Mass Effect ruined me

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mwmorph

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I played Mass Effect and I think I'm somewhat jaded now... I played Jade Empire, Kotor 1&2 and various others, but I need to find another game like Mass Effect, every other game is just sort of... boring to me now.

There aren't enough games with long, detailed plot lines, character enhancement ability, 1st person shooter, vehicle driven, open free roam world, Triple A titles.

Fallout 3 was good, but I already finished it.

Any suggestions for games I should try?

TIA
 
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mwmorph

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Originally posted by: CP5670
Mass Effect was good but not that good.
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I personally think it is. The story brought me through and the FPS elements brought a more cerebral refresh to the action/FPS genre. I' m tired of slugging it out solo in a FPS like F.E.A.R. or Half Life 2 and I dont have the patience for turn based RPGs unless it has a extremely strong story.

Mass Effect was the perfect game for me. Action oriented, incredibly strong story, squad based, I mean it was the best game I've ever played.

It blended genres and revolutionized gaming for me. It did for Action RPGs what Half Life did for FPSes and Dune 2 did for Strategy games.

IMO, it's better than Fallout 1,2 &3, KOTOR, HL2, Bioshock, Red Alert 2, Diablo 2, Grim Fandago, etc.
 
Red Storm

Red Storm

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Agreed, Mass Effect is definitely the best overall game I've ever played as well. The unbelievable cinematic dialogue and story are what really set it apart.

Bioware = hole in my wallet. ;)
 
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Your only option is to play Mass Effect over again as another character class/alignment etc. Sadly all other games are.. meh. And wait until Mass Effect 2 comes out.
 
Fenixgoon

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jade empire was OK :) there was some parts that were positively evil in their design though.
 
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BladeVenom

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Dragon Age is scheduled to be out in Q1 2009, until then have you played Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines?
 
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I was very disappointed with Mass Effect. Yes, the visuals were great, the voice acting was great, it definitely has a long list of positives. But, the first person shooter-esque combat, the near total lack of party dialog were real turn offs. The storyline, while good and well told, was nothing new, we've seen it all before from dozens of other sci-fi games and novels. Mass Effect had no replay value at all, play it once, and you're pretty much done. And because you can easily beat the game in almost a single day without much trouble, this makes it a 50 dollar impulse item. You're not exactly making good return on your dollar.

 
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Loved this game, have not played additional content yet and really looking forward to 2nd installment. I wish they made combat and ground missions bit more varied but i take it its the engine limitations, and space combat would have sealed the deal.
 
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CP5670

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Originally posted by: mwmorph
Originally posted by: CP5670
Mass Effect was good but not that good.
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I personally think it is. The story brought me through and the FPS elements brought a more cerebral refresh to the action/FPS genre. I' m tired of slugging it out solo in a FPS like F.E.A.R. or Half Life 2 and I dont have the patience for turn based RPGs unless it has a extremely strong story.

Mass Effect was the perfect game for me. Action oriented, incredibly strong story, squad based, I mean it was the best game I've ever played.

It blended genres and revolutionized gaming for me. It did for Action RPGs what Half Life did for FPSes and Dune 2 did for Strategy games.

IMO, it's better than Fallout 1,2 &3, KOTOR, HL2, Bioshock, Red Alert 2, Diablo 2, Grim Fandago, etc.
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Some of those are quite different types of games, so I don't know how you can really compare them.

I certainly liked ME a lot, but it did have a lot of flaws, most of them related to the boring gameplay/combat and repetitive side quests. The excellent story and dialogue kept me playing it anyway, but it could have been a lot better if they had made the shooter aspects more interesting.

Also, the speedup trick I described here is an absolute must, as the game is loaded with very tedious parts. I would have had a much lower opinion of ME if I hadn't found out about this halfway through the game.
 
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ConstipatedVigilante

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Originally posted by: pwnagesarus
Was a very fun game the first time through, but it's way too short and has no replay value.
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Yeah, I couldn't believe how short it was. I expected to

*SPOILER*


Get another mission from the council - after the first 4 locations you're only an hour or two away from the climax.
 
Zenoth

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I loved Mass Effect, but just like KOTOR and KOTOR II, once you're done, there's not much replay value, if none at all. I beaten KOTOR two times to see both endings, and KOTOR II also two times, and I beat Mass Effect three times, and at the moment Mass Effect is uninstalled, and back then both KOTORs took the dust on my desk after beating them twice.

Those types of games are interactive books/movies, it's heavily scripted, and it's alright because it needs to be, because it's based on a story written in a book (Mass Effect's case), and they couldn't make a free-roaming type of game with the story of Mass Effect because then you'd need to create dozens of planets filled with as much content as found in Fallout 3 on each of them, forget it, that'd take a 1,000-men team in a ten years development process. They had to shrink it a lot to make it a "game", or else better leave it as a book and add some pictures.

It's the same with Deus Ex, with Half-Life and any other story-driven games. They might well be triple and quadruple A games in quality AND content, but their replay value is almost always lacking, once the story has been told, once the single or multiple endings are seen, when you've heard all dialog lines and done all side quests all you have left to do it do it all over again just like when you read a book and you know exactly what's going to happen anyway, and that's not necessarily the goal of video gaming, but it's fine, because it's entertaining, for some time.
 
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