User blog comment:Aleksandr the Great/Bioware HAS Written Themselves into a Corner/@comment-1503545-20121112224821/@comment-4721065-20121114091810

Well, I would say Mass Effect is superior to Halo in terms of storyline because it doesn't rely on books and non-game media to define its lore. One could say that Mass Effect and Halo have directly opposite ratios of lore given in games/lore presented in books.