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Jonoman92
United States9109 Posts
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sixghost
United States2096 Posts
On January 24 2010 02:45 Jonoman92 wrote: Crap, just got this game via EA download for $5. Played for 4 hours last night but at the start I was hurrying and didn't see you could customize your role so I'm just a soldier. I don't really want to have to re-do that though. If you have the time, it's worth it. Soldier is the least interesting class to play, since the shooting in ME1 is so sub-par. | ||
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789
United States959 Posts
On January 24 2010 02:02 Manit0u wrote: Where's the poll option "I won't buy ME 2 because ME 1 was boring"? It is right next to the "Why the hell are you checkin on and posting about a game you won't buy, just get out" option. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17750 Posts
On January 24 2010 04:08 789 wrote: It is right next to the "Why the hell are you checkin on and posting about a game you won't buy, just get out" option. I was just offering my opinion. So many people think that ME was the greatest RPG (or one of) to be ever released. I have to disagree, it was rather short and dull. I just hope they won't make the same mistake in the sequel. | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9109 Posts
On January 24 2010 03:15 sixghost wrote: If you have the time, it's worth it. Soldier is the least interesting class to play, since the shooting in ME1 is so sub-par. Thanks for your post. I was gonna screw it and just play on but upon seeing how huge this star map n' all is I'll just restart. | ||
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789
United States959 Posts
On January 24 2010 04:24 Manit0u wrote: I was just offering my opinion. So many people think that ME was the greatest RPG (or one of) to be ever released. I have to disagree, it was rather short and dull. I just hope they won't make the same mistake in the sequel. Well I'm not one of those people championing ME1 as one of the best of all time (my favorite is still BG2 - a game I still play through once every 1-2 years). You should have offered your opinion in a more contructive manner, the way you did came off as trolling. As long as the story is good; I think it will be a good game. | ||
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banana
Netherlands1189 Posts
There are some flaws in 1, but nothing that hasn't been mentioned before and ironed out in 2, I just can't imagine how awesome part 2 will be and it's comming out so soon, probably not enough time to finish it, but hey at least I know it will be worth the money. Since I enjoy bit min/maxing, and trying out everything, rerolled about 4 times till the ship part just seeing every ability and what I like best. Vanguard seemed to me the most awesome combining the soldier with the adept, pistol still packs quite a punch, and with bit practice it seems to be a formidable weapon. Love how you can blow all your adept abilities and recharge them in one hit with that tactical ability (name escaping me), just makes things so much better. From short looking into ME2, it seems most abilities have gotten their recharge abilities heavily reduced, with a small reduction in aoe or some other ability that was OP and abused and others improved. This seems to end up with an excellent mix of story telling, fast paced action, and just great atmosphere. I'm soo hooked. | ||
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sixghost
United States2096 Posts
On January 24 2010 04:39 banana wrote: My friend mentioned Mass Effect 2 comming out recently, and I had no clue about 1, so I was bit skeptical at first not really knowing what it was about. All I know is from a short review I've seen on zero punctuation review, claiming it's awefully dialog based, tainted with bad AI etc etc. Oh man was I pleasantly suprised after just picking it up from him to try it out, all in all, the game is quite an experiance. You'd have to be an rpg fan and coupled with that somehow into the whole 'space' theme, but if you are, I can say it's the best rpg I've ever played for the limited amount of hours I got to experience it sofar. There are some flaws in 1, but nothing that hasn't been mentioned before and ironed out in 2, I just can't imagine how awesome part 2 will be and it's comming out so soon, probably not enough time to finish it, but hey at least I know it will be worth the money. Since I enjoy bit min/maxing, and trying out everything, rerolled about 4 times till the ship part just seeing every ability and what I like best. Vanguard seemed to me the most awesome combining the soldier with the adept, pistol still packs quite a punch, and with bit practice it seems to be a formidable weapon. Love how you can blow all your adept abilities and recharge them in one hit with that tactical ability (name escaping me), just makes things so much better. From short looking into ME2, it seems most abilities have gotten their recharge abilities heavily reduced, with a small reduction in aoe or some other ability that was OP and abused and others improved. This seems to end up with an excellent mix of story telling, fast paced action, and just great atmosphere. I'm soo hooked. I'm glad they are fleshing out the combination classes (infiltrator, vanguard, sentinel) to make them more like full classes, rather than just the lower tier abilities from the 2 classes they are combining. I always stuck with the pure classes because they ability unique to those were usually the best ability from their branch. | ||
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banana
Netherlands1189 Posts
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sixghost
United States2096 Posts
On January 24 2010 05:00 banana wrote: Kinda suprising they already announced part 3 and it's aspiring release date to be end of 2011 - begin 2012. Seems fast compared to most 'great' rpgs of the past. Well ME2 is coming out super early in 2010, so that's almost 2 years of development, and ME1 came out late 2007, which is a little longer than 2 years, so it's not that weird. Also, the ME games aren't as cinematic heavy as alot of RPGs like the FFs, so I assume it doesn't take them as long to make. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17750 Posts
