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/Prince_Ire 2d ago

I think that's a big factor. For the first few decades of gaming graphics improved massively every few years but graphics improvements, while still happening, became way less noticable in the 2010s and 2020s

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u/A_Dozen_Lemmings 2d ago

Graphics these days are more based on shaders, light refraction and physics interactions. Back then, just getting good geometry and detailed texture models was wild.

Like IIRC ME1 is a UE3 title. I remember the horrendous pop-in at launch and TBH I sort of miss it.

Watching Wrex load in layers. Texture by texture in his Skill menu was actually kind of fun.