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twesterm on 02 March 2010
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kowenicki said:

Twesterm

I take it you mean the first Mass Effect?

Well i hope you do. I have had zero issues with ME2.

I played through ME 4 times, got to level 60 and finished it on insanity. It wasnt anywhere near as broken as that for me... maybe I was lucky,

I only ever had pop-in (everyone knows this was in ME) the very very very occasional slight slow down, nowhere near as slow as you experienced.. and I had one enemy get stuck behind a wall once in insanity level.

Thats it. Did it matter? no...loved it, thats whay it gets a "free ride" cos its a great game

I'm currently playin Heavy rain, lots of screen tearing and some pop in, my arm went througha characters chest and the sound has dropped a few times... oh and the incidental character AI is a bit off...

Does it matter? nope. Loving it.

My point is that tech issues dont mater so long as they dont break the experience and the game is good.

Im surpirsed at your long tale of a broken experience with ME, but it just wasnt anywhere near that bad for me.... and I suspect many others judging by ME2 sales.

Yup, Mass Effect or else I would have said Mass Effect 2 (I loved ME2 and it's the only reason I finished that 2nd playthrough of ME).  :-p

And it's not just tech issues with Mass Effect.  I've finished the game twice, played it on two Xbox's, played it installed and not installed, started it and got anywhere from 4-8 hours five additional times, and I've seen it played on other peoples Xbox and I've seen those problems every time.

I don't know, it's a good game without a doubt, but it is not a 9+ game and is probably close to an 8 at best.  The writing, characters, and choices are all top notch, but all those other glaring issues just bring it down so much.  The first time I played through I was blown away but the more I thought about it later and now playing through it again, it's not a 9+ game.  If I had to rate it right now, it would fall somewhere in the 7.8 - 8.3 range. 

Still a good game, but it just has an insane amount of issues.

  • frame rate problems everywhere
  • texture pop-in
  • several sound problems where I couldn't hear characters over music/background noise
  • easy to get stuck, multiple crashes
  • non-story Mako sequences are awful
  • The hacking game is just stupid but essential
  • The gunplay/powers are so-so at best
  • cover system is bad
  • horrible inventory management