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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #850 on: 26 Jan 2010, 11:05 »

and probably render my girlfriend unconscious

He is truly the best love-maker in the world.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #851 on: 26 Jan 2010, 12:14 »

GOD DAMNIT, WHERE'S MY FREE CHARACTER.  I DEMAND I HAVE HIM NOW!!!
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #852 on: 26 Jan 2010, 14:37 »

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On the side mission front specifically, the improved pacing means the MAKO is eliminated. Once a planet is scanned and a landing zone is found, you'll go to the desired location and resolve conflicts on foot. These diversions are brilliant -- each one (of many) brings something new to the game and does something with a subtle piece of the Mass Effect fiction.
I don't know what she played, but found side missions in this game are functionally identical to ME1 side missions, right down to everything being conveyed via datapad text. It's really just one step above procedurally generated content.

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« Reply #853 on: 26 Jan 2010, 15:00 »

Translation: Why no grinding?!
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #854 on: 26 Jan 2010, 15:05 »

whoops I accidentally bought this game on my lunch break when I went to Best Buy to pick up Moon. I also bought The Prestige because I love that movie and it was $10.

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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #855 on: 26 Jan 2010, 15:18 »

Look at the back of Garrus's armor when you get him.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #856 on: 26 Jan 2010, 18:41 »

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I know I already commented on this, but it still makes me wonder why some people have a job reviewing games and I don't. Mass Effect isn't WoW. There isn't a minimum requirement to use most gear-- hell, it doesn't even sound like there's much gear to speak of in the first place! Nobody locks you out of content for being level 28 instead of 80. I wasn't even all that terribly aware of what level I was while playing through the first game, to be honest. I just spent my skillpoints as they came and hitpoints accrued as I leveled automatically anyway. At no point did I think "Whoa, I better not go there; that place is dangerous," so it cannot be said that experience level was ever intended to factor into your thinking or otherwise try and figure out whether you are tough enough to meet a challenge. There's no reason why leveling or grinding experience should be really supported in Mass Effect because leveling manifestly wasn't a very large part of the experience to begin with.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #857 on: 26 Jan 2010, 18:42 »

I wish you could go down a list and choose the outcome of events when making a new character.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #858 on: 26 Jan 2010, 18:45 »

Yeah, Penny Arcade wasn't the best place to accidentally release bad information.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #859 on: 27 Jan 2010, 06:41 »

I'll be honest; I didn't really read much about the game other than here and I just skimmed most of it. Additionally, I don't actually remember much of the original other than driving the Mako up mountains. These are a few things I found myself asking while playing it last night:

Why isn't there an inventory screen? Why does the first new pistol mention in its description that it is an upgrade over your original pistol? I feel like I should be comparing numbers and spending an hour at a merchant between missions. The only thing anyone drops are clips? Where are my tons of useless items that I can try to cram into my pockets to sell later? Does armor protect you or is it just for looks? Even the stupid preorder armor just augments your skills. Where is my downloadable character and the stupid preorder weapon?

I may be acting in haste, but it seems like they set out to make Gears of War: The Novel: The Game.

Keep in mind that I have only played for around 4 hours.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #860 on: 27 Jan 2010, 06:46 »

I'd rather play Gears of War: The Novel: The Game than have all that vendor trash clogging up my inventory again. As Sid Meier once said, a video game should be designed as a series of interesting decisions-- if you are given a choice between "obviously better" or "obviously worse," then it can hardly be called an interesting decision. Mass Effect's inventory system didn't really provide interesting decisions, it just gave you a bunch of shit to sell and perhaps one or two items every hour or so that were marginally (but obviously) better than your last item. Like with most RPGs, it was really just busy work. I never even bought and used any weapons or armor in ME1 until I got access to spectre gear, and I never even died on my first play through.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #861 on: 27 Jan 2010, 06:55 »

Yeah, I'm quite fond of the fact they ditched the inventory entirely. I mean, all it really did was bitch at me that my inventory was full in ME1 and I can't recall the last RPG that I played that 99% of the loots you get wasn't trash anyways.
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« Reply #862 on: 27 Jan 2010, 07:07 »

Inventories really are almost purely vestigial these days. There was a place for RPG loot back in the day, since games like the original Dragon Quest were all about inventory management and risk assessment-- game play boiled down to realizing when you needed to leg it back to town. Getting a hold of the fanciest broadsword available was like getting a passport to new lands since you could finally then take on the nastier regions that would have beaten you down like a bad monkey. It really had very little to do with blasting geth with a mass accelerator.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #863 on: 27 Jan 2010, 08:26 »

Does armor protect you or is it just for looks?

