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Hey GSP,

I'm playing Earthbound right now! I am in the 4th town and have defeated 3 of the 8 bosses that block "your base". What's up with the photographer that always takes snapshots and wants you to say "fuzzy pickles" LOL?

Anyway, since I didn't have very many games for the SNES back in the day which one should I play next? I was thinking about giving Chrono-Trigger a try. Is Arcana good?

Just give me a name, and i'll give it a try.

Oh, wow, that's awesome! Earthbound was easily my favorite RPG of all time, before M~Wind came along.

 

I've always been convinced that the "camera man" is actually the main character's dad, disguised as somebody else, in order to be part of his son's adventure. I never liked the fact that your dad is "at work" for the entire game. Besides that, you’ll notice the camera man has yellow hair, just like all the other members of Ness's family. That’s just my theory, but I’ve believed it as a fact for years.

 

Yeah, Chrono Trigger is pretty good, I've just gotten so bored with it over the years. The battles are really clunky & every enemy looks like a cartoon, in my opinion. However, it’s still a fun game with great music, & I love the time-traveling concept. Definitely worth playing a few times.

 

Arcana is great! For such an old, obscure game I’ve been wildly impressed by the level of detail in the character sprites, as well as movement produced by the monsters in battle. Also, for a 16-bit game Arcana has some amazing music! The environments of the game, although very simple, seem lush & vibrant with color. However, Arcana is so old & obscure I doubt you’ll find a copy anywhere but E-bay.

 

Another game I love, but doubt you’ll be able to find, is RoboTrek. Much like Earthbound, this game is filled with nonsensical humor. RoboTrek is one of my favorite RPGs of all time. Nearly every aspect of the game is unique, and haven’t been reproduced even after all these years. Instead of fighting monsters yourself, you create robots to do it for you. Instead of gaining EXP, you gain Megs of Data to gain levels. The entire game is centered around machinery, and as such the soundtrack is an eclectic jumble of bangs, whirs, pops, and bells.

 

Secret of Mana is probably the best game for you to sink your teeth into. Everything about the game is easy to understand. Attacks are performed with the simple press of a button. Equipment & magic menus pop up just as easily. Besides that, you can easily play Secret of Mana for hundreds of hours, since the game is so expansive. The game itself is incredibly glitchy, (colors are off, magic doesn’t appear, saved files vanish overnight, music skips, etc.) but none of these glitches has ever gotten in the way of me playing. Tons of “boss” battles, and really good music, too.

 

Super Mario RPG is another good game. However, like Chrono Trigger, my opinion of it has slipped downwards over time. Still good fun. I like the combination of standard turn-based battles & Mario-style action sequences, outside of combat. Great music & graphics, as well.

 

Breath of Fire 2 is a fantastic game, made by Capcom. This game features graphics & sprites that you can tell are the forerunners of Capcom’s popular fighting games. The battles are excellent & the enemies are very creepy. The music is pretty bland, but the battle theme is great. Be warned, however, that Breath of Fire 2 is an extremely difficult & arduous game. There is no “run” feature, so just walking from one end of a town to the other feels like torture. The game is also extreme long, and the boss battles are nearly impossible. This is a true classic, where you need to level-up 5 times before you can even think about undertaking your first assignment!

 

Final Fantasy 3 is the crème de la crème of the SNES RPG world. Due yourself a favor & grab an original copy of this for the SNES, as every remake to date has managed to butcher all the game’s sound effects. The original cartridge is still the best. What can I say? The game goes on & on for hundreds of hours, with incredible music & incredible enemy sprites (each one hand-drawn by Yoshitaka Amano & then rendered into pixels for the game) A list of weaponry, magic spells, armor, shields, helmets & accessories that even puts M~Wind to shame. A huge cast of unique characters, I think your party ends up with 20 or so members in the end.

 

Hope you took the time to read this crap & I hope it helps.

 

~ GSP

 

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Don't worry if you havnt heard of xeonogears its pretty rare and obscure...

