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Post by ToriJ on Sept 15, 2010 6:06:59 GMT -6
Have anybody ever played these games? After learning about these games thanks to YouTube they're on my list of video games I really want to play. They remind me of Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic only ten times better than those. Renegade Female Shepard from Mass Effect 2.  |
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Post by doctor cube on Sept 15, 2010 21:09:51 GMT -6
they're bioware games which means that they're pretty cinematic, however something Mass Effect (and fantasy Mass Effect AKA Dragon Age) did that pissed me off was make a big deal about the sex scenes.
The gameplay is solid in M.E, pretty decent shooter and a pretty good RPG, the two fit together quite well too, though the inventory menu can feel a little cluttered at times. The Storytelling is some of the best bioware has done considering that they're sticking to the Bioware pattern of "good option, neutral option, bad option, special options, lots of words." and if you pay attention you can watch for bioware's signatures such as "mild innuendo, everyone exit stage right, slightly threatening movement without breaking creepy blank stare" and my personal favorite "large scale interaction such as punch or kiss that still ends with both parties standing where they started and staring at each other creepily".
Mass Effect's biggest weakness was it's biggest selling point: Sex in the game. Your character has the option of pursuing romance with members of your crew, these romances increase the crews loyalty and reveals their well written backstory. However you top off each romance sub-plot with what is heavily implied as sex but what would barely pass as a makeout session during daytime TV. Yet it got so much press coverage due to the controversy of having these things they called sex scenes despite the fact that the best you'd see is less than a second of bare ass.
to quote Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw: Hardly enough to get your Mass Erect.
Long story short I liked the games but if you say you're putting sex in your game, then lets see more of Tali than just her mask coming off and some mild latex-suit grinding.
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Post by ToriJ on Sept 15, 2010 21:22:58 GMT -6
Fox News were the one that made a big deal out of the sex. Flipping out over nothing.
Had I gone into it thinking it's as bad as Fox News claimed it to be I would've been disappointed. >.>
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Post by ToriJ on Sept 15, 2010 21:30:57 GMT -6
I knew Kaiden sounded familiar! I also heard that originally you could romance any character in the game as a male or female, but they changed it before release. Like you could have romanced Kaiden as a male or Ashley as a female. |
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Post by ToriJ on Sept 15, 2010 21:35:04 GMT -6
I knew Kaiden sounded familiar! I also heard that originally you could romance any character in the game as a male or female, but they changed it before release. Like you could have romanced Kaiden as a male or Ashley as a female. I know, right? Took me a whole to place it, but yeah. xD And I didn't know that O= I could see why they changed it, though. Then there really would have been an uproar from fox >.< You can already have sex with a blue alien that looks like a girl. Fox could go nuts over homosexuality either way. |
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Post by ToriJ on Sept 16, 2010 16:17:31 GMT -6
I just bought Mass Effect 2 today at Game Stop. I was going to buy 1 but mom said not to worry about it. Must mean I'm going to get the first one for my birthday. ^.^
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Post by doctor cube on Sept 16, 2010 21:57:59 GMT -6
hehehe, mass erect.
seriously I'm gunna learn how to program and make a 2D game that'll top that AND have better sex scenes.
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Post by ToriJ on Sept 16, 2010 23:18:44 GMT -6
My TV screen suck for these new games. I can't read ANY of the text on screen except on the rare occasion where I can barely make it out...
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Post by ToriJ on Sept 17, 2010 9:39:21 GMT -6
I have been winging this game like all out hell because I can't read anything on it. I'm surprised I've gotten anywhere on it at the rate I'm going.
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Post by ToriJ on Sept 17, 2010 9:47:00 GMT -6
It's still fun to play, just a giant pain that whenever something important comes up in text only I can't read it. I can make out the choices they give you when you're replaying to somebody at times but not always. Blah.
I've been getting by on guess work and instinct pretty much.
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Post by doctor cube on Sept 25, 2010 18:14:06 GMT -6
Elcor <3
that's actually my honest opinion of mass effect. Elcor <3
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