This game definitely shows it's age. Even when playing in the legendary edition.
The combat was clunky and kind of boring, i played adept and a lot of the biotic abilities kinda did the same thing and none of them where particularly fun to use.
But despite how flawed the combat is, it was good enough. I didn't find it annoying most of the time. It was just there.
The story was actually pretty enjoyable. The world building was good and i enjoyed learning about it. The squad mates where all pretty alright, except by Ashley and Kaidan who i found rather boring. My favorite ended up being Wrex because funny shotgun man. (And also the Krogan's story was pretty interesting)
The choice/morality system is exactly what i expected it to be, so i ended up full paragon because of the copaganda writing. As one does. I like to play games that give you choices by picking what i would do in that situation, and this is from an era of games where devs thought being cartoonishly evil was fun. Which i assume it is for some people but not me.
The game is very dialogue heavy, which I didn't mind since it's not like i was craving for more combat and i actually enjoyed the story a fair bit.
I hoped I could get more of it in the sidequests but as many people have said before me, i could not bring myself to do all of those assignments. I was not gonna play through all of those loading screens and generic battles so I could find the good quests, so I thought "I'm just gonna stop doing sidequests until i feel underleveled for the main quest." And then my pistol was two-tapping enemies on the last mission so i didn't do any more sidequests.
More on the ending, the last choice actually had me thinking a lot more than i expected though, which was a nice surprise.
Also when it comes to the romance, i didn't end up kissing anyone because i looked up "can you be gay in mass effect" and found out there is a cute lesbian in the third game so im gonna wait for her.
Overall, this game is very very dated, but i can perfectly understand why people liked it so much back then. I think i will be giving it a replay at some point.
also the game is kinda wack politically. i think that has to be said.
The combat was clunky and kind of boring, i played adept and a lot of the biotic abilities kinda did the same thing and none of them where particularly fun to use.
But despite how flawed the combat is, it was good enough. I didn't find it annoying most of the time. It was just there.
The story was actually pretty enjoyable. The world building was good and i enjoyed learning about it. The squad mates where all pretty alright, except by Ashley and Kaidan who i found rather boring. My favorite ended up being Wrex because funny shotgun man. (And also the Krogan's story was pretty interesting)
The choice/morality system is exactly what i expected it to be, so i ended up full paragon because of the copaganda writing. As one does. I like to play games that give you choices by picking what i would do in that situation, and this is from an era of games where devs thought being cartoonishly evil was fun. Which i assume it is for some people but not me.
The game is very dialogue heavy, which I didn't mind since it's not like i was craving for more combat and i actually enjoyed the story a fair bit.
I hoped I could get more of it in the sidequests but as many people have said before me, i could not bring myself to do all of those assignments. I was not gonna play through all of those loading screens and generic battles so I could find the good quests, so I thought "I'm just gonna stop doing sidequests until i feel underleveled for the main quest." And then my pistol was two-tapping enemies on the last mission so i didn't do any more sidequests.
More on the ending, the last choice actually had me thinking a lot more than i expected though, which was a nice surprise.
Also when it comes to the romance, i didn't end up kissing anyone because i looked up "can you be gay in mass effect" and found out there is a cute lesbian in the third game so im gonna wait for her.
Overall, this game is very very dated, but i can perfectly understand why people liked it so much back then. I think i will be giving it a replay at some point.
also the game is kinda wack politically. i think that has to be said.