User blog comment:Slowrider7/What brought you to Mass Effect?/@comment-4074833-20110703031428/@comment-1853169-20110703220053

Somewhat similar introduction. KOTOR left a very good impression of Bioware for me. It wasn't until a friend way later asked me if I had seen or heard of a game being developed called Mass Effect by Bioware, I said no, and after some explanation, I more or less put it out of my mind. It wasn't the next KOTOR, so I wasn't all too interested in some new franchise. Fast-foward to when I'm hanging out with aforementioned buddy and lo and behold he is playing ME on release day. I was very blown away by the look of it. He was on the Citadel gathering evidence against Saren and I got sucked into the setting, I loved the idea of humans not being central to a greater galactic community, and were in fact very new to it. As opposed to the very human-dominant Star Wars and Starfleet from Star Trek being based on Earth. Not to mention how fantastic the Citadel looked. The reputation and the endless hours of fun with KOTOR I had were what solidified me going out and buying the game later that day.