It is, it's complete shit.
The story is amazing, I'll give it that, but other than that, the game is a colossal fucking mess.
I guess the main thing is the actual gameplay. It's horrendous. The combat feels like it was tacked on at the last second with it being horrible to play.
Right now I'm stuck in Peak 15, all because of how bad it is. Sniping is terrible, it sways WAAAAY too much and it takes like 5 hits to kill someone, while they only take one to kill you. Using an assault rifle is terrible as well because the way the game handles it, instead of ammo, you have "heat". Which means you have infinite ammo, but the guns shoot like shit and the accuracy is bad, and when you overheat your gun, you can't shoot anymore until it cools down.
There's really no good guns in this game until like the end of the game, at which points, there's no point. I'm stuck at Peak 15 on Noveria, because of how bad the combat is. I just got killed by a Krogan there because he kept charging at me. I run away around a bunch of objects to try and heal and hopefully lose him, he sticks with me and just keeps charging me, giving me no way to fight back.
Now Mass Effect 2 and 3 did it right and are actually fun, but my god, to people who are going to play the first Mass Effect, expect to die a lot or not have fun. Just play for the story, and never look back, it's that bad.
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The story is amazing, I'll give it that, but other than that, the game is a colossal fucking mess.
I guess the main thing is the actual gameplay. It's horrendous. The combat feels like it was tacked on at the last second with it being horrible to play.
Right now I'm stuck in Peak 15, all because of how bad it is. Sniping is terrible, it sways WAAAAY too much and it takes like 5 hits to kill someone, while they only take one to kill you. Using an assault rifle is terrible as well because the way the game handles it, instead of ammo, you have "heat". Which means you have infinite ammo, but the guns shoot like shit and the accuracy is bad, and when you overheat your gun, you can't shoot anymore until it cools down.
There's really no good guns in this game until like the end of the game, at which points, there's no point. I'm stuck at Peak 15 on Noveria, because of how bad the combat is. I just got killed by a Krogan there because he kept charging at me. I run away around a bunch of objects to try and heal and hopefully lose him, he sticks with me and just keeps charging me, giving me no way to fight back.
Now Mass Effect 2 and 3 did it right and are actually fun, but my god, to people who are going to play the first Mass Effect, expect to die a lot or not have fun. Just play for the story, and never look back, it's that bad.
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