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[Iakus]

Bioware RPG+ science fiction= SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!

Ah, the good old days...

[moater boat]

For me the biggest draw was the belief that my decisions would carry from one game to the next and actually have an impact on how things turned out. Turns out that was all a lie...

[hell destroyer]

Actually, I bought Mass Effect thinking it was another game, Just Cause. I wanted Just Cause but I couldnt have it because it's sequel doesnt support Windows XP. So after some time I forgot about it, until I saw a sale of Mass Effect, which I thought it was just cause because I had forgotten its name. And well, I said, "nice, now the sequel supports Xp!". When I realised it wasnt Just Cause, I was finishing Eden Prime, and I was enjoying the ride already.
I love Mass Effect now and it has become my favorite franchise.

[G Kevin]

A friend brought it over and I tried it.

Exploration got me though.

I remember reading through every description of a planet and just wondering how it would be to walk on its surface. Sometimes getting to do that on certain planets.

How I miss exploration...

Modifié par G Kevin, 17 mars 2013 - 09:06 .

[eye basher]

I get to meet aliens and then i get to kill most of them how cool is that.

[Reever]

I got to read the whole story (more or less) of ME1 and 1 or 2 years later a friend of mine gave me the game for me to see how it is. Not long after then I bought ME1 and ME2 =)

[M Hedonist]

I got ME2 for free for pre-ordering DA2. Which was a great way of compensation... even though I guess it was supposed to save DA2's sales.
Anyway, it made me buy the first ME and eventually almost every piece of story DLC for both games. I'd say the characters did it for me. I wanted to know more about them. And know all the characters there are in this interesting world. Also, the plot - not necessarily the quality of it, but the fact that it is one overarching, epic plot that's supposed to span over three games. The things I learned about the plot of ME1 in ME2 really inspired me. I remember fondly how I would picture in my head how Wrex had betrayed Shepard.

[Modius Prime]

The beautiful characterization is what got me into the series, plus the setting. The characters felt alive and their problems actually made me feel sympathetic for them, which is quite lacking in the video game industry these days. Unlike other games, these characters aren't dense, but actually have intriguing backgrounds that are worth exploring in order to learn about why they hold certain beliefs and behave in distinct ways. Also, I liked the character development and how decisions were recognized and how Shepard could be created in your own image. Shepard was kind of a living embodiment of me, and the decisions made were actually decisions that I would have picked in his situation on my non-experimentation playthroughs. I learned to love these characters and I actually cared about how my decisions impacted the galaxy, instead of just randomly picking something because they winded up being meaningful to me. I liked all the aliens and how humans aren't the boss, but instead mistrusted, which really helped build conflict within the plot. I really dislike sci-fi games that have human-centric based settings and this really helped in adding diversity to the Mass Effect universe. Overall, the meaningful decisions and great characterization are what drove me throughout the series and I hope that Bioware does the same with future games, minus the linearity.

Modifié par Modius Prime, 17 mars 2013 - 10:44 .

[Asharad Hett]

At the first glimpse of Sovereign, I was sold.

[JosieFrances]

The multi choice aspect.
The character being you.
The gripping story, that you really did feel apart of.
And Kaidan and Garrus

[Seival]

You mean how exactly I knew about Mass Effect for the first time?

Friends recommended me to try it, and I tried. Love MEU since then.

[DWH1982]

I was having a particuarly hard semester of graduate school in early 2010, and decided I needed something to help me unwind after it was over. I ordered ME1 because it was relatively inexpensive, because I had read good things in a magazine article a few years back, and because the gameplay seemed to fit what I was in the mood for.

I didn't play it for another month, until after my semester was over. Eden Prime was just okay. It didn't seem all that different from other games, and I figured that, if I finished it at all, I'd probably only play it once and MAYBE buy the sequal if it was a good game. Then I got to the Citadel, and spent time exploring with Ash and Kaidan - and I was officially hooked. I played ME1 multiple times before finally buying ME2.

ME may very well have ruined other games for me. The trilogy has its flaws, but it's still light years ahead of the alternatives, and it at least recognizes my decisions even if they don't always play out in a way that makes them different. And they did such a fantastic job on the characters.

It's deeply depressing that the trilogy had to end the way it did.

[nrobbiec]

The emotional intensity of the story was a hook (ME3 was my first ME game), the richness of the characters with so many cast members I recognised. The fact that it truly feels like an interactive movie that I can fully invest myself in. The storyline is my kind of thing and also getting to have a perfectly handled same sex relationship with Kaidan which is unique to a game that offers romance content.

[chris2365]

I played KOTOR when I was really young. Was geting bored of gaming and MW2, when I saw Mass Effect 2 in Gamespot's Most Anticipated. After watching gameplay videos and reading reviews (coupled with the Bioware logo on the front), I got ME1 and became hooked.

[Fated Xtasy]

to be honest it was on my gameinformer and it never got my attention un until i went to to game stop bought it and voila im hooked on the entire trilogy.

[CronoDragoon]

 Stumbled onto the ME2 launch trailer on YT.

Modifié par CronoDragoon, 20 mars 2013 - 10:54 .

[k.lalh]

Bought it on a recommendation from a friend. One of the best purchases I've ever made.

[Armass81]

The universe and the characters.

[BigTuna82]

Heard Thane's music used in a YouTube video for another video game. Did some research. Bought both the first and second games during a well-timed Steam sale. Best $30 I ever spent.

[Strangewrex]

A while back (Around summer 2010) a few buddies of mine on the Black Mesa Forums were in Steam Chat with me and they mentioned that they liked Mass Effect. I put the first game in my Wishlist and forgot about it until this past December, when I got a message in my Email telling me that Mass Effect was on sale. As it so happened, both the first and Second game were on sale that day so I bought the Standard Steam edition of Mass Effect as well as a discounted Deluxe Edition of Mass Effect 2 (whose CD Key worked on Origin, thankfully enough). I completed the first game, and enjoyed it. Completed the second game, enjoyed that too, SO I ended up buying the third game.

[Lars10178]

I just loved the back ground. In all honestly I wasn't hypnotized on my first play through, because I had no clue what to do for the side missions, so I stayed on the main path with Garrus and Wrex. I just wanted to get to level 50, so I kept playing until I got wrapped up in my second play through. I loved every second of that play through.

[nokori3byo]

The Spectre induction was probably what first made me take notice. It's saying something that, when I first played ME back in 2007, it quickly stole my heart away from Half-Life fandom.

[jkflipflopDAO]

The codex/backstory/attention to detail is what really grabbed me about the first one. Every time you come up with a "well that's dumb! Why does ______ do that??" the game seems to have an answer. How come my gun never runs out of ammo? The codex answers "here's why, stupid". It's like someone sat down and really thought all this out.

Of course, that wasn't the case with the 2nd and 3rd games. But that's what really grabbed me at first.

[Tempest_]

Terrifically designed universe and characters. I loved the contrasting culture, military and politics between the races which felt both Alien and familiar at the same time.

I liked the simple though wonderfully portrayed message of how hope, friendship, love, unity and camaraderie can triumph in the face of even the most insurmountable odds.

A great series of games and one which made me buy a different console in order to experience them all.

Modifié par Quote the Raven, 21 mars 2013 - 01:04 .

[HARBINGER SR-1]

 

This. When I first saw it I was like "Holy crap that looks frakin awesome"