Did this guys Controller not have an A button? How the hell do you play an RPG and not Upgrade? Box up your Mass Effect and post it on Ebay for 20 buck you sir do not deserve to play.

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Forgetting to upgrade Shepperd priceless.

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I do think their are flaws with the game but its by no means a bad game. I completed my playthrough and had a pretty good experience I still say Bioshock & The Orange box were better games but again that is just my opinion.

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There is a term that some writer coined and I have loved ever since I read it. He said that there is a class of gamers that are Attention Deficit Gamers. They, the ADG's, blow through games never giving the finer points of the game a try. We saw this with Assasin's Creed, a great game. Now it is Mass Effects turn. Well Mr. Takahashi would appear to be one of these ADG's. Slow down. I know you have a deadline but please. Really play the game.

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Wow. Simply wow. Who reviews games and 'forgets' to upgrade/level up their character in an RPG.

Actually playing the majority of the game would be key too.

Needless to say, if you see this n00bz name at the top of a review, just skip right by it.

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i found my experience lackluster compared to KOTOR.
30 hrs. Half of which was spent riding the damn Mako over Mountains.

Subquests killed this game for me. The 8-10 hours of the main game were good, just needed more.

it is a giant step down from KOTOR.

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Rented this the other day. The story is GREAT! The game is a little slow at first, what with walking aorund the Citadel and not really doing anything for awhile, but that is the needed background for the story.

The fighting starts of hard and frustrating until you start leveling up and, gasp, equiping new weapons.

I wouldn't say the game has BUGS, I would say it has flaws that the hardware forced on it. This game would play so much smoother if it was able to cache to the hard drive, but as it is, it is annoying to have to load levels all the time. Example, on the Normandy, you load as you go on the elevator and then it loads when you start walking to your medical bay area. Ugh, it is not that large an area, I would think, to only be able to load a room at a time on that ship.

It would also pay better (for those of us who don't like to micromanage) if as you pick your two other squadmates for them to simply take the best weapons available at the time and then you can go in and add your upgrades to them. As it stands, it is a pain in the ass to constantly f'ing with your squads equipment, even if you always use the same two players.

Overall, great game!

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how shallow of him. he should've gave it more time. personally, its one of my favorite games on the 360.

yeah, I've got COD4, I have Gears, H3, Forza, etc. but Mass Effect is one of a kind. an rpg, in space, with interplanetary travel?? you can't hate.

if he hasn't already, he should write a full blown re-tract article on the greatness that is Mass Effect.

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I guess he didn't want to end up like the Gamespot guy lmao.

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Dean Takeituptheassi

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That's fucking bullshit. He wrote a review before he played a game. I say we go for his head. Or a head. He can choose which one we take.

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I would love to see a "time spent playing" stat in the vitals of every review:

Title: Mass Effect
Publisher: BioWare
Platform: 360
Release Date: 11/XX/07
Score: 86/100
Time Played: 45 hours (completed)

so we would know who was just ranting like an idiot and who actually gave the game the time it deserved.

It would serve two purposes: for those of us who want to invest X dozen hours in an "epic" title, we can ignore those reviewers who don't put in the time; for those of us who have to make every. single. hour. count (like if we have a 2-year-old or something =-) and can't afford that kind of time, we can notice that the short-timers hate the game and it's only "worth it" after the 30-hour mark.

Who's going to be first to start the trend?

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Has this man ever played a bioware game before. The upgrade system is pretty standard. I mean kotor I and II and jade empire both had a similar type of system, and I'm sure there are a ton of other rpgs that do too.

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I'd agree that the game is flawed and has many problems, but it is still fun to play. I enjoyed it enough to play through more than once, imperfections and all.

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I never played KOTOR, but I bought Mass Effect on launch day... made it to the Citadel and was bored out of my skull and haven't been able to bring myself to touch it again.

Is it really worth going back to? I'm playing as a soldier. Is there another character type that is more fun/interesting to play as?

It is awfully "chatty" for my tastes. Does it get better, or at least do the conversations get more interesting?

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LOL NEWB j/k

tho maybe if the game had a better tutorial it wouldnt have lead to that problem in the first place. (all i remember was there being the arrow after you meet ashley. the one that teaches you how to use cover)

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Mass Effect was most definitely over-hyped. It was an OK gaming experience. Side "quests" were an absolute waste of time, dispensing as much satisfaction as rubbing sand paper against the taint.

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