Console controller really takes out a lot of UI/control options that would be really welcome on the PC. | ||
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SR423
United States15 Posts
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7mk
Germany10157 Posts
On January 24 2010 06:47 Manit0u wrote: Well, apart from TES III: Morrowind and RSV, I've had a rather bad experience with most games that were released to both consoles and PC (and the worst are usually console -> PC). Console controller really takes out a lot of UI/control options that would be really welcome on the PC. What about dragon age? Clearly that game wasnt badly influenced despite being released for consoles too imo. | ||
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On January 24 2010 04:51 sixghost wrote: I always stuck with the pure classes because they ability unique to those were usually the best ability from their branch. Heavy armor isn't that great, and singularity or hacking could be chosen as a bonus talent. Oh, I guess assault rifle is unique to the soldier too. Meh, if you're going to max out a weapon, you're better off with pistol. AR is a decent bonus talent for adepts, but there's really no point in using it with any other class. | ||
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sixghost
United States2096 Posts
On January 24 2010 10:37 Mindcrime wrote: Heavy armor isn't that great, and singularity or hacking could be chosen as a bonus talent. Oh, I guess assault rifle is unique to the soldier too. Meh, if you're going to max out a weapon, you're better off with pistol. AR is a decent bonus talent for adepts, but there's really no point in using it with any other class. Don't you have to unlock those on previous playthroughs though? Also, I was talking more about the adrenaline skill for soldiers, mostly for recharging carnage/marksman/overkill. At least in the early/mid game using those is the only way to use assault rifles with any accuracy. Once you can buy the spectre weapons all those weapon abilities become pretty useless though. My recent playthrough I used Adept and picked assault rifles, it was pretty OP once I got the spectre rifle and the geth rifle. I'm curious how fun the infiltrator will be in ME2. That was easily the least fun class in the first game, by nature of how fucking awful the sniping was in ME1. | ||
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Mindcrime
United States6899 Posts
On January 24 2010 11:10 sixghost wrote: Don't you have to unlock those on previous playthroughs though? yes Also, I was talking more about the adrenaline skill for soldiers, mostly for recharging carnage/marksman/overkill. At least in the early/mid game using those is the only way to use assault rifles with any accuracy. Once you can buy the spectre weapons all those weapon abilities become pretty useless though. Adrenaline rush is not unique to soldiers though. Vanguards get it too and, in fact, they make much better use of it. use marksman, spam biotics, adrenaline rush, spam biotics again Weapon abilities don't become useless. I'm curious how fun the infiltrator will be in ME2. That was easily the least fun class in the first game, by nature of how fucking awful the sniping was in ME1. Think of the infiltrator as an engineer with medium armor, immunity (aka godmode), and the ability to out-damage any class except for maybe a commando soldier, depending on the time periods involved actually, think of the infiltrator as better than the engineer in every regard | ||
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ghermination
United States2851 Posts
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Corvi
Germany1406 Posts
On January 24 2010 11:47 ghermination wrote: Now that the game is up in about 9001 different configurations all over torrent trackers, it seems obvious that unlike ME1, this game can be cracked. all games can be cracked. a few just took a bit longer, like gta4 or me1. i think EA's decision to barely use any copy protection for me2 was to get better reputation among the pc gamers. also i think it's kind of test, because many claimed they only pirate, because they dont want drm and other crap spying on their computer (which is one hell of a good reason imho). i think they deserves some respect for that. | ||
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AraqirG
United States266 Posts
Thoughts so far: + Show Spoiler + God damn this game is baller. I enjoyed ME1 but I didn't think it was amazing or anything but so far, ME2 has blown my mind. biotic and tech powers are actually very useful now and out of the classes I've tried (Infiltrator, Soldier, Sentinel and Adept) they are all extremely fun and effective in combat. So far my ONLY significant complaint is the god damn radial dialogue menus. Ugh, I had console UIs in PC games. Graphics look awesome, cinematics are badass, and the combat is intense. It is shaping up to be one of the best games of this year imo. | ||
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ghermination
United States2851 Posts
On January 24 2010 14:05 AraqirG wrote: Ok, so I bought it on steam, but I couldn't wait until Tuesday, so I've been playing a cracked copy until I then. Thoughts so far: + Show Spoiler + God damn this game is baller. I enjoyed ME1 but I didn't think it was amazing or anything but so far, ME2 has blown my mind. biotic and tech powers are actually very useful now and out of the classes I've tried (Infiltrator, Soldier, Sentinel and Adept) they are all extremely fun and effective in combat. So far my ONLY significant complaint is the god damn radial dialogue menus. Ugh, I had console UIs in PC games. Graphics look awesome, cinematics are badass, and the combat is intense. It is shaping up to be one of the best games of this year imo. Wait, you assumed a game by Bioware WOULDN'T be a game of the year? Heresy. | ||
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