The Mass Effect series

Post » Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:25 pm

Both games are good although I prefer the 1st one because, one it's an RPG and two the storyline is much better in the 1st one. Mass Effect 2 is TPS with minimal RPG settings if any. I hope that's tweaked a bit for Mass Effect 3 but I doubt it. Mass Effect 3 will probably be a Mass Effect 2 clone which isn't bad but it won't be good and certainly will pale in comparasion to Skyrim.

I am unable to see what you are saying here. To me, ME1 feels just as much as a shooter when it comes to the actions missions as ME2 does. And they both give me a really good RPG feeling because of the choices, the consequences, the story, the characters and the levelling system.
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:37 am

Personally i like ME2 more for it's improved combat mechanics, engine, and more distinct classes. Charge. That is all :cool:
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Sharra Llenos
 
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:21 am

I saw there was a thread for the DA-series, and thought I'd start one for the ME-series as well.

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1148241-mass-effect
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Post » Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:29 pm

I am unable to see what you are saying here. To me, ME1 feels just as much as a shooter when it comes to the actions missions as ME2 does. And they both give me a really good RPG feeling because of the choices, the consequences, the story, the characters and the levelling system.


All of those are good points although I really dislike ME 2 for not offering Exp points when you kill an enemy and the fact that the max level is too low it should be 35-40 not 30.
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:15 am

The Mass Effect trilogy is my favorite series, Elder Scrolls in second followed by Half-Life.
The only thing I truly disliked in two was how there was so few powers and how using one would put all others on a cool-down, the combat would of been so much fun if we had the powers of the first with the smooth gameplay of the second.
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Post » Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:14 pm

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1148241-mass-effect


But its been over a month since anyone looked at it? :confused:
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:39 am

For me too,TES and ME are my 2 best rpg series.
I liked both games.
I can say that for me Mass Effect 2 was the most emotional game I ever played.
It really made me get attached with the crew members.
Damn,how bad I felt at my first playthrough when Krios and Tali died! :cryvaultboy:
Mass Effect 2 had many improvements over 1. Better graphics,less clutter at the inventory,and better combat mechanics.
But there where a few things I disliked,and I consider major flaws:

1. The mining mini-game.
My problem with the mining mini game is that I was shooting the pods wherever at the planet's surface and only once because I thought that this was the only thing you could do.Only at my third playthrough I found that you have to move the cursor around each planet to find spots with more elements,and that's because BioWare didn' included any kind of info about how mining works in the manual.
WTF ?? The mining mini game turned out to be a very important factor for the main story because without mining there are no resources and without resources there are no ship upgrades,and without them you loose crew members.
How is it possible they forgot to tell people how mining works ??? :shrug:


2.The "I'm stuck in the walls glitch".
I just got stuck too many times inside crates and walls without being able to move.
Which lead me to load saves that I made 20 or 30 minutes ago... :banghead:

3.The mission structure was somewhat repeatitive and the game became predictable after a point.
a.Someone asks you to do something.
b.You go the place he/she asks you to.
c.You start doing corridor shooting action until you get the next cutscene.
d.After a short cutscene,you have to fight more generic enemies but accompanied with a more powerfull one "Boss" type.
e.Mission over.Start next mission,and begin from point a. once more.

But beside the bad points,it was a very nice game that it's good points outweight the bad ones.
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 8:42 am

To be honest, I'm a bit tired of the "dumbed down" talk. Mass Effect is a trilogy, and they will all be on the same generation of console. How dumbed down can it be?
Like DA2 is to origins, only worse.
I disagree with that statement completely. I've read that some ME-fans thought ME2 played out too much as a FPS, but I get the same amount of shooter feeling in ME1 as in ME2.
I dont, ME1 feels more like an rpg, not a gears clone.
Sometimes I think fans are hit too strong with complainofnewestgameintheseriesities. (I don't mind people preferring ME1 to ME2, I just don't agree with the constant talk of the newest game in a series always being dumbed down).
It happens to be newer, dosent excuse that it can be worse.
As for the story, ME2 is more character oriented. Just like Two Towers, it works like a build-up to the final confrontation. I don't view them separately when it comes the story, seeing as it's all one story.
The characters are boring, only a few of interest and they arent that relevant, ME2s story is pointless.
Who's your favourite character and race? I like most of them, but my favourite character is Garrus (and Turians are m favourite race).
Soverign, Reapers.
What I would love, though, was for BioWare to make a brand new ME game after ME3. A completely different story, where you can create a character yourself, and choose between different races/species. Then you start out on different planets depending on what race you pick, kind of like the various Origins in DA. That would be awesome.
If DA abandoning that is anything to go buy, not gonna happen. they will likely milk the franchise though (and peole will have no issue, but a halo game oh god you dont hear the end of it).

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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 1:19 am

...ME2... confused and overwhelmed...


:eek:

I actually like the ME series quite a bit. Beat both games 3-ish times. They're my go-to games when I want simple combat. Lots of people jump on the hate bandwagon, and there is a lot to hate, but saying that ME is an RPG and that ME2 is not is like saying that pizza is Italian food but hamburgers are not. I try to enjoy them for what they are rather than saying "I want super-deep complex RPG from this", when it's just not that type of game.
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:04 am

:eek:

I actually like the ME series quite a bit. Beat both games 3-ish times. They're my go-to games when I want simple combat. Lots of people jump on the hate bandwagon, and there is a lot to hate, but saying that ME is an RPG and that ME2 is not is like saying that pizza is Italian food but hamburgers are not. I try to enjoy them for what they are rather than saying "I want super-deep complex RPG from this", when it's just not that type of game.

