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Title: Mass Effect
Post by: Colonol Dekker on December 06, 2007, 03:28:24 am
Really short, but i like it :)


Debate: :nod:
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Mefustae on December 06, 2007, 03:40:41 am
Short? 21 hours of gameplay in the past three days with Saren still a fair way off says it's a good deal longer than most games i've played recently.

Truly a worthy successor to KOTOR. The gameplay gets a little repetitive, but it's exciting enough to keep you distracted from the very similar locations on most explorable planets. Regardless, as a third-person shooter it's pretty damned awesome, and the modability of your weapons, armour and practically everything you've got really adds to the experience. Not to mention the massive amount of background material and the staggering amount of dialog. Oh, and the Mako is made of awesomeness and win.

Highly recommended.
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Inquisitor on December 06, 2007, 07:02:32 am
28+ hours on my first play through, and I missed stuff.

Probably 6-8 on my second play through.

About an hour into my 3rd...

Yeah, short ;)
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Colonol Dekker on December 06, 2007, 07:12:30 am
I'm whooly proud of the Normandy, It's bee-yoo-tiful, Plus My characters maxed out intimidate and 2 Nooky scens i felt were of benefit as a whole. :nod:
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Mefustae on December 06, 2007, 07:31:28 am
There's nothing I enjoy more than hanging up on the council after every mission.

Council member: "Shepherd, we're going to choose to ignore how rude you were in disconnecting us in the middle of our last conversa-"
*Disconnects*
Shepherd: "Whoops."

Not to mention all the snappy dialog under the intimidate option.

"You seem to think I give a damn. That's cute."
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: TrashMan on December 06, 2007, 08:06:27 am
I wish I could play it :(
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: gevatter Lars on December 06, 2007, 09:00:37 am
Agree I just wish it comes to the PC anytime soon.
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Inquisitor on December 06, 2007, 11:52:05 am
Then get a 360 ;)

Its got some repetition of the minor dungeons, there are only 4 (I think 4) different types, the Underground bunker, the Above ground bunker, the mine and the spaceship, which makes completing the game feel tedious at times, esepcially if you are doing alot of sidequest planetfalls. The skills system isn't as robust as the d20 powered KOTOR. The MAKO drives like crap, and the sense of scale between the MAKO and the generic plantfalls seems off, but otherwise, the exploration, the feel of the universe, and the freedom you seem to have to go places makes up for these somewhat minor problems. The shooting is ok, its not great, but it certainly gets alot cripser as you level, which makes it alot closer to a real shooter.

Good story, good voice acting, cool ships, cool planetfalls, lots of exploration. Unlocking things let you use them on other characters, which is neat, and you can re-use your levelled character to play the game again (and again, and again).
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: BloodEagle on December 06, 2007, 12:06:22 pm
Then get a 360 ;)

Why would I want to waste so much of my money on a paperweight?  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: NGTM-1R on December 06, 2007, 12:50:25 pm
Alas, it's in the Christmas presents.
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Colonol Dekker on December 06, 2007, 01:44:48 pm
In knights i can switch between characters in my party to use specialist skills, i haven't figured it out in mass effect yet. Which is annoying. Aside from that Geth are my new favourite race in a game, although their ships look plop. Saren is awesome !
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: gevatter Lars on December 06, 2007, 01:51:40 pm
I won't buy a 360 just for one game. I would also need to buy a TV beside that. A good HD-TV is also quite expansive and for that money together I could buy a good PC or upgrade my current one and buy all the other games I have on my "I want" list.
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Turambar on December 06, 2007, 01:53:48 pm
i will no longer play games that are console only.
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: miskat on December 06, 2007, 02:43:25 pm
I have been watching this game since I saw it announced while perusing the NWN site several years ago.  I've been itching for it since then but thought I was SOL when I heard it was for the 360.

The day before it was launched me and my girlfriend finally broke down and bought a 360 and all the goods, as well as Assassins Creed and Viva Pinata.

Talk about timing.

