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[AlienSpaceBats]

First I heard of it a friend from college was recommending it to me as the successor to KotoR, but I didn't have a 360 and the PC port wasn't out yet so forgot about it. Later, I watched my brother play through the first game when the PC version was released and thought "what a load of cheesy crap." In 2009 I found myself in a gaming dry-spell and thought I'd give it a go and quickly got obsessed and replayed it 11 times consecutively.

[noizer]

read a preview about ME1 in a game magazine.

it made me curious so i bought the game on release day. loved ME but somehow i didnt play ME2 right after release. did buy a pc version at release day tho. i still never used this copy of the game to this day

a few weeks ago i bought the trilogy set for the ps3 and replayed 1 and played trough 2 and 3 directly after that. i love the games

[Iakus]

Upon learning of Mass Effect, circa 2007: "A new Bioware game coming for the PC? Shut up and take my money!"

I was so young then. So innocent...

Modifié par iakus, 18 février 2013 - 07:04 .

[WoolyJoe]

"An original, galaxy-spanning Science-Fiction RPG from the creators of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Jade Empire in development for the 'Next-Generation' of Microsoft console?
"Sold."

Approx. two years later Mass Effect's released. Haven't looked back ('til just now, that is...).

[MrDbow]

This Video.

I was immediately sold - Take My Money - the whole wallet.

....and then I played Mass Effect... I... was disappointed.

Forced myself to play after about 6 months of the game just sitting on my shelf... I am so glad I did.

Been a fan ever since.  And it has gotten better ever since, in my opinion.  Mass Effect 3 is by far my best experience.

[Fredvdp]

I first saw ME1 in an IGN video with GOTY nominees, thinking it would be a generic shooter. After playing KotOR for the first time in 2008, I looked up BioWare to see what else they made. I then recognised Mass Effect from that video I once saw and decided to pick it up, not knowing what it would be about.

[dreman9999]

Then I just finish Kotor. When I saw this....
I was extatic.

[Jonata]

MrDbow wrote...

This Video.

I was immediately sold - Take My Money - the whole wallet.

....and then I played Mass Effect... I... was disappointed.

Forced myself to play after about 6 months of the game just sitting on my shelf... I am so glad I did.

Been a fan ever since.  And it has gotten better ever since, in my opinion.  Mass Effect 3 is by far my best experience.

Happened the same to me with both Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2 (being a PS3 owner I actually had not played ME1 until very recently).

At first, the game somehow didn't clicked much with me. For Dragon Age it was the woody gameplay, for ME2 I just bought it out of churiosity and wasn't very entertained by the intro. 

Dragon Age, I played it a couple of month later, while I was failing at school and it completely captured me in a way I cannot describe. It was my first experience with BioWare and it blown me away and gave me unabashed love for fantasy worlds that still endures.

Mass Effect 2 caught me even more, if possible, because I picked it up from my shelf during a very troublesome time of my life and it gave me incredible experiences and a lot of strenght when it was most needed. Absolutely one of the best gaming experiences of my life.

So funny to think that I love both those games so much right now, while they were left on the shelf for months at first after a deluding first experience. 

Modifié par Jonata, 18 février 2013 - 07:20 .

[RenegadeXV]

I remember watching a review of Mass Effect on GameTrailers back in 2007. I was in GAME the week after and decided to buy it. I reached the Citadel and quit, deciding it wasn't for me.

Two weeks later I gave it another go and ended up completing two playthroughs back-to-back.

[MrDbow]

COGNiTiON 1 wrote...

I remember watching a review of Mass Effect on GameTrailers back in 2007. I was in GAME the week after and decided to buy it. I reached the Citadel and quit, deciding it wasn't for me.

Two weeks later I gave it another go and ended up completing two playthroughs back-to-back.

Yep, got to the Citadel and I was done.  At least you came back a lot quicker than I did, so kudos to you!

[DatFlyWire]

I played the demo once back at 2010 when I first got my PS3 (I was just whoring demos then) and the normandy exploding scene impacted me so much, I never knew a game that would kill off it's main character in the first 5 minutes, I am a really story-driven gamer. The Mordin recruitment didn't seem so interesting and I didnt't feel any consecuences from that little part for what I did and felt incredibily linear. That putted me off.

Later on, ending 2011, I found ME2 cheap (20000 chilean pesos, 10 dollars like.) and gave it a try. After 300 hours of gameplay and the most engaging story experience I ever had it took MGS3 of its best game ever spot. I was so stuck on it I did my first playthrough in 35 straight hours after buying it, no sleeping. Best experience ever.

[zuxuthulu]

I saw a magazine ad for Mass Effect and thought that it was going to be similar to kotor. I was expecting to flying around with a small crew around the galaxy and it would be dark. I was wrong. Oh I thought the turians looked awesome.

[xAmilli0n]

Played my buddies copy of ME2. Walking out during the collector attack destroying the Normandy and seeing the planet above while everything goes quiet and everything is floating around...I was sold.

Proceed to buy ME1 and ME2. Funny enough, my friend didn't even finish ME2.

[Only-Twin]

I first heard of it and saw a review of ME2 I think. They really didn't choose good scenes for that review because I wasn't interested by it. That and the cover art made the game look like some generic GoW clone. Boy was I wrong.

