To me right now is the first Red Dead Redemption. Finally I’m able to play it, I’ve wait for over a decade. No spoilers, zero youtube gameplay videos, zero questions about the game to my friends. It gotta be me, and the game, it happened, and I think it sucks.
Maybe you thinking in “well, you shouldn’t play the second first”. I did not. My first Red Dead game was Red Dead Revolver, I was able to play it a few years ago when I could buy a PS2, but I couldn’t get a PS3 nor a Xbox 360 to play RDR1. It grinded my gears because we got the prequel in PC. When RDR1 came to PC it was so freaking expensive, yet today, I think it is expensive. I was able to buy the game some weeks ago while there was a Steam Sale, and well, I regreat it now.
I don’t like its exploration, its missions, its characters, its world, its secondary missions. its wanted system, and nothing but less important: has a lot of bugs.
That’s my experience in a few words.
What’s the game that you wanted to play but it was a total mess?
Mass Effect. Again. Third time’s the charm, I’m giving up on it. It’s too hard even on easy and too poorly balanced.
I mean the original. I tried and failed to get into the OG 360 version twice. Then Legendary came out (trilogy remastered and rebalanced) and I got it on sale for six bucks. Was finally able to play through the first one. And the second one. And the third one. Now I’m playing the fourth one, which I got on sale for $4. Went back and tried the OG again. It still sucks. It’s the damn Mako (tank), it’s so fragile. Two or three hits and it breaks. And you get half XP in it. It’s like everyone gets the hardest difficulty in it. And they never fixed the original.
So yeah, now it’s my favorite series and I’ll buy 5 at launch for full price. I’m in $10 for the first four and that’s awesome.
So yeah, if the original put up walls you couldn’t get over, try Legendary.
The Mako copy pasted barren planets with the same 3 buildings bullshit is half the fucking game. Soooo much bland padding. The main story I enjoy but ut’s actually kinda short by itself. I don’t think Mass Effect 1 is very good compared to the older game it ripped off wholesale:
Star Control 2.
If you do a 100% run, it’s probably a bit more than half. If you just bum rush the story, the Mako stuff might be around 30%? But you can’t say it’s copied and pasted, all the story worlds are individual. I think there were 3 of them you had to do, then there was the one with the beaches, and then after that the jungle planet, so, five? But only the lava planet had significant Mako parts. The rest were a mix of on-foot, Mako, shooting, and conversations.
The real magic with ME1 was the stuff that carried over to 2 and 3. ME2 was better in every way.
I’m still unclear on your opinion.
About Mass Effect 1? The original had issues that make it unplayable (past a certain point) to me, but the Legendary Edition (remaster/remake that ports back fixes and balancing from the latter two titles) makes it fully enjoyable and now I love it.
So the game was good, but the software was holding it back. New software (the remake) has made it better.