It's been a very long time since I have enjoyed ( or even played threw ) a RPG. I really enjoyed Oblivion last year. Yet, my enjoyment of the game dwindled after a about 50 hours in. However, a new game in the form of Mass Effect has completely changed that tune. Its just something truly unique. As I have been home for a couple of days due to the flu ( agh ). I decided to play threw Mass Effect. Every moment of MS that I experienced I knew that I was playing something truly unique. It wasn't a RPG with a generic story, or gameplay. It was something truly different in many ways. Though it does ultimately boil down to "Stop bad guy from destroying the universe". It was just much more then that, and I found myself emotional invested in every single character and every action that took place. Something that Biowares other titles like KOTOR ( which I did really enjoy ) didn't do so much for me. There are a couple of issues I have with the game. One being that the story mode is rather short. I finished the story mode in about 13 hours. However, there is just so much more to do in the game. SO much that if you want to do everything extra there is it will significantly up that time drastically. There is also some foibles with the combat also. Your AI controlled partners aren't always smart. As well as that there are some enemy types in the game that have the same exact AI controls for every type in the game. There are also some graphical problems in the game. Lots of pop up and graphical glitches and such. But this is just me trying to pick at least some things that keep this from being perfect. Because this is one of the most polished RPG's I have played in years. And I knew once I finished playing the game, that I have truly played something special. As well as felling a strange an sudden urge that I haven't had in years, I wanted to play some more RPG's. Who knows, maybe I'll pick up Lost Odyssey.
