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S.T.A.G.E. on 02 May 2009
shio said:
mrstickball said:
Metacritic:

Mass Effect - 91 (89 for PC)
The Witcher - 81 (86 for enhanced edition)
Kings Bounty - 80

Awards wise, I tend to think that Mass Effect winning IGN's Best RPG of the Year, Best Score, Best Story; New York Times Best Game of the Year; SpikeTV, TeamXbox, GameTrailers and X-Play's Best RPG of 2007 trumps The Witchers PC awards.

Mass Effect won far more categories outside of just it's console's awards. ME won RPG of the year on 5 sites. The Witcher did not. So don't call the Witcher better from ANY critical standpoint, when it is not. The Witcher did get more awards, but the majority of them were from PC gaming magazines, and not general magazines that pitted the Witcher against more titles (unlike ME, which won against every other game in 2007). Even King's Bounty won tons of PC awards, despite it having an average MC rating of 80 (great game, BTW).

Huh?! Since when are IGN, SpikeTV, TeamXbox, GT, New York Times (for videogames) and X-Play reputable sources?! The thing is, The Witcher won far more awards in Europe than ME did, but the US sources are much more visible obviously.

 

Here is a list of all the accolades Mass Effect has earned. For PC, Xbox, best writing, best character, best art direction, GOTY 07, RPG of the year and more in the non-gaming aspect of the world as well.

http://masseffect.bioware.com/previewsawards/

 



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ps3-sales! on 02 May 2009

ehhh. it'll sell good, i'm thinking that the 360's mass effect is the ps3's uncharted sales wise.



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shio on 02 May 2009
S.T.A.G.E. said:
shio said:
mrstickball said:
Metacritic:

Mass Effect - 91 (89 for PC)
The Witcher - 81 (86 for enhanced edition)
Kings Bounty - 80

Awards wise, I tend to think that Mass Effect winning IGN's Best RPG of the Year, Best Score, Best Story; New York Times Best Game of the Year; SpikeTV, TeamXbox, GameTrailers and X-Play's Best RPG of 2007 trumps The Witchers PC awards.

Mass Effect won far more categories outside of just it's console's awards. ME won RPG of the year on 5 sites. The Witcher did not. So don't call the Witcher better from ANY critical standpoint, when it is not. The Witcher did get more awards, but the majority of them were from PC gaming magazines, and not general magazines that pitted the Witcher against more titles (unlike ME, which won against every other game in 2007). Even King's Bounty won tons of PC awards, despite it having an average MC rating of 80 (great game, BTW).

Huh?! Since when are IGN, SpikeTV, TeamXbox, GT, New York Times (for videogames) and X-Play reputable sources?! The thing is, The Witcher won far more awards in Europe than ME did, but the US sources are much more visible obviously.

 

Here is a list of all the accolades Mass Effect has earned. For PC, Xbox, best writing, best character, best art direction, GOTY 07, RPG of the year and more in the non-gaming aspect of the world as well.

http://masseffect.bioware.com/previewsawards/

 

The Witcher still probably won more awards than both Mass Effect X360 and PC versions combined. Anyway, awards are still popularity contests, which is why japanese games always win in japan, why console games always win in NA and UK, why PC games always win in the rest of Europe and Continental Asia, etc... games are awarded by amount of votes, but if the people who vote for Best RPG haven't even played, say, The Witcher or other RPGs how are they reputable?

The fact that games like The Witcher and Mass Effect won best Writing Awards, yet Mask of the Betrayer (which has probably the best writing of the last decade) got snubbed because not as many people in the industry even played it.

I think the voting systems must be changed because this is not films or music we're talking about. Game reviewers don't play the vast majority of games since it takes ages to review them, while films/music discs take like 2 hours.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 02 May 2009
shio said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
shio said:
mrstickball said:
Metacritic:

Mass Effect - 91 (89 for PC)
The Witcher - 81 (86 for enhanced edition)
Kings Bounty - 80

Awards wise, I tend to think that Mass Effect winning IGN's Best RPG of the Year, Best Score, Best Story; New York Times Best Game of the Year; SpikeTV, TeamXbox, GameTrailers and X-Play's Best RPG of 2007 trumps The Witchers PC awards.

Mass Effect won far more categories outside of just it's console's awards. ME won RPG of the year on 5 sites. The Witcher did not. So don't call the Witcher better from ANY critical standpoint, when it is not. The Witcher did get more awards, but the majority of them were from PC gaming magazines, and not general magazines that pitted the Witcher against more titles (unlike ME, which won against every other game in 2007). Even King's Bounty won tons of PC awards, despite it having an average MC rating of 80 (great game, BTW).

