233 réponses à ce sujet

[Ottemis]

After having completed DA:O a friend of mine kept insisting I should play Mass Effect. I listened, but didn't do anything about it, I'm not one to 'easily' buy a game.
That same friend came over months later a brought along ME1. He decided showing it to me would be a good idea, I remember seeing the first mission on Eden Prime, all that caught my eye was 'shooting things'. He loaned it to me, but having seen the first mission in full not realising this was actually an RPG hybrid, I didn't touch it up to a point of being REALLY out of my skull bored.

When I started playing it, I was instantly hooked.. It's amazing how much difference watching and playing a game can make.
When the end-credits rolled in I was half smiles half tears and the ME-games are my favorites now.
To this day The creditsong is my alarm and on my phone, my favorite travel-song. It still gives me an awesome feeling.
The first and only game that made me feel THIS good after having finished it.

Also, great openingpost, made me smile =D

Modifié par Ottemis, 03 juin 2011 - 05:35 .

[Spaghetti_Ninja]

I had just completed Jade Empire and was curious about upcoming Bioware games. Then I came across a screenshot of Liara and thought ''Wow, a Bioware game with aliens, in space!'' This I must have. Turns out the release of the PC version was the next month!

Modifié par Spaghetti_Ninja, 03 juin 2011 - 05:33 .

[Cheesy Blue]

Well, I was reading an article about it in OXM a little bit before it came out on the 360. It was talking about how you can be a jerk or a nice guy and how all of your decisions matter. I was all like "huh, I guess that sounds cool. I guess I'll check it out."

Nothing could have prepared  me for what happned.

As soon as I saw the opening screen (low orbit view of planet and moon with Vigil playing) I ****ing froze. Chills ran up my spine as I listned to the slow mealody of Vigil. I was utterly transfixed almost hypnotized by that title screen. So after about fifteen minutes of that I finally started the game.

[CroGamer002]

Fallout 3.

I really loved that RPG/Shooter hybrid so I was looking for some other game like that and I find out about Mass Effect 1 on Gamespot website.

Sadly it took me until April of 2010 to play both games since my PC couldn't run it.

[Skilled Seeker]

Being a Bionerd since 2005, thanks to the brilliance of Jade Empire, I was following ME ever since it was first announced.

Modifié par Skilled Seeker, 03 juin 2011 - 05:37 .

[ShadowSplicer]

Well, my grandma often randomly chooses our Gamefly games sometimes... It just so happens that she rented Mass Effect one time... Needless to say, the second I saw the SSV Normandy, I was hooked. I am going to literally cry when I complete Mass Effect 3 because it will be finished.

[Pups_of_war_76]

OXM reveal in 05 or 06.

[JRCHOharry]

Short story: An old friend recommended I buy the game when I get my Xbox360 for Christmas.

[PD ORTA]

GeneralSlotts193 wrote...

After Fallout 3 rekindled my love of gaming I got to thinking there must be other great games out there that I'm missing. I found a list of the top 25 games for the 360 that suited my tastes and Mass Effect was number 4 so I tried it and liked it a lot. 

I enjoyed Fallout 3 so much it actually killed my love of ME. As such I completely ignored all the hype and build up of ME2. But once I played ME2 I rediscovered my love of the series and can't wait for ME3.

[Fiery Phoenix]

Mash Mashington wrote...

Um, i think it was friend's advice

Same here. I probably wouldn't have bothered if it weren't for my friend.

[Temaperacl]

As information was coming out about DA2, I heard that it would be using the dialog wheel. Since I knew nothing about this, in order to determine if this would a positive or negative, I picked up ME1 to see what it was. Although I decided (and still feel) that the wheel is a step backwards, I enjoyed the game (Mass Effect) itself so immediately picked up the sequel.

[TK Dude]

Back in March last year, I got into a video game store and the store guy recommended me to buy Mass Effect 2. Then after a month, I bought Mass Effect 1 since I was awed by Mass Effect 2.

[Maugrim]

I was working at Best Buy back in 2007 and I bought Star Wars: The Best of PC. It'd had Battlefront, which had been a lot of fun when I rented it on my PS2. Plus it had that KOTOR game everybody on the internet raved about and a couple of other highly rated games.

Basically I feel in love with Bioware. KOTOR was as good as promised, especially once I installed a mod for Bastila to romance my f!Revan, which was also my introduction to modding. Bought Jade Empire and loved it as well and then got onboard the DAO and ME trains, waiting on a PC port for the latter.

Haven't looked back since.

[CannotCompute]

Loved Baldur's Gate. Read a lot of good things about Mass Effect, so I went out and picked it up.

[E-Type XR]

I was browsing around for LPs on youtube when I stumbled accross ME2 played by mikelat. Tis' a shame he deleted his account.

