Comments on: Things Of Mass Effect 2

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:17:57 +0000

@Adventurous Putty: “In the end, all he really wanted was to plant a flower.” I approve this backstory.

@sigma83: Space elves? ELDAR? XENO SCUM!

By: gobion

gobion — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:38:55 +0000

Yum.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:36:54 +0000

@Chemix

Beats me. I was surprised they didn’t include a female Shepard/Ashley option tbh. You only get the Liara/Kaiden option. I guess that way given the Asari are (conveniently) asexual Bioware couldn’t be accused of discriminating and not allowing a Male Shepard/Kaiden option. Of course biware completely failed to realise that everyone that played the game was really thinking ‘I need to get that Quarian out of her space suit…’

By: Chemix

Chemix — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:32:01 +0000

Well, that rests my question Kadayi, was hoping for a nonsensical hidden response. But that would have been reported almost immediately and been on every walkthrough from here to random yellowish planet # 3, this time, with pirates and sand worms. Still, here’s hoping for Mass effect 2, but if that were to happen, shouldn’t females get a similar opportunity? and if so, would they really be able to use the sandwich effect to cover the cg nipples of fiery ESRB death? Could a game get away with blurry silhouette sex? Could this be the missing link between games and movies!?

By: EvilMonk3y

EvilMonk3y — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:04:14 +0000

I can’t wait for ME 2, sadly I will probably have to play this on the 360 as that is where my original save is and I have grown too attached to my Sheppard.

By: kadayi

kadayi — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:16:52 +0000

@Bluto

Should be fine I guess. Maybe make a post in the forums and perhaps someone might furnish you with what you require.

By: matte_k

matte_k — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:50:44 +0000

Video player won’t run the first video for me in SD, but clicking the HD button in the top left corner makes it run fine.

Also, really looking forward to this one :D

By: Bluto

Bluto — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 03:08:47 +0000

I didn’t backup any savegame files during my last reformatting and I don’t really have the gumption to play through ME again, though I enjoyed it the first time round. I hope it will be simple enough to use a savegame from someone else – that way it will be easy enough to experience a full on paragon or renegade Shepard from the word go, with variations of dead friends and romances.

By: shiggz

shiggz — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:26:36 +0000

@kadayi exactly.

i hope that the next gen will 360 will at least have a removable and upgradeable 2.5″ hard drive like the ps3. IVe got 10tb of storage in my home that i didnt pay that much for.. but my 360 is locked at 20gb… seriously i have flash drives bigger then that.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:27:56 +0000

@shiggz

I think also MS discourage publishers from releasing multi-disc 360 games with some mad licensing penalties as well.

Its a pity MS never had the balls to ship the 360 with an HD-DVD and a guaranteed hard drive. By not doing so they not only handed Sony the HD format crown, but they also hamstrung developers completely. Sure it might of garnered MS a few 100,000 extra unit sales at the low end of the market initially, but its left the platform weak vs its rival in terms of longevity.

By: dash

dash — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:22:03 +0000

I really hope that they add skippable cutscenes this time around…It was really annoying to sit through the same sequence over and over again if you fail some mission.

By: shiggz

shiggz — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:52:23 +0000

I bought the 360 collectors edition on release day and loved it. But making it for the 360 trying to fit all content on 1 dvd really limited what other planets/content could be like. Thing is with PC and PS3 a 15+gb game is no problem. But you add in foreign language audio etc and the most they can fit on one dvd is about 6gb +foreign lang audio. The first one seemed to hit this limit. Unfortunately this is why i think the 2nd one wont be much better. If the side quests are more fleshed out it will come at the expense of the main story.

If your thinking but just use 2dvd’s game makers really don’t like to because then once you’ve gone on to the 2nd dvd you have to block off or write out of the story everything from the first dvd. Since some 360 dont come with hard drives thats not an option either. The best option i think would be a 2dvd set but 1 dvd for main story areas and 2nd dvd for side quests. sure it would be a pain for some to go back and forth but the could be like hey im just gonna play main quests for awhile or hey lets do side quests for a few hours. of course people with the harddrive space could just install both discs.