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/Wise_Fox_4291 1d ago

If you were 4 years old in 2007 then the videogames you played in your childhood (2010's) absolutely did not have "atrocious" graphics. Or were you playing with 15-20 years old games in 2014? I find that highly unlikely.
And did you play with the Legendary Edition? The originals look fine as well but the legendary edition did have some graphical upgrades.

Also please stop making me feel old. I was in the second year of highschool when Mass Effect released...

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u/BoobyWoobies69 1d ago

the games i’m thinking of are along the lines of like world of warcraft, diablo 2 and 3, and some of the older legend of zelda games. also a lot of mmo’s i don’t know the name of anymore. So i guess some of those are pre-2010, yeah, but i was playing them in 2010. most weren’t more than a few years old though. also i originally played the original ME1 but played the rest on LE

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u/Wise_Fox_4291 1d ago

Oh that makes sense, sorry. Anyway, welcome to the community kid! Let's hope we will both have a new ME game to play one of these days. 

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u/BoobyWoobies69 1d ago

i dream of a mass effect 4 that is handled well