The different pieces of armor offer different bonuses, on top of being used to customize your look.  In the case of the DLC suits, it's just one big piece, though, so you can't customize it.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #864 on: 27 Jan 2010, 09:19 »

I'm having a ton of fun with the Sentinel for my Paragon player, but I'm sorely tempted to use my Renegade Soldier (which the soldier I think is actually a lot more fun this time around) and go the mantra of "What Would Clint Eastwood Do?".
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #865 on: 27 Jan 2010, 10:00 »

I bought space porn advertising something called 'Krogasms'.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #866 on: 27 Jan 2010, 10:11 »

Oh yeah, it's also a hell of a lot of fun, as a female, making Jacob uncomfortable with flirting.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #867 on: 27 Jan 2010, 10:16 »

so I was 99.999% sure that I deleted my ME1 save data a while back but sure enough, when I popped this bad boy in, I went to check just in case...and it was still there! Level 50 Earthborn, Sole-survivor Sentintel Paragon.

Hellloooo, free money and experience points I wasn't expecting.

So far I've only probed and mined a couple planets, and I've just recruited Archangel (hehe). I've spent about four hours on the game so far, about 1.5 of which was spent reading codex entries. here we go again.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #868 on: 27 Jan 2010, 10:17 »

Yeah. I spent a good 30 minutes this morning telling Miranda that she should have better self-esteem. The downside is that I won't have another chance to play until Saturday. I will probably not check this thread again for a while.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #869 on: 27 Jan 2010, 11:03 »

Got it yesterday. Only had a chance to play through Freedom's Reach, but so far it's been awesome.

Of course my roommate's sister is crashing in our living room, so I probably won't get a chance to play again for another day or two.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #870 on: 27 Jan 2010, 11:12 »

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« Reply #871 on: 27 Jan 2010, 14:11 »

Hey guys, help me decide: Mass Effect 2 download from direct2drive plus Inferno Armor or disc from play.com plus Terminus Assault Armor? They're both the same price, not sure which one to get...

Just did Bring Down the Sky for Mass Effect. Looking forward to come across that Batarian again. Although I expected that final decision to be more dramatic. I thought the asteroid was going to hit if you weren't gonna let that guy go. That'd give you a substantial amount of Renegade points, methinks.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #872 on: 27 Jan 2010, 15:12 »

Just pick whichever one you're okay with looking at in cut scenes, the bonuses on the Blood Dragon and Terminus armor were pretty much the same.  I imagine the Inferno armor is the same deal.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #873 on: 27 Jan 2010, 15:42 »

Some of Shepherd's dialogue is written in such a way that, when coupled with the male voice actor's reading, makes him sound fucking retarded.


[minor spoilers]

EDI: "This ship is twice the size of the first one, so it needs a shuttle which is stored here."

Shepherd (defensively): "My old ship didn't need a shuttle."

EDI: "This ship is twice the size of the original."

Shepherd: "Derp. Despite being a hugely successful space captain, I don't know shit, apparently."
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« Reply #874 on: 27 Jan 2010, 15:53 »

Yeah Mark Meer is just... eh. I don't usually play as female characters in RPGs, exceptions being in games where gameplay is quite different between genders ala Fallout 2, but Jennifer Hale is just so clearly superior to Mark Meer. It just kind of sucks.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #875 on: 27 Jan 2010, 15:58 »

I'll have to play as a chick next time then.


Plus, I'd get to bone Garrus which is, like, totally awesome because he's, like, so darn dreamy teehee.

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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #876 on: 27 Jan 2010, 16:10 »

I've got the Blood Dragon Armor - shit, I'm never going to get around to playing Dragon Age like this - as for the others, the Inferno Armor looks best. I'm just gonna get it from Direct2drive, it's more convenient to download it and I like being able to use paypal.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #877 on: 27 Jan 2010, 16:15 »

The Terminus armor package comes with a heavy weapon too, don't forget.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #878 on: 27 Jan 2010, 16:30 »

I thought only Gamestop got the heavy weapon? I don't see it mentioned on play.com. Oh wait, the wiki says it's there. I think I'd rather download it, anyway.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #879 on: 27 Jan 2010, 20:20 »

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« Reply #880 on: 28 Jan 2010, 07:47 »

Ditto what you said...I've spent literally half the time I've been awake since its release playing it. 

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« Reply #881 on: 28 Jan 2010, 08:38 »

So the heavy weapon you're supposed to get with the terminus armor... Why didn't it just get delivered to me like the effing armor did?

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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #882 on: 28 Jan 2010, 10:16 »

dude that Carnifax Handcannon thing is freaking awesome. Not sure if that's the actual name, but it's something like that.

it makes heads disappear.
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« Reply #883 on: 28 Jan 2010, 10:42 »

Not reading the earlier part of this thread in case there are spoilers but oh my goodness this game is great.  I was skeptical about the dumbing down of the combat system at first, but some of the scripted encounters are tight.