This just in, Skyrim becomes fps.

Its a sewual, you dont change genres, doing so your selling out your fanbase.
Especialy when they say its just as much ab rpg as one.
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:49 am

They're decent enough games, but I was never very impressed. Both of them give me a lot of "missed potential" vibe, and a blatant leaning on flash over substance, especially in the second. Like with many recent Bioware games I couldn't bring myself to care about the characters; I beat ME1 without having ever spoken to any of them outside of cutscenes. I just couldn't be bothered to go out of my way to talk to these boring people and feign interest in their pasts. ME2 forced you to get involved and it just felt like a chore to me, because oh great now I'm penalized with a character because "terrible diplomat" is my only dialogue option. They're well put together and fun to play, but I was always left with a sense of "is that all?" instead of "I can't wait for more". They both fail as RPG's and drag you down with too many forced RPG elements to be great shooters either, ME1 leaning toward RPG and ME2 leaning toward shooter, similar in practice but different enough to obviously annoy the players.
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 5:49 am

I loved Mass Effect and have extremely mixed feelings about Mass Effect 2. I like to describe it as one of the best, most disappointing games I've ever played. It got a few things right, genuine improvements over the original. On the other hand, it got a lot wrong, leaving a lot of what I liked about Mass Effect on the cutting room floor. Taking elements that needed tweaking and completely doing away with them, calling it a "fix". The main story and pacing was also absolutely awful in ME2. A good series overall, and I'm looking forward to Mass Effect 3 with "adjusted" expectations.

I'll leave it there, because that discussion never really ends well.
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:17 am

Like with many recent Bioware games I couldn't bring myself to care about the characters; I beat ME1 without having ever spoken to any of them outside of cutscenes. I just couldn't be bothered to go out of my way to talk to these boring people and feign interest in their pasts.

I tried to talk to them. I was actually quite interested in the first non-story conversation I had with Kaidan when he started telling about being raised with biotic powers and the training people had to go through. Then it turned out that showing even this vague interest in what he was talking about had apparently triggered the beginnings of his romance, so I stopped talking to any of them very often.
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 12:48 am

I tried to talk to them. I was actually quite interested in the first non-story conversation I had with Kaidan when he started telling about being raised with biotic powers and the training people had to go through. Then it turned out that showing even this vague interest in what he was talking about had apparently triggered the beginnings of his romance, so I stopped talking to any of them very often.

Yeah, that's another thing, not specific to Mass Effect but just as problematic there. I can't stand videogame romance options, they're awful, and so annoying that I avoid interacting with characters just because I don't want them awkwardly forced on me.
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Post » Sun Oct 24, 2010 7:34 pm

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1148241-mass-effect

I also have to remind people that it almost got closed and to look at its first post and be aware of those rules. Keep it civil or the moderators will destroy this, that's pretty much why I stopped posting in Mass Effect threads.
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:29 am

Bought ME1&2 tonight. DBF is off to Berlin tomorrow so shall have a night of Mass Effectiveness. ;)
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Post » Sun Oct 24, 2010 7:48 pm

Been playing ME1 a while now and I really like the story thus far. The gameplay is highly irritating though, I really don't like the controls (50% of buttons seem to make you draw your weapon) and I don't like how you carry an arsenal on your back :P but I'm optimistic since those are new players' problems.
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Post » Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:04 pm

Well, that all was fixed in ME2 :hehe:
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:52 am

Heh, guess I'm one of the few people who - like the TES-series - love all of the games. So far, I like ME2 better, actually. (And I hate shooters. Never play them, find them boring as hell).
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:44 am

Mass Effect won't play on my machine. :( It installs (at least I think it does...) then when the prompt comes up to check settings etc for first time play, it crashes. Frick.

Googling suggests to run it as admin but when I right click, that option is greyed out. I assume I'm already the admin, no?
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:53 am

Loved the first and loved the second. The 2nd just wasn't the same though. Bioware basically threw out the rpg aspects and turned it into a tps. And seeing what they did to Dragon Age 2, I'm not even sure I want to play ME3.
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:35 am

Mass Effect 1- bleh

which made me not want to play the second one. My friend had to literally force me to sit down and play it by constantly asking me to.

Mass Effect 2- HECK YA!!!! it made me want to get the third one. I am still in the process of beating the second one.
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:23 am

Mass Effect won't play on my machine. :( It installs (at least I think it does...) then when the prompt comes up to check settings etc for first time play, it crashes. Frick.

Googling suggests to run it as admin but when I right click, that option is greyed out. I assume I'm already the admin, no?

Try patching the games? Other than that I have no idea.
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Post » Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:32 am

Mass Effect won't play on my machine. :( It installs (at least I think it does...) then when the prompt comes up to check settings etc for first time play, it crashes. Frick.

Googling suggests to run it as admin but when I right click, that option is greyed out. I assume I'm already the admin, no?

Does you machine have a multi-core processor? If so, that's your problem, out of the box ME1 won't start up. You gotta' patch it first.
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Post » Sun Oct 24, 2010 8:32 pm

Mass Effect 1 and 2 are two of the few PC RPGs I've played all the way through. And twice at that. Regarding ME2 leveling being dumbed down, the way I see it since ME1 had blatantly obvious level scaling, with ME2 they were just cutting out the middle man. In any event it's no less an RPG than Deus Ex.
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