Mass Effect

"We come in peace, how can I assist you"

Thanks to them I spend basically zero time hiding in combat. Plus the cover doesn’t feel sticky like it did in the trilogy so I’m never sure if I’m actually in it or not

Just completed 2. Saved everyone cos I'm fucking awesome. Thoroughly enjoyed it, it's a much better game than the first, but I think I prefer 1 overall. I can't put my finger on why, but the story in 2 didn't grab me in the same way as 1. The whole game is about assembling your crew, and I must say I didn't connect with the crew as I did in 1.

I also felt they nerfed the Citadel at the expense of other locations, which was a shame. Love it though, a high 9/10.

Going to jump into 3 after doing some Hogwarting.

Is it just me, or does male Ryder sound *exactly* like Nathan Drake? I actually spent my first session thinking, "Man, Nolan North could've tried to mix things up a bit!" before I Googled it and found out it wasn't him.

I didn't mind the male voice. Only seen videos but female Ryder sounds dreadful.

a lot is optional, most of the game I think.  I did spent traveling around doing sidequests, finding junk and maxing out relationships with the crew.

Main questline is utter boredom (almost.  surprisingly last mission was really fun). It repetitive and you have seen all very quickly while sidequest bring some variety and flavor to the game.


I have 69h to be exact in the game and I did all quests side quests which are mapped.  there is other stuff to find but you dont get waypoints for them.  I am glad i have beaten it but the moment i did the game was out of ssd. I was relieved.

but it took a year and half to beat it with huge breaks when i played Stellaris, Xcom2 and Imperator Rome.  so had to recharge for big rpg.

I think I’ve done nearly 20 hours and I’ve only just placed my second outpost.

Done a relatively complete feeling run on Voeld and managed as much of Eos as I could without being fried by radiation.

Companion quests starting to stack up too but once you’re planetside its easy to let the Tempest inbox and AVP requests be forgotten

Still having fun though, just need to mix up the team a bit more since I’ve only used Cara, Liam and Jaal so far.

Also, I keep switching about the helmet settings to keep on vibe with how horrendous the environment is, which is something I didn’t do in the trilogy. I like the immersion it gives me.

Interesting read.

I don’t see how they could have turned the No Man Sky version into a functional Mass Effect. People want stories and character.

There’s certainly some lack of polish I’m starting to notice now but nothing game breaking. Its more like Bethesda shit like an NPC stuck trying to hop over a crate or a Remanent Assembler spawning a drone inside a wall. But super rare that even something like that happens. Its certainly no buggier than I remember Inquisition being, I was getting loads of texture and object pop-in during that game that hasn’t happened in this one.

I think having the story being a framing device rather than the focus of the game was probably the right decision. I compared it to Voyager earlier and I think that still stands up - the journey home was the context and individual episodes told their own stories, which is how I feel playing this.

Although it is a shame that Kett encampments don’t stay cleared. I’ve given up raiding them because the rewards are so meagre and I know they’ll be reoccupied next time I drive by anyway.

It used to be waaay more broken from what i read back in the day.  Playing myself for the first time 3 years ago, I do not recall any bugs.

Glad you like it.

Ha! Wow. I haven't seen anything that bad, apart from the aforementioned Ceebee monstrosity.

The moment-to-moment gameplay is a lot of fun, and there was definitely potential to create a top-tier Mass Effect experience with the foundation they built, but the writing and roleplaying aspects really drag down the experience for me. (That, and the male lead sounding exactly like one of the best-known characters in modern gaming - what were they thinking?)

simple

Are there any missable missions that you'd particularly recommend seeking out and doing?

I've somehow got close to the end of the game without realising it, but I've only done the main missions, loyalty quests for Cora and Peebee, and the odd random mission that seemed interesting. I'm in no rush to wrap it up - although my backlog is weighing heavily on my mind! - and I'm happy to keep going a while longer.

For me, the supporting characters are the main downside. I don't mind the overarching narrative of going to a new galaxy and finding a home there; the big bad is kind of underwhelming, but serviceable; and as I've said before, the core gameplay loop is a lot of fun. (Using Pull to lift a hapless enemy from behind cover, then shooting him repeatedly in the dick while he rotates in mid-air, never gets old.)