A video game that lets you make video games

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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