This game is destroying ther enjoyment of my other games, playing blue dragon all i think about is going through this for a 3rd time, same with bioshock (which is probally a mjor factor of why the game was a let down for me) and i know when i play the orange boxset all i will think about is this lol

25 hours in and just landed on Virmire. Level 43 soldier. Been staying out of this thread to avoid spoilers! I'm sure you're all behaving :D

It wouldn't have killed them to have some variety in the side quest bases though, there are only three types! I'd also like some more places like the Citidel. That's definitely been my favorite place to knock about in though Feros and Virmire are very pleasing environments also.

Very much actually, I got into it when we had it in for rating but that necessitated jumping around, cheating and some spoilers. Hence I've gone dark to make sure there's at least some surprises!

I've a few gripes in general. The combat seems a little unbalanced. At the start I was getting mullered by spawning out in the open and had forgotten to save so ended up going back for ages which was very annoying! Now I've leveled up ( and I'm a master spectre so have the special weapons) I'm double hard and combat sometimes seems a bit too easy. There's a sweet spot in the middle I think where it's very good.

I also seem to remember that you could press X to interupt someone whilst speaking and that would affect your paragon/renegade stats as well as change the flow of the conversation. Is it me or is that no longer in the game? I've been doing it anyway but it doesn't seem functional...

The interesting thing is, I'm finding it quite hard to pick the renegade choices a lot of the time so it's making me think quite a bit. I like what they've done there. The writing is top notch.

It wouldn't have killed them to have some variety in the side quest bases though, there are only three types! I'd also like some more places like the Citidel. That's definitely been my favorite place to knock about in though Feros and Virmire are very pleasing environments also.

I had no trouble going through the game with my soldier Shephard, but when I tried Vanguard or Adept, I felt my character was REALLY underpowered, so it was pretty tough in the beginning with those types. By the end though i was creating singularities and tossing people around with the best of them. I didnt mind the side missions, I though some of the planets and moons you land on were stunning, so it distracted me from the repetitiveness of the missions.

So when is Mass Effect 2 coming out?

*NO SPOILERS unless hidden*

I beat it at 24 hours and I got the completionist achievement among others.

The ending is just AMAZING........BUT.

One thing I didn't like was the fact that I really wasn't ready to finish the game yet, I still wanted to do a couple of side missions, explore a couple of planets, etc.

When you go back to the citadel and Udina gives the order to stop the Normandy in place, you are pretty much finished with exploring space and there's still about a 3-4 hours of gameplay in there. That I didn't like at all.

You can do a few side missions on the citadel (great ones at that), but no more space anything. After you tell Anderson you are ready, that's it, you are confined in a linear fashion and there's nothing you can do.

Really good ending though, loved shooting in open space and seeing bodies fly weightless. I honestly thought I had died too :P

The part where Saren kills himself.......amazing cutscene, amazing!

Anyways, I'm playing again making all renegade decisions as possible, lol. I should have done that from the start. First time I did half and half. Also, I don't think I'll be doing much side missions this time. I just want to play through the main mission for the most part so it is all much more coherent.

I agree with Deft on all he said. I found myself ~constantly changing difficulty.



Questions:

Did anyone else have *something* with the Asari consort? I'm talking about the one in the citadel, not your partner. There is scene after helping her you........well, I don't know if that's having sex but something like that.

When talking to Wrex at C-SEC, what happens if you tell him "NO" when he says he wants to come with you? Are you forced anyways like with Garrus and the Quarian?


So when is Mass Effect 2 coming out?

yeah i got some weird consort loving as well :)

yea i get the disc errors from time to time too. I just had my 360 repaired so whenever it happens it scares the shit out of me.

And when you say that, that scares the shit out of me :S

Just some stuff from EGM. I know some was posted, but I'll list some stuff. Not sure what has been posted.

-Mass Effect 2&3 to be published by MS according to a close source on the game.

-UK-based Develop magazine was told by Phil Spencer(MGS) Mass Effect will continue to be an important franchise for the company.

-According to EGM EA could benefit with Jade Empire 2. John Riccitello(EA CEO) is a self-proclaimed fan.

-Bioware and EAs partnership in no way impacts Sonic(Sega) or Lucasarts/Biowares project. Sonic is on track to ship in 2008. EGM hears the game might arrive early this spring.

EGM afterthoughts with Casey Hudson

-As ME started to wrap up they had to cut some aspects of the dialogue system. Wasnt working the way they intended. Wants to focus on it more in the next ME. Not only ability to interrupt characters, but also other active things to the conversations.

-"We didn't get much negative feedback during development with inventory screen, although(if stuff doesn't work right), that's definitely something we want to fix in the future."

-Casey Hudsons fav. character is Liara

-Working on some really cool stuff for DLC(No details)

-DLC will be much, much bigger and better than KOTORS meager offering

-DLC was built into the design of ME

-Goal for trilogy is to finish it on 360. As long as 360 is around a few more years they'll be able to have them all out. And you'll get to play with the same character you created in the first game.

-Elevators weren't the most epic part of ME according to Hudson.

Nothing really new I suppose but maybe some info. people didn't know.