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[DoNotIngest]

Friend had loaned me DA:O. Liked it quite a bit. Found out about DA2, got it, had mixed feelings. Went onto BSN to see what others had to say about it, started hearing all kinds of ME references and got tired of the eternal b****ing about DA2, and got ME1 & 2 for 55$ total. Now it seems like I can barely remember DA.

Modifié par DoNotIngest, 03 juin 2011 - 09:17 .

[Lunatic LK47]

July 2006 or 2007 edition of Electronic Gaming Monthly.

[Chino 281]

Mine is quite simple. I was never a BioWare fan, so I never even heard or saw a single bit of information or gameplay until its first E3 showcase back in 2006. I think it is funny (and a little scary) that if I had just skipped over the E3 header on the Xbox 360's Dashboard that I would never have played the Mass Effect series. Close call. Great game.

[Chino 281]

Kailjaiden wrote...

Hey Fellow MEs, I'll start.

I was having a terrible day and stayed home sick from work for a few days and was so bored of playing my other games that I thought to myself, "If I'm gonna be home sick for a while might as well get a new game to play."

My sister had the car that day so I couldn't leave. I told her to come home and pick up my 60 bucks and then go buy me something. After a little argument lol, I talked her into going to the store. She asked me what kind of games I like so she knows what to get. She also asked "You want another Star Wars game?"

She remembers me playing KOTOR constantly and she liked watching me play it. .... (PS. BIOWARE I WANT KOTOR 3!) So she finally left and came back with one brand spankin new, still in the plastic wrapping, game and said "Here you go you big baby! Now never make me do that again."

I looked down and the title reads MASS EFFECT. To be honest I was like, "WTF is this crap sis?" She replies "How the F am I suppossed to know what you wanted!?"

I then said "Okay fine whatever I'll try it out."

The disk tray pops open...

We both sit down...

It was night time btw so we turned off all the lights and sat in front of the big screen.

"WAIT THIS IS BIOWARE?" I yell out.

She responds "The F you talking about?"

"Nothin... just don't worry about it." I tell her, then take sip of my cough sryup.

I select New Career :

And thus was the story of how my sister and I played this game all the way through in two days with our jaws dropped to the floor... My sister asked me to choose Kaiden, I choose Ashley... My sister cried. I laughed at her.

.........she punched me in the shoulder..... really hard like.

At the very end the credits came up, and we were hooked forever. And that's my story!

Thanks for reading! Want to hear your stories too!

Its...just...so...Inspiring!  :Tears Up - Closes Laptop:

[AlexRmF]

I also found out the date I heard about the game: October 5th 2005... oh boy... they spent some time building the first game

these were the pics I posted in the softpedia thread, way back in 2005:

Modifié par AlexRmF, 03 juin 2011 - 10:40 .

[Clonedzero]

i bought a 360 3-4 years ago. ME1 was the big bioware RPG for the 360 so i picked it up.

[Ghost Warrior]

I saw the review of ME2 in a gaming magazine and since I had nothing else to play at the time,I said "why the hell not?" So I got it and the beginning I thought it was ok. By the end of my first playthrough,I was already a ME addict. I just regret playing ME2 before ME1.

[habitat 67]

AlexRmF wrote...

I also found out the date I heard about the game: October 5th 2005... oh boy... they spent some time building the first game

these were the pics I posted in the softpedia thread, way back in 2005:

Slight sidetrack here, but I'm so glad they changed Shepard's appearance!
Also, what's with that gorgeous Eden Prime (?) shot that didn't make it into th endgame?

[DarkDragon777]

I saw it on the shelf the first day it came out...and I knew...I just knew it was "MY GAME".

[Ruud333]

Back in 2005 when I was trying to decide whether I should get an XBox 360 or upgrade my PC to play Oblivion, and ME was one of the games (along with GRAW, Gears, Lost Planet and Dead Rising) I found when researching other games for the 360.

I'd played NWN and KOTOR, so as soon as I heard it was by BW I was pretty much sold!

[KrazyKiko]

Heard it was coming out for the Holidays, so I had Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Mass Effect on my Xmas list. I'd seen the commercial for it and thought it looked good - but I really wanted MW. I ended up getting ME from my parents and MW from my wife. I popped both games in to try and had fun with MW for a bit. Tried ME1 and immediately got goosebumps...I was hooked; MW was hardly loved. I felt bad I preferred the game my parents bought me instead of my wife!

