I picked up ME2 from the Origin humble bundle recently. I've been told ME1 isn't "needed" to play through the series (because it's boring) but I'd like to have all of them and I do like to go through the entire story no matter how boring it may be. I think if I were to buy 1 & 3 separately (at a sale price) I'd only be saving like a dollar so I may jump on this.