>In terms of pure gameplay and mechanics, the first Mass Effect is incredibly rough, it's really hard to go back to.
Anyone who says this isn't the case needs to go back and play it. It's TOUGH gameplay wise.
Anyone who says this isn't the case needs to go back and play it. It's TOUGH gameplay wise.
Specifically, I didn’t find the gameplay of ME2 to be much better (and in some places, e.g. the Probing Uranus minigame, it was worse).
Note that the Legendary Edition addressed a couple of these, specificially the shooter mechanics and Mako controls.
With that said, ME1 is one of my favorite games of all time, warts and all, and despite the fact that I didn't get into the series until after Andromeda released, it's probably one of my most-played, as well, with at least one 100% Insanity run on every character class (with at least one per class carried through ME2 and ME3).