What's this Mass Effect thing then? n00b questions

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Had a lovely day. Mother in law came and dropped off a belated birthday pressie (it was in April!!!), £200 of <competitor> vouchers - nice!

Have been looking at the releases upto Xmas and this Friday looks the mutts nutts of a day, so will be venturing into Llanelli to pick up some new stuff.

Been hearing all you lot rave about Mass Effect, so have spent a few hours today reading reviews, screenies, videos etc, and, I don't get it!

18 months ago Ultra Extreme sold Oblivion to me. I'd never played 'that kind of game' before, and I still owe it to him for introducing me to a game that caused me to have nearly 2 week of absolute joy.

Looked on wikipedia for what it all is, but doesn't really help. Never played KOTOR or Farenheit or other games that it says it's like so it's all new to me.

And all these Mass Effect videos, I'm having trouble understanding how it all works:

http://masseffect.bioware.com/gallery/index.html
http://uk.media.xbox360.ign.com/media/718/718963/vids_8.html
http://uk.media.xbox360.gamespy.com/media/718/718963/vids_5.html


Why does the screen keeping pausing and you having to select icons?
Why are some of the videos like an FPS, others like an RTS?
Some places are saying it's 30hrs of gameplay. Is that good for an RPG?
Do you actually control the player?
Is it a linear or non-linear game?
Is it big like Oblivion?
And more importantly, is there a Plantronics in it?

It's all confusing! It looks ok, but don't know what to expect from it. Any comparrisons to current games? I liked Oblivion and other Sandbox games but didn't reckon that much to FF VII or these Japanese cowabunga level up +3 strength, -6 karma, *2 Punch out stuff.
 
cokecan72 said:
lol sorry, nothing to do with thread really but that made me laugh :)
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;)

So it's a full on FPS, but you've got like squad members whereby you dictate what to do by, say, pausing the game, picking a target, then an action, and resuming the action?

Sounds pretty good then.
 
wedgie said:
It's 3rd person though isn't it? Or did you just mean in gameplay style?
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Yeah, just in style.

It sounds good. Just couldn't understand why 99% of the videos were stopping every few seconds and all these icons appearing. I didn't want anything like the 'other' genre of games where you need to level-up or you could perform some kind of uber-cannon effect if you're squad member has +4 in aiming, +2 in stealth, -2 in fear and +10 in accuracy and all that. Just bores the pants off me.
 
wedgie said:
That's how kotor was, very boring. Mass Effect is also like that, but from what I hear you can also play the game as a shooter if you prefer (although I've seen the shooter element get criticised in reviews).
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Hmmmm. Might be a MM job then like Assasins Creed.
 
Matmulder said:
Its 25 hours complete time if you dont take in all the side quests last I heard.

GamerTV (or whatever its called, that program on Bravo) reviewed it, said it was the best piece of storytelling they'd ever experienced, with an excellent cast and voice acting. Only downside was some occasionally poor AI. They gave it 5/5, which is quite rare for them.
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Any idea how long with the side quests? I'm greedy! :p
 
McDaniel said:
Depends how long you take on them, and the route you choose, sometimes doing the "good" thing takes more time.

I only did the first mini section of the main story which you need to to progress from the first "world" if you will, so literally about 30mins of main story the rest ive been sidequesting which so far im 18hours in... and ive still got a massive list of curent quests...

So a long time
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Nice one McD. Think that could be a goer on Friday then.

Right, GHIII, Mass Effect, just gotta decide on 2 more now.
 
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