Author Topic: Mass Effect 2 (Read 15162 times)

SeventyX7 · « **Reply #100 on:** December 15, 2010, 02:19:05 PM »

I think Mass Effect 2 would have been better with Alistar from Dragon Ages in it.

The Mass Effect series in general has been lacking of hilariously sarcastic British men.

newy · « **Reply #101 on:** December 15, 2010, 02:55:54 PM »

Maybe we'll see a comeback of that British sniper from the ME3 trailer

JoonasTo · « **Reply #102 on:** December 15, 2010, 03:00:17 PM »

Quote from: newy on December 15, 2010, 02:55:54 PM

Maybe we'll see a comeback of that British sniper from the ME3 trailer

HELL YEAH! That'd be awesome.

Takeshi · « **Reply #103 on:** December 15, 2010, 03:08:36 PM »

Have anyone looked into some of the DLC's? I got Overlord, but am unsure if the others are worth it. I am only considering those with an actual story.

Havoc10K · « **Reply #104 on:** December 15, 2010, 07:46:34 PM »

shadow broker is pretty good, but I recommend getting it early in the game, it provides pretty nice info and if you're lucky you can earn some cash :)

the firewalker is not that bad, but the firepower and the likes are just cosmetics, Zaed and Kasumi are worth it though, especially Kasumi, she is pretty good in combat :)

SeventyX7 · « **Reply #105 on:** December 15, 2010, 09:07:49 PM »

If you're holding off until Mass Effect 2 comes out on PS3, it will come with these DLC for free. Well, the total package will be 60 dollars, most likely.

newy · « **Reply #106 on:** December 15, 2010, 11:44:35 PM »

Zaeed and Firewalker are for free. Shadow is quite good and you can't start the DLC early as you have to be first on Illium to start it. Kasumi and Overlord cost some €. Overlord is actually only something for you if you have read the books and knows a bit about the ME universe as you then have some A-ha effects when they are talking about some things. Kasumi, well she can be quite helpful but as with all members she is not suited for every mission. Will only prolong the fights (at least on Insanity) when fighting against mobs that have for example armor (Kasumi has no abilities that are effective against it). Her loyalty mission is nice to have.

The biggest question with those characters is, will they be taken with you to ME3?

Havoc10K · « **Reply #107 on:** December 16, 2010, 01:32:24 PM »

I sure hope Kasumi will be with me, but that is a slim hope, I suppose the current team would dissolve for a while to do some stuff with their superiors/racial commanders (Garrus,Mordin,Grunt,Samara) I personally don't see the game without Garrus, I sure hope Ashley would come to her senses, the game could use her again, I mean, she was a really good fighter, Can't seem to see this game without Tali, she is a must have with all her cool responses, I really enjoyed all the talks with her, her voice actress is perfect for her, I won't miss Zaeed, Miranda and Jacob if they leave, the Hamster on a coffee must stay, the game would lose too much without him :D

I liked Thane when I was on missions with him and Legion/Garrus, since I'm an Infiltrator, 3 targets for Sniping, short battles, Tali was perfect with Grunt or Jack, with Shotguns, waiting in front of me in cover, when the geth comes too close (Geth Hunters were a Pain sometimes) Poof, and no geth :) and if Jack felt like it, Shockwave was so awesome :)

I also liked Miranda's SLAM ability, dealt pretty awesome damage when lifting and slamming on the ground, but Samara's REAVE, that was awesome against the Shadow Broker, so damn useful, that ability was so great I used it myself cuz the damage it allowed to deal was seriously hurting mobs :)

mizore · « **Reply #108 on:** December 16, 2010, 06:10:07 PM »

I lubz Kasumi in combat. Everytime I hear "going silent," I get all giddy and happy.

<edit> Oh and I have all the DLC, but I just started the game so no idea how good each may be. *shrug*

JoonasTo · « **Reply #109 on:** December 16, 2010, 06:35:16 PM »

Too bad almost all the powers targetted at enemies are useless in the game with higher difficulties(don't know where the line goes since only played on insanity) since they don't work on anything when it matters. When their shields are out they die from one sniper shot anyways. For husks they rock though, shoot a little at each and FLY they go, especially lovely because husks die the second their feet lose ground contact.

HSSDamian · « **Reply #110 on:** December 19, 2010, 05:24:11 AM »

Finished it awhile ago.
Must say, it runs better on my i7 than Mass Effect 1.

Great game, to bad half my team died at the end, which means half my team will be missing when I start Mass Effect 3.

Sosseres · « **Reply #111 on:** December 19, 2010, 08:44:51 AM »

Quote from: HSSDamian on December 19, 2010, 05:24:11 AM

Finished it awhile ago.
Must say, it runs better on my i7 than Mass Effect 1.

Great game, to bad half my team died at the end, which means half my team will be missing when I start Mass Effect 3.

I lost one person the first time. Re-thought it and lost none when I replayed the last part.

TMRNetShark · « **Reply #112 on:** January 19, 2011, 01:15:53 AM »

Gueeesssss who just necro'ed this thread... THIS guy. But then again, it's a Catch-22 if I make a new thread... either way, I'm gonna get bitched at. Now to continue the post and get rid of the haters...

I just picked up my copy of ME2 (for PS3 obviously), now I gotta play through the comic book on the disc (never FULLY played the first one... only up to the first time at the Citadel). That, and the combination of this game, Star Ocean The Last Hope International, and World of Tanks better keep me until Bioware's next game... dum-dum-DUMMMMM.... The Old Republic!

