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[KaiserShep]

I've never played it. I'm over the ME3 endings enough now that I'm slowly working my way back through the series, and I suppose I have no choice but to try it, but I doubt I will ever enjoy Citadel given the endings. Just like I don't enjoy the series as much anymore. But to me the ending is many times more important than the journey, so it's a YMMV. 

It does have a pretty good solo combat sequence, and one of the better boss fights in the game, which basically establishes that the only person in Mass Effect worthy of giving Shepard a proper boss battle is Shepard him/herself.

[Majestic Jazz]

Some more Mass Effect throw back for us old school ME fans.

 

Bioware's front page when ME was first announced

[AlanC9]

It was similar for us members of the PC mustard race. I didn't pay any attention to ME until the port came along.

[dreamgazer]

I played through ME3 at least 25 times and spent several hundred hours on the MP, and I can honestly say that I hate it.

Man. I don't even think I've played through all three ME games enough times to amount to that much, and I'd naturally say that I like them all to varying degrees (ME1 and ME3 more than ME2, even rolling with the canon ending).

[o Ventus]

Man. I don't even think I've played through all three ME games enough times to amount to that much, and I'd naturally say that I like them all to varying degrees (ME1 and ME3 more than ME2, even rolling with the canon ending).

I think I've played ME1 about 10 times, ME2 at least 50 times (seriously), and ME3 around 25 times. 

 

So yeah... You could say I used to be a bit of a freak for ME. I still kind of am, since it's still my favorite fictional universe and I still like the lore (disregarding most of ME3 with the exception of the Citadel DLC), but I don't get caught up in the big ending arguments anymore (if they even still take place). I remember all the huge essay posts I wrote on the old forums hate-bashing the ending and analyzing what I dislike about it.

[In Exile]

It was similar for us members of the PC mustard race. I didn't pay any attention to ME until the port came along.

 

I followed ME throughout, but that's because I figured it would be just like KoTOR: Xbox first, then PC port. 

[themikefest]

I'm a fan. I've played the games a lot. Still play them.

[KaiserShep]

I've spent far too much time in the series not to be a fan. I would fight everyone off with a pointy stick to keep my Fan Membership card. 

[dreamgazer]

 

Perfect reminder, along with the E3 footage, of how much things can change from teaser to shipped game. 

[Han Shot First]

Some more Mass Effect throw back for us old school ME fans.

 

Bioware's front page when ME was first announced

 

Interesting.

 

Looks like they changed a few details. Check out that poll. "What is a likely news headline in 2204, the year Mass Effect is set?"

[TexasUncle]

Hello to all, new to the site and thought I would give my two cents,  to me a true fan of ME has to have at least one complaint about the game at some point, that is how you know it was worth playing(maybe if I go back and do this instead of doing that it will work this time), and then you actually go back to see if you were right. We've all done this at some point in all 3 games and we all have at least one complaint from all 3 games.

[Big Bad]

Hello to all, new to the site and thought I would give my two cents,  to me a true fan of ME has to have at least one complaint about the game at some point, that is how you know it was worth playing(maybe if I go back and do this instead of doing that it will work this time), and then you actually go back to see if you were right. We've all done this at some point in all 3 games and we all have at least one complaint from all 3 games.

Heh.  Stick around and you will see that we ALL have way more than one complaint from all three games! 

[KaiserShep]

Mr. DNA would explain that if you compiled every single complaint about mass effect on one thread, it would take 2 years to read the entire thing.

[Grieving Natashina]

Okay, I'll bite before I go play my Shepard.  This is all just my opinion and by no means it is intended to be a blanket statement of the community as a whole.

 

What makes a "true" Mass Effect fan, in my opinion, is first and foremost someone that played at least the main numbered games and fell in love with them.  Someone that likes RPGs as well as shooters, or at least likes one genre enough to try ME.  This is someone that has expressed times where the plot in the series made them cry, made them think, made them laugh, made them sigh.  

