 that you can take that will let you decide on some important events from the first game before you start the 2nd. It's all spoilers, in my opinion, but it will get you caught up on the key bits of information from the first game. Otherwise, you will get the default ME 2 storyline without any of your decisions impacting the overarching storyline between all three games.

I thought there was. Genesis or something like that.

https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Mass_Effect:_Genesis

[N7_Shadow]

First, if you aren't enjoying it that much, set the difficulty to Casual. This will allow you to get through the game much faster.

Next, you have a choice. Check google for the maps, so you know what's there, and where it's at. Saves a lot of driving.

Next, if you want to save a lot of driving, download the Trilogy Save Editor, on Nexus Mods. Google "Mass Effect Legendary Trilogy Save Editor."

You can then simply give yourself a lot of credits, resources, skill points, and paragon/renegade points.

This will allow you to finish the game in very little time, mostly just doing the main missions.

Honestly, on Casual, you should be able to get through pretty fast. Use the maps to see where everything is at, so you can just drive point to point, instead of having to drive the whole map.