User blog:Mikrophone/-

How I came across finding pure love for the Mass Effect universe is a little bit strange to me.

During the summer of 2009 [between June and August], I had gone to my local Blockbuster to rent a game using one of my monthly free rentals. I looked around for something that I could play, preferably a single-player title since that is what I felt like playing at the time.

When I came across Mass Effect in the aisle, I thought to myself, "Well, many of my friends say the game is amazing. So I guess I should give it a try."

I rented Mass Effect, returned home and popped in the disk. I gave it a go. As I slowly progressed through the first mission on Eden Prime, I just loss interest quickly. For some reason, the game didn't strike too interesting to me. I finally stopped playing and then left the game to the side. I never completed Eden Prime. To be honest, I didn't even bother getting to the Prothean dig site. About a week later, I returned the game. For the time being, I disliked Mass Effect a lot.

I began playing Halo Wars and BioShock to compensate for my boredom. However, I eventually became bored of playing Halo Wars and BioShock continuously. Both games, in my opinion, are great games, but it eventually got to the point where I just needed something new.

As I looked around for something new, I still kept hearing from friends about Mass Effect being such an amazing game. One of me close friends even got into it. So, I figured I'd go and give ME one more shot at winning my interest. As soon as I got home with the game, I played it and went through the first mission. When I got to the Prothean beacon and then it engraved the message into Shepard's mind, I started to grow a small interest in the game.

I continued on throughout the game. I completed some side quests inside the Presidium, and then I moved along towards actually getting out into the real part of the game, which started after receiving Spectre status.

Once aboard the Normandy and traveling throughout the Milky Way as my character, I finally fell in love with the game. I found it different then other Xbox 360 RPGs. I guess it's because of how BioWare tries to make this game appear on a galactic level. Astronomy has always appealed to me because of it's beauty and wealth of information. I believe that [and the storyline behind Mass Effect itself: which includes the Alien races; the massive collaboration within the galaxy; how many biographies and details there are for many things in the game; and how size of the game's setting is on such an epic scale] is what allowed Mass Effect to capture my interest.

As far as why I disliked the game earlier, perhaps I was comparing the early game-play to the commercials of Mass Effect that I had seen when it was first launched. By comparing them, I got a feeling of disappointment, but this was my mistake by judging the game way too early.

So, now I find myself on the Mass Effect Wiki. The reason for that is because I came across the word sovereign being used on an article I was reading, so my mind got the idea of adding that to the Sovereign page on this wiki. I looked up the word and found that it was similar to Sovereign within ME, so then I continued with adding that information to the trivia section of the article about it.

That's all I shall say for now, bye bye