Mass Effect

Is anything as good as Star Control 2?

i need to play this fucking star control 2 game

Wow, they actually backpedaled on the 10-day phone home thing got a huge backlash. Surprising. Still, at least they listened.

The 3-times only hardware profile activation thing is still obnoxious (say goodbye to your resale rights or lending out the disc to a friend) and one-time online activation is kind of reasonable, if lame for an offline single player game, but I guess this is the point we're at when it comes to lame PC copy protection.

I'm not shocked they pulled that. It completely changes the context of the fact that these games are still using the utterly deplorable SecuROM. ad they simply said "we're using SecuROM" people would be like "fuck this shit." Once they said "We are using SecuROM+++" and people said "fuck this" and they said "just kidding secuROM" people were like "oh ok i will buy this then."

I'm still seriously considering not buying Spore because seriously, SecuROM is so broken it's excruciating. I won't lie; I've pirated a lot of PC games. I haven't for a while, though, but one of the last games I bought for my PC was Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (I pertty much stopped playing PC games after this). The SecuROM on that game was so excruciating that I almost pirated it just to avoid that shit. I ended up just playing the game WAY less than I wanted to. I fucking HATE that shit. Would'nt recognize my DVD drive half of the time. ARGH.

ugh is there a way to automatically make this less FPSy

My girlfriend was a little stoned watching me play this and the character creation thing BLEW HER MIND (she's not a video game person). "So you just MADE that man... And now he's in the GAME?"

It also blew my mind, but then I'm used to that slight difference between what's clearly you-controlled and everything else.

I mean, all the subtle tells in other games that I've gotten used to over time actually make me appreciate it more - like (to switch genres wildly) I like the way that in the Lego games you know when to stop beating the crap out of the background when it doesn't look like it's made of Lego any more.

the benefit of waiting a year is this now costs pennies

yeah I'm still intrigued by this too

i played this for two hours and didn't understand it at all. it seemed so disjointed.

I started to enjoy it about four hours in. It's a total slog before that, and although it does get better, I don't know if it makes up for those first few hours. And damn, do I really want to take 30 hours to play through an episode of Babylon 5, a show I could never stand for more than a few seconds?

By the end of the game, when you have a variety of special powers that are maxed out and awesome, it's totally worth it.

Playing this now, since my upgraded mobo/system finally is stable enough to not constantly crash during play.

Am in very early parts of came, on the Citadel, and it strikes me that you could very easily use this engine/game to make a Doctor Who title. You already have a hero running around corridors on a space station or various class-M planets, accompanied by one or two companions, hacking into computers, badgering alien races for information, etc.

even though my character was all special powers - i found them all really upsetting and the controls for choosing them sucked.
never beat the game. the main highlight for me this whole game was trying to max my relationship potential with whats her name (the human girl).

Kinda wish there were more voice-actor accents in this than just bog-standard midwestern American.

dope

How far in are you?

only about an hour and a half in, just starting out

the voice acting is pretty great and the story is startlingly undull

It gets a LOT better.

dope indeed. can't wait for the sequel

I think i was reading that ur character's traits and shit are carried over into the sequel?

Yep. Can't remember what traits I had though.

New character video for ME 2

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/27/mass-effect-2s-subject-zero-looks-awfully-unfriendly/

Looks kinda ridiculous. THIS CHICK IS TO THE EXTREME.

On sale on Steam for a mere $10. I'd grab it but my video card is officially below spec :(

dope
― cozwn, Tuesday, June 16, 2009 4:30 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

now's as good a time as any for a bump. fuckin hate this game

Sorry homes

i haven't played it in forever but i only remember hating it. the long walks, the long talks, the long drives, the sub-par action/gameplay, and if you cared about maximizing points from dialog choices you had to reload and retry. also, games that claim to have lots of choices rarely do. there's like 3 choices in any given scenario that contribute to either paragon or renegade or nothing

but obviously some people like this - it is ranked #1 in a top 25 list of 360 games on ign.com. dragon age wasn't even ranked and i think that one is much better (albeit similar in many ways). i've always leaned towards fantasy rather than sci-fi though

