Mass Effect

[MyndFyre]

Visually stunning.  The conversation system is a lot more fluid, too, than KotOR.  It feels very natural, even if you sometimes get the same sense of light-side/dark-side/neutral choices that you had there.

The leveling system is really neat.

I've only played a couple hours, though.  I'd read a review that said the game has about 30 hours of gameplay.  If that's the case, I think I'll be disappointed, although I've also read that the different classes play very differently, and you get different conversation choices as a man and woman.  So there's potential replayability.

We'll see!  It's been really fun so far.

[rabbit]

I really want it :\

[Newby]

I really want it :\

and now you have it, and so do I.

The game looks amazing on HD, the conversation system is a lot more fluid (for sure), and the gameplay isn't turn-based like it is in KOTOR. Same feel, though, as KOTOR. Which is good; I miss the fun and excitement I felt playing that game. :/

I'm only a few hours in, but it doesn't take much to figure the game out or understand the world. If there are only 30 hours, I'm going to be sad. I got 40 out of KOTOR. And that was light side; the dark side I never completed. Wait, that's backwards.

The one complaint I have so far are the damn elevators. I also don't see the obvious differences between good/bad sides... in KOTOR, skill choices were one obvious one; so far, it's hard to tell. I also liked the Star Wars universe a whole bunch, and the universe this game is set in is taking a while to fully swallow me whole. I guess having background knowledge of KOTOR made it easier to enjoy.

When I finish I'll rank on the star system. This game shows much promise, though.

[Blaze]

My friend who has this game said if you go evil you get considerably less options when talking to people, and that makes the game boring.

[rabbit]

Yes, but those options are more fun!  (A lot of them involve shooting or beating )

Also, I just finished a "romance subplot" which ended with a steamy sex scene.

[rabbit]

Holy shit that was a good game!  I just beat a normal run through, next up is a hardcore or maybe insane run.  That was an awesome game, one of the best I've played in a long while.  I can't wait for the next two games.