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The Watcher

Registered: 12-2008
Location: Jacinto
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Mass Effect!


First off I gotta say WOW! Freakin' AMAZING game!!

I picked it up from Toy's 'R 'Us the day Street Fighter IV came out (They had it for $10!) And started it at the very beginning of this month, around the 1st or so... This game took me 51hr's to complete. Was it worth all that time? Absolutely!

The campaign itself I doubt would take 51hrs to complete by itself, when I get into a game though I have to do absolutely EVERY mission. So I would say 31hrs was spent on side missions alone, and the other 20 on the campaign. The side missions were fantastic too, each one had their own unique story. It didn't just feel like you were doing the same thing over and over and over again like in Assassin's Creed. And finding hidden objects was actually fun, they added to your codec/information thing to give you tons of stuff to read if you care to.

The best thing about Mass Effect was the decision making. Anything you'd chose to do could alter the game in a way. Do I want to kill a whole race of aliens or let them live? Do arrest this guy, let him bribe me with money and go free, or just kill the sucka? Sooo many options. I gotta say other then Shenmue, I've never really played a RPG before. But I see the fun in it now. It never got old, and it's totally re-playable.

There's a ton of dif ways to play it too. I'm not even gonna try and explain all of them, but if you're interested in what I mean look here: http://guides.ign.com/guides/718963/page_10.html I chose Renegade: Earthborn: Ruthless: Vanguard. So my guy was capable of using biotics and weapons to get a inbetween balance of gameplay. Next time I'm a be just a solider.

I would say this game was very well done, I didn't understand the hype that surrounded it 2 yrs ago, but now I can't wait for Mass Effect 2! Gonna be crazy!!

Anybody else here run through this amazing game?? Thoughts?


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Re: Mass Effect!


I was considering it, but isn't it an RPG in the "Fallout 3" vein? IOW, they're not true RPG's, they just have RP'ing elements (same with Hellgate: London. It's a shooter/FPS first, with RPG elements).

I'm waiting for a good, true RPG. I was hyped to see Amazon taking pre-orders for Final Fantasy XIII, then I saw the release date was DECEMBER!

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Re: Mass Effect!


Well other then Mass Effect and Shenmue I've never played any other RPG so I'm not sure what a true RPG is.

Mass Effect does have a lot of shooting, but I'm not sure how that makes it less of a RPG. Kind of like Shenmue and all the karate.



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