Talk:Mass Effect (video game)

THE Mass Effect.
Shouldn't the "mass effect" section go into greater detail about how mass effect fields are created? Most importantly the discovery of Element Zero, how it increases mass under positive charge, decreases mass under negative charge, and how biotics require trace amounts of Element Zero within their nervous system to use powers?

It could also be useful (without spoiling) if the explanation of mass effect fields within the game's guns, armor and space ships be included without a full codex disclosure? The brief explanation from a game developer seems sort of lacking to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jabrahamcollins (talk • contribs) 08:06, 22 February 2010 (UTC)


 * That's what the Mass Effect Wikia is for. Wikipedia is for general knowledge.  Leo- Roy!  review/gb 07:34, 15 August 2011 (UTC)

Space opera?
Hi, i just don't think mass effect fits in this category, i think it's just "sci fi", even with elements of "hard sci fi"... --Starlingmaximilian (talk) 16:37, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
 * If i don't ger response soon i will edit it myself.. --190.174.137.190 (talk) 01:15, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Curious, how is Mass Effect NOT: "Space opera is a genre of science fiction that emphasizes romantic adventure, interstellar travel, and space battles where the main storyline is centered around interstellar conflict and character drama." Is there any particular reason Mass Effect wouldn't fall into a category defined this way? ialsoagree (talk) 22:30, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
 * John Doe may beat mass effect without the experience of a romance, in this case John didn't played a "space opera" just a sci-fi game with some elements (very few acctualy, but some) of "hard sci-fi" and mainly "military sci-fi" --Starlingmaximilian (talk) 20:13, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
 * And some people will play with romance, so I see that point as convoluted at best. As to the other criteria: "interstellar travel and space battles" as well as being centered around "interstellar conflict and character drama" then Mass Effect still qualifies for the category as it meets all of those criteria. ialsoagree (talk) 22:26, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
 * You can't say mass effect is a "space opera" just because "some people" may play with romance, so you may as well say that mass effect is a "gay themed game" just because you can make love with alenko being a male shephard? you are talking nonsense, the game should be categorized just by the elements you MUST see followong the main storyline till the end of the game, and about "interstellar travel and space battles" as well as being centered around "interstellar conflict and character drama" you can see that in military sci-fi as well. --Starlingmaximilian (talk) 06:50, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Faulty analogy: You can't have an M!Shepard/Kaidan relationship. It was cut. Secondly, this is the type of romance meant, not relationships (though they're not mutually exclusive). Finally, this argument is pointless. This is all your interpretation of the genre. What you need are sources saying one way or the other. And so far, most of the things I've seen previously about ME have stated space opera if they bring the genre up. -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 15:21, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes you are right, i watched a video on youtube and i thought it was male shepard having sex with alenko, but it really wass a female character with a "male skin" on. Anyway, is so stupid what you say, people is sometimes wrong and you can't say that ME is "space opera" just because you found 100000000 people who says so, you can state that god, obvnis, vampires, zombies, etc exist with your stupid argument, i don't need any cite, i'm using logic and discussing, and i repeat, if you can avoid certain aspects of the game, like romance, you can't say that it has "romance related themes" and thats just because you may not encounter or like tu use such feature, will you say that "god of war" is a sex related game because (if you want to) two girls blows kratos cock?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Starlingmaximilian (talk • contribs) 07:12, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
 * I think you need to look up on the rules on how Wikipedia works. I don't care how many people say X is Y. The citations are the defining aspect of what Wikipedia is. "This is all your interpretation of the genre. What you need are sources saying one way or the other." -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 11:07, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

A quick google search yielded several results, including articles from MSNBC and a random blog post titled Mass Effect – The Best Space Opera of All Time. The google search results showed a link with a quote from Bioware's own website, but my computer wouldn't load the page right now so I couldn't check it out for myself. And here's another one from Wired that's actually about ME2. The opening sentence from WP:V states: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true." Wired and MSNBC are pretty reliable sources. I believe that the game is a space opera – though that doesn't really matter – and within five seconds I found sources to back it up. With more effort I'm sure that I could find more. Does anyone have any contradictory evidence? JohnnyPolo24 (talk) 12:56, 25 August 2010 (UTC)