Given that we don't have spoiler tags and tiny text is annoying, does it make sense to start a spoiler thread and keep this one spoiler free?
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« Reply #884 on: 28 Jan 2010, 11:22 »

Even starting a spoiler thread would maybe be a little dicey, because I'm pretty sure John and I are much further than everyone else, so what we've seen is probably spoilers for everyone else.
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« Reply #885 on: 28 Jan 2010, 11:36 »

I don't really see the problem with tiny text. it's really easy to hit "Quote" or to just zoom in a bit (if it's not too small).
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #886 on: 28 Jan 2010, 13:41 »

Literally every facet of Mass Effect 1 has been improved in some way. This is, without a doubt, the most polished sequel I have ever played, and it fixes every single problem with the original. It is the Perfect Game.
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« Reply #887 on: 28 Jan 2010, 13:50 »

Man, I keep reading opinons that the RPG has been taken out of ME2 and I do not understand this opinion. It is the most ridiculous opinion in fact.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #888 on: 28 Jan 2010, 14:29 »

Yeah the RPG element is definitely still there but different.  Micromanagement ME1 style for 10 dudes would have been... unwieldy.
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« Reply #889 on: 28 Jan 2010, 14:54 »

Yeah, it seems like they've just made the choices actually, you know, affect how you go about your business a little bit as opposed to just making your gun hit hard enough that you don't lose the arms race and hence the game. Making it so that you're no longer just swapping from the 120 dps Assault Rifle to the one that does 140 dps isn't removing the RPG elements from the game, it's just cutting out busywork. The dialogue and character advancement is still there.
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« Reply #890 on: 28 Jan 2010, 17:15 »

The Normandy has real leather!
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« Reply #891 on: 28 Jan 2010, 18:22 »

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« Reply #892 on: 28 Jan 2010, 18:28 »

The Normandy has real leather!

It's Cerberus, dude.  The leather is probably made out of babies.  By the way, if it turns out at the end that every time the Illusive Man says "Would you please" you have to obey his command because of implants, I am getting my money back for the game.
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« Reply #893 on: 28 Jan 2010, 18:49 »

For the record, my favorite parts of the game so far are Samara and Tali's loyalty missions. Samara's has a concept that I admit was making me roll my eyes a little at first, but they executed it really well and the end of it is especially good.

Doing Subject Zero's loyalty mission now, then I just have to do Zaeed's and look for more N7 missions before going to what I understand is this game's equivalent of Virmire. If you guys want to know for sure where the point of no return is, check the tiny text.

It's the derelict Reaper where you go to get the IFF. Apparently you can still do side missions after that before going through the Omega 4 Relay, but if you do that will have... consequences.
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« Reply #894 on: 28 Jan 2010, 18:56 »

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« Reply #895 on: 28 Jan 2010, 19:47 »

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« Reply #896 on: 28 Jan 2010, 20:41 »

For the record, my favorite parts of the game so far are Samara and Tali's loyalty missions. Samara's has a concept that I admit was making me roll my eyes a little at first, but they executed it really well and the end of it is especially good.

Doing Subject Zero's loyalty mission now, then I just have to do Zaeed's and look for more N7 missions before going to what I understand is this game's equivalent of Virmire. If you guys want to know for sure where the point of no return is, check the tiny text.

It's the derelict Reaper where you go to get the IFF. Apparently you can still do side missions after that before going through the Omega 4 Relay, but if you do that will have... consequences.
Note that you can't run with Legion AT ALL if you want to avoid said consequences. It might be the only straight-up dilemma in the game, considering what you barely avert if you do happen to go through Legion's loyalty mission.
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« Reply #897 on: 28 Jan 2010, 21:26 »

Also hey I was disappointed in the soundtrack as well, there was not a single song that I can remember (well actually that's a lie - the Freedom's Progress / side mission music is very reminiscent of the Alien Soundtrack) aside from holdovers from ME1. So I've just put Autechre's Amber on repeat and it works smashingly (one of the benefits of playing on PC - the "borderless window" mode allows for seamless alt-tabbing and multitasking)
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #898 on: 28 Jan 2010, 23:13 »

just finished 2nd run through.  each with my characters from me1.  first was paragon.  hit maybe 30% of the systems out there.  but did all the loyalty missions.  lost 3 members in the suicide mission.

second was renegade.  i didn't upgrade anything, no loyalty missions, and didn't keep the 'geth technology.'  it was kinda sad near the end when i was giving the hold the line speech and only garrus was left to do so by himself.

now i am going to go through with the paragon character shooting for 100% completion and everyone surviving.

this game is seriously everything that it needed to be and even more still.  me3 has big shoes to fill but i can't wait to see it.
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Re: Mass Effect 2
« Reply #899 on: 28 Jan 2010, 23:43 »

I'm gonna stop reading this thread until I finish it.
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And if you played too hard it'd flop out and dangle around by the wire and that is just super ugly
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