Eh... Mass Effect is fairly soft sci-fi and more of classic space opera. All these things happen in Mass Effect: Sounds in space, spaceships bunched way too c

Eh... Mass Effect is fairly soft sci-fi and more of classic space opera. All these things happen in Mass Effect: Sounds in space, spaceships bunched way too close together, impossibly slow projectiles for space (especially the classic "blob of light/plasma thingy" traveling at what appears to be subsonic speeds), giant 18th-century infantry-style spaceship firing lines, in general heavy reliance on "spaceships as just extensions of naval warfare" trope, all alien communication neatly glossed over with universal translation, nearly universally bipedal humanoid aliens, etc. None of these are bad things! Mass Effect is simply much more similar in tradition to something like Star Wars or Star Trek than the Expanse.