Mass Effect 2

[Shiny]

Why is this 65 dollars?

[Skyblade]

Since when is it 65 dollars? I got mine for about 35, and even the special editions are only 50 right now.

[Fonzie]

I loved the hell out of this game, and I sure as hell loved the hell out of Miranda in the Engineering Core.

[Shiny]

Since when is it 65 dollars? I got mine for about 35, and even the special editions are only 50 right now.

Since Gamestop over here decided to make it 65 dollars. There are no new ones selling for lower than 59.99 at Gamestop or Toys R Us. It's completely lame. I guess I will have to wait till I can afford to spend my lunch and travel expenses for the regular edition.

[Loony BoB]

Order online?

[Skyblade]

Since when is it 65 dollars? I got mine for about 35, and even the special editions are only 50 right now.

Since Gamestop over here decided to make it 65 dollars. There are no new ones selling for lower than 59.99 at Gamestop or Toys R Us. It's completely lame. I guess I will have to wait till I can afford to spend my lunch and travel expenses for the regular edition.

EA Store has the Digital Deluxe Edition for $49 dollars right now, and last I checked it was even cheaper on EBay.

[LunarWeaver]

Though my QTE reactions kind of dicked me because my renegade Shep kept doing paragon things when I saw the paragon icon pop up without a corresponding renegade one. Just force of habit from Resident Evil 4 and 5; monkey see, monkey press!

This happened to me the first time I'm so accustomed to PRESS THE BUTTON OR FAIL MISERABLY these days that it's reflex.

[Ouch!]

I'm not a great fan of the skill wheel, and I find it hard to stick to a Paragon or a Renegade because some options just seem too right to ignore it for the one you would have for your alignment. My two gauges are roughly the same, but maybe the game was designed so that could happen, and you aren't supposed to have a set alignment. It doesn't matter, this game rocks. Bioware is easily my favourite video game company, from Baldur's Gate to Neverwinter Nights to Mass Effect.

:)

I think the exact reason you can gain both paragon and renegade points is to try and move away from the diametric, mutually exclusive system they've always otherwise used. Though I think Dragon Age is even better because it gets rid of it entirely.

I just found that this time they've made it significantly more difficult to be a Renegade this time. Not in that the game becomes harder, but more in that people generally hate you this time around.

[Shiny]

I just finished Mass Effect and just wow. It was amazing. I am definitely playing this a second time and eventually I will pick up Mass Effect 2 -- hopefully during spring break.

There were a few deaths that I was just really wtfing hardcore. I had an "omg Aerith/Aeris no" moment where both the freaking characters I used the most died. I mean what the hell. Okay, so technically I had something to do with one of those -- but still! efffff that

It was a great game. I am very map challenged and got lost countless times and the marker didn't even help half of the time. I spent most of the game wandering around in the tank with very piss poor driving skills. I just don't know. The conversations were really amusing and for once I didn't mind sitting through long dialogues to hear people explain stuff. I really got in to the story. Now THAT'S an rpg done right. The only thing I can say is, it definitely needed more elcor and more variety of music.

I also think the character of Commander Shepard is better as a female...maybe I'm bias. I just can't imagine playing the game as a dude now. The voice fit everything that was going on and the look of the character. There was a point where my squad were all standing all heroic like and shiz and we all had colorful armors on with our helmets. It was amusing cuz it was like we were some ghetto version of the power rangers. Anywayz yeah, great game. I hope the second is better.

[Skyblade]

I just finished Mass Effect and just wow. It was amazing. I am definitely playing this a second time and eventually I will pick up Mass Effect 2 -- hopefully during spring break.

There were a few deaths that I was just really wtfing hardcore. I had an "omg Aerith/Aeris no" moment where both the freaking characters I used the most died. I mean what the hell. Okay, so technically I had something to do with one of those -- but still! efffff that

Mass Effect 1 SpoilerWrex's death is avoidable if you get enough persuasion points and complete his sidequest!

It was a great game. I am very map challenged and got lost countless times and the marker didn't even help half of the time. I spent most of the game wandering around in the tank with very piss poor driving skills. I just don't know. The conversations were really amusing and for once I didn't mind sitting through long dialogues to hear people explain stuff. I really got in to the story. Now THAT'S an rpg done right. The only thing I can say is, it definitely needed more elcor and more variety of music.

The Mako tank and the wide open uncharted worlds are gone. And the music does have more variety. In addition to each area having its own music, each mission also has its own music and battle music.

I also think the character of Commander Shepard is better as a female...maybe I'm bias. I just can't imagine playing the game as a dude now. The voice fit everything that was going on and the look of the character. There was a point where my squad were all standing all heroic like and shiz and we all had colorful armors on with our helmets. It was amusing cuz it was like we were some ghetto version of the power rangers. Anywayz yeah, great game. I hope the second is better.

The second improves a lot, but still has room for improvement. You will probably like it.



Anyway, the first new DLC pack is confirmed for late March. Containing the Hammerhead hover tank, and five missions using it. This DLC is free for all people with the Cerberus Network. We'll get to see how much they improved the vehicles.

[Shiny]

There were a few deaths that I was just really wtfing hardcore. I had an "omg Aerith/Aeris no" moment where both the freaking characters I used the most died. I mean what the hell. Okay, so technically I had something to do with one of those -- but still! efffff that

Mass Effect 1 SpoilerWrex's death is avoidable if you get enough persuasion points and complete his sidequest!

[Iceglow]

I've finally found time to play this game a bit further than the normal "well thats a nice 20 minutes"

So far my opinion on the story and gameplay is good however I too would definitely agree with the fact that the element scanner was a terrible idea. At least in ME1 you'd hit a button and the planet got scanned for you and came back with results also, I know a lot of people disliked the mako for "clumsy controls" ect but frankly I actually enjoyed the mako levels because it made it interesting and at least going through a planet surface finding element deposits and doing the little 4 button memory game was more pleasurable than the scanner minigame. God help me but I think they birthed the most boring minigame ever created that was actually necessity to complete the game.

[Madame Adequate]

I do not comprehend the thinking behind that scanning business. I mean really.

"Okay guys, we've got a hell of a game here, it's pure gold. What can we do to make it a bit crap?"

[Rase]

Maybe they wanted to put it in so that when/if it's removed from ME3 people will be ecstatic.

[Jings]

I don't really see what the big deal with the scanners is. Mine a handful of planets at most and you have enough resources to upgrade everything you want. I spent no more than a couple of hours on it throughout the entire game.