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I'm trying to play through this terrible game, like all of Bioware's games they just don't play well and are based on mediocre mechanics. Like KOTOR for example I picked that up when it came out for the PC and all I found myself doing was talking to people and playing with some horrible combat system which put my off going any further.

Anyways I bought Mass Effect expecting  a great game and yeh at first it looked really good but then I got to the combat and it starts to fall apart. The AI are really buggy at times and just stupid, it just doesn't feel like they have any AI and Bioware set them to go crazy and run anywhere or just stand still mode. Not only that but I never got a sense I'm hitting anything cause the crosshair is so big and you don't have to be accurate like if I don't shoot them spot on then sometimes it's forgiving. I dunno theres just something about it that feels really off and not fun it's like world of warcraft mobs but killing them with a real time gun.  You'll just cycle through them and yawnnnnnn.

All I find myself doing is running to the waypoint and talking to someone and then running to another waypoint and talking to them. People don't frigging shut up and all I want to do is skip it and get on with the game and theres no option to just skip everything in one go, have to skip line by line. Lifts are another problem I had because you'll be standing in them for most of the game and it's like all they coulda done is is have you click on it and you saw a loading screen and made it quick but nooooooooooooo.

The voice acting is ok but it doesn't feel very nature and theres long pauses in between everything and it's like how could any have compared this game to Hollywood in the reviews. The Dialogue is terrible and just poorly written and theres some really cliche moments with you and some chick which just make you go wtf? Like when you have sex with her that whole seen is poorly done. I think Bioware need to look at how amazing GTA 4 is done with cutscenes because it's perfectly written and isn't all akward like Mass Effect. Even the Animations on the characters in GTA 4 feel life like in the cutscenes and I feel like they got that spot on but in Mass Effect they all stand stiff as bricks.

After the Citadel the game like turns to a grind where you have to land on 3 planets and you do the same thing on each of them with no new gamplay. It's just kill everything and listen to anyone who wants to blurt out their life story. The combat is the worst part about the game and the level design I found to be really poor for an RPG cause it's just really linear but tries to give you freedom within. So it feels very restrictive for an RPG and on the other hand it's easy to get abit lost as all the corridors look the same and you end up backtracking instead of progressing.

The vehicle is very poor to control aswel and I hate them bits the most, they're about as fun as the ones in Gears of War lol. I dunno whats up with the turret on that thing but you have to be on the esact same level as everything else or it misses cause it can't tilt up or down which for a sci-fi game seems really odd.

The actual story I thought was aload of old shit because it's your typical cliche story but has nothing interesting about it and no interesting chararcters, aleast KOTOR had HK47. I just didn't find anything interesting story or character wise and everything feels really shadow and theres not many side quests but the ones in the game are really standard and boring. I just found the whole thing less like an RPG and more like a really poor shooter.


If you like Graphics and Music then Mass Effect is great for the most part but everything else is complete shit and I hated it. I often got in knowing that I had to complete the game but just put it off for weeks of looking at the shortcut on my desktop.

It just shows that different people have different tastes: I thought Mass Effect was for the most part very good and that GTA is the most overrated game series ever.
Reading your post it seems that rpg's just isn't your cup of tea.

JayDubya said:

"It just shows that different people have different tastes: I thought Mass Effect was for the most part very good and that GTA is the most overrated game series ever.Reading your post it seems that rpg's just isn't your cup of tea."

What he said.

Red said:

"I'M NOT VERY GOOD AT THIS RPG I HAVEN'T REALLY PLAYED AND KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. I WILL COMPLAIN!

Hint: less people will want to punch you in the face if you stop saying your opinion is fact.

"

This.

Reading a psuedo-review of a Bioware game where someone complains about how much reading and talking there is feels kinda like someone writing a review for a hot dog, and saying that there is way too much meat.

Mass Effect's combat isn't great, though I have come to really, really appreciate it's tactical aspects, especially on the higher difficulty settings. It isn't a "shooter" so much as a troop and abilities manager, making you use your talents and correct weaponry when needed. There is definitely some lack of heft for certain portions of the gameplay (the shotgun is the only gun class that has anything resembling feedback,) and the storyline is certainly a hodge-podge of various sci-fi tropes crammed together.

But Mass Effect is still my favorite 360 game to date, simply because it handles everything that it needs to so deftly. The sense (however false it might be) of control and choice you're given, the excellent writing and voice acting (we're just going to have to disagree on this one Lazarou; Drew Karpyshyn and his staff of writers wrote a pretty astonishing script, especially by video game standards), the surprising depth to the tactics you have to employ. Yes, the game is glitchy to all hell and the enemy AI has some serious flaws you can exploit to Ferros and back. But Mass Effects' strengths far outweight its weaknesses and the experience (including all the damned talking) easily gives you a sense of control over what feels to be a forgotten, epic piece of science fiction pop culture from an age of wonder.

Urgh, so many god-damn spelling mistakes. No wonder you were complaining that you had to read.

Mass Effect is a fantastic game with a great story that was central to the game really, the gameplay, the settings, the characters, they were all central to the story, in Bioware's eyes, it was story first, then gameplay.

It was bioware's first stab at Real-Time Combat, so it's understandable that it wasn't going to break new ground, but I have come to appreciate the RPG, and story elements to it, and fortunately for me, I liked to read a good story, if you don't enjoy listening to stories, your not going to get much mileage out of this game.

I believe that you are not into it because you bend over to the shooting aspects of gaming, you rather have action over story, understandable, we all have different tastes, just don't go jumping about saying that your opinion is the fact and nothing is going to change it, don't go slamming a game without suffering any consequences, its great that you are using your freedom of speech, but in some cases, its best just to keep some opinions to yourself.

While I agree about the somewhat boring dialogue, the combat was fantastic.

Flagged for trolling/flaming.

Mass effect is underated, if anything that's overated, it's fallout 3, yeah I said it. 

Don't forget games like oblivion is similar, maybe your just not into wrpg games.

i haven't played mass effect but by sayong KOTOR sucked you lost all your merit anyway...

Fair enough its your own opinion but still i think you making this topic means that you are somewhat trollish :O

I think a lot of people were pretty 'meh' on Mass Effect.  The only Bioware games I really liked were KOTOR and Neverwinter Nights, and NWN I stopped playing half way through the game (played some user made series call Penultima or something, they were good).

Mass Effect needs a better cover system in order to succeed. Sure, many will say, "its not gears of war omg its an rpg", but when you have combat that mirrors Gears of War pretty extremely, but with worse mechanics, you have problems.

I admit, I am a BioWare fanboy though I will not go off here I just want to point out two things:

1) The combat system is unique and A LOT of people do enjoy it.
2) If you don't care about story in your game (sounds like you don't) and really DO NOT want to read text in a game that is telling a story, a BioWare game is NOT for you.

You can dislike the game for numerous reasons. There were problems with Mass Effect (though I would argue it was great nonetheless) but the topics you chose to use as justification for why "Mass Effect sucks" don't work in my opinion.

I thought the amount of dialogue was enough. They could have made conversations more interesting, though. Maybe give them more emotion.

Personally, I'd give the game a solid 8. It was a good game, but nothing amazing. I will say that it is overrated.