User blog comment:Battlemaster Grunt/What is the best Mass Effect? 1,2, or 3?/@comment-1679409-20120930221727

It's a bit tough to decide as it's been a while since I've played 1 or 2, but I'd say either 2 or 3. ME2 had better squadmates (not only in terms of personality but I was better able to rotate them), better side missions, a more diverse set of enemies, funner DLC (at least at this point), and seemed to have fewer glitches. ME3 has better music overall (although ME2 has my favorite individual song), more emotion, more memorable lines and cutscenes (not saying ME2 didn't, mind you), a better individual story, showed us more lore, and has multiplayer.

There is only one facet that I think the first game beats either of the sequels. I thought ME1's self-contained story was better than ME2's (but not ME3's).

I also really don't get some of the things people say about the first game. Exploration? Almost every planet you went to that wasn't a core mission planet was the same thing: barren and insanely rugged. And I hated the inventory system, I thought it was more of a distraction than anything.