A really engaging, plot-driven RPG that's let down by a lack of quality. I got numerous lockups and character glitches, plus the game was stuttering and chugging all the way through. Combat was also very janky at times, and you're so limited in controlling your squad's movement. Menu interface was also god-awful. Besides all that, very strong world-building and a solid plot makes ME1 worthwhile to me. Hopefully there's more side-character interaction, other than just with Shepard, in ME2.
I mean, it was 2007. This game has aged poorly over the years, but I'd still recommend it as a good start to the story of Mass Effect.
Star Trek simulator we always wanted. Hot take: I don't hate the mako, mostly because the uncharted world's is this game's best part since the sequels ditched it and improved everything else.
Here is a preview for the May 31 Journal Updated: this game is awful and we accepted awful things 12 years ago.
Originally played this on the 360, ran into a bug where I got stuck in some stairs, had to quit out, and found myself with a corrupted save file when I went back to it. Did finally play it some years later again via Steam and still managed to be engaged enough to go back through the 50-some hours I had already put in previously and get to the end.
Good game, though bugs prevented me from really getting far in ME2 (PS3 and PC) and I've never been able to check out the conclusion in ME3, as a result.
Good game, though bugs prevented me from really getting far in ME2 (PS3 and PC) and I've never been able to check out the conclusion in ME3, as a result.
The one sound clip that eternally haunts my brain is from the sheer amount of times that I've played through this game:
"ENEMIES ARE EVERYWHERE"
"ENEMIES ARE EVERYWHERE"
The shooting in this game is completely broken lmao.
the dumb UN wont let me commit war crimes to stop the reapers!!!
Al combate de este juego le queda grande la media estrella
Mass Effect offered innovation of the medium and compelling characters through rich storytelling at the cost of unfocused gameplay and bloated, if admirable vision. Mass Effect lays the groundwork for the formula to be perfected, but is dated in most all aspects.
This game Stockholm Syndromes you into playing the game with the funny characters.
Absolutely adore the world of Mass Effect. The main story missions are as great as ever. The side missions and the environments within them can become super repetitive, particularly any one of them involving the clunky vehicle, the Mako. Thankfully those missions didn't make it into the following games.
tali bby ill protect u from that janky lookin williams
My review scale is curved towards high stars out of five cause Im logging the good ones first, gotta let my memory marinate, find the grimey good shit.
Game slaps.
Game slaps.
Good writing with jank gameplay but is charming all its own.
BioWare used to be amazing. Like, everything they touched was freaking fantastic. This game, to me, is the pinnacle of what they were capable at their peak. When it was announced that the franchise would call back on choices from your save files I proceeded to put over 200 hours on this game creating a full paragon, full renegade, and full neutral run with the choices I thought would make for the best story moving forward. Fondest memory has to be creating a handgun specialist that could rapid fire thresher maw's to death or constantly saying, "they see me rollin', in my Mako..." to the tune of Ridin' Dirty (don't judge, it was different times back then).
I got this game free when I first bought my Xbox 360. At the time, I actually hated it and thought it was boring, and never got far into it all.
Several years later I decided to finally to decided to give it another go and ended up really enjoying it.
Love the whole sci-fi setting it inhabits and enjoyed the story.
The weakest part is certainly the driving stuff, which I'm glad they dropped from later games.
Several years later I decided to finally to decided to give it another go and ended up really enjoying it.
Love the whole sci-fi setting it inhabits and enjoyed the story.
The weakest part is certainly the driving stuff, which I'm glad they dropped from later games.
You're just such a fuckin' cop in these games. They put a bad taste in my mouth in a way they didn't a decade ago.
The inventory management in this game is atrocious. Exploring with the Mako is cool, but can get very tedious if done for every planet. I burned myself out hard on this game trying to get all the achievements... Look achievements were still cool and new in 2007.
O primeiro contato com Mass Effect é impactante. O universo cativante, a exploração do universo, a história engajante e os diálogos com opções de tom fazem um equilíbrio gostoso entre um personagem sem agência do jogador, comum de jRPG e um personagem "folha em branco" tradicional de RPGs ocidentais.
aged like butter but it's basically required to play through it if you want to actually play the trilogy. the mako killed me.
Not as good as the sequel, but still great.
This has not aged very well.
I would still say it's the most consistent writing effort within the mass effect trilogy, and this was before the choice wheel was in its full form, so the dialogue with npcs is alot better on average. The squadmates don't hold a candle to the sequel, though, and it's hard not to sour on the games plot ending on a cliffhanger when we now know what it's all leading to. The gameplay and the mako segments are truly hideous by now too.
I would still say it's the most consistent writing effort within the mass effect trilogy, and this was before the choice wheel was in its full form, so the dialogue with npcs is alot better on average. The squadmates don't hold a candle to the sequel, though, and it's hard not to sour on the games plot ending on a cliffhanger when we now know what it's all leading to. The gameplay and the mako segments are truly hideous by now too.
Couldn't really get into it. Maybe I got to it too late.
Finally got around to beating this game within the last year and it's amazing. I wanna live in the Citadel.
Replayed about a year ago. Not exactly a masterpiece by today's standards but the worldbuilding here is more fleshed out than just about anything I've seen in any mainstream science-fiction property.
i know this is a classic and i adore the series, but this is the weakest game imo. not necessarily because of the story-- that's fine! but because the controls and gameplay are SO janky it made it awful to play. if i replay the series, i just use the save generator to make the save for me1 i want to use and then jump right into me2.
The story in ME1 is the best, by far. The gameplay and controls have not held up well at all.
So good, especially considering how relatively old it is.
Es curioso las poquísimas space ópera que hay en videojuegos. Aunque el combate era malo y el Mail infumable, está fue una gran primera entrega