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[Maganese]

When I was 10 - 12 years old I loved Star Wars and its Sci-Fi setting and played the games constantly on my PS2. Though after that I played Modern Warfare 2 for a long time, oblivious to the amount of other good games out there. Since I only played FPS's.

Then after watching a youtuber playing ME2 on PC, I though it was another great Sci-Fi shooter game. I was 13 and had no idea what the game was really like.

So with a £20 budget while on holiday a shop had a 2 for 1 for £20 on used games. So I bought ME1 and ME2. Got home played through both games and instantly fell in love with it. I had never experienced a game with such great characters, story and atmosphere as Mass Effect. And this changed my outlook on games as a whole.

[madzilla84]

I started out as a Dragon Age fan, and met a lot of online friends through that. Most of them were also ME fans, and towards the end of 2011 they all started playing/discussing ME leading up to ME3 coming out, and I was intrigued. I guess before I'd have seen the box art for 1 and 2 and known it was a shooter and dismissed it out of hand. I've been a sci-fi fan for years, and I was especially excited by the idea you could play as a female commander. I'd never played a shooter of any kind before, so it was quite the learning curve, but I fell in love with it. I even got an Xbox just so I could play the trilogy. I guess what hooked me in was being able to explore the galaxy, all the different places to visit, the characters/relationships, the tech ... Having a romance option like in DA was also part of the enjoyment as well.

I'm so glad I persevered with it even though I sucked so hard at it to begin with - I've loved playing it and continue to love playing it now. I even love the multiplayer, which I never thought I would!

[spirosz]

Characters mostly, initially, I bought it because of the cover, It reminded me of KOTOR and I didn't even realize the two were made by Bioware at the time.

[Rosstoration]

Bought it pre-owned on a whim (£7 or so, heard some good things about it, thought why not). I played it for an hour or so and thought it was terrible. Bored one evening and saw it on my shelf and thought, "might as well give that another shot", never looked back since.
The world, the characters, the detail of the setting. It was beautiful. It also turned me from a purely FPS gamer stuck in a cycle of buying Call of Duty and GTA and only Call of Duty and GTA to enjoying more games that have a deep story.

I can't even remember the last FPS game I bought now. Also discovered the likes of Grim Fandango, Monkey Island, Baldur's Gate because of Mass Effect.

Modifié par Rosstoration, 17 mars 2013 - 01:14 .

[imadotje]

The Story and the characters

[zeypher]

sci fi. I am a sucker for sci fi as PC gets very few sci fi games. Microsoft i still wanna play halo 3 and others on my pc

[jackmeup]

I was instantly hooked on the deep immersive story The Mass effect trilogy has the best single player of any Xbox game I have ever played the characters are awesome you actually care about them which is crazy since its just a video game the RPG element is awesome mixed with intense action and the customization is excellent also plus until the M.E 3 the endings made sense and left you craving more not saying that I don't want more ME but I wasn't finished with my current shepard or current characters I been playing the trilogy for years now and for it to be finished this way has put a sour note on it

I Want more Jack I would happily pay more for them to continue jack in the series Bioware make it happen

[RedBeardJim]

The opening sequence to ME1 did it for me. The first cutscene, with Shep walking through the CIC and Joker's announcements, the first Mass Relay transit, the music...and then what sealed the deal was a tiny little detail. In the scene where you watch the transmission from Eden Prime, and they freeze-frame on your first view of Sovereign, Nihlus gives this little mandible-twitch. Just seeing that they put some thought into the body language of their alien species convinced me that this was a world I wanted to explore further.

[Edorian27]

Simple: I loved DAO and searched for other games of Bioware. Mass Effect was the nearest choice. I know that I totally loved Tali as a character in my first ME run... too long ago to remember more details.

[fainmaca]

I got ME1 in April 2010, after falling and injuring my back to the point that I was stuck in bed for about 3 weeks. The promise of choices carrying across the series drew me in.

What convinced me to stay was the rich setting, the fun characters, and the fact that the primary gameplay element was talking rather than shooting. I loved having a game where combat was a secondary concern and interacting with the universe, the people and issues of day-to-day life, came first and foremost.

Boy did I get a shock with ME3.

[ruggly]

o Ventus wrote...

Characters and setting, mostly.

More the characters than anything else.  Plus it's nice to be able to play as a female lead for once.

Modifié par ruggly, 17 mars 2013 - 02:56 .

[EarthboundNess]

Bought it completely on a whim after seeing it for £5 a couple of years back and was hooked after a couple of minutes. (Dat menu music, dat intro)

Best impulse buy I've ever made.

Modifié par Earthbound N, 17 mars 2013 - 02:58 .

[Auld Wulf]

The truly interesting races and characters always had me interested, but I think it was Legion that finally did it. The problem with an artificial intelligence in most science-fiction is that it's portrayed in an incredibly human way, yet it wouldn't operate in one. Legion, however, was as alien to us as we were to him. As the first genuinely intriguing AI (whom I couldn't stop talking to), I couldn't help but appreciate the effort they'd put in. Which meant that I became a massive geth fan. That the geth are so aesthetically beautiful helped, too.

