by sarahdragon26
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I’m not a gamer who enjoys playing war games. I don’t even like hearing about real life wars. It’s depressing and a tragic loss of life. I was honestly amazed much I was enjoying Mass Effect 3 and the storyline behind it. In some ways, it reminded me of Metal Solid 4 for the PS3. Which I was also surprised I liked. Mass Effect 3 shows many real life things. Like the real effects of war and what it does to people. The loss. The pain. Everything involved. Especially the emotions of those who are in some ways the big players in wars
and that they’re choices with allies and enemies can cause death and destruction or life and freedom. All by the freedom of a choice.
When it comes to Bioware games, at least with my experience from Dragon Age, is that I was expecting a game that would take me several weeks to complete. In Mass Effect 3, this was not the case. In fact, it only took me a total of 24 hours all together, over the course of a few days, to beat everything. And that includes scanning all the planets for resources and war assets. Which was another thing that just didn’t make sense to me. Those war assets, did they help in the final battle or were they just additions to the story? Were they just simple fetch quests? In truth, I don’t know if they were a help or not. The ending didn’t make answering that question any clearer.
There weren’t many technical problems that I noticed, but there were a few. One of the many reasons why I play more PC games then PS3 now is the loading times. In Mass Effect 3, there were loading screens that seemed to take forever. And I mean forever. One time I was waiting for five minutes
for a loading screen to finish while on the Krogan Homeworld. I actually picked up a book and started reading because it was taking so long. One other problem that stood out for me was when my character was walking around the worlds, the game would freeze or lag for a moment or two, then pick itself back up. I know it’s not my PS3 because none of my other games have these kinds of problems.
When I first heard the sound of the Reapers in the beginning of the game, I just blinked. All I could think of was, WOW. That is one amazing sound. It was different, strange, but really cool. It just spoke of a terrorifying feeling. And it had the desired effect. Especially at the part where I saw the little boy my character tried to save get on a shuttle to escape and there was this creepy sound. Then I see the Reaper and all I can think to myself is, Oh My God. I kept saying, out loud, Please hurry. Get out of there. But the kid is killed when the shuttle is shot down by the Reaper. I actually started to cry when that happened. The images and the sounds just ...
