[360] Mass Effect 2 - Skills would do a romance sub-plot but he has work in the morning

So they were just kidding about Shepard being dead. Not that we didn't already know that.

I can only assume it would be pretty difficult to effectively carry out your spec ops duties while simultaneously being the most famous human in the known galaxy, hence the fake death.

"Oh, Shepard's dead, now we can go back to being nefarious in human space with no human Spectre to bother us!"

"Hey sup."

"Shepard? But you're dead. I just saw it on the news last week!"

"No, you." +25 Renegade

Jam it back in, in the dark.

He's from Quebec, you're expecting way too much from him. I always wonder if English is anywhere in his first fifteen languages though.

About the trailer music, according to the Bioware forums, the song was custom by Bioware for the trailer.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I did the scanning mini-game on one planet for a few minutes and was pretty much like "wtf". Pretty terrible.

The door and terminal hacking mini-games are vast improvements over the last game, especially the terminal hacking with the scrolling bits of "code".

The enemy spawning has not bothered me, but I will say this: in the mission to acquire the professor character, on Omega, the locations of some of the encounters were brutal, with plenty of ways for the bad guys to flank me. The fact that I jumped right into Insanity difficulty did not help matters. Krogan enemies are (early on) still serious threats, but manageable. I ran into an enemy who was sporting a flamethrower. Since he was the only enemy I had remaining to kill at the time, I kind of approached him lackadaisically, expecting my teammates to draw some of the fire. That was a mistake, as he burned me to the ground in only a few short seconds.

So far, I'm really enjoying the game, the look and feel of it is great. The character interactions, especially between Shepard and Mass Effect the first characters, have been great too. The Miranda Lawson character, voiced by Yvonne Strahovski (<3), is awesome.

There is a lot of "flavor" kind of hanging out along the edges as well, such as news feeds that you hear as you walk through the various locales, usually discussing the fallout from some of the missions undertaken in the first game. There was one that discussed government paid reparations to L2 biotics, as a direct result of the mission in the first game where you rescue a senatorial type guy from a group of angry biotics who were just looking to be heard.

Also, I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite shop on the Citadel.

How ya doing, buddy?

Well, I just completeld my first playthrough, on Insanity. Fully upgraded cryo ammo (set to apply to the entire team) got me through a lot of tough fights, especially when the husks were around. Having three people shooting a husk and freezing it about half a second after its armor goes down is nice.

Outstanding game overall. I think my only real complaint is with the planet scanning/resource gathering minigame. That part sucks. Everything else about the game was great. Great characters, great environments, great music, great combat. I like the changes they made to the combat system. Three types of protection (shield, armor, barrier) each with a specific gun type that is strong against it. It made building a team based on what you expected to fight fun.

Kind of disappointed that they nerfed Tali. She was extremely powerful in ME the first, when you could just lay waste to a battlefield with all of her tech skills, but on this one, she basically sucks.

I managed to get every achievement on my first play except level 30 character, complete a romance subplot, and the one for hitting 20 enemies with two biotic powers at the same time. I got to 16 on that one, simply because I hardly used biotic powers until near the end.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Denicalis

I strongly urge you to see the Tali romance, if only for how adorably awkward she is about the whole thing.

This is the one I was trying for, but I'm guessing that having a female Shepard disqualified me from the start.

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And please, for the love of god, play a female Shepard to land Garrus. Hilarity ensues.

I actually started this one, and got to the point where Garrus told me that he'd have to do some research on how to make it work, but at the time, I was still holding out hope that it would let me go after Tali or Miranda. Also oh god gross what the hell. I reloaded a save from a few minutes before I started that conversation.

To all of you people playing on Normal/Veteran, once you get past Freedom's Progress, do all of the enemies start having shield/armor, or just some of them? I started a new Adept on Veteran and none of the robots I ran into up until the boss fight on FP had anything but lonely little red health bars. No armor to speak of. It was....cute.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Soluzar

You mean the developers are open-minded about inter-species relationships, but they DRAW THE LINE at lesbian sex?

I think it is more likely a case of the developers not thinking that would be in line with Tali's character, considering that female Shepards have the option of romance with Kelly Chambers. I guess I'll just have to play a male Shepard for once.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

That would be the encounter with (very minor spoiler I guess)

Spoiler:

Conrad Verner. You know, the guy from the first game who asked for your autograph and wanted to be made your secret assistant Spectre.

Originally Posted by Cadillacs

Dragon Age has returned a measure of my faith to Bioware, and everyone who has made their opinions known to have disliked the first one for many of the same reasons I did seem to say this one fixes most of them, so I'm willing to give it a shot.

- A million bland planets to ride around on in your Mako, only to discover a generic pirate base - FIXED
- Textures STILL trying to load two years later - FIXED
- Garrus being a complete sissy whiner - FIXED
- Elevator rides - replaced with load screens. six of one, half dozen of the other.

Significant annoyance added: resource gathering/planet scanning
Minor problems added: uh, not a whole lot of weapons to choose from, Tali no longer a powerful combatant, no real "on the fly" heals, have to be patient and wait for your shields to recharge (maybe this isn't as much a problem as it is a minor adjustment that you'll have to get used to since it worked differently in the first game)

This time around your teammates' AI is a lot better. They will move around the battefield a lot more independently, instead of kind of sticking inside an invisible ten foot bubble around you, unless you specifically tell them where to go. And you can control each one separately, so if you want your tank to go up front and be a distraction, tell him to go up there while you tell your other guy to go to X flanking position. Your teammates do a decent job of keeping themselves alive, but are definitely not immortal either.

FELIPE NO

Why doesn't the soundtrack have the songs that are played in the various nightclubs throughout the game. This is bullshit man.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Well,

Spoiler:

if you finish it with only either Mordin or Thane as the last remaining party member, other than Shepard, within a couple of weeks Shepard would be the only survivor. I mean, Mordin is 50, that's old as fuck for a Salarian, and Thane is all tore up inside and about to die.

Jam it back in, in the dark.