Mass Effect
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    03-04-2016 02:46 PM (Updated 03-04-2016)

Another BioWare RPG

Well it only took me nine years to finish this game, that's how pumped I was for it. My memory of years ago was scanning planets, then driving around zig zags on the map finding resources. Honestly, I couldn't even find that part of the game when I just went back this week. Instead I focused on grinding out the story and it was a much better game this time. The story is your basic sci-fi, but I like that stuff okay. There was a lot of cool art design, and for a 2007 game the character models and dialog animations were lifelike.

I didn't really care for the combat and managing my team's abilities, it just wasn't fun and it was no substitute for having real coop partners. Ultimately I just ended up using them as AI shields that would occasionally do something useful with their powers. Now that probably is my own fault for not picking good characters to compliment me, so I don't want to kill it too much for that reason.

The strength of this game is certainly the story. It was often hard to play late at night because of the long dialogue and load times in elevators, but very solid start of a trilogy and I look forward to playing ME2, which is the universally agreed to be the best one.
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