User blog comment:Battlemaster Grunt/What is the best Mass Effect? 1,2, or 3?/@comment-5271559-20121001033032/@comment-5271559-20121001181733

@ Mr.ScottKennedy No offense but by your definition of a role playing game, any game with a story and a main character would be classified as an rpg. I am not denying that both two and three have rpg elements, 3 more so than 2, but they both feel like a TPS, instead of an rpg. Mass Effect 1 on the other seemed like an RPG with shooter elements instead of the opposite and had a more traditional rpg concept. All the old school rpgs both Japanese and Western had all the aspects you just talked about not making an rpg.

@ Battlemaster Grunt. It is a matter of opinion. But I really had alot of issues with Mass Effect 3, they were too many to consider it anything more than a decent game. The skill tree in 3 is great but not as as large or detailed as Mass Effect 1, if you play Mass Effect 1 and look that its skills and combat wheel you can see how large and complex it is in comparision, 2's sill tree on the other hand is really small. ME 3's sidequests and interactions with characters was done poorly in most cases, I am fine with fetch quests, but there were too many of them and the journal was basically useless. And exploration has not remained the same, in 2 and 3 they replaced most of the on world explorations through a Mako with probing. I did not like that Mako that much but it could have been fixed. Hammerhead seemed like a poor replacement in ME 2 and it is only available in one mission anyway. There are many plotholes in 3 but let see just go with the most obvious ones, The Crucible coming from out of nowhere, How did TIM get access to such a large amount of Reaper tech, How did Cerberus take over the Citadel so easily. And ofcourse the whole issues surrounding the final mission at Earth, how was the Citadel moved to earth's system so fast and how did the Reapers make it travel through the Relay, how did TIM get into the Citadel, why didn't Harbinger destroy the Normandy when it had the chance and the whole Catalyst problem. Fans can make up their own theories about all these unanswered questions in the plot of ME 3 but the point is that are all plotholes because they are left unexplained and unanswered in the game and leave the players confused.