What's your favorite Mass Effect game?

[mjk45]

Leynos said:

Not played a single one but I watched some LPs. 1 has seemingly not aged well. 3 literally stole plot points from Gurren Lagen. 2 took from X-Files but still seemed well done. Andromeda is the funniest one to watch. The horrid writing. The really bad voice acting & dialogue. Bioware sound mixing for voices always been awful. The glitches and bad animations were hilarious to watch!

What I did find kinda lame is the first is pretty much an RPG. Each game becomes more of a TPS and less of an RPG. By 3 it was just a TPS.

No there are some generalities but that's about like most stories and media you will find similar themes popping up from time to time, an example is Mass Effect's story main theme revolving around the philosophical questions that arise from the juxtaposition of biological life and AI, we have seen this in other contemporary games and other forms most famously with Isaac Asimov and his I Robot series along with even older stuff and we shall see these questions play out into the future.

closer to home regarding your anime point is xenoblade chronicles x and its humankind's potential threatens alien society theme that brings up Halo vibes and just as most would put the similarities down to two sci fi games making use of the same subject matter for their plot and one that's been so richly mined that any thoughts of one game or the other claiming the general subject matter beyond the specific storytelling in the games themselves is moot. I would say Mass Effect didn't steal from your anime anymore than the anime stole from the earlier Halo and that's was nothing.

Last edited by mjk45 - on 19 May 2021