User blog comment:Nostalgia of Iran/What great RPGs stand as equals to the Mass Effect games?/@comment-4237253-20130311061433/@comment-4950455-20130311061857

Gah, this again?

I think it is probably true that Mass Effect grew steadily less immersive in the role-playing sense, but putting "cover-based shooter" in opposition like that reads like another attempt to define "role-playing game" primarily in mechanical terms. I'm kind of sick of that.