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Post by timebean on Mar 31, 2017 4:00:07 GMT
For me, mass effect is a science-fiction rpg with cool music, high-tech booby armor, renegade interrupts, and sniper rifles with cryo ammo.
It took all the cool stuff about classic western RPGS (medieval setting, swords, followers, inventory-management, story decisions, side-missions, magic) and put it in a sleek new setting (space/sci-fi setting, guns, squaddies, ammo-management, story decisions, loyalty missions, biotics).
Gone were the dwarves/elves/warriors/rogues/wizards/trolls, replaced by volus/asari/turians/quarians/salarians/krogan.
Oh, and Legion. Mass effect would not be mass effect without the AI stuff. And Legion, as well as the geth/quarian conflict, was the best of that, imo.
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Post by Atila on Mar 31, 2017 5:25:33 GMT
Best Sci-fi ARPG with interactive teammates. this conversation summed it up for me.
Garrus : "Hell of a ride, huh?" Shepard : "The best"
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Post by unwanted on Mar 31, 2017 5:36:46 GMT
The mass effect trilogy was a great and wonderful space opera were I was the lead role and personally shaped the outcome. Played more times than I can count, and always feels new on every replay.
Dragon age Inquisition & Mass effect Andromeda to me are attempts at storytelling Call of duty played out in under different environments
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Post by Zemgus on Mar 31, 2017 5:50:13 GMT
Mass Effect for me is Shepard's and Ryder's story.
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Post by rahavan on Mar 31, 2017 6:18:15 GMT
Mass effect Is all about bangin the space babes.
In seriousness though it's an adventure in space (duh) with awesome third person combat that feels satisfying (combos make awesome explosions and guns pack a punch). You add a story I can make choices in with interesting companions you about got it. And maybe my first sentence still applies....
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Post by ticktak77 on Mar 31, 2017 6:21:02 GMT
A space opera with riveting characters, great friendships, touching relationships, and a well thought out narrative that is driven by great moments of both subtle world building and epic action / combat.
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Post by Gileadan on Mar 31, 2017 6:45:16 GMT
A space fantasy with an epic journey, an adorable cast of characters that needs a shrink, stellar voice acting and interesting places to find and explore.
And shooting aliens in the face. Vile xenos.
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Post by dlaren on Mar 31, 2017 6:50:57 GMT
I remember the early 'developer diaries' for Mass Effect 1...
This was before I knew there would be a trilogy, before I knew who the characters would be, before I knew what the story would be about...all I knew from those videos was that a 3rd-person, squad-based, cover-shooter that emphasized pause-and-play combat was about to be released soon.
Those were the things that drew me to Mass Effect; I just so happened to fall in love with the story and its characters along the way.
This is my long-winded way of saying that a Mass Effect game without pause-and-play combat doesn't really feel like a Mass Effect game to me. I'm enjoying Andromeda for what it is, but I'm not sure it deserves to carry the title "Mass Effect".
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Post by Cyan_Griffonclaw on Mar 31, 2017 6:51:58 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. Alright Doc! I'm going to put in my summary. For me: Mass Effect is general, is all about adapting, surviving and understanding that extinction is a very strong possibility. I had no idea what the Reapers were*, but as the story progressed, the situation became clear: We're screwed if we don't band together and fight back. The Reapers are incoming and we're still debating politics as always the case, but there are elements in motion that prioritize keeping the race alive. Whether it be the council races, Cerberus or N7... tough choices were made and each went about doing things their way. I am speaking from a minority (at least by these forums) that Mass Effect 2** got it right. Mass Effect 3*** was the reality of blindly hoping for the best while the Reapers decimate each race's home planet. The Citadel, as a whole, conveyed all of that clearly. Quite simply, Bioware had writers and programmers that seemed to work well together. The best part of Mass Effect is that you, Commander Shepherd, must succeed or all life in our Milky Way galaxy is lost to Reaper indoctrination. I want to include Andromeda, but as it sits now, I can't honestly comment other than I raged quit on the PS4 because of the game-breaking crashes. Too numerous and too constant. * I did the $5 preorder deal at GameStop based just on Bioware's sterling reputation. I loved Origins and everything before that. I got the game not knowing the plot or anything. I didn't care. It's going to be good. It turned out to be one of my beloved franchises. ** The whole Lazarus project thing. I get why they did that. Bioware didn't admit it, but there were issues transferring your complete Shepherd into ME2. This part of the story allows the player to reset their abilities and basically have to start over again without having to get into why. *** Choices. Bioware allowed us to script the game from ME1 and kept it faithful all the way to that horrendous, RGB ending. The Extended Cut DLC came out just as I was finishing the game and I was able to get past Starchild.
