User blog comment:Echo-Scythe/1 week for 5 years/@comment-118213-20111129235843

Whilst there are aspects of Mass Effect that aren't not too realistic, the Reapers being the most prominent, Mass Effect is a far more likely scenario of humanities future than most other science fiction series, there's not too much difference to normal life. Such as:

Most of humanity still live on earth, under governments that currently exist -such as China and the European Union.
 * Large starships can't surface on planets.
 * Battleships don't have the structural weakness of 'windows', that are aesthetic design for most sci-fi starship - like Star Destroyers.
 * People still worship Jesus Christ.
 * Even Big Ben and the Westminster Palace still exist.

There just isn't too much in Mass Effect that I would want that I don't currently have so my answer would be emphatic no. If the question was asked on a Star Wars wiki for example, you would have a far more enthusiastic yes consensus, people dream of being a Jedi and such; because Star Wars is far from realistic.