Mass Effect Update
Nov. 23rd, 2007 09:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournSo far I'm having a good time. The engine and design is very reminiscent of Knights of the Old Republic, with a lot more sophistication and much updated rendering engine. After about 12 hours of play, I made it through the initial mission, the first space station, and got to the 'branch-out' point where you are basically free to pop around the entire galaxy looking for clues. After another 12 hours of play, I'm still working through the first 'main line' quest planet, so this could well be a monsterously long game.
The facial animation is decent, although the lip-sync is a little off and the expressions are somewhat limited. Still the characters look great, which is good since you spend a lot of time staring at them doing the chit-chat. Apparently you save the universe primarily by chatting up everyone in the galaxy and fix/ignore their problems...
And elevators. You spend an inordinate amount of time in elevators. They use this shtick to hide the load-times. At first it was amusing because it's complete with elevator music and occasional 'news announcements', but they eventually begin to wear on you as being just as slow and annoying as real elevators.
I just went to Extras\Credits and the music sounds like "the love theme from Mass Effect". That's funny. BTW,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daemonwolf your name appears in the 'special thanks' at the end.
Update: I was trying to figure out what's with the dithering effect. On my 1080p HDTV it looked kinda silly. Eventually I found a setting option to turn off the 'Film effect' and that removed it. Probably looks better on lower-rez monitors.
Update 2: To sum up RPGs exclusively released on the Xbox 360: I hate the bloody gimpy-ass controller instead of an intuitive mouse/keyboard, but hey achievements are kind neat, right?
The facial animation is decent, although the lip-sync is a little off and the expressions are somewhat limited. Still the characters look great, which is good since you spend a lot of time staring at them doing the chit-chat. Apparently you save the universe primarily by chatting up everyone in the galaxy and fix/ignore their problems...
And elevators. You spend an inordinate amount of time in elevators. They use this shtick to hide the load-times. At first it was amusing because it's complete with elevator music and occasional 'news announcements', but they eventually begin to wear on you as being just as slow and annoying as real elevators.
I just went to Extras\Credits and the music sounds like "the love theme from Mass Effect". That's funny. BTW,
daemonwolf your name appears in the 'special thanks' at the end.Update: I was trying to figure out what's with the dithering effect. On my 1080p HDTV it looked kinda silly. Eventually I found a setting option to turn off the 'Film effect' and that removed it. Probably looks better on lower-rez monitors.
Update 2: To sum up RPGs exclusively released on the Xbox 360: I hate the bloody gimpy-ass controller instead of an intuitive mouse/keyboard, but hey achievements are kind neat, right?
