I love Mass Effect Universe.

The first one, humans were shiat. They were the new species, uncultured, and I actually felt pissed because we weren't given our due. Other races looked down on us, and it felt good when Shepard actually completed tasks. It was like "fark YOU ALIENS, WE GOT THIS".

Weird, I know, but...it was just how the game had that kid of MASS EFFECT on me.

The books aren't spectacular, to be honest. I don't know what it is about Drew Karpyshyn; sometimes he can make really entertaining stuff, other times it's like he remembered he had to get his manuscript by the next morning and pounded it out overnight.

But the games--fan-farking-tastic. I just finished yet another playthrough of both games. Can't wait for 3.

I have pre-ordered Mass Effect 3 for my daughter.
It's her favorite.

/The game has a dlc dog.

It is a pretty great universe.

That was a remarkable article. I've played ME and ME2 and never really gave much thought to the concepts surrounding it. They were just really GOOD games.

I have my copy pre-ordered for release day. I am looking forward to this sucker. After years of build up, the series gets topped off.

I don't care about the comics. I don't care about books. I just want to see this game to completion with both my Shepards.

Story wise, I love what they've done. I hope that they keep the continuity straight, and the momentum going for the gameplay, which saw marked improvement between the first and second. I have some faith in what BioWare is trying to do here, and I cannot wait for release day.

Luckily, I have sick days coming...

i really need to get playing. I've barely scratched the surface of the first game. I keep getting told how great they are, but am just now getting around to playing.

I'd f*ck Mass Effect.

I'd f*ck it so hard

The demo for ME3 is solid. They've also opened up multiplayer for all.

germ78: The demo for ME3 is solid. They've also opened up multiplayer for all.

I really want to try it with Kinect.

You can basically bark out orders and your team will do them. Want someone to cast carnage or warp? Simply say "Warp" and it is cast. Want to swap weapons? You just saw so. No more going to the wheel and swapping them in and out.

Sounds sweet.

Also in the "I love ME" crowd, and it's easily my favorite current series (not counting those in their 5+ sequel). Even the cast is awesome.

First one: Here you are: assorted soldiers and professionals from around the galaxy to help.

Second one: Here you are: assorted badasses and renegades from around the galaxy to help.

/not touching demo. Afraid of anything spoiler-like.

Now I need to go watch the Sovereign scene from ME 1 again.

If you haven't played this series and enjoy action games or RPG's: give it a shot.

Also, don't watch the linked vid. Massive spoiler.
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This article was written by someone who hasn't read this:

I love Mass Effect. I love how it's a story about a battle that might not be winnable. I love that there's heart and soul and the cutscenes actually have enough direction and voice acting to elicit an emotional response. I love how I can watch the "Induction" or "From the Wreckage" scene over again and feel it. I love how the music complements the story so beautifully.

ME2 is also leaps and bounds refined over ME1. .The "same looking cargo pod" fights in the non-storyline missions from ME1 are gone - each of the various worlds where you find "anomalies" to investigate are different.

I'm thinking ME3 will be more of the same in terms of its presentation - which suits me just fine.. the combat in ME2 was good, the story was good. My only concerns are that Drew K had nothing to do with ME3, so I hope the story rings true, and that all or most of my compounded decisions will bear fruit in ME3. I also hope that the music holds up. Jack Wall isn't a composer for ME3.. Sam Hulick is back and does solid work, but the lead is Clint Mansell. I love Mansell's work (Requiem for a Dream comes to mind).

I have yet to play Mass Effect but I will be as soon as I finish Dead Space 2. Until then, my favorite Sci-Fi universe remains Babylon 5.

That was a pretty good article. What the hell was it doing on io9??

;)

Yeah, total Mass Effect fan here. Here's to hoping that ME3 can pull the story out of the flaming crash-and-burn dive that it was taking in ME2. Pre-ordered and ready to go.

Here's also to hoping that Shifty-Looking Cow is recruitable as a squadmate in ME3.


"I'm putting together a team of the best, Shifty Looking Cow, and I want you on it."

:D

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Shepard.

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Wrex.

Who the heck is that guy? Some jerk, probably. ;)

BTW, if anyone really liked Jennifer Hale's voice acting for FemShep, then you gotta make sure to play BulletStorm of you get the chance. Not only is it a wacky fun shooter, but she is frakkin' AWESOME in it as Trishka. I would LOVE to hear femShep spew a string of profanities like Hale does in BulletStorm. :D

"The first advantage, setting, involves the portrayal of alien species and alien worlds with ease. Novels require descriptions, comics require painstaking drawings, films and television require either hours of expression deadening makeup or expensive CGI. In a video game, rendering an asari or a hanar requires the same amount of work as a human. Want a cast of thousands? No problem. Need a mob of hundreds of individuals representing fifteen different species rendered inside an colossal ancient space station? No sweat."

Does the author have any idea what goes into modern video games?

/no ME3 for me til its on steam
//fark origin

I would like to play ME but I already know I will suck at it. I'm terrible at squad based shooters.

/cannot beat the first level of Gears of War. I am that bad.