[illdog]

ill Shepard is back!

Thanks to the import a character option your royal ugly dude lives on. I love this game so far and ive only played an hour and im a Mass Effect fanboy so maybe im biast. It feels like it eases you into the gameplay better than the first game, acting as a reassuringly warm hand if its been a while since you played the first.

And if youve played the first game then this is more of the same with nicer looking graphics and a girl with a large pair of pert boobs from the off.

Just got on the Normandy properly for the first time and off on my first mission of my own free will. (Ive just loaded up the galaxy map for the first time and the music is the same). Its back baby!

[wildejon]

illdog, on 28 January 2010 - 09:34 PM, said:

And if youve played the first game then this is more of the same with nicer looking graphics and a girl with a large pair of pert boobs from the off.

Dibs! This time I'm not missing out...

[DifferentClass]

I've been thinking about who I will "bunk" with this time round.

I hate seing people on your friends list play this now. I won't be able to get it until tomorrow evening. I'm gonna play it all weekend, people can fuck off for a few days.

[TopGunKnacker]

DifferentClass, on 28 January 2010 - 10:49 PM, said:

I hate seing people on your friends list play this now.

i heard that! i totally bum Massively Erect and i need to play this so bad. going to get it at midnight but wont be able to play til tomorrow :'(, even then ill only get a few hours in. im am going to be balls deep in it all weekend though just you watch.

hah that guy actually looks like you ill. hes nowhere near as badass as my shep though, hed bust a cap in yo ass

[Manicm]

Ok, i didn't play the first one, and no idea what the new one is about? what sort of game is it? and ps3 or xbox? im assuming its on both, and the bigger question is it worthy of my limited funds this month.

[Sly Reflex]

360 only Daddy Partime. Think about it as Star Wars but with guns and lots of futuristic pew pew pewing.

[wildejon]

And you aim a gun like you are drunk til about 1/2 way thro the original, it was immense tho.
Does this one start stronger?

[spatular]

this has started off great, much improved combat, smooth framerate, only 2 hours in mind, basically a big intro/tutorial so far (edit - exactly where illdog was in the first post).

i can't remember much from the first game, can anyone tell me what the deal with

Spoiler

cerberus (sp?)

is?

[illdog]

I cant remember either Spatular, lets just ignore it together.

Without spoiling anything, this game just starts off at a better pace, the immediate objective being to assemble a team of former friends and newbies. Ive got a team of 4 now but im getting distracted by chatting up Kelly on the Normandy and a couple of interesting side missions.

The vehicular exploration of planets looking for minerals hasnt appeared yet, instead you can scan planets from the Normandy and launch probes and hotspots indicated by the pads rumbke feature and these do the work for you.

Also loving the hacking mini games, either matching coloured text to hack firewalls or a little 'remember the symbol' match up game to bypasss security.

Combat still isnt great though.

[Craymen Edge]

spatular, on 30 January 2010 - 01:01 AM, said:

i can't remember much from the first game, can anyone tell me what the deal with

Spoiler

cerberus (sp?)

is?

From the Mass Effect wiki

Spoiler

During the events of Mass Effect, Commander Shepard discovers that Cerberus has conducted horrific experiments intended to create super soldiers, including experiments on rachni and Thorian Creepers. They accidentally unleashed rachni on Listening Posts Alpha and Theta when their experimental subjects - shipped from Noveria - escaped from Depot Sigma-23. Cerberus also deliberately destroyed a settlement on Chasca by turning the colonial pioneer team there into Husks. A traumatised marine named Corporal Toombs also claimed that in one of their most devastating experiments, Cerberus lured thresher maws to the colony on Akuze, resulting in the notorious massacre, later capturing Toombs -- one of the only survivors -- to conduct brutal tests.

There is also some indication that Cerberus protects its bases from being found by hacking the Alliance database. Information on at least two of their known planets in the astronomical database is described as "surprisingly sparse", and may have been edited by Cerberus agents to discourage casual explorers.

Things came to a head when Commander Shepard, investigating the disappearance of a group of marines under Rear Admiral Kahoku, found that Cerberus had lured them to a thresher maw nest using a distress beacon (similar to the 'experiment' they allegedly conducted on Akuze). After being informed of their death, Kahoku bought information from the Shadow Broker and sent Shepard to track Cerberus down. Shepard's team went to Binthu to take out Cerberus' research bases, but not before Cerberus had Kahoku killed. Shepard then headed to Nepheron to launch an assault on Cerberus' main base.

Assignments involving Cerberus include:

* UNC: Missing Marines
* UNC: Dead Scientists
* UNC: Cerberus
* UNC: Hades' Dogs
* Investigate Samples → UNC: Colony of Dead
* UNC: Listening Post Theta → UNC: Depot Sigma-23

[David]

I was planning to import my save but it turns out that for some reason the game was never saved right after I completed it, so I couldn't do it. Can't find the original game either to finish it.

So I started as a new character (a woman). I so can't wait for the lesbian sex with Kelly I'm so going to get.

[spatular]

Thanks Craymen

[TopGunKnacker]

ive got miranda ready for a trashing, chatting jack up in the basement on the side oh and flirting with kelly

im such a slut!

[wildejon]

Played about 5-6 hrs of this over the weekend in a couple of shift and wow, its fucking great
My wife seems hooked too which is awesome for me!

[illdog]

Im working on Kelly the most actually, some of the chat up dialogue is brilliantly cheesy.

Lots of characters from ME1 keep popping their heads up which ive enjoyed, all of which id forgotten untill i saw them again. The quests are coming in thick and fast at the moment which i like, ive got three to do on one planet at the moment.

Still not crazy about the combat, they need a decent lock-on system, it all feel a bit loose when things get frantic and it can be hard to see who's shooting you on occasion.

Its a flaw like Assassins Creed in respect of it being blatent but the rest of the game is so good its not ruined by it.

[Craymen Edge]

I'm loving it, but that's no surprise, the previous one was one of my favourite games in ages.

Raptr says I've played 15 hours since starting on Saturday morning. That's much more than I thought, it felt like 7 or 8 to me.

I just got done on the Citadel. It's good to see that the council are still a bunch of pricks, and I punched the futuristic equivalent of a Daily Mail journalist in the face. ( regretted not doing that in the 1st game)

[TopGunKnacker]

my only gripe with this so far is that i couldnt revisit 95% of the areas in the citadel from mass effect 1, i really wanted to go back and hang out in the presidium with the cool music. everything else is 24 carat gold

[DifferentClass]

Craymen Edge, on 01 February 2010 - 11:03 AM, said:

I just got done on the Citadel. It's good to see that the council are still a bunch of pricks, and I punched the futuristic equivalent of a Daily Mail journalist in the face. ( regretted not doing that in the 1st game)

They're all dead on in my game but I wish I saved them now, the humans take over the council and they make a bit of an arse of it, should of seen that coming really.

I think I need to stop and go back to the Citadel or Omega because I'm 15 hours in and I'm on the second disc, haven't done many side quests either so i think I'm missing some things.

Spoiler

It was shit meeting Ashley again, she was right on her high horse and it turns out she's got more loyalty for the Alliance than me, bitch. Well she ain't getting any more of this jelly.

I do miss the Mako planet exploring, it was over-used in the last game but I'd like to of done it again occasionally, I found it on the crash site and it looked intact.

[TopGunKnacker]

DifferentClass, on 01 February 2010 - 07:08 PM, said:

the crash site and it looked intact.

how gorgeous was the crash site??!?! a little 'wow' crawled off my tongue when i was exploring it

[TopGunKnacker]

just finished this, suicide mission is AWESOME. got a tasty 875g first time through too!