Tiffanys · « **Reply #113 on:** January 22, 2011, 07:15:42 AM »

This game's pretty fun. It feels a lot more personal when importing a ME save too.

Just uh... don't get the Reaper IFF before you've done everything else you want to do, cause you... well... just make sure you did everything you wanted to do before then.

Sosseres · « **Reply #114 on:** January 22, 2011, 09:54:20 AM »

Star Ocean The Last Hope, can give you a lot of play time if you do the extra stuff and level a lot. Downside is that you get no epic battles if you do things like that. I beat the last boss in the normal game thinking it was a minion to soften one up. ^^ Post game is a totally different beast, a lot harder and more grinding to complete that. My xbox 360 went to black screen in that once due to how long one cut scene was.

ME2 doesn't have nearly as much play time, but what it does have is better.

Tiffanys · « **Reply #115 on:** January 22, 2011, 09:32:29 PM »

I found the first one really really confusing... I just kinda stumbled through everything and I don't think I did hardly any of the side stuff, mostly just the main required things cause I was so damn confused and had no idea what to do. The second one was a lot better with that, it was a lot more intuitive and easier to figure out.

There was a lot of neat romance and Specter stuff in the first though. And lol... cutting the council off every time they call you (I didn't personally, but I watched a video of it!).

My girl was such a badass though... ^_^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIafqdTj31M

JoonasTo · « **Reply #116 on:** January 22, 2011, 09:54:06 PM »

Luls, most of the time nowadays I hear people complaining about games being too easy and short.
Now Tiff's complaining about an RPG being too hard to figure out about what to do. Luls.

Ahhh, yesss....Cutting the council. I did that. Awesome feeling. Especially after they bitch to you about it the next time and you just shut the thing off again.

Guru Zeb · « **Reply #117 on:** January 22, 2011, 11:08:25 PM »

Quote from: blubart on January 24, 2010, 05:11:44 AM

i'm only through the first two planets but my first impression is that ME2 is worse than ME1 - and to blame are clearly those fucking console players. why does every game created for pc and consoles has to be dumbed down to the shitty level of console games?

- the shrank together equip upgrades suck
- the shrank together equip choices suck
- the shrank together talents suck
- the shrank together squad management sucks
- the new ammo system sucks
- ...

Am so relieved that someone else noticed the above.
I hated ME2 as the devs pretty much completely eviscerated it, the only thing that was better ........ was the eye candy ..... surprise surprise.
ME1 is one of the few games i have played from start to finish 3 or more times, can only pray that ME3 will return to the side of light with ME1 mechanics and gameplay .... but i very much doubt it.

SeventyX7 · « **Reply #118 on:** January 23, 2011, 12:07:20 AM »

I agree, the changes to equipment was a HUGE downside to ME2.

The best part of ME1 was finding an awesome gun off some random drop and getting the perfect mods for it. Sniper rifles with +345345345 heat and +1000% damage were SO fun.

Talents-wise, I'm okay with what they did. ME1 ended with your chars being WAY op because of how talents worked.

Combat was much better in ME2, it was more streamlined and I liked the ammo system. Anything to make the game more challenging is welcomed to me.

I don't really understand what you mean by shrank squad management...do you mean how you can't equip them? They have pretty much the same equipment options as the commander, so 3 of your complaints really fall under a single category of "equipment elimination."

Tiffanys · « **Reply #119 on:** January 23, 2011, 03:42:27 AM »

I thought it was better in ME2 actually... Having less equipment choices (no inventory) made it a lot more simple. The first one was really overwhelming with all that stuff.

The talents in the second one made more sense too, there were skills and you ranked up the skills. The first one, it was really obscure. Like, you had to rank up an assault rifle with like 9 points just to learn how to use a sniper rifle? Stupid! And then some other things just give some random obscure skills, and worse than all that...... if you don't have something with stupid decryption and electronics maxed, your life gets like 500x harder.

I agree about the ammo though... it was nice with it just overheating and not have to deal with running out of ammo or finding more ammo, that's such a PITA (you can edit the ini to change it for PC version though).

Squad management... I guess you mean controlling what they do? I thought it was fine. I mean, you could tell them where to move to and what skills to use, so it was pretty good.

They did change not being able to make your companions wear 234324 different outfits I guess, but they do at least have an alternate one after their loyalty mission or maybe more if you have the DLC (I think?). But, your armor didn't really have as much diversity either, although... it was much nicer being able to totally dye the armor however you want. I didn't like any of the non-Onyx armors anyways, especially the heavy ones cause they looked all huge and weird...

I did like being able to slap omni-gel on everything too, cause those mini-games are retarded, in both games. The first one, it was impossible for me to do most the time, so I just had to give myself a ton of omni-gel with console and just do it that way. The second one.... well... I have to just grit my teeth and do them, or not, which sucks. At least with the two upgrades they aren't very hard... just seems like a waste of time to have to spend 15-30 seconds doing some stupid mini-game for like 900-15000 credits when it's so easy to just give myself like 500k with the editor. Kinda forced to do it for the upgrades though...

Well, that's what I think anyways.

The one thing I really didn't like about the second was the Shadow Broker DLC I think.... with the Liara romance. She makes such a huge deal about coming back from the Omega-4 relay and always coming back...... but after you come back and go to see her, she just gives that same old monotone "I'm glad you came" message and you can't even talk to her... ughh...

Oh, but I really love Kasumi Goto... always fun to have around.