| selnor said: Reviewers play games on the easiest so they get the review done in time. And with RPG's they usually disregard all side quests. Even FF7 If you stick to the story can be done in 30 hours. |
I beat it on Veteran mode on my first playthrough and it took me less than 30 hours, a lot of that time was spent on the less than enthalling planet crawling for surveying minerals and artifacts because I insisted on beating every questline I found no matter how crappy the reward.
My second playthrough on easy and skipping the bits of dialogue that I heard the first time I finished in just about 9 hours. That time I avoided most (but not all) of the off-world fetch quests, but still did the side quests on the main planets you visist.
It's not a hard game really. Loot scales to your level, so the further you make the more powerful the upgrades you get, and you auto-loot any enemy you kill as well, so you never have to worry about missing anything off them. You max out a weapons branch and apply the right upgrades you can mostly kill anything in your way.
I liked it, but I liked Knights of the Old Republic a hellva lot better. Thought it had more interesting characters, and felt like there was a lot more fun stuff to do. One of the planets in the main story line on Mass Effect is basically just a straight out shoot from start to finish mission. No sub quests, and you can’t revisit it when you finish.
