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Re:A video game that lets you make video games by setr on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:28AM (#22395310)
The game industry in general has a memory of about 10 years, perhaps 15 years tops. They'll praise innovation and radical differentiation despite the core features being the core features in major games just two decades earlier.

The favorite example is star control 2 versus Mass effect, the latter being a clear spiritual successor and yet somehow managed to be worse in nearly every aspect except graphics, and perhaps combat (which, in general, is fairly bland and uneccesary in both titles... but ME does admittedly have more depth to it's combat)

So yes, this is clearly revolutionary technology.

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Re:A video game that lets you make video games by imtringued on Sunday February 23, 2020 @07:02AM (#22396462)
A few years ago I was looking for space themed games where you control a ship and are allowed to trade. Think of Escape Velocity, Star Sonata 1/2, Space Rangers, Freelancer, X3, etc. For some reason a lot of forum posts were about Mass Effect when it comes to space games. When I actually played Mass Effect 2 I realized that it was just a generic cover shooter like Mafia 2 or Sleeping Dogs. Oh and it was so glitched I fell off the map multiple times and often got stuck on top of random objects like tables. It was an absolutely awful experience.
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Re:A video game that lets you make video games by setr on Sunday February 23, 2020 @05:49PM (#22400099)
Hm. Not really what I was getting at -- ME was perfectly functional, just the characters, races, inter-racial relationships (non-romantic), exploration mechanisms (eg ME bounds you by plotline, SC2 bounds you by fuel and danger), and world history -- all of the core components that made ME interesting as a title -- were substantially inferior to its decades-older predecessor.

The only aspects it managed to be superior were irrelevant to the main thing it was trying to be

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Re:A video game that lets you make video games by Narishma on Sunday February 23, 2020 @10:39AM (#22397316)
Mass Effect is an action RPG, so I'm not sure why you're even comparing it to those other games. Of course it's nothing like them.
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Re:A video game that lets you make video games by simion314 on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:24PM (#22398100)
You did not know how to search? Mass Effect is about a beautiful world and lore to explore, cool quests and hard decisions.
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