Something Awful pokes fun at Mass Effect

holy crap that was funny.

When I think "12 Angry Men," I don't think Tony Danza. Do you?

Copypasta at its finest.

Tony Danza!? was he in a remake or something?

Dumb.

That was funny?

The feature that they seem to be criticizing is completely optional, it's there for people who want to find out more about the game and the game world. Additionally, you're not reading text, and everything is done with exceptional voice talent.

Heh.

If you criticize lots of dialogue in games, then you're clearly missing the point of why someone would play through Mass Effect.

Tony Danza was in the remake.

it's called a joke guys lol. I adore mass effect as much any fan of it but i can see what they were getting at with it. Having an in depth convo with some dude then saying sorry not interested is kinda odd, but funny

They also seem to be making the point that the options you choose do not correspond to the things your character says. This is true, however they always hold the same meaning as the abbreviated choice you make.

And as someone who loved KotoR, I was extremely disappointed by this game.

Tony Danza? That mediocre remake? When I think of 12 Angry Men there is only one man worth mentioning and that man is Henry Fonda.

Oh that Marmaduke, always getting yourself into such peculiar predicaments!

I always think of John Shepard in Stargate when they say shepard!

I have to go now.

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Marmaduke can actually be hilarious. Check out this website, where a guy explains Marmadukes humor.

http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/

I know that sounds pretty stupid, but this website is consistently hilarious.


Also, while I haven't always found much funny on somethingawful, Video Game Articles is always funny. The 1 sentence reviews are all you really need.

It was stupid up until the last couple of panels, starting when Sheppard said, "You just got big timed, little man."

"you'll exchange more words with your enemies than you will bullets"

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Of course the last (and perhaps the only) RPG I played where I was satisfied with both the quantity and quality of writing was Planescape, so I might be in the minority here.

Too bad that whole parody reminded me a little too much of the actual storyline in Mass Effect. Amazed as I was I was able to finish this snoozer, this story seemed like they took all the bad things about Star Wars and Halo and combined it into one weak plot.

Rather lame.

BioShock - GOTY.

love, honkyjesus

Hilarious! Ask about one thing, hear about another. Ask, inquire, bail out. LOL. Captures any game that relies heavily on character chosen dialog to drive the story.

I don't fault Mass Effect for it's story, even though it was pretty generic sci-fi, but where I do fault it is the graphical glitches throughout. The game can't keep a steady framerate to save it's life, and textures pop in and out at random. Tack onto that the fact that you get to choose between Good and Still-good-but-kinda-a-douche, and not between good and evil (you can't kill random civilians) and the game is a dissapointment compared to KOTOR.

Not to mention that I played for an hour thinking that my disc was screwed, or my TV was screwed, only to go to the options and see a freaking setting for "Cinema Grain" (or something to that effect. It added hideous flecks of grain to the picture) and it was on by default. I don't know which idiot made that happen. Not to mention the bugs, and the elevators. If I had to rate the game, I'd give it an 8.5 overall, after having taken off 1.5 for bugs and for graphical F-ups.

tmac I don't even understand your comment.

Mass Effect's plot was typical for videogames (deep but corny) and the dialogue system didn't help and rarely changed anything in the game. Along with obvious technical issues best evidenced in something as simple as getting lodged someplace where you can't get out and have to re-load and lame combat the case is pretty clear.

BioShock meanwhile had a story a plot-twist unlike any other in a videogame.

If I need to explain simplicity to an even further degree let me know, sir.

Hey joystiq, you guys can stop judging corny titles when you stop using cat macros and thinking it's funny.