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PostPosted: 02-01-2010 08:03 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I bought all the fish and star charts I could find, as well as ships and of course my hamster :D

I think its just one of those limitation things again, where your not "supposed" to get everything first time, sadly...

I'm at the end battle now, and I think EPIC is too small a word for how I feel... Maybe EPICUPALIDDY could work...
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PostPosted: 02-01-2010 08:22 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


The space hamster is so cute.



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PostPosted: 02-01-2010 08:25 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


isn't he just <3



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PostPosted: 02-01-2010 08:31 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


whoa, a Baldur's Gate throwback ?
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Go for the eyes boo!



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PostPosted: 02-01-2010 08:35 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


awesome
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Hamster best be in No.3 or they can kiss my ass... Who cares about the other cross overs, Mr Jingles isn't in my quarters when I load the next one up Bioware are gonna get some angry emails...
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you know what fucking pisses me off? when shepard mounts an object that he shouldn't and then won't get down from it and I have to restart a mission because there isn't a fucking jump button. If you're not going to allow the player to jump, get your clipping issues sorted so he doesn't get jammed ontop of a fucking wardrobe or piece of rubble with no way to get down

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I can honestly say that in my first play through I never did that once...? Hmmmm...? But I have heard of people getting stuck in geo or falling out of it... Odd :s
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happened to me last night, lucky for me it was at the start of a mission. ha we were all stuck on a picnic table. OMG THE GROUND IS LAVA!!! hahahahha

on a side note... this is really starting to grow on me. about 8 hours in now. again like me1 the start was a little slow. gotten used to the new systems. really digging some of the new characters and environments. very classy bioware!
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completed it. The end fight was awesome, if a little easy. It scared me :<

Not sure what I make of the story and gameplay, probably one of the reasons it held my attention is because of the simplicity of it and that it didn't have a bazillion side quests to bog me down, but it did seem a little too formulaic. Get team. Make team loyal. Big fight. End.

Might do a second playthrough as a total twat. I erred on the paragon side mostly, with the odd renegade action here and there on my first run. [spoiler]I'm also annoyed because all the characters I hated the most were left at the end and all the people I wanted to live got killed off :<[/spoiler]



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PostPosted: 02-01-2010 01:05 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Stunning game. The level of detail is immense. I also got excited when Miranda said she had a sister.
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Phant, o'dium, you're done already? How many hours dis you put into your first playthrough? I'm nearly 20 hours in and still have 3 or 4 team members to recruit. I haven't really done much of the main mission. So when you say you're already finished, it worries me that there's not much more than recruiting members...
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I think it is quite short. I have one more member to get and then I think it's on to the end battle. You can do all the loyalty missions too which makes it a bit longer but still way too short I think.
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40 hours 27 minutes. Completed every subplot and sub mission, including all DLC quests. Visited/scanned every planet.

I'll be honest with you, its short. Shorter than ME1 anyway. They seem to have stripped a lot of stuff and streamlined it all, too. For example, I still had two team mates left to find by the time I had done all the side missions (aside from the ones that open up with those characters). My ME1 play time was around 68 hours or something. But a lot of that time was taken up driving the Mako around pointless planets... So its catch 22.

It will last you. Lets put it this way, it will last you a bit longer than MW2's Single player thats for sure... But I do hope they change some things for ME3, give us back a little more control, because it was a little too stream lined and straight forward for my liking... I think I only back tracked a few times, rather than going all over the place in ME1.




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no wonder overdose will never be released.
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I don't think they needed to remove the Mako completely. I quite enjoyed driving to the destinations, they just needed to tweak the vehicle a little bit, but not remove it altogether. Also, every encounter seems the same. Move forward, crouch, shoot, move, crouch, shoot etc. I don't remember ME1 being quite so formulaic.

Don't get me wrong though, it's still a fucking great game that blows nearly everything else out of the water.

Yeah.
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my playtime was only 22 hours and I did pretty much everything (aside from scan every planet). How did you get 40 out of it? :|

edit: oh DLC, i decided against that seeing as i didn't pay for it. How much content is available for download?



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I don't think the mako was as much of a problem as Bioware thought it was... I think the issue was the planets just being boring as fuck. Land... Drive for 10mins... Find element... Drive for 10mins... Find element... Drive to base... Kill a few people... Exit. Wasn't really fun. I can see why they replaced it with just landing at the base rigth away, but its a shame you now have to scan planets... So dull... The ship has an amazing VI onboard yet I have to scan planets by hand :(

I agree thought, amazing game despite a few annoyances, glad to see the third one wont take more than a year to get here.

