Poll of the Day > My unpopular opinion: I don't think the Mass Effect series is very good.

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Cotton_Eye_Joe
12/03/18 6:34:23 PM
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What's yours?
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Lokarin
12/03/18 6:35:15 PM
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Paper Mario Sticker Star is good
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StoneRevolver
12/03/18 6:35:53 PM
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That you're wrong.
Also, I don't like star wars, harry potter, DC, or marvel.
I also think 21 pilots are very overrated.
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shadowsword87
12/03/18 6:38:48 PM
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Puzzle games are great and more people should play them
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Lokarin
12/03/18 6:43:00 PM
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shadowsword87 posted...
Puzzle games are great and more people should play them


Ya, what's the deal with modern puzzle games? Particularly dead is the meta-puzzle, or world-puzzle... excluding stupid ARG games which are dumb 'cuz have to do stuff.

ehhh, I thing SpaceChem is the last 'new' puzzle game I played that I liked.
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shadowsword87
12/03/18 6:44:55 PM
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Lokarin posted...
shadowsword87 posted...
Puzzle games are great and more people should play them


Ya, what's the deal with modern puzzle games? Particularly dead is the meta-puzzle, or world-puzzle... excluding stupid ARG games which are dumb 'cuz have to do stuff.

ehhh, I thing SpaceChem is the last 'new' puzzle game I played that I liked.


There's Shenzhen I/O made by the same guy!
It's a god damn monster of a game, but it's still fun.
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Lokarin
12/03/18 6:45:44 PM
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I guess Frozen Snynapse might count as a PvP Puzzle game that goes beyond mere Tetris Attack
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Mead
12/03/18 6:46:08 PM
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It was good until EA dug their claws into it and turned it into an action series
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BlackScythe0
12/03/18 6:58:59 PM
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I hate most video games. Especially shooters.
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Kungfu Kenobi
12/03/18 7:22:16 PM
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The nu-Persona games should have stuck with AI controlled party members, with no option for direct control.
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Xfma100
12/03/18 10:59:51 PM
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The Kingdom Hearts and Metal Gear Solid series have decent stories, even if they are extremely convoluted and downright dumb sometimes.
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xjayguyx
12/04/18 7:05:51 AM
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I love superman 64 and the PlayStation classic.
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GanglyKhan
12/04/18 8:50:46 AM
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Kungfu Kenobi posted...
The nu-Persona games should have stuck with AI controlled party members, with no option for direct control.

Omg why lol
If they improved the AI so Koromaru quits spamming Agi spells on fire resistant enemies, I'd be ok with that, but P3's AI is duuuumb sometimes.

Gambits from FFXII were the way to go.
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Sefrig
12/04/18 8:57:08 AM
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bioware stopped making good games long before mass effect came out
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Nade Duck
12/04/18 8:59:39 AM
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they kind of progressively get worse as they go on, i guess.

love the first two, though.
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Dikitain
12/04/18 10:17:32 AM
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I agree on Mass Effect. The first game was good, but they just got worse and worse as the series went on (the ending wasn't even half the problem with 3).

I have a TON of unpopular opinions, but the one that will probably piss off the most people is I love Final Fantasy 2. Not US FF2 which is really FF4, actual Japanese FF2.
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ParanoidObsessive
12/04/18 10:26:20 AM
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Zangulus posted...
Hell, most mass effect fans dont even think the series is that good. Youre not special.

Most of us just dislike parts of the last game. Sure, some of us feel like the entire last game was bad, and a few hated the second game as well as the third, and then there's the old diehards who feel like BioWare never should have stopped making Baldur's Gate and KotOR games in the first place. But a majority of Mass Effect fans are pretty content with most everything right up to the last 20 minutes or so of ME3. Sure, the earlier parts of the game have their flaws as well, but most of them are ignorable and are balanced out by some awesome moments, so it's really only the final dickpunch that sort of inspires you to go back and reevaluate the entire rest of the game/franchise looking for things to hate like a bitter ex retroactively deconstructing your entire relationship.

Most of agree that Andromeda was liquid dog shit, though.


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Mead
12/04/18 10:29:46 AM
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Andromeda was a better game than 2 or 3.
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ParanoidObsessive
12/04/18 10:34:18 AM
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Mead posted...
Andromeda was a better game than 2 or 3.

We've been getting along recently, why must you make me hate you and everything you stand for again?


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Metalsonic66
12/04/18 10:38:30 AM
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FFXIII was a good game
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Azumininja
12/04/18 10:42:13 AM
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I beat ME1, played a bit of 2 but never finished it. Never saw what made these games special though.

