Mass Effect 2 *spoilers around pg 29/30*

[Tannhauser]

You heartless bastard!  I loved her.  I don't know what her purpose was on my ship other than to gossip and tell me I had mail.   The funny thing?  I could take three steps to my terminal and check my mail for myself.  Classic Kelly!  And she never complained about feeding my goldfish while I was off tapping Liara's sweet blue ass (I think she slept in my bed). And she never lifted a finger to help us on our next mission.  That was just the kind of useless eye-candy she was.  How many times did I make sexual advances on her, my subordinate, in the middle of the command deck while everyone shifted in their chairs uncomfortably?  Good times.

And then I saw her, for the last time, as she dissolved into reaper paste.  Such a tragedy, such a loss I suffered that day.  Because, although we bantered on the command deck about sex, the truth is just so sad.  And the truth is I never got to stick it in her.

Kelly!  KELLLLLLYYYYYY!!!!!

[bhodi]

How many times did I make sexual advances on her, my subordinate, in the middle of the command deck while everyone shifted in their chairs uncomfortably?  Good times.

Oh, how I wish the developers had animated head turnings and glances during that sequence. It would have been perfect.

[Sir T]

But that might have given impressionable 16 year old's the idea that propositioning junior officers on a command bridge could be something that would be frowned upon.

[Sjofn]

Sexual harrassment: It's a compliment! 

I wanted to sexually harrass the engineer dude. :(

[bhodi]

Look, I just wanted her to take care of my fish, OK? Something that she should have done without prompting, I might add, if she was really my assistant.

[Merusk]

Summary of the last few posts:

The rules of the workplace are vastly different in the 25th century.  Workers have earned the right to not have to do things outside their actual duties.  Some of those duties are also incredibly pointless, as we can see by Ms. "You've got Mail."  However, they had to give up their right to not be groped and leered at like a piece of meat in exchange.  Everyone agrees it was a good compromise.

[tmp]

No goatee necessary. With the right face, those renegade answers just choose themselves: http://www.masseffect2faces.com/index.php?faceID=1325

That's like Bishop gone all hardass and evil. Actually makes me want to play a male Shepard

[Sjofn]

Look, I just wanted her to take care of my fish, OK? Something that she should have done without prompting, I might add, if she was really my assistant.

Yeah, I sexually harrassed my way to fed fish as well. One of the devs CLAIMS you can do it without flirting, but she never once seemed interested in having dinner with me while I was in the friend zone, so I think that dev is a lying liar.

Or it's a bug. 

[tmp]

All this talk about fish confuses me. Next thing i know, people are gonna claim they bought these silly ship models, too.

[Shrike]

All this talk about fish confuses me. Next thing i know, people are gonna claim they bought these silly ship models, too.

Well, I recall just sorta picking a few of them up. They were just laying there, sooooo... 

[tmp]

I only remember coming back to my cabin after one particular loyalty quest and going all "wait, who put that shit on my wall? TAAAAAAAAALI"

[Mosesandstick]

I didn't want to buy any of them, but as soon as I received one I had to go OCD and buy the rest.

[UnSub]

All this talk about fish confuses me. Next thing i know, people are gonna claim they bought these silly ship models, too.

They aren't MODELS, they are SCALED REPLICAS. Hard-arse galaxy-saving Shepherd does NOT play with MODELS.

 

[Merusk]

Exactly. They're scale replicas for small-attendance tactical reenactments.

[Surlyboi]

Heh.

My paragon femship ran as an infiltrator. The DLC sniper rifle, plus Grunt and Jack at the colony meant easy peasy on the husks and like someone else said, I didn't notice harbinger was supposed to be hard until I heard other people bitching about him. Half the time I two shotted him.

[tmp]

Exactly. They're scale replicas for small-attendance tactical reenactments.

I guess at this rate better brace myself for action figures and really big helmets available in stores in ME3...

