Mass Effect 2 (360/PC) [No Spoilers unless within Spoiler Tags!]

lol you will enjoy it the start is pretty mind blowing

[Matt D]

Normally on a day off I probably wouldn't get up 'till around noon or later but tomorrow I think I'll treat it like a normal workday... can't waste half the day in bed when I could be up at 8 to go & grab my copy & then start playing.

lol yeah man I would

[Kard]

You know you've played too much ME2 when the content of your dreams is planet scanning and jumping through mass relays, I think I need a game break

Spoiler: 

Have you seen Miranda in her bra yet yabba yabba lollol

only a little spoiler not really game story important

[cimt]

Is that part of a subplot or is it "story" related.

subplot

[cimt]

Picked up my copy just then. Does anyone know if the Gamestop DLC I downloaded will work?

[Matt D]

So, I got up early yesterday to pick up my copy from the Royal Mail Delivery Office (due to the missed delivery on Thursday).

Started actually playing at around 11am (after first installing both discs, downloading the free day 1 DLC via Cerberus etc.)... stopped at around 5:30pm. But only so I could go to ASDA & get stuff for dinner.

Had another hour on it in the evening, & then went to the pub.

Returned from the pub at 12:30am... & started playing again... until 5:30am


Absolutely love it. My GOTY for 2009 was Uncharted 2. I'm pretty certain that although it's only January, my GOTY for 2010 will be Mass Effect 2.

BioWare have somehow improved upon all the good stuff from ME1, plus have also managed to fix the admittedly crappy stuff from ME1 (e.g. combat, inventory, Mako).

Story, characters, script, voice acting, all that is top notch, as to be expected.

The graphics are much improved IMO on ME1, & gone is the awful frame rate & freezing.

The combat is so much better. In ME1, I found the combat to be a distraction, a chore, & turned the difficulty down to Casual, just so I could breeze through the tedious combat & get on with the story. In ME2, the combat is actually very good, & the cover system actually works well. OK, combat-wise it's still no Gears of War or Uncharted, but it still makes a very good attempt at being a 3rd person cover-shooter (& unlike Gears, it actually has a decent story).

No more Mako driving...

Inventory... much simpler, & much better.


Awesome stuff.

So far I have recruited The Professor & Archangel, visited the Citadel, done one N7 mission, & done some scanning. When I finally stopped last night (or this morning), I had just started "Zaeed's Revenge" (the mission you get after recruiting the DLC party member).

Re. Archangel...

Spoiler: 

GARRUS! Who'd have thought he'd be such a bad-ass. Very surprised when he was revealed - glad I didn't spoil it for myself beforehand.

Mordin is great.


The Citadel... I love all the little touches, the little references on the news & the adverts to stuff from ME1 - even minor things like the all-Elcor production of Hamlet .

what did you think the the resurrection graphics? are you playing it on the pc or 360? I ask cuz you said install 2 discs?

You want bad ass wait for Jack lol lol

I did everything the game and how I played it threw at me I even scanned every single planet in every system lol

[Matt D]

Resurrection graphics?

Playing on 360... my PC sucks for gaming. Comes on two DVDs. Installing 360 games to the HDD is optional, but helps with load times so I installed both discs.

Spoiler: 

when they bring Shepherd back from the dead and the heart beats and the blood flows

you can read this Matt its right at the start

[Matt D]

Oh, right, I get you.

Yeah, looked great. I loved that whole opening to the game, great prologue.

[cimt]

Archangel was a huge suprise, although looking at the armor he had on, it was to be expected. Not sure how much of a spoiler this is so I'll put it in spoiler tags.

Spoiler: 

Who's been to the Normandy crash site? I put over 30 drones on it but I realised what I had to do.

[icestar2]

Its brilliant. Started playing around 9pm lastnight and ending up going to bed just after 5:00am I think its just amazing. They really have improved on everything in the first and the storey seems very good upto now to. I Love it !