>Inscription#0003: "The Story of a Certain Space Opera"

>Initializing response... Mass Effect is my all-time favourite video game series, let's get that out of the way. For me, it is THE video game series. For this reason, I will always be biased in its favour and I will defend it to the day of my alleged death. However, as every established aspiring video game employee, I am capable of critical thinking and I will attempt to use this informed ability to try and assess the impact BioWare has had on the industry with its games, mostly ME. The condensed synopsis for the original Mass Effect trilogy follows like this: in the year 2183, Commander Shepard, a renowned space mariner with a substantial service record, gets assigned on the ship SSV Normandy for a routine artifact recovery mission that goes awry. The Commander is attacked by mobile AI army of geths led by Saren Arterius, a Spectre gone rogue. They are after the same object tasked to be retrieved by Shepard, an ancient beacon left behind by the Protheans, a now-extinct a...