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d21lewis on 16 April 2012
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CGI-Quality said:

d21lewis said:

Remember Heavy Rain? It was a very ambitious game and an attempt to take gaming to another level. I think Mass Effect is a far more ambitious project, however. 

Not to go off-topic, but I would say it depends on what aspects of the game you're talking about. If it's storytelling, I say Heavy Rain has no equal. However, if it's the scope, I'd give Mass Effect the nod. Overall, Heavy Rain is a riskier project than Mass Effect (gameplay, storytelling, type of story), which makes it more ambitious in my eyes.

Regardless, I'm about a quarter of the way through ME3, which is my current GOTY by the way, and the only comparison that makes any sense to HR is the fact that the story is bendable (Heavy Rain more so, I feel). Still, as much as I like Heavy Rain, Mass Effect, as a series, handles some things much better, which is why it would generally receive higher numerical praise from me, while it lacks that "special something" that Heavy Rain had.

Once I beat ME3 though, I don't believe I'll criticize it to the degree that I've seen it receive (if I have any issue at all).


I guess the word would be scope.  Making a trilogy, making decisions carry over from one game to the other, making the game work whether you choose to be a male or famale (with voices for both), creating an entire universe with its own history, coming up with a theory as wild as the one they came up with (the entire universe keeps getting destroyed and starting over)--and making it a fun game with lots of diversity on top of that.  I think the Mass Effect trilogy is one of the most ambitious undertakings in all of gaming.  It could have done one thing wrong--story, gameplay, sales, etc.--and the whole project would be ruined.  Right now, I'm just in awe of the franchise.  I won't take anything away from Heavy Rain, though.  It was amazing, too.

Oh, I had a hard time getting into ME3 even though I bought ME1 and ME2 on day one.  It just felt like it was missing something.  Don't worry.  Soon, it's going to grab you like it grabbed me.  I just hope you're more forgiving of the ending since it really is totally unexpected.  Hope you manage to avoid spoilers like I did.  Go into it fresh and decide for yourself.