Mass Effect 2
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Vampire_Hunter_Bob
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Oh cool, amazing DLC. 
Couldn't they have just added this stuff on to a larger DLC? I feel like it's real waste of time to even announce it.
Couldn't they have just added this stuff on to a larger DLC? I feel like it's real waste of time to even announce it.
Vampire_Hunter_Bob said:Oh cool, amazing DLC.
They're announcing it because it'll cost you $2 to get it. And it'll be released alongside the Firewalker pack (free on the Cerberus network), which includes the Hammerhead and 5 new missions.
I still didn't buy Kasumi, but I did test Hammerhead, and gotta say I'm a little disappointed too. Not a bad addition to the whole game; the controls are better and it moves pretty good overall, but I had more fun with the Mako. I guess Hammerhead is more like a minigame to jump around and shoot awsum missiles, while Mako was an integral part of missions and really felt like your vehicle throughout the game.
http://www.heatvisionblog.com/2010/05/mass-effect-video-game-on-way-to-movie-screen.html
Oh, dear... But, I remember hearing an interview with Casey Hudson, ME's project director, where he said BioWare would only be interested in making a movie if the studio had plans to take it seriously, and not make it an embarrassment. I guess we'll see...
Vampire_Hunter_Bob
Cats are great
Aazealh said:
Yeah just mentioning I am Legend is enough for me to not want to see it.
Finally getting around to playing this now that school's died down for the summer.
I started 1.5 hours ago and I'm still downloading DLC. Man. Terminus stuff, Cerberus stuff and I decided to get the Kasumi dlc for the fun of it.
I haven't decided yet whether I should just play through on insanity my first round with my ME1 character so I can get all the achievements in one go or if I should play it twice. It was sort of fun playing through as good and then evil in the last game, but I'm not sure how robust the choice system is here. Any opinions on what I should do? (I'm a little scared to go sifting through this topic much for fear of spoilers)
I started 1.5 hours ago and I'm still downloading DLC. Man. Terminus stuff, Cerberus stuff and I decided to get the Kasumi dlc for the fun of it.
I haven't decided yet whether I should just play through on insanity my first round with my ME1 character so I can get all the achievements in one go or if I should play it twice. It was sort of fun playing through as good and then evil in the last game, but I'm not sure how robust the choice system is here. Any opinions on what I should do? (I'm a little scared to go sifting through this topic much for fear of spoilers)
I'm just about to hit the Omega Relay (I don't think that's really a spoiler) after about 35 hours or so. I'll give a few more thoughts on the game after I've finished it, but man they changed a lot with Mass Effect 2. I don't really care with the dumbed down customization options nor do I really like only getting xp after finishing missions. They really killed a lot of RPG aspects and what they did leave in (basically all the dialogue) got hurt a bit in my opinion. I realize that there's a LOT of talking in this series, but somehow I felt like perhaps they went overkill on the talking in this one. Sometimes I just wanted people to shut the heck up. I'd wager you spend 5-10 hours doing missions and 35 hours talking. I could do with some better balance in that regard and I think some aspects like weapon management etc. in the first game helped in that respect.
That said, I think I've enjoyed the characters a lot more in ME2. Maybe it's just my personal taste, but I feel much more connected to my party members and a lot of them feel a lot deeper than the party members in the first game. It also helps that they didn't put in any character usage achievements like they did in the first game. I much prefer being able to choose whoever I want to take to a mission with little consequence outside of their own abilities. With that said though, at least on normal, they all feel sort of interchangeable. Would be fun to have more strategy depending on who you brought (I feel the first game did that a lot better).
I'm still really digging the series though. I love my commander Shepard and personally I think they did a good job with reflecting your choices from the first game here. I've run into characters I'd completely forgotten about.
Looking forward to the ending, but not so much the wait for ME3.
That said, I think I've enjoyed the characters a lot more in ME2. Maybe it's just my personal taste, but I feel much more connected to my party members and a lot of them feel a lot deeper than the party members in the first game. It also helps that they didn't put in any character usage achievements like they did in the first game. I much prefer being able to choose whoever I want to take to a mission with little consequence outside of their own abilities. With that said though, at least on normal, they all feel sort of interchangeable. Would be fun to have more strategy depending on who you brought (I feel the first game did that a lot better).
I'm still really digging the series though. I love my commander Shepard and personally I think they did a good job with reflecting your choices from the first game here. I've run into characters I'd completely forgotten about.
Conrad Verner... I had to shoot him in the foot and I'm maxed Paragon 
Looking forward to the ending, but not so much the wait for ME3.