Mass Effect 2

[feedback]

I tried to play ME but it crashed ALLTHEFUCKINGTIME. So I chucked it under my bed...and then stumbled on the 1,000+ page thread at the official site on how the newer (at the time) nvidia drivers made the game unplayable. I'll go back and see if any of the newer drivers play nice with the game now.

They don't, I'm about to boot into XP and install an older set of drivers.

[Captain]

I tried to play ME but it crashed ALLTHEFUCKINGTIME. So I chucked it under my bed...and then stumbled on the 1,000+ page thread at the official site on how the newer (at the time) nvidia drivers made the game unplayable. I'll go back and see if any of the newer drivers play nice with the game now.

It worked perfectly for me, first with the 8800GT and now a GTX 260. I've also played it with a wide variety of drivers since the game was released.

[Transient]

It worked awesomely for me, too. You fags need to get a 360.

[shaft]

few tidbits..
http://www.gametrailers.com/gametrailer ... &ch=1&sd=0

[brisk]

replaying the original now actually. i played it first on the 360 and i must say the pc version is much nicer, especially now i can move and shoot at the same time (i'm rubbish at aiming on controllers)

[Grudge]

most people agree that the PC version is superior

[Grudge]

btw also replaying now because

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I want a save where Wrex is still alive

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[Fender]

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When did he die?
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[xer0s]

You kill him. If you want...

[Fender]

Hmmm... I went paragon 1st play though. I started again w/ same char again playing as renegade.

[Captain]

You'll have to go through the entire game with 4 different characters to find every mission and fully explore the game. Each background you choose for Shepard changes tons of little details.

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720p pre e3 trailer

[KingManULTRA]

I hope for the sequel they learn how to use the Unreal engine properly. There is no excuse for Mass Effect's decidedly mediocre visuals and performance compared to Gears of War 2 seeing as they use the same engine (even taking into account Unreal engine enhancements between the two releases).

[Transient]

Don't I remember a story about some company complaining that the Unreal engine everyone else got was a dumbed down version of the Unreal engine used in GoW? Seems that an accusation like that was floating around some time ago...

[Mat Linnett]

That was Silicon Knights and Too Human Trans, but look how that turned out.

[Transient]

Ah, I had high hopes for that game, too.

Still, I wouldnn't say the visuals in MA were bad per se, but they weren't great either. Well, barren planets aside.

[xer0s]

ME

[o'dium]

Wasn't Mass Effect UE2.5...? And not UE3...? Thus making what you just said totally pointless...?

EDIT: Mass Effect was IMO a stunning game simply because of the scale. Granted the extra planets were boring as hell and looked Quake 3 Terrain quality bad, but the characters, the voice acting and the attention to detail for the whole thing was amazing. From what I've seen it looks like ME2 will surpass the first by a great deal.

[Mat Linnett]

o'dium, had you ever actually played any other Bioware games before?
I say this because I found ME to basically just be more of the same, and they'd made better games earlier in their career.

I'm very sceptical about their ability to surprise me, and I'm expecting more of the same, clinical, middle-of-the-road, generic content they always go with to play things safe. I'm also expecting the same from Dragon Age, which I doubt will be nothing more than Mass Effect: Mediaeval Edition.

[o'dium]

Who cares? I mean, really? Have you ever played any id Software game before...? Ever get any surprises from then? What about Infinity Ward, ever see them making a cartoon platformer...?

Bioware can keep their surprises. As long as they deliver more of what ME was, only more refined, thats all I need to see, to be honest. Who cares if ME is pretty much KoToR without the Jedi...?

EDIT: From all the ViDocs Bioware have released, ME2 looks like its going to fix a lot of long running issues... So just enjoy the game FFS.

[Mat Linnett]

I suppose I'm really just a bit of an RPG snob, and I hate seeing games like Mass Effect and Fallout 3 being used to describe a genre they are as far from as it's possible to be without being called action games.
And while people think that this is what RPGs are, this is all we'll get.

Don't mind me, I just get a bit grumpy about "RPGs" these days.

Edit:
Or, to put it another way, I think genre homogenisation is a shit sandwich.

[xer0s]

If they called it a RPAG (Role Playing Action Game), would that make you feel better?

[o'dium]

To be fair, a "Role Playing Game" is where you pick a class and go with it while updating your stats to mold the avatar into your own version of what you want to play as.

Which is exactly what ME does. And Fallout 3. And even games like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

Its far from a JRPG or something you may think is an RPG, granted, but its still an RPG.

[Transient]

I suppose I'm really just a bit of an RPG snob, and I hate seeing games like Mass Effect and Fallout 3 being used to describe a genre they are as far from as it's possible to be without being called action games.
And while people think that this is what RPGs are, this is all we'll get.

Don't mind me, I just get a bit grumpy about "RPGs" these days.

Edit:
Or, to put it another way, I think genre homogenisation is a shit sandwich.

Well JRPGs have been done to death, so I'm happy with the action element. They just need to find a happy medium between the two, because right now action RPGs are a bit lacking in the customization department.

[KingManULTRA]

Wasn't Mass Effect UE2.5...? And not UE3...? Thus making what you just said totally pointless...?

From 2004:
http://www.bioware.com/bioware_info/pre ... Engine.pdf