Mass Effect 2

[Iceglow]

The fact that a decent sized planet can take a good hour or so to mine properly anyhow means that you're wrong Jings. Not to mention just how rare Element Zero can be when doing it...

Needless to say, I never understood why the general agreement about the Mako levels was one of hate, personally I liked the Mako levels ok, so it was irritating in it's inability to shoot anything closer than 10 meters and inaccurate as hell in doing so at longer ranges however I primarily used it merely to get from point a to point b, if I needed to fight something enroute, I'd use the mako to get myself to a great vantage point and utilize my sniper rifle of mass destruction (gotta love maxing the sniper rifle with change of ammo shot for different enemies once they were confirmed as a certain type) to take out pretty much everything and anything (I even took a geth armature out in 2 or 3 shots with the sniper rifle I finished the game with) and I quite liked the simplistic way you scan deposits of minerals.

Though I do feel the hacking and new lock bypass styles are brilliantly done since the bypassing game of matching the nodes feels right, hacking is well executed as well however I dislike the fact that I can't hack with brute force if I fail to bypass the system with omni-gel is a sorely missed feature.

[Loony BoB]

An hour!? Man, I never took that long. Maybe 5 minutes, possibly 10 minutes for a troublesome one. Mostly just a few minutes, though, and I got everything I could. I still agree that it was a pain in the arse, though, and I also agree that Mako levels were fun enough. I loved trying to get to the awkward little high up places that you needed to wrestle with the terrain in order to get to.

[Jings]

The fact that a decent sized planet can take a good hour or so to mine properly anyhow means that you're wrong Jings. Not to mention just how rare Element Zero can be when doing it...

If you're carefully and slowly going over the entire planet then yeah, it's going to take you forever. You don't have to do that though seeing as there is a lot of planets in the universe. Plus if element zero is on a planet it's generally quite abundant, so you won't have to scoure an entire planet looking for it.

[Madame Adequate]

For the record I never had any real problem with the Mako. Not the best part of the game but hardly the disaster people seem to see it as.

[Shiny]

What did people decide to be this time around? I was a Vanguard in the first Mass Effect now I chose Engineer , but I might change that again because I'm not crazy about it.

[Skyblade]

Infiltrator in both games.

[Iceglow]

My imported character is a soldier, I chose soldier on the original mass effect because I wanted to fire assault rifles and sniper rifles effectively, no other class really gave me the options I wanted. Therefore... I do have a female character for ME1 what is an infiltrator I need to do some biotic class characters as I've never really felt a need for them but in ME2 it looks like biotics are definitely the way to go.

[Freya]

I beat it but lost the trust of miranda and choose the wrong person for other things in the end so I lost 3 people. WHOOPS!

Never played the 1st one but I loved this one. I was sniping shiz left and right. It was awesome.

I enjoyed the paragon/renegade thing but as others stated when it'd pop on my screen i'd just want to hit it without paying attention to what side it was for.

[Iceglow]

I'm very close to the end (just the suicide mission to go really, thats going to be fun) I'm surprised I'm here so soon, I've played ME1 several times and never made it to the end of the game missions inside of 48 hours before. ME2 is a hell of a lot shorter than ME1, not sure if I count this as good or bad, yes Mako missions did make up a hell of a lot of the time I spent in ME1 but the scanning mini-game, whilst for the majority of it quicker is less enjoyable.

Somethings I have enjoyed more and found incredibly useful for the game so far compared to ME1 systems, little things such as showing a percentage of how much completion there has been on a star system, I would often end up landing on a planet in ME1 and realize looking at the area map for the level I've done this system in the end I needed to keep an actual txt file documenting explored systems.

I'm also equally surprised and enjoying the twists in the story in this one (SPOILER)tagging this baby because I don't wanna ruin it for people who are yet to get the game but I particulary like the character Legion he's actually quite funny, if you press him for information about himself he'll explain how he was sent to Eden Prime, got shot by a sniper rifle but lived (hence the battle damage) and then ended up going to pretty much all the planets from the first game and a couple of dozen uncharted worlds before finding the wreckage of the Normandy he then and only then stops to repair the gaping hole in his body using Shepherd's personal armour, when asked why he says "because there was a hole" when pressed on why he hadn't replied sooner he kinda shrugs and says "no data available" it kinda made me lol a little a Geth with hero worship awww!

