User blog comment:The Milkman/Mass Effect in Retrospect/@comment-6104626-20130417150325

Mass Effect 2 is my favorite of the series. I wish Mass Effect 3 had been more of a celebration of your choices in earlier games, but most of them are reduced to "War Asset" numbers, and the game doesn't even give you very much feedback about them - you are sometimes notified that numbers were modified, but it doesn't even tell you whether it went up or down, let alone how much, and you have to go marching all the way back to your war room to find out rather than learning at the moment you make the relevant decision. If more of those earlier decisions had shown up in at least brief conversations I would have liked it better.

But just to be clear I love playing Mass 3... and it has some beautiful cleanups of the conversation system, the combat system, etc, that I wish had been present in earlier games. I just love Mass 2 more; it has, for lack of a better term, more "heart". Also Mass 2 is MUCH more challenging from the point of view of getting a "perfect game" without ever dying on Insanity - when I transition from Mass 2 to Mass 3 with a character I'm always surprised how much easier combat gets.