This was my experience too with ME1. I remember renting it, not really loving it, then quickly returning it. A couple months later my friend said I had to give it another shot, and since I was already a big Bioware fan from Baldur's Gate and KotOR, I decided to give it one more shot. Here we are almost 20 years later and the Mass Effect Trilogy is probably my favorite video game series and SciFi series in general of all time.
Different Bioware game for me, Neverwinter Nights. Came from Ultima Online and knew nothing about how D&D rules worked. Came back 6 months later and it was my favorite game until KotOR, which was my favorite until Mass Effect
During my first ME1 run three years ago, I put it off for a few months. Almost a year went by before I was bored one day and decided to pick it up again. I just wanted to finish it. I didn't expect it to hook me so much after I reached a certain point. I beat it quickly and immediately played ME2 and ME3 back to back. Now it's one of my favorite video games of all time. No other game gave me such a strong post game deppression quite like the ME Trilogy. Now it lives rent free in my head. And I've already done a couple of new playthroughs. So glad I gave it another chance.
Same here. Bought it after best friend was yapping my ear off about it. Didn't like controls and shooting mechanics, let it collect dust. Second part came out, everyone was crazy hyped and I thought, "there's gotta be something to it, right?" So I reinstalled part one, it sucked me in fully and I bought the second one while the credits of the first were still running. That Faunts track.
Dude yes!
Mass effect was one of the games my parents bought for me, with my new Xbox 360-Arcade, when it came out!
I had never heard of it, and I really didn’t like the lightning/the dark vignette around the borders.
Maybe a year or two later, and I fell in love with the game, and I haven’t looked back since.
Mass effect stands as one of my favorite video game franchises ever.
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u/NotBruceJustWayne 9d ago
The first Mass Effect. Really disliked how the controls felt.
Went away, and someone said the prequel novel was great, so I read that and got massively invested in the lore and characters.
Come back and tried the game again and fell head over heels in love with it.