Mass Erect

How does this hold up? 2 and 3 were garbage but 1 was a great RPG with good story and one of the greatest sci-fi villains of all time

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Did we play the same game?

It was a poor Kotor clone. Very mediocre. Worse than Kotor 2 was.

I wouldn't call it a great RPG, like many other RPGs(Particularly Bioware ones) most dialogue choices it has are:
-Yes
-Yes while asking a question
-Angry yes
-Yes later
Also it has the great Bioware romance mechanic where you talk to someone three times and they fall in love with you. I don't remember Saren very well but he was a very generic villain IIRC, I don't remember anything special about him. At least it didn't have an ending where you choose between three colours though

Thanks OP, I really needed that laugh.

Naw, it was okay but it held the potential for something greater

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You are just shilling andromeda, aren't you.

He is not wrong.

The story for ME1 was nothing special, but it set the stage for what could have been an awesome series

Instead Bioware decided to shit all over everything

Have fun managing your inventory from the shittiest inventory management interface I have ever used in a PC game

Those are Fallout 4's choices, Mass effect has

It's fucking awful.

1 was the best

Bring back the Mako

Just cruising around on the mako can be pretty comfy.

The only thing this game was good for was porn.

I never understood the hate for it
It added exploration and controlled decently well

Story was okay (I wasn't blown away by it and definitely wouldn't put either Saren or Sovereign on a list of greatest sci-fi villains). My biggest problem with the series' story in general is that Bioware didn't handle the scale of the threat very well. In ME1, that isn't such a big deal because the Reapers don't get revealed until fairly late in the game, so you don't feel dumb for doing side quests while the literal apocalypse is approaching. What I really liked about 1, though, is that it let you do fun stuff with weapon customization. Assault rifles with cryo rounds that could keep firing forever, sniper rifles that overheat after every shot but are basically artillery, etc.

Mass Effect 1 was great, but it wasn't autismo enough for Holla Forums or casual enough for normalfags.

I played both twice, never worked up the willpower to pirate the third one.

I liked them both, 1 has a lot of jank but the story is stronger. I like the cast in 2 but the story is weak as hell and I despised the game structure (collect recruits, do affinity mission with recruits, end game). It was like a reverse rpg where instead of at the end of a long story you hold out on the final fight so you can faff about and do sidequests the whole game is faffing about and doing sidequests and then you have the final fight.

The first town you enter is a huge cocktease, I thought we were going to have the entire city open up with a bunch of quests as the story unfolded I was so disappointed and butthurt after I figured out the games pattern. I remember I got my posts and threads deleted from the forum for helping mod controller support into the game, fuck everyone at the bioware forums. I went in really blind in my first playthrough of ME1, I had no idea you could romance any of the characters and I missed a ton of content (I had genuinely no idea who the fuck cerebus was and why they were so evil when I started ME2). The big bad is a huge joke and the council is frustratingly retarded for not seeing robo-garrus (i forget his name) is evil, I thought it might've been some sort of modelling error or laziness and they 'accidentally' put him in his "i work for the evil robo-god now" outfit early.

I don't think there was inherently anything wrong with the Mako, but I think the planets were pretty boring - they were just huge, mostly-empty, randomly-generated heightmaps with copy-and-paste prefab structures sprinkled around. Exploration in the Mako would have been a lot more fun if Bioware had put more effort into developing each location.

They had a DLC mako in ME2, it was just for its mission tho

People seriously overexaggerate how "terrible" the combat and inventory management supposedly is. I had zero issues with any of it. It's also Bioware's last decently written game.

I suppose you like Mass Effects 2 and 3 then

First one is shit
Second one is great
Third one is shit (but has a few neat character interactions that drag on since 2, so you can play it like a visual novel if you like with god mode cheats)

All in all, I'd recommend only the second game.

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Nah, those are Dragon Age 2's choices. Mass Effect's are "Yes please", "Yes", "Yes, and fuck you", "Not now", and "Tell me more".


Second one is absolutely fucking horrid. Gameplay goes from making sense in universe to "lol heatsinks never cool down", weapon and armour customisation is gone, and the story does absolutely nothing for the overarching plot line in the trilogy leading to the plot magic in the third game coming out of fucking nowhere. The entirety of the second game's plot could've been replaced with searching for a way to fight the reapers, but no, they've got you working on a missing person report while helping everyone with their daddy issues.

