Played MP for first time in long time last night

I fired up and played a couple of rounds of ME3MP last night for the first time in well over a year. In the interim, I've played several hundred hours of Warframe and in my head the games were relatively similar as horde, sci-fi, co-op games with magic space powers.

Hoooooly shit had I managed to forget what ME3 combat is really like. It's heavy and slow. Which isn't bad or a critique, but all my time in Warframe with its space ninjas on meth level of speed had reset the default speed that my brain wanted to engage with this kind of game in. Also, the maps in ME3 are tiny. Even the biggest maps are little bitty things. I imagine that had to do with the limitations of the consoles at the time. Like, I know the enemy could only spawn....I think it was 8 enemies at a time in ME3MP, mostly due to memory and processing limitations on the 360.

Ultimately it was a really refreshing change of pace though.  It was nice to have a challenge. Warframe's balance may as well not exist past a certain point, you can annihilate thousands of enemies with barely a thought made even at higher levels, but in ME3, even on Silver a handful of enemies can overwhelm you fairly quickly (especially when you're super rusty and don't even remember what all the buttons do). 

All in all though, it was great to jump back into the game again and I'm sure I'll keep running the occasional match until Andromeda comes out.  Gotta work on rebuilding that manifest since my 360 is long gone and I've migrated to PC.