Over the last few years, I feel that Western RPGs are starting to lose their grip on what an RPG actually is. They are becoming more and more like an action game rather than an actual RPG. Just because you have a level and skill system does not actually make it an RPG. They just use the convenient quest system offered by RPGs to try to make it look like an RPG. Let us take a look over some of the RPGs that were released and see how different they are from traditional RPGs. When you make an RPG game, you have to have some sort of balance with action elements to make it interesting. JRPGs suffer from being too passive and it makes the game feel slow. Western RPGs suffer from having too much action and it takes away from the RPG feel.

1) The Mass Effect Series

Mass Effect 1 was basically KOTOR but reskinned. Mass Effect 2 became more of an action based game and Mass Effect 3 was just almost completely an action game. They try to use the idea that it is an action game, but there is

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So I finished Mass Effect 3 and was rather disappointed by it.

1) Recurring Characters

Mass Effect 3 could have had the opportunity for you to reassemble allies from past games to form a new team. Instead, most of your team has moved on and you only get a few of them back as part of the war effort (not as a squad/crew member) provided you made the right choices in previous games. It felt like they could have let you assembled a huge team, but instead threw the characters in for a single quest before having them join the war effort and disappearing. Other than one quest, you get to talk to them at the end of the game just before the final fight. Other than that, there is no mention of them.

The Normandy feels big and empty as a result. There are lounge areas where there are no people. It feels like if you had more characters on the ship, they would meet there and socialize giving the Normandy a bit more sense of life rather than the empty feeling.

2) Stupid Quarians

The Quari

Mass Effect 3 has now launched so what better way to celebrate than with a little art made with...salt?!? Bashir Sultani, who's done some incredible work, to do a piece for Mass Effect 3 and he turned in this awesome video of Commander Shepard!

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