Mass Effect (planned series) review

Nice job to whoever made the text around the Mass Effect logo. I haven't seen that sort of extra effort in a review for a while. Could this be heralding a Cheshire Cat Renaissance?

Thanks! Now onto my helping Ken out on the new GameJams so we can get back into the flow of things.

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Me, ONOE, and LaughingMan all post a written review after a long hiatus — all of them are taken as given.

*STAR* releases two episodes of the Silver Screen Podcast featuring key Cheshire Cat Studios members — "Eh, good job, I guess."

Zimes gets a flashy title card — "CCS IZ BACK, BITCHEZ!"

Or were you referring to the volume of the review? In that case, yes, you can clearly see our good friend Zimes has put alot of effort into this one. Oh, and the good news? There are still two other reviews in the makes!

LOL! Nice catch CineMax!

What can really be said about Mass Effect to those who had played it firsthand? It is a fantastic and thought provoking science fiction game that I would dare say rivals the original Star Wars trilogy. The story is not necessarily the best ever written but it doesn't have to be because I felt that it was character driven compared to story driven. Furthermore the story is set in colorful universe of alien species that unlike most other science fiction franchises feel entirely alien and does not directly relate to human history and characteristics. Psychic reproduction, verbally expressing emotions, reproducing by the thousands, individual artificial intelligence units that compound their intelligence in mass, universal genocides by a superior race. An infinite universe would truly be alien to everything that defines the human condition. That is why I feel that though we will likely never see space exploration or experience an alien encounter the universe that exists within Mass Effect would be the most accurate. A great adventure story set to a realistic vision of outer space -relative to moon men with elf ears- is a great experience for those of us who will never live to see the real thing.

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I never said anything about the first podcast but the second I said quote

I never said 'meh'.



I was referring to the presentation and the first impression a newb gets from visiting the home page. Mass Effect, Rocksmith and Eve all look more like professional title cards instead of the boring looking screen shot or official artwork pasted as is. When I come here and see a nice title card on the home page it catches my attention better. A plain picture of Mass Effects Shepard is 'meh' because I don't know what you are selling me. If I saw times new roman text on the picture it would look like shit and I would have formed a bias in my head that the review will be shit too. When I see the fancy text I will click inside to skim it over and when the inside page has a big background and a banner in the curvy header its an even stronger first impression. But maybe that's just what I do and no one else.


What ever floats your boat.

I think that A_M said more than Zimes while using less words.

Fair enough. A rather excessive exaggeration on my part, I admit.


I see. Still, like you yourself admitted, Cheshire Cat Studios has been using "professional", as you described them, title cards for quite some time now, so I was rather baffled why the one for Mass Effect had caught your attention so much.


Oi, cut the big guy some slack, will you?

I couldn't resist.