I saw that Mass Effect was being released the next day and promptly agonized about whether to spend another $60 on a game.

It's been a long time since I've been so thoroughly happy with money spent!

I clocked around 40 hours on my first play-through, hit 50, and am now torn between using the same character to get to 60 or making a FemShep Adept with a sniper rifle.  Of course, I was Paragon first time through, so now I have to go Renegade.

I'd love to see what DLCs Bioware puts out for this monster.  And the sequel!

Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Colonol Dekker on December 06, 2007, 02:49:15 pm
Renegade is very fun. But the ending just depends on how you direct the alliance fleet towards the end. :)
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Marcus Vesper on December 06, 2007, 03:13:12 pm
Then get a 360 ;)

Why would I want to waste so much of my money on a paperweight?  :rolleyes:
Right, get a console so I can savor all the design quirks the titles is saddled with BECAUSE it's on a console that doesn't ship with a hard drive 100% of the time?  If it's not on the PC, I don't play it.  Period.  I don't care what title it is or how much I'd love to get my hands on it, I'm never buying a bloody console.

Besides, I have The Witcher and console gamers don't.  It's WAY longer then Mass Effect.
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Inquisitor on December 06, 2007, 03:48:09 pm
Your loss. I guess I get to play it and you get to wish you could and console (no pun intended) yourself in your PC purist religious zeal. I am betting I am having more fun, zeal is cold comfort for me when I want to relax and play a game. But, this isn't an argument about consoles ;) By all means, turn it into one ;)

As for switching characters, you can't, it uses teh specialist party skills automagically, which is annoying. So you have less control than KOTOR in that regard.

There is a squad management light order system involving the dpad, which lets you do some things you couldn't do in KOTOR, and if you hold one of the bumpers down it brings up the weapons menu for the party, the other bumper brings up the "magic" abilities. It pauses the action while those menus are up. It took me a while to figure that out, no tutorial is a curious decision on Biowares part.
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Colonol Dekker on December 06, 2007, 03:55:31 pm
I figured out the bumper rings, i can ensure my snipers snipe, rather than storm an armature with a pistol. The skill thing is a bit iffy with things like electronics especially when trying to recover probes. I enjoy the new universe and expect more :)
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: CP5670 on December 06, 2007, 03:59:31 pm
This looks like a pretty cool game. I would get this if it was on the PC, but it's about the only console exclusive that looks really good to me and buying a 360 for one game doesn't make any sense.
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: redsniper on December 06, 2007, 04:19:55 pm
Just wait a few years and emulate.
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Inquisitor on December 07, 2007, 06:52:17 am
Just make sure you pick one party memeber to max electronics and take them planetside to recover probes.

I took an assault team down on the first run, cleared whatever I needed to clear, then a salvage team down (with max decryption and electronics) to pick up the pieces.

Which made sense in my RPG-mind, your soldiers wouldn't always be Mister Spock :)
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Marcus Vesper on December 10, 2007, 01:53:09 pm
Just wait a few years and emulate.
Ha ha ha, that's not really a good idea at all.  Bioware has been annoying me lately by releasing everything as a bloody console exclusive title and then porting it over to the PC some time later, but the important point there is it DOES get ported to the PC.  And ends up being superior to the console version (duh).

Waiting for a 360 emulator to play a game that's going to be a native PC release is just silly.
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: redsniper on December 11, 2007, 12:38:22 am
Then just wait for the PC release. Sheesh. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Marcus Vesper on December 11, 2007, 12:10:23 pm
Then just wait for the PC release. Sheesh. :rolleyes:
Griping is a legitimate hobby, ha ha!  Seriously though, that's exactly what I've done with Kotor/Jade Empire and what I'm doing now with Mass Effect.  I'm just tiding myself over while I wait with Gothic 3 and The Witcher.
Title: Re: Mass Effect
Post by: Colonol Dekker on December 11, 2007, 02:21:22 pm
I'm glad at the prospect of a sequel, and once i'm live. . Downloadable content ahoy ! ! I just wish Saren was around to enjoy it with me :(