User blog comment:Slowrider7/What brought you to Mass Effect?/@comment-1388547-20110701201203

I got interested in ME a year or so before the first game came out, through (I think) an article on Ars Technica. I was enthralled with the idea of a sci-fi game by developers who took sci-fi world-building seriously, and the trailers and demo footage looked awesome. I bought it as soon as I could afford the time to play it -- and later bought ME2 as soon as it came out, regardless of whether I could actually afford the time. (Sadly, at this point I've played through both games so many times that I've more-or-less chewed them to death. I'm eagerly awaiting ME3 and fresh missions to play.)