I would make a save before leaving, but from memory I can't think of any that wont let you start them after returning from a main planet mission.
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Mass Effect (PS3) |OT| Shepard's love is not exclusive
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I would make a save before leaving, but from memory I can't think of any that wont let you start them after returning from a main planet mission.
Melchiah
Member
Yeah, I did that just to be sure.
Melchiah
Member
The sidequests definitely weren't that meaningful, as far as I can remember from my previous times, when I completed them all. I'm just trying to make sure I get to make them in order to get the trophy.
Ken Masters
Banned
loved the story but the gameplay felt like shit to me, so bad I just had to put it on easy and just plow through it to experience the story
I would replay it with ME2/3 gameplay
I would replay it with ME2/3 gameplay
Yep.
Engineers represent!
I feel like a useless idiot with any other class. Engineer can just control the whole battlefield without firing a shot, and the class only get better in the sequels.
same can be said about Adept. Insanity in Mass Effect 3 and I never fired a shot. Game was super easy then as it was now.
Though the cooldowns in ME1 are just killer :/
ME1 cooldowns are practically non-existent with good amp/armor upgrades.
It takes forever to get to iirc. Level X amps did reduce cooldown a lot. Also I forgot that with the right mods, you can have infinite ammo w/ buffs. GOd, the colossus armor was a beauty So were the berserker armor for wrex. Beastly.
I have so little space for ME1 but I would be crazy to spend 60 for the trilogy when I already have ME2 and 3 for PS3. Guess I'll delete something.
I do have a question though. Is the ME1 on the PSN compatible with retail copies of ME2?
Yup, save files should all work with each other, just have to make sure you patch ME2 when you start it up so it can import the ME1 save.
Stoffinator
Member
My god are the driving levels bad on this game. I don't know if its a glitch or what, but I can just be driving and all of a sudden the screen stops and I get the death music and get the "Critical Mission Failure" screen over. Than I have to do the whole damn level over again.
PowderedToast
Junior Member
i am romancing kaiden as femshep, never done it before and it's hitting the nerd spot so far
as usual, the mid-mission character moments are my nectar and everything else is simply a means to an end. i really couldn't care less about the mindless dorks that inhabit most of these missions
this playthrough has also allowed me to clarify my feelings on the series as a whole. as far as WRPG credentials go it's really low on the totem pole. paragon/renegade is a crippling system for a game that supposedly thrives on the use of dialogue as a means to role play. it's so fucking dumb my brain can't take it
to give you a terrible analogy, if new vegas equates to a hiking trip where everybody comes across the same occassional signposts, mass effect is one of those theme park rides where you sit in a cart that's screwed to a track and moves along while you take in the pretty scenery. you might be able to have a choice of paths every once in a while but in the end none of it actually matters
wow that was horrible lmao
as usual, the mid-mission character moments are my nectar and everything else is simply a means to an end. i really couldn't care less about the mindless dorks that inhabit most of these missions
this playthrough has also allowed me to clarify my feelings on the series as a whole. as far as WRPG credentials go it's really low on the totem pole. paragon/renegade is a crippling system for a game that supposedly thrives on the use of dialogue as a means to role play. it's so fucking dumb my brain can't take it
to give you a terrible analogy, if new vegas equates to a hiking trip where everybody comes across the same occassional signposts, mass effect is one of those theme park rides where you sit in a cart that's screwed to a track and moves along while you take in the pretty scenery. you might be able to have a choice of paths every once in a while but in the end none of it actually matters
wow that was horrible lmao
That's a bug. You should only die if your health goes to 0.
Cool, I ended up purchasing it. Didn't want to trade my PS3 ME3 LE in for the Trilogy.
I just hate that this download gonna take the whole day for me now. Wanted to play this before I go to work tomorrow.
No offense, but yeah that was a bad one.
I'm not a fan of morality systems in general.
What difficulty are you playing? The Mako defenses are very weak and don't scale too kindly at the higher difficulty levels. One hard bump against a rock is sometimes all you need to die in the higher difficulties. IIRC, you can bump the shield levels by upgrading some engineer stats and making sure that engineer is always in the party during the Mako sections.
It's been a while since I've last played ME1 but I'm pretty sure the last time I did I ended up just using the Mako for exploration. Basically any time I got into combat I would just jump out of it and handle it on foot for the experience bonus.
Made for some.... hectic fights haha.It's been a while since I've last played ME1 but I'm pretty sure the last time I did I ended up just using the Mako for exploration. Basically any time I got into combat I would just jump out of it and handle it on foot for the experience bonus.
Taking down a massive worm thing which I forget the name of on foot feels great.