[AdmiralCheez]

The first time I heard of ME was when I was still in high school. I was staying up late watching TV when a commercial for it came on. Specifically, this commercial.

I was like, "Whoa. This game looks too intense for me." However, the universe looked really imaginative. I wondered what the spiky aliens were like (turians, btw) and whether or not Mass Effect was an RTS like StarCraft.

Didn't hear about it again until college, when a friend of mine wouldn't shut up about how sexy Garrus was. Played it so she'd talk about something else.  I was hooked immediately.

AND THEN ALONG CAME ME3 TO RUIN EVERYTHING /fanwangst /drama

Modifié par AdmiralCheez, 18 février 2013 - 08:05 .

[Robbiesan]

When I saw the commercial for ME1 on tv I was intrgued. I love sci-fi so this game really attracted me. tbh I came from an FPS background so all the dialogue was tough to get used to. BUt, I decided it was time to expand my mind with regard to gaming. I kept going and really appreciated the differences with dialogue choices. Have not looked back since.

And despite ME3's flaws and the original (lack of closure) ending, I still love ME3, and especially the MP aspect.

[StarcloudSWG]

My first reaction was "It's not KotOR 3? Meh, not interested."

Much later, Valve lured me onto Steam with their 'free copy of Portal' promotion. Then later that year, they put ME on sale for $5...

Three days after that, I was preordering ME 2.

For the first time, there was a science fiction game universe that was more science than fiction. Only one thing really changed, and that was the existence of eezo. The rest developed logically from that; physics still was physics, 'magic' was very limited to the mass altering effects of eezo, and there was only a touch of the fantastic in the existance of biotics. Which could still be justified since everyone needed biotic amplifiers in order to enhance the electro-chemical signals from their nervous system to control and amplify the effects. Even the Asari needed them to do more than very basic things.

In ME 2, the science aspect slipped slightly, but it was still rather grounded. At least until the Baby Reaper reveal.

ME 3 kicked science down the stairs with its 'All AI wants to be alive just like people!' pinocchio/pygmalion themes and over the top Multiplayer biotics. And utterly discarded it at the last second with the literally magical ending of Synthesis.

Modifié par StarcloudSWG, 18 février 2013 - 10:24 .

[Nashiktal]

My first reaction? I read a small preview article about ME1 on Gamespot. It wasn't even a page long just a small blurb. I remember it had an image of a Salarian barkeep, and it was back when they sill had the interrupt as a previewed feature.

I remember that article made me mildly interested but I never really got hyped about it. In fact I never really thought of the game again until it was released. I ended up renting it from star video... I loved the game so much as soon as the five day rental period was over I IMMEDIATELY went out and bought it.

Hell looking back ME, in my eyes, was one of the best things to ever happen in the video game industry. I had never had so much fun with a game nor have I ever been so invested in a fictional setting. It was wonderful.

[Celeblhachon]

I heard of the game in 2005. Didn't think too much of it. Saw the very first trailer, still thought "meh". Saw the E3 '06 demo and was hooked. Man, the forums were so much fun back then. Vibrant, even well after the game's release. Not a whole lot of bad blood. Different now.

Hoping ME4 early content jump starts the community a little.

[LordMarrick]

My first time I saw ME1 was at my cousens house and he said it was by bio and since I was a huge fan of kotor and jade empire I played some of it round his and after 2 hours I rushed out of his house to the game store down the road and brought my own copy and went home and was playing it for 3 days strate before sleeping.

after that I was a Mass Effect fan then soon after a dragon age fan

[Darth Wraith]

I first became aware of ME1 during its development, read about it and saw some screenshots and thought, "This looks awesome, and... oh no! It's an xbox exclusive!"

But when it later came out on the PC I was a very happy camper.

[Frozen Mind]

My friend told me about ME1 and 2. Like you flight from town to town (since in my language it's almost synonymous to city) and do quests, make decisions that have some consequences and kill stuff. This description, plus "it's TPP", created image in my mind - TPP/TPS, running on a planet from village to village, or maybe a town, and slashing some savages with space swords (not lightsabers) along with funny looking creatures (e.g. space spiders). By slashing I meant more shooting them with awesome red space laz0rz with modern (or rather futuristic) version of knight armor.

However to things made me consider playing it:
- your profile along with decisions matters in sequel,
- friend's enthusiasm about that franchise.

I started from ME2 and TPP/TPS gameplay was not my style (funny that most of CoD like games are boring for me too, I need something more tactical or post-apocalyptic). However engine cutscenes and at least primitive form of role play (paragon, neutral and renegade isn't much) made me stay with Mass Effect and later to play ME1. Had hard time during Eden Prime mission - combat was kinda crippled (too much spread from rifle) and map had some ugly color themes (red/orange + dark green. Concept art shows it was planned with clear weather - blue sky, a bit paradise, but not as much as Virmire). Later I experienced that ME1 had more engaging story than ME2. And equipment choice element is lame - even one in ME3 didn't satisfy me.

[jancz89]

I've seen some video review, and I told to myself, don't buy it you are not into sci-fi anyway, it'll be boring.... I talked myself down at least three times in a matter of one month before getting a copy