User blog comment:The Milkman/Mass Effect in Retrospect/@comment-4953843-20130420055623/@comment-5267262-20130420110834

To be honest, ME3 health works for me. In Mass 1 the first think I would do is kit all my squadmembers (except Wrex and Ashley) with first aid/medical interfaces so I could get regenerating health. I played Mass 1 last of the 3 games so my first couple of runthoughs I was always running very low health (just above the stage where you cannot aim anymore) and throwing grenades at the bit of cover I was sitting in out of habit (R is reload in later games but grenade in the first one). So whenever I remembered to use medi gel I would run out of it. The only complaint I may have about the Mass 3 health system is that it was the direct cause of one of the nerfs that Reave took. Damage reduction is ok but I personally preferred it healing me. However implementing this in Mass 3 would have been incredibly overpowered. On the good side it allowed for interesting powers like bloodlust to come about.