Mass Effect 2

Kilus said:
Yes. You have to download it. Plus there is a new Party member and a mission or something.
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I've done all the regular DLC; exploring the normandy crashsite for dogtags/recruiting Zaeed. I can't even think of any current zones in-game that would be suitable to use it in, yet the controls are listed on the menu... so it's probably something they stripped to sell back to us later.


Just started my evil playthrough on Insanity, and my god it's hard. It's like... Halo 1 Legendary hard. Peek out of cover for a second and you die. Fail at micromanaging your NPCs powers (unlike yours, theirs are instant, and go through walls so you can use them while staying in cover) and you die. Build your party wrong and you die. Besides the constant deaths (I'm trying to get out of that suicidal charge and punch faces mindset), it's amazingly fun.

[spoiler:27705a76d9]I can't wait to get Tali + Legion (the friendly geth) for triple attack drone action.[/spoiler:27705a76d9]
 
play.com mailed my order yesterday, i hope i'll have it on saturday, but i'm skeptical.

anyhow, i hope it's worth the $$$.
 
I've played it for roughly an hour so far. It so far is a worthy successor to its predecessor.
 
the game is huge, and this time 75% of its hugeness doesn't consist of bumby otherwordly terrain. sure, missions consist of basically the same stuff, but there's a lot of dialogue and story to make them each stand out on tjeir own. and the amount of side-missions is just awesome! this game just keeps impressing me.
 
glad to hear that, aenemic. the Mako shite on autogenerated retarded planet shite really got on my nerves...
 
I hear that vehicular planet exploration is coming later via DLC? It better not be paid DLC.
 
Dang. This game is awesome. Played it the whole day and couldnt stop. Basically everything which bothered me in the first game is gone or is was replaced by a better way of doing it. I find it also a bit more "mature" , sorta. The atmosphere is just great.
 
It's not in the vanilla game, yeah. I for one wouldn't mind to drive around some planets, even if they are "full of nothing" like in ME1. I just enjoyed the music and the beautiful landscapes. But as said in the thread, it's likely that they will implement mako missions as a DLC.

EDIT: I really miss the display of the planets like it was in ME1. There you could see the atmosphere, clouds moving etc. Now, it's just a retarded texture, wrapped around a "ball".
 
Yep, no vehicle sections to be found; although they're definitely going to add it back in a DLC.

One thing though, environments are much smaller than Mass Effect 1. It uses tons of loading screens instead of streaming everything; which has done wonders for performance. I actually reinstalled ME1 to see the difference, and ME2 runs SO much better (Not to mention there isn't annoying popping/missing sounds, since the hardware sound support isn't broken like the first game)
 
Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude said:
Yep, no vehicle sections to be found; although they're definitely going to add it back in a DLC.
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That's some game design I can get behind. Take the clumsy, shitty, terrible gameplay elements, and try to sell it to me later... see if I bite on that.
 
Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude said:
PC version definitely. Better UI, infinitely better controls (that matter even more now with headshots/limb damage added), and better graphics.
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unfortunately the controls and UI are the only things I'd like to complain about. the UI feels a bit console-ish: just the fact that I can't use the scroll wheel on my mouse to scroll through menus is highly annoying. and the controls sometime feel unresponsive and illogical. two examples: when shooting those monkey-type things in the Korgan base, several times I hit space bar and no shot was fired (going into cover by hitting space can also be troublesome), and several times I've aimed at an enemy and ordered a henchman to use one of their powers but instead of targeting the enemy they use it right in front of me.
 
they say that in the first one you could miss with the crosshairs on the target.

in me2, they did away with that. if your crosshairs are on the target, you hit.

everything i hear about this game makes it sound like bethesda games... FPS first, RPG second. and with mechanics like that, it is more and more true.
 
trust me, it's not comparable with Beth games. sure, the action is important. but there's so much dialogue and even if the dialogue system isn't perfect, it makes you feel like you're actually roleplaying your character. at least for me.
 
And maybe the action is actually enjoyable ?
As opposed to Bethesda's game that should obviously have sticked to RPG and not Action, because they ended up screwing up both.
 
I played ME 1 on the PC, and hated it... I recently bought it for the 360, and am really enjoying it... I think that ME is built for the consoles, in the same way that Dragon Age seems to be built for the PC.
 
rcorporon said:
I played ME 1 on the PC, and hated it... I recently bought it for the 360, and am really enjoying it... I think that ME is built for the consoles, in the same way that Dragon Age seems to be built for the PC.
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hmmm, care to elaborate? What did you hate about it? What was better about 360 version?

The main reason why I'm considering getting it on the 360 is because it's such a cinematic game so it might be more enjoyable on a big screen with the sound system.

Also, I played the first one on a 360 so I have some saves there.
 
maximaz said:
hmmm, care to elaborate? What did you hate about it? What was better about 360 version?
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Basically, I found the combat in ME on PC to be cumbersome and overly difficult. I found, now that I'm playing it on 360, that in this instance, the controller offers a better "feel" for me than the mouse/keyboard did.

I'm surprised though, as I loathe shooters on the console, but in the case of ME, I'm finding that the controller seems to be what it was desgined for.

The flip side of this is that I have Dragon Age on my PS3, and can't stand the combat... I wish I had a PC that could run that game.
 
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