Nah, it's a good story, in a lovely environment, with a great atmosphere, fantastic music, and a fairly interesting combat system. The driving bits were undeniably shit, but I'll be amazed if they've failed to fix that for the sequel. It's just on that Heavy Rain side of the continuum, you know? The story is central, the gameplay is often secondary. Which is fine by me. Can't wait for number 2.

it is basically two or three eps of babylon 5 stitched together, w/a janky framerate, horrible texture pop-in and streaming, tearing up the wazoo, terrible controls, physics and character movement, horrible repetitive environments that are also really dull... and it doesn't even look that great anyway; certainly not as good as heavy rain

the only good thing about it is the sound design, the music and the VA is top notch

and anyone who likes it is basically a hyrax w/tiny balls

the levelling/XP system is unrewarding, dialogue trees give the illusion of choice but often there's none, ur asked to do sidequests while simultaneously told to save the universe immediately, the economy is trashed, the inventory is shit, team inventory management is poorly implemented, vendors are useless, and the sub-quests are embarrassingly bad

terrible game and I h8 u

never played mass effect but can I just say "asked to do sidequests while simultaneously told to save the universe immediately" always bothers me too. It's going on in Spirit Tracks right now and it kinda stresses me out, like why should I cart your sorry ass from place to place when the world is gonna end if I don't get back to the main quest?

i haven't played this game but i have a question : i get the impression that when you fire your gun there is some sort of dice roll to determine whether you hit the target or not. is this true? also lol cozen.

(well, ok i played it for an hour or so round someones house.)

coz shut up you make me cry.

Zappi, yeah, that's basically right. I guess it's a weird choice, to make a game which looks and acts like it's an FPS when in truth it's still basically following turn-based RPG rules, and I can see why it annoyed some people. But it's got that bioware pause-then-choose-your-attack thing that means you can basically play it as turn based anyway, and then it seems a lot more natural to have the dice rolling.

see that just pisses me off more because I was as terrible at this game as I am at real FPSs and I was really hoping that there was an aiming accuracy/reflex component that I had just missed in all of the copy about how it was a turn-based dice-rolling game

yeh just seems really odd to me. might try it again some time if you can switch it to a more turnbased setup tho.

everything negative about the 1st seemed very fixable so I am psyched for the 2nd. cozn - go back to tea-bagging and slinging racial slurs at 14 yr olds in cod.

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more like ass effect

― s1ocki, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 6:07 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

jk Im down with this game. Looking forward to the sequel next week. What bnw said is true. It seems like they tried to make the shooting parts more legit, got rid of overheating in weapons and replaced it with ammo, etc. Im just curious to see how it segways from the last one and whether it takes any of your decisions into account. Probably not..

so used to "the bad guy has gone this way! quick, run after him now or the world will end!" followed by "o hai i have lost my fishing rod, perhaps you can trudge through this village and retrieve it for me in exchange for 30 coins and some useless information" that I will lose badly at and despise any game that actually means the first part, tbh

haha i just realized that i have been baffled by the appeal of this game and slandering it for the last 6 months because my brain doesnt work right and i had confused it with KOTOR which i ragequit after hitting some dumb repetitive bullshit spot. i am stoopid - and on review despite owning it i think that i have put less than 30 minutes into this game due to being distracted by uh who knows some other shiny game that was part of the same used game binge.

sorry mass effect.

you know Mass Effect is basically KOTOR with different characters, right

oh boo

never played mass effect but can I just say "asked to do sidequests while simultaneously told to save the universe immediately" always bothers me too. It's going on in Spirit Tracks right now and it kinda stresses me out, like why should I cart your sorry ass from place to place when the world is gonna end if I don't get back to the main quest?

^^^this! playing assassin's creed 2 and it's like, i just saw my family murdered, the guards are looking for me, why would i go beat up your cheating husband? maybe he's a decent guy and your marriage has been dead for years?

also you realize your problem with KOTOR might have been that you fail at RPGs since that game was like mind-meltingly easy until the last battle, right

tbh KOTOR just bored the shit out of me - too much of the fucking talk to everyone that moves while nothing ever happens snoozefest for me, so if mass effect is like that well shit

^^^

yeah, you only had to do that if you really wanted to