Mass Effect Comments by Ellie Gibson
Hands-on with BioWare's latest.
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"No need to spoil it for you too"
So why did you, by following that comment with the spoiler? "you're given a difficult choice regarding a likeable character you've spent hours building up and getting to know. One option involves deviating from your main mission objective. The other involves losing the character from your party" That's a spoiler right there if you ask me. |
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souljacker2000
17/09/07 @ 16:09
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im so wanting this right now, i loved kotor but never got to finish it... im so looking forward to not finishing this too
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Poorandugly
17/09/07 @ 16:15
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@ andrewwd
"That's a spoiler right there if you ask me. " I usually love Ellie and hope she'll bear my future children, but that's certainly a spoiler in my book, yeah. It's like knowing Aeris is going to die, dammit. |
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The Bodybuilder
17/09/07 @ 16:28
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>" but it's specifically evocative of the kind of electronica featured in '80s sci-fi films, the properly frightening ones with the biodomes and the mad robots."
Please tell me it has a terminator-esque sondtracks? PLEASE? For 2007, bioshock is my most wanted game. It's slowly climbed up there, but it is. |
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JediMasterMalik
17/09/07 @ 16:31
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Not sold on the combat yet, and the facial animation looks somewhat lifeless to me. Graphics look amazing, and the dialogue options sound great and fun to use, the games progression also sounds like it's actually trying to make choices mean something, which games rarely get right.
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thesnowman
17/09/07 @ 16:41
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I personally cant wait for this. Love KOTOR , played it more times than any other game. Was slightly disapointed in Jade Empire (was still a good game, but maybe expectations were really high after KOTOR).
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Britesparc
17/09/07 @ 16:44
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This always looked like GOTY to me. I know not everyone's a Halo fan, but I can't believe within three months the 360 will have had Bioshock, Halo 3, and Mass Effect; AND all in the same year Crackdown was released.
I also agree with Moriss about the long stories. In my case it came from a youth spent on Melee Island. |
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Kotor was great jade empire was poor,just have to wait and see on this one to call goty is a bit jumping the gun.
Assassins creed will be the game to beat this year,I just think bioware is in danger of becoming a one trick pony. If the storys good then having hours of blah blah blah is ok, but if it sucks then we have a problem. |
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I like the long dialogue, but then again I'm old and like being read stories when I play games. :)
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with long dialogues. I do have a massive problem with badly written long dialogues though. And judging by Jade Empire, Kotor and NWN1, Bioware excels in that lately. :-/ edit: Mind, only time will tell - what I already like is that you just choose a general type of response, and then hear the actual line. That sounds like a good system.
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BillyBrush
17/09/07 @ 16:49
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One of those games i want to like, but the naff assed Sci Fi is going to arse any hope of that up...politics of the Karjj, or Skarrjj, or Marrjj (bound to be one of em), i cannae wait
what does the imperial comissioner of Grankall gate think of this? let's go inform him...no..use a f**ing phone...it's the future! |
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Granarythorax
17/09/07 @ 17:12
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Hope this turns out more KOTOR1 than Jade Empire. I loved KOTOR1 but stalled in Jade about 3rd of the way through - I finally got round to finishing it today after a 2 year intermission.
Having gone all the way through I can't understand all the praise & awards it got at the time. In comparison to KOTOR it has poorly written characters, a slow moving plot and even more exposition. The unbalanced combat engine really finishes it off (with an option to adjust the difficulty seemly in there to compensate for bad design). But looking at the credits the two games do not share any designers - hopefully Bioware's A team are working on Mass Effect... |
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manic_mouse
17/09/07 @ 18:15
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"The cut scenes look brilliant the fighting looks naff."
Just like real life! |
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thesnowman
17/09/07 @ 18:22
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If I remember correctly that it is the team that made KOTOR that is making Mass Effect. It was a different team that made Jade Empire.
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Agent_Llama
17/09/07 @ 18:34
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Slapped wrist for the spoiler. What is it with EG and spoilers recently?
Am sort of excited about this and really want it to be good, but my concern is that I never finished KotOR or Jade Empire, I lost interest in both once they became repetitively and dull. *fingers crossed* it's got more variety and pace to it. |
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themerlin13
17/09/07 @ 19:40
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OK very funny EG, you can't hit us all on the head and drag is into the woods and have us shot!!
We did see a REVIEW of Team Fortress 2 right?? Hello??? I think I just heard a gunshot!! it was valve shooting EG!!! lol. ;) |
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