What the Hell people?
I know I've said *many* times that I have not finished Mass Effect yet nobody got on my back about it. The wife was in San Antonia this weekend so I took the chance to finish the game. I didn't like my previous Shephard so I made a new one and then set it to easy because I just wanted the story, the new game+ in Mass Effect 2, and I didn't feel like wasting the time with the gameplay.
Well I finished the game last night and hot damn it was amazing! Even though I have Mass Effect 2 I still want to play through Mass Effect again! I actually cared about the characters and the decisions in that game got pretty tough (though the Kaiden Ashley decision wasn't hard since I didn't like either of them)! It got to the part where I to save the council and I was just like crap what do I do! (I focused on the Soveriegn) and then you even have to pick the new human council chairmen.
Mass Effect I think actually rekindled my love of the RPG I think.
Traditional JRPG's just get me bored and I can't remember the last new one I finished. Other WRPG's like any Bethesda game I generally get bored too and they're too open so I forget about the main story. I loved the ending of Fable II but I was done with that game and I didn't want more. I loved Dragon Age, but after a while I was just done with it.
But Mass Effect, crap, I loved that game and I want more. I wish I had actually made myself play through it earlier because I did almost no side quests and I want to do them all now.
And then moving straight from Mass Effect to Mass Effect, holy shit, the improvements are insane!
So yeah, congratulations Bioware, Mass Effect is incredible, it rekindled my love for the RPG, and I'm looking forward to playing Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 again and again.
Great game is great, Mass Effect is easily one of the best games this gen and I'm only 1-2 hours into Mass Effect 2 and it's improved in almost every way so far.
