Make sure after you get Legion you do his loyalty right away (talk to it). I won't tell you why in case you don't know already.I've got everybody now but Legion, all loyal... still unsure of who to choose romance wise. I'll probably go with Miranda, but then poor Jack won't ever open up to another person... hm....
I'm already all the way Paragon, but somehow still getting more points... I've started branching out to Renegade now. I think it's interesting that if you skip those "instant" cutscenes, you're usually provided with a "red/blue" dialogue option afterwards.
Yea, my fault. I had only played the first mission and a half when I had posted that. On further review it just does just seem like a throw in.
On April 6th this comes out though..
http://www.pcworld.com/article/19225..._missions.html
New team member, missions, and a new weapon, should be cool other than the fact that it is 7 bucks.
I'm yawning until they come out with a full-blown expansion, a la DAO: Awakening
I'll pay $7 for a new character and missions. Especially if they properly integrate her dialogue and stuff for the entire game.
I'm not counting on it. They'll release filler DLC like the first game, but save the main storyline for ME3.
Bump...
http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/...1089310p1.html
BioWare Announces New DLC for Mass Effect 2
Time to dust off your Commander Shepard. Cerberus has lost communication with one of its research facilities. Probably just a crossed wire or something, right? Wrong. This is Mass Effect 2, people, and in the upcoming Overlord DLC, Shepard and crew must once again battle hordes of Geth, a homicidal artificial intelligence, and save the galaxy from certain destruction.
In the biggest DLC pack yet to launch for Mass Effect 2, Overlord adds five new planets to the Galactic Map with extensive maps for gamers to explore. No new companions will be added, but Shepard will still have plenty to keep him busy as he battles to protect the galaxy from a virtual intelligence run amok.
From BioWare:
When sent to investigate a Cerberus research base that's mysteriously gone silent, Shepard arrives to find Geth overrunning the base. The sole survivor, Chief Scientist Archer, paints a dire picture: an experiment to fuse a human volunteer with a virtual intelligence created a dangerous hybrid "VI overlord." The rampaging VI has already attacked three other Cerberus bases, controlling any technology it finds in an attempt to break free -- and unleashing Geth across the planet. Unless Shepard can infiltrate the VI's fortress and shut it down, this homicidal intelligence will beam itself-off planet and wreak havoc on other systems. The action unfolds over five new level areas, with two new achievements.
BioWare has not dated Overlord other than to say "coming soon," but a price has been set at 560 Microsoft Points/BioWare Points or $7.
While I thoroughly enjoyed ME2 (played it 4 times, 1030/1030 Gamerpoints), you're gonna end up paying for a whole new game by the time you buy all of their DLC. I'll pass.
the DLC is $7 ?
There's a lot more work that goes into a Mass Effect 2 DLC than what Activision puts into 5 modern warfare 2 maps.
and yet that was $15
I've started an insanity campaign and so far have Mordin and I'm working on Garrus, but man, it's an effin grind. It's not extremely difficult to stay alive, but damn time and energy consuming. It's going to take forever.
Anybody done it?
Yeah, it's a . Which class did you choose? I hope you don't say Vanguard.
I used Infiltrator to beat insanity, it wasn't too bad. The only difficult areas you'll probably encounter is Horizon and the Collector ship.
You're right about it being time consuming. Basically, the main difference in insanity is that every grunt has at least one layer of protection (shields/barrier) and they do like 3X damage. My game plan was to take a member with overload/Warp to kill shields as quickly as possible. Having the ability to cloak when got crazy with Infiltrator made it a lot easier. And when I got the Widow sniper (one shot HS kills) in the last 1/3 of the game, it basically because easy.
I didn't do my research and just jumped into it with an Adept class because that's the class of the ME1 character I used. Didn't realize that I'm almost as handicapped as much as a Vanguard would be. And I was afraid of giving up my personal warp/singularity.
I was doing alright I guess, but per your post I did some searching and found out that I shouldn't even try. So I'm going to start over, bite your style and go with an Infiltrator class. I didn't know about that sniper rifle, checked some youtube vids of it though; badass. Thanks for the tips.
Good choiceI didn't do my research and just jumped into it with an Adept class because that's the class of the ME1 character I used. Didn't realize that I'm almost as handicapped as much as a Vanguard would be. And I was afraid of giving up my personal warp/singularity.
I was doing alright I guess, but per your post I did some searching and found out that I shouldn't even try. So I'm going to start over, bite your style and go with an Infiltrator class. I didn't know about that sniper rifle, checked some youtube vids of it though; badass. Thanks for the tips
Once you get into a rhythm of using overload/warp to strip armor/barriers along with cloak sniping, you'll find yourself getting through most missions rather quickly without dying.
hey guys is this game better or worse than mass effect 1? it's been out for a while. i loved ME1
Steam has it on special right now
Is this game worth it, even if I haven't played the first one?
