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Hypertrooper
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I think yes.Sai said:
sweetvar26
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Oh wow, if it is anything like Zaeed, it is a total waste. There is no interaction or what so ever with Zaeed. Hopefully Bioware is smarter than that.
Relaxed Muscle
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Hypertrooper said:
We'll see, dosn't seem like that in the trailer. I hope we get some reviews.
But, still I won't get the DLC until some deal appears, if we get a new character I want some interaction with him, Zaeed was a huge dissapointment, I don't want to get another character so I can hear the same one liners the other characters put on some quest/mission and a bunch of uninteresting histories.
I never used Zaeed on my second playthrough, never speak to him aside from his loyal mission and I did the loyal mission for the sake of having 100% done....
kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
So, 720 "points" for both this and the alternate costumes... and you can buy 800 points. Well, it's only a 10% spill. For 7 it's not that bad. But, I do wonder if BioWare or the marketing people are actually taking this kind of reasoning into account or do they think people think in these "points"?
Also, I just noticed from watching the trailer: why is Shepard so much faffing about while human colonies are going missing? Is the game kind of just ignoring the plot at this moment while they beef up the DLC content?
Also, I just noticed from watching the trailer: why is Shepard so much faffing about while human colonies are going missing? Is the game kind of just ignoring the plot at this moment while they beef up the DLC content?
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
I'm pretty sure all previews have been written in a way that implies there's no recruit mission, and instead just the loyalty mission. I figure most people will be cranky, but I liked Zaeed and liked his loyalty mission, so I'm in.
Plus it comes with a new SMG and I needs me a new one.
Plus it comes with a new SMG and I needs me a new one.
Hypertrooper
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I like Zaeeds Loyalty Mission, too and i love ME2. And the mission that we can see in the trailer reminds me about some old-spy movies.EatChildren said:
cleveridea
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so does anyone know if this new mission is available as soon as you get the ship at the beginning of the game? In other words same time as Zaeed?
Coz I really want a nice SMG early in the game, always miss the tempest when I start a new non-Soldier character
Coz I really want a nice SMG early in the game, always miss the tempest when I start a new non-Soldier character
So I just played the Hammerhead DLC for the first time today while waiting on this other dlc.
Holy crap that shit is dumb. I normally hate vehicle missions and this one went right along with it.
I got to the 1st one after you acquire the thing where you have to get the 5 artifacts and the freaking Geth kill you in 2 seconds. I AM IN A TANK. And they are able to kill me in 10 seconds? Don't think I'll ever be playing those missions again.
Holy crap that shit is dumb. I normally hate vehicle missions and this one went right along with it.
I got to the 1st one after you acquire the thing where you have to get the 5 artifacts and the freaking Geth kill you in 2 seconds. I AM IN A TANK. And they are able to kill me in 10 seconds? Don't think I'll ever be playing those missions again.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Skel said:
No offense dude, but if your biggest issue with the Hammerhead pack is how easy it is to die then your biggest problem is you just plain suck at controlling the thing.
The entire Hammerhead pack is a breeze. The combat is so broken in your favour its laughable, and I only died once when I boosted off a ledge into lava. Most people seem to find it just as easy, too.
Keep moving, keep your distance, spam missiles, and you shouldnt even die once.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Shoot, I didn't know this would already be out. I just bought the Dark Forest DLC for Dante's Inferno the other day.
Wha? The Hammerhead controls extremely well. Have you played ME1? The Mako was a chore compared to the Hammerhead. I never died once using the Hammerhead and completed all missions with it.Skel said:
S'up with the delay? Thought we'd be getting this around noon-ish like the others. :/
But as far as something this big is concerned... Yeah, you're probably right.
I'm sure we'll be getting new skins/armor later down the road, maybe even a few more Hammerhead missions?Samara said:
But as far as something this big is concerned... Yeah, you're probably right.
diamondstar
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Off-topic but if anyone is doing the Bioware auction I will be glad to click on your link for points.
Please click on my link to hook me up with some points! All I want is a copy of DAO for 360.
http://social.bioware.com/brc/1079128
Please click on my link to hook me up with some points! All I want is a copy of DAO for 360.
http://social.bioware.com/brc/1079128
Kholdstare
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diamondstar said:Off-topic but if anyone is doing the Bioware auction I will be glad to click on your link for points.
Please click on my link to hook me up with some points! All I want is a copy of DAO for 360.
http://social.bioware.com/brc/1079128
I'm up for that as long as it's not breaking some kind of Gaf referral rule.
http://social.bioware.com/brc/865995
diamondstar
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Kholdstare said:
Clicked.. Damn I didn't even think about the rules. Please don't ban me.. I was unaware!:lol
DrAndonuts
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Wow, where have I been? I didn't even know the Hammerhead DLC was out.
SilentProtagonist
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Isn't there supposed to be some sort of dlc related to Liara? Or was that just a rumor?sillymonkey321 said:
Gareth Bale
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So where is this DLC then? I checked 5 minutes ago and it's 22:13 BST 6th April....?
Fun Factor
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sillymonkey321 said:
Any chance the Kasumi DLC might be more than your regular crappy 1 hour-ish add-on?
http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/108/1082186p1.html
Delayed but apparently coming soon (as in, probably today or tomorrow soon). Oh, well.
Delayed but apparently coming soon (as in, probably today or tomorrow soon). Oh, well.
macfoshizzle
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macfoshizzle
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Gravijah said:
not really. the result of the main choices you make carries over. sinec you haven't made them, you'll just get the default choices carried over. but don't worry, you still have to make new choices in me2.
macfoshizzle
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Dresden said:
yeah epecially they are having buy me2 and me1 for $50
http://www.amazon.com/Mass-Effect-2-Xbox-360/dp/B001TORSII/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1270592413&sr=8-1
Getting close to the end of the game (I think). Just recruited Tali and now have a full squad (besides the Cerebus Network squad member, fuck-you-very-much, EA). Have about half the loyalty missions done.
