Forum Overview :: Mass Effect
 
Plot =\ by FABIO 08/10/2008, 7:43pm PDT
I had heard a lot of good things and had high hopes for some cheeky tale of the greater good vs. unchecked authority.


It's still better than most plots (and 100% of Japanese ones), but the writing quality is dangerously close to Babylon 5/Starcontrol 3 crossover fan fiction. Every scene with the villain or council has your main character pshing like Leon Kennedy completely unironically. Every scene with the Syreen blue space lesbians plays out like a Hideo Kojima game. Despite the change in tone and art, it somehow all comes off as a less mature story than a Star Wars roleplaying game.

The plot, tone, and music all tell me that this is a serious IMPORTANT game, but I'm having trouble believing them:


It stars Seth Green playing Seth Green.

The chick marine is decked out in standard female issue pink armor.

A rookie marine you know for one minute at the beginning gushes how he's itching for his first combat mission. Right after, he gets gunned down within 30 seconds of landing. Everyone back on ship acts all sad how they're going to miss him.

Your character makes a big IMPORTANT speech to the ship's crew with IMPORTANT swelling music. The speech is so awful it's like it was meant to be funny in a Monkey Island game. Bill Pullman's speech in Independence Day was more inspiring.

Bioware not content to settle for KotOR's handmaiden to be the bottom of the barrel for embarrassing fan service pandering. At least once an hour you are reminded that you'll eventually fuck a blue space lesbian: lingering ass shots, nuzzling, several lengthy speeches on how their species is entirely female and can mate with any other race with tantric sex, a wide eyed space lesbian telling you that she's just a child by her lifespan and gets lonely without a boyfriend because she's too wrapped up in science.
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The tutorial indeed blows by FABIO 08/09/2008, 4:54am PDT NEW
    There are little icons along the other skill bars. by Worm 08/09/2008, 7:11am PDT NEW
        Just highlight the bars with the little icons, it tells you everything by Ethan Steele 08/09/2008, 10:35am PDT NEW
    You're supposed to figure out a lot of that stuff on your own. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 08/09/2008, 10:16am PDT NEW
        Tutorial tells you how to holster a gun, take cover, throw a grenade by FABIO 08/09/2008, 2:56pm PDT NEW
            well kotor let you use a mouse to browse the menu by dinggrats, the ding-gratser 08/09/2008, 3:12pm PDT NEW
                KotOR was designed as an Xbox game, didn't have this problem. NT by FABIO 08/10/2008, 12:54pm PDT NEW
                    was still a little gay and unintuitive but yeah better than mass effex NT by Grumah 08/10/2008, 2:46pm PDT NEW
    Plot =\ by FABIO 08/10/2008, 7:43pm PDT NEW
        Morally disturbed by pink armor. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 08/10/2008, 7:57pm PDT NEW
            Dresden Codak is enough. GUILTY NT by FABIO 08/10/2008, 8:32pm PDT NEW
                YOU'RE WHERE THE LAW STOPS AND I START....................... SUCKA 8( *BLAM BLA NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 08/10/2008, 9:05pm PDT NEW
                    PS: Make sure you get past the Citadel. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 08/10/2008, 9:09pm PDT NEW
            DEFAULT PINK ARMOR NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NT by Grumah 08/10/2008, 9:26pm PDT NEW
        hm well thats a very interesting report by Grumah 08/10/2008, 11:02pm PDT NEW
            The blue lesbian just joined (after driving the fucking FUCK armored car) by FABIO 08/10/2008, 11:28pm PDT NEW
                You chose the absolute worst first post-Citadel mission to get an impression fro by Fortinbras 08/11/2008, 12:45am PDT NEW
                    Re: You chose the absolute worst first post-Citadel mission to get an impression by FABIO 08/11/2008, 11:39am PDT NEW
                        Re: You chose the absolute worst first post-Citadel mission to get an impression by Creexuls, a monster >:3 08/11/2008, 11:41am PDT NEW
                    noveria is a good first planet until the end where it becomes an impossible fuck by Grumah 08/11/2008, 3:38pm PDT NEW
        Babylon 5, exactly how I would describe it. by bink 08/11/2008, 8:36am PDT NEW
 
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