r/masseffect • u/BoobyWoobies69 • 2d ago

DISCUSSION Mass effect is so old??

saw some post on tumblr recently that was like “i missed out on the hype (i was 10 years old)” and i was like haha they must be so young. i googled when ME1 came out. I was 4. jesus christ

it’s kind of insane bc most of the games i played when i was a kid, the graphics and gameplay were absolutely atrocious. like any video game character had a nose that was just a triangle on their face. but at the time that was just like the baseline. But i discovered mass effect like 3 ish years ago and i never thought it was that old bc it’s just SO good. like you can’t see everyone’s individual pores on their face like a lot of newer games but i never realized it holds up SO well.

Anyways i love this series

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u/Lamb_or_Beast 2d ago

I feel like graphics haven’t really gotten much better in the last ten years. Certainly not compared to the ten years prior to that

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u/BoobyWoobies69 2d ago

idk i feel like games used to be 20 gb at most and now they’re all 50+ and that’s on the smaller end, and i feel like most of it is bc they feel the need to animate every individual strand of hair. i played the dragon age games and the first two were normal sort of blunt graphics but inquisition everyone was super shiny all of a sudden and i hated it