Mass Effect 2

[WWWwombat]

Tali and Wrex were my favorite party members.  Wrex was a tank with biotic powers and Tali was terrific for crowd control and hacking into stuff.  I myself played a vanguard and an infiltrator.  Vanguard was a lot of fun.

[Silver]

That was on my second play through. Yeah, guess I should have said, makes me look less bad ass. But I don't feel like starting another game.

 

Yeah same. My second play through got to lvl 59. Maybe I'll go and get lvl 60 after I finish ME2.

[SinisterDeath]

Perhaps Sinister you just ain't a fan of that archetypal story? or played it death, I can get that. Personally, I havn't played it to death. But arn't approx 90% of games these days hunt down bad guy games anyway?

 

Well I like bioware as much as the next guy, Its just once you've played 3 of there games you've played them all. :P

And its not all just 'hunt down the badguy' its how 'you' decide to go about doing that. Good Guy, Royal Jackass guy, ect.

 

For me, gameplay is secondary or equal to story.

I need a good story/plot that isn't full of ridiculous holes and such, and the gameplay should match the game.

 

For that reason alone Half-Life 1&2 > Halo.

They had a real story in HL. Halo? pfft dime a dozen. Stolen concepts/plot devices from starcraft and warhammer... only not as awesome. :P

[Silver]

Ok, on ME2 itself. The interface is vastly changed from the first. And I can understand most of it. But there's one thing that still bugs me. WTF do you need fuel while flying the Normandy?!?

[Ashaman DeRouge]

I guess that's the rub. I thought they stole most of the story from Ringworld but everything comes from somewhere I guess.

 

I liken it to a movie genre. With movies, you've got a bit of an idea of what you are going to get, it's just the twists and turns along the way. Occasionaly you'll be taken by complete surprise, and when it happens that makes the game awesome, provided the gameplay actually is ok. For me, Halo is better than half life because I enjoy the gameplay so much more than half life. Granted I'm not much of a PC gamer anyway, but the Master Chief is one of the coolest super soldiers I've ever played. Gordon Freeman just dosn't do it for me.

 

Subjective much?

[SinisterDeath]

I guess that's the rub. I thought they stole most of the story from Ringworld but everything comes from somewhere I guess.

 

I liken it to a movie genre. With movies, you've got a bit of an idea of what you are going to get, it's just the twists and turns along the way. Occasionaly you'll be taken by complete surprise, and when it happens that makes the game awesome, provided the gameplay actually is ok. For me, Halo is better than half life because I enjoy the gameplay so much more than half life. Granted I'm not much of a PC gamer anyway, but the Master Chief is one of the coolest super soldiers I've ever played. Gordon Freeman just dosn't do it for me.

 

Subjective much?

 

Gordan Freeman = not a super soldier.

He's a phsycisist that screwed up pushing a cart on a rail, unleashing alien hellspawn. :P

The last of the silent protagonists.

 

+HL2 has something Halo doesn't

The G-man.

[Ashaman DeRouge]

Gordon's got a suit. That makes him Super :P

 

Nah I'm not trying to say he's a soldier or whatever, but how much confidence can you have in a man that screwed up pushing a cart on a rail hahaha

 

I love the single player half life original, excellent story, and pretty damn awesome gameplay for it's time. I just don't rate it as highly as Halo, just clicks better with me I guess.

 

ANYWAY I'm pretty sure this thread is about ME2? Hahaha...

 

You have to refuel the normandy? I guess thats cool, forces you to detour and take some side quests I'm guessing?

[SinisterDeath]

Gordon's got a suit. That makes him Super :P

 

Nah I'm not trying to say he's a soldier or whatever, but how much confidence can you have in a man that screwed up pushing a cart on a rail hahaha

 

I love the single player half life original, excellent story, and pretty damn awesome gameplay for it's time. I just don't rate it as highly as Halo, just clicks better with me I guess.

 

ANYWAY I'm pretty sure this thread is about ME2? Hahaha...

 

You have to refuel the normandy? I guess thats cool, forces you to detour and take some side quests I'm guessing?

 

Just another way to force ya to upgrade 'fuel capacity/efficency'...

Didn't the normandy get blown up some time between 1 & 2?

[Ashaman DeRouge]

Actually yeah I thought it was destroyed at the end. I might be getting mixed up with KOTOR though.

 

I have ME2 at home, but I know as soon as I play it I'll lose 12 hours, and I don't have 12 hours to lose right now. That, and my manager mode in Fifa10 will go out the window...

