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Post by Doctor Fumbles on Mar 31, 2017 0:02:47 GMT
What makes Mass effect a Mass Effect game. I have a theory it is going to vary from person to person. For me, a ME game is one that allows me to customize my character, take place in space, have third person action combat with different powers/skills, and allow me to have some choice in the story since 100% choice technology isn't here yet.
MEA has all of that. To me having a good story is just a bonus, and I happen to like the Firefly vibe MEA has because the it's the end of the world serious vibe is way over done in todays games. That is my take on it, so for all of you who are saying it doesn't feel ME enough. What makes a ME game a ME game? Also, there is no one conclusive opinion on it since clearly we can't all agree.
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Post by smudgedhorizon on Mar 31, 2017 0:17:06 GMT
Mass Effect to me is a game that embodies all the sci fi series I loved to watch. Series like Babylon 5, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Firedly, Stargate SG1 and Universe, etc. Feeling like you were in your own space drama - crafting your own story and making your own choices. Exploring this fantastic universe filled with all kinds of new sights, new races, new ideas. That sense of magic and discovery. To be honest I never cared about the combat, it was loving the world and the characters, believing in what I was doing, that made the game for me.
ME1 was the real deal for me, something they never managed to match or surpass with ME2 or 3. Andromeda I feel is the first time since ME1 they have managed to capture the true essence of what made Mass Effect so special.
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Post by shepherdcommander on Mar 31, 2017 0:21:36 GMT
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.
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Post by ShadowAngel on Mar 31, 2017 0:21:56 GMT
Mass effect to me is an open world space exploration game set with a good story where choices matter in the long run. That's what I was led to believe when bioware started mass effect, it's why I loved mass effect one and had opposing views to mass effect 2 and 3 making it more corridor based and removing RPG elements in the process while making it more action based. Andromeda going back to those roots is exactly why I'm able to let certain issues slide. The only thing that truly bothers me is the so-so story that contradicts itself and goes vs lore that was set in place, as well as bioware not expanding in certain plots in the game.
You're going to be correct on opinions vary, some will say exactly what I've said, some will say it's a space opera, some an action series, some a simple story game, etc ect.
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Post by Doctor Fumbles on Mar 31, 2017 0:24:59 GMT
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.
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Post by RageUnderFire on Mar 31, 2017 0:28:52 GMT
Space shooter with excellent dialogue, character development, and story.
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Post by SofNascimento on Mar 31, 2017 0:29:29 GMT
The trilogy, not Andromeda.
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Post by Doctor Fumbles on Mar 31, 2017 0:31:04 GMT
The trilogy, not Andromeda. Could you be specific? What exactly about the trilogy makes it Mass Effect? Just saying the Trilogy means nothing without details following it.
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Post by cheeseandonion on Mar 31, 2017 0:32:47 GMT
Now it's just a franchise that I used to know
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Post by yan on Mar 31, 2017 0:33:15 GMT
Ever played Mass Effect 2? So, the reverse of that.
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Post by Doctor Fumbles on Mar 31, 2017 0:35:23 GMT
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.
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Post by anacronian on Mar 31, 2017 0:35:46 GMT
Question: What is Mass Effect to you?
Answer: Dead.
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Post by Teddie Sage on Mar 31, 2017 0:36:32 GMT
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.
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Post by wangxiuming on Mar 31, 2017 0:39:29 GMT
Mass Effect is an epic space journey with companions to whom you grow frighteningly-attached by journey's end.
40 hours in, Mass Effect Andromeda has this for me ... but it's bogged down by all the stuff ppl have been criticizing (facial animations, glitches, bugs, etc.), as well as an open-world design that feels more like I'm doing chores than playing a game. Please no more quests that tell me to investigate random unmarked Kett camps where the objective only spawns 10% of the time. These are not fun.
In fact, let's get rid of the open-world design alltogether. The thing I liked the most about Mass Effect was the awesome setpieces given to us to advance the story and flesh out characters. Andromeda's loyalty missions does this somewhat well, but again - they are too few and far between the endless list of fedex tasks -symptomatic of open world design- that only have superficial narrative value at most.
Bioware's strength is supposed to be its storytelling but open-world design does not mesh well with storytelling.
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Post by jpcab on Mar 31, 2017 0:42:22 GMT
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
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 0:53:00 GMT
It was the game that got me back into gaming, after a long time.
Right now, it's a way to get good laughs.
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Post by colfoley on Mar 31, 2017 1:17:16 GMT
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.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 1:32:42 GMT
It's the verse with certain races and rules; space magic and cool gunz; the customized protagonist and the squad; the dialogue that is honestly modern; the art-style; and the sense of doing something extraordinary traveling in space.
Also, that feeling that your main is sort of a space sheriff of some sort, heh.
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Post by yan on Mar 31, 2017 1:52:12 GMT
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. 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.
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Post by KaiserShep on Mar 31, 2017 1:55:15 GMT
One of the most interesting scifi universes I've come across in a long time, made better by being interactive. To me, Mass Effect isn't anything specific to any specific story or character, just that we can have characters share in taking in whatever wide world any particular Mass Effect game has to offer.
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Post by Andrew Lucas on Mar 31, 2017 1:58:09 GMT
The trilogy, not Andromeda. Could you be specific? What exactly about the trilogy makes it Mass Effect? Just saying the Trilogy means nothing without details following it.That's just the poster in a nutshell.
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Post by Doctor Fumbles on Mar 31, 2017 2:02:01 GMT
Could you be specific? What exactly about the trilogy makes it Mass Effect? Just saying the Trilogy means nothing without details following it.That's just the poster in a nutshell. Ah, I see. He just likes to post that way.
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Post by derrame on Mar 31, 2017 2:04:21 GMT
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
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Post by Doctor Fumbles on Mar 31, 2017 2:06:20 GMT
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. 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. Don't worry about the English, it was fine.
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Post by snook on Mar 31, 2017 2:08:13 GMT
I've had an on-and-off relationship with it for almost ten years now. Sometimes I talk badly about it in public, but somehow whenever we get together we always end up having passionate sex on the couch.
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