Mass Effect

Aye can't wait. As a huge Bioware fan I've been looking forward to this one ever since they first began showing stuff off. I mean all the RPG stuff looks great and all, and the combat might actually be pretty cool, but its the style, universe and sense of scale that really thrills me about it. Just looks like its so well thought through, plus the story is apparently up to the regular Bioware standards (Which is fawkin ace!)

One of the games I have been most looking forwards to this year. Soo happy to hear its not a let down.

Been playing it for about 3 hours now, good stuff, love the atmosphere; music, design and such.

Started out as a Vanguard (Combo class) since that was what everybody was raving about, but I found the lack of proper combat skills sucky, went back and restarted with the default soldier instead. Really trying not to play it as a good guy this time around, with these kinda games I always set out to play as a baddie but end up doing good deeds. This time I'm definitely gonna try and keep it up (Beating whining people FTW!)

Its funny though, the graphics have that exact same look that KOTORs had, just more shader'ish this time around

I've really tried to like the Bioware RPG's of the past (NWN & KOTOR mainly) and can never bring myself to play for more than a couple hours. Mass Effect looks really impressive, I just fear it'll have the same affect on me as the others.

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I've really tried to like the Bioware RPG's of the past (NWN & KOTOR mainly) and can never bring myself to play for more than a couple hours. Mass Effect looks really impressive, I just fear it'll have the same affect on me as the others.

I'm with you here. I've so far attempted to play Neverwinter Nights 2 four times but got bored within the first 20 minutes. Same With Baldurs Gate 1 and 2.

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I'm with you here. I've so far attempted to play Neverwinter Nights 2 four times but got bored within the first 20 minutes. Same With Baldurs Gate 1 and 2.

i agree partially, bioware sometimes brings boring rpgs. i regret having bought neverwinter nights 2 when i should have really bought the first game. the humor in baldur's gate made that worth playing for a while; never completed either of them though.

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I'm with you here. I've so far attempted to play Neverwinter Nights 2 four times but got bored within the first 20 minutes. Same With Baldurs Gate 1 and 2.

Psst, NWN2 is an Obsidian game

Aren't they like half of black isle and bioware?

I find it pretty boring so far, but I think once i get to the galactic map it will be better. If not its up for sale.

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this is the best game ever made

Gas Effect hehehe

Yeah ok, once you get your ship, game gets so much better and a shit load more interesting.

i was hoping this to come on pc tbh, I dont own an xbox so its going to be hard to enjoy this one \:

It does run like shit on the 360 but I don't think they optimized there game well enough + Unreal 3 engine popping is annoying.

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Aren't they like half of black isle and bioware?

and a quarter Troika

I'd say the texture pop ups happen a lot more often in this than I've ever seen in a UE3 game before. Doesn't bug me that much tho.

It's funny, even if I had no idea I would be able to say that ME was a Bioware game from looking at the graphics. They're not bad, but they have this certain look that's just instantly recognizable I think, some strange low poly geometry here and there .

Anyway, about the game. Had some major problems with my disc when I tried to play the game on Saturday, where it wouldn't let me create a new career (And I just wanted to check out how the intro would sound if you created some other kinds of characters with other background stories D:!). Checking the disc out I could see that there were 2 scratches that somewhat follow the circular shape of the disc.

After cleaning the disc with no results, I checked the ME forums that said I should clear my HD cache, I did that with no results. Then I started taking the HD off, make new profiles and so on, nothing would work. Anyway, to cut to the end, a guy on the ME forums posted that he had luck by rubbing the scratches with a piece of cloth, and they actually came off. That worked for me as well, and now all is fine.

Point of this long boring story is that if you're having problems with unreadable discs (Which a lot of people apparently have), and have something that looks like scratches on your disc, try and rub em off with a piece of cloth

And the games great, level 24 or something, on Feros. Still exploring to great depths. Kinda bummed about the lack of planets you can actually explore. After the first bit I did on Novaria I tried to pick some random solar system and get to some planets, but after 2 solars systems I only found 1 planet I could land on, kinda sucks. Still love the game, would just have loved even more freedom!

10/10 this game is gold!

awesome graphics, awesome story, love the dialogue

Start was a bit boring though (when you are first time in the citadel) took me nearly 3 hours to get to my ship. but the good thing was that you were given things to do and a clear path where to go so it didn't feel like i wanted to stop playing in any part. after that the game started to feel like a sci-fi series or a movie but instead of watching it, you decided what would happen!

I didn't mind any of the small clitches (bad framerate, texture popping) they certainly can't eat away the amazing atmosphere the game brings

is there any chance this will come to pc?

ahh if only I had a 360 Trailer looks damn sweet!

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I'd say the texture pop ups happen a lot more often in this than I've ever seen in a UE3 game before. Doesn't bug me that much tho.It's funny, even if I had no idea I would be able to say that ME was a Bioware game from looking at the graphics. They're not bad, but they have this certain look that's just instantly recognizable I think, some strange low poly geometry here and there .

Anyway, about the game. Had some major problems with my disc when I tried to play the game on Saturday, where it wouldn't let me create a new career (And I just wanted to check out how the intro would sound if you created some other kinds of characters with other background stories D:!). Checking the disc out I could see that there were 2 scratches that somewhat follow the circular shape of the disc.

After cleaning the disc with no results, I checked the ME forums that said I should clear my HD cache, I did that with no results. Then I started taking the HD off, make new profiles and so on, nothing would work. Anyway, to cut to the end, a guy on the ME forums posted that he had luck by rubbing the scratches with a piece of cloth, and they actually came off. That worked for me as well, and now all is fine.

Point of this long boring story is that if you're having problems with unreadable discs (Which a lot of people apparently have), and have something that looks like scratches on your disc, try and rub em off with a piece of cloth

And the games great, level 24 or something, on Feros. Still exploring to great depths. Kinda bummed about the lack of planets you can actually explore. After the first bit I did on Novaria I tried to pick some random solar system and get to some planets, but after 2 solars systems I only found 1 planet I could land on, kinda sucks. Still love the game, would just have loved even more freedom!

Another great way for fixing damaged discs is with Brasso or toothpaste (Brasso is the beater of the two). My CoD3 got really deep circular scratches when a friend picked up my 360 while it was running and he told me this method.

What you do is get some brasso and a lint free cloth, like a lens cloth. Then, clean the disc with water and mild mild mild dish washer soap.

Rub the disc with a little brasso on the cloth in circular motions coming from the inside out. You do this for quite a while. Then rinse the disc with water until all the brasso is gone and let it air dry.

What this does is polish the thin coating that sits on top of the data layer of the disc. The scratch is in the coating and makes the laser bounce around so if you remove a few microscopic layers of it then the disc is flatter.

I've fixed some horrible scratched discs this way.

For light scratches you can also spit on the disc and rub it to fill the scratch.