![]() ![]() ![]() There’s both common friendship and romance between aliens and humans. There’s the perpetual filter of bloom, the pulsing bright neon. Mass Effect may take inspiration from Star Trek, and though it tries to wear hopefulness on its sleeve it is different in both politics and message.Īt first glance too, it’s easy to mistake what the game is saying. Whether the thread is centuries old progenitor races or rampant A.I. The rest of the plot isn’t worth getting into, because the pull is about whether or not Humanity can be the ones to save the galaxy. So our Shepard will be the one to show the rest of the galaxy that humanity is tougher, more terrifying and more important than everybody else. If someone doesn’t hate us they’re at least suspicious of is. We’re new to the realm of galaxy politics, and the universe hates us. Before the game even had me knowing the names of my crew, it was telling me Humanity First. What Mass Effect wants you to know about the universe before you even see most of it is known almost immediately. It is the bravado of American posturing and still before the depression of the Depression. To go back in now is to see the sci-fi politics of a world still holding onto the idea that someone else can come and change things. Mass Effect is best enjoyed, if at all, by having to reckon with when it was released. ![]() Bioware has announced there will be an HD re-release of the entire trilogy. I got to playing it the other week, though it looks like just a little early. To go to strange worlds and look upon their sky as if it was our own. A galaxy defined not by the vastness and emptiness, but the possibility of meeting other life. One of the versions of Space videogame developers try to give us (maybe not often enough) is the Star Trek version. The goal is always the same: We will give you capital S Space. From our earliest attempts, to latest monolith scams of empty promise and actor likenesses. We’ve been opining for a fully seamless universe to explore for decades now. The promises of space have long been a goal point for videogames. ![]()
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