Yeah, out all my runs on the 360 I think I only used the Mako for combat during the first one. It's so much better and easier to just run over the enemies with the Mako, pop out, Lift+Throw, and then shoot them with some explosive ammo or watch them slowly drift out into space. Bonus experience points for killing them without the Mako is just the cherry on topIt's been a while since I've last played ME1 but I'm pretty sure the last time I did I ended up just using the Mako for exploration. Basically any time I got into combat I would just jump out of it and handle it on foot for the experience bonus.
funkystudent
Member
Played the first 2 hours.
Boy it plays so much better on a controller then with KB+M.
And its totally ME1. Only technical problem is some UE3 texture pop in when changing armer in the menus but it seems a lot better then it was when I played on PC.
Boy it plays so much better on a controller then with KB+M.
And its totally ME1. Only technical problem is some UE3 texture pop in when changing armer in the menus but it seems a lot better then it was when I played on PC.
Did you drive into lava?
It's a standalone mission that doesn't have any story ties to the base game. Up to you when you want to do it.
Nope. PSN is the only way, unless you live in Europe. The EU trilogy set includes separate cases for each game so you might be able to find a used copy of ME floating around somewhere.
funkystudent
Member
Man I forgot how the citadel is so awesome in this game compared to 2's small scale shopping mall.
Was disappointed that even ME3's Citadel sucked arse.
RPGCrazied
Member
I hope to start playing today. Come on USPS!
PowderedToast
Junior Member
the trilogy version of 3 doesn't have from ashes, does it?
if so i can't believe they're not bundling that yet
if so i can't believe they're not bundling that yet
RPGCrazied
Member
I think the only thing you get with 3 is the online pass. Which enables you to play multiplayer. Nothing else included.
Each game in the trilogy is exactly as they first released so it didn't have to go through certification again, with the exception of ME1 as it was never originally released which is like the 360 greatest hits which came with the free Bring Down the Sky DLC.
Which is a shame really, because if they had waiting a few months for this last ME3 DLC, then bundled everything together on disc I would have happily bought them all again just so I always had a physical version of it all.
PowderedToast
Junior Member
yep, a real shame this isn't a definitive release. i expect a GOTY version of ME3 in the near future, and since i haven't played that yet i'll wait till then
The Last Wizard
Member
Has anyone tried to recreate a me3 character? I really got a face I felt looked close to me after using something completely different in 1 & 2 and would like to use that one.
Gillian Seed
Banned
I really liked the look of the Citadel in ME3. But yeah the first game had the best Citadel.
What i liked about ME1 was that every floors were linked by corridors, so it was really a gigantic city. Unlike ME3 Citadel where every floors are linked only by 1 elevator.
Sure i didn't bother using the corridors or elevators once i unlocked the "taxis" that could bring you to each places, but still...
You can convert the face-code from ME2/3 to the sliders of ME1:
http://www.masseffect2faces.com/index.php?show=tutorials&tutorial=me2tome1&state=submitted
Gillian Seed
Banned
What i liked about ME1 was that every floors were linked by corridors, so it was really a gigantic city. Unlike ME3 Citadel where every floors are linked only by 1 elevator.
Sure i didn't bother using the corridors or elevators once i unlocked the "taxis" that could bring you to each places, but still...
Yeah hopefully the next DLC will expand the Citadel. I highly doubt it though.
The Last Wizard
Member
Thanks
Stoffinator
Member
I'm just on normal. But I don't even hit anything, just driving on the (some what) flat land surface. After it doing it like three times in random spots I haven't gone back to it.
lol no. Than I would know why I died.
RPGCrazied
Member
I will get it today, its in my city at least. I think I will play the first one the longest, if I recall you can only really explore side planets in the first one? The other 2 games are like scanning games? You don't actually enter those planets. I wonder why they changed that. Does the first game have a lot of planets to explore? Not just the main story ones. I never really played Mass Effect 1.
Well, you DO enter planets in the sequels(more in ME2 than ME3 though), but they're always on foot and linear maps. No vehicules or exploring what might be hidden in that mountain in the distance like ME1.
RPGCrazied
Member
Not all though? I remember in 2 at least you scan the planets for minerals, and some you can't even explore. Its just scanning it for minerals. Unless I'm wrong, been awhile since I played.
Gillian Seed
Banned
Does the Asian version have the individual cases as well?
Yeah, not all. You can scan ALL planets in ME2 and land on some, while the scanning "mini-game" was completely taken out in ME3 and replaced by a simple scan to probe specific planets for quick missions where you don't land at all. You do land on some planets for sidequests, but there isn't as many as in ME2 and they're either multiplayer maps that made it to the campaign or missions that are almost as long as the main ones. Well, i don't know if you already played ME3, so maybe you already knew that. :lol
RPGCrazied
Member
Any of these games run 1080p, or just 720p?