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S.T.A.G.E. on 23 January 2010
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richardhutnik said:
raygun said:
I just watched the first 30 minutes of ME2, and really wasn't impressed. It's like Uncharted, in space. Except the enemy, dum robots, have no AI at all, they just stand there and get shot. It's third person like Uncharted, and uses cut scenes during loading just like uncharted. The cut scenes aren't motion captured as good as in Uncharted, and the main character, who you can customize, is bland with no personality whatsoever. You can make small changes to the story line now and then, but it's still linear. You 'hack' certain door locks by jumpering some circuit boards in a super simple mini game several times in the first 30 minutes. I was considering on getting this for pc, but really was surprised how I wasn't interested at all. I know the first 30 minutes isn't the whole game, but I just can't see what all the hype is about.

Uncharted patterns itself after Indiana Jones/National Treasure type movies, and are linear, with a bunch of gunplan.  Mass Effect is like a more story driven version of the old PC game Starflight, where you go to various locations.  It is not linear, but it does have a plot you can follow.  The focus with Mass Effect is the story and building up your character, with the action taking a back seat.  In Uncharted, the focus is on the action, and getting through the story, and there is NO statbuilding in it in the single game.

He doesn't get it at all. First of all Uncharted franchise are movies with gameplay that follows it taking from games like Tomb Raider, Killswitch Prince of Persia. Mass Effect has its movies but the gameplay overrules all else as it is an RPG and all the aspects together run the game. The movies are also intertwined with choices so they become interactive movies where you can affect the rest of the story. Uncharted is the exact opposite where the cut scenes basically help you follow the yellow brick road or you put in some button combination action scene that the devs never trusted you to evade in the first place.