Check the site articles about Bioware's dictatorship. They knew exactly what they were doing.Clidefrog123 said:
Zero Punctuation: Mass Effect 2
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Excellent review. I liked this game quite a bit, but there were some glaring issues. The mining was just an afterthought. All those descriptions of planets and yet nothing really to actually *do* on them (mostly)? And with all these space pirates and such where are the frakkin' SPACE battles? (Remember Tie Fighter and X-Wing from the 90s? Ye gawds, those were fun games.) After a while, all the actual fighting felt more like a linear series of confrontations in warehouses, service tunnels and sound stages. These are minor gripes, though, and we should be so lucky if more games could approach this level of quality.
Good review, and yes I agree, the surface scanning does get rather tedious after a while, even you get the speedy scanner upgrade. I recall first hearing that the Mako had been replaced by a hovering vehicle, I thought we were still going to get the planet exploration sections, but more people would like it because our vehicle would now be able to zoom around the planet at a fair lick and not be bother by terrain so much, because it hovers.
Maybe for ME3, they can keep the dinky little Normandy flying around the galaxy, but give us some kind of vehicle back for cruising around the planets. In fact, why not adopt Yahtzee's idea and have Shepard and co exploring planets on jet-pack powered space wolves, firing their lasers at thresher maws?
By which time, Shepard will probably have a Reaper, a Vorcha and Collector on his/her squad, and the Normandy 3 will have its own brothel....
Maybe for ME3, they can keep the dinky little Normandy flying around the galaxy, but give us some kind of vehicle back for cruising around the planets. In fact, why not adopt Yahtzee's idea and have Shepard and co exploring planets on jet-pack powered space wolves, firing their lasers at thresher maws?
By which time, Shepard will probably have a Reaper, a Vorcha and Collector on his/her squad, and the Normandy 3 will have its own brothel....
Xenophobic much? You're probably trolling but in the event you aren't...Cryo84R said:
I don't fall into any of the aforementioned stereotypes and I romanced Tali because I'm capable of choosing an excellent personality over a "genetically perfect" body. Thank ya very much.
Ah, the first Zero Punctuation of a game I really really liked, am I ready to froth at the mouth with a feeling of betrayal and swear never to watch another ZP again?
Nah. Review was good, critisisms were legitimate and praise was expectedly toned-down. I loved the game, really into the whole Mass Effect universe. Odd 'cause I was never much of a sci-fi junkie. The next one should be pretty exciting.
Nah. Review was good, critisisms were legitimate and praise was expectedly toned-down. I loved the game, really into the whole Mass Effect universe. Odd 'cause I was never much of a sci-fi junkie. The next one should be pretty exciting.
I ALMOST went for her until I noticed that Tali, Jack, and even Samara (though that choice was brutal) were incredibly well written. I especially like Tali and Jack, though. Not only were they fun characters to do missions with, but their love subplots really added a layer of fun to the game.LiquidGrape said:
-Look at the ME2 boxart. You see that, people? Shepard, Thane, and Miranda, and only TWO of those three belong on that cover. Wanna guess who they- It's Thane and Shepard! HA! Beat you snarky bastards to the punch!
Heh... he's got a point with the paragon/renegade choices... though maybe it wasnt meant to be good/evil. Just well... Nice/Naughty?
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Meh the Mako only had a couple of flaws otherwise it was more fun to dune buggie around than fight and with mods to the weapons,hover,jump jets,ect and more things to shoot it would have been an awesome optional side quest, you see you leave it in make it better then add a automated generated script thingy so people who do not hate and loath simple fun things like inventory,equipment,riding around can still manage to enjoy the game while those who want watered down can skip all that and get right to the movie.... I like the equipment setup because you could mod and tweak weapons and armor which made up for having it big time.Abedeus said:
I thought gameplay was amazing, and I generally hate shooters. This and Fallout 3 are the only games since Baldur's Gate 2 that can keep me playing all day. Good review all around, as the element hunting would get tedious if you're not a huge astronomy fan like I am.
