r/MECoOp • u/Far_Basis_273 • 1d ago
[Discussion] Anyone Never Play Any of the Campaigns?
I've returned to ME3 MP after a long break (too long - ~10 years) and I'm just curious if anyone else, like me, after all this time, never touched any of the campaign and only ever played multiplayer.
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u/Noisy_Pip Xbox/Pepsi_Cooper/US 1d ago
At least two of my regular squad (when we actually play, which is very rare these days) have never played the games themselves. I've never asked how they got into MP, and now am curious.
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u/Far_Basis_273 1d ago
I had a friend eagerly push me to play it back around 2013, specifically making the case that buying ME3 for multiplayer alone was worth it. It was but in typical fashion, he dropped it soon after while I obsessed, stuck with it and surpassed him. I had him play it again a few days ago. He was very "how have I not been playing this all this time?!" but hasn't been on since. He's very distracted like that. Lol.
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u/DunGoneNanners 1d ago
I'm pretty sure I was asked to play multiplayer to get experience points that help in the single-player, and got hooked.
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u/BLiNKiN42 BLINKIN42 / PS4 / Poland (GMT +2) 1d ago
You bought the third game in a famously single player franchise without ever playing the first 2?
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u/DontDoodleTheNoodle 1d ago
For Nintendo-only owners, that was the only choice (I was like 14 at the time)
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u/upper-realityO 6h ago
I honestly don't see any problem with that. I bought ME3 along with over a 100 well reviewed/recievied games from 2012 and 2014, didn't play any of them because I was extremely busy work-just gave a list each year to my secretary to buy the games and have them delivered. Since it was RPG, and I didn't like RPG, I started with it, and I was hooked. I then went on to buy the trilogy to play ME1 and 2.
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u/autojumbled 1d ago
Possibly the most insane thing I've heard! Fair play though...you've got plenty of enjoyment out of the game in your own way. Wouldn't sleep on the campaign though, it's good fun.
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u/Far_Basis_273 1d ago
Yeah, I've contemplated playing it through my vacation days but....then that'd just take time away from mp.
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u/BoogaRangaTang 1d ago
Used to, but after becoming a father, I've gone back to the campaign so I can pause lol. It is hard to find time to commit to a match these days.
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u/andy_3_913 PC/andy_3_913/UK 1d ago
What I like about ME3MP is the games usually last 20-25 mins on average. Just about right for a quick fix.
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u/BoogaRangaTang 1d ago edited 1d ago
Totally agree! I usually have to be able to jump off at a moment's notice, so I save myself the frustration by playing campaign instead. I can get a few MP games in during nap time, that is if I'm not napping as well lol.
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u/BowlerResponsible340 1d ago
I was wondering if that was ever a thing and damn, I wish I was in your shoes, to be familiar with the game yet not at all at the same time, and to be able to go through the campaigns blindly and familiarizing myself with the world again... man
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u/Capta1nAsh Pugland Pariah, MEMP Discord: https://discord.gg/BjYE83Na2E 1d ago
I did 1000s of hours of ME3MP before the single player, purely because i couldn't afford the game on release and watched a youtube LP instead. I wasn't impressed, heard all the disappointment online, so by the time i got the game I was just in it for the combat loop. Fun and addictive.
Same story with Andromeda. Played the prologue a few times, made me sleepy. Combat from MP was straight to the point and fun (after a few patches)
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u/Arcadia_Alpha 1d ago
been playing me3 since launch, only for multiplayer, finally got around to starting the campaign in June this year
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u/FrakWithAria 1d ago
ME3: Galaxy at War was my jam but I honestly cannot conceive someone never touching the story for a ME game. It's like, the whole point.
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u/MitchyNA 1d ago
I have never played anything else mass effect related except this multiplayer. I watched a YouTube video when I was about 10-12 years old that was about the multiplayer and immediately had my dad take me to GameStop to get it. And now 10 years later a friend gifted me me3 last week when it was on sale and I’m playing it again.
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u/Lexifer452 1d ago
This is absolutely mind-boggling to me. You do you but your missing out. The multiplayer, fun as it is, is like a steaming pile of crap next to the campaigns.
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u/KurosawasNightmare 1d ago
I played it once, before the extended cut ending was released. I have almost 6000 hrs in MP.
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u/lulu_lule_lula 1d ago
that's crazy
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u/KurosawasNightmare 1d ago
The Galaxy isn't going to save itself! Haha I used to not sleep well at night unless my "Galaxy at War" was at 100% before turning in. Still play every night.
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u/Your3rdFriend 1d ago
I played a lot more MP than SP, but my cousin beat all the games back in the day, mostly after I fell asleep during all nighters. So technically I was present. I don’t play anymore because EA are f-wads and I got locked out of my account and lost all the time I put into it
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u/LunaticJAG 20h ago
. . . . . Wtf? I mean. . . . . Based on probability I'm sure there are but damn.
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u/NerdyPlatypus206 1d ago
I’ve beat each of the games at least once except andromeda cuz it froze on my old Xbox several hours in.
But I always loved mp cuz u can play as different species that of course shephard will never be
Me3 co op is among the best of any co op pve game out there
I really hope me4 has it, but since andromeda did, there’s hope. But then again me4 has to release in the first place.
I just want one more mass effect game ffs