| twesterm said: Yeah, Mass Effect's issues are really hard to overlook, but underneath them all is a really great game. When it first came out I tried to finish it like three or four times but kept stopping due to terrible frame rate, bugs, and controls but eventually made myself play it right before Mass Effect 2 came out and I loved it. I would say get it for cheap, set it to easy, and just play through on easy. When I did finally finish the game I was going to play through several times but I tried to finish every quest the first time through and did for the most part (I skipped some of the fetch quests) and it made me nearly hate the game even though it was so great. Every non-story area is pretty much copy-pasted and using the Mako just plain sucks. Play through all the story missions, do the character missions, and leave it at that and you'll like the game much more. |
I typically don't let games get away with technical issues as I grew up as a PC gamer and am very particular and strict when it comes to the technical side of gaming. Mass Effect is just about the only game that I've managed to overlook these issues with. I completely understand why people didn't like the game and why they couldn't overlook some of the technical issues. I'm glad you gave it another try and loved it. I'm currently playing it again (check sig 
) on Insanity. I've played through it 5 times already and always find myself going back for another full play-through (sidequests and mako included) every 8 or so months.
And I agree that the side quests are incredible repetitive but I think I've trained myself to overlook repetitiveness in games (I put 400 hours into Oblivion and collected all the treasure chests in AC2).
It'll be pretty cheap now so I'd say give it a shot. Possibly borrow it from a friend and try it out before you buy. Instead of renting it you could probably pay a couple more bucks and buy it.