[SinisterDeath]

So I'm guessing the reason you have to refuel is probably because the ol' engine and power source got blown up. :P

[Haxorsist]

I've been playing the game for many hours now. I'm playing as an Adept on Insanity and this shit is HARD! Maybe it's because I'm playing on insanity, but the Adept feels like a weaker class this time around. If the enemy is armoured (which all of them are) Warp is the only power that works on them and it has a long recharge time. Plus you don't get the good weapons. Right now I'm stuck in an area where there are two Geth Scions and a ton of Husks. The Scions' schockwave attack kill my teammates after 10 seconds, so I'm left running in a circle trying to avoid their crazy attack and killing some husks. It's freaking impossible, because the schockwave attack travels through cover and after three hits I'm dead! The only weapon that does any damage is warp, and as I said, the recharge time is long. Oh, and don't get me started on that Harbinger dude. He's the reason I don't have any medi-gel left. Asshole.

[Silver]

I'm pretty sure it was the Insanity setting. I was just playing Veteran and was doing quite well. Wasn't difficult but wasn't too easy. Then ran into this one level, died so many times I just f it and changed to Normal and then proceeded to breeze through it.

 

If that was veteran, can't imagine what Insanity is.

[Haxorsist]

I got past the hard part without changing the difficulty setting. There's no way I'm giving up on that achievement. :P

Jacob and Miranda are loyal now, which is awesome. I really like the loyalty missions. They're much better than the ones you got in ME1.

[Silver]

Finished the game. Probably took about 25 hours. Good game but still too short :p

[Krakalakachkn]

New to Mass Effect 2, the feature allows the player the ability to take visceral control of conversations, rather than just waiting through scripted dialogue, and to take personalized action -- evolving beyond the simple conversation flow trees of previous games. Players can physically or verbally interrupt a non-playing character's lines, causing conversation to go a new direction.

"The player can interrupt and take new paths through a conversation," Cho explains. "The user will be given the opportunity through an icon appearing on screen to interrupt another characters dialog and take action."

[SinisterDeath]

New to Mass Effect 2, the feature allows the player the ability to take visceral control of conversations, rather than just waiting through scripted dialogue, and to take personalized action -- evolving beyond the simple conversation flow trees of previous games. Players can physically or verbally interrupt a non-playing character's lines, causing conversation to go a new direction.

"The player can interrupt and take new paths through a conversation," Cho explains. "The user will be given the opportunity through an icon appearing on screen to interrupt another characters dialog and take action."

 

They probably still use the radial dial method for choosing...

I still say 1-0 for dialogue options is the best approach, using the mouse to 'move' that radio dialogue menu just plain sucks on the pc version.

Console, its perfect, which is really just a just a different way of presenting 'vertical option menu' instead of a 'circular' one.

[Haxorsist]

I just finished the game on Insanity. Ship fully upgraded and all my teammates survived! I put in 40+ hours. I rock! Now I'm contemplating playing through it again, but on Normal difficulty just for fun. Overall I really enjoyed it. 9/10.

[Silver]

The only problem I found with it is that it suffers the Ep2 effect. Even though you have a solid main objective in the game, it still feels unfinished at the end, which of course leads into Ep3.

[WWWwombat]

Just bought this game (new so I got the Cerberus DLC).  I imported my 60 vanguard and played a couple hours last night.  First thing I noticed was that you get insanity right from the beginning.  I kinda liked having to unlock it.  I decided to play on veteran it being my first playthrough.  My favorite part so far is when you meet Joker and see the Normandy SR-2.  That had me feeling all warm inside.  I'm only level 7 and just finished Freedom's Progress but I can already tell that the combat is going to to be terrific.  It's much improved over the first one and actually feels like a shooter.  Also, Martin Sheen as Illusive Man is awesome.

[Haxorsist]

I think if you don't import a character from ME1 you have to unlock Insanity. I'm just guessing though.

[SinisterDeath]

I think if you don't import a character from ME1 you have to unlock Insanity. I'm just guessing though.

 

If you check the 'achievements' if you import, you only have to beat the game once. If you don't import, you gotta beat it twice, to get that Achievement.

 

I guess they probably figure that you'll replay the game to get that save, cause we all scrapped ours last year. ;)

[Silver]

Pretty sure you're talking about an unrelated achievement SD. And I'm unsure if not importing lets you start off with the Insanity or not since the first thing I did was import.

[SinisterDeath]

Pretty sure you're talking about an unrelated achievement SD. And I'm unsure if not importing lets you start off with the Insanity or not since the first thing I did was import.

 

Thers an in-game achievement list you can check in-game computer, tells you that you have to beat the game twice to get it, or once with import. If you don't get insanity and you didn't import, thats probably why, import counts as a beat-the-game.

[WWWwombat]

Recruited Mordin today.  He's pretty hilarious.

[WWWwombat]