Huh?! Since when are IGN, SpikeTV, TeamXbox, GT, New York Times (for videogames) and X-Play reputable sources?! The thing is, The Witcher won far more awards in Europe than ME did, but the US sources are much more visible obviously.

 

Here is a list of all the accolades Mass Effect has earned. For PC, Xbox, best writing, best character, best art direction, GOTY 07, RPG of the year and more in the non-gaming aspect of the world as well.

http://masseffect.bioware.com/previewsawards/

 

The Witcher still probably won more awards than both Mass Effect X360 and PC versions combined. Anyway, awards are still popularity contests, which is why japanese games always win in japan, why console games always win in NA and UK, why PC games always win in the rest of Europe and Continental Asia, etc... games are awarded by amount of votes, but if the people who vote for Best RPG haven't even played, say, The Witcher or other RPGs how are they reputable?

The fact that games like The Witcher and Mass Effect won best Writing Awards, yet Mask of the Betrayer (which has probably the best writing of the last decade) got snubbed because not as many people in the industry even played it.

I think the voting systems must be changed because this is not films or music we're talking about. Game reviewers don't play the vast majority of games since it takes ages to review them, while films/music discs take like 2 hours.

 

 

Probably doesn't cut it. Show me their list of accolades and GOTY awards.



AE86 on 02 May 2009

I feel that with Shio acting up, I am required to post in this thread because of my sig.

That is all.



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CAL4M1TY on 02 May 2009
shio said:
tyig said:
Yeah, the second epic part of the best rpg this gen

Not really: The Witcher, Warhammer Online, King's Bounty are all better than Mass Effect.

 

 

Holy crap, if those 3 are your examples of RPG's better than Mass Effect, this generation is in a lot of trouble. I don't think ME1 is the best rpg this gen, a truly amazing experience though.

Mass Effect 2 will be epic, one of the few franchises that's made me regret switching to a PS3. There were some truly amazing moments in the first game (no, not the alien sex scene). I will find a way to play this game, hopefully before all the spoilers appear online (bought ME1 on day 1), I would have cracked it if I knew that in ME1 you had to choose who died between Ashley and Kaiden (I chose Kaiden, never used him during the campaign by choice anyway) before I had actually got a chance to play it for myself.

Will be picking up the PC version though (assuming wikipedia is correct).

Also according to wikipedia, these 2 games (ME1 and 2) run on Unreal 3. Pretty suprising because I thought the 360 loved Unreal engine 3, why did ME1 have so many technical hiccups (texture loading was awful).



S.T.A.G.E. on 02 May 2009
CAL4M1TY said:
shio said:
tyig said:
Yeah, the second epic part of the best rpg this gen

Not really: The Witcher, Warhammer Online, King's Bounty are all better than Mass Effect.

 

 

Holy crap, if those 3 are your examples of RPG's better than Mass Effect, this generation is in a lot of trouble. I don't think ME1 is the best rpg this gen, a truly amazing experience though.

Mass Effect 2 will be epic, one of the few franchises that's made me regret switching to a PS3. There were some truly amazing moments in the first game (no, not the alien sex scene). I will find a way to play this game, hopefully before all the spoilers appear online (bought ME1 on day 1), I would have cracked it if I knew that in ME1 you had to choose who died between Ashley and Kaiden (I chose Kaiden, never used him during the campaign by choice anyway) before I had actually got a chance to play it for myself.

Will be picking up the PC version though (assuming wikipedia is correct).

Also according to wikipedia, these 2 games (ME1 and 2) run on Unreal 3. Pretty suprising because I thought the 360 loved Unreal engine 3, why did ME1 have so many technical hiccups (texture loading was awful).

 

 

Personally speaking, I believe Mass Effect plays and feels better on the 360, but if you have to get your Mass Effect fix, get it on PC. Get the other missions on the Bioware website online as well.



big_boss on 02 May 2009

The problem I had with the first one is the framerate when there was many enemies on screen or when you fight groups of bionics it slowed down big time.

When they fix these issues it will be one of the best RPGs this year. I hope they expand on the conversation options because I could charm my way out of alot of situations. It made the game too easy for me.



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S.T.A.G.E. on 02 May 2009
big_boss said:
The problem I had with the first one is the framerate when there was many enemies on screen or when you fight groups of bionics it slowed down big time.

When they fix these issues it will be one of the best RPGs this year. I hope they expand on the conversation options because I could charm my way out of alot of situations. It made the game too easy for me.

 

I used my EXP points mostly for attack damage, health and shooting accuracy with the Soldier class. I filled up the persuasion (Both paragon and Renegade) part towards the end of the game. The biotic class was crazy, because you gained so much actual biotic power.



ctk495 on 02 May 2009

Awesome is their going to be a Wii version this time around?