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Topic: Mass Effect 2 *spoilers around pg 29/30* (Read 629256 times)
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Nightblade
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The PC version is still dreadfully bad.
Why? |
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schild
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The PC version is still dreadfully bad.
Why? I don't want to upset Velorath, so I'm going to abstain from answering.  |
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Nightblade
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Ending related spoilers.
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Velorath
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The PC version is still dreadfully bad.
Why? I don't want to upset Velorath, so I'm going to abstain from answering. He can read your Twitter feed on the last couple pages. |
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gimpyone
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Overall I like the game. They have done great job continuing the space opera feel of the first one.
My gripe is this: the control scheme is crap. I'm on a pc, let me use the mouse to click things to select what I want instead of arrows or plus to get there. The multiuse spacebar drives me crazy when I go to cover then magically vault over the wall accidentally into a machine gun.
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Nonentity
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Fucking, fuck. Just beat it.
Ending-related spoilers below.
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But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?
[20:42:41] You are halted on the way to the netherworld by a dark spirit, demanding knowledge.
[20:42:41] The spirit touches you and you feel drained.
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Nightblade
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Fucking, fuck. Just beat it.
Ending-related spoilers below.
Do it over again, try doing just the final mission over again with a few tweaks to your mission selections, try to get through it quicker. If not, restart. I would never accept that ending. This game has had an unhealthy effect on me. Now I want to go play through mass effect 1 again to close up any loose ends / problematic things I might had done and do those character sidequests I didn't do. |
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« Last Edit: January 27, 2010, 09:34:42 PM by Nightblade »
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Tarami
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- I'm giving you this one for free.
- Nothing's free in the waterworld.
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Phire
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Tarami
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So finally they'll be making that full-on hentai game we've all been expecting since Mass Effect 1. The DLC add-on NPC will be Hfntul, the tentacle monster and the bonus suit of armour will be a school uniform.
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- I'm giving you this one for free.
- Nothing's free in the waterworld.
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schild
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School uniform would've been better than Chitin armor.
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Kitsune
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I'm just happy that they took the rotating circle minigame shit out back and shot it in the head. The new hacking and mining minigames are vast improvements over ME1. And some of the conversations are pure gold. Some things are a little off, but by and large I'm very pleased.
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Phildo
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I absolutely hate having to play a minigame every time I open this game's equivalent of treasure chests, and pretty much never get anything besides credits. And the surveying minigame is a piece of shit, too.
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Ratman_tf
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I absolutely hate having to play a minigame every time I open this game's equivalent of treasure chests, and pretty much never get anything besides credits. And the surveying minigame is a piece of shit, too.
surveying and hacking minigames are shit. The matchup minigame isn't bad, but it isn't very hard either.  It might be that surveying on the PC is shit since the scan cursor moves so slow when active. Which just means I either shove my mouse around like a retard or go "bop bop bop" with the scanner, tapping the mouse button. Dumb. Just lemme get in the Mako and drive around finding shit. |
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schild
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I absolutely hate having to play a minigame every time I open this game's equivalent of treasure chests, and pretty much never get anything besides credits. And the surveying minigame is a piece of shit, too.
All you get is credits. That number at the top is how much you're getting. God, surveying is terrible. Every single meta bit about the game is vastly inferior to the original. Fucking dialogue is the best to come out of the house that built Baldur's Gate though. |
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Velorath
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Surveying is crap (BTW Ratman, you might have missed the upgrade for the scanner that keeps the from moving slowly when you scan, but IIRC it's one of the upgrades you get access to from talking to one of your teammates) . Don't mind the hacking mini-games much though. That might just be because there doesn't seem to be as many chests as in the first game (and I always felt compelled to open locked chests for xp long after the items stopped being useful).
Kinda surprised people are complaining about the small selection of weapons and armor considering 99.9% of all weapons and armor in ME1 were filler items you'd never use. As far as I'm concerned, what few options they have blows away ME1's selection. Don't mind the streamlined skill sets either since they managed to give each class a unique playstyle.
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TripleDES
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I never said the game was bad, just that I'd liked it to be more RPG.
Anyway, ending spoilers I guess, or rather hints.
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Merusk
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I've only gotten an hour or two in, but my reactions have been the same a schild's. The PC controls suck ass and it really detracts from my enjoyment of the game. Ammo isn't thrilling me, either, but I've got Shepard as an Infiltrator so playing sniper means I use up less of it.
