Mass Effect

you can also connect via VGA on non-HDMI xboxen

Yeah, connecting audio becomes a bit of a pain in the arse if you're using a VGA cable though - it's only got an optical out, so if you're connecting to a TV with no digital inputs you're stuffed.

surround sound bitches

ive been playing ME1... this game sux

negatives:
1. crappy gameplay
2. bland, generic sci-fi setting
3. the vehicle stuff is awful
4. every alien world is exactly the same
5. scavenger hunt missions are dumb, irritating

positives:
1. great music
2. the conventional RPG stuff on the citadel was good, just running around talking to pps

actually, component should be rendering HDMI so i dont know what the problem is here? are you using COMPOSITE maybe?

― snoocki (s1ocki), Saturday, February 13, 2010 12:32 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i meant rendering HD

Made a start yesterday, this text is fine over component.

cankles otm

i hate ME so much that it literally makes me sick to think about playing it some more

this might be the first game i will just never finish (and i finished State of Emergency man)

loving kotr and hating ME does not compute

ass effect

kotr had a range of interesting environments, memorable characters, decent skill system, fun combat (if a little too easy), didnt make you play a shitty minigame any time you wanted to open a fucking broom closet, didnt make a sizable portion of the gameplay boil down to you driving across identical alien landscapes in a dunebuggy that bounces around like a goddamn superball... little things, i guess

cozen otm itt

so i finished it

it grew on me a little bit by the end

downloading ME2 now lmbo

i gotta say, i really hate the GOOD/EVIL meter that's in every fuckin bioware game. it's a gay idea made even gayer in mass effect cuz its literally like hotkeyed to "GOOD RESPONSE" "EVIL RESPONSE"

what lazy ass shit

iunno, have applied GOOD/EVIL decision trees to my own own life and it's working out ok for me so far

anyway keen to hear ur impressions on ME2, everything I've read suggests it's a mile better than AE

yeah that's what i've heard too, it sounds like they got rid of a lot of the shit that drove me nuts abt the original

will report back~~

mass affect

lolz at cankles embracing the pain

I'm playing the first one right now, and while I've mostly made my peace with the weird combat (it took a long time to stop thinking of it as an action game and bringing up the pause menus to use abilities), Therus can blow me. Yes, let's drop a tank and a half-dozen enemies on me while I'm busy watching a cutscene, that sounds delightful!

OK, never mind, second attempt was easy peasy. Turns out it was the little hoppy guys with sniper rifles that were killing my guys while I went for the other enemies. Killed them first and the rest was a cakewalk.

finished ME2

it was ok, much better than ME1

worse music tho

didnt really see the big deal

its always hilarious when videogame characters get their bone on

with all the improvements they still fumbled gameplay. there were signs in dragon age that they were getting it down better, so hopefully ME3 will build off that.

I was getting into this game, learning the ropes, starting to notice the hours flying by...and now I notice it's just the same thing over and over again. Walk around the ship, land on a planet, hide behind some crates, shoot some enemies, talk to someone, open a door, hack a computer, hide behind some crates, shoot some enemies, talk to someone, open a door, collect credits, walk up stairs, hide behind a low wall and shoot enemies downward, witness the sudden appearance of the boss, take out the heavy weapon, kill the boss, go back to the ship...

FUCK YOU, The Thorian.

FUCK.

YOU.

Also fuck you Tali for getting puked on and dying constantly.

most games are the same thing over and over. it's a pretty good thing you do over, in mass effect 2.

Just finished ME2 for the first time tonight. Great experience, and really welcome after the total disappointment of Dragon's Age.

Also, except for one or two sequences, I found the game fairly ez-mode throughout on Veteran difficulty. May play again (I have a second ME1 character to maybe play through) on Insanity for the achievement. Tho it feels really daunting to play through that whole freaking game again. nb did all the loyalty missions and i think every side quest in the game.

it seems like the bulk of the game consisted of loyalty/recruitment missions

Not a fan of the constant 'Thane wants to speak to you commander' messages from my assistant just as I'm about to open up the galaxy map and finally go somewhere. Also not a fan of the 'mining' timesink to get more resources to afford more upgrades etc etc.