[Shrike]

Exactly. They're scale replicas for small-attendance tactical reenactments.

I guess at this rate better brace myself for action figures and really big helmets available in stores in ME3...

Grunt already beat you to it. His Shadowbroker file had some sales receipts for Cpt. Galaxy or some such action figures.

[tmp]

I'm having trouble making eye contact with Grunt since seeing his Fornax and asari porn receipts.

[Jeff Kelly]

Late to the party as always. Just started ME2 and I'm now at Horizon. They fixed most of the things I hated about the original yet introduced nearly as many new things to hate instead, so it's a mixed bag. Lost the Simon says minigame just so that they could exchange for the planet surveying one which makes me a sad panda.

Had to restart because I missed the assault rifle upgrade at Archangel's place the first time around and had to realize that you couldn't go back to get it or get it anywhere else. I like the upgrade idea a lot but don't like the fact that you can lose out on some if you miss them in the levels.

The missions are great so far, it's one big railroad through the levels but it's fun. The writing is as uneven as in ME 1 though. Seems like most of my crew has daddy issues and I have a crew psychologist who just wants to heart and hug everybody, even grunt, which reminds me somehow of Elmyra from Tiny Toons  .

Oh and whose idea was it to make the button that skips dialogue also select dialogue options? Actually had to save and reload a few times after the restart because I pressed skip one to many times and selected the wrong dialogue option.

Love the paragon and renegade interrupts. Love that they actually change the experience according to the choices you made in ME1. (Hell Shepard is even wearing the equipment you had in ME 1 in the prologue).

Although if I had known that even a reaper ship exploding above the Citadel and scattering its parts all over the landscape couldn't persuade the Council that the reapers exist, then I wouldn't have saved them.

It's a nice upgrade from ME in terms of gaming experience, the story clearly feels like an Act 2 that builds up to ME 3 though.

[Morat20]

Late to the party as always. Just started ME2 and I'm now at Horizon. Fixed most of the things I hated about the original yet introduced nearly as much new things to hate instead, so it's a mixed bag. Lost the Simon say minigame just so that they could exchange it with the planet surveying one which makes me a sad panda.

You don't even fucking know. You are on planet scanning EASY STREET.

See, you know how you can upgrade your ship with the better planet scanner with the reticule that's twice as wide and moves twice as fast?

When the game released, your "upgraded" reticule was a bit smaller and slower than the one you get at the start now. They've doubled or more scanning speed and area. It was a nightmare at release.

DLC wise -- Kasumi and the Shadowbroker are the two I'd suggest getting. Kasumi's is an amusing little adventure with a very awesome SMG, which you can pick up early and makes life really easy. (The SMG hits like an assault rifle.). Shadowbroker is just tons of fun.

[Jeff Kelly]

What you say is that the target reticule used to move even slower? :shudder:

I hear only good things about the Shadow Broker DLC. Right now I don't have Internet at home however and I had to find out that you can't download DLC on your PC and transfer it to your XBOX and you can't buy the shadow broker DLC on disc either so I have to wait till my new Internet provider connects me.

[Shrike]

Yeah, planet scanning is a walk in the park now. I only occasionally fall asleep with the new one; the old one was pure Sominex.

If you're in the market for the DLC, I"d get Kasumi, Overlord, and Shadowbroker. You'll probably need Firewalker to play Overlord, though. Overlord is the weakest of the three, but I suspect it'll have a lot of tie-ins with ME3. If you want a little fluff, the weapons pack is actually pretty good, though the new weapons are sort of overpowered. Still the heavy rifle fills a real need and the geth shotgun actually makes vanguards tolerable to play.

As for the upgrades, I wouldn't sweat it unless you're playing on insanity and that I'd only do with a reloaded character (in other words, level 30 to start). On my initial renegade playthroughs, I only got stuff to 30 or 40%. On my late paragon playthroughs (much more familiar with the game), I hit 60-70% on everything--but that's counting DLCs.