Its actualy got about 5 sequels under the label of Xeonosaga but namco developed those games. Only one i've played is Xeonogears and its probably better than any of the saga games (although i woudnt know i never had a ps2).

Ps1 was always cool because it was cheap and so were the games... When ps2 came out i was happier with my Ps1 and great games like Final Fantasy9 and Chrono Cross (people say FF7 is the best Ps1 FF i disagree FF9 is veryvery good and has incredible graphics for Ps1 possibly the best on Ps1 also i like the fantasy setting better). Anyways when i finaly did get a system i opted for GC then Xbox and i played Morrowind and then i kinda got hooked on the american rpg.

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Thanks GSP!

I did indeed read it all, and I appreciate the input. I am actually playing all of these on my PC. I have all the Roms you just mentioned except SMB-RPG and that's by choice. I have SMB's 1,2,3 and i'm happy with that.

The SNES emulator works flawlessly (almost) and even has a few features that make things easier for certian games, like the ability to save any time you want to. If you are interested, just let me know and i'll give you the low down, (of course it's nothing google can't fix anyway).

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 HALOPWNSU wrote:

Don't worry if you havnt heard of xeonogears its pretty rare and obscure...

Its actualy got about 5 sequels under the label of Xeonosaga but namco developed those games. Only one i've played is Xeonogears and its probably better than any of the saga games (although i woudnt know i never had a ps2).

Ps1 was always cool because it was cheap and so were the games... When ps2 came out i was happier with my Ps1 and great games like Final Fantasy9 and Chrono Cross (people say FF7 is the best Ps1 FF i disagree FF9 is veryvery good and has incredible graphics for Ps1 possibly the best on Ps1 also i like the fantasy setting better). Anyways when i finaly did get a system i opted for GC then Xbox and i played Morrowind and then i kinda got hooked on the american rpg.

Final Fantasy Tactics rocks.

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I played some more Earthbound last night and now i'm in "Moonside", the alternate reality of "Fourside" that you some how get to by checking behind the counter in the cafe. Talk about wierd!

The monsters I had to defeat just prior to that were really tough too. A guitar that put my party to sleep (minus the girl due to her being kidnapped) and then records that used lightening attacks. I kept the badge that reflects them, but that was still a tough combo for my 2 characters.

My dad sure is generous with the allowance. My ATM has nearly 40,000 in it! Wish my real dad was loaded like that! LOL.

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It did rock but i don't think it was as good as FF9 quality wise (maybe gameplay but i love traditional turn based rpgs so i'll go with FF9) but tactics was great don't get me wrong it just got extremely boring at the end (but most games do).

Anyways maybe i just think that because i owned tactics for a very long time and i've only played FF9 once all the way through. But FF9 had a much better and more uplifting story (it actualy involved love and caring unlike FF tactics witch was like one downer after the other, except at the ending cinema with Ramza and his sister that was pretty sweet (but was quickly followed up by Delita killing his wife).

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Goonie....  Chrono trigger is an amazing game!

 

I loved playing that abck when my snes worked...

 

It has like 6 different endings!

 

I would defiently recromend this game

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 HALOPWNSU wrote:

It did rock but i don't think it was as good as FF9 quality wise (maybe gameplay but i love traditional turn based rpgs so i'll go with FF9) but tactics was great don't get me wrong it just got extremely boring at the end (but most games do).

Anyways maybe i just think that because i owned tactics for a very long time and i've only played FF9 once all the way through. But FF9 had a much better and more uplifting story (it actualy involved love and caring unlike FF tactics witch was like one downer after the other, except at the ending cinema with Ramza and his sister that was pretty sweet (but was quickly followed up by Delita killing his wife).

I'm sorry, Poonz, but I am not with you on this one. I just don't care much for Final Fantasy, anymore.

I personally believe Final Fantasy 7 has the worst ending of any RPG ever created. Not even close to being worth the 99:99:99+ hours of work it took to get that far! I absolutely refuse to play beyond Disc 2 now.

