Played Oblivion for months and loved and thinking of buying Mass Effect. If anyone has played both comparision would be nice to hear and in your opinions which was BETTER. Is Mass worth Picking up????
Played Oblivion for months and loved and thinking of buying Mass Effect. If anyone has played both comparision would be nice to hear and in your opinions which was BETTER. Is Mass worth Picking up????MrYates808
No question that you should get Mass Effect, especially if you enjoyed Oblivion. ME is definitely not as long as Oblivion but is still an excellant action-RPG that I highly recommend.
no, its not. you can customize your character a lot more in oblivion and,as a result, feel a part of the world. But in mass effect, you are on a linear quest to save the galaxy as Shepard. Don't get me wrong, ME is lots of fun and has a decent story. But, there is no way that it is a better game than oblivion. Even graphically, they are about on par, except for the character textures in ME, those are way better.
Is Mass free roaming like Oblivion? Is the storyline pretty deep? I kinda like the ida of having a shorter RPG, Oblivion wore me out!MrYates808
ME is free roaming in that you can freely travel between worlds as you wish. However, once you're there and traveling on foot it's pretty linear. The storyline is awesome. One of the best plots and some of the best characters in a video game so far. My opinion of course.
[QUOTE="MrYates808"]Is Mass free roaming like Oblivion? Is the storyline pretty deep? I kinda like the ida of having a shorter RPG, Oblivion wore me out!Bane_v2
ME is free roaming in that you can freely travel between worlds as you wish. However, once you're there and traveling on foot it's pretty linear. The storyline is awesome. One of the best plots and some of the best characters in a video game so far. My opinion of course. The thing that I liked about ME is that it wasn't so overwhelmingly big. You can play through it a couple of times and have different experiences and you don't feel like you're missing out on 50% of the content.
Mass Effect is amazing. I've never played an RPG where I've felt so compelled to complete every side quest. It's got a great story, great character models, and you can be a complete a-hole.
Oblivion was a complete and utter snoozefest. I paid 60 bucks for it when it first came out for PS3 and I tried getting into it 4 seperate times. Each time I got about 5 or 6 hours in and it literally bored me so much that my stomach turned.
They are totally different games. Oblivion is a real RPG, Mass Effect is kind of a dumbed down in that regard. Mass Effect claim to have an open universe, but unless you are playing through the main storyline there isn't really much to do and the sidequests only serve to increase XP. If you're looking for something like Oblivion, I think Mass Effect may disappoint although it is a great game in its own right.
That being said, someone who likes one is likely to enjoy the other. I absolutely loved Mass Effect and consider it one of the best games for the 360 to date.
At the absolute very very least you should rent it.
I actually liked it better. It might not be techically as impressive or as much gameplay involved, but I liked the story and enviroment better. Don't get me wrong, oblivion is obviously a fantastic game but Mass Effect is a great sci-fi based RPG. If you liked KOTOR, you should definitely check it out.
Oblivion is an amazing game, however Mass Effect is equally amazing. Mass Effect may not be quite as long as Oblivion but it's amazing all the same. It has a really good story-line in depth gameplay and you could play through it 5 times and have different endings and encounters. If you are just a fan of a good story and a great rpg Mass Effect is well worth picking up.
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