Walter said:Could be, but it could also just be more cinematics, which take up a lot of space.
Walter said:On BioWare's forums, it was announced today that ME2 will be on 2 discs, with a disc swap required at "an appropriate point" in the game.
We have a completely new system to handle transitions between areas that speeds the load times and turns the loads themselves into part of the game experience. It's one of many points of feedback we've heard and directly responded to in enhancing the gameplay in Mass Effect 2.
Source: Kotaku article (beware, the link contains some minor spoilers in the form of links to previews for other articles...We've tried to make the loading screen more interesting this time by adding interesting visuals and information.
The elevator conversations had some funny moments, but hopefully people will enjoy this new system better than the old one!
Walter said:Well, what's really baffling to me is that they use elevators instead of loading screens for some portions of the game, but in others, like quick-traveling around the Citadel, they use a loading screen...
Walter said:I think my Renegade/Soldier character will retire here. My Paragon/Vanguard guy will move on to the ME2 universe
Eluvei said:To whoever finished Dragon Age, look what I found on the Deep Roads (sorry if it was already mentioned): http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/6375/masseffect.jpg
Aazealh said:
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I can't remember the last time a game got together so many big sci-fi actors. It's like a nerd's paradise.MARTIN SHEEN
Tricia Helfer (Six) and Michael Hogan (Saul) from Battlestar Galactica.
Yvonne Strahovski (of NBC's Chuck).
Adam Baldwin (Firefly's Jayne Cobb).
Michael Dorn (Worf) from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity) from The Matrix.
Shohreh Aghdashloo from House of Saddam
Seth Green returns as Normandy pilot Joker
Keith David, returns as Admiral David Anderson.
Walter said:Voice actors announced for ME2. Their roles give some minor spoilers, so I've not included the ones I felt were spoilers:
I can't remember the last time a game got together so many big sci-fi actors. It's like a nerd's paradise.
Walter said:Voice actors announced for ME2. Their roles give some minor spoilers, so I've not included the ones I felt were spoilers. If you're REALLY interested, you can check the Kotaku article here, http://kotaku.com/5423288/mass-effect-2-is-full-of-stars
I can't remember the last time a game got together so many big sci-fi actors. It's like a nerd's paradise.
Well we planned to put in high / low / medium texture options on the PC but ran out of time for implementation, and disk space was a bit of a concern as well.
But the basic gist of the system is that depending on how much memory you have you get higher / lower resolution textures.
I'm 99% sure you'll be able to edit it in a config file, if nothing else.Eluvei said:Which sucks, since I really like to have absolute control on the settings. I hope we can at least config it through the engine.ini like in ME1.
Eluvei said:Man, I'm glad BioWare learned their lesson after Mass Effect's PC release. I had a pretty hard time configuring it so it would stop crashing or being extremely ugly. They kinda released the game and ran away, leaving us with bugs and Garrus' low textures.
Aazealh said:First off, the PC port wasn't done by Bioware but by Demiurge Studios. Second, keep in mind the game had never been planned for PC. It was a Xbox 360 exclusive that was hastily ported 8 months later. Which is not ME2's case.