[Bolboreta]

I played Dragon Age II and I registered in this forums. Everyone talked about ME, so I had to try it. It was totally worth it, now it's my favourite game EVER.

[Harmless Crunch]

Well I used to be a pretty casual gamer.
I played a few games on my Wii and PC.
But I had this collection of Star Wars games for my PC and thought I'd give KOTOR a try.
And.....I absolutley loved it. I must have played it, what? 16 or so times?
Anyway so a few months later, after I finally got bored of KOTOR I decided to pick up a new game.

There was this "Mass effect" game that had just recently been released for the PC. Thought I'd read some reviews first.
All I remeber was 10/10 scores and a metecritic rating of 91.
So apart from reviews I didn't know much about it so I went to the website (You know the old ME1 site with the kickass traliers) and I was imeaditley taken aback by the art style and the music. There was this very attractive blue woman on the front page, with this bird like military alien thing next to her.
Oh and it had that distinctly futuristic sound that plays on the ME1 theme tune.

So I watched this tralier.
The BioWare logo came up. I waited in anticaption. Then....
I saw space ships flying, a man looking down at earth....
"The scope of organic life is unimaginble" "A astrominocal civilalisation spans the galaxy"
Then epic music started playing, robots were walking around ancient ruins, and then there was this weird red dinosaur thingy with a crest on it's head.
"But as we reached for the farthest of stars....total anihlation awiats us"
Then dozens of ships started to fight. A soldier takes cover from another.
And then I heard a machine saying....
"Your extiction is inevitable"
Then more soldiers started to fight these robots. One said "I'd rather die than be a slave". Then all these ships started to explode.
"This ends now" 
Then a message came up saying.
"Best RPG of 2007 - IGN"
Then a massive explosion. And another message
"RPG of the year - Academy of interactive science and entertaiment.
"Game of the year - New york times"
Then I heard....
"This human must be elimenated!"
"Winner of over 80 awards"
"I am the Vanguard of your destruction!!!"
Those last few words were...creepy....
"Mass effect"......


1 hour later I brought it and it was possibly the best desicion of my life.

[Harmless Crunch]

AlexRmF wrote...

I also found out the date I heard about the game: October 5th 2005... oh boy... they spent some time building the first game

these were the pics I posted in the softpedia thread, way back in 2005:

Huh wow....it's come a long way in just a few years....

[blackashes411]

Cousin of mine visited me in Summer 2009, and he was very knowledgeable about games. He had a wide variety of tastes: Shooters, RPG's, MMO's etc. At the time, I NEVER played an RPG before (kinda sad?). My video tastes were pretty simple rather than technical: if it has a great story or good action, than I'm down. Legend of Zelda, Assassin's Creed, Splinter Cell, a bunch of other Nintendo games, other shooters is what my game collection mainly comprised of. Sci-fi/futuristic was not among them: No Halo, no Star Wars (except for the Lego version, but that hardly counts), no nothing of the sort.

So I when I told my cousin about what I like in video games, he suggested Mass Effect. When he told me it was a Sci Fi and it involved Aliens, however, the idea didn't really peak my interest enough to get the game myself.

Then one day, my brother's friend came over with a bunch of games, and he played most of them with my brother. When he left, he was in a hurry and forgot some of them. One of them was Mass Effect. Remembering what my cousin said, I said "hmmm, well let me just take peek at this."

I started the game with barely ANY knowledge of what to expect. And right from the very beginning, I was blown away by how much Mass Effect focused on character and story development. The conversations, even the simple ones, were absolutely phenomenal, having had never experienced video game dialogue done in such a way.

Mass Effect was pretty much everything I was looking for in a game. :'D

Modifié par blackashes411, 04 juin 2011 - 12:03 .

[Uszi]

Walked out of the 2009 Star Trek Movie, and I felt like being an intergalactic badass like captain kirk, firing lasers and wooing Alien women.

Gamestop was right next to the theatre, I saw Mass Effect in the bargain bin for $20, remembered hearing good things about it, and bought it.

[Legbiter]

Been a fan since Baldur's Gate. Picked it up when it came out.

