Pretty sure Modern Warfare 2 is why A. Hitler happened.
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Sunday, 7 February 2010 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
hes just venting b/c this is the only place he can talk to people over 14 years old U_U
― bnw, Sunday, 7 February 2010 01:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I agree w/ur critiques but I still dig myself
― calzone: liberation (cozen), Sunday, 7 February 2010 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://imgur.com/krp7L.jpg"conezy and I pwned bitchez for 4 hours saturday night! then my stupid mom made me go to bed"
― bnw, Sunday, 7 February 2010 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone still playing this like I am? It's the only game I own, so I'm drawing it out as long as possible by doing all the "loyalty" team member missions, even though Miranda and Thane are pretty much my default crew.
Overall I'm having a good time, although I wish it was a little heavier on the RPG side. Or, if it was a little more fun on the action side, if that's the emphasis. But good lord, hands down the worst thing is the mining. I don't want to think about how much time I've spent moving the little reticule around the planets, waiting for the controller to buzz. Worst of all was the tease that came with the mining enhancement upgrade. When I saw it, I figured that it would add some sort of radar so you could move straight toward the minerals (similar to the radar that's used when there's a detected anomaly), or at least that the reticule would move more quickly. Turns out that it makes the reticule move more quickly when you're NOT SCANNING for minerals. So...it's totally useless, since the seemingly random distribution of minerals makes it necessary to tediously scan everywhere anyway. uuuuuuuuugh...
I have considered putting out a Craig's List ad to pay some little kid to do the mining stuff for me while I read the paper, but I figured "Will pay $10/hr for someone to help me out with probes" would be crepey
― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Friday, 12 February 2010 18:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I am liking it v. much. Quite happy with a lot of the rpg stripping down, the level of inventory management was v. much overblown in the 1st one where i'd end up with 30 different types of ammo that were pretty much the same. Not so happy with the stripping down of character customisation wrt to powers but a lot of the biotic and tech stuff in ME1 was pretty useless and nothing at all seems useless in this.
The mining is absolutely dreadful. The Mako exploration in ME1 was awful too, spend ten minutes exploring a planet to pick up some random medal or something and only abt 1 in 15 planets had an actual sidequest. Suppose the mining aspect is to do away with all the mindless exploration, now every planet you can land on has an actual sidequest but don't know why they thought a better alternative was to spend five minutes running yr cursor over a planet (don't know about xbox version but in the pc version you have to hover yr mouse ultra slow or you can miss the rich deposits which adds to the frustartion) and hitting a button just to upgrade yr equipment.
Putting together a crack team is a pretty poor storyline compared to ME1 as an overarching plot but i still think the story is better written and some of the characters are v. good, loving mordins hypersped, hyperaware conversational style and Jack / Subject 0 isn't half as bad a Joss Whedon badass Faith ripoff as i thought she'd be.
Also the squad based shooting is far superior to ME1.
― toastmodernist, Friday, 12 February 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
It moves faster when you're not scanning. Once I got the upgrade I found the mining a lot less painful, combined with the 60 probes. Just push the reticule all the way to the right, on the equator, and push both sticks right. Get all the way around the equator, do the same thing around the tropic of cancer and tropic of capricorn, get a buttload of stuff, hit the next planet. Aside from eezo (check it out I am hip with the in-game jargon) I was able to get pretty much whatever I needed for whatever upgrades I needed in under 20 minutes.
― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Friday, 12 February 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
It moves faster when you're not scanning.
heh, that's the thing - it's useless because you always need to scan! I definitely do the reticule on the right/both sticks to the right speed up trick, but it's just painfully slow. <20 minutes for whatever upgrades you need, sure, but you'll need to do it several times throughout the game because there's always new stuff opening up, and before you know it you've spent 4+ hours scanning planets.
― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Friday, 12 February 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
bnw u can call me pwnezy
― chris nibbs (cozen), Friday, 12 February 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
really want to play this btw ;_; I want to believe
cozen....I see you...
I see you.
― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Friday, 12 February 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i finished a few days ago :( my char didn't die (not even sure where that decision was made). after the final battle there is a scene where cozen puts on his robe and wizard hat, if you know what i mean.
― bnw, Friday, 12 February 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmm...last thing I'll say about mining, but gamefaqs had a useful tip:
To speed up mining, I highly recommend buying the Advanced Mineral Scanner as soon as possible. You can unlock this upgrade by speaking to Miranda after recruiting Mordin. This will allow the scanning reticle to move overthe surface of the planet much faster. However, it's still slow when holdingthe left trigger to scan. How can we get around this problem? Simply TAP theleft trigger very quickly as you move the scanning reticle, this will allowyou to detect resources while moving the reticle quickly.