Very. But you should play the first one. It's only 19 bucks and it's awesome too. In other words, the 2nd is well worth it on it's own, but it's made more worth it by having played the first. My cousin was debating whether or not to play the first one and now that he's done with them both, I think he's glad he did.
Better. I thought. But more than anything I thought they complimented each other perfectly. By the time I was sick of the RPG heavy elements of ME1 I was rewarded with the streamlined and smooth design of ME2.
ME2 took some criticisms, probably justified, for cutting too much of the RPG/inventory elements out of the game, but I felt that a relatively minor error in an otherwise flawless game. And to be honest, I preferred the sparse inventory of ME2 to the overly complicated mess of an inventory system in ME1. I'm sure they'll nail it (find the right balance) in ME3.
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I thought ME2 form a gameplay perspective was superior to ME1, and ME1 was my favorite game for the 360. I enjoyed the storyline a bit more for ME1 because I'm not sure how ME2's storyline will fit in the grand scheme of the trilogy. But overall, an awesome game worth getting.
Im hoping ME3 has an inventory like ME2 but has some crazy customization options for your weapons.... Like adding suppressors, scopes, modifying fire rates, larger clips, making it more light weight, changing the ammo type you want to focus on.... stuff like that.
The different "skills" that you could use to modify your ammo was OK in ME2 but I think it would make it more stratigic to chose your ammo type for each weapon before a mission and its stuck that way for an entire mission.
Just finished ME2 1st play through. I enjoyed it a lot more than ME1. Not as big of a story, but I liked recruiting all of the team members. After that the game ended pretty quickly but it was a good 2nd installment of a trilogy imo.
I played ME1 on PC, so I could not carry over my old char/decisions which sucked.
I love ME2. However, I can't believe how glitchy this game is. I keep getting stuck in the environment. Usually happens when I hop over something or take cover. Very lame, but still love the game.
I loved ME2, and actually, decided not to hook up with any of the chicks to stay true to my alien in blue.
It's funny maxing out paragon choices while being a serious clean-cut commander of all that is right and good in the universe...and then creeping on every woman under your command including the low-level girl by the galaxy map lmaoI loved ME2, and actually, decided not to hook up with any of the chicks to stay true to my alien in blue.
Yeah see but you NEED to bang that chick....so that she can take care of your fish tank....otherwise those little bas s die too often
ME2 was not an RPG, more of an action game with dialogue.
ME1 was better. more freedom and customization, more weapons, more things to do, more side quests, more variety in missions, bigger mission areas, vehicle combat, etc...
ME2 was what happens when EA buys BioWare. ty game that satisfies the people who weren't RPG fans to begin with.
That's foolish. It would have been great of they fixed the broken RPG elements in me1, rather than remove them, but that's what they were, broken. I didn't think the game was any more fun because it gave me 14 armor upgrades called exoskeleton IV and then 12 more duplicate upgrades called exoskeleton V and then 6 upgrades called paladium rounds III and then 7 more upgrades called paladium rounds IV. And on and on and on and on.
And I didn't think that it was more fun that I got to scroll down through that huge list of unnecessary items one by one, slowly turning each into a point of omni gel that I hardly ever needed. And I didn't think that the game was more fun because every time you destroyed an item, it kicked you all the way back to the top of that long ass list so you could scroll all the way down, again, to delete yet another isolated item, before doing it all again hundreds of times.
Doing that, did not make me1 an RPG. It was already an rpg light; the game throwing a mess of a huge inventory system at the player did nothing to change that.
Were there a few more side missions (and I do mean a few, there weren't many) where you drove around in a random textureless fractal geometry square in a car that had absolutely no weight to it? Yep. I wish they would have refined it better for me2, but like the inventory system, the side missions of me1 were broken. And they did nothing to make the game any more of an RPG.
They were both RPG light/action games. Except one was flawless, the other implemented broken and overinflated RPG-like systems that didn't serve much of a purpose.
Seriously, me1 was not an rpg either, barely more of one. Compared to say Oblivion of Dragon Age (A Bioware/EA game, BTW) it was nothing in terms of being an RPG. It was a busted version of me2, nothing more.
no surprise, balli runs to ME2's defense
lol @ saying ME1 was less of an rpg
just admit it, you have a personal taste for me2. you must complain like a little about Dragon Age, Oblivion, and Fallout 3, don't you? they seem to have lots of inventory items just like ME1.
maybe you should say, "Me1's inventory needed some cleaning up to be like Dragon age, Oblivion, and Fallout 3" but instead, you are supporting NO INVENTORY in me2.
lol @ you
to deny the dumbed down gameplay in me2 is moronic.
no interest in debating with balli, who is clearly a homer in this subject. he has a personal liking of me2 and doesn't want to admit it's a dumbed down, appeal-to-the-masses game that was stripped of most of it's rpg elements.
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