Games to play
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:43 am
Mass Effect is a really nice game and is worth your time and money.
But please note it IS overhyped. The main-story is "short", so short that I nearly feel offended (I basically shoot myself through some 12 large locations and that is it), "side-quests" basically do not exist, you just have a bunch of small, usually badly made extra-missions on bald, boring planets.
There are very few locations (as in cities or whatever you usually have in RPGs) where you can actually talk to people, most places are just "arrive, get the note to kill the enemies, then kill the enemies, go on"
You also have a ridicilous random-loot- (finding ammunition and guns in crashed exploration-probes? Hello?) and quest-reward-system (you get 300xp and 20.000 credits for doing a talk-quest that really, really involves no money at all!).
Mass Effect is a rocking game, with a rocking, but very short main-plot and totally sucking (or even not-existing) side-quests. But it is more an talk-intense-action-RPG than a classic RPG as the ones BioWare released in the past (up to and not including Jade Empire).
But please note it IS overhyped. The main-story is "short", so short that I nearly feel offended (I basically shoot myself through some 12 large locations and that is it), "side-quests" basically do not exist, you just have a bunch of small, usually badly made extra-missions on bald, boring planets.
There are very few locations (as in cities or whatever you usually have in RPGs) where you can actually talk to people, most places are just "arrive, get the note to kill the enemies, then kill the enemies, go on"
You also have a ridicilous random-loot- (finding ammunition and guns in crashed exploration-probes? Hello?) and quest-reward-system (you get 300xp and 20.000 credits for doing a talk-quest that really, really involves no money at all!).
Mass Effect is a rocking game, with a rocking, but very short main-plot and totally sucking (or even not-existing) side-quests. But it is more an talk-intense-action-RPG than a classic RPG as the ones BioWare released in the past (up to and not including Jade Empire).