EoFF's Top Games of the Generation: Revelations

[Hollycat]

Mass Effect was good, but Mass Effect 2 was on an entirely different level.

Also, how did Catherine get even one vote?

[Del Murder]

Never played Mass Effect, since it had never came out for PS3. Eventually it did come out as part of a multi-pack, which I may play at some point. I loved ME2 and ME3 so much that I probably should play the first.

[Hollycat]

Never played Mass Effect, since it had never came out for PS3. Eventually it did come out as part of a multi-pack, which I may play at some point. I loved ME2 and ME3 so much that I probably should play the first.

You can pick it up for $10 I believe on PSN. Comes with all the DLC.

[Slothy]

Also, how did Catherine get even one vote?

Because it's awesome.

[edczxcvbnm]

I loved Mass Effect 1 but I hated ME2 and refused to play the third. ME from a gameplay perspective is extremely similar to KOTOR which is fine because that game was awesome. The story, exploration and everything was some good fun world building. Most of what I liked was discarded in 2 in favor of a sorry Gears of Wars style gameplay mixed with Ocean's 11...but where in Ocean's 11, the team is formed in the first 1/3 of the movie (if that) it takes the entire game to do that here. Additionally the big and massive decision at the end of the first game seems to get brushed under the rug to maintain a status quo.

Also, the MAKO was awesome and fun as hell. Gave a sense of how big and awesome the universe can be. That is replaced by a terrible scanning game from orbit. I want to explore!

[Hollycat]

I loved Mass Effect 1 but I hated ME2 and refused to play the third. ME from a gameplay perspective is extremely similar to KOTOR which is fine because that game was awesome. The story, exploration and everything was some good fun world building. Most of what I liked was discarded in 2 in favor of a sorry Gears of Wars style gameplay mixed with Ocean's 11...but where in Ocean's 11, the team is formed in the first 1/3 of the movie (if that) it takes the entire game to do that here. Additionally the big and massive decision at the end of the first game seems to get brushed under the rug to maintain a status quo.

Also, the MAKO was awesome and fun as hell. Gave a sense of how big and awesome the universe can be. That is replaced by a terrible scanning game from orbit. I want to explore!

I actually preferred the Hammerhead vehicle from ME2.
As for decision are you talking about (SPOILER) kaiden vs ashley?
Cause I feel there are bigger decisions in both 2 and 3.

[Slothy]

Also, the MAKO was awesome and fun as hell. Gave a sense of how big and awesome the universe can be. That is replaced by a terrible scanning game from orbit. I want to explore!

Yeah, driving around in big empty expanses with almost nothing to do and terrible controls sure was fun as hell.

[Loony BoB]

You know what? It really was.

[Slothy]

I have to question the sanity of anyone who found that thing fun. And I'm not just being facetious for once. Mass Effect had some of the worst driving levels I've seen in a 3D game.

[Hollycat]

In order to get everything you had to take ridiculously circuitous routes without enemies, items, varying level design. It was not a high point for the game.

[Loony BoB]

...there were levels? I just grabbed that sucker, drove around, looked for random things and hopped out and shot up some enemies. Countless missions, all mostly the same, but you can generally say the same for Tetris, Pac-Man and so forth. Hell, you could say the same for every FF battle you hop into. Whereas they got rid of the Mako in favour of... scanning. [sarcasm]Oh boy. I feel so refreshed with this much more entertaining option of things to do.[/sarcasm]

Mako missions were a nice way of leveling up and they weren't always the same (and certainly lasted longer than five seconds), which is more than I can say for the replacement options. The amount of time I spent doing Mako missions was significantly higher than 2/3's options, and it was significantly more fun.

[Shauna]

The MAKO: Driving vertically since 2007.

I don't mind the thing too much, I just love the rage it instills in everyone.

[Hollycat]

...there were levels? I just grabbed that sucker, drove around, looked for random things and hopped out and shot up some enemies. Countless missions, all mostly the same, but you can generally say the same for Tetris, Pac-Man and so forth. Hell, you could say the same for every FF battle you hop into. Whereas they got rid of the Mako in favour of... scanning. [sarcasm]Oh boy. I feel so refreshed with this much more entertaining option of things to do.[/sarcasm]


Mako missions were a nice way of leveling up and they weren't always the same (and certainly lasted longer than five seconds), which is more than I can say for the replacement options. The amount of time I spent doing Mako missions was significantly higher than 2/3's options, and it was significantly more fun.

They had a vehicle in ME2. The Hammerhead.
The Mako sections were filler.

[Loony BoB]

They had a vehicle in ME2. The Hammerhead.
The Mako sections were filler.

Hammerhead missions were DLC, right? Doesn't count, because it wasn't in my ME2 game. I don't judge a game by DLC.

[Hollycat]

They had a vehicle in ME2. The Hammerhead.
The Mako sections were filler.

Hammerhead missions were DLC, right? Doesn't count, because it wasn't in my ME2 game. I don't judge a game by DLC.

The dlc came with new copies of the game.