[QUOTE="smerlus"][QUOTE="dvader654"] I wrote a review you can read in our review thread. Of course I played it and it was a poor RPG if that is what it was going for. It was a poor shooter as well. Yeah you had a ton of tiny boxes to raise your stats an insignificant amount like 1%, OHHH what an improvement. ME2 handled it much better making each increase be significant. I understand it removed the raising stats for weapons and choices which I feel was fine, weapons should be based on the players skill not a random dice roll. Then there was the million useless items found everywhere, a complete waste of time. If you enjoy menus ME1 is for you, sorry but I like playing a game instead. Bioware created the first true shoots RPG hybrid, the RPG aspects are still there just streamlined so that the focus remains on the action. What you want is the same bioware RPG over again. How dare them try a new genre!!!! Oh no cause we don't have enough of the same wrpgs. ME is one if a kind, there is no shooter with the options and story of ME, a true original. [/QUOTE] Ok so you have played it so you should realize that when you said they didn't make a game for RPG players you were wrong. It's not like BioWare accidentally created the first ME as an RPG. Second its an action RPG and it is specifically created for people that want instant gratification....once again it's what BioWare stated they intended to do and they did that. That's what makes it a poor RPG. [/QUOTE]

They made a game that was lost between two genres, it did not do either very well. They found what they should focus on in ME2. What makes you think ME1 was a better RPG than it was a shooter? It had more choices but those choices were implemented into a poor combat system which to me makes those choices irrelevant. If the entire goal of moving around stats is to better your combat, then why do you want the combat to remain crappy. Basically you are saying you are in favor of more menus, less action, its crazy. They fixed the problem in ME2. All the RPG elements that mattered like the story, choices, classes, leveling all remain. They filtered out what was not needed.

And what is this instant gratification bullcrap I keep hearing from you guys. What sitting in a menu distributing points instantly makes the game more "hardcore". You feel better cause you put 1% more into weapon power than armor. Its all smoke and mirrors in a game like this. In a true RPG where your skills as a player doesn't matter sure your stat choices matter. In a game where you are in control, where your skill is the most important aspect all that matters is that your health increases, you have the powers distributed the way you want them and your weapon selection fits the situation. Thankfully Bioware focused on those things. ME1 is no different from ME2, its just a cluttered mess with too many options where they didnt need to be.

Bioware wanted to make an action RPG from the start, to make an action RPG you need quality action. It is as simply as that. They failed in some ways with ME1 and I guess that gave RPG fans hope that they wouldn't make it an action RPG.

They made a game that was lost between two genres, it did not do either very well. They found what they should focus on in ME2. What makes you think ME1 was a better RPG than it was a shooter? It had more choices but those choices were implemented into a poor combat system which to me makes those choices irrelevant. If the entire goal of moving around stats is to better your combat, then why do you want the combat to remain crappy. Basically you are saying you are in favor of more menus, less action, its crazy. They fixed the problem in ME2. All the RPG elements that mattered like the story, choices, classes, leveling all remain. They filtered out what was not needed.

And what is this instant gratification bullcrap I keep hearing from you guys. What sitting in a menu distributing points instantly makes the game more "hardcore". You feel better cause you put 1% more into weapon power than armor. Its all smoke and mirrors in a game like this. In a true RPG where your skills as a player doesn't matter sure your stat choices matter. In a game where you are in control, where your skill is the most important aspect all that matters is that your health increases, you have the powers distributed the way you want them and your weapon selection fits the situation. Thankfully Bioware focused on those things. ME1 is no different from ME2, its just a cluttered mess with too many options where they didnt need to be.

Bioware wanted to make an action RPG from the start, to make an action RPG you need quality action. It is as simply as that. They failed in some ways with ME1 and I guess that gave RPG fans hope that they wouldn't make it an action RPG.