Mass Effect 2 Details :)

athenaesword · Dec 1, 2009

mdsx1950 said:
Even i played the game 3 times. Once as a Soldier (75% Paragon) and twice as an Adept. One time i played at about 90% Renegade and the other about about 80% Paragon.

maybe i should play the game again afterall. which's the most fun to play? cant remember.

and has the overheat bug been fixed?

FordGT90Concept · Dec 1, 2009

mdsx1950 said:
Side missions arent that great. But the gameplay and story line is pretty damn awesome and interesting.

The side missions were definitely Mass Effect's sole weakness. Maybe they fixed that in Mass Effect 2.

athenaesword said:
yeah main story was pretty good. game did suffer from the same long loading times though. in fact, i think even dao has better loading times. let's hope they fix that in me2

On PC, loading at the Citadel was sometimes lengthy but not so long I feel compelled to go do something. The character dialogs pass the time.

athenaesword said:
and has the overheat bug been fixed?

1.1 patch, I think, fixed it.

athenaesword · Dec 1, 2009

FordGT90Concept said:
The side missions were definitely Mass Effect's sole weakness. Maybe they fixed that in Mass Effect 2.

On PC, loading at the Citadel was sometimes lengthy but not so long I feel compelled to go do something. The character dialogs pass the time.

1.1 patch, I think, fixed it.

ah... looks like i might give it a shot again afterall then. have you played with patch 1.02? seems like they released it this year couple of months back.

FordGT90Concept · Dec 1, 2009

Indeed:
http://www.gamershell.com/download_50234.shtml

That was very recent. They probably released that patch anticipating that people will buy Mass Effect before Mass Effect 2.

mdsx1950 · Dec 1, 2009

athenaesword said:
maybe i should play the game again afterall. which's the most fun to play? cant remember.

Adept was really fun. And if you played it the first time as a Paragon (Good). Play it this time as Renegade (Evil). The story is a little different and more fun being evil lol

mdsx1950 · Dec 1, 2009

Two Gameplay pictures (X360)

athenaesword · Dec 1, 2009

mdsx1950 said:
Adept was really fun. And if you played it the first time as a Paragon (Good). Play it this time as Renegade (Evil). The story is a little different and more fun being evil lol

the last time i played was when it was first released which was hell of a long time ago i'm not quite sure what i played through it as. but i'll take your word for it and go renegade. i usually go with kind of a hybrid though so i think that was what i did at first.

i seem to remember that the game was quite forgiving of you making decisions that supported the other camp once in a while. like you could just pick the renegade options that really benefited you, even though you were a paragon generally, and u wouldnt' really be penalized. at least that was what remembered.

athenaesword · Dec 1, 2009

mdsx1950 said:
Two Gameplay pictures (X360)

oh i'll be playing on pc. btw what're those pics supposed to show?

Mussels · Dec 1, 2009

athenaesword said:
oh i'll be playing on pc. btw what're those pics supposed to show?

that the game exists

athenaesword · Dec 1, 2009

mdsx1950 said:
Two Gameplay pictures (X360)

http://ve3dmedia.ign.com/images/05/03/50358_orig.jpg

http://ve3dmedia.ign.com/images/05/03/50362_orig.jpg

Mussels said:
that the game exists

i don't believe it!

mdsx1950 · Dec 1, 2009

athenaesword said:
oh i'll be playing on pc. btw what're those pics supposed to show?

Even i'll be playing it on PC. And to show you that the graphics on X360 arent that great. Many Low Res Textures here and there...

athenaesword said:
i don't believe it!

LOL!

athenaesword · Dec 1, 2009

mdsx1950 said:
Even i'll be playing it on PC. And to show you that the graphics on X360 arent that great. Many Low Res Textures here and there...

LOL!

i thought the graphics was supposed to be one of the main highlights of the game. i remember how everyone was bitching about dragon age origins failing in terms of graphics compared to ME, and i thought dragon age wasn't that bad in itself. i do remember that mass effects facial animations were superb though, from my first playthrough.

how many hours did you take to complete it as adept?

mdsx1950 · Dec 1, 2009

athenaesword said:
i thought the graphics was supposed to be one of the main highlights of the game. i remember how everyone was bitching about dragon age origins failing in terms of graphics compared to ME, and i thought dragon age wasn't that bad in itself. i do remember that mass effects facial animations were superb though, from my first playthrough.

how many hours did you take to complete it as adept?

Somewhere about 6-7 hours is the fastest i have completed the game.

But with side missions i think it took about 9 hrs.

athenaesword · Dec 1, 2009

mdsx1950 said:
Somewhere about 6-7 hours is the fastest i have completed the game.

But with side missions i think it took about 9 hrs.

wow that's mighty fast. i don't think i was even close to being that fast when i first played through it.

FordGT90Concept · Dec 1, 2009

I don't remember how long it took but it seems like it was pretty close to 40 hours. If you did just plot tasks, I think it was around 20 hours. I'd have to load up my old saves to find out for sure.

athenaesword · Dec 1, 2009

FordGT90Concept said:
I don't remember how long it took but it seems like it was pretty close to 40 hours. If you did just plot tasks, I think it was around 20 hours. I'd have to load up my old saves to find out for sure.

you gonna be playing through again before me2 releases?

FordGT90Concept · Dec 1, 2009

Naw, I kept all my saves (Renegade, Paragon, and not taking sides).

mdsx1950 · Dec 1, 2009

athenaesword said:
wow that's mighty fast. i don't think i was even close to being that fast when i first played through it.

Yep. But the first time i played it. I took about 11 hours. I kept on getting lost in the Citadel lol :roll:

athenaesword · Dec 1, 2009

mdsx1950 said:
Yep. But the first time i played it. I took about 11 hours. I kept on getting lost in the Citadel lol

lol if the game devs heard that they'd think something was wrong with their game

mdsx1950 · Dec 1, 2009

athenaesword said:
lol if the game devs heard that they'd think something was wrong with their game

Lol.

Lionheart · Dec 1, 2009

Damn, Im still playing the first one right now, plus I got Resident Evil 5 and dragon age origin to beat, eeerrhhhh!!!!! so overwhelming!

mdsx1950 · Dec 1, 2009

CHAOS_KILLA said:
Damn, Im still playing the first one right now, plus I got Resident Evil 5 and dragon age origin to beat, eeerrhhhh!!!!! so overwhelming!

Lucky you

... Still havent been able to get my hands on RE 5 and Dragon Age :banghead:

athenaesword · Dec 1, 2009

mdsx1950 said:
Lucky you ... Still havent been able to get my hands on RE 5 and Dragon Age

why's that?

mdsx1950 · Dec 1, 2009

athenaesword said:
why's that?

Just that so many people have loaned cash from me plus recently bougt a 5870 and saving to get another 5870 for Crossfire. So im basically freaking broke. LOL. I waiting for one of my friends to get Dragon Age for me when hes coming from abroad next week. :cool:

athenaesword · Dec 1, 2009

mdsx1950 said:
Just that so many people have loaned cash from me plus recently bougt a 5870 and saving to get another 5870 for Crossfire. So im basically freaking broke. LOL. I waiting for one of my friends to get Dragon Age for me when hes coming from abroad next week.

lol why would you need another 5870. the one card already runs everything perfect except for crysis, which you don't seem to need to play right seeing as u've got more than enough on your plate. there's still ass creed 2 and me 2 next month.

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