 * whether it is a space opera or not, it's still sci-fi and i just noticed thats it's not mentioned as such, only " action role-playing game". I would like to change it to include sci-fi, if there are no objections. Or someone else could do it too. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.12.183.130 (talk) 13:26, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Alien Sideboob
Got an edit I disagree on with another user. I'm bringing it to the talk page to let others check it out (and because edit summaries are limited). Disagreed edit, my first edit (could be taken for hostility, was not my intention, forgive me if you thought I was being), counter edit, bringing it here. I personally think that, while, yes, the source should be upgraded, I believe that this is a popular enough meme to reference in the article, much like how "The cake is a lie" is referenced in the Portal article. Like "The cake is a lie", "alien sideboob" also has it's own redirect page heading towards the relevant area. It was also the focus of a redirect for discussion back in last June and was a featured redirect when that was still running. As I am still highly inactive on Wikipedia due to personal issues, I may be slow to respond. -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 21:46, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Jack Thompson
If I remember correctly, Jack Thompson famously came out in support of BioWare against FOX. If we can find any sources for that, it would be pertinent to the article; it's basically one of the industry's biggest opponent saying to someone "you know, in this case, they're right and you're wrong." Sceptre (talk) 21:31, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Sales
This and other articles on video games really should contain sales figures (with the last known date specified). Anyone know where we could find some consistently reliable sales figures for video games? I'd like to include other games. JettaMann (talk) 14:16, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Mass Effect (series) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RM bot 17:31, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

"Assuming direct control"
In the "Characters" section, I believe there is an attempt at humor (that I appreciate) using Mass Effect 2's Harbinger line, "assuming direct control," to refer to the player controlling Commander Shephard. It makes the sentence clunky, in my opinion, and as funny as it may be, is somewhat unprofessional, but if people disagree I wouldn't complain. — Law of Entropy (talk) 04:58, 20 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Even if this joke wasn't getting old, it would still sound silly and not very encyclopaedia-like. Xtremeboi7 (talk) 04:04, 15 January 2015 (UTC)--

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 15:39, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Mass Effect → Mass Effect (video game) – Per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games. And then subsequently, Mass Effect (series) to Mass Effect, although I don't think admin privileges are required once this is moved since it should only have the move action in the page's history. Gary King ( talk  ·  scripts )  15:41, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

RfC: Mass Effect series capitalization of alien race names
You're invited to join the discussion at Talk:Illusive Man. czar  &middot;   &middot;  02:42, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Open world
Could this game be classified as open world?ECW28 (talk) 08:37, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 one external links on Mass Effect (video game). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20090308021318/http://kotaku.com:80/348187/ea-calls-fox-out-on-insulting-mass-effect-inaccuracies to http://kotaku.com/348187/ea-calls-fox-out-on-insulting-mass-effect-inaccuracies
 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20080510132018/http://news.filefront.com:80/pc-mass-effect-requires-internet-activation-every-10-days-to-work-blood-sacrifice-to-follow/ to http://news.filefront.com/pc-mass-effect-requires-internet-activation-every-10-days-to-work-blood-sacrifice-to-follow/

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 03:46, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 1 one external link on Mass Effect (video game). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive http://web.archive.org/web/20090227054616/http://bioware.vo.llnwd.net/o1/masseffect/audio/masseffect_podcast_01_part2.mp3 to http://bioware.vo.llnwd.net/o1/masseffect/audio/masseffect_podcast_01_part2.mp3

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 21:03, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Branching storyline
The article says that the story branches at certain points based on the choices you make in the game. Could someone provide some examples? I have played the game but didn't notice anything except at the end whether you choose for the council to survive or not. SharkD  Talk  06:08, 25 June 2017 (UTC)