Looking forward to getting this in a couple of weeks. PS3 version will have all the DLC ready to go!
Got this last night and have played through the intro and one mission. They provide an interactive comic that lasts about 15 minutes in order to explain the ME1 story and you make some of the more crucial decisions in that comic.
So far its an amazing game.
We should be about to due for another DLC announcement. IIRC, Shadowbroker was supposed to be the first of three remaining DLCs that would bridge ME2 and ME3.
BTW, glad you're enjoying it. These are some of my favorite games of all time. That's pretty interesting how they let you "play" through the first game via interactive comic. I was wondering how they'd get PS3 players up to speed. If you have the time, read through some of your codex. These games have such a rich backstory, a lot of history is detailed in the codex since you missed out on the first game.
As much as I ed about the storyline in ME2, I still completed the game 4 times and got every achievement there was, including the DLC. It's been one of the most engrossing series I have ever played.
Holy crap after playing it a bit tonight this game is AMAZING.
You're playing it for the PS3 right? You should probably stop playing it until they patch it up:
http://kotaku.com/5743491/mass-effec...=Google+Reader
Scary. Hope that doesn't happen to me but I can't stop playing cause this game is so good. Best game since UC2 that I've played on the PS3.
I totally boned 4 girls in one playthrough in this game. That's including the Liara DLC. Don't judge me
haha I'm about to go on the ship...
I haven't gotten the rest of the crew so Idk how to feel about facing them again... but yeah it's an awesome game, I don't know if it's better than Dragon Age though..
hah.... So I was bored just now at work and was checking out info for the Lair of the Shadow Broker (havnt played it yet) and got curious to see if a new DLC had been announced yet....
Low and behold, it was leaked just a few hours ago, no detailed info just yet.... Just a patch on the PS3 revealing the name of a new DLC along with 3 new achievements....
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...c-arrives.aspx
PlayStation 3 Mass Effect 2 players may have uncovered BioWare's next DLC for the game.
Getting a patch for ME 2 on the system reveals three new trophies that have been added for a possible DLC pack en led Arrival. The trophies are The Ultimate Sacrifice, Last Stand, and Covert Action. The last one may give a clue about the DLC. It charges you to: "Rescue Dr. Amanda Kenson without attracting hostile attention."
Here's the entry on Dr. Kenson from Cerberus Daily News:
Historians and astronomers alike are abuzz tonight over a new paper published by Dr. Amanda Kenson of the University of Arcturus. Her team claims that by testing the dust trapped in the gravity wells around a mass relay, and comparing its composition to that of dust clouds in the same system, scientists can create a timeline of when the relay passed through the dust. Her conclusion? “Only a small fraction of the mass effect relays date back 50,000 years,” she writes, “The majority are far older, indicating they were created by a species predating even the Protheans.” Dr. Aurana T’Meles of the University of Serrice met the information with skepticism: “While Dr. Kenson’s methods appear sound, the asari tried a similar procedure centuries ago and discounted it. What civilization could have spanned the galaxy for not thousands, but millions of years? If this were the case, we should have found mountains of evidence of their passing. Where is this species now?”
20 hours in now. Got everyone except Legion.
So far, I love it. Yes, there are negatives/drawbacks to this game, but I think they are far and away outclassed by what the game does right. The storyline, while not nearly as mysterious as the first game, still feels solid and is good sci-fi. You can trash talk it all you want, but Bioware has some amazing writers on their team and they keep you guessing.
So yes, it does feel scripted, it does feel less weighty in places (although running back and forth 40 times on the Citadel doing errands for people is not what I'd call a better system), but ME2 stands strong among some of the best RPGs I've played.
I'm really confused as to some people who say it's not an RPG because the choices are slightly less wide-open. Have you ever played a Square game? Or, in fact, just about any other RPG outside of Fallout (or maybe Dragon Age, I haven't played it) that gives you even 1/10th of the choices that Mass Effect 2 does? Almost every single RPG I've ever played is scripted from start to finish with maybe an open world segment in the last 1/3rd of the game.
Disappointments here are there are minor, IMO. Yeah, scanning planets isn't much fun, but does it make me want to stop playing? Not at all. If there's one thing about ME and ME2, it's that they're compelling games that beg to be played until you've finished, only so you can start over again and play your moral opposite.
Great game, thus far. Playing as an adept and levitating enemies across the map is freaking cool and feels insanely powerful.
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