My Mass Effect (360) Review

[Hawk]

rocketpig said:

Hawk said:

rocketpig said:
This game's lack of any kind of tutorial whatsoever is unforgivable. I hate walking into a situation knowing that I'm supposed to do something and then being forced to hammer on buttons to figure out how it works.

Please say you are kidding. There was no tutorial per say, yeah. But it does explain buttons and relevant screens the first time you use them. Isn't that all that's needed?

In a forty hour game that might take people a month to play amidst other games, no it's not enough. Just a controller screen that listed the buttons is all I'm asking for. I don't need some in-depth tutorial, just a little helper screen somewhere in the game. It's not as if I'm going to memorize all the buttons in the game right off the bat; after all, I am jumping between ME, RB, CoD, and AC on almost a daily basis. The other games aren't a problem because they have controller screens, why is it too much to ask BioWare to do the same? It would take me all of 2 hours to lay out a pretty screen that showed the buttons. In a $20m game, that's not asking much.

A controller screen I can completely agree with. I personally don't understand how some developers miss the most obvious things like that. That I agree with, I need those to refresh my memory on the button layout all the time. But I certainly think the mini tutorial was good enough. I'd never use a full tutorial to refresh my memory on the button layout.