Feelings on the game are mixed. I thought ME1 was "good not great" and I'm glad I only rented it, but glad I played through it nonetheless. The ME2 praise was getting a little nuts... best RPG of the generation, strong GotY candidate, etc. Much higher praise than the eights ME1 got.
So, I like ME2 more than the first, but I still think the heaps of praise were way out of line. Basically my enjoyment of the ME franchise seems to be one step below the general populations. They think ME1 is very good, I think it's OK. They think ME2 is amazing, I think it's very good.
The dialogue and voice acting is very clunky. The worst offender BY FAR is (male) shepherd attempting to smile/flirt. IDK WTF it is, but he makes the CREEPIEST facial expression imaginable. It honestly freaks me out.
The much-praised streamlined combat experience almost work against the game, rather than in its favor, as well. The first game was very much an RPG in its combat. ME2, by leaning more in the shooter direction, invites comparisons to other shooters. And the shooting is less responsive and satisfying than in COD, Borderlands, Halo, or Gears.
You might be saying to yourself that it's completely unfair to compare ME2 to those games, but Bioware themselves invited the comparison by making the combat more "pure shooter" and more action oriented. They could have streamlined other elements of the game (like equipment), but kept the combat feeling the same as ME1. They opted not to.
The squadmates themselves are the true stars here. For every extremely memorable and complex squadmate (Mordin, Thane), there is another that is dead weight (Jacob, Grunt). Others fall somewhere in the middle (Jack, Miranda). All of them, even the good ones, run perilously close to being one-note, however. I lol'd towards the end of the game when Miranda brought up her genetic heritage AGAIN and one of the dialogue options was "you sure talk about this a lot."
Loyalty missions are equally mixed. Mordin is, in my opinion, hands-down the best character in the game, with the best side-story, moral dilemmas, backstory, personality, etc. The genophage situation is... genuinely complex and thought-provoking, with no easy answers.
In contrast, Grunts stuff is just pointless and unsatisfying.
Last point - for a game that spans the galaxy, the actual "game world" seems very small. We spend a lot of time in warehouses and small corridors. Reviewers commented that ME2 feels more cohesive and connected than ME1, but I think I disagree. The game is a series of loosely-connected missions, and (an even worse offense), those missions themselves are loosely-connected series' of dialogue and combat. When playing a mission I feel as if I can almost see Bioware's spreadsheet for that mission, listing the combat encounters, dialogue encounters, etc.
I get the impression that each mission could have had 2 - 3 more (or less) rooms of combat without the overall experience skipping a beat, and that shouldn't be the case. Things need to be more tightly woven, and I don't just mean from a narrative perspective.
In ME3 instead of running recruitment/loyalty missions interspersed with the occasional story mission, we need to have story missions interspersed with the occasional squadmate mission.
Feelings on the game are mixed. I thought ME1 was "good not great" and I'm glad I only rented it, but glad I played through it nonetheless. The ME2 praise was getting a little nuts... best RPG of the generation, strong GotY candidate, etc. Much higher praise than the eights ME1 got.
So, I like ME2 more than the first, but I still think the heaps of praise were way out of line. Basically my enjoyment of the ME franchise seems to be one step below the general populations. They think ME1 is very good, I think it's OK. They think ME2 is amazing, I think it's very good.
The dialogue and voice acting is very clunky. The worst offender BY FAR is (male) shepherd attempting to smile/flirt. IDK WTF it is, but he makes the CREEPIEST facial expression imaginable. It honestly freaks me out.
The much-praised streamlined combat experience almost work against the game, rather than in its favor, as well. The first game was very much an RPG in its combat. ME2, by leaning more in the shooter direction, invites comparisons to other shooters. And the shooting is less responsive and satisfying than in COD, Borderlands, Halo, or Gears.
You might be saying to yourself that it's completely unfair to compare ME2 to those games, but Bioware themselves invited the comparison by making the combat more "pure shooter" and more action oriented. They could have streamlined other elements of the game (like equipment), but kept the combat feeling the same as ME1. They opted not to.
The squadmates themselves are the true stars here. For every extremely memorable and complex squadmate (Mordin, Thane), there is another that is dead weight (Jacob, Grunt). Others fall somewhere in the middle (Jack, Miranda). All of them, even the good ones, run perilously close to being one-note, however. I lol'd towards the end of the game when Miranda brought up her genetic heritage AGAIN and one of the dialogue options was "you sure talk about this a lot."
Loyalty missions are equally mixed. Mordin is, in my opinion, hands-down the best character in the game, with the best side-story, moral dilemmas, backstory, personality, etc. The genophage situation is... genuinely complex and thought-provoking, with no easy answers.
In contrast, Grunts stuff is just pointless and unsatisfying.
Last point - for a game that spans the galaxy, the actual "game world" seems very small. We spend a lot of time in warehouses and small corridors. Reviewers commented that ME2 feels more cohesive and connected than ME1, but I think I disagree. The game is a series of loosely-connected missions, and (an even worse offense), those missions themselves are loosely-connected series' of dialogue and combat. When playing a mission I feel as if I can almost see Bioware's spreadsheet for that mission, listing the combat encounters, dialogue encounters, etc.
I get the impression that each mission could have had 2 - 3 more (or less) rooms of combat without the overall experience skipping a beat, and that shouldn't be the case. Things need to be more tightly woven, and I don't just mean from a narrative perspective.
In ME3 instead of running recruitment/loyalty missions interspersed with the occasional story mission, we need to have story missions interspersed with the occasional squadmate mission.
Broadbandito
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where is the dlc?
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