Mass Effect Review 9.75

Just a quick bump to post an excerpt from an interview with a Bioware guy regarding Mass Effect....

IGN AU: How much of the game do you think has been seen publicly?

Chris Priestly: Five percent! [laughs] At best. You're looking at a game that, depending on how you play, how rapidly you progress through the story, how quickly you pick up combat and skip dialogue and so on, it'll take 20 hours. But then there are those people that play, like me, who want to do a romance plot, do party NPC plots, who get sidetracked with sub quests and such - then you're looking at maybe 60 hours at least. Again, it depends on your individual play style.

Knowing the video so far that have been released, and the screens, there's just so, so much that hasn't been seen before. There are a lot of surprises still there.
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60 hours sounds good to me :D

Full interview here...

http://uk.xbox360.ign.com/articles/829/829050p1.html?RSSwhen2007-10-21_163400&RSSid=829050
 
I so can't wait for this. My only fear is not having the money to buy all these games. It's frightning. In my lifetime I've never known a period of time like it.
 
NokkonWud said:
In my lifetime I've never known a period of time like it.
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I've said that to the missus several times. She looks at me like I'm a bit silly, but I think she knows what I mean. I may have to get rid of the Gamecube and my original Xbox to help me afford a couple extra games :D
 
~J~ said:
Gonna be a kill-joy here.

Looks a stunning game, looks incredible, but next-gen for me isn't just graphics and sound. I DO want more than 30hrs gameplay, it's possible, several games have had that recently, even the ones that haven't scored very well.

18-30hrs just isn't good enough in my opinion.
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thats the main storyline, all the exploring of the 300 different planets, lots of other things, its gonna be nearer 50 hours at least.
 
I'd rather play a game that doesn't take forever to complete. I don't have the time to play a 50 hour+ game, I'm about to become a dad for the first time so a sub-20 hour game more than makes me happy as long as there are other non-essential side quests to play for those that have the time to do them.
 
Clark Nova said:
I'd rather play a game that doesn't take forever to complete. I don't have the time to play a 50 hour+ game, I'm about to become a dad for the first time so a sub-20 hour game more than makes me happy as long as there are other non-essential side quests to play for those that have the time to do them.
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thats the thing with RPG games like this though, you can make it a 20 hour game if you want, but if you like expoloring/side quests it can be a 50-60 hour game.
 
As previously said, 20 hours is plenty for me - I have other things in my life to be getting on with and the number of games I have sitting that I've played for maybe ten hours before getting bored or distracted is pretty large!

If I can have great fun for 20 packed hours of gameplay then fine. I move on to either complete what I've already got or sell it while there's still some value and buy one of the other (many other!) good games out there.

Sure, I wish for the days I was a student and could spend all day and night playing games, but that's not my lifestyle any more. Short and satisfying is what I'm after now. It's the same story in the sack. ;-)
 
So about the same length as Zelda:TP then. 25 hours to complete, 50 hours to get all the heart pieces and bottles etc.
 
tomanders91 said:
thats the main storyline, all the exploring of the 300 different planets, lots of other things, its gonna be nearer 50 hours at least.
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Chris Priestly said:
you're looking at somewhere around 20 to 30 full-sized, plot driven planets where you're going to have to explore around.
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Even though some people keep on about 250+ planets it should've been obvious you aren't going to be doing jack with the vast majority of them apart from just landing and then taking off after some short mission. It's just an illusion really, calling them planets gives you the impression of large landmasses to explore etc but the reality is that the majority are just rooms you visit for some basic collect mission by the sounds of it.

Obviously having 20-30 is still great though but explorer type gamers like me shouldn't get their hopes up too high.
 
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20 hours seems reasonable as the level of effort to program that has shot up from the days of 100hr+ RPGs from the 90s. Bioware has yet to make a bad RPG yet, IMO.

The only thing I don't like about them was the romances as in all of them I've played its a game of 'guess the right thing to say to get to a line of text that says she likes you'. The last part of Baldur's Gate, Throne of Bhaal, was good at this as depending on your actions you could end up with a baby whereas on the other hand Jade Empire's 'romances' were embarrassing.
 
Wow, might get this game but not into turn based games, they bore me.

I dont mind a long SP game, Zelda:OOT was immense

The 360 is really starting to put out well made and designed games, 2 more years and we should have a new MS console
 
cheets64 said:
Wow, might get this game but not into turn based games, they bore me.

I dont mind a long SP game, Zelda:OOT was immense

The 360 is really starting to put out well made and designed games, 2 more years and we should have a new MS console
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Can tell you haven't really looked into Mass Effect, the combat is more reminiscent of Gears of War than anything else :p

/awaits the 'oh gow sux not gettign dis gam now :(('
 
rp2000 said:
1 month ago, people were giving Bioshock 9.5/10 10/10 scores and shouting "game of the year", "game of the decade" tags around. Don;t see anyone playing it on the 360 no more.
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Because they've finished it maybe? I agree it wasn't a 9.5 game though.
 
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