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The first Mass Effect was amazing. There's so much detail and thought put into the worldbuilding it could be its own 'cinematic universe'. Story has timeless themes even more relevant today. The gameplay was quirky and frustrating, but also charming and immersive. Everybody hates driving the Mako, but because of its physics which puts them more into the world (and also they secretly miss it).
The sequel Mass Effect 2 suffers from fixing things that weren't broken, no real worldbuilding, design by committee, weak proto-woke story. It's simply a mediocre game set in the amazing ME universe. The annoying parts are purposely added just to irritate you, like ammo or fuel to move around a star system, or the stupid planet-probe that people install a mod to bypass.
Mass Effect 3 is another 2, but with more proto-woke garbage.
I sometimes put on a blind lets-play in the background and in the first one everyone is talking about ideas and are interested and surprised by the plot turns. None of that in the sequels. They're not worth playing.
If anyone here hasn't, play the first one and stop. Use your imagination about what comes next after the story.
As me's progressed the action got better but the story got only worse.