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NiX
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I've only gotten an hour or two in, but my reactions have been the same a schild's. The PC controls suck ass and it really detracts from my enjoyment of the game. Ammo isn't thrilling me, either, but I've got Shepard as an Infiltrator so playing sniper means I use up less of it.
I found out quite fast it was much more fun to use the SMG. After getting most of the DMG/Ammo upgrades, the gun becomes a death machine in your hands. Especially when you turn on the shield penetrating bullets and use the fire blast. |
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Phildo
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The thing that really irritates me the most is that they did away with passive skills almost completely. I love passive skills, and ME1 had so many of them!
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Stormwaltz
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To sum up what others have said re: the endgame
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Ratman_tf
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Surveying is crap (BTW Ratman, you might have missed the upgrade for the scanner that keeps the from moving slowly when you scan, but IIRC it's one of the upgrades you get access to from talking to one of your teammates) . I just got that upgrade this morning. Kinda surprised people are complaining about the small selection of weapons and armor considering 99.9% of all weapons and armor in ME1 were filler items you'd never use. As far as I'm concerned, what few options they have blows away ME1's selection. Don't mind the streamlined skill sets either since they managed to give each class a unique playstyle.
I like how I don't have to micromanage all my teammates equipment. Just do a research and everyone gets +20% shotguns. Done deal. |
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Ratman_tf
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(Spoilered to shield Bunk's delicate eyes - Samwise)
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« Last Edit: January 28, 2010, 07:55:52 AM by Samwise »
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"What I'm saying is you should make friends with a few catasses, they smell funny but they're very helpful." -Calantus makes the best of a smelly situation. |
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Bunk
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Please avoid quoting "Spoilered" lines.
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AcidCat
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I will still finish and enjoy the game.
The PC version is still dreadfully bad.
I don't know why you people continue to get PC versions of games that are clearly console games at heart. Same with Borderlands. Anyway just got the game last night, it's great all the things I'd forgotten about the first game are now all coming back to me. It still kinda baffles me that my favorite part of a space action game is just making my dude have conversations with people. |
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Bunk
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Thanks Sam, Thread is much easier to read if I don't have to hold my hand in front of the screen to block out stuff I don't want to read. Sometimes I hate the fact that I play games like this so methodically. I have spent all my time since release day in this game out side of work, sleep, and one hockey game in fast forward - and I've only just finished recruiting Jack, Grunt, and crazy Doctor. Yet it appears that half the people here have finished it already. Do you all not have jobs, or did you all pirate it two weeks ago? |
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kildorn
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I started a vanguard for fun.
Biotic Charge would be so much more useful if I could use it to get into cover, instead of only being for "charge the idiot away from his teammates or you're gonna get shot"
I will say giving them a shotgun was nice, giving them 15 rounds with it was kind of a dick move <3
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Sky
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Sometimes I hate the fact that I play games like this so methodically. I have spent all my time since release day in this game out side of work, sleep, and one hockey game in fast forward - and I've only just finished recruiting Jack, Grunt, and crazy Doctor. Yet it appears that half the people here have finished it already.
Do you all not have jobs, or did you all pirate it two weeks ago?
Embrace the fact that you savor games and get a lot more mileage out of them. Saves a lot of money, too! By the time I will even have gaming time to buy ME2, it'll be on a steam sale :) |
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murdoc
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Holy fuck do I hate the minigames.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Lantyssa
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I don't mind the circuitry one, but the hacking I have a lot of trouble with. I take too long to process the matching text and it automatically scrolling completely fucks with my perception.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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murdoc
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the wall safe hacks drive me crazy. I'm TERRIBLE at memory games and that's basically all it is. The scrolling one I find a little easier, but I'm already starting to think of reconsidering trying to hack things and I'm only like a hour in.
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Have you tried the internet? It's made out of millions of people missing the point of everything and then getting angry about it
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Nonentity
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I had an earlier save game from just before the end of the game, and
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But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?
[20:42:41] You are halted on the way to the netherworld by a dark spirit, demanding knowledge.
[20:42:41] The spirit touches you and you feel drained.
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Phildo
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If you don't do the hacking game you will never have enough money to buy upgrades.
Also, to follow up on my UI gripe on the PC, I just want to know why I can't navigate the Armor menu with the keyboard? Why do I have to mouse over left and right arrows for absolutely everything?
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