Lokarin posted...
ehhh, I thing SpaceChem is the last 'new' puzzle game I played that I liked.


You should really check out Zachtronics' other games. Inifinifactory and Opus Magnum are similar to Spacechem. TIS-100, Shenzhen I/O and Exopunks are all programming themed puzzle games, but still awesome.

TIS-100 is older than Spacechem, the rest was released afterwards.
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PKMNsony
12/04/18 11:00:25 AM
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Zelda, Halo, GoW.
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shadowsword87
12/04/18 11:02:52 AM
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Azumininja posted...
TIS-100 is older than Spacechem, the rest was released afterwards.


TIS-100 is basically just assembly programming, which if you're into, you're super f***ing into it and this game is amazing.
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Lokarin
12/04/18 11:08:48 AM
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shadowsword87 posted...
Azumininja posted...
TIS-100 is older than Spacechem, the rest was released afterwards.


TIS-100 is basically just assembly programming, which if you're into, you're super f***ing into it and this game is amazing.


The only assembly programming I know is 6502.
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OhhhJa
12/04/18 11:23:36 AM
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I watched a buddy of mine play a bit of the the first one way back. Looked pretty boring
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MrCool812
12/04/18 11:27:19 AM
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I thought FF3/6 was a great game until I replayed it as an adult and realized that the second half of the game is just one boring sidequest.
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shadowsword87
12/04/18 11:36:41 AM
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Lokarin posted...
shadowsword87 posted...
Azumininja posted...
TIS-100 is older than Spacechem, the rest was released afterwards.


TIS-100 is basically just assembly programming, which if you're into, you're super f***ing into it and this game is amazing.


The only assembly programming I know is 6502.


That's basically fine then.
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Mead
12/04/18 11:48:49 AM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Mead posted...
Andromeda was a better game than 2 or 3.

We've been getting along recently, why must you make me hate you and everything you stand for again?



It had issues for sure but it brought back a lot more of the RPG elements that made the first game so fun, and the gameplay was solid
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spooky96
12/04/18 11:53:40 AM
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I tried Mass Effect and didn't find it particularly playable.
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InhumaneRaider
12/04/18 12:04:29 PM
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Mass Effect 2 and 3 were some of the best games of the last-gen.

Ending aside for 3, (which was still fixed) it was the best of the trilogy. It blended elements of 1 and 3 together to make the perfect Action-RPG.

The thing is Mass Effect is all about the adventure, Mass Effect 1 was fairly mediocre, I hate when people say the games got progressively worse. I say this as one of the biggest Mass Effect fans. Mass Effect 2 had a basic story elevated by it's characters, story moments, etc. It's one of the best stories out there. The gameplay has a more action approach to it, but that's completely fine.

However, Mass Effect 2 had one of the best story moments and that's the Collector Base Approach along with the actual suicide mission, feeling as if your choices actually had an impact.

Andromeda is what Mass Effect 1 should have been. I think it was good for what it was, however, if it didn't have the Mass Effect name attached to it, it would have been one of the best games of the year.
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LeetCheet
12/04/18 12:16:42 PM
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I didn't really like Breath of the Wild. I wanted to but I couldn't : /
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Nade Duck
12/04/18 12:43:35 PM
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i'm so happy PO is posting more again. he gives people my opinion on things so much better than i do.
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InfestedAdam
12/04/18 12:49:17 PM
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I actually enjoyed Final Fantasy VIII and the Draw and Guardian Force system. Was nice to be able to customize my party and made anyone into physical powerhouses, mages, or healers. That being said, the story was kinda weird to me.
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BUMPED2002
12/04/18 12:54:05 PM
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Cotton_Eye_Joe posted...
What's yours?

I have never liked Mass Effect either!
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TheFalseDeity
12/04/18 1:54:03 PM
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Not thinking Final Fantasy VI is very good would be one for me. At least it seems unpopular on the internet. Less so irl though i havent met the largest amount of FF fans i suppose.

I liked Mass Effect well enough. The first one was kinda eh but the other 3 were good.
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Mead
12/04/18 1:58:13 PM
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I dont like the Souls games at all. They seem hard but a lot of the difficulty is just how clunky the controls are and then once you learn how to block or parry or whatever you basically cheese the whole game anyways, and in my experience you pretty much have to find online guides to know what to do sometimes.
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InfiniteMick
12/04/18 2:33:20 PM
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InhumaneRaider posted...
Mass Effect 2 and 3 were some of the best games of the last-gen.

Ending aside for 3, (which was still fixed) it was the best of the trilogy. It blended elements of 1 and 3 together to make the perfect Action-RPG.