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Post by zipzap2000 on Mar 31, 2017 7:06:47 GMT
I had a post but it appears not to have made it on to the thread.
All I can say now is that this thread is telling me people who preferred ME1 to ME2 love the game.
That isn't a good sign for the future.
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Post by zipzap2000 on Mar 31, 2017 7:10:09 GMT
Best Sci-fi ARPG with interactive teammates. this conversation summed it up for me. Garrus : "Hell of a ride, huh?" Shepard : "The best" That one line, no matter what Squaddy says it, the fact that it can be one of so many people saying it. Captures the spirit of Mass Effect better than every planet in Mass Effect Andromeda combined.
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Post by fraggle on Mar 31, 2017 7:32:50 GMT
Mass Effect to me is a good engaging story in which characters can react accordingly to threats and similar things. A protagonist that has a certain preset, but allows us to shape them into different people with different motivations. Good squadmates, good banter. Friendship is cool and all, but it's great when you can also be mean to them, just for variety's sake. 3rd person combat that lets me control squadmates in order to get a team feeling and lets me play strategic. A good soundtrack. What I heard from MEA was actually pretty okay, when there was actually music. No idea what happened there. Space, and the dangers it brings with it. Good map design. MEA had a few of those where I actually felt I'd play a ME SP game and not a MP map. The Loyalty missions came close enough to those.
Banging people
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Post by admiralbonetopickmk2 on Mar 31, 2017 9:29:32 GMT
Mass Effect to me was the Star Trek game i always wanted, but never had . No but Mass Effect to me has always been about the engaging story(not so much the main story(that i never thought of that highly, its B-movie-esque rubbish at times) but rather the smaller scale yet really compelling side stories via side quests that really help the universe feel lived in & alive etc), the political intrigue, the galactic ethics, the expansive world building dripping in rich atmosphere, and above all ME to me is about the universe, and the interesting relationships between the compelling characters/races that inhabit it, with some decent combat acting as the glue between them. That's what Mass Effect is to me.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2017 9:49:35 GMT
Mass Effect means Indoctrination IMO.
The game series is a semi well thought out space adventure at the beginning with good characterisation. One that for 2 out of three games worked really well, but when the third hit was struggling big time. It pretended to be ambitious with huge galactic scenarios but in the end was reduced to comedy by the appearence of starjar. It failed to follow a recognised story structure and as a result was just a mess at the end. It also means Red, Blue, Green to me. Perhaps the most bizarre choices at the end offering to become a reaper (blue) or creating a new servant species in the vein of the collectors (green) using the abhorrent combination of organic and synthetic without anyones permission (that ended well last time didn't it?... cough Protheans). Rightly i chose to destroy them (red) as any sane person should have. Oh and the epic speech on self determination that was refusal. Then bioware screwed the pooch from under us by killing everyone.
Mass effect means having to remember that ending. I chose a long time ago to allow Indoctrination Theory into the equation as it really does make sense of the ending (as well as Mass Effect) and allows us to move on and perhaps embrace a new chapter in the series. It's unfortunate the Bioware chose to run away from the ending of ME3 and take us to a new universe when although they said shepards story was finshed, it clearly was not if you maxed your EMS and chose destroy.
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Post by FeralEwok on Mar 31, 2017 12:26:28 GMT
Blue space boobs.
MEA did not leave me disappointed.
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Post by griffith82 on Mar 31, 2017 12:29:08 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. Last night I did the Samara recruitment mission and of course "the Biotic Hod" still cracks me up. He'd try to kick that guys butt. Lol. On topic ME to me is a enthralling space adventure Rpg. Amazing story that pulls you in.
