People need to stop praising ME1

Possibly.

At that same token though, it's kind of inevitable to have this conversation.

Like, the recent release of Breath of the Wild has been called the best Zelda game ever made by a lot of people, while others say it is still not as good as Ocarina of Time, or the original Zelda, or Wind Waker, or whatever favorite they had. It is fandom at it's best sometimes, the sort of discussions you can have with folks on something you all enjoy. 

If it wasn't about Zelda, it would be a Fallout game. Or The Witcher series, or some other beloved franchise that will see it eventually compared to the past. Whether it is compared favorably or not is always going to be subjective ultimately., especially to it's previous installments and the legacy they create. 


That baggage will be there, so to speak, I think even if Andromeda was a great game. I would bet there would be people still comparing it unfavorably to Mass Effect 1 in some form as well if it had universal acclaim. It is sort of what we do when we have benchmarks to hold it up to.

We're glossing over 1 important fact. ME1 was new and exciting no one knew what to expect. It was all fresh. MEA was full of expectations. Everyone remembers losing their virginity. No matter how bad it was, it was new and exciting. No matter how good your 4th time having sex was, you don't really remember it. It was just another time and it carried way more expectations than your 1st time.

Anyway, ME1 had tons of busywork. I don't know how anyone could believe otherwise. 

Anyway, ME1 had tons of busywork. I don't know how anyone could believe otherwise. 

Heh, if only my filthy PS3 supported such things. But alas, I must hop through the clods like the rest of the low-bred riffraff. 

You could get the best gear and weapons(Spectre gear X) in the game by simply playing the main story three times. In order to do that with games like Mass Effect 2, or Dragon Age Inquisition, you have to do some mmo grinding.

I realy don't get why Mass Effect 1 is praised like it's the holy grail or something. Yes, the story is damn good and it set the foundation for imo the 2nd best Sci-Fi universe that exists (sorry, not topping W40k).

But that's it. The gameplay is atrocious, controls are sluggish as f*ck, the graphics can get pretty ugly for a 2007 game at some points, the sound quality isn't that great either... The dialoge system sometimes has 3 options but Shepard will say the same line, no matter what you pick - nice way of making it look like there are a lot of options.
And who thought putting a bouncy ball in a game, calling it a tank and making the player bounce arround the most boring and repetitive planets possible was a good idea?
Oh and biotics, because we want to make the game a ragdollfest! And elevators.

I first played it in 2011 and stopped after about 5h because it just wasn't fun and I didn't play it again until 2014 when I finally decided to play the trilogy. Stangely enough I played it like a dozen times. But only because I wanted to play the entire trilogy, so I just rushed through ME1 on easy. I play the others on insanity, btw.

Apard from the story, the game dosen't realy have that much going for it, even some characters are kinda boring until ME2. The story does compensate for a lot of that, but the fact that I put the game down and ignored it for 3 years says a lot (I usually don't put a game down that easy).