Riachu on 06 July 2008
| greenmedic88 said: Mass Effect was actually pretty cheesey IMO. In an adult Sci-Fi novel sort of way, but cheesey nonetheless. Anyone who's read Brin, Niven, Heinlein, Phillip K. Dick, et al is no stranger to this type of fiction, no pun intended. If the mechanics and inventory system are improved in Mass Effect 2, I'll most likely pick it up near release, otherwise the story, while good, is not nearly good enough to keep me playing the series just to follow the entire trilogy. In its defense, it is pretty much impossible to write a space opera that isn't cheesey in some way, shape or form. The MG series essentially boiled down to character development for me although many of its sci-fi elements certainly have had a certain degree of prescience to them, which is always a hallmark of good sci-fi, particularly when it exists within a reality/universe not too far removed from our own. I won't even go into the cartoonish elements of the series though; it is what it is and doesn't pretend to be anything else. |
Mass Effect had a superb script and was backed up by superb VA. The game was still a big disappointment for me. The combat was just horrible.
There are video games where the scripts aren't cheesy in anyway.
