I never got to start the trilogy thanks to capping out Dust. Now that I no longer have that obligation, I started the first entry over the weekend and boy oh boy is it a satifying experience.

Flying around in the Normandy.
Taking landing parties down to planets and moons.
It's like I have my own USS Enterprise!

Surveying planets and asteroids for rare minerals, driving around in the Mako, it almost feels like . . . . . . hang on a sec . . . . . . what Dust was supposed to be!

But this is on a console!!!???



IMPOSSIBRU ! ! !

You got on parole early. Sadly, some of us don't have that leisure.

The core of the ME series goes downhill considerably after 1, the trilogy is still good, but they really gutted it in favor of the action side of things. I always got the ME1 atmosphere from playing dust early on, all those unexplored worlds that could have something, or could just be empty. Maybe that's why I stayed this long.

wow your a few years late dude

I never got to start the trilogy thanks to capping out Dust. Now that I no longer have that obligation, I started the first entry over the weekend and boy oh boy is it a satifying experience.

Flying around in the Normandy.
Taking landing parties down to planets and moons.
It's like I have my own USS Enterprise!

Surveying planets and asteroids for rare minerals, driving around in the Mako, it almost feels like . . . . . . hang on a sec . . . . . . what Dust was supposed to be!

But this is on a console!!!???



IMPOSSIBRU ! ! !

I'm working on finishing Skyrim and Dead Space 2 right now. What can I say, I like to wait til games are cheap, $60 no thanks, I'll just beat it in a week. Though ironically I spent $200 on this F2P.

Silly rabbit, you can't finish Skyrim.

When it runs out of trophies, yes, yes you can.

I never got to start the trilogy thanks to capping out Dust. Now that I no longer have that obligation, I started the first entry over the weekend and boy oh boy is it a satifying experience.

Flying around in the Normandy.
Taking landing parties down to planets and moons.
It's like I have my own USS Enterprise!

Surveying planets and asteroids for rare minerals, driving around in the Mako, it almost feels like . . . . . . hang on a sec . . . . . . what Dust was supposed to be!

But this is on a console!!!???



IMPOSSIBRU ! ! !

One of my favorite scifi series, ME2 is by far the best one, try to get all DLC. ME3 had the worst ending :( but also, get all DLC, Leviathan and Citadel dlc are a must

BioWare always make good games...well, except from Dragon Age 2, that was pretty bad imo...

What can I say, I like to wait til games are cheap, $60 no thanks, I'll just beat it in a week. Though ironically I spent $200 on this F2P.

I visited Apocrypha just to collect books.
Do you have the crown of Barenziah?
All the Bugs in a Jar?
Summoned Daedra at the altar under the College?
Chased Ma'iq across the entire bloody map?
Killed the hidden dragon in Blackreach?
Followed the headless horseman to his tomb?
Leapt from Dead Man's Drop? (I think that's its name)
Collected all the Words of Power (glitched ones aside)
Collected the paragon stones in the hidden Vale?

I could go on.

wow your a few years late dude

I played ME 1 and can't understand the hype.
I stopped playing after the game gave me Renegade points for not wanting to **** the blue space chick that wanted me to do a task for her, despite me having no reason to actually want to help her. Probably because the game is geared at hormonal teenagers.

Also, the dialogue system made me feel like the game was posessed. I simply couldn't play anymore because Shepherd would constantly do things that were completely ******* unrelated to my dialogue choice.
And the combat system was unremarkeable and, in fact, clumsy. I player it on PC, if that matters.

I heard the sequels were even worse.

Gaming has been going downhill. It's laughable how Halo and Mass Effect are lauded despite being really bad.

it almost feels like . . . . . . hang on a sec . . . . . . what Dust was supposed to be!

But this is on a console!!!???



IMPOSSIBRU ! ! !

I visited Apocrypha just to collect books.
Do you have the crown of Barenziah?
All the Bugs in a Jar?
Summoned Daedra at the altar under the College?
Chased Ma'iq across the entire bloody map?
Killed the hidden dragon in Blackreach?
Followed the headless horseman to his tomb?
Leapt from Dead Man's Drop? (I think that's its name)
Collected all the Words of Power (glitched ones aside)
Collected the paragon stones in the hidden Vale?

I could go on.

2 was my favorite, by far. Try it on Insanity mode, it's unbelievably good.

Well, that's news to me.

I had been led to believe DUST was meant to be a massively multiplayer online game, not a heavily-directed semi-open-world single player experience. I remember hearing a lot about vehicles being a major factor in DUST too, without the almost-total focus on infantry combat in Mass Effect. I'm also pretty sure DUST was always advertised as having integration with EVE Online, while Mass Effect has space flight integrated directly into it rather than putting that primarily into another game. I also had a pretty strong idea that DUST was a first-person shooter without a sticky cover system, and Mass Effect was third-person with some of the stickiest cover to ever stick itself to a protagonist.

Was I wrong? (Hint: The correct answer is "no")

There are a whole lot of surface similarities between some of DUST's vision and some of Mass Effect's features. There are many reasons why Mass Effect isn't doing anything like what DUST was trying to do though.

And there are a handful of bugs running through the entire Mass Effect series which are worse than anything I've had issues with in DUST even since my closed beta days. Early on when I first started in closed beta, there were occasional times where my PS3 would freeze playing DUST. In every game of the Mass Effect Trilogy, I've had to get into the habit of saving regularly because I never know when the game is going to cause a system freeze and lose whatever progress I hadn't saved yet. Usually, when I'm picking up a Mass Effect game, I play for about 3 or 4 hours, and have to restart my PS3 twice during that time. Usually, when I'm playing DUST, I play for about 3 or 4 hours, and I've only had to restart my PS3 about half a dozen times since Codex.

Not that I'm trying to belittle any of Bioware's achievements with Mass Effect, though. The games are amazing. But you do need to keep in mind that they're not really comparable to DUST in this way.

I had been led to believe
DUST was meant to be
I remember hearing
DUST was always advertised as

Was I wrong?