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my playtime was only 25 hours. How did you get 40 out of it? :|


I got everything......... EVVVVVEERRRRRYYYYTHHHIIING... That includes all the mini missions working for people that don't show up on the menu until you trigger them too... Plus a lot of that time was spent scanning planets. Maybe if you skipped all the dialog it would be a low game time, but I didn't.

EDIT: DLC wise, you get one extra team member with a mission to get him, then his loyalty mission. Plus theres the Normandy wreckage mission, which doesn't really take long. I would say its only about 30mins worth, tops.




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I once watched a friend of mine play an RPG where he skipped every single piece of dialogue and had no idea what the story was, he just wanted to get to the next bit of fighting. I couldn't understand it. He did the same with GTA too, so he had no idea what he was supposed to be doing for each mission.



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Doombrain wrote:
no wonder overdose will never be released.


I know, right
acquired: Jan 29th.
completed: Feb 1st.
gametime: 40.5 hrs

thats 8 hrs of playing time per day. kinda like.. yknow... a full time job :o
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MKJ wrote:
Doombrain wrote:
no wonder overdose will never be released.


I know, right
acquired: Jan 29th.
completed: Feb 1st.
gametime: 40.5 hrs

thats 8 hrs of playing time per day. kinda like.. yknow... a full time job :o


lol crushed
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phantasmagoria wrote:
you know what fucking pisses me off? when shepard mounts an object that he shouldn't and then won't get down from it and I have to restart a mission because there isn't a fucking jump button. If you're not going to allow the player to jump, get your clipping issues sorted so he doesn't get jammed ontop of a fucking wardrobe or piece of rubble with no way to get down

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yep. killed my progress about 5 times during the game, forcing mission restarts.

needless to say, i was far more resourceful with the quick save function after i found out about those issues.
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MKJ wrote:
Doombrain wrote:
no wonder overdose will never be released.


I know, right
acquired: Jan 29th.
completed: Feb 1st.
gametime: 40.5 hrs

thats 8 hrs of playing time per day. kinda like.. yknow... a full time job :o


Erm...? I didn't get it 29th, I've had it a week yesterday. Nice fail. Plus who cares, I was off last week, shock horror I'm relaxing.
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posted jan 26th, on page 2

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Its getting some mad scores atm... Gonna load it up and give it a try in a bit, but I'm waiting for Friday to play it serious on 360 instead.


if you are saying you played it on PC instead, that's only a 3 day difference according to that post. fffuu----
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MKJ wrote:
posted jan 26th, on page 2

o'dium wrote:
Its getting some mad scores atm... Gonna load it up and give it a try in a bit, but I'm waiting for Friday to play it serious on 360 instead.


if you are saying you played it on PC instead, that's only a 3 day difference according to that post. fffuu----


Over 6 days, I put in 40 hours to the best game released in a long time while on holiday... Shock bloody horror. Was good fun though.
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heh, my mate completed the whole game over a weekend. he works long hours and his girlfriend nags the rest of his time, but he said he was basically gonna go on a mass effect 2 binge so he can play the game without any distractions.

thats 30 hours in 2 days.

i can understand why he did it, but i don't think you can really enjoy a game if you're pretty much forcing yourself to play for huge amounts of hours...
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Completed it today at 32 hours. I did every quest available. Got all crew members to loyal and upgraded my ship with everything I could.

Not one party member died either.

Quality game. Gonna play it again as a Vanguard now.
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I'm moving along fairly slowly, but this is the first game in a long time I've been able to put more than 2 hours into in a row from time to time. My playtime counter is huge though due to leaving the machine running with the game on and shepard standing in one spot for a few hours.
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I'm very particular about findng every little thing and trying to complete 100% of the game, and in doing so I think I may actually be hurting myself. I scan every planet, so i'm spending a lot of credits on probes and fuel. Where I could be spending it on stuff I could buy at the merchants. I'm beginning to wonder if I even need all these minerals, and would be better off saving my credits and buying other things...
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"Not one party member died either."

wha? i lost mr scientist when he was closing the door... how did you not lose anyone? hmmm...
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First of all you need to have every ship upgrade. Then, you need to make sure everybody is loyal before doing the IFF mission.

After that, make sure you adign the correct squad members to the correct roles at the end of the game, so dont put Grunt in a role where you need a good tech.

Then nobody dies.
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I'm playing this game now, played teh first one furiously just to finish it so I could import a character, quality game so far I love it :)

My girlfriend however is one of those shoot everything and ignore the dialogue types. :p
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I had a high paragon score but that cunt miranda still got pissy with me. Even though I didn't use her in the final mission, she still found a way to kill herself. I'll try again later today to see if I can get the achievement.



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