Author Topic: Mass Effect 2 (Read 15172 times)

newy · « **Reply #80 on:** February 15, 2010, 09:22:14 PM »

I used the Collector Beam a lot. Very helpful against strong shields of any kind

kyubixmunky · « **Reply #81 on:** February 16, 2010, 01:47:16 AM »

Favorite line:
"I like watching humans crawl around on their knees."
....
"That was a joke."

That and Mordin's dating advice. Especially for Garrus: Ingesting Turian semen is lethal to humans.

blubart · « **Reply #82 on:** February 16, 2010, 11:47:35 AM »

Quote from: shabutie on February 15, 2010, 08:03:05 PM

I'm really confused with everyone saying Biotics are worthless....
...
Triple Warp was nearly an insta-kill on guys with armor...

the point is that if you had used an assault riffle two bursts are enough to kill any armored target, or a single sniper riffle shot. you wouldn't even spend a single cooldown. with adrenalin rush (soldier ability) you can easily kill 4+ targets without taking a single hit in the same time you would normally kill one.
so they might not be completely worthless, but the other abilities are just so much better.

Even on insanity there is enough ammo lying around - IF you are using the soldier class, thus have access to more weapons with more ammo that are doing more damage.
It is pretty basic math that if every picked up ammo charge recharges every weapon you have by a defined percentage the class with double the number of weapons that are doing more damage to begin with has actually less to worry about ammo than the classes that are "less dependent" on ammo.

newy · « **Reply #83 on:** February 16, 2010, 08:59:35 PM »

I don't know if you have played on Insanity but you need a lot more ammo even as a soldier. I just started anew but this time on Normal and the enemies are naked compared to Insanity. 90% of the enemies just have a red health bar and few have a yellow armor bar or a blue shield bar.
And yes, you can use Inciendary or Disruptor Ammo to get these protections down quickly but you still need more ammo to take down one enemy, so imo Biotics and Techs have their reasons.

grobnastaker · « **Reply #84 on:** February 25, 2010, 09:27:06 PM »

Conrad Verner is the Shadow Broker.

Carnivus · « **Reply #85 on:** March 05, 2010, 09:08:58 PM »

Quote from: grobnastaker on February 25, 2010, 09:27:06 PM

Conrad Verner is the Shadow Broker.

...NOT ?!

newy · « **Reply #86 on:** March 05, 2010, 09:35:55 PM »

YHBT I guess

Waiting for the end of March

Carnivus · « **Reply #87 on:** March 05, 2010, 09:49:26 PM »

Quote from: newy on March 05, 2010, 09:35:55 PM

YHBT I guess

Waiting for the end of March

Wait,what?

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newy · « **Reply #88 on:** March 05, 2010, 09:53:26 PM »

Free DLC with the Hammerhead. Curious about the five missions with it.

Carnivus · « **Reply #89 on:** April 01, 2010, 10:01:40 PM »

I HAD to revive this thread when I saw this.

Takeshi · « **Reply #90 on:** June 20, 2010, 09:35:55 AM »

Mass Effect is off 75% today until 10am Pacific time.

Mass Effect 2 is off 40% until same time.

A pretty good deal if I must say so.

By the way, it's on Steam.

newy · « **Reply #91 on:** June 20, 2010, 09:45:07 AM »

Which Mass Effect is 75% off? (Not that I care since I have both

)

Takeshi · « **Reply #92 on:** June 20, 2010, 10:38:03 AM »

Quote from: newy on June 20, 2010, 09:45:07 AM

Which Mass Effect is 75% off? (Not that I care since I have both )

The first game. I edited my post.

I only bought the first game.
It seems there's a lot of talking and it resembles a Japanese RPG so not buying the second game just now.
Mass Effect is 10GB and that's only the first game. D:

Sosseres · « **Reply #93 on:** June 20, 2010, 10:40:26 AM »

It is a story driven RPG with a third person combat system. The second game is more of a third person combat game with a story driven RPG part.

Takeshi · « **Reply #94 on:** July 18, 2010, 01:10:38 PM »

I finished playing Mass Effect 2 recently. It was a pretty decent game. Then I started up Mass Effect 1 and it felt worse than the second game. Everything about it just feels a bit worse than Mass Effect 2. I wanna play the first game, but everything just feels so wrong about it.

I didn't particular like the story in Mass Effect 2. Basically, you go around for the first 10 hours recruiting people. Okay, fine. But that's basically what you spent most of the game around. Imo, there wasn't enough Collector's confrontations. I think I meet them around 3-4 times during the game. And I also felt like it needed a center villain. As I recall, Saren was that villian in Mass Effect. I played the first game until the game introduced him.

I'm not really a strategist so I hardly ordered my men to do anything but come back to me when I needed help.

