While I enjoyed the combat in ME even though third person shooters aren't something I typically play (I haven't owned a console since the Nintendo 64, so I don't normally play 'consoley' games), I was more interested in the story, the neat environments (I loved being on The Citadel), and most especially, the interactions and dialogue choices with the NPCs. A few RPG's have done a great job of providing interesting dialogue options over the years, but Bioware (especially the Bioware of old) seems incredibly keen at being able to provide very interesting and creative ways for players to interact with the NPCs.

I felt an almost real connection between Commander Sheppard and the main NPC's throughout the ME series, and that, in my opinion, is something that only some of the best games ever made have been able to do. Even some of the most enjoyable RPG's to date didn't provide that kind of unique character interaction, though they may have had a great story, or great stat-based character development, or great combat, or all of the above - but not necessarily the capacity to really make you feel an almost lifelike connection between your character and the NPC's.

Maybe it's hard to explain, and it's probably not something everyone that plays the ME series is going to feel the same way about. For me though, that's what sets ME apart from the rest.

This is the third comment of this type in this thread. Can we stop with this ignorant elitist bullshit? Was Gothic a console game? Perspective means nothing... ugh.

You aren't particularly intelligent if you aren't capable of realizing that third-person perspective is mostly a console thing. Probably takes an IQ of less than 100 to realize that.

Also you seem to be the only one that has a problem with it. There was obviously nothing elitist about the reference I made to console games. Seems to me that you're the only one here with a problem, so if you can't handle the discussion perhaps you should avoid this thread.

You should've posted "MAJOR SPOILERS" on your thread title....

Shame on you.
You aren't particularly social to feel the need to be that insulting toward other people.

Probably takes an education more important then yours to raise an individual with a minimum of social manners... It also takes a little more maturity then you have to give an intelligent argument instead of directly critisizing people's intelligence.

Even if you were right, I'd still be ashamed to share the same forum as a less then civilised creature like you.

I'm sorry but I'm going to have to defend elfomongo on this. While it's certainly nice, again, you SHOULD EXPECT spoilers when a thread title involves "beaten a trilogy" and you've only played a partial part of it or nothing.

How is that so bloody hard to understand?!?!?

I was expecting a "I've beaten the trilogy, was disappointed by the length, ending... the experience was overall interesting... etc..." ... I've read A-LOT of "I've beaten this or that game" and never has it been spoiled to that extent.

Okay. I would call that luck as I've never seen those types of threads without at least some minor spoilers but I guess we all draw the line between what is and what's not spoilers differently. I usually avoid what I could find as spoilers or I enter knowing that I could be spoiled and will have to live with it. Suffice to say it's usually easy to tell if a threat might contain spoilers or not.

Well now I know to watch out for Elmofongo's post... I Usually Always post a warning about Spoilers, even when I'm posting a walkthrough... as some people might wanna know how to beat a section without necessarily know what happens in the cut-scene during that section.

It might be relative, but it doesn't cost a dime to precise that there'll be spoilers.

Heck, i've even seen let's play videos on youtube where the author would say "Major spoiler story-based here, if you wanna skip it go to 7:45 " and I really respect this.

Look it was a fucking accident and I assumed most of you guys already knew the ending since its been almost a fucking year since the game released.

But I will take this thread in mind that I will put "SPOILERS" before I write OK?

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Look it was a fucking accident and I assumed most of you guys already knew the ending since its been almost a fucking year since the game released.

But I will take this thread in mind that I will put "SPOILERS" before I write OK?
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In that logic I must know the ending to most of GOG games since they're easily older then a year.

Apology accepted, though you might wanna watch your language..

Sorry than its just your the second guy I explained myself to.

http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/well_i_beaten_the_entire_mass_effect_trilogy/post27

Wow... that guy was plain rude.

It's quite clear by your interactions with others in this thread that you're in fact the one having a difficult time interacting with others. I feel sorry for you that it's so difficult for you to get along.

Also, I like how you criticize me for defending my position when the other guy quoted my first perfectly nice post, and then proceeded to yell at me for it. It's called having balls. If you're going to criticize me, expect me to retort, because I'm not a sissy.

And finally, as far as your insults towards me go (ironic that you'd say insults are uncivilized and unsocial but then you proceed to criticize me -- logic much?), all I can say is that I'm an undergraduate physics student. I've already completed enough math courses to have a minor in mathematics (three semesters of calculus, differential equations and linear algebra), so I'm pretty sure my education level is just fine. I also traveled all over the world when I was in the military, so I'm pretty sure my understanding and application of social etiquette is quite diverse.

Long story short -- It's you, not me. Now, please get this thread back on course and quit arguing with people, otherwise, the same thing goes for you that I told the first guy - if you can't handle this discussion, then stop visiting this thread.

Edit: Sorry about the formatting in this post. I cannot get the system to put a space in between the quote and my first sentence no matter what I do.

I down-repped most of this page for being off-topic and for being well on its way to a full-blown flame war.

On topic, how much DLC did you get? Some of it is really good. It's hard to say which DLC is my favourite; it's a toss-up between Bring Down the Sky and Overlord.