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Playing Mass Effect for the first time

Journal Entry: Mon Nov 30, 2009, 7:58 AM
And it owned my life on Sunday. There's... a lot of talking in that game XD. I dig the world design so far although it couldn't hurt to add even more cultural detail. I hate having to go into the damn codex to read every little thing about something that could've taken 5 seconds to explain if I'm talking to some random person on the street - which you can't do for every person amusingly enough.

Speaking of the people, I like some of the characters in the roster so far like Wrex, Garrus, Liana or Tali. Ok. Fine. They're aliens. I seem to find the aliens more interesting than the people in this game LOL.

Gameplay-wise I've yet to get used to the WASD keys, sometimes if I'm crouching or I need to run I accidentally hit the Taskbar/START button and immediately I'm taken back into windows and the game freezes as soon as I switch back. One thing I'm thankful for is that the mouse sensitivity isn't as twitch sensitive as Unreal Tournament so I didn't get dizzy while I'm trying to aim.

Texture work and lighting is pretty a-freaking-mazing [blue blinging light lens flare thing in every level is starting to burn my eyes], although I can't say I'm too crazy about some of the facial modelling and lip-syncing animation.

I'm already pretty excited about Mass Effect 2 coming out at the end of January, here's hoping I'll be able to spend some quality time with it then.

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:iconmaximovlorenzo:
=MaximoVLorenzo Dec 7, 2009  Professional General Artist
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*LivHathaway Nov 30, 2009  Professional Digital Artist
Between that and Dragon Age, Bioware is getting serious points with me these days. Just...aghrghghghg it's like playing a really sweet movie, or reading a really good book, but interactive. And awesome.
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!DonnieSieg Nov 30, 2009   Digital Artist
Didn't Bioware work on a Sonic game.
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*LivHathaway Dec 1, 2009  Professional Digital Artist
yup! havent played it though
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!DonnieSieg Dec 2, 2009   Digital Artist
Bioware is spreading it's wings. :D
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~ShinobiAngel94 Nov 30, 2009  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
It's a pretty good game but there is a lot of talking. It can make it interesting.
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:iconcheaster:
Game is exciting, isn't it?
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~Moyer Nov 30, 2009   Digital Artist
Funny thing is, why would you even want humans as party members with all the cool aliens? Could they have made Ashley even more unlikable or Kaidan more bland? I played Paragon with Vanguard Shepard, Wrex and Garrus. Played Normal and only mostly died at the earlier levels.

Also, Jess, be sure to max out conversation skills to the max asap. It unlocks TONS of extra goodies and quests. More than I've seen in other games. Definitely rewards itself at the end.

I played on Steam and my copy was particularly buggy. Plus it was a pain to install the DLC.
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=theshaggyfreak Nov 30, 2009  Professional Digital Artist
I played it on 360 and it was a good time. I love some of the fun plot twists that you can get involved in depending on your choices.
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:iconrobotdelespacio:
Hell yeah, Mass Effect 2 comming soon i cant wait for it, such a great game
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