I thought Squaresoft would redeem themselves with FF8, but I was sadly mistaken. I can't stand that jackass main character (who's only line of dialogue seems to be, "Whatever..." in any situation) and, in fact, I personally didn't care for any of the party members at all. I felt no motivation at all to even play the game, and it became very obvious why once I realized the background story to the game. Everybody in the game grew up in the same orphanage, just a few years ago, and yet they have no recollection of one another. I'm sorry if you feel different, but that is literally the dumbest f*cking thing I have ever heard of. I smoke herb all the friggin' time, and even my memory isn't that bad!! And what did that guy Laguna & his 2 stooges have to do with ... anything?

It was very obvious with FF9 that they wanted to capture a bit of the glory of FF6, before switching the series over to PS2. While I was delighted by the fanatsy world, at first, things quickly escalated downhill for me. Same as FF8, I personally don't like any of the party members. (the idiotic knight, the stupid blue thing that likes to eat stuff, and the "hey-why-not" wizard from every other FF ever created.) And it was actually a bit of an insult to me that they just recycled every piece of equipment from Final Fantasy Tactics & slapped it into FF9. I felt as if Squaresoft wasn't even trying anymore, so I made to choice to give up on Final Fantasy.

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I finally beat Earthbound yesterday. That final boss pissed me off to no end. I had never used the "pray" feature and didn't realize it was integral to actually beating him. Then I used it 8 times in a row, and on the 8th it said the prayer was lost in the darkness, so I quit praying and continued to fight and heal and fight and heal and fight and heal, (rinse and repeat for 30 minutes or so) and finally die! On my next attempt I prayed one more time and that was that.

I was really hoping for a chance to hit (Pokey) the fat kid in the nads a bit more, but he ran away.

Last night I started Chrono Trigger and I beat the first boss, a Wizard that kidnapped the Queen.

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 Space Goonie wrote:

Last night I started Chrono Trigger and I beat the first boss, a Wizard that kidnapped the Queen.

 

Yeah man... You wont be disapointed :)

 

I never rrly got into earth bound... But i will play it someday for skooma's sake :P

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Final Fantasy 7 was overated but still good.

I agree with FF8 but still it wasnt a bad game (it got a bit pointless towards the end all you had to do was cast the aura spell and use limits ....lame).

But FF9 was a gem i don't see how you can bash that.... The dumb old knight was based on the old Knight class, plus Steiner wasn't as dumb as he seemed (he got with a fine pallidin chick to). Vivi and Zidane were also the best characters in any PsFF. As for the Blue mage (i forget his name) he was simply a blue mage something they have done many times in FF. All i'm saying is they didn't do anything new with FF9 and thats what i liked (as opposed to FF8) and frankly i love FF6 but i've played that so many times i'd much rather play 9 again. Anyways all i'm sayin was Tactics was fun gameplay wise but its story was a downer i enjoy characters that actualy care about each other.

FF9 is one of my favorite FF's and i don't think its bad at all as a matter of fact its probably my favorite. It also seemed a lot longer than the previous ones. And i don't see why the character desighns suck... What do you expect a huge armor wearing night to look like? Cloud?

Plus i enjoyed FF9's system it was simple yet fun. I loved the fact that you could learn new skills everytime you got a new weapon, armor... I to am disapointed by FF8, FF10 and all the other crap after. But FF9 was a step in the right direction for me i loved it. I like FFtactics to but when it comes down to it i prefer 9's story, Tactics might be a little ahead gameplay wise but i don't agree with the story being better (maybe more politcal but i'd rather play people who actualy care about each other) one thing you can't get in Morrowind is a party who cares about you.

Also to my brother and certain non Final Fantasy fans i know Steiner was one of there favorite characters. He was actualy a lot cooler than Squall from FF8.

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CRAP

Why hasn't anyone mentioned Diablo2 lord of destruction???