[Eduadinho]

ME2 on sale at a store 50% off so i decided to get it. Played it through and was like this is EPIC. then realised from that moment I would have to get ME1 to truly realise the story. It was a good time

[Benchpress610]

I am a hard core flight simulator player, especially combat flight simulators, so I have that shooter streak. I’ve played RPG’s and strategy games on and off, Max Payne, CIV III and Ghost Recon being the lasts. So when MS FS X came out, I said “I’ve better build myself a cutting edge gaming PC to be able to handle this game” … so I did.
 
A couple of years went by and I didn’t play much at all, with work and family and all. So one day on January last year I was minding my own business in my office at work and I hear this music and shooting sound coming from the office next door. I came over and I’m like “WTF dude are you watching a movie?” and he went “No I’m playing this awesome game and it’s got me hooked” “Well what is it?” “It’s called Mass Effect 2, check it out” …so I sat next to him and I watched him play… my jaw dropped!!!...
 
The next couple of days I watched him play and I was like “I’ve got to get me this game” Just for disclosure, the boss and many of the other people were on vacation and we had the whole floor for ourselves. I went: “Hey dude, I see this is Mass Effect 2, is there a Mass Effect 1?” and he went “Yeah… you can download it for 19 bucks” … So I did.
 
I got hooked from the very first screen. Now here I am after replaying ME 1 and 2 several times and waiting to play ME 3 in my beautiful gaming PC.

[onelifecrisis]

When ME1 was released I heard about the romance/sex stuff and was put off. Not because I don't like sex scenes, but because 1) I didn't think a videogame would do romance very well and 2) it sounded to me like a really desperate attempt by BW at getting some publicity for their game.

I also watched some video reviews of the game and decided it didn't look that good.

Over the months that followed I kept hearing everywhere that Mass Effect had a great story, but I always mentally appended the words "for a videogame". Videogames do not have great stories. They don't even have average stories. Compared to books and movies, even the best videogame stories are pretty bad. Still, the persistence of these claims got my attention.

Then ME2 came out and I read two things about it:
1) It got nearly perfect review scores everywhere.
2) It allowed you to import your ME1 save and have your decisions carry forward.

My curiosity was piqued to say the least. I fired up Steam and purchased both games and played them in order. As it turns out, I was right about several things. The romance in ME1 was as subtle as a sledgehammer, and the story in ME1 was great, for a videogame. But I had underestimated how much that story, in spite of it's flaws, would get under my skin. For me, the real "OMG this is awesome" moment in ME1 was the Virmire mission. Wrex died, then I talked to a reaper and the plot thickened, then I had to sacrifice Kaiden, then I talked to Saren and the plot thickened some more. That mission elevated the whole game. I guess that's the moment where I was hooked.

Also, as clunky as it was, the Liara romance was quite touching. And it really was a rather nice side-boob.

[Mafiaman32693]

Back in the day, a good friend of mine introduced me to the Knights of the Old Republic series through KotOR II, which in turn introduced me to Bioware--even though Bioware did not develop the second game. From then on I was quite hooked on the development company and their games, and I went out and bought other titles of theirs like Jade Empire, Neverwinter Nights, and Baldur's Gate. So lo and behold, I hear news of a new sci-fi series from Bioware and I fell in love with the first video I saw of the game. Of course it was not for sometime later that I got my Xbox 360, but Mass Effect was one of the first titles I remember buying for the console since I've been dying to play it. From then on I've been an avid fan of the series, and have fully supported it through any way I could--whether that be through buying the novels, comics, or whatever else Bioware has put out there for the series.

[skcih-deraj]

Well the first time I played it was at a friends house. I for whatever reason couldn't get the controls, so I said "this game sucks, theres too much talking!" So I just stopped playing.

A year later I get it for Christmas. I don't ever remember playing it until it starts. "Argh! this game ugh!" So I go through it and after my second play through I feel in love. I couldn't stop playing it ever since.
(too bad my disc copy broke.)

[Dreggon]

Um... there was this ad on TV about... 5? years ago, where this guy shot some sort of light-ball at some other guys, who then disappeared. Lines then went as follows:

"You ever wonder where they go?"
"I... guess I never really thought about it."

Then there's a picture of a toilet, and angry noises coming from inside.

Somehow, my brain associated this with Mass Effect, and I bought ME1 on a Steam sale for Christmas.

I know Mass Effect wasn't out 5 years ago, so if anybody can tell me what this ad was actually for, that would be great.