What I find most appealing to this game is of course the characters themselves, and especially the voice acting because that was brilliant.

Relationships were also very interesting to follow. Personally, I went for Miranda since she's the obvious choice. At one point it almost overshadowed the game itself. I think I went to talk to her about 10 times during a game session to see if "things had quiet down".

Right now I am searching planets fro their resources so I can upgrade my stuff while taking various missions. Not a lot to do else, right?

Also, a question? There's this choice when you finish the game. I choose to continue my save since I hadn't searched the entire galaxy. Can I re-do that choice at some point and start a new game with all my accumulated stuff?

kyubixmunky · « **Reply #95 on:** July 18, 2010, 10:04:07 PM »

Quote from: Takeshi on July 18, 2010, 01:10:38 PM

I finished playing Mass Effect 2 recently. It was a pretty decent game. Then I started up Mass Effect 1 and it felt worse than the second game. Everything about it just feels a bit worse than Mass Effect 2. I wanna play the first game, but everything just feels so wrong about it.

I didn't particular like the story in Mass Effect 2. Basically, you go around for the first 10 hours recruiting people. Okay, fine. But that's basically what you spent most of the game around. Imo, there wasn't enough Collector's confrontations. I think I meet them around 3-4 times during the game. And I also felt like it needed a center villain. As I recall, Saren was that villian in Mass Effect. I played the first game until the game introduced him.

I'm not really a strategist so I hardly ordered my men to do anything but come back to me when I needed help.

What I find most appealing to this game is of course the characters themselves, and especially the voice acting because that was brilliant.

Relationships were also very interesting to follow. Personally, I went for Miranda since she's the obvious choice. At one point it almost overshadowed the game itself. I think I went to talk to her about 10 times during a game session to see if "things had quiet down".

Right now I am searching planets fro their resources so I can upgrade my stuff while taking various missions. Not a lot to do else, right?

Also, a question? There's this choice when you finish the game. I choose to continue my save since I hadn't searched the entire galaxy. Can I re-do that choice at some point and start a new game with all my accumulated stuff?

Just start a new game and options will come up to either load a char from me1, me2, or a new character.

ElitesamuraI · « **Reply #96 on:** December 10, 2010, 12:56:14 PM »

I played ME2 and I was unimpressed because your most of the previous squad members from ME1 is gone and they have removed the overheating on the weapon and replaced it with fricking ammo clip plus they removed the Mako.

Sosseres · « **Reply #97 on:** December 10, 2010, 02:08:46 PM »

Quote from: ElitesamuraI on December 10, 2010, 12:56:14 PM

I played ME2 and I was unimpressed because your most of the previous squad members from ME1 is gone and they have removed the overheating on the weapon and replaced it with fricking ammo clip plus they removed the Mako.

Removing the mako was a good thing. Sadly they replaced it with something as bad.

I agree I liked overheating more than ammo.

As for replacing the people, sure that isn't nice, but the characters in ME 2 more than make up for the lacking ones from ME 1.

newy · « **Reply #98 on:** December 10, 2010, 02:41:47 PM »

I'm glad they removed the Mako or rather the really dull missions with the Mako. I was only at first disappointed that you can't have all your old mates in your new team but after the new members are as good and who knows what will happen in ME3 with the old mates. I hope for them to be back in your team then, strengthening your team from ME2, though that would be kinda tricky as they have the same abilities and are therefore interchangeable. I wouldn't mind their being on the ship even then

even if they are just extras with no real purpose

Rumors are again coming up that BioWare is revealing the official work on ME3 during the Spike VGA.

Havoc10K · « **Reply #99 on:** December 14, 2010, 05:52:13 PM »

gotta admit, I was kind of disappointed by removing Mako, after all, exploration was more fun this way, firewalker is a piece of crap though, i did miss the exploration of the planets, but then again, we did have a nice set of missions in ME2 where we were landing on the surface as well, gathering minerals was kind of boring, though it was nice too, more stuff gathered in pretty much the same time as in a mission, I suppose our archeologist won't show up, after all, she has a much more interesting job now, and can spy on shepard whenever she wants to

I missed Ashley at the start of the game in ME2, Ashley was a great help, hell nearly all characters that used assault riffle were great help in ME2, but in ME1 Ashley was just that good, when I started playing the game at first, the thermo clips seemed odd to me, but then, soon I learned to aim better and count every shot, currently on hard mode I am pretty much always full on thermo clips.

Funny thing though, Bioware fell in their own trap in ME2 with Thermo Clips, at the start of the game they refer to Thermo clips not as ammo, but means to cool your weapon, soon afterwards, they "change" their minds and start referring to clips as ammo, I still laugh about it