Mass Effect is a game which many people like, so you should probably decide for yourself, but I just wanted to let my opinion out. As a disclaimer I am also generally not a fan of SciFi anyway.
Essentially, Mass Effect is supposed to be a great story. I cannot say for sure whether or not this is true, but I am leaning towards disagreeing. I disagree because I felt that the characters generally felt pretty shallow, and the fact that this is a game and not a movie destroyed it's pacing.
Here's what I mean. The game feels like a movie where you can make some dialogue choices that (rarely and minutely) affect the outcome of it. And then, it feels like somebody pauses the movie every so often and says, now the hero ran around killing things. It turns into a game, and a really bad game. The game play is playable, but not enjoyable. You are slogging through these segments to get to the next movie part. By the time I was halfway through the game, this wasn't enough for me, and I just started making my conversations shorter so that I could just see how it ended. The games climax was week due to this, and since finishing it, I do NOT want to play it again, even though there are tons of things I haven't done in the game. I don't want to because I know it wouldn't be fun.
Mass Effect 2 does have my hopes up, as they say they are trying to make it more shooterey, and if it's anything like Borderlands, it'll be lots of fun and I might actually be able to pay attention to the story without constantly being annoyed at the game.
Essentially, Mass Effect is supposed to be a great story. I cannot say for sure whether or not this is true, but I am leaning towards disagreeing. I disagree because I felt that the characters generally felt pretty shallow, and the fact that this is a game and not a movie destroyed it's pacing.
Here's what I mean. The game feels like a movie where you can make some dialogue choices that (rarely and minutely) affect the outcome of it. And then, it feels like somebody pauses the movie every so often and says, now the hero ran around killing things. It turns into a game, and a really bad game. The game play is playable, but not enjoyable. You are slogging through these segments to get to the next movie part. By the time I was halfway through the game, this wasn't enough for me, and I just started making my conversations shorter so that I could just see how it ended. The games climax was week due to this, and since finishing it, I do NOT want to play it again, even though there are tons of things I haven't done in the game. I don't want to because I know it wouldn't be fun.
Mass Effect 2 does have my hopes up, as they say they are trying to make it more shooterey, and if it's anything like Borderlands, it'll be lots of fun and I might actually be able to pay attention to the story without constantly being annoyed at the game.