Comments on: Shepherd? Shepherd? – Mass Effect 2 Teaser

By: Earl

Earl — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:18:01 +0000

i really doubt they would kill him because when u start the game it says ur id is incomplete due to ur n7 covert status i think this is just a teaser to the prolouge like everyone thinks your dead in a huge dam battle then you get back to the citadel and bac to the big mission. plus the makers said the entire trilogy was centered around this guy look it up and then they said to keep ur saves so i really doubt they would do that crap and kill him i meen these are the guys that made the first one they wouldnt make a big story mess up like that

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:21:22 +0000

hes not acttualy dead! Here Is proof, check it out! http://masseffectonline.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4&pid=6&st=0&#entry6
It also awnsers all other speculations! Check it!

By: Janto

Janto — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:16:56 +0000

Another thing about Fallout is, well, it’s at least as derivative as Mass Effect. I’m not sure I’d qualify that as a flaw of either of them, really, but slagging off Mass Effect for being somewhere awkwardly in-between Star Trek and Babylon 5 disregards the fact that Fallout is pure pulp, wot with its green-skinned super-mutants, vault dwellers and desertified brown world. I don’t think the designers would try and claim they were doing something especially new with the game’s setting.

By: SPEEDCORE

SPEEDCORE — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:14:52 +0000

Most overrated game of 2008 was Mass Effect.

By: KindredPhantom

KindredPhantom — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:54:36 +0000

OMG You Killed Shepard! You Bastards.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:15:23 +0000

@acardiac

Truth. I think handling the utter ineptitude of the buddy AI in fallout probably accounts for about 30% of the game time. The uncanny ability of them to all either shoot you, each other or friendlies is frustratingly tragic. As someone rightly pointed out, back when you were a kid, you’d tolerate that shit because you didn’t know any better, and even if it took you 20 attempts and you’d see it through because you were too dumb to question it. Who save the truly lifeless has time for that these days.

By: Rich_P

Rich_P — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:10:56 +0000

as a game it’s tedious- as an interactive film it’s a lot of fun.

Ha, that sums up my experience with most RPGs, especially the olde-school consoles ones. Lately, I’ve been scratching the RPG itch with 4X games of all things. Civ IV is much more enjoyable if you play as a maniacal evil bastard who nukes innocent cities for laughs. See also: Tom Francis’ GalCiv2 diary.

By: Skutbag

Skutbag — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:01:27 +0000

The problems often mentioned in ME are the same problems given with all RPGs – notably the presence of pointless and ‘Fedex’ missions/chores. These have always been present in RPGs- even in the good old days.

I recently gave up FF3 on the DS because I couldn’t believe how much of it was solid-weapons-grade-chore! Ironically young players, often slated as being too ‘hyper’ to concentrate on long games, are much less phased by tedious games than older players who can usually be more critical in their approach.

At best, these sidemissions can get you interested in the rest of the universe- but they’re usually so inconsequential that you go back to the main quest only to find you’ve blasted through it in 5 hours.

ME is almost entirely carried by it stylistic direction- as a game it’s tedious- as an interactive film it’s a lot of fun.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:51:45 +0000

“You don’t remember the dozens of crappy average RPG’s of the period.”

the RPG genre was nearly dead when BG was released.

By: OJ287

OJ287 — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:29:58 +0000

Mass Effect was ruined by the lead character being called Shepherd. Couldnt they have picked a name like ‘Maverick’ that hints at decisiveness and success? ‘Shepherd’ just makes me think of loneliness, sexual deviancy and suicide. At least they let me choose the first name. I called him German.

By: acardiac

acardiac — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:32:18 +0000

Did you miss the part where you shoot at rats at the beginning? Did you ever give Ian a submachine gun? How many times did you reload to save Dogmeat from going through a force field or get jumped by out-of-level raiders or the Hub’s fetch quests or collecting gecko skins or radscorpion tails or the useless allies, talking plants, “hurr-hurr super mutant rape,” sawed-off quest stubs that don’t function right and disappearing cars and crashes to desktop.

Okay, now I’m going to get assaulted by the basement-dwellers in oily sweats who claim that not even Fallout 2 was “real fallout,” but there were parts of that game that were not absolutely perfect.

By: Idiot

Idiot — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:17:43 +0000

jalf said: “But there are also aspects of Fallout that are a joke by today’s standards.”

Which aspects are these?