This game revolutionized the online game... It was also the first (and only) free online rpg. It also has unlimted gameplay (kinda like Morrowind but for combat not exploration).

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I agree fully on that I still play D2 on battle.net totally worth the money.

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Taldarin whats your login and do you play ladder or nonladder?

My logins Diablozombie.

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Also don't listen to Skooma FF9 has all the best elements from FF6 and in my opinion is more entertaining (come on cool summons or still picture summons? FFtactics is guilty of this to..).

First of all i love the job system and i hate bland characters that can be anything they wan't (FF8, FF7). I wan't a character to be specialized and FF9 did that. As a matter of fact FF6 had that learn any skill curse going for it (although the characters did have a few unique skills). Also i don't think the characters were stale at least they didn't have pointless backstorys like most FF's. All i'm saying was FF9 is easily better than FF8, and i'd say even FF7 also i don't think you can compare FF9 with tactics, Tactics is a completely different game (although i hated tactics story i loved the gameplay but the story was super boring). All i'm sayin was FF9 was a fun lighthearted FF that played more like the old ones i loved its story to because the characters actualy cared about each other (as opposed to just saying whatever). Also the superdeformed characters might seem kiddy but... The characters in FF6 or Tactics weren't super deformed? I think they were...I could go on on and on why i love FF9 but honestly i could care less if you don't (as you are missing out on the only new rpg that even closesly resembles the oldschool FF's) after all opinions are opinions but... I don't see any of the characters being lame i see them as being typical fantasy characters. Tell me why nobody complained about Khajits and Argonians but everybody hates the Ratchick in FF9 (freya) or the frog thing (i remebered its name queena) these are staple fantasy characters with staple job classes if you hate a huge armor wielding knight then how can you like good fantasy at all?

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All valid points, Poonz. I'm glad we can talk about this.

I did like the skills you could buy in FF9, and the Chocobo Treasure Hunt, but that's about it. The rat-chick & the dude with the red hair were the only characters I could even stomach looking at, so I guess you could say I liked them well enough. I have no love at all for the frog thingy. I was even further disappointed to learn that he used Blue Magic ("Lore" from FF6) which is my favorite aspect of any FF game.

The fact that one of the main bad guys is a dude in a dress really took away any element of fear. I doubt Sephiroth would be very creepy if he was prancing about in a little black cocktail dress.

The character's names also appeared to have no thought put into them at all.

My problem with the knight is it appears to me he was custom-tailored to look & act like a buffoon. He's constantly doing squats for some reason, his armor doesn't even look like it fits, and I can't say I'm a fan of the obnoxious *klank, klank, klank* he makes as he runs around. However, yes, I admit he was very strong & actually was a good addition to the party.

I played the game nearly to the end, but I gave up due to boredom. I heard the ending is really good, but actually playing through the entire game just to watch it is way too high a price for me.

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 Space Goonie wrote:

I finally beat Earthbound yesterday. That final boss pissed me off to no end. I had never used the "pray" feature and didn't realize it was integral to actually beating him. Then I used it 8 times in a row, and on the 8th it said the prayer was lost in the darkness, so I quit praying and continued to fight and heal and fight and heal and fight and heal, (rinse and repeat for 30 minutes or so) and finally die! On my next attempt I prayed one more time and that was that.

I was really hoping for a chance to hit (Pokey) the fat kid in the nads a bit more, but he ran away.

Last night I started Chrono Trigger and I beat the first boss, a Wizard that kidnapped the Queen.

L0L! yeah, you should've asked me about Giygas. But I know the feeling: "I'm not waiting until tomorrow night, you die NOW, boss-man!!!"

the Pray feature can actually be really useful in normal combat, but it's a total craphoot. About half of the effects are good, especially when you get some PP restored, but a few of them are actually lethal.

Yup, Pokey does run away, apparently as a "teaser" to imply that a sequel is coming. I've heard rumors, but I assume it's just people talking sh*t. They haven't even ported Earthbound to the GBA yet, and it's only been on the retail market for, oh say, 15 years.

