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Citan on 04 March 2010
epinefridis said:
Citan said:

 

I read something positive about mass effect so I`d figure I`d pirate (love pirating products ms earns money from) mass effect 1 and 2.

I started to play #1(on PC) and here`s my first impressions:

 

1. Fantastic title screen music. Perfect for a space game.

2. Creating character is a tad better than oblivion iv(dunno why I compare to that game), but characters still look crappy. Need a mod perhaps.

3. I puked when I saw and heard joker. Why can`t western developers create life-like computer characters. Even when the graphics are amazing they look like dolls. And why open the game with a filthy clichè character like him?

4. The aiming in combat is unaccurate. The strategy is non-existent. Trying to command troops is hopeless. Equipment system works great.

5. Most important part is the rpg elements and they are just bla bla bla. Let me explain: If you can skip parts or all talking, why add so much talking? Surely no-one is playing this game for the action elements. The story so far seems it`s taken right out of Babylon 5 series. Aliens poor designed. No realism in a far future where aliens co-exist with humans. No depth. I`m only 4 hours into the game, but still I`m bored with the conversation and skip a lot unless it`s the main story.

Worst moment: When I became a spectre and the hollywood music roared in the backround.

6. Level design is poor. Example: the first city you`re in is lifeless and hard to navigate in.

 

These are my first impressions. I might have another go, but the will to continue is low so far.

Maybe mass effect 2 is better, but I hate to play a second part of a game when the first is not finished.

I wanted to play this game because I expected it to be a a+ game and read so much positive in us reviews.

So far I`m massively dissapointed.

 

Thanks for reading.

 

 

 

I wish you puked on your PC so you won;t be able to play your pirated copies of these two marvelous games.

Anyway, you seem to ignore MASSIVE elements of the games' structure (why so much talking? it is a Bioware RPG for god's sake, Why inaccurate shooting? the PC rolls the dices on the background. R-P-G) so, I don;t think anyone should take this seriously...

Either way, trying to judge such a diverse game (and not only judge, but actually upload these poor thoughts on the internet) by playing 4 hours, (i assume, you hardly explored the Citadel), it is a poor choise by itself.

CYa!

First impressions mate.

Would not wanna be ya.



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Epoch on 04 March 2010

I bought this game about a month ago. It was fun at first, but gets ridiculously repetitive and bland quickly.  The AI is absolutely horrid as well. 

I havent touched it in a while and I doubt I'll finish it.  Not my type of game I guess



Legend11 on 04 March 2010
Citan said:


I read something positive about mass effect so I`d figure I`d pirate (love pirating products ms earns money from) mass effect 1 and 2.


Your comment shows that you have a grudge against Microsoft and makes the rest of your post suspect (at least to me) since the game is a 360 console exclusive.



Citan on 04 March 2010
Legend11 said:
Citan said:


I read something positive about mass effect so I`d figure I`d pirate (love pirating products ms earns money from) mass effect 1 and 2.


Your comment shows that you have a grudge against Microsoft and makes the rest of your post suspect (at least to me) since the game is a 360 console exclusive.

ms did not make mass effect. But mr. suspector I think you should continue suspecting things. I suspect you for suspecting me.



disolitude on 04 March 2010

looks like I finally got my time machine working. I am in 2007 right?



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Pyramid Head on 04 March 2010

at least you liked the music

to me it was very vangelis like



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Reasonable on 04 March 2010

Well, Mass Effect was overrated I'd say - particularly if you'd actually played other games like it. But the story was okay and it was solid if not exceptional in execution bar the glaring faults of cut & paste levels and the poor shooting (oh and the driving).

Actually, now that I think about it, apart from all the dialogue ME should have taken about 6 months to make the number of levels and content was so small.

Anyway, ME2 is much better and for me is what everyone rated ME as and got all excited about, even if they were wrong as the big improvement of ME2 shows.



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twesterm on 04 March 2010
Citan said:

 

5. Most important part is the rpg elements and they are just bla bla bla. Let me explain: If you can skip parts or all talking, why add so much talking? Surely no-one is playing this game for the action elements. The story so far seems it`s taken right out of Babylon 5 series. Aliens poor designed. No realism in a far future where aliens co-exist with humans. No depth. I`m only 4 hours into the game, but still I`m bored with the conversation and skip a lot unless it`s the main story.

Worst moment: When I became a spectre and the hollywood music roared in the backround.

 

 

Wait, you're complaining that you can skip dialogue?  I understand complaining about not being able to skip dialogue but I would never think I would see the day about complaining being able to skip the dialogue.

If you play through the game more than once, then you can perfectly understand why you skip dialogue.

Now of course that's different than X being able to skip dialogue and select dialogue options, I want to shoot whoever made that decision.

And yes, they absolutely nailed the title screen, I've never seen a more perfect title screen than Mass Effects.



 

dobby985 on 04 March 2010
Words Of Wisdom said:
Citan said:

1. Fantastic title screen music. Perfect for a space game.

2. Creating character is a tad better than oblivion iv(dunno why I compare to that game), but characters still look crappy. Need a mod perhaps.

3. I puked when I saw and heard joker. Why can`t western developers create life-like computer characters. Even when the graphics are amazing they look like dolls. And why open the game with a filthy clichè character like him?

4. The aiming in combat is unaccurate. The strategy is non-existent. Trying to command troops is hopeless. Equipment system works great.

5. Most important part is the rpg elements and they are just bla bla bla. Let me explain: If you can skip parts or all talking, why add so much talking? Surely no-one is playing this game for the action elements. The story so far seems it`s taken right out of Babylon 5 series. Aliens poor designed. No realism in a far future where aliens co-exist with humans. No depth. I`m only 4 hours into the game, but still I`m bored with the conversation and skip a lot unless it`s the main story.

6. Level design is poor. Example: the first city you`re in is lifeless and hard to navigate in.

2.  Mass Effect won't have real mods.  It's not made for it.

3.  Joker is fine.

4.  You need to put skill points into the weapon skills to make the cursor smaller and your aim better.

5.  The aliens are designed pretty well.  I especially like the Krogan, the Quarians, and the Elkor.  If you're skipping the conversation then it means you're not into RPGs.  Heck, I was astounded by the amount of detail they put into the conversation of the Normandy's chief engineer.

6.  Level design is awful.  It's like they have 3-4 area floor plans and reuse them for every planet.


I'm 19 hours in and finally starting to run out of sidequests and worlds to complete.

Are you serious? Nearly all the aliens are humanoids.



dobby985 on 04 March 2010
Gotcha said:
Citan said:

I read something positive about mass effect so I`d figure I`d pirate (love pirating products ms earns money from) mass effect 1 and 2.

I stopped reading here.

especially the red part.