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Shouldn't the "mass effect" section go into greater detail about how mass effect fields are created? Most importantly the discovery of Element Zero, how it increases mass under positive charge, decreases mass under negative charge, and how biotics require trace amounts of Element Zero within their nervous system to use powers?
It could also be useful (without spoiling) if the explanation of mass effect fields within the game's guns, armor and space ships be included without a full codex disclosure? The brief explanation from a game developer seems sort of lacking to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jabrahamcollins ( talk • contribs) 08:06, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, i just don't think mass effect fits in this category, i think it's just "sci fi", even with elements of "hard sci fi"... -- Starlingmaximilian ( talk) 16:37, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
A quick google search yielded several results, including articles from MSNBC and a random blog post titled Mass Effect – The Best Space Opera of All Time. The google search results showed a link with a quote from Bioware's own website, but my computer wouldn't load the page right now so I couldn't check it out for myself. And here's another one from Wired that's actually about ME2. The opening sentence from WP:V states: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true." Wired and MSNBC are pretty reliable sources. I believe that the game is a space opera – though that doesn't really matter – and within five seconds I found sources to back it up. With more effort I'm sure that I could find more. Does anyone have any contradictory evidence? JohnnyPolo24 ( talk) 12:56, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Got an edit I disagree on with another user. I'm bringing it to the talk page to let others check it out (and because edit summaries are limited). Disagreed edit, my first edit (could be taken for hostility, was not my intention, forgive me if you thought I was being), counter edit, bringing it here. I personally think that, while, yes, the source should be upgraded, I believe that this is a popular enough meme to reference in the article, much like how "The cake is a lie" is referenced in the Portal article. Like "The cake is a lie", "alien sideboob" also has it's own redirect page heading towards the relevant area. It was also the focus of a redirect for discussion back in last June and was a featured redirect when that was still running. As I am still highly inactive on Wikipedia due to personal issues, I may be slow to respond. -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 21:46, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
If I remember correctly, Jack Thompson famously came out in support of BioWare against FOX. If we can find any sources for that, it would be pertinent to the article; it's basically one of the industry's biggest opponent saying to someone "you know, in this case, they're right and you're wrong." Sceptre ( talk) 21:31, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
This and other articles on video games really should contain sales figures (with the last known date specified). Anyone know where we could find some consistently reliable sales figures for video games? I'd like to include other games. JettaMann ( talk) 14:16, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Mass Effect (series) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RM bot 17:31, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
In the "Characters" section, I believe there is an attempt at humor (that I appreciate) using Mass Effect 2's Harbinger line, "assuming direct control," to refer to the player controlling Commander Shephard. It makes the sentence clunky, in my opinion, and as funny as it may be, is somewhat unprofessional, but if people disagree I wouldn't complain. — Law of Entropy ( talk) 04:58, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved. Arbitrarily0 ( talk) 15:39, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Mass Effect → Mass Effect (video game) – Per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games#Thoughts_on_moving_Mass_Effect_.28series.29_to_Mass_Effect.3F. And then subsequently, Mass Effect (series) to Mass Effect, although I don't think admin privileges are required once this is moved since it should only have the move action in the page's history. Gary King ( talk · scripts) 15:41, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
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Could this game be classified as open world? ECW28 ( talk) 08:37, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
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The article says that the story branches at certain points based on the choices you make in the game. Could someone provide some examples? I have played the game but didn't notice anything except at the end whether you choose for the council to survive or not. SharkD Talk 06:08, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
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Shouldn't the "mass effect" section go into greater detail about how mass effect fields are created? Most importantly the discovery of Element Zero, how it increases mass under positive charge, decreases mass under negative charge, and how biotics require trace amounts of Element Zero within their nervous system to use powers?
It could also be useful (without spoiling) if the explanation of mass effect fields within the game's guns, armor and space ships be included without a full codex disclosure? The brief explanation from a game developer seems sort of lacking to me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jabrahamcollins ( talk • contribs) 08:06, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, i just don't think mass effect fits in this category, i think it's just "sci fi", even with elements of "hard sci fi"... -- Starlingmaximilian ( talk) 16:37, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
A quick google search yielded several results, including articles from MSNBC and a random blog post titled Mass Effect – The Best Space Opera of All Time. The google search results showed a link with a quote from Bioware's own website, but my computer wouldn't load the page right now so I couldn't check it out for myself. And here's another one from Wired that's actually about ME2. The opening sentence from WP:V states: "The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth—whether readers can check that material in Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether editors think it is true." Wired and MSNBC are pretty reliable sources. I believe that the game is a space opera – though that doesn't really matter – and within five seconds I found sources to back it up. With more effort I'm sure that I could find more. Does anyone have any contradictory evidence? JohnnyPolo24 ( talk) 12:56, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
Got an edit I disagree on with another user. I'm bringing it to the talk page to let others check it out (and because edit summaries are limited). Disagreed edit, my first edit (could be taken for hostility, was not my intention, forgive me if you thought I was being), counter edit, bringing it here. I personally think that, while, yes, the source should be upgraded, I believe that this is a popular enough meme to reference in the article, much like how "The cake is a lie" is referenced in the Portal article. Like "The cake is a lie", "alien sideboob" also has it's own redirect page heading towards the relevant area. It was also the focus of a redirect for discussion back in last June and was a featured redirect when that was still running. As I am still highly inactive on Wikipedia due to personal issues, I may be slow to respond. -- Thejadefalcon Sing your song The bird's seeds 21:46, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
If I remember correctly, Jack Thompson famously came out in support of BioWare against FOX. If we can find any sources for that, it would be pertinent to the article; it's basically one of the industry's biggest opponent saying to someone "you know, in this case, they're right and you're wrong." Sceptre ( talk) 21:31, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
This and other articles on video games really should contain sales figures (with the last known date specified). Anyone know where we could find some consistently reliable sales figures for video games? I'd like to include other games. JettaMann ( talk) 14:16, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Mass Effect (series) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — RM bot 17:31, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
In the "Characters" section, I believe there is an attempt at humor (that I appreciate) using Mass Effect 2's Harbinger line, "assuming direct control," to refer to the player controlling Commander Shephard. It makes the sentence clunky, in my opinion, and as funny as it may be, is somewhat unprofessional, but if people disagree I wouldn't complain. — Law of Entropy ( talk) 04:58, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: page moved. Arbitrarily0 ( talk) 15:39, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Mass Effect → Mass Effect (video game) – Per Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games#Thoughts_on_moving_Mass_Effect_.28series.29_to_Mass_Effect.3F. And then subsequently, Mass Effect (series) to Mass Effect, although I don't think admin privileges are required once this is moved since it should only have the move action in the page's history. Gary King ( talk · scripts) 15:41, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
You're invited to join the discussion at
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Could this game be classified as open world? ECW28 ( talk) 08:37, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you for your detailed and excellent review, really appreciated. I fixed most of the issues you brought up and left some comments above. Please let me know what you think. Thanks! --
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The article says that the story branches at certain points based on the choices you make in the game. Could someone provide some examples? I have played the game but didn't notice anything except at the end whether you choose for the council to survive or not. SharkD Talk 06:08, 25 June 2017 (UTC)