 

This is someone that will look at the series as a whole and look back at how they made them feel.  For better and for worse, at times.  I don't know if you have to be critical to be a "true fan" of anything, but I do know that a true ME fan tries to balance their criticisms with polite suggestion and feedback.  Someone that is very passionate, at times to a fault, about what the story and setting meant to them.  I have no problem with this sort of passion, so long as personal insults are left out of it.  Shoot, I have Mark Meer's autograph and the very comfy N7 hoodie, and I've become passionate about the series as a newer fan.  

 

This is someone that will never forget what the impact those games were.  Whether you still love the series, or if you've sworn it off after the pre-EC endings, these games had an impact on all of us.  If it didn't, I highly doubt we'd be sitting on the official forums discussing and debating this series as a general community for the last 8-9 years since ME1's first E3 trailer.

 

That's just my take on it, at least.  Now it's time to go do Noveria and mumble a lot of curses at the "black box bug."  Thanks AsRock, you awful AMD processor you.  I have yet to see Ilos as intended (I have to use a console workaround) but that will change when I eventually go back to Intel.  I can't afford to for now, and if it isn't broke, I'm not replacing it.  

[DaemionMoadrin]

I sunk thousands of hours into the trilogy, all the DLCs, the ME3 MP and this forum. I played every class, both genders and both Renegade and Paragon, in all possible combinations. I've read fanfiction about it, enjoy seeing good fanart of it and I'm still here talking about it instead of working.

 

Btw... for those who were dissatisfied with the endings: http://www.koobismo.com/comics/ Read the Marauder Shields comic (really starts with page 6) and imagine if BioWare had done that instead...

[Catastrophy]

I'm pretty real and a mass effect fan.

[fraggle]

I have a strong dislike for the terms "real" and "true". Just be a fan. Dunno, "real" and "true" just always has that negative ring to it for me. No need to be condescending and think you're better than anyone else because you do XY or like XY better.

That applies to any form of entertainment imo.

 

I love the games to death, laughed, cried, fell in love with the characters and the whole franchise. I do consider myself a very big fan, and I think that suffices

[Little Princess Peach]

No clue.

 

I'm not even sure if I'm a "real fan". I'm mostly an ME2 fan. With scattered things I like here and there.

dose it matter? if you like me no mater the game then your a fan of something people on these fourms can go crazy sometimes

[Golden_Persona]

I don't think anyone has the right to decide what a real fan is. We decide whether we're a fan of it for our own purposes, not another's. It doesn't matter if one loved ME1 and hated ME2-3, or the reverse. It doesn't matter if someone loved the endings, or have let the endings follow them around since 2012 boiling up their hatred for anything ME ever again. We decide if we're fans and still care about the series for ourselves. That's all that really matters imo.

 

It's an arbitrary title anyway. Humans have a strange desire to label or sort everything into fancy names or groups. It's all arbitrary unless you're a researcher of any kind. For social purposes it's pointless.

[The Heretic of Time]

Well, In all fairness, They did.

 

In all fairness, they really didn't.

 

Though BioWare did achieve one thing: they are the first company that managed to p¡ss off their fanbase so royally that many news outlets decided to write an article about the ME3 ending debacle. So that's something...

[Golden_Persona]

To be completely honest though, I love ME1 and ME3 and think they're great games. However, Mass Effect 2 is nothing short of a masterpiece in my eyes. I have my perfect Lv60 save file and will transfer that to ME2 without bothering to play either ME1 before or ME3 after. It's my second favorite game of all time just short of Persona 4 and its incarnations. Without ME2 I honestly don't think I'd be as excited for MEA as I am. I certainly wouldn't be posting here if it weren't for ME2 either. I guess I'm not a real fan then because only ME2 I play near religiously 5 times a year? I still like the other games.

[Anacronian Stryx]

I guess this is the point where I point out that being a Fanatic of anything is completely stupid.

[Golden_Persona]

In all fairness, they really didn't.

 

Though BioWare did achieve one thing: they are the first company that managed to p¡ss off their fanbase so royally that many news outlets decided to write an article about the ME3 ending debacle. So that's something...

Gaming media is such a farce lol. Wonderful clickbait articles they know will get clicked on so people can vent their rage while they rake in ad revenue for doing absolutely nothing of real importance.