Mass Effect 2

[shaft]

yeah, you certainly tried to imply that you were sent an early copy for review though.

[o'dium]

Erm, no I didn't. I can't help it if you jumped to conclusions for zero reason. Why would I be sent anything "for review"?

Is this the best you can do, seriously? Put more thought into your trolls shaft.

[brisk]

If you have a PC that can run it, theres no point buying the 360 version. It's shit in comparison.

Yes but with a 360 I can sit on the sofa with my feet up and play on a 60 inch TV. How is that shit?

Spaz.

hi pauly

[tnf]

Is anyone importing their old character or are you all starting new? Not sure if it will make serious difference in-game or not.

[GONNAFISTYA]

Yes but with a 360 I can sit on the sofa with my feet up and play on a 60 inch TV. How is that shit?

Spaz.

hi pauly

lol...it took a resurrection of a Mass Effect thread to bring Pauly out of the closet to post again.

He prolly played the game as a male to see his avatar's ass in the sex scene. Whada queer.

[xer0s]

Is anyone importing their old character or are you all starting new? Not sure if it will make serious difference in-game or not.

I imported my level 44 character. I have no idea either what it will do or what it might change. But I do know it gave me a ton of extra credits starting off and it also gave me weapons. As for how it could affect the story, that's to be determined...

[Pauly]

lol...it took a resurrection of a Mass Effect thread to bring Pauly out of the closet to post again.

He prolly played the game as a male to see his avatar's ass in the sex scene. Whada queer.

Yes, you play as a female because it's the only time you can stare at a girl's arse without risking a restraining order.

[MKJ]

For the bros who dont have their years-old savegame anymore;

http://www.annakie.com/me/home.htm

[brisk]

For the bros who dont have their years-old savegame anymore;

http://www.annakie.com/me/home.htm

cheaters!

but yeah, the ME1 save makes a pretty big difference to the overall enjoyment of the game, specifically with old characters who return (and remember how you were/what you did for them) as well as minor NPC interactions, such as helena blake, the rachni etc..

the first game is awesome anyway and deserves to be played before this.

[MKJ]

i think its a response to this

Hello Penny Arcade readers. My name is Chris Priestly and I am BioWare’s Community Coordinator.

This morning Tycho posted a quote I gave him from a discussion we were having about Mass Effect 2. Unfortunately, the information I gave him was not correct. I had told him that when creating a new character, you could go down a list of key decisions and set them manually. Unfortunately I was working from a test build used by our internal testing department. While there are choice made by the player, new games of ME2 will have a certain pre-disposed assumption of what happened to your new character in ME1.

I apologize to Tycho for not fact checking the information I gave him, and I apologize to all of you who read what he, in good faith, posted today and have been misinformed.

[o'dium]

See, THAT would have been cool... But instead I have to load one of those saves off that site that doesn't quite fit in... AIDEN Sheppard...? Can we not rename them again...? Mehhh... Better than nowt I guess, and you never hear the name anyway other than in the UI save slots...

[o'dium]

Ok, well, its a bit picky about the naming of saves, so if you use the site above to get a character as a base and it wotn load, thats likely to do with how the file name of the save was named... Odd.

Anyway so far... Wow... Just holy fuck wow... Beautiful port runs smooth as silk at max settings on my old rig, which is great. The only things I don't like are A) lack of 360 pad support (so no relaxing in front of the tv) and no way to change the mouse sensitivity. It just has three options, low medium and high, and low is equal to about 20 in Quake 3... Which is far too much... *looks for ini files*

Anyway, fuck a doodle doo, stunning...

[scared?]

lol odium...

[Deji]

About 6 hours in, some thoughts:

* The mouse sensitivity is very gay. Even "low" is hugely sensitive and fucks up my aim in Quake, I'm unable to do a 180 after playing ME2 because I'm not used to moving my hand that much.

* I dislike the ammo management system. There is just not enough ammo around and you can hold so little of it. Things have kind of improved the past hour I've played, but the first 3-4 hours I was really annoyed at the small amounts of ammo you could hold, especially with upgraded weapons. Use assault rifle, deplete. Use pistol, deplete. Use sniper rifle and shotgun to run around looking for ammo midfight.

* The story so far seems all right. I expect it will pick up soon though, since I'm not too far in the main plot arc.

* Mining for resources seems too repetitive.

* Some of the characters (that I've gathered so far) are really good. Mordin Solus is one of THE best characters I've seen in games so far. In my opinion the comical value rivals HK-47 from KOTOR and the character has more depth.

* It is definitely advantegous to load a char from ME1. The biggest difference is being able to interrupt cutscenes with some pretty nice options, depending if you're high on paragon or renegade points.

[Captain]

I just finished the Omega missions and am about to go see the new Citadel for the first time.

Thoughts:

-Would've been better if they simply improved the inventory system from ME1 rather than discard it entirely.

-Having to conserve ammo definitely adds to the challenge but they could've kept some of the weaponry from ME1, ie. rifles that overheat.

-Love the graphic violence and language, makes the universe seem a lot grittier and darker, just like in the novels.

-They really stepped up the combat and enemy AI from ME1

-Seems like they fixed all of the visual bugs from the first game (Garrus' high quality face, light sources penetrating through characters, dynamic shadows, etc.)

-The game overall looks absolutely beautiful on PC

-NO MORE ELEVATORS

[o'dium]

Just so I'm clear... I have a few armour DLC's...

Now I can select them in the menu no problem. But I find myself sticking to the N7 all the time...

But I've yet to find any new armour in the game...? I've found "pieces" to replace "pieces" of the N7 armour. Did they do away with finding complete kits or something unless its a really special kit, and now you just upgrade bits?

And I third that on the inventory and ammo stuff, it was a poor console kiddy decision to dumb it down so much.

[phantasmagoria]

I was just talking to some reporter who bad mouthed me in ME1, and while she was mid sentence I punched her in the face.

I made a lol.

I agreed with the inventory qualms (or lack, thereof) but I'm not overly fussed.

[phantasmagoria]

* Some of the characters (that I've gathered so far) are really good. Mordin Solus is one of THE best characters I've seen in games so far. In my opinion the comical value rivals HK-47 from KOTOR and the character has more depth.

his loyalty mission is fun, some excellent [LOL MORALITY] questions are raised.

[o'dium]

I did the same It was one of the fewer times where being a bit on the "dark side" made me laugh, lol... Usually I stick to the paragon side of things. Bitch had it coming though, she had the guts to send me a sarcy email beforehand... Cunt...

[GONNAFISTYA]

I was just talking to some reporter who bad mouthed me in ME1, and while she was mid sentence I punched her in the face.

I made a lol.

Am I the only person here that punched that bitch in the first game? That was hilarious, too.

fisted

I also punched that whiny fagg0t on Eden Prime.

more fisting

[phantasmagoria]

Did you all keep the default appearence for shepard? it's weird seeing him in GKYs video because I made him look all wartorn and older.

[GONNAFISTYA]

This is a facial animation bug just before you punch the reporter. It only lasts for a few frames but it's hilarious if you catch it.

[GONNAFISTYA]

Did you all keep the default appearence for shepard? it's weird seeing him in GKYs video because I made him look all wartorn and older.

That's not my vid. I simply found "the punch from the first game" with a search.

[Mat Linnett]

Huh, I never knew you could punch the reporter!
Mind you, I had a great one on my last playthrough where I got that corporate internal affairs officer and the CEO to kill each-other.

[phantasmagoria]

I'm rapidly losing patience with the resource mining. If they're going to have this kind of thing implimented, the least they could do is offer the player a way to trade excess and buy raw minerals.