Did you enjoy the game more on your second or third run?

yeah asme here although in my case I'm sitting on 4 now but with each playthrough yes I enjoy it more especially now that the game runs much more smoothly. Got another 3 MEA playthroughs planned but I'm taking a break from ME after I'm done with ME3 to play a few other games.

Yeah I agree I love the biotics in MEA. In ME3 they're a bit weak I think but MEA has just as much kick with biotics as ME2 does. I love the biotics in ME2 as well. I love using shockwaves to toss husks around in the trilogy been doing that a lot in my current run as I'm playing an Adept atm and I love doing the same to the Kett and Remnant on MEA. The only thing I've found to be pretty much invulnerable to biotics is the Architects. BHut then they have vulnerabilities in other areas such as Tech attacks.

BTW vonuber nice display of biotic firepower those guys didn't stand a chane. I'm hoping my next Sara can rip them apart as well as this.

My subsequent runs (not done with them yet, im pushing along 3 characters) are better because my expectations are tamer were they need to be and I can exercice choices where I know I will find some sort of diversity. I can leave behind the type of tasks that wont help shape the characters and do those that 'matter' (character-wise) instead of doing everything to learn where it leads or if it might be useful in the end.

When it happens to me I break out by going to BBCode view.

My first game I really struggled with the pacing. I took too long to do Hunting the Archon, which kept pretty much everything on hold, including my Vetra romance. Second game as Sara was also a pacing fiasco and I romanced Jaal, which I ended up not liking at all even after liking him in my first game as Scott. It wasn't until my 3rd game that I finally got a good grip on when to do what and I really liked the Cora romance. So, first three PTs each got better for me. Then I did two more.  It kind of leveled off at three but I was still finding stuff I hadn't found before in PT #5.

I enjoyed it less, since as I said, there's really nothing new to discover. Nothing to do completely different for different outcomes. Nothing to say that makes people react entirely different. Nothing to resolve in a different way. The game is much more on rails than the mostly linear OT. I blame that on the absence of Paragon/Renegade and on the fact that most sidequests can only be resolved in one particular way. I also blame it on the Jack of all Trades approach that doesn't allow for different builds.

You can if you want to, but if you don't enjoy it there's nothing you can really do about it.

I enjoy it more myself. Being able to better pace myself is a plus, but I also greatly enjoy unlocking/upgrading more and more weapons. I have more VHS augments than I know what to do with and that's the way I likes it.

I think there may be only one perhaps two games I've ever had that feeling. Prototype and X beyond the frontier. Definitely not this but to each their own.

I'm on my 2nd run...and that's because my ps3 hard-drive died on me (st least i'm hoping it's the hard-drive). Anyway...i felt the same way i've felt during my first run...the story in the beginning is REALLY hard to overcome and it takes a minute to get going,..the firsat few hours are a struggle to get through, but i'm finding i'm liking this 2nd playthrough slightly better since i have my armor sets and arsenal already set to go.

I still unfortunately feel the same about Ryder, the characters and the story tho which i felt was lacking.....and some of the quests are too far stretched out between missions...you can easily get caught starting another quest while in the middle of another.....i guess even tho, i'm familiar with most of the quests, there is just something about seeing those clear diamonds/octagons on the map (unresolved quests)....i just need to complete them... .


One thing hasn't changed tho and that is this game's visuals.... .....it was impressive before the patches, but since 1.09?....this game looks absolutely incredible....i've stopped and just adored the visuals multiple times throughout my 2nd run...the artists did an amazing job on that front. I agree with others that the game has pacing issues due to the nature of the side quests, but overall my stance is the same.....story/characters lacking, but a decent game overall 8/10.... 

Yreah that's why with strategy guides I onl yuse them to help me with puzzles I have difficulty solving. If I don't go near them and find the puzzle I don't look it up so don't know what to expect.