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EA just bought Bioware....Mass Effect was not effected in the slightest by any influence of theirs. ME has the similar setup because Bioware uses a similar dialogue/choice option for their games. The gameplay difference between them though is quite large. KotOR plays nothing like ME.
Best Multiplayer Game: Team Fortress 2. COD4 and Halo 3 have nothing on TF2. NOTHING...
Meh I can draw tons of parallels between the two.
I just don't think ME was made nearly as good as all the hype made it out to be. The game just seems to have been slapped together when they realized that they didn't have a game to go with all the hype they had been putting out. It plays more like an FPS with RPG elements then an RPG.
Completely and utterly disagree with you. I don't know what they hell you expect from your games but Mass Effect is one of my top 5 favorite game of ALL TIME. It was pure excellence.
Western RPGs tend to seem to lack finished polish to them, as they come out with lots of bugs due to their sheer size and scope it's nearly impossible to playtest every little thing. Morrowind was buggy, Oblivion is buggy, KotOR I & II were buggy. When playing western RPGs you have to look past those miniscule issues, if that's your issue.
I expect an actually well put together game :-p
Not something that was rushed with reused maps and hashed out stories and missions. Granted I mean theres only so much you can do with missions. Go here and kill x of this, Go here and get this, Take this to this person, ect ect. I just feel Mass Effect was a rushed and poorly put together game. The story is weak (in my opinion), the load times are obscene (38 seconds for a load screen in an elevator...yes I timed it...I got bored), and they put no effort into making each world unique. If I can run into a dungeon I've never been in and know that I need to take a right at the next junction to get to the "Main chamber" something is wrong.
I mean ffs I play DnD and I draw up my own world and dungeon maps, It takes me about 5 minutes to fabricate a dungeon level...they could have atleast taken their dicks out of their hands for those 15 minutes to draw up some unique dungeons...with you know....actually different layouts.
I don't want to be "nasty" about it, but I just don't see how in the hell we are talking about the same game. From my standpoint it doesn't even seem like you played the game I did.
I thought the storyline in ME was incredible. I thought they did an absolute incredible job of creating their own very believable sci-fi universe that has as much potential as Star Trek.
The only good thing I can say thankfully is that you are in the major minority and that most people that are playing it find it to be incredible (based on actual gamer reviews). So I will thankfully get my sequels.