The second game is only beaten in terribleness by the third.

Thank you for reminding that i got railroaded into a fucking Jacob romance on ME2 because of this when all my femshep tried to do was to be a fucking bro but instead she turned into a niggerlover.

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Not all blacks are niggers. Just a lot.

The real problem wasn't the Mako being shit but 90% of the maps being generated from fucking random noise. It's not like they could've used public or licensed geodata or something.

Not that Jacob had inherently anything wrong with him other than his skin colour.
Hell had he not been a nigger i would've probably continued on romancing him anyway instead of restarting and going with Garrus because out of all the characters he seemed the most… 'human'.

Never understood why people like those soulless Ayyliuums that feel like ripped straight from a shitty fanfiction like Thane or Liara.

Mass Effect 1 is boring generic sci fi cover shooter with mindless gameplay and generic world savior story. It is also noticeably unfinished.
Mass Effect 2 is the wacky space adventures simulator. The gameplay is actually alright this time. The world savior story is pretty much forgotten about and the game is about stopping a small threat who almost nobody cares about. Best in the series.
Mass Effect 3 is also boring shit, but with slightly better gameplay. Sadly, everything else is shit, and it is even more unfinished than the first one.

Play Mass Effect 1 to see if it's your cup of tea, play Mass Effect 2 because it's good and don't play Mass Effect 3 because it's shit.

That bitch ass motherfucker can't go half a year during a war without getting some cerberus scientist pregnant. Where is my option to shoot this motherfucker?

It's the same as it always was: some interesting ideas held back by Bioware's terrible abilities at writing dialogue and handling moral choices. Also the game was horrendously easy to the point where your character's stats didn't meat shit all.

I hate faggots.

I'm pretty sure a secret organization didn't revive you and spent untold amounts of money on a secret ship to fight something no one cares about. Either that's not really what you end up doing in the game, you build a squad and help them with their fee-fees until your squad is big enough for you to actually do the job you were hired for.

All the mass effects sucked.
Great potential, the only reason it's famous it's because it's pretty much the only space-future-setting RPG out there (except kotor and star wars jedi knight, games from 1999).


It sucked for controlling, it would get stuck, shooting was a chore, combat was piss easy if you realized that you can just zoom in and shoot, move 2 meters left or right when shot at, then keep shooting, the enter/exit animation was shit, the mako would frequently fall over on its head.

Those, the maps were horrendous and there were fucking HUNDREDS of them.
They would have been better off fully designing 3-4 planets than making 200 identical planets.


the multiplayer was p fun for me3

Cerberus are the only faggots who care about it and the rest call them lunatics.
Alliance? No fucks given, just send Ashley there.
Counsil? No reaction at all.
Krogan, Geth, Quarians, Salarians, Asari? Don't even need to care and never see Collectors as a threat.
Illusive man is kind of a fucking retard too, ressurecting Shepard makes no sense. I bet he has Shepard's posters all over his room and did it just because he is a big fan.

2 was the worst game in the series.
I didn't play 3

There were 31 planets you could land on, one being dlc and at least six being story missions. It was very far from hundreds.
Those, the maps were horrendous and there were fucking HUNDREDS of them.

Meant to link the system guide.
masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_System_Guide

I remembered that they were never ending.
I've played ME1 for about 20 hours and I wasn't even half way through it, I was still doing side quests and collecting stuff from empty planets before I gave up.
Plus, I counted around 40 here gamefaqs.com/pc/944902-mass-effect/faqs/58449

Krogan dicks tbh

There are around 40 there, but a good chunk of those aren't planets but spaceships.

Krogans have 4 testicles. Does that mean they have two dicks like some lizards?

How do you fuck up so bad?

read more books and watch more movies

The first one was decent, the second ok, I never even bothered with the third. Who knows, maybe I'd re-run ME1 again someday.

that's intentional. Bioware is a full on hypocritical SJW studio. No pretty female characters because muh unrealistic expectation, and super model male characters because there's nothing wrong with that

You may be retarded.

