skyjedi2005 said:
I am probably one of the people that does not like the direction they went with in the second mass effect game. Played up the shooter elements and played down the rpg and exploration parts. If i wanted to play halo or gears of war of would play those and not mass effect. Damn EA. I knew something like this would happen. Well there is always DragonAge Origins, and final fantasy XIII to look forward to.
Damn though the second time bioware screwed things up on creating a perfect trilogy. Last time was Kotor by handing off the second game to Obsidian and some crappy mmo replaced the third game.
Plus the characters in ME2 don't act like the same people from the first game, and they listened to the whiners about the mako and hard sci fi elements and dumbed it down for the 5 second attention span people who thought the new star trek was the kewlest evah!.LOL.
If i wanted a dumb action game ala GTA in space i would not be playing a mass effect game. They ruined mass effect the same way Lucas has ruined star wars and indiana jones, bay has ruined transformers and jj has ruined star trek.
I have to totally disagree. Give the game another chance: the deep story is still there, the hard sci-fi is still there , the writing is even stronger and more emotionally involving. The traditional RPG gameplay elements are toned down however, but the inventory system in ME1 was neither fun nor did it make any sense in-universe. The Mako was somewhat poorly implemented, but I'd like to see it return in ME3.
I spent easily as much time talking as I did shooting in ME2. play out all the loyalty quests, go Paragon, and really invest some time into the world: It feels to me like Star Trek meets Star Wars with some modern edginess thrown in.
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The changed attitude of Liara was disappointing, (and the cold reception by Ashley/Kaidan if that's the route you went)I'll concede there, but they probably wanted to tempt players to pursue a new love interest.
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