Mass Effect 1 is Shit

[Guild McCommunist]

But the gameplay plays a huuuuuge roll in the making of a good game. For example, say Vampire Rain had a great story and characters and shit (for example). Would it still be really good even though the gameplay itself is absolute garbage? No, it'd be a mediocre game...pretty much like ME1. I just see a lot of reviews and everything talking about it and how great it was, but nobody really talks about the broken gameplay.

People overestimate gameplay's importance. It's great and all but I can tolerate a game that plays poorly if everything else is great.

The gameplay here isn't broken, it's just not great. It's functional and that's basically what it needs.

To say Mass Effect 1 is "shit" because the gameplay is seems rather unjust. I put gameplay on the same level as story, environment, graphics, and audio on a game nowadays.

 

[tbgtbg]

ME 1 is the best. I don't like how the gameplay changed to be so mission based in 2-3, where you can't just go back to areas whenever you want and stuff.

Also fuck thermal clips. I'll take endless elevators and messy inventory over that anyday.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

People overestimate gameplay's importance. It's great and all but I can tolerate a game that plays poorly if everything else is great.

The gameplay here isn't broken, it's just not great. It's functional and that's basically what it needs.

To say Mass Effect 1 is "shit" because the gameplay is seems rather unjust. I put gameplay on the same level as story, environment, graphics, and audio on a game nowadays.

Thread title is misleading, but only because I wanted to keep it short, couldn't think of something else to put there that wouldn't cause the title to have ... in it.

 

[retKHAAAN]

Thread title is misleading, but only because I wanted to keep it short, couldn't think of something else to put there that wouldn't cause the title to have ... in it.

How about "I don't like Mass Effect 1's gameplay"...?

 

[ShadowSoldier]

How about "I don't like Mass Effect 1's gameplay"...?

Again, that would cause the ... and it would simply say "I Don't Like Mass Effect" or something similar. Not to mention the third sentence in the opening post said "I mean Gameplay"

 

[gokujr1000]

Let me guess, you thought the ending to Mass Effect 3 was one of the greatest moments in video game history?

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Let me guess, you thought the ending to Mass Effect 3 was one of the greatest moments in video game history?

Nope. But it wasn't as bad as people made it out to be, that's for sure. The complainers totally made it sound worse than what it actually was, that's for sure.

 

[gokujr1000]

Nope. But it wasn't as bad as people made it out to be, that's for sure. The complainers totally made it sound worse than what it actually was, that's for sure.

Did you play it before the extended ending came out?

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Did you play it before the extended ending came out?

Yep. And it wasn't that bad. Not the greatest, but it wasn't as bad as every single cry baby made it out to be.

 

[gokujr1000]

Yep. And it wasn't that bad. Not the greatest, but it wasn't as bad as every single cry baby made it out to be.

And this is where I stop taking you seriously...

 

[ShadowSoldier]

And this is where I stop taking you seriously...

 

[Zharktas]

And this is where I stop taking you seriously...

It actually isn't that bad, yes it does not have boss and the ending came pretty much out of nowhere. But I personally never believed that there would be a billion different endings for all the possible outcomes, like marketing claimed over the years. That would only be possible as textual presentation like in Dragon Age: Awakening.

 

[CHamaKaze]

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.

[/inb4coolblogbro]

I feel your pain. The game is fully remastered and its still a pile of fucking dog shit. Story amazing, love everything about it exepct the optimization. It glitches out so much and even still with the remaster there are still glitches. Its still payable but its to the point where its borderline because I'm doing an Insanity run right now and one time my Shep got stuck inside a wall. Had to reload a save file or checkpoint far back from where I started. Shooting is ass, not talking about the thermal heat, I get that, but just how most bullets don't even register qa hit on the fucking target. But I love thee story so much.

(Also if someones asks what hardware I'm on, I'm playing on the PS5 and its still dog ass.)