ME topic (again, for the 100th time)

[moonsofblood]

My extensive rant just made me realize that I missed mass effect 1; actually that's a lie, I realized I missed it about a week ago when I started playing again, it's more the rant was a result of that.

But ignoring how 2 blew a great opportunity to  make an amazing game perfect, let's share what sort of fun things you enjoy doing in 1.  Everything from your favorite glitches, to missions, to bonus assignments, to character builds.


Some of my favorites: getting enemies stuck in walls/ceilings with throw
Playing a renagade biotic and solving all problems by killing them. with your mind.
I love all of the  cerberus related missions; they are generally much more interesting/darker than what you see elsewhere
I love the crate on the "restore landline connections" section of noveria on the roof that you can open, save, load, and open again ad infinitum

[Wavemaster Elk]

Friend got me a copy of ME1 a few months back when it was on sale for like, $5.  I was enjoying it, but just kind of stopped.  Combat was more annoying than anything else I'd seen, and that was even with the terrible driving sections.  The story seemed good, but the combat made me just stop.  I'm awful at managing skills for more than one character, so trying to keep three just didn't seem to work.

Was sort of interested in ME2, but I'm not touching it until it's like, $20.

[moonsofblood]

You can set the party skills to auto-use, I always set  them to all player controlled, I love the full party skill control, you just enter a battle, pop into your pause menue for two seconds, pop out and suddenly everyone blows up in just the way you want.  If you think that interrupts flow, you have your hotkeyed powers ready, IMO one of the better combat control systems I've played with, if at times a little clunky.  If you choose, it doesn't hold your hand at all, and that's something that's been missing from most modern games.  (combat systems that don't baby you.)

[Kr@cked]

I played on the PC, and my biggest beef with ME wasn't the combat (similar enough to KOTOR, which I didn't mind), nor the storyline, which was epic. It was the interface. The map pissed me off, the whole upgrades thing was not nearly as intuitive as KOTOR. It was just alot of little things with the UI that made me quit playing.

[crzynub]

oh man kotor's combat was so bad it made the game essentially unplayable for me (combined with having the plot spoiled)

ME's combat was entertaining enough to get me from one part of the story to the next without any big qualms. like moons said, entering a room, pausing combat, and setting up a big attack from your whole squad, then just watching it was fun. some of the tank missions were dreadful though

[Kaye-]

It's true, Zelda had better maps on the NES.

I'll also never get how pausing combat to set up a big attack is any different from most JRPG. Heck, all of Eternal Sonata was about setting up HUGE linked combos by being in the correct light, and ensuring that your entire party was within distance to do the correct attack.

[crzynub]

It's true, Zelda had better maps on the NES.

I'll also never get how pausing combat to set up a big attack is any different from most JRPG. Heck, all of Eternal Sonata was about setting up HUGE linked combos by being in the correct light, and ensuring that your entire party was within distance to do the correct attack.

it's kind of towing the line between jrpgs and western rpgs. fallout 3, if you use VATS all the time, played exactly like a jrpg, mass effect was imo a better blend, playable either way

[HEMA]

oh man kotor's combat was so bad it made the game essentially unplayable for me (combined with having the plot spoiled)

ME's combat was entertaining enough to get me from one part of the story to the next without any big qualms. like moons said, entering a room, pausing combat, and setting up a big attack from your whole squad, then just watching it was fun. some of the tank missions were dreadful though

what was so bad about it? apart from Master Speed completely owning everything and anything?

[crzynub]

oh man kotor's combat was so bad it made the game essentially unplayable for me (combined with having the plot spoiled)

ME's combat was entertaining enough to get me from one part of the story to the next without any big qualms. like moons said, entering a room, pausing combat, and setting up a big attack from your whole squad, then just watching it was fun. some of the tank missions were dreadful though

what was so bad about it? apart from Master Speed completely owning everything and anything?

i can't exactly place it- i grew up playing DND so you'd think i'd be alright with it, but it just felt so choppy, slow, unpredictable. couldn't stand it

[Legend_Killer]

So how to use DLC on ME2?
LK starts the game and goes to the DLC section which minimizes the game and opens a firefox browser with all the DLC available. LK downloads the free ones to desktop and tries to run them but windows doesnt let it. Do you just download the DLC into the ME2 foldar or do you run them or something?

O_o

[Cdude201]

dunno if I'm the only one to feel this way, but ME1 was pretty good.  ME2, however, was far better.

[Grimsoul]

I always feel crazy because I didn't like ME much and everyone around me loves it. I dunno, it just feels like a lazy sci-fi setting.

I haven't tried ME2 yet so maybe that would change my opinion.

[Shadow_Dragon]

lazy sci-fi setting?

I've just gotten into ME1, and I really like it. I dunno how it could be seen as lazy, though... they seem to have put a lot of thought into bulls****ting the technology behind things.

[Kaye-]

Star Trek.

Also, you'd think with all that technology they'd have faster elevators. GG.

[guimontag]

Star Trek.

Also, you'd think with all that technology they'd have faster elevators. GG.

2 year old joke gg