People need to stop praising ME1

In my 70 hours of this game I only really fought walking shooting robots and flying shooting robots. Or assault rifle kett, mini gun kett, shotgun kett and dogs. It was one or the other for 70 freaking hours, every single battle, every other minute.

Yeah well ME3 is stupid easy too, so in the end it doesn't matter anyway.

I'm probably more on the fence about that. ME2's Loyalty and Recruitment missions really were some of the best, and the main quests were even better, but all this came at a cost of an incoherent and largely inconsequential storyline, as well as the entire space exploration aspect. The N7 missions were ok but were often over and done with so quick that they were almost pointless. 

One could argue that a lot about ME is the storyline and space exploration. 

This was one of the reasons why I enjoyed ME3 so much, tbh. It balanced ME2's quest structure with ME1's exploration aspect.

Of course. Can't prove anything gameplay wise, change the subject to storyline. Typical internet forum debating at it's finest. What's next, talking about graphics and special effects?

 
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That's basically all I fought on the first 3 planets in a nutshell.

Oh, now it all makes sense. MEA is da best gameplay evar!

The only difference here is that ME1 and 2 are more challenging at a lower level, but the reality is that they're all easy once you have the skills leveled up and have the better weapons. ME1 is probably the best example, because it becomes a total cakewalk well before the halfway point. The only truly challenging section of the game, I felt, was that goddamn krogan battlemaster on Therum. But once I had Spectre weapons and better armor, nothing could really touch me. 

But if I'm honest, it's not really the challenge of the combat that concerns me as much as the actual variety. I don't play Mass Effect for hard combat, because really, in singleplayer, it's never really all that hard. ME3 still has a wider array of enemies to make the encounters more colorful, so on that front I'd still consider it the best of the 3. 

The 3 juggernauts you encounter at the end before you call in the Normandy strike were more of a pain than I expected, especially since their drones can harass the hell out of you and drive you out of cover. ME2's piece de resistance is basically the Collector Praetorian, which was oddly spent early in the game.

I thought the husks in ME2 were really annoying, but I was disappointed that they lost the electrical AOE attack that they possessed in ME1. When I first encountered them in that mine in the surveyor mission, I didn't expect to be overwhelmed and zapped like crazy by them.

Regarding husks and factions, I think that was done on purpose so that characters would question exactly who made them at the time, since in ME1, people thought it was the geth.

Oh God, really? That would be terrible.

Alright, if it makes you feel better, others too.