Unofficial Mass Effect Thread, Someone had to do it Options

[Zarrexaij]

I'm sure many of you have heard of Mass Effect, a hybrid action RPG by Bioware. It obviously also has many science fiction aspects, taking place in the future and space. You take on the role as Commander Shepard, and can costumize your character's appearance, gender, and class. On your missions you can have two people with you, and your squad eventually grows to be about six people max. It has recieved an overhwelmingly large amount of positive reviews, many close to near-perfect. In my opinion, it has one of the best storylines of any game to date, and an original one to boot. I'll be damned if it doesn't end up with oodles of awards.

I rented this and I'm hoping to get it for Christmas. It's one of my favorite games, below Half-life and Half-life 2 (and the various episodes). Its dialogue is amazing, and it's a damned pretty game.

If we're going to discuss Mass Effect, I'll ask anyone to post in this thread to follow a rule or two:

1. If you're going to post a spoiler, please mark it well.
2. This thread isn't here to discuss the infamous sex scenes inappropriately (you know "LULZ THAT SECKS SCENE WUZ AWSUM!") I know you're all most mature than that, but from what I've seen in other forums this needs to be posted.

That's pretty much it for now. If I think of new rules or this thread requires more, I'll add some.

[Renee]

I'm not sure what playing an Engineer is like, in comparison to the other choices presented in the beginning. One thing I've noticed is there are occasional areas where Amanda Shepherd can do (what seem to be) specific things, which maybe aren't allowed for other "classes".

She was able to pick a lock in which a couple of people were hiding, for instance. When Eden Prime got attacked a couple of inhabitants hid inside of a pod thing, and Amanda was able to pick the lock and get some info from them.

Also, now she is at the Citadel (yet another similarity between Fallout 3), and she's hacked into a few minor computers. Not sure if other classes: Soldiers or whatever, can also do things like this.

Glad to bring back memories for you Lopov, during this long no-gaming phase of your life. Mass Effect is incredibly fun, event though the situation for Amanda herself is pretty grim most of the time. She keeps getting accused of "screwing up" the mission and stuff. A lot of higher-ups in this game are really mean to her.


Normandy Spacecraft 🚀

Avina (... she reminds me so much of our modern Alexa...)

The Citadel

Amanda's Squad

Emily Wong, the Journalist (... we don't entirely trust her for some reason)

My 'toon can finally take a seat (... yikes, this game has pseudo lap dances!)

Fighting a Thug

Pwned! 🔫