And then the story of Mass Effect 3 really just sealed that deal. I felt that the other Mass Effect games felt flat, as BioWare games often do. That's why I usually prefer Obsidian games. If you compare Fallout: New Vegas with anything other than Mass Effect 3, you'll note that more passionate characters, and the more compelling plot, and the more difficult choices. ME3, to me, was BioWare reaching Obsidian-like heights. It's interesting that this resulted in them being hated as much as Obsidian are, despite the stories told by ME3 and Obsidian definitely being a cut above every other game out there. Oh mainstream.

Multiplayer did a lot for me, too. Being able to run around as a krogan or a geth made me very happy. And in the latest multiplayer patch they even gave me my wish -- to be able to play as a geth prime. I won't forget that.

So, I suppose it was Legion in ME2 that was the first hook. And ME3 was the first Mass Effect game that I truly fell in love with.

There's just something... magical about ME3, though. The story, the characters, even the DLC. It's something that BioWare really cared about. With everything from Baldur's Gate, through Dragon Age, to the first Mass Effect, it always felt like BioWare was going through the motions, checking the boxes of what they felt the mainstream wanted, and their games were always so incredibly one-dimensional and bland because of that. But with ME3, they made something that they wanted to make. It was something where they took upon the to hell with the rest of the world, this one's for us attitude usually not displayed by them. And in that moment they developed a game that I'd otherwise have only expected from Obsidian.

I just hope they won't lose that passion now because of all the haters. The mainstream will never understand a labour of love, they're too absorbed with their one-dimensional plots about saving the Universe, killing the bad guy, and riding off into the sunset with the space princess. I mean, look at MEHEM. It's ridiculous. That's what makes me sad. That something as genuinely special as Mass Effect 3 can't be appreciated by the mainstream.

But then, I'm reminded of how the producer of Blade Runner thought it was necessary to tack on voice-overs and a super happy ending, as otherwise the mainstream wouldn't get it.

So...

Eh.

But I congratulate them for finally growing a quad and making something that is their own.

[N7 Banshee Bait]

I was bored & wanted to rent a game. They didn't have anything interesting so I picked up ME2 because I heard it was good. I was blown away & hooked immediately. They only had disc 1 to rent. So I played up to the point I had to put disc 2 in. I returned it & immediately bought ME1 platinum hits & ME2. Then I pre-ordered ME3 collectors edition which is not like me at all, I NEVER buy games new & full price. Mass Effect 3 is the only one.

[Reorte]

Bought it because I had an Amazon voucher I hadn't spent and thought I may as well play it first so I knew what SFDebris' piece on ME2 was all about (damn it, wish I'd played the first game first). Found I loved the characters and setting and saw the potential for a game to be a storytelling medium with its own unique benefits.

[tempest2500]

I played ME1 back in I think... 2009, and I didn't like it because at the time I was an oblivious jerk who didn't like story-based RPGs. A couple years passed, so it is 2012, and at this point, RPGs are my favorite genre of games. I soon decide to buy the whole ME series, knowing that I would love it (and feeling stupid that I didn't like it before) and so here I am.

[NinjaTurtle12]

ME2 cinematic trailer

[ThatDancingTurian]

I played KotOR are Jade Empire and enjoyed both of them, so I bought BioWare's next RPG on that merit.

[mumba]

The renegade dialogue.

[AlanC9]

chemiclord wrote...

It was a reasonably good Sci-fi tale in a genre that had become stale and uninspiring.

Yeah... I can't say it was the greatest hook ever on my end.

This. Plus it was from Bio, which is pretty much a recommendation for me.

[Linkenski]

1) Being the hero in an epic space adventure
2) The dialogue wheel and character interactions
3) exploring (mostly because of ME1)
4) The endings until i played ME3.

[Reth Shepherd]

The story, the universe, and the characters. Pity only one out of those is still there.

[Epsilon330]

Believe it or not, the Inferno Armour.
I was browsing Steam one fateful early-January 2010, looking to play some beloved TF2. I saw the preorder bonus on the front page, with the Iron Man-esque suit we all know and love. My younger self, being a sucker for semi-realistic Sci-fi, took a quick look and pre-ordered the Digital Deluxe Edition. When it launched, I went through the intro, made my first Shepard (an Engineer who looked oddly like Arnold Schwarzenegger), and dove in.
After spewing rainbows over the gameplay, armours, weapons and such; I heard about the Safe-Transfer system. One quick search in August '10 on Steam introduced me to ME1. And the rest, as they say, is history.

[themikefest]

What hooked me

Story, action and being able to customize the main character to my liking

[AdmiralCheez]

For me, it was the depth and immersion of the universe that got me hooked initially. I fell in love with the characters after that, and that's why I'm still hooked.

ALSO AWESOME FEMALE PROTAGONIST.  MORE OF THOSE PLZ.

Modifié par AdmiralCheez, 17 mars 2013 - 05:41 .