Mass Effect teaches us never to assume we can't learn from others
Confession time: I play lots of games but often find myself turning down the difficulty. The shame of it all keeps me awake at night. The nightmares, you see, punctuate my once peaceful slumber. "Dispatching Nazis with hatchets shouldn't be that easy," I murmur to myself in a cold sweat. While medium is my go-to difficulty, I tend to bump things down for the twitchiest of titles.
Mass Effect is an exception to this rule. Every year, I launch the game and crank the difficulty up to veteran. The reason I do this is the same reason Mass Effect is permanently installed on my computer: I want to make the experience last as long as possible.
But what makes Mass Effect so special? BioWare spent nearly a year in pre-production, ruminating over the galaxy's alien worlds and tying together loose threads of the plot. Breathing life into the vastness of space is no easy task. Mass Effect's building blocks, from its otherworldly architecture to its diverse roster of alien races, have been placed with extraordinary care. This painstaking effort has culminated in some of the most epic moments in the history of gaming.
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