Graphics are also gorgeous on the PC and run smoothly. Shepherd still talks like he's made entirely out of wood and has no personality whatsoever, but at least now HE'S FUCKING ROBOCOP.
No.
Really.
It's pretty good. 
We only employ good looking people. Fatties need not apply.
The squeal seems tempting, but for some reason I'm a bit pensive about it.
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Ghost of Forums Past had this to say about Pirotess:
The squeal seems tempting
Voice acting to be a bit desired, but its better than the first game.
I'm about halfway through. This one will tide me over until Dante's Inferno comes out in two weeks.
I got it for the 360 and it handles pretty well. I'm not really a shooter fan, but I find myself getting into the combat with this game. You have to consider tactics with this, which is a plus, but sometimes it leaves me feeling like I am playing a midway game at a fair, you know, the one where you have to shoot the little wooden ducks as they parade in front of you?
But aside from that, good storytelling, good character developement, fun combat. I give it a 4 out of 5 right now. We'll see if it changes by endgame.
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Ghost of Forums Past had this to say about Cuba:
The first Mass Effect was one of my favorite games for the 360 but I finished it too quickly.
what? do the sidequests
also: female Shepard supremacy
also also: ME2 is fantastic, 26 hours in~ Kegwen fucked around with this message on 01-30-2010 at 09:17 PM.
The Asari matriarch won't and Tali can't
Also I'm not entirely unsympathetic toward Mark Meer's voice, but that's probably because I'm an autistic borderline psychopath in real life so the inflection doesn't sound all that strange to me
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Steven Steve said:
The scenes are so good you still can't spell the main character's name right despite looking at it for 30+ hours, eh Mortious?
I'm only 4 hours in.
Shehepepepehhard.
Razortooth Gnome fucked around with this message on 01-31-2010 at 08:37 AM.
I'm itching to get my hands on this game! It's going to have to wait until later in the week, though, when the funds become available and I can wrangle up a ride to Hastings.
Male Shepard's acting sounds like the "Two X-Wings against a Star Destroyer?" guy from Empire Strikes Back.
Except it's every line. It's forced, stilted and soulless. Female Shepard is brilliant and convincing.
I'm shocked that anyone has ever made it off Eden Prime with male Shepard.
I'll be playing female Shepard through it now.
First; does anyone else not like the way most of the side missions work?
Step 1: Go onto a planet, drive until you get to one of the three base entrances.
Step 2: Go into the base, kill ~5-8 things, loot 1-2 crates.
Step 3: Get back onto the surface.
Step 4: Repeat Steps 1 and 2 without any variation whatsoever a few times.
Complete.
Not saying they're bad, they just feel kinda bland. The plot-based missions make up for it; but do the side quests change it up at all in ME2?
Second; I can't remember my other minor gripe; but I'll post it if I remember.
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Rodent King had this to say about Captain Planet:
The plot-based missions make up for it; but do the side quests change it up at all in ME2?
1. Most optional missions, including those you're aware of, have to be located from orbit with your scanner. When you orbit a planet with a side mission, you'll be informed of an anomaly. Your scanner will point towards this anomaly. Once you find it, you have to launch a probe at it to get the mission prompt.
This is mostly a pointless formality. The whole scanning / probing nonsense is my least favorite part of the game, but anyway.
2. The Mako has been taken out. When you land you go straight to the mission site, and when you leave you go straight back to the Normandy.
3. Both side missions and main missions are a lot shorter in ME2. OTOH, they're a little more diverse.
Sigpic shamelessly stolen from Kate Beaton.
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Kegwen had this to say about Robocop:
You'll be happy to learn that there isn't any surface driving at all in the sequel
I'm not happy >:[ Sentow, I Guess fucked around with this message on 01-31-2010 at 08:54 PM.
Sigpic shamelessly stolen from Kate Beaton.
I have to link my gamertag to my EA account, but apparently entering the Cerberus Network code magically created an EA account for my gamertag to which I don't have any access whatsoever. Having an e-mail different between my Xbox LIVE account and EA account is clearly a cardinal sin.
I seriously feel like asking for a refund and then pirating the fucking thing. Nina fucked around with this message on 02-01-2010 at 07:10 PM.
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Naimah said:
Every company coming up with their own way of doing DLC needs to go away. That probably won't happen for 5-10 years or ever though.
Assassins Creed has it too.
... and it sucks.
Why.
Just why.
But yeah. Xbox Live already has a bunch of measures in place to allow promotional DLC codes, why force people to go through third party stuff? At least Dragon Age was well integrated with Steam -- I can only hope it was the same for Mass Effect 2 PC users.
Three things that I didn't like (really minor nitpicks):
- The 'levels'. You always run through tubes with not much happening and as soon as you see two or more boxes and other stuff, you know that bad guys will appear and start shooting at you. Every. Single. Time. Also the non shooting parts of the levels, that are supposed to represent every day life, didn't really feel realistical or practical to me. But I have never been on an alien world before, perhaps having an office consisting of nothing but a desk in a wide open area is the way to go in the future. Screw doors and privacy.
- Armor. What's the point of it anyway? If the chicks can get away with wearing nothing more than suspenders or latex, why isn't Shepard running around in t-shirt and boxers. I am sure that would be more comfortable than his armor.
- Massaging planets for resources. Why can't my asisstant or Edi do that for me?
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Kegwen spewed forth this undeniable truth:
Mass Effect 2 PC DLC involved registering on the site and downloading executables that install the DLC for you. It's not handled through Steam.
That was rather annoying. It was so much better implemented in Dragon Age. Tarquinn fucked around with this message on 02-02-2010 at 08:11 AM.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Steven Steve had this to say about Punky Brewster:
The planet scanning is horrible, but at least it's not as annoying as doing slo-mo Motocross Madness with the Mako
I'm just gonna climb this mountain at an 85 degree angle hold on
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Kegwen had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
I'm just gonna climb this mountain at an 85 degree angle hold on
and then press A once at the top to go careening down in one go!
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Nobody really understood why Tarquinn wrote:
Oh, and I also wish I could use my spectre status a little bit more.
I have a feeling that'll come back in to play in the third game.
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Kegwen probably says this to all the girls:
I'm just gonna climb this mountain at an 85 degree angle hold on
*5 hours later*
*Mako slowly slides backward*
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Kegwen had this to say about Robocop:
Tali can't
Maybe if you're femshep, she can't... Arttemis fucked around with this message on 02-03-2010 at 11:40 PM.
Is this game riddled with stupid RUN OVER HERE AND TALK TO THIS PERSON. OK NOW RUN ALL THE WAY BACK AND TALK TO THIS PERSON type shit?
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Blindy got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:
I played the first game and got bored after the 5 hour diplomatic shitfest on the station that followed the first mission.Is this game riddled with stupid RUN OVER HERE AND TALK TO THIS PERSON. OK NOW RUN ALL THE WAY BACK AND TALK TO THIS PERSON type shit?
No. It's much more streamlined.