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Post by ShadowAngel on Mar 31, 2017 12:37:08 GMT
I had a post but it appears not to have made it on to the thread. All I can say now is that this thread is telling me people who preferred ME1 to ME2 love the game. That isn't a good sign for the future. How so? Far as I'm aware Andromeda is selling faster the ME1 and ME2 so far if you compare the first two weeks. It's #1 rated on specific charts as well.
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Post by mastert on Mar 31, 2017 12:42:05 GMT
A game about traveling to new and unknown worlds gritty and dark with choices that could change people and have consequences including death of people you know, about uncovering secrets of lost civilizations and and wondering what happened to them.
About being on the light side and being a jedi padawan rising to the rank of master and helping people or being succumbed by the dark side and slicing your peoples throats before they could say anything.
Also i can't remember if this was in Mass effect 1, but in kotor for example if you had medicine skill high you could have the options to save some people or if explosives was high you could blow them up.
So depending on your skills you could do different things and dialogue interactions.
Mass effect 1 for me always was a successor to Kotor games which I loved, the layer games always streamlined things so they were more casual and accesible less skills, inventory, etc. more focused on the combat.
I honestly don't now what made mass effect 1 so great for me, but i feel like im missing stuff these days.
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Post by zipzap2000 on Mar 31, 2017 12:49:27 GMT
I had a post but it appears not to have made it on to the thread. All I can say now is that this thread is telling me people who preferred ME1 to ME2 love the game. That isn't a good sign for the future. How so? Far as I'm aware Andromeda is selling faster the ME1 and ME2 so far if you compare the first two weeks. It's #1 rated on specific charts as well. I'm not seeing the part where i said the games a failure and nobody bought it.
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Post by griffith82 on Mar 31, 2017 12:52:44 GMT
How so? Far as I'm aware Andromeda is selling faster the ME1 and ME2 so far if you compare the first two weeks. It's #1 rated on specific charts as well. I'm not seeing the part where i said the games a failure and nobody bought it. No but your claim that people who liked ME 1 and 2 (I love all 3) who also like this is a bad sign. I think he was asking why exactly? I am as well.
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Post by ShadowAngel on Mar 31, 2017 12:53:35 GMT
How so? Far as I'm aware Andromeda is selling faster the ME1 and ME2 so far if you compare the first two weeks. It's #1 rated on specific charts as well. I'm not seeing the part where i said the games a failure and nobody bought it. So why not elaborate for the second time on why it's a bad sign if people that enjoyedME1but not the second are enjoying Andromeda?
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Post by KaiserShep on Mar 31, 2017 13:04:37 GMT
The mass effect trilogy was a great and wonderful space opera were I was the lead role and personally shaped the outcome. Played more times than I can count, and always feels new on every replay. Dragon age Inquisition & Mass effect Andromeda to me are attempts at storytelling Call of duty played out in under different environments Call of Duty? Sometimes I wonder if that title has any meaning in any context anymore.
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Post by mrtijger on Mar 31, 2017 13:34:59 GMT
Space Opera game, action adventure with rpg elements, and since I've loved space opera's since I've learned to read which was a long, long time ago its my kind of game series.
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Post by zipzap2000 on Mar 31, 2017 13:36:52 GMT
I'm not seeing the part where i said the games a failure and nobody bought it. So why not elaborate for the second time on why it's a bad sign if people that enjoyedME1but not the second are enjoying Andromeda? Look at it this way. There are people who like ME2 the most and there are people who like ME1. I'm guessing you're in the second group and take offense to that?
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Post by Sanunes on Mar 31, 2017 13:39:48 GMT
Honestly there is nothing that easily defines Mass Effect since each game changes up the formula. So in their own way each game has defined Mass Effect for me, but the one that probably felt the least like a Mass Effect game (even though it felt like a BioWare game) was Mass Effect 2 simply because it felt like a game that was only built around your companions.
Overall I think Mass Effect: Andromeda does a fairly good job of being a Mass Effect game, I just wish it wasn't so much open world content. If they could have kept the open world aspects a little more contained (think of the first visit to Eos) I think I would have enjoyed the game more.
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