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yeah well the lunatics with unlimited cash were right

Reviving shepard was retarded, about as retarded as the devs killing him.

Mass Effect had barely passable worldbuilding. Story was dogshit already in the first one. Just for being so tryhard "cinematic" it's already worse than ME2 which just had big plotholes.
Gameplay in 1 was horrid and dialogue terribly stiff.
It's not enjoyable neither for its gameplay nor for its characters/story. Lets not even mention the only runner up to Oblivion's worst UI of decade award.

Thank God ME2 had absolutely stunning sci-fi atmosphere and well written characters (and before you bring out Jack, you can flip her off and not deal with her. It's a joy to play space sims with the ship.
And gunplay is fast paced enough that it doesn't detract from the general experience. It's not a stunning game on game merits, but it's my definitive favorite space ship captain game.

Lets not even talk about 3. Except Omega and Citadel expansions, which were good and fine, respectively.

None of the newbies were better than meh besides Mordin, maybe Zareed, and Legion. The rest ranged from ugly cunt (Miranda, Jack) to some Krogan to Nigger to cartoonishly evil succubus Asari to paladin Asari to lizard assassin to Jap thief.

kys brain dead autist.

2 was way better than 3, and 3 only got bad rep becuase of the ending.

1 on the other hand was shit, clunky, shitty pointless "lol im deep" mechanics and full of terrible unfunny bugs

I played 2 and 3 first, I thought 2 was nice with a shit ending and 3 was really limiting and most of it felt like a chore. Highlight of 3 would be the Leviathan DLC, I think it was the best part of the series.

When I finally played ME1 I was pretty disappointed. The levels were just as dull and dreary as most in the rest of the series. Running around with the Mako was fun and felt like the only part where it was some kind of planetary adventure, even if most of the planets were empty. The inventory system was shit in the typical Bioware style where you had a dozen same weapons/armor with possibly +1 attribute differences into poison or shieldbreaking etc. so management became a slog after looting everything. With such a grand scheme for a game, to put the majority of the game in tightly-woven "corridors" it felt even emptier.

My general view is the quality of games published by EA, Ubisoft, or Bethesda doesn't matter because fuck those companies.

It's a shit game and anyone defending it should realize they have shit taste.

2/10 got me to reply
heres your (you)

I really liked the 80s futuristic music but they had completely different people for ME3 which made it even worse.

About the only thing ME1 did better than the already abysmal original was the shooting, and it only achieves that by pretty much stopping pretending it's an RPG.

I recently wanted to replay 1. The series got so ruined by the time 3 came out and the way Tumblrdrameda is looking that instead, I just shredded all of my backup discs. There is no point when every decision I made between two playthroughs ended the same.

ME1 didn't have characters, it had introductions to races. Your quarian, asari, turian and krogan encompass the main things that are valued in their species, and serve mostly as exposition machines. They only get proper characterisation by 2 (except for Garrus, he is just a rogue cop).
Liara stops being a virgin scientist hungry for your brain and becomes a character with problems, flaws and past connections.
Garrus turns into a broken man.
Tali is an outcast in her own home.
Wrex actually has things to say and treats you as a friend.
Ashley is still a cunt bitch.

Heretic detected

It's everyone at bioware is either gay, or a woman. If the woman were gay, then femshep would look attractive.

They were still testing the waters with 1 which is why they still put in some effort into its technical development and storytelling and didn't pander too much to faggots who don't even buy or play games. After seeing that it got unironic accolades and shekels they felt safe enough to shit out 2 and 3 with some bonus leftardism thrown in. Basically typical modern day AAA publishing cycle.

Mfw Ashley is my canon waifu and I'm the only one that feels that way. I had to mod her face in 3 to find her acceptable though.

It's a hallmark of their zero-sum mindset. Okay so far most games have featured attractive females and rugged males (who actually are attractive to non-insane females) so let's just pretend we have an advanced worldview by simply reversing the scale and feature stronk womyn who don't need no man + effeminate, supermodel-ish males. But it's not exclusively the Western SJW's fault, Nips have been subtly doing the same shit for decades now. It's just that the Nips are still decent enough to still provide some degree of universal comfy to disguise their shit.

