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Originally Posted by Mazrim
I've currently logged 25 hours in ME1 and I still have 10 or so assignments aside from the main mission to do. I'm starting to feel less motivation to finish these side quests though, as they're all very similar (ride the Mako, avoid Thresher Maws, kill some Geth turrets or Colossus/go in base, kills a dozen enemies, collect loot). The "UNC: Geth Incursion" assignment took almost three hours to complete, with no real story behind it, which left a bad taste in my mouth. Yeah, I made Tali happy, but story wise there was almost nothing there. So now I'm off to Virmire.
Don't get me wrong, I think the game is awesome and I love the story and universe, but everyone praising all the side missions makes me wonder if I'm not doing the right ones or something.
Also, I really don't like the driving sections. Waiting 5 minutes for my shields to recharge so I can take out a Colossus sucks.
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I don't know what class you're playing but fighting a Colossus in the Mako is not effective. Get out and kill it on foot. As an adept I'd just use lift and pummel the thing while it's helplessly floating. As a soldier, I used a sniper riffle with explosive rounds from a distance (it's actually ridiculous how far away you can take something out with the sniper riffle). I got into the habbit of exiting the vehicle as soon as I'd encounter enemies because if the Mako gets destroyed you have to restart. You also get more experience by killing things outside of the Mako.
To weigh in on the ME1 vs ME2, 1 was a superior game in most respects. I disliked the removal of RPG elements from 2 and I felt the story was weaker. With that said, 2 did some things right. Combat was much more fluid (even though they super nerfed the adept) and they added quality side missions. I've purposely stayed away from ME3 news, videos and the demo because I already know that it's a day one purchase for me. I hope its more like a merger of 1 and 2 in terms of gameplay but more like 1 in terms of story.