Quote Originally Posted by Alerith View Post
It's their choice to play the first. Are you implying that Mass Effect 1 should have been inherently faceroll easy just so people could beat it to play ME2? People have the choice to play 1.0 now. Doesn't mean any part of it should be made stupidly easy.

Also, the Harry Potter example is an extremely bad example. The books aren't designed so you can start the story at book 3. A Realm Reborn MUST be designed in such a way that it is the start of the story.
Mass effect 1 was overly easy and you could basically beat it witout ever dying. Most games have easy mode or let you enter cheats to make it a breeze, especially 3-part games.

And you can easily start reading at harry potter 3 and not miss much. Each book is essentially a stand-alone story that rarely talks about the events of previous books.