Getting through ME (1) when playing the trilogy is a chore

Am I the only one that thinks that gameplay is actually fun in first ME? Biotics were so powerful, shooting still feels really fun (yes, all weapons are the same but the sound and feel are somewhat satisfying) and it was always fun to find new, cool looking armor. Also dialogues with your crew were, for the most part, really well written. Side quests were repetitive and planetary exploration was kinda dull but still it has it's own charm.

You're not the only one. I like the gameplay.

I don't find any part of the Trilogy hard to replay through. Mass Effect 1 is the most difficult to go through during the first 20 levels though.

It's that 20th lvl that I find the hardest.. if you make it to EDI's mission by then. The rockets are tough on insanity.

At the very least, you have to be patient.

not sure about the consoles but this happen all the time....

Agreed. It's the only one i haven't played more then once.

Yep, renegade Shep can be fun when s/he's not being a dick.
In a tone of exasperated rage 'She's surrounded by geth pointing guns at us! Shoot her!'.

And no, I don't find ME1 a chore. The world building and characters mitigate the iffy gameplay.

Yeah, I think I had to play it as paragon with friends (Kaidan, Ash, Liara, etc.) but more renegade with other decisions.  It gives a nice balance.  Not feeling like it's a chore anymore.

My first ever character in Mass effect was an Infiltrator and hoy boy, the first time I used the scope, it went all over the place like I as drunk! Thankfully, I learned to cope with it and ended up being a rather good shot although I admit I was rather happy it changed in the later games. I didn't consider the combat unbearable but I definitely prefer the combat of the series onward. 

I have this phenomenal glitch with my game. Remember how Liara is recruited on a lava planet where you get an instant game over if you touch said lava? Well, the terrain on that planet in my game is black as in you cannot see what is lava and what is land. You have no visual ques. It makes for some delicate maneveuring!

I think I've tried that but it has been a while so I don't know how many times I tried restarting and reloading. I'll keep it in mind, though, next time.

Not at all. I used to but recently I've just been very patient or something. It helps that I have M.E.U.I.T.M and that the game keeps surprising me with conversation branches I didn't know existed. I've played all 3 games almost 10 times in full now (I think but don't remember tbh) and I thought I was getting sick of it, but after not having touched them in a full year, I replayed ME1 recently and I ended up almost 100% completing it (technically impossible since you have to make choices that excludes some content) and I saw a bunch of stuff that I had either forgotten or just hadn't seen before. Furthermore new thoughts sprung to mind in scenes I thought I knew inside and out -- it must be because I've gotten older since the first times.

Also, haters gonna hate on it, but I really don't mind the combat. I love the extra movement freedom of being able to crouch manually and feeling the effects of my stats, my applied mods or armor. I also love the sound of a sniper coupled with the impact of hitting a Geth so it gets knocked over and it says "XP +100" on the side or something. Glad to see they're bringing back some of these elements.

There's also the Galaxy Map. God, I love this in ME1. It's got a somewhat condense size in terms of available systems and scanning is done at the click of a button instead of a stupid minigame and there's no steering the ship around which made it take forever in ME2/3. It feels like a simulation of whatever GUI interface Shepard is actually using than some minigame and I love how efficient it is.

The mako is better to control on pc than on console IMO and the stable framerate helps, as do the few elevators that have been increased in speed like the Shuttle Bay one. Everything just feels more efficient and it's a damn good pc port IMHO, being able to use all abilties on hand in real time and all that. On consoles it's a slightly different story but still overall the same game... just a lot slower and horrible load-times. (and save times on PS3... GOD!)

It didn't feel that way to me back in 2007 when I first played the game, but it certainly feels that way now. I recently replayed the entire trilogy and getting through ME1 was a bit of a slog. It's still one of my favorite games, but it is despite gameplay that hasn't aged well at all.

Character interaction also is lot less interesting than ME3. Most of the ME1 squadmates are walking codex entries with very little personality. Character writing is one area where Bioware improved (mostly) as the series progressed.