Just picked up Mass Effect.... what an amazing game.

It took me a while before I picked up this game and all I can think about is why I didn't pick it up sooner. The story, gameplay, characters... everything about the game is pure gold. It feels like I'm in a star wars/star trek movie of some sorts. I've never played any other game that comes close to it's movie style production value.

If you haven't tried the game at least give it a rent. It's friggen awesome!

i remember saying it sucked and i didn't like it in an earlier thread about this. i could not have been more wrong.

It took me a while before I picked up this game and all I can think about is why I didn't pick it up sooner. The story, gameplay, characters... everything about the game is pure gold. It feels like I'm in a star wars/star trek movie of some sorts. I've never played any other game that comes close to it's movie style production value.

If you haven't tried the game at least give it a rent. It's friggen awesome!

CPM_basic

I just played it today for the first time in a few months...I dunno why I stopped playing. Oh wait, now I remember: COD4.

But yeah, Mass Effect is excellent.

agreed. i love it. does anyone know if you can use your character in mass effect 2/3?Zcrimson07

i heard that a bioware dev comfirmed it, well they said make sure your saves safe u will need it in mass effect 2, i haven't read the article but it seems to be known by a lot of people maybe someone else can post it

I have completed it twice, first time as a soldier and second as an adept. The achievements are addictive and I am tempted in playing it a third time as an engineer.

The game is great but the campaign could have been a bit longer and with a hard drive installation there would have been faster load times and less texture pop-ups. I am pretty sure Mass Effect 2 will have optional hard drive installations.

I tried Mass Effect when it came out, and was utterly dissapointed. But I've been yearning for an RPG lately, and I find my mind wandering back to Wrex and crew. I think the reason I was disapointed was because it was Bioware, and it was Sci-Fi, so I was hyped for it like it was kotor 3, but it wasn't Kotor 3. I guess my reason for this post is to ask, should I give the Spectres another shot?TIE_Elite_Pilot

How far into the story are you?

I didn't really enjoy playing it until around where you're inducted as a Spectre. After that I couldn't put the game down.

I found the fact that every side mission was a fetch quest, or a "let's talk this out" quest. The combat was TERRIBLE, with the levels being poorly designed, your allies to be idiots who are dead 2 seconds into a firefight, and youe enemies being mindless bafoons who do nothing but charge you, regardless of whether they are using a gun or not.

Also, why does every single planet look exactly the same, only being a different color. The side quest for your allies was quite a downer. All this boring effort to get a paragraph long summary of your allies reactions after just helping them out with their uninteresting issues.

Indeed Mass Effect is a great game. One of the few games I've played more than once.

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It took me a while before I picked up this game and all I can think about is why I didn't pick it up sooner. The story, gameplay, characters... everything about the game is pure gold. It feels like I'm in a star wars/star trek movie of some sorts. I've never played any other game that comes close to it's movie style production value.

If you haven't tried the game at least give it a rent. It's friggen awesome!

R7_3

Mind Blowing mate.

I play with the film grain on, imo made it look better.

I found the fact that every side mission was a fetch quest, or a "let's talk this out" quest. The combat was TERRIBLE, with the levels being poorly designed, your allies to be idiots who are dead 2 seconds into a firefight, and youe enemies being mindless bafoons who do nothing but charge you, regardless of whether they are using a gun or not.

Also, why does every single planet look exactly the same, only being a different color. The side quest for your allies was quite a downer. All this boring effort to get a paragraph long summary of your allies reactions after just helping them out with their uninteresting issues.

BlueTimber

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I found the fact that every side mission was a fetch quest, or a "let's talk this out" quest. The combat was TERRIBLE, with the levels being poorly designed, your allies to be idiots who are dead 2 seconds into a firefight, and youe enemies being mindless bafoons who do nothing but charge you, regardless of whether they are using a gun or not.

Also, why does every single planet look exactly the same, only being a different color. The side quest for your allies was quite a downer. All this boring effort to get a paragraph long summary of your allies reactions after just helping them out with their uninteresting issues.

Zcrimson07

The problem was their desire to run out from cover and just get filled with bullets. And I didn't like the combat, because the guns didn't fire well, there was no bonos for where you fire, levels weren't designed with a cover system in mind (ala every other shooter that has a cover system) only randomly placed "stuff". And as I said, enemies didn't use cover, they just charged you, so while I'm unloading a clip of my assualt rifle into this guy whose just running at me, he's just eating it up like a body builder on pcp wearing kevlar, who'll kill me while I'm reloading.

[QUOTE="Zcrimson07"][QUOTE="BlueTimber"]

I found the fact that every side mission was a fetch quest, or a "let's talk this out" quest. The combat was TERRIBLE, with the levels being poorly designed, your allies to be idiots who are dead 2 seconds into a firefight, and youe enemies being mindless bafoons who do nothing but charge you, regardless of whether they are using a gun or not.

Also, why does every single planet look exactly the same, only being a different color. The side quest for your allies was quite a downer. All this boring effort to get a paragraph long summary of your allies reactions after just helping them out with their uninteresting issues.

BlueTimber

The problem was their desire to run out from cover and just get filled with bullets. And I didn't like the combat, because the guns didn't fire well, there was no bonos for where you fire, levels weren't designed with a cover system in mind (ala every other shooter that has a cover system) only randomly placed "stuff". And as I said, enemies didn't use cover, they just charged you, so while I'm unloading a clip of my assualt rifle into this guy whose just running at me, he's just eating it up like a body builder on pcp wearing kevlar, who'll kill me while I'm reloading.