Mass Effect Legendary Edition - New Players Discussion

Wait, wat? No Dead Poet Equus Society?

Renderers and tanners hardest hit.

Where would a new player end up going to find out stuff? Reddit, I guess. Anyplace else?

It's not just here, I'm experiencing the same on my end. I've talked to a grand total of 7 new players, who all experienced some sort of depression by the ME3 ending and all felt like complaining to Bioware about it.

dragontartare, thanks for linking that gameplay vid. It was fun to see her experience Mass Effect for the first time.

I kind of hope she gets to play it off camera. It's too easy to miss, or fail to retain, key info and details while worrying about a stream.

I'm impressed, but it's been a week and some youngsters that are NEET can have a lot of time on their hands. At 30 hours a game, being generous, it could take them as little as 2 days a game. If they're not completionists, or simply rush through the story, that's closer to 20 hours a game. Which means that by the half of the second day, they could be in ME2 already. A total of five to 8 days would be enough for them. And I talked to them on Sunday. I have a friend that starts BG2 on a Friday night and by Sunday afternoon he is done with it. And he does everything.


Well, the seven first all felt like complaining, all on console. The eight think that the rest of ME3 will be at Tuchanka levels, which is why he doesn't believe the ending is really that bad. I expect him to change his tune, soon enough. I'll give him a couple of days.

The people I talked to liked the games, and experienced various degrees of enjoyment concerning ME3, from a lot to little, but they all wanted to complain about the ending. I haven't talked to the eighth guy yet.

He makes it sound like we're the "old people home". I refuse to accept that.

I don't see a relation to what I'm saying and you're also not saying anything, so I don't know what you want me to do with this.

But you responded to me.

And that's where you're wrong, in my opinion. The average player age today, according to studies, is somewhere in the mid 30ies. Kids may play these games, but I daresay, they're not the main group playing ME:LE. As you rightfully explained, they're into MP, so they can play with their friends. I was 45 when Mass Effect first came out, now I'm in my late 50ies and I still love what Mass Effect has to offer in terms of role playing and in terms of replayability. I'm pretty sure, most players are already past the kid age with these games, because kids are simply not interested in that kind of stuff. The graphics although remastered, are aged, as are the effects and the story. The shooter elements are outright antiquated, going by today's shooters. So you're talking about a group that's certainly not the target audience and never have been with Bioware's games. What's more, the Mass Effect series was rated M right from the beginning.

Really, this is the $10,000,000.00 question. The big mystery.