What level did you get up to? Find all of Poo's "King" equipment? Locate any rare items? (rabbit's foot, star pendant, gutsy bat?)

I hope you enjoyed EB, and all it has to offer.

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Hey its all opinion.

But i also liked Vivi (idc if he's a black mage staple thats actuuly whats cool), Garnet (very cool white magic plus she was a lot more sensitive than Tifa like most women, her summons were also one of the best parts) Zidane (i think Zidane was great and stealing from every boss was a challenge) Eiko (sure shes a little girl but she also had some badass summons), and believe it or not i liked Queena i thought she/he added quite a bit more comedy and plus you get your goofy characters in FF meaning the Bard from FF4, Cait sith from FF7, Mog from FF6 (not to mention Gau and others). I dunno i thought the characters were pretty cool kinda like FF6 but i think FF6's characters got a little to hectic (what with 20 of them). Like i said its all opinion but i've played every FF all the way through (or almost every one FF5 was just to boring even if it was basicly tactics) and honestly FF9 was probably my favorite i mean 6 was fun but once you beat it theres not much to do... Besides beat up tyranosaurs.

Also FF9 had a realy great exp enemie (and much cooler than those pots in FF7) it was a DRAGON!!
Kinda like fantasy's suppose to be.

Funny thing is when i got FF9 on launch i had both it and tactics... I know witch one i enjoyed more.
But like i said its all opinions and yea Steiner was suppose to be dumb he's a big bruteish brawler so yea he wasnt suppose to be taken as seriously.

I'm not saying you should like it i'm saying that i think its one of the most well done FF's.

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 GoodSkoomaPipe wrote:

What level did you get up to? Find all of Poo's "King" equipment? Locate any rare items? (rabbit's foot, star pendant, gutsy bat?)

I hope you enjoyed EB, and all it has to offer.

I renamed all of my characters, but their levels ranged from 69-76.

I found all of the King's equipment, except his sword, and I found both the Rabbit's foot and Star Pendant, but not the Gutsy Bat.

I enjoyed Earthbound quite a bit, but when I got near the end I was actually ready to be done. I think the game is just the right length. I would classify it as a cutesy type game, but since it's riddled with humor ranging from teen to adult oriented stuff it maintains a real draw. I'm glad I finally played thru the whole thing, my earlier attempt a few years back stopped right after defeating the gang and it's robot in the first town.

Their are alot of interesting things, like the 3rd character who hasn't seen his dad in 10 years. Moonside, and the Dinasour level that is an obvious homage to Jules Vernes "Journey to the Center of the Earth". Then the whole thing about leaving your body while sending your personna in a robot to do battle in space! Many of the signs in the game are either hilarious or bizaare. Also the levels designed by "dungeon guy" (or something like that) are quirky, especially the statue dungeon that turns into a rappin giant that follows you and gives you a canoe! And then of course Mr. Fuzzy Pickles the photagrapher.

Earthbound is cool. Thanks, because had you not constantly mentioned it I may not have ever gotten around to playing it. Now i'm pretty involved with Chrono Trigger.

I bought a used SNES for $40 in it's 2nd year of existence, but I only had 2 games for it (DKC and a Football game) and then I moved and chose not to take it with me. I didn't play games for about 4 years and then eventually got back into gaming with the Playstation. It appears I missed out on alot of good games during those years!

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 Space Goonie wrote:

 GoodSkoomaPipe wrote:

What level did you get up to? Find all of Poo's "King" equipment? Locate any rare items? (rabbit's foot, star pendant, gutsy bat?)

I hope you enjoyed EB, and all it has to offer.

I renamed all of my characters, but their levels ranged from 69-76.

I found all of the King's equipment, except his sword, and I found both the Rabbit's foot and Star Pendant, but not the Gutsy Bat.

