Mass Effect is fucking awesome!
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I know, I’m very, very late to the party here, but hey, better late than never. And I’m absolutely blown away. But I don’t want to drool here about every aspect of the game, because everybody (except me) already finished it probably several times.
I think I will try to do a different approach - I will try to tell you why I like things that most players didn’t like and most reviewers criticised. It’s basically three simple things:
- Mako
- Elevators
- Inventory
Mako
I actually love using Mako to get over rough terrain and I really enjoy it. I know, part of the problem are planets - abandoned and very similar, except for colors. Well, I admit that this ain’t perfectly ideal, but I didn’t mind it that much. I thought of it as a nice downtime from all that shooting and intense dialogues. Just riding on some forbidden planet, discovering minerals and crashed probes. Just chilling out.
Elevators
Who doesn’t hate loading screens? So why don’t cover it with actual game environment where you can look around and listen to radio or your companions? I really don’t understand this hate towards elevators. Fair to say I didn’t play the Xbox 360 version of Mass Effect so I don’t know if the elevators where too long there. But hey, it’s still better then just blank loading screen.
Inventory
Only thing that pisses me off is when I have too much stuff and I need to get rid of it - it takes forever to reduce everything to omni-gel one item per time. This is really evil. But I don’t mind anything else about the inventory or the interface/HUD in general. It might not be perfect, but it gets the job done and it doesn't get in your way (except for that omni-gel-ing everything).
One last thing...
Oh I don’t know why everybody praised shooting in Mass Effect 2 saying that it is vastly improved over the first Mass Effect and that it is finally game with a good shooting mechanics. I haven’t play Mass Effect 2 yet so I don’t know, but nothing seems wrong about combat mechanics to me - shooting is fine, cover system is working, everything is pretty good. I guess it’s not perfect, but it’s really good and enjoyable.
I’m very much looking forward to playing Mass Effect 2, because if Mass Effect 1 is this fucking awesome, I can’t imagine that gloriousness the second one is supposed to be!