I also found gaining a characters trust to be perhaps too easy. I gained several characters very late in to the game and haven't had to work hard at all to get them to either fall in love with me, give me their quest or any other useful things. In a way I feel the game would be better paced if it allowed you to recruit all characters early on and then to work on their personal relationships to Shepherd over more time. Talking to a character in my party twice with a single planets worth of mining in between should not give me their loyalty quests that quickly imho. Maybe I miss the fact that the original was pretty much as huge a game as Fallout or Oblivion this just feels smaller though a lot of it does feel tighter running.

Also I like how the guys from Dragon Age did some voice acting for the Quarian species, the voices behind Loghain, Alistair and Morrigan (claudia black, she only ever truly pulls off the most bad ass woman in a room roles but thats cool with me!) crop up in Tali's quest playing the roles of Quarian Admiralty.

[Jessweeee♪]

Mogi tried getting me to play the first Mass Effect twice, but we never had the time

When he comes down next August (FOREVER <3) I'm playing both games!

[Skyblade]

Firewalker pack is availible for download, featuring the new Hammerhead hovertank.

[Skyblade]

Sorry about the double post, I'm just wondering if anyone else has tried out the new DLC yet.

For anyone still interested in this game, the first real paid DLC is availible. Kasumi's Stolen Memory, featuring a new character and new missions for that character.



The new Hovertank handles very differently from the way the Mako handled. The Hammerhead is insanely fast, actually has a useful jump, and a self repair function that mimics the self-heal of Shepard's Armor.

The missions are fun, but suffer from a large degree of under-utilization. Five missions is too little to get a lot out of the vehicle.

[demondude]

After FFXIII disrupted my playing I finished today. Nobody died apart from Jack and Legion, but I was worried all the way through because I chose Thane to do the biotic shielding job and he started struggling and I figured I should have chosen an actual biotic. xD Turns out they all struggle but Samara does this cool thing where she kills everything in a glorious bang, whereas Thane just limped through and Legion got taken by the Swarm. How sad, I liked Legion.

[Iceglow]

The ending choices are really simple to make, simply pick the person who suggests the course of action. The only exception is, you can select pretty much anyone for the escort of the crew survivors. So long as you pick Legion or Tali for the hacking the gates job you're fine and make sure your rear guard is the toughest it can be.

The hammerhead rocks. I'm interested in the new character though it has to be said I feel that the lack of diversity in the character builds is a tad disappointing on the second I'd love to see all character types covered by the games characters.

[Skyblade]

The new character is a thief. The first character with an ability that Shepard can not obtain, that ability being Shadow Strike. It activates a cloak similar to the Infiltrator's Tactical Cloak, and while it is active she runs behind someone and smacks them in the back of the head, doing damage and knocking them over. Once the target is hit, she recloaks and returns to her start position. Its advanced mode lets it either do more damage, or recharge almost instantly if it kills the target. While she is moving close to the target, she is usually ok, as bullets seem to ignore her, but occasionally she will step into the path of a missile being aimed at you.

Her loyalty ability is the Flashbang Gernade, which damages and incapacitates targets. At the evolution, it can either do more damage, or have a wider AOE and incapacitate longer. It is easily my favorite anti-husk weapon in the game, stopping their charging groups in their tracks, killing some, and letting me mow down the others. It also incapacitates despite Shields, Barriers, or Armor being up.

The DLC with the character also comes with a new SMG, but as I am currently playing my Soldier, I haven't messed around with it alot.


As for the ending, the one decision which really didn't make sense to me was the leader for the other teams. Only Miranda and Jacob (and maybe Zaeed, I don't remember) can successfully be the leader of the second team, which didn't really make a lot of sense to me. Jacob definitely isn't a leader.

The new thief, Kasumi, is an infiltration specialist, and I believe she can go through the pipe just as Tali and Legion can.