I enjoyed Earthbound quite a bit, but when I got near the end I was actually ready to be done. I think the game is just the right length. I would classify it as a cutesy type game, but since it's riddled with humor ranging from teen to adult oriented stuff it maintains a real draw. I'm glad I finally played thru the whole thing, my earlier attempt a few years back stopped right after defeating the gang and it's robot in the first town.

Their are alot of interesting things, like the 3rd character who hasn't seen his dad in 10 years. Moonside, and the Dinasour level that is an obvious homage to Jules Vernes "Journey to the Center of the Earth". Then the whole thing about leaving your body while sending your personna in a robot to do battle in space! Many of the signs in the game are either hilarious or bizaare. Also the levels designed by "dungeon guy" (or something like that) are quirky, especially the statue dungeon that turns into a rappin giant that follows you and gives you a canoe! And then of course Mr. Fuzzy Pickles the photagrapher.

Earthbound is cool. Thanks, because had you not constantly mentioned it I may not have ever gotten around to playing it. Now i'm pretty involved with Chrono Trigger.

I bought a used SNES for $40 in it's 2nd year of existence, but I only had 2 games for it (DKC and a Football game) and then I moved and chose not to take it with me. I didn't play games for about 4 years and then eventually got back into gaming with the Playstation. It appears I missed out on alot of good games during those years!

You ***! I've been playing Earthbound on & off for 10 years, and I've never once found a Star Pendant! That's the finest body armor you can get in the game, and it protects from nearly all status ailments.

I rename all my characters, too. A great pasttime! My last run the names were: Stevo, Ezra, Mr. 7, and Benny

This time through the cast is: Dude, Polly, Mason, and Chai

Also, I've been leveling-up to a godly degree. I'm in the Stonehenge base right now, trying to find the Sword of Kings, and my highest level is about 75. I've also utilized the Rock Candy glitch to pump up my character's stats a little bit.

L0L! I love Mr. Brick Road, too. And then he becomes the ultimate combination of man & dungeon: Dungeon Man! I'm really glad you liked the game, and could share a small part of something I consider very important. This whole game is pretty much my childhood wrapped up in a small gray plastic cartridge.

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 ELKHUNTER wrote:

Goonie....  Chrono trigger is an amazing game!

 

I loved playing that abck when my snes worked...

 

It has like 6 different endings!

 

I would defiently recromend this game

You know, just the other day I went to Gamestop to see if they had a copy of Metroid Prime: Hunters, unfortunly they didn't but they did have Chrono Trigger for the DS.

Maybe I should grab it...

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 OldPepsiMan wrote:

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I got pretty deep into Chrono, but it got to the point that I had no clue where I was supposed to go next. I was just warping from place to place looking for something to do, and I eventually gave up.

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Yea..... the game gets rrly confusing near the end... But an AMAZING game non the less... Go buy it Tal, You won't be disapointed .... And apparently I cannot format my posts on a mac =(

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ROFL elk got Minesweeper ROFL

 Abbott465 wrote:

ROFL elk got Minesweeper ROFL

Hey now, I'll come after you as well...

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 OldPepsiMan wrote:

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/hopelesslyconfuzzeled

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Did I say mine sweeper.... I ment Oblivion

Btw look at the games played by Elk and you will see what I mean hehehehe...

picked up Mass Effect a few days ago... pretty *** sweet.

I started playing as an Infiltrator (aka: Sniper) but there wasn't much to snipe, so I'm trying out an Adept (Caster type)

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Mass Effect will eat you alive!!!!!!!!!!

No really, I lost sleep to the game which hadn't happened to me sense I played Jade Empire (which ironically, is another Bioware game).

Also:

INFILTRATOR FTW.

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 OldPepsiMan wrote:

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Mass Effect is good. I've played thru it 4 times now with various classes and on each difficulty. I hate the elevators and wish there was more to do on the explorable planets, but for the first game in a planned trilogy they did a fantastic job. The second game is already in development.

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