Mass Effect 2

[Lionclaw]

Originally Posted by Arclight

I like it.

Not really sold on the weapons suddenly being ammo-based, but I haven't run out yet, think it's manageable.

The proloque bit on the Normandy was great, even my neighbors now know I'm playing a game. Bass ftw.

Ammo-based?!

That will certainly add to the challenge, a nice change.

[Dowly]

There's plenty of ammo, enemies usually drop some. What I dont like is that some weapons have so idiotic limits on how much ammo you can carry. Like the M6 Pistol (the handcannon thingy) can only carry like 24 round total. Tho, I can understand that, it's one of the best weapons and you get it very early in the game, but still.

Started playing ME1 last night and wow, ME2 is quite an improvement gameplay wise. Runs much smoother.

[Arclight]

Yeah, they did a good job on the engine as well. Cranking the visuals to max on ME caused my card to crap out; memory overheat before the fan even spun up (sensor only monitors core temp, not memory). Happens with a lot of ports, actually.

This doesn't feel like a port (I should say "cross-platform game") at all. Visuals maxed, very smooth, no worries.



Just ran into Tali, gonna have to leave it at that for today.

[Dowly]

You found our C-Sec friend yet from ME1? I was soooo happy to learn he's in too (well, unless you killed him in ME1, I think ).

[Wolfehunter]

Originally Posted by Dowly

You found our C-Sec friend yet from ME1? I was soooo happy to learn he's in too (well, unless you killed him in ME1, I think ).

If your talking about Wrex.. Then yes he's in the game. If he is alive so I'm told he's reorganizing the Krogen people's.. And there friendly to you. If he's dead then the Krogan have another warlord and there hostile to you.

I'm still working on finishing my ME1 character... Damn me for accidentally deleting my original characters...

[Dowly]

Noo, I meant Garrus.

[Arclight]

Nope, haven't run into Garrus yet. Gonna pick up where I left off yesterday.

The only one I'm definitely not going to run into is Ashley, being dead and all.



I never had any sex-scenes in ME. Got closest with Ashley, but she kind of died. To be honest, I wasn't "interested" in any of the women in ME. Now, Miranda on the other hand...

I'm sure I'll learn something about her that turns me off, but for the moment I'm interested.

(btw is 5000 of a resource a lot? I got +5000 to all of them for importing ME character)

[Wolfehunter]

Resources? Those are points to buy items? Lol I didn't even start MEPC2 yet.

I've always hated Garius.. first for his ugly face. Second for his constant whining. If I could shoot him myself I would have done it the first time he squealed.

I like wrex we get along good. We kill and blow things up for fun.. muhahahaa...

I can't stand Ashley.. But she makes a good shield.

Liana is cool.. Blue and all.. Had some sex scene with her..

Quarian chick is also a whiner... But she's good with engines so i'll keep her with scotty..

MEPC2 crew.. I don't know yet.. I'll worry about it when the times comes... I would pay good credits to have wrex and his mighty army on my side.. I bet four krogan nads on it.

Also if any of you are having PC issue with MEPC2, Here are some Fan fixes that can help.

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/to...6/index/784595

[Arclight]

No issues yet, as fas as I'm concerned. Seems like those "fixes" are all a matter of preference.

Frankenreview: Mass Effect 2

[Dowly]

5000 resources isnt much. If we are talking about minerals? Some of the upgrades take only 1500 or so, but especially the ship upgrades are quite expensive. I got 50000 resources when I played the game thru and started over. And 200k cash IIRC.

As for romances, I boned Miranda and that tattooe'd chick, Jack. Tho, it wasnt much of a romance with Jack, I told her I wanted sex and she gave me some, no strings attached. The new blue chick wasnt that much into giving any, but then again, I was a bit put off when she told me she's over 1000yo. Dont think you can have any with Tali. I had dinner with the yeoman, Kelly, but that didnt go any farther than that. *Note to self: Dont save her on the next playthrough* (And yes, I went all around the ship begging for pity-sex )

.....

I wonder if you can cyber with EDI.

[Arclight]

Typical.

I'm touring the ship at the moment, made my way to engineering. That guy's (engineer Donnely) accent is great, I just hope I'll hear him say "I'm giv'n ye all she's got, commander" at some point.

Just met Kelly before that, seemed to be interested. Just dinner?

Don't trust EDI though; half the info is restricted, and part of her hardware is "offline untill needed". Pretty sure that's going to come back and bite me on the ass. Not really fond of parts of the ship being off-limits either.

Joker's right, should vent that AI into space.

(the scene with Tali was on YT, but taken down on EA request)
* (there ya go: http://www.gamerfuzion.com/LaserBolt...rah-sex-scene/)

[Dowly]

Haha, Joker's great.

Re: Tali's sex thingy. Righto, need to do her then too. Stupid they didnt show her face, if I am Shepard and Shepard just saw her face, then why the heck they dont show it!!

Ow and if you buy fish for your quarters, make sure to feed them or ask Kelly to do it. I kinda starved my first bunch of fishes.

[Arclight]

Pretty sure the same thing would happen with me.

Wow, they really supersized the game. Normandy is huge, just arrived at Omega and seems to be fairly substantial as well. Think if I really take my time, this will keep me busy for a while, longer than ME at least.



I really haven't seen much yet, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and state that Bioware, once again, did a fine job, above and beyond.

I really can't describe the amount of respect I have for these guys.

[Arclight]

Shepard: "I assume everything is going well up here?"

Joker: "Good for now. Fractured my thumb on the mute, but I think I made my point."



I forgot how much the ME dialogues made me laugh. Marvelous Bioware humour, as always.

[ReFaN]

a word of warning, if you get Morinth instead of Samara, dont romance her, its lethal.