I just finished my maleShep paragon vanguard playthrough last night. Last mission was Shadowbroker, of course. That was a blast as a vanguard. The level designs really let that class shine, where usually it's handicapped by pacing and enemy placement. Biotic charge duel = 

[Jeff Kelly]

Yeah, if it were another upgrade I might just have skipped it but the assaullt rifle you find at Archangel's place is a significant upgrade to the default one, it fires shorter bursts but is a lot more precise and it made the repeat visit to the Convict and the Warlord much easier.

With the default rifle I had to do the Purgatory boss fight 5 times, with the upgrade I finished it the first time because it was much easier to actually hit opponents.

Also I'm usually an obsessive completist.

[Shrike]

Heh, I always hated that gun. My Shep won't touch it. That's one reason I recomend the weapons pack. You get the Mattock straight away and it will cure what ails you and is a very good long ranged option for biotic/tech classes that can't use the Locust and/or ARs in general. Hell, in many ways the Mattock is even better than the Revenant, though not as much fun as that bullet hose.

DLC aside, run Haestrom on hardcore or insanity and pick up the geth pulse rifle. That thing rocks. Makes life a lot easier until you get to the ghost ship mission. It's also nice just on general principles when Legion throws his hat in with Shepard and co. Of course, I'm assuming a soldier playthrough here. The pulse rifle is a pure AR; the Mattock is not.

[Morat20]

I'm curious to try the weapons-pack Shotgun with the tactical cloak. Supposedly you can charge it while cloaked. I haven't used the Widow sniper rifle, but I hear with either the soldier or infiltrator slow-down, it one-shots practically everything but bosses.

Add in warp and disrupter ammo and it's gravy...

[Bandit]

The Locust shreds barriers period.

With an infiltrator, I'd be thinking fortification personally. Hmmm, my infiltrator didn't get anywhere, but that was on the 360. On the PC...has some possiblities.

I like Barrier but it is probably not the best choice for Infiltrator.  Infiltrate itself can be used much like barrier, as you can instantly drop out of a fight for the duration at which time you can get to cover and heal up.  It's a much better "oh shit" power than barrier besides the other benefits of infiltrate. I went with armour-piercing ammo (used in conjunction with disruptor ammo), but should have went warp ammo - and obviously reave is always a solid option.

[Bunk]

If the Widow is the one I'm using, it actually does less damage than the standard sniper. Difference though, is that it shoots rapidly and has a waaay bigger clip. So it might take two shots to kill a numpty, but I've taken those shots and moved on to a new target faster than the old sniper would have fired once.

[Shrike]

The Widow (AMR) is the late game rifle you get from hitting Legion up for some "help" with tech. It's an 12 shot cannon and it most certainly isn't fast and hits like a nuclear weapon. It'll one shot just about anything and with damage boost abilities it's way overkill on anything but a praetorian.

The gun you're thinking of is the Viper. Fast shooter, low damage (relatively) and a large clip.

[Merusk]

Damnit.. I started another ME1 game today because of this thread.

[Sjofn]

Blame Ingmar, if he hadn't bought me ME 1&2 for my PC, I never would've played them, and never would've decided to SHARE in this thread, which wouldn't have provoked other people to share, and then you wouldn't be playing ME1!

[Ingmar]

Dance, my puppets?

[Lantyssa]

You haven't gotten me yet!  The most I've done is download a couple of mods for when I give in...

[Sky]

I started but quickly overpowered my urges and jumped into F:NV, which I had smartly downloaded in advance.

[Surlyboi]

I'm exempt as I had to play them over again anyway.

Stupid dead xbox hard drive...

[Morat20]

I'm exempt as I had to play them over again anyway.

Stupid dead xbox hard drive...

I'm about to pay 75-ish to upgrade mine from 60 to 120 GB. Still, the idea of my hard drive eating itself with all my save games -- why doesn't Microsoft offer a backup service for Live users?