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Mass Effect
Scandanavian War Machine:
i actually liked driving around on virtually empty planets.
it felt more like exploring REAL space. you know, that place that's mostly empty? plus i like the whole hill-climb thing; it's like a puzzle that involves driving. it was also a lot of fun to jump off mountains at weird angles and fire the boosters.
maybe i'm just easily amused.
KvP:
I didn't mind it that much either, but it was still largely copy-pasted from a source that was pretty terribly designed in the first place.
Alex C:
I thought it was sort of cool the first time, but got old quickly. Then again, I still feel like mass effect's primary quests were so good and nicely paced that the side quests couldn't help but feel kind of janky. Still one of my favorite games; it's all relative, really.
KvP:
I still feel like BG2 is the gold standard - instead of 3 two-hour long mandatory large quests with assorted optional little combat missions leading to a bottlenecked conclusion, you had 10, 11, 12 two-hour long, mostly optional large quests with an even greater variety of little missions leading to a bottlenecked conclusion. Bioware's games have gotten progressively tighter since BG2, with Jade Empire being the worst of the bunch, for numerous reasons. ME tried to have it both ways but it ended up just being a KOTOR-style linear romp with a lot of blubbery noise tacked onto it.
Alex C:
I have no beef with that opinion. I mean, honestly, in BGII you can stop an evil, self-mutilating cult by delving into the sewers of a great city and enlisting the aid of a forgotten god. If that doesn't really interest you, you can always go put an end to Lavok, a selfish necromancer who preys upon the lifeforce of his descendents and travels the planes in a gigantic arcane sphere. Of course, it turns out that he has since redeemed himself by sacrificing his sanity in order to contain an even greater evil, but in the meantime you still need to figure out how the hell to get the damn sphere back home, because by now you've managed to get your silly as trapped in the Abyss. Entire game series have been spawned from less.
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