I am
still playing Mass Effect, believe it or not. On Monday, that's a month of playing nothing but Mass Effect. Time well spent in my opinion.
Anyway, I'm halfway through the Leviathan DLC. Then I have the Omega DLC to do (for the first time). Then Priority: Horizon, Priority: Cerberus HQ and Priority: Earth. I'm going to finish it before my next sleep I think, unless Omega takes a really long time.
For reference, my goal was to get the platinum trophy in all 3 games.
Goals Acheived:
For
Mass Effect 1 it was most difficult because I didn't already have any from previous playthroughs - it was only just released for PS3. Not only that, but it's more annoying than 2 or 3 because there are trophies for each squadmate for "using them for most of the game" and there are 6 squadmates. This required 3 playthroughs. I had to do 3 full playthroughs anyway, because on the first you unlock Hardcore difficulty (which there's a trophy for) and you have to complete the game on that to unlock Insanity difficulty (which there is also a trophy for). And none of that was fun. Enemies are ridiculously hard to kill. There's also a trophy for reaching level 60 on a character, which takes about 2 and a half playthroughs.
I then had to start a further TWO different playthroughs to use all of the powers 75 times. My class of choice is a Vanguard for the 3 playthroughs (half biotic, half combat fgj) which is kinda boring in 1.
For reference, the difficulty goes
Casual - Normal - Veteran - Hardcore - Insanity. And ngl, Insanity is the hardest difficulty I've ever played any combat based game on, but I don't play CoD or anything.
Anyway got the platinum in the end, but it took about 160 hours
Mass Effect 2 - A lot of people say Vanguard is the most challenging class in this game (a vanguard has biotic charge that basically flies you at your enemy for melee/shotgun kills.... best ability ever IMO) but I chose Reave as a bonus power and imported my Level 60 Vanguard from ME1 so it wasn't too bad.
I also have this need to 100% everything which is why it's taken me so long, especially in 1. I did 3 needless 100% playthroughs, but I suppose it helped me get to level 60 faster. ME2 I just played it from start to finish on Insanity - some of it was challenging, some of it wasn't.
Platinum'd
Mass Effect 3 - Definitely the least challenging so far with the addition of the Nova ability. Charge-Nova-Charge-Nova-Charge-Nova.
Having said that, I've probably died the most in 3. The reason for that is with the Charge-Nova combo, you're basically invincible for the entire game but occasionally it'll glitch out and not let you use charge in the middle of combat, and about 3 bullets will kill you on this difficulty
. I found this especially true on Rannoch. The only real problem I had was with the 3 geth primes, they're ridiculously hard. I had to get Tali to sabotage just so I could get a tiny portion of its health down and then there were another two flanking you.
Other than some of the sections in ME1 (some of which I skipped entirely just by using barrier and running past all the enemies) that was the hardest part so far.
Banshees freaked me out before but occasionally I'll charge them and they'll grab me and put their horrific spiky hands through my chest *shudders*. They also move about 10 times faster on this difficulty and GENUINELY SCARE ME. I am NOT looking forward to the last battle on Earth
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"Long time no see! You've changed! Did ya miss me?"
