*** Official Mass Effect 2 Thread ***

[dmcg]

I went for a more battle hardened look lol

Double click and being able to use scroll wheel in menus would be nice.

One thing that has really bugged me though, I have completed it once now already and wanted to do New Game+ but I fancied a change of class and it wont let me

So now I'm starting all over just with my ME1 bonuses instead, usually play as soldier but fancied trying out infiltrator this time round.

looks like the ufc fighter forrest griffin

 

[Saundie]

Have not yet got around to obtaining the medical bay upgrade, so she's looking a bit rough.

 

[Last Kronin]

Made my guy more gaunt, well it has been 2 years hes bound to be thin

 

[sean]

I'm about 8 hours in and easily enjoying this as much as the first game, if not more.

Loads of neat little touches in this game. Does anyone else make time to stand around the holographic displays and watch the commercials?

 

[platypus]

Well we all know its coming, but still:

Tip: Decisions you make in Mass Effect 2 could have dire ramifications in Mass Effect 3

\o/

 

[Tom|Nbk]

Bizarre seeing other peoples shepards, after playing through the first game twice with him and now currently playing through ME2 it just wouldn't be right him looking any different.

Weird how attached you get to your "shepard"

 

[Margaret]

LOL.

 

[Torquar]

So now I'm starting all over just with my ME1 bonuses instead, usually play as soldier but fancied trying out infiltrator this time round.

You do get a "Veteran" bonus which is a hefty chunk of cash and minerals. Its enough that you'll never have to scan for Element Zero at least.

 

[platypus]

I tell you something, I'm having a real hard time avoiding renegade points, even when I pick up paragon points at the same time after a dialogue.

And even when choosing the blatant 'do gooder' option, I've still gotten the odd renegade point here and there.

Just goes to show how grey most decisions are I suppose.

 

[platypus]

Nice screenshot Tom, how did you get that?

 

[SiD the Turtle]

How are you guys taking screenshots? I can't find a shortcut key.

 

[IamMed]

looks like the ufc fighter forrest griffin

Don't watch UFC, but there is defo a resemblence lol

Most of the presets were rather plain and baby faced, considering I chose to be a renegade soldier who'd rather shoot you in the leg than ask you nicely I thought I'd create someone who looks like he's had a few scrapes in the past

Bizarre seeing other peoples shepards, after playing through the first game twice with him and now currently playing through ME2 it just wouldn't be right him looking any different.

Weird how attached you get to your "shepard"

I agree, I had debated making a new face for ME2 but it just didn't look right

You do get a "Veteran" bonus which is a hefty chunk of cash and minerals. Its enough that you'll never have to scan for Element Zero at least.

With my ME1 Character I recieved 5 or 10k on the resources and I think 100k cash, if I play through again using my ME2 save I start off with 50k each resource and 200k cash but cant choose a new specialization type

How are you guys taking screenshots? I can't find a shortcut key.

Dunno about everyone else but I'm doing it the old fashioned way, print screen, alt tab and paste it in an image program.

 

[Squark]

How are you guys taking screenshots? I can't find a shortcut key.

I'm using fraps, don't know about the ingame key

Bizarre seeing other peoples' Shepard, after playing through the first game twice with him and now currently playing through ME2 it just wouldn't be right him looking any different.

Weird how attached you get to your "Shepard"

So true

 

[Curunen]

Is there any way to get the old ME1 font back for the subtitles and dialogue choices? I don't like this new one they've gone for.

I found the subtitles getting in the way of the picture initially. I'm starting to get used to it now, but it was a distraction from the scene behind.

Also, I don't know, but the I'm finding the voices in ME2 have a weird echo to them. Almost like Hackett over the comm in ME1. I've tried playing around in the xonar audio centre with no luck. In ME1 I don't hear this, with the same settings. Is it normal?




Edit: My ME2 screenshots so far. I've sort of given up on screenshots - it slips my mind due to being immersed in the game.

 

[platypus]

Well well well, so ME3 will have the Reaper invasion, and I guess that the game will be significantly different depending on what option you choose at the end of the game.

My god, I hope they've already been developing it so we don't have to wait too long!

 

[simpletom]

On my second playthough after recently doing ME1 again. I actually lke ME2 more by a large margin as it does not have those irritating mako sections and flows much better. Not sifting though 150 different weapons, armour bits and upgrades has a benefit as well.

 

[tibbsey]

Also, I don't know, but the I'm finding the voices in ME2 have a weird echo to them. Almost like Hackett over the comm in ME1. I've tried playing around in the xonar audio centre with no luck. In ME1 I don't hear this, with the same settings. Is it normal?

I get this too with my X-Fi Gamer. Quite annoying after a while.


I'm only up to Omega at the moment, and finding it hard to keep playing.

There's so many things that are really annoying me about the game that it's making me not want to play it. This itself is REALLY annoying as I wanna know what happens!

 

[ic1male]

Holee cow! This game has just gone up another level in amazingness...

 

[robmol]

I had that sound problem, changed from 5.1 to 4.1 speakers and it seems to of stopped it.

 

[Sawell]

Just finished the story.

I have to say although I love the game and there's very little in the market that can rival it, I still felt underwhelmed. There are a few things that annoyed me with ME2 (may contain spoilers):

1) The game felt the same as ME1. Don't get me wrong, if it's not broken don't fix it. But once you get over the novelty of the newer features it's still ME1 with a new story slapped on. For that reason I felt a bit cheated, especially due to the hype surrounding it.

2) Performance wise I was really dissapointed. The graphics aren't much on ME1 and I had 4-5 gameplay bugs during my time playing with characters/me being stuck in walls etc. I'm also sorry to see that spite max settings they still randomly hit you with some of the most ugly blocky texture mappings i've seen. They're obviously just lower resolution, but why not give us higher res?! The game isn't exactly demanding graphics wise, we could at least have something nice to look at.

3) The story. It was good, I liked the gathering people aspect and it all felt slightly new and what wasn't new was nicely refreshed. But I didn't really feel the collector story, I didn't feel involved. I don't know, we're supposed to be saving humanity and it just felt like it didn't really matter. Anyone else feel this? Regarding the whole 'illusive man' story too, I was gearing myself up for a really nice plot twist where he turns out to be AI or something and was just using us like pawns. I got to the end and (along with my mentality through playing) told him to go **** himself when he suggested saving their technology. I thought it would out him and he'd morph back into some badass machine and come after us. But he didn't, and that felt weird. Becuase personally it felt through the game as if it was obvious he and Cerberus were going to turn out to be massive ****s and screw us all over before getting our unyielding revenge on them.

I think maybe I just felt it was a bit rushed, and that their focus is more on creating a series than creating a few unquestionably fantastic masterpieces.

Spite it all I enjoyed the game and it gave me a good weekend. I'll enjoy spending the new few months unlocking and doing everything I missed. I just thought I'd vent some frustrations, especially to see if anyone else felt the same. They didn't really stop me from having a good time playing, but they're definitely food for thought.

This was my face:

Badass.