The thing is Mass Effect is all about the adventure, Mass Effect 1 was fairly mediocre, I hate when people say the games got progressively worse. I say this as one of the biggest Mass Effect fans. Mass Effect 2 had a basic story elevated by it's characters, story moments, etc. It's one of the best stories out there. The gameplay has a more action approach to it, but that's completely fine.

However, Mass Effect 2 had one of the best story moments and that's the Collector Base Approach along with the actual suicide mission, feeling as if your choices actually had an impact.

Andromeda is what Mass Effect 1 should have been. I think it was good for what it was, however, if it didn't have the Mass Effect name attached to it, it would have been one of the best games of the year.

ME3's story got a little too... Soapy, if that makes sense. And if you were playing Paragon then Shepard would get veeery Mary Sue/Gary Stu-ish at points.
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VeeVees
12/04/18 2:41:46 PM
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goldeneye is complete trash
sonic was never good
metroid is boring
souls is clunky as fuck
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OhhhJa
12/04/18 4:47:34 PM
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VeeVees posted...
goldeneye is complete trash
sonic was never good
metroid is boring
souls is clunky as fuck

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Metalsonic66
12/04/18 5:43:33 PM
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VeeVees posted...
goldeneye is complete trash

It was fun at the time but it has aged terribly.

sonic was never good

Lies!

metroid is boring

3D Metroid, sure.

souls is clunky as fuck

Somewhat agreed. Monster Hunter did a better job with the "slow and heavy combat" thing IMO.
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OhhhJa
12/04/18 6:33:32 PM
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Here's mine. 3D metroid is better. I like 2D a lot too but nostalgia goggles are very real
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Revelation34
12/05/18 4:17:05 AM
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Dikitain posted...
(the ending wasn't even half the problem with 3).


You're right. It was the entire problem.
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Whargarble
12/05/18 5:52:15 AM
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The old 2D Metroid games are terrible. The controls and movement physics are downright awkward, and the secrets are so ridiculously obtuse that nobody could ever be expected to find them without a guide or extreme luck.

Actually, that can be said about a lot of old games with secrets hidden in completely arbitrary locations. It's dumb. It's been poor game design since day one. A competent human should be able to 100% a game with their intuition alone. Having a random tree that just happens to give the player a one of a kind item when they bomb/burn/whatever it is idiotic.
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CaptainObvius
12/05/18 9:16:26 AM
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Technomancer, and Lichdom battlemage were both really fun games. I only know of two other people who liked them as much as I did.
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ParanoidObsessive
12/05/18 11:46:07 AM
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InhumaneRaider posted...
Ending aside for 3, (which was still fixed)

It really wasn't.

It was made better than it originally was (because it was originally terrible), but it was a minor patch-job that still didn't address about half the problems in the game, and still kept (and actually doubled down) on the part of the game that everyone was mainly complaining about in the first place. And which created new logic holes because they half-assed the writing of it. And which sort of threw in a bit of a fuck you to people who complained about not being able to reject the stupid end-game choices entirely under the guise of allowing "player choice".

Between that patch and the Citadel DLC a lot of people are willing to forgive those flaws, but they're still there. The Extended Cut ending is better than it was, but it really isn't "fixed".



Nade Duck posted...
i'm so happy PO is posting more again. he gives people my opinion on things so much better than i do.

I've never really stopped, I just spend most of my time in the Geek topics these days. Sometimes I come out and trample through the countryside of PotD, though.


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AverageBoss
12/05/18 11:57:02 AM
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Also never liked ME. Played through the first one, and disliked everything about it so much (story, characters, and especially gameplay), never touched ME2.

Morrowind is better than Oblivion and Skyrim.

The Prime Trilogy was the pinnacle of Metroid, with Prime 2 as the best of said trilogy.
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Metalsonic66
12/05/18 1:53:39 PM
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Whargarble posted...
The old 2D Metroid games are terrible

Maybe the first and second one lol
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Nade Duck
12/05/18 10:00:47 PM
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Nade Duck posted...
i'm so happy PO is posting more again. he gives people my opinion on things so much better than i do.

I've never really stopped, I just spend most of my time in the Geek topics these days. Sometimes I come out and trample through the countryside of PotD, though.

the POpe tends to his flock.
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Nade Duck
12/05/18 10:16:27 PM
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i guess i should do this too

3D metroids are boring
the last of us had nothing super interesting going for it other than cabbage zombies and the ending. i will never understand the hype.
mists of pandaria was one of WoW's best expansions
bethesda is a terrible game developer
MGS is over-rated (but at least it's funny, i will admit i can't bring myself to hate snake)
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