[Rogue Unit]

Saw ME1 in a GI.

Modifié par Rogue Unit, 03 juin 2011 - 05:56 .

[rolson00]

saw me2 advertised so i brought 1&2

[Parah_Salin]

I had been totally out of gaming for a while, and one of my old high-school friends came over with his new laptop that could actually play games and said he got this new game and we'd trade playing levels for a bit.

So anyway, Mass Effect comes up, I think it's a Halo clone, but whatever, good type of thing to have a beer with. We use the default Character, get started, opening cut-scene...And I'm very surprised by the quality of the voice acting. Go through some dialogue options, me and my friend just let the other choose whatever we wanted.

Any who I slowly got more and more hooked, especially when we picked up Ash, and Sovereign came down on Eden Prime. We got to the citadel before we put it down and did something else, but right after he left I went and bought a digital copy. Finished downloading...and...HOLY ****! classes? Wow.

See I was hooked on it just being an OK shooter with this funky tactics/powers thing with a really cool plot. But then there was this pretty rich RPG element which I didn't know about but really liked. We were meeting up partially to discuss starting a D&D campaign and co-DMing it (never happened...No one could agree on 3.5ed vs 4th ed), so I was in RPG mode. Having that on top of a decent shooter was great.

[Xeranx]

For a number of years I kept looking at games, but avoided buying them. I got really tired of buying games that I didn't want to bother with since I can't return them to the store and selling them gets me enough (at the time) to buy to footlong subs at Subway. I didn't feel like going through the hassle. In my mind I'd rather have an expensive coaster than spend gas driving to my local game shop to sell the game or trade it and pay more money(?) for a game I may like even less. Add to that the fact that I don't like owning stuff someone else had unless it's really worth it like a car. I mean, you have to take care of a car right?

Anyway, I heard good things about Mass Effect and knew it was made by Bioware, but I still couldn't justify parting with my cash for something that might disappoint me. My first Bioware game was NWN and it took me a few years before I beat it. Just to give you an idea, when I made it past the first chapter I felt that was an accomplishment. I thought I beat the game. When I saw there was more I stopped. Hated how when creating my character I only had a smattering of options to choose from and I always chose the same options as that's all that was left to me. Needless to say that cut off any replayability the game had for me. Up until this day I've only beaten the game all the way through once.

Before I go off on another tangent: as I said, I heard good things about Mass Effect but couldn't bring myself to buy it for fear of disappointment. Videogame reviews weren't what they used to be and I couldn't trust them. Then I heard Circuit City was going out of business in the states. I was looking for games that I would possibly be interested in. I decided to wait a few weeks since favorable price reductions don't kick in until a few weeks into a liquidation sale. Shortly before they closed I stopped in and bought Mass Effect for about $20-$25. After I played it I wish I paid full price for it when it came out. Then comes ME2 and I'm thinking if I'd known I'd do what I did for ME1 for ME2 and what I did for ME2 for ME1.

[sevalaricgirl]

I don't really remember. I think I was looking for rpg games because I was playing Dead Space at the time and wanted something else that was science fiction. My son was trying to get me to play the KOTOR games (which I just completed) and I bought ME and fell in love with the game. I can't even tell you how many times I've played it. Now doing a sentinel play through of ME2. Never tried that before. I think I have about 10 vanguard play throughs and then some soldier, infiltrator etc.

[Vanni127]

Buddy of mine brought over the xbox 360 version of ME1. I was like, "Wtf is this bro?" He told me it's a new game from Bioware and he thought the box art looked cool.

So we popped it in. Picked default shep and then proceeded to be renegade all the way. Fast forward to the PC release...I picked it up through D2D and had about 10 different playthroughs with both male and female shep. Been hooked ever since.

[Chewin]

Mesina2 wrote...

Fallout 3.

I really loved that RPG/Shooter hybrid so I was looking for some other game like that and I find out about Mass Effect 1 on Gamespot website.

Pretty much same thing for me.

[bc525]

I bought ME2 as an impulse buy, for no particular reason. I did remember reading that the game had gotten good reviews and it seemed very interesting. I wound up liking it so much that I picked up ME1 to get the whole experience, and I was officially hooked on the Mass Effect series.

[Fredvdp]

I saw IGN's video with GOTY nominees and at first I thought ME1 was a generic shooter. Fast forward, I was playing KotOR for the first time in the "Star Wars: Best of PC" pack. After beating it I looked up BioWare and saw that they made Mass Effect, which I thought was a generic shooter. I then saw some gameplay with dialogue sequences and a couple days later I bought it for PC.

Mass Effect 2 was a Collectors' Edition preorder. I didn't want the standard edition because of the horrible box art.