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This has just persuaded me to pick up the first one and play through before getting ME2. 
Missing out if I get Mass Effect 2 w/out having played the 1st one?
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This has just persuaded me to pick up the first one and play through before getting ME2.
Glad to hear it
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Definitely play ME first.
For people wanting to get it finished it in time for ME2, and not wanting to faff around restarting a few times, and want a mix of "spells" and brute force, choose the Vanguard class. You get the "jedi push" and other cool Biotics, and you can use pistols, but more importantly shotguns! It's a squishy class till you get Barrier, which I highly recommend.
Have fun.
For people wanting to get it finished it in time for ME2, and not wanting to faff around restarting a few times, and want a mix of "spells" and brute force, choose the Vanguard class. You get the "jedi push" and other cool Biotics, and you can use pistols, but more importantly shotguns! It's a squishy class till you get Barrier, which I highly recommend.
Have fun.
There's a link in the big ME2 thread. It's quite near the end, if you go through it backwards, you can't miss it.
Well I have played ME1 on the 360, but plan on playing ME2 on the PC.
I know I will not be able to continue my character however I know that you can configure the game at the start to create the outcome of big decisions prior to play start -I am right about that?
If that is the case then I cannot see what the problem is with not continuing a game. I played ME1 so long ago, I can't really remember the outcome of the big decisions I made, never mind the small ones.
As far as I understand from what I have read, your characters level and skills are not carried across either,so again not hit from creating a character new. Am I right about this?
I want to play it on the PC for the better UI. I understand that you can control your AI partners individually. On the 360 they were controlled as a pair and so I could not see the point in equipping on with a sniper rifle when they have to run forward with your assualt guy who has a shotgun or rifle. Being to keep one chap back and take one forward will be great and make me want to try it on a harder difficulty setting. I cannot be bothered playing through ME again.
From what I can see in this thread, people have stated that they will miss out on the story. Well I know the story, so do you lot think I am making a good decision or should I just get it on the 360?
I know I will not be able to continue my character however I know that you can configure the game at the start to create the outcome of big decisions prior to play start -I am right about that?
If that is the case then I cannot see what the problem is with not continuing a game. I played ME1 so long ago, I can't really remember the outcome of the big decisions I made, never mind the small ones.
As far as I understand from what I have read, your characters level and skills are not carried across either,so again not hit from creating a character new. Am I right about this?
I want to play it on the PC for the better UI. I understand that you can control your AI partners individually. On the 360 they were controlled as a pair and so I could not see the point in equipping on with a sniper rifle when they have to run forward with your assualt guy who has a shotgun or rifle. Being to keep one chap back and take one forward will be great and make me want to try it on a harder difficulty setting. I cannot be bothered playing through ME again.
From what I can see in this thread, people have stated that they will miss out on the story. Well I know the story, so do you lot think I am making a good decision or should I just get it on the 360?
I say get it on PC. If you can remember your decisions from Mass Effect 1 then you can pick up a saved game that already has them and use that save in the new one. As above there's a website where you can get saved games.
As I understand it while you can control a lot of the character event history from Mass Effect 1 through dialogue choices in Mass Effect 2, you won't be able to control all of them. That said that it just gives me more reason to replay the game with saved games from the first one with all sorts of different decisions
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As I understand it while you can control a lot of the character event history from Mass Effect 1 through dialogue choices in Mass Effect 2, you won't be able to control all of them. That said that it just gives me more reason to replay the game with saved games from the first one with all sorts of different decisions
.just had a look and it doesnt have saves for diff parts of the game?
I cant even remember if I was good or evil or what, all i remember is where I was at.. i was probably more towards good/neutral than evil.
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Theres very little scope for having been good or evil by the time you first get your ship, if you'd taken all evil actions or all angelic actions you'd be no where near forced to one direction by that point. There is a decent amount of gameplay up to the point you get your ship, but honestly you can probably absolutely blast through that couple hours. First time you listen to every convo intently, if you went through it again theres not a lot of fighting/levels/locations, its a short action start, then all talking till you get the ship. AS you can't really go wrong with choices that early on, just blast through all the conversations with the space bar and you'd be there in no time.
Also one thing I didn't know till way to late in the game that your paragon rating won't go down if you commit renegade actions, so you can quite easily be a full on goody two shoes and a pretty bad renegade at the same time and have lots of options later on in the game. Didn't try but with the right power choices(ones that boost para/renegade % gains) you can probably max out both.
Should without doubt play the first one though, but from what I understand the amount of stuff your characters choices really effect in the sequel will be very small and mostly worthless stuff, and by the sounds of it every major choice is customisable with a new character anyway.
Frankly even if ME1 was still £30, it would still be worth playing first, story wise its superb, infact I think you'd massively regret playing the 2nd before the 1st.
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Yes, the only gripe I had about that was the lack of people/aliens! It was all too quiet and should have been bustling with activity. I only hope Omega in ME2 rectifies that.
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Well, you got the impression that the presidium was for ambassadors and richies, so you'd expect it to have that clean and empty-ish feel.
From what I've seen of ME2 screenshots and other things, its not a patch on ME1 with everything on a smaller scale than ME1 which is a shame. Its a far less open/more focused type game with nothing on the scale of the open presidium as there is in ME1.
Not so sure that your choices in the first game won't affect the second game if you carry your character through.
I mean at the end of the 2nd game, if you die which apparantly is quite likely, then that's it. No carrying the character over to the 3rd.
I might cry if that happened.
I mean at the end of the 2nd game, if you die which apparantly is quite likely, then that's it. No carrying the character over to the 3rd.
I might cry if that happened.
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I get the same feeling
Probably a result of it still being tied down to the xBox hardware which hasn't changed. Hopefully us PC gamers will get some nice high res textures to oggle.
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It should realistically be at the level of the last game, but it does feel less good, only on scale really than anything else, I'd hazard a guess that they've cut back on scale of area's to bring down load times which you hear they have considerably, however, losing the epic scale in an epic story line will hurt it quite badly.
Does anyone actually know if it was writen as a trilogy with everything planned out before hand, at least partially, or was it just writen as a single game with a general idea of where to go for follow up games?
Generally predone complete storys then tackled one at a tiem almost universally end up better than spending years doing one game and story, then rushing the next game in under a year even if obviously the engine is all but done, still a lot of work and tweaking gets done on the engine, but design time and story gets so much less time and it almost always shows(Matrix 1 vs 2/3 for example).
Which would also be a reason for everything to be smaller and with less detail and less detail/time spent on the story and extra little details that made ME1 so damn good.