What is Mass Effect to you?

the MET to me a great excuse to get a bunch of sci fi stories together, in the same way that star wars and star trek does. think of a sci fi trope and turn it into a side quest, any trope you missed in game 1 put in game 2, 3, 4. giant space bug colony? check. human built rogue VI/AI? check. an entire species of rogue AI? check. an evil race of assimilators like the borg, the thing, the blob, the flood, the necromorphs, the xenomorphs, the locust, the bugs, the arachnids, the tyranids, the Zerg... i.e. the reapers? check. throw in some modern morality sci fi choices like whether to perform gene therapy on unborn children, or keep a brain dead man alive using a VI? check. preserving human or alien consciousness on computer technology? see Virtual Aliens for a check, also the human reaper larvae. uplifting alien species? vorcha, krogan, yahg, check. dextro dna? turian and quarian. cyborgs? quarians. precursors? protheans. space dwarves? volus. shadow organizations? asari deep state, cerberus, STG, spectres, check. I can go on forever...

where star wars and star trek drive these stories with scripts, the MET is unique in that it lets you make decisions on pretty much each story and the decisions sometimes affect the next stories events. It is also unique in that it is more character driven, at least to me, than star wars is. star trek comes closer but not quite as character driven as MET.

tldr; star trek but with some decision making or character building and a more squad/character driven story.

I only have one problem I saw. You say volus are space dwarves? Even the *breathes* volus would have trouble *breathes* agreeing with *breathes* that.

The trilogy, not Andromeda.

Now it's just a franchise that I used to know

I am trying to get detailed answers here. lolz Just saying "Now it's just a franchise that I used to know " means absolutely nothing without details. I want people to actually look deep into what they think Mass Effect is instead of jumping on the generic hate train. I want people to actually think first.

For me it was Shepard, the squads and the right amount of narration and fights tied in together. I never cared much for exploration and the vehicles segments. Those bore me to hell.

To me was that i for the first time felt that i was inside the game..i was connected to the characters..care about them

A science fiction universe that has a mineral in it that allows the people in that universe to manipulate mass. This mineral is called Eezo.

Okay, sorry for poor english beforehand, I've never had lessons.

Mass Effect to me is:

- Travel through the galaxy. TRAVEL, not watch a cg. For example, here I am, in the Citadel Embassy and this Assari; Nassana; want me find her sister. Then after talk to her, I:  go to C-sec academy > take the elevator > enter the Normandy > bring the map > go to atermis tau > then macedon system > land in the mako > drive my way to the mercenary coumpound and FINALLY I find her sister.

- My companions make sense in the universe pre-established. Thieves who would let the spider man puzzled the way they can jump and naked women on the battlefield are not part of ME for me. Also, my companions interact with each other, they do not orbit around my character only.

- I do not hit a headbutt in a Krogan or kick a varren in the face ffs

- I explore uncharted worlds. I find little stories, like the skeleton of an unknown creature with bullet holes or the body of a miner who was mysteriously murdered. I find communities, talk to people and discover the history of that place, what they are doing there, etc.

- My journey has a meaning. A filler-only game as part of the main storyline? Because? Seriously, why? What has this game progressed in history? Apart from the presentation of TIM, WHAT IS THE PURPOSE of this game?


I'm tired. I'll talk more later. Or not.

That's just the poster in a nutshell.

hard to express in words

it's a compelling story in the dark, endless, silent deep space, where anything is posible,
since i started ME1 i fell in love with th story, the ambience, environments, so atmospheric, so involving

a deep story that surprised me in a very deep and good way, an adventure of unimaginable reach,

an at the end as i met vigil i was overwhelmed by ood and sad and deep emotions and feelings,

it's fun gameplay, interestin and deep story, although it takes place in future and space it makes sense to me,

it is unique,
there are so many thngs we don't know but we explore, we as humans as little we are in front of the endless space we push forward, together wit the other species of this universe

the trilogy had somethng that i think is very important to involve the player and to cover the whole gameworld, it's that all life forms are threatened by the same enemy, and all must cooperate to survive


a hero and his crew ready to accompllish the mission whatever the costs or take on a suicide mission to save everyone even knowing they won't come back or there will be not glory or anything for them,

and at last cooperation between all sentient species to survive

i got to care a lot about my companions

for me it's very deep what i feel about this series

i played every game as soon as they came out, (many times) (i even shed tears at the end of each game)

and it's the first series that got me so deeply involved
it's very important to me


and i love rpgs and science fiction in space