Mass Effect

[mannerbot]

It took me 15 my first play also. I did most of the side missions at the Citadel, but almost none after that.

[Seik]

15-20 hours is perfect game length for me. I'm SO over 50 hour RPGs. I'm not 12 anymore and I dont have summer/holiday breaks. Mass Effect doesn't need to be 50 hours long to be termed "epic."

[Opaque]

I took 5 hours to get off the citadel. The game is as long as you want it to be.

I wanted it to be longer God dammit.

[Opaque]

Since the last Bioware game you played, you mean. It is mildly humorous to see you go from enjoying one game while not caring about the length to whining about the clock on a much better game that took you the same amount of time.

Fuck, I totally forgot how short JE was.

Still, this was an amazing game and I'm already on another play through, but all the talk for the last two years on this was about how huge it was and then it takes 15 hours. I mean shit, if it's only going to be 15 hours just fucking tell me that from the beginning, don't tell me it's like the biggest fucking game ever when it isn't.

[mannerbot]

It sounds to me like you're now halfway through a 30 hour game. I'd much rather have a short game that I'm going to want to replay than a 60 hour chore, but maybe that's just me.

[MechDeus]

I spent 34 hours on my first time through, 20 on my second (though I skipped almost all the dialogue since it was just a difficulty and achievement run), have started my third, and have plans for up through a fifth. In my case the game clock for just beating it is definitely irrelevant.

I put the Insanity attempt on hold while I do a Charlie's Angels with an Adept (female character + Ashley + Liara) since I want to see Singularity in action, then I'll need to do one with an Engineer for all the synthetic skills. From what I've read the Engineer falls apart on the harder difficulty levels, but maybe we can get a balance patch at some point.

p.s. What's with the unlocked gamerpic for beating Hardcore being so much cooler than the one for Insanity?

[Drewbacca]

I spent like 6 1/2 hours in The Citadel -- reading shit and talking to everyone thoroughly. I love that kind of shit.

[Chux]

I thought I loved it too, until I went to Feros and started shooting bitches in the god damn face.

[Rumpy]

What's the best way to use abilities? When shit hits the fan I feel like things get out of control faster than I can manage. I'll pick say, overload to use and then I can't seem to use it on the specific enemy I want to. I'm having troubling getting the feel for aiming an ability on who I want (I usually get pelted just by being out of cover a little bit) and never know when my selected ability is going to be used. It feels out of my control a lot of the time.

When it says hit X to mark an ability, what button is it sticking it to?

[Rem]

I started over and figured out what my problem was the first time. Which was, I wasn't an adept. It become obvious from the get go how much better they are than everyone else. They still have the best gun (the pistol) and powers that are actually useful.