All the characters look and act like robots and there is zero levity or humor in the entire game.

yup.

i got it into my head somehow that i could justify shelling out 200 bucks for a 360 mostly just to play ME2. reading through this thread i just wanted to see one or two posts where someone was like, hot damn this is awesome, to push myself over the edge, but there isn't one. so, is this the flat-out phenomenal game that the reviews make it sound like, or is it just okay? fyi i love rpgs, i really dug DAO, and i like space and corny sci-fi shit.

Hot damn, this game was awesome. Seriously.

I've been trying to figure out exactly what I think of this. In some ways it was a huge disappointment and yet it's still a fine, fun game that I've been enjoying playing. It's just not really an RPG any more. They've stripped away so much of the fun customisation of the first game that what's left is something weird - a sort of bog standard (but atmospheric) FPS, coupled with a heavy rain style conversation simulator. Or something. Dunno, it's kind of...enjoyable but unsatisfying. Which is a big step down from ME1. But it's still worth playing.

OH I DON'T KNOW I CAN'T DECIDE.

I mean, this isn't worth buying a 360 for. But buying a 360 is worth it anyway, so you may as well go ahead.

In terms of story, I never experienced anything quite like importing my ME1 character into ME2 and experiencing the ramifications of her choices/actions in the first game in the second. It was really thrilling and personal. I recommend getting a 360 for ME2, but only if you play through ME1 on it first so you can export your char, and save your char from ME2 for ME3. It's a really great epic.

Yeah, my problem with those bits was that it's so long since I played ME1 that I can't remember most of the choices I made anyway. So characters keep showing up saying "hey, nice/nasty to see you! My life's so much better/worse since you did that thing in that place!" and I'm always just like "uh sorry do I know you?".

There's a lot of minor stuff, but the major choices you made (saving the Arachni or exterminating them, or saving Wrex) come back in cool ways.

thanks for the info dudes. i won't say it has made my mind up but it has definitely helped.

OH FUCK YOU TALI.

been playing this today, not overly wowed but this usually happens with me and i could pick it up again and probly love it.

but i can't seem to find some guy i'm supposed to talk to and i've been walking around and going up and down lifts for about 2 hours. so far i'm just bored of it.

Levity is in this game. Mordin's dialogue, plus his musical bit. You get to feed fish, or clean them out. Hell, they even have Baldur's Gate II refs.

picked this up again last night, still can't find the guy i'm supposed to talk to. And fed up of loooooooooong loading times in lifts now.

gave up with the first one, got the sequel instead. Combat far far better. Only played briefly today, because yet again got stuck on very simple moment - having to use some other guys skills but no idea how to. Then it crashed.

(other than that, pretty impressed with it so far)

Mass Effect 2 is way better aside from the horrible end mission. Seriously pissed off when I finished it and realised that was the whole game.

it's very pretty. Does it 'open up' more after I've built up more of a squad (got medic alien last night), feels a bit on rails right now disguised as 'you can travel to any system - but really only the ones for your next mission'. and what's the scanning and pod surveying of planets all about? (sorry i'm so new)

Scanning and surveying mostly just stacks up minerals, which you need to buy weapon/ship/armour upgrades. But occasionally you'll find a planet with a distress signal or some other kind of beacon, which means you can do an extra mini mission there (these sometimes lead on to other mini missions elsewhere too). Prob worth making the most of those if you're wanting the game to feel open, because yeah, beyond that you're very much on rails - you can decide what order you want to do the main missions in, but they pretty much all need to be done in the end anyway (unless you're happy ploughing into then failing the final mission, which is totally possible...although that wouldn't leave you with a useable save file when you get around to starting ME3).

thanks, although that is a little disappointing to hear.

Still, I played it a lot yesterday and enjoyed myself. I am starting to become a bit tired of the same-old mission format tho.

But feels like I'll stick it out to the end, which is rare.

Scanning planets is boring as hell, but still beats that bastard buggy from the first one.