This thread makes me lol. There's nothing wrong with not liking Mass Effect, but the reasons....oh boy. Mass Effect is to Halo what.....hmmm......Warhammer 20k is to Ridley Scott's Alien. Ie, they both have guns and aliens in them. That doesn't make them even remotely similar. And Star Wars? Well, perhaps thats a bit closer, since it too is something of a "space opera", but still, no.
I for one found ME quite hard to get into, and some parts of it are AWFUL. Like the sniper rifles. And anything involving the Mako. And the inventory system? Dear god, what was up with that? But still, it was an AMAZING game....it really pushed RPGs in general away from crappy JRPG cliches or swords and sworcery rubbish (a la Oblivion) and made them more accesible for the average console gamer (ie, people that like shooty things and explody things. And REALLY like explody shooty things.) With a little alien hanky panky for good measure.
Haven't got ME2 yet, I'm waiting for summer when I'll have time to play it all day every day :D
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