It was a quickly put together game originally made as 360 exclusive, because microsoft wanted something that was a generic sci fi third person shooter with rpg elements. It was originally called "Science Fiction X", which is the most generic name you can possibly imagine and fits really well. Some in Bioware actually wanted to stick with the name.
It is a quick cash in for a major company that got popular for reasons unknown to me, and has about as much depth as their sonic rpg.

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I don't want to argue with those quads but 2 and 3 felt worse than 1. Not when we autistically talk about single aspects, but as whole packages.

I think she bashes you in 2 for reasons depending on how you've built her in 1. I remember her being slightly angrier on my internet save file compared to my previous actual playthrough.

No shut up, she's my Shepard's faithful christian virgin space gf.

She was pretty shitty for the most of ME3 though.

why not just have better taste in the first place?

I wish they would just have a broader variety of body types. And no I don't mean including muh bbw fat acceptance shit, I mean having women who are petite and thin and and others who look like rugged soldiers (while still being attractive) and others in between. Same goes for the male characters I guess.
In pretty much every game all the human characters and the majority of other races are either generic middle-of-the-road figures with nothing special to differentiate them except their faces and waist-hip ratio for men and women. Every human was the exact same size and shape. The older Asari were kind of curvy I guess, but they basically adhered to the generic humanoid shape of everyone else. Only the Krogans and Salarians had any big difference in shape and size.

nice quads pal

I wouldn't call it great. It's probably the better out of the three, but that really isn't saying much. Protagonist is a blank slate, yet the player can't really insert much personality into him due to the shitty dialogue wheel. Villain seemed promising, but ended up being a joke. Some aliens are neat like the Turians and some are absolute shit like the Asari.
Gameplay is a typical 3d cover shooter with barely any strategy. The exp gains are also strange. I remember my brother destroying the Armatures without the Mako on Virmire since the game rewarded a stupid amount of exp if you didn't use the vehicle and he needed it for persuasion of the upcoming Wrex nonsense. Makes sense, but the machines won't do shit if you shoot them far away enough with your infinite ammo.
Honestly, it's your goto form of decent concept, but poor execution. However, I'm incredibly happy that the first one was made because these magnificent machines were honestly the best to come out of it for me due to how neato and erotic they are in looks and function. They're the only reason I'd ever replay the first game since the other two don't really feature them as much.

Geth have a really cool design, they were underused a bit too much in ME.
Also it was total bullshit that Legion wasn't romanceable.
There was a thread on mechachan a few years ago that had fucktons of great Geth porn that I've never been able to find since, but sadly mechachan has closed.

I think I know the thread you're talking about, if I remember a lot of the stuff posted in it was drawn by Doctorbotspank, who fucking completely disappeared off the face of the internet three or four years ago along with most of his art.
RIP, the admin never took care of the place or appointed people to do so which is ultimately why everybody left.

There's a doctorbotspank on twitter who seems to post some porn, but he's only got 30 tweets and joined mid 2015, so idk.

But this was around 2011-2013, DBS would have been like 14 then

Must've gotten back into drawing porn, then.

oh btw I meant to say "her art" not "his art"
And?
I know she drew lewds since she was pretty young. There are tons of little Nip girls on Pixiv who make R-18 posts.

Hold the fuck up, DBS is a girl?
This is starting to confirm a strange pattern I've noticed of women drawing robot porn. Ratbat was the first artist where I began to notice this.
>insert Megas XLR quote here

Top-notch writing do it again Bioware.

Literally the best thing through the whole series was 1's skills development. The dumbing down it got in 2/3 was fucking criminal.

I enjoyed 2. It was my first step into the series but I didn't finish it until I bought and completed 1. But what they did to the skills is cancer in it's highest form.

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>neither did i
Why live?

would that even BE cuckholding, since you could just swap out parts for technical virginity?

You don't steal Joker's waifu ok.

At least we got ME2's Vanguard class out of it.

I made the mistake of going full Vanguard when I did a renegade playthrough of 1 and 2, and ME1 Vanguard is horrible.

Should probably look into Star Control 2, user.

Space Rugby in 2 and 3 is pretty fun.