User blog comment:Slowrider7/What brought you to Mass Effect?/@comment-1221773-20110702015032

I had heard about Mass Effect through IGN a while before it released, but I never got a really good idea of what kind of game it was (and the only console I owned at the time was a Wii; if I wanted to play a 360 game, I had to borrow my younger brother's console) and I let it slip by. When Christmas 2007 rolled around, my dad gave me $100 to buy myself a gift, so I went to Gamestop. They didn't have anything good, but a used copy of ME caught my eye. I was able to try it out that night and was sucked in. That was the first time I've ever pulled an all-nighter playing a video game.

The furthest I got at the time was a few assignments on the Citadel though, then my brother wrestled back his 360 and my copy of ME collected dust until August 2008, when I finally bought my own 360. Then I played it, beat it, and loved every second. The addiction to ME has only worsened since.