Mass Effect 2 is a system seller

[OmegaAlucard777]

Mass Effect 2 (imo) is one of the most overrated games ever. They removed a lot of the RPG elements and added generic cover-based shooting.

True, but a majority of people I know who play the game, play it for it's story and immersive world. Gameplay comes second to a well detailed and awesome story. It has the best story I have every experienced. Better than any other game. But that is just my opinion.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Mass Effect 2 (imo) is one of the most overrated games ever. They removed a lot of the RPG elements and added generic cover-based shooting.

...instead of generic RPG stats.

It was a fun adventure/story/shooter game for most people who played it, and I didn't mind not having a bunch of stats and numbers to look at when I had such a well told story to keep me interested.

 

[DustyDrB]

I've played through the original ME once with each class, all but two on insanity (had to beat it twice to unlock insanity), I don't believe I took cover once.

I hate to call you a liar, but I just don't buy that.

They give you a cover tutorial on Eden Prime just before your second or third enemy encounter and cover based combat is a big part of the game from then on. Maybe you didn't use cover much compared to most people, but not once? Sorry, I don't believe you.

Psssh. Cover is for sissies. There's not a huge reason for it in ME either, CC is so damn effective. Though, now that you mention it, I think it might actually be required to do on that section of Eden Prime for things to work correctly -- so I guess I can't say not once.

I rarely used cover in ME2 with my playthrough as an infiltrator.

Allright. I guess your play style is just way different than mine. I'm either sticking to cover or crouching behind it constantly in ME1 (and actually way less in ME2, because I go Vanguard and charge, charge, charge!).

I happened to notice you joined this site in 2004 (ooh, and today was my one year anniversary here). You're a bona-fide orignal.

 

[warrcry13]

The one downside to Mass Effect on PS3 (In my opinion) is a small one, but still it bugs me. The fact that I can't recruit anyone in any order just is a slap in the face it seems. I understand the reasoning for it being down the certian way on the 360 because it was two discs so you recruited 4 on disc 1 and 3 on disc 2, but we are on Blu-ray for fucks sake so I should be able to recruit Tali first, Thane second, ect. On the PC version you can do it, sure you gotta mess around with the files but still. Why would they give certian characters special dialogue if they don't make it able to be heard or enjoyed. I was looking forward to getting people in a new order, but no. It seems I am stuck doing it the exact same way in 360, which really bugs me. Come on Bioware.. I love your games. The story is immersive and well written but I don't see a logical excuse as why you couldn't do that one simple thing. You had the time... You could have done it.

Anyway, the game is and forever will be awesome. I was just hoping for that minor change. I thought that was the benift of Blu-Ray. More space, so no need to disc swap. Gah, I am just ranting a bit. Oh well, I'll still play it.

How do you do this magical thing of manipulating files. SO that I can recruit in whatever order? That's the only problem I have with Mass Effect.

Sadly that aspect of the game can only be done in the PC version. But if they made special Dialogue for the characters for certian parts of the game, then you know they originally made it so you can recruit anyone at anytime. I guess they flip-flopped on that part before it's release.

I have the PC version, I just don't how to do this techno-sorcery

 

[mjc0961]

Sort of. Allow me to elaborate.

I have a launch 20 gig PS3 that has yellow lighted twice in 4 (5?) years. All good I figure, I love the full backwards compatability, and $150 bucks twice ain't so bad.

Then last week, it YLOD'd again.

So I figured why not buy a new one with 8 times the HDD (never got around to expanding the hard drive) and WI-FI? Plus the ICO/ SotC HD pack is coming out soon and those are really the only ones I've been using the backwards compatability on anyways.

In summary, can't wait to finally get me some Mass Effect 2 (loved up on the demo before the yellow) when I get paid tomorrow; then someday pay sony to fix the old clunker again and see what it goes for on ebay.

Only question really is what flavor Shepard to roll...

I won't disagree with Mass Effect 2 being a great game to play, but your story sounds more like YLOD is a system seller rather than ME2 is. Had you not gotten YLOD, would you be buying a new PS3?

 

[warm slurm]

Mass Effect 2 is terrible, though, at least if you've played the first one. Not only did they make it a generic cover based shooter (as someone already said), they added a bunch of characters who suck (Jack, Miranda, Jacob, the weird scientist alien wtf guy, etc.) and took out, for the most part, two of the best characters from the first game. It isn't terrible, I guess, but it's such a step-down imo and the only saving grace was that Ashley wasn't in the game because I let her die in the first.