Haven't tried it yet, but hopefully it'll speed up things.
― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Friday, 12 February 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I have an HDTV and still have a hard time reading it because my xbox is ONLY on component and doesn't have an HDMI port. Fucking tiny ass text!
you have an HDTV but your xbox is going on SD?!?!
― snoocki (s1ocki), Saturday, 13 February 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
You don't need HDMI to get HD output.
― Your body is a spiderland (polyphonic), Saturday, 13 February 2010 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
actually, component should be rendering HDMI so i dont know what the problem is here? are you using COMPOSITE maybe?
― snoocki (s1ocki), Saturday, 13 February 2010 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link
No no, component is full HD but it's analog HD, so it's a slightly woolier than HDMI, which is digital HD. Haven't picked up my ME2 yet, but the text would have to be VERY tiny for that to make a difference? Hoping it isn't, cos my 360 is a non-HDMI one too.
― JimD, Saturday, 13 February 2010 10:42 (fourteen years ago) link
you can still get 720p/1080p over component, you just need to flick the HD switch on the back of the xbox and enable the right settings on the dashboard
― chris nibbs (cozen), Saturday, 13 February 2010 10:48 (fourteen years ago) link
you can also connect via VGA on non-HDMI xboxen
― chris nibbs (cozen), Saturday, 13 February 2010 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― JimD, Saturday, 13 February 2010 11:05 (fourteen years ago) link
surround sound bitches
― chris nibbs (cozen), Saturday, 13 February 2010 11:17 (fourteen years ago) link
ive been playing ME1... this game sux
― yakko warner (cankles), Saturday, 13 February 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
negatives:1. crappy gameplay2. bland, generic sci-fi setting3. the vehicle stuff is awful4. every alien world is exactly the same5. scavenger hunt missions are dumb, irritating
positives:1. great music2. the conventional RPG stuff on the citadel was good, just running around talking to pps
― yakko warner (cankles), Saturday, 13 February 2010 16:53 (fourteen years ago) link
― snoocki (s1ocki), Saturday, February 13, 2010 12:32 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i meant rendering HD
― snoocki (s1ocki), Saturday, 13 February 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Made a start yesterday, this text is fine over component.
― JimD, Monday, 15 February 2010 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
cankles otm
― thomp, Monday, 15 February 2010 14:00 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― yakko warner (cankles), Monday, 15 February 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
loving kotr and hating ME does not compute
― self-important coozen (bnw), Monday, 15 February 2010 21:35 (fourteen years ago) link
ass effect
― dnw (cozen), Monday, 15 February 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― yakko warner (cankles), Monday, 15 February 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
cozen otm itt
so i finished it
it grew on me a little bit by the end
downloading ME2 now lmbo
― yakko warner (cankles), Friday, 19 February 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― yakko warner (cankles), Friday, 19 February 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
iunno, have applied GOOD/EVIL decision trees to my own own life and it's working out ok for me so far
― a passing heavy daftie (cozen), Friday, 19 February 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway keen to hear ur impressions on ME2, everything I've read suggests it's a mile better than AE
― a passing heavy daftie (cozen), Friday, 19 February 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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~~
― yakko warner (cankles), Friday, 19 February 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
mass affect
― abraham higginbotham is a dude (Lamp), Saturday, 20 February 2010 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
lolz at cankles embracing the pain
― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 20 February 2010 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Monday, 22 February 2010 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Monday, 22 February 2010 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― yakko warner (cankles), Thursday, 25 February 2010 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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'm #FFFFFF btw (bnw), Friday, 26 February 2010 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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...
― calstars, Friday, 26 February 2010 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
FUCK YOU, The Thorian.
FUCK.
YOU.
Also fuck you Tali for getting puked on and dying constantly.
― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Friday, 26 February 2010 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
most games are the same thing over and over. it's a pretty good thing you do over, in mass effect 2.
― toastmodernist, Friday, 26 February 2010 10:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Just finished ME2 for the first time tonight. Great experience, and really welcome after the total disappointment of Dragon's Age.
― Mordy, Sunday, 28 February 2010 09:24 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Sunday, 28 February 2010 09:31 (fourteen years ago) link
it seems like the bulk of the game consisted of loyalty/recruitment missions
― yakko warner (cankles), Sunday, 28 February 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― calstars, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
yup.
― :3 (cankles), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 03:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Friday, 19 March 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link