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I destroyed it, dunno if The Illusive Man is ruthless enough to try and create a Reaper from another race, but I don't trust him so I got rid of it. I'm planning to do a playthrough as a ruthless badass now.

Here's something I don't really get, why didn't they succeed in creating a Prothean/Collector based Reaper? I don't get the point of the human one, is it intelligent? Does this mean the Reapers all look like the races they devoured? Why not make a Turian or Asari one?

Humans are special.

When you bring different squad members, Harbinger comments on their species weakness.

"Turian, you are considered too... primitive"
"Asari, reliance upon alien species for reproduction shows genetic weakness"

Pretty much. They have the most diverse gene-pool of current races, and lacky any major shortcomings. HIGHLIGHT to view:
Which Mordin cheerfully foreshadows on his Loyalty mission.

The only other race that the Reapers seem to think would work are the Krogan, but the genophage sank that idea as the population is probably far too low to construct a Reaper. Which could be an interesting point for the third game.

That seems to be /constantly/ mentioned through the game. Not overly heavy; but there are alot of little off comments that talk about the diffrences between the species.

Playing Mass Effect 1 now, and hugin hell! This game needs to be redone using ME2 controls, AI, Targeting, and everything else. It shouldnt take 3 hours to complete a mission. The lack of save points is horrid...your land vehicle gets ruined the mission fails. Targeting with sniper rifles or assault rifles just arent an option.

Mobs being able to shoot at your from so far off you can see them to return fire.

Had I played this game first, I would not of bought ME2 in fear of the same game play.

Though I do wish the areas you can visit in ME1 were available in ME2. The Ward, C-Sec, and oh, how I'd love to have been able to meet up with Barla Von again in ME2.

Yeah, hopefully the sculpts improve for the second wave. The first Mass Effect 2 toys are kinda hit or miss. Tali and Grunt look nice, at least.

I've been reading the Redemption comic, getting a bit more on the story between the two games, Liara tracking down Shepard's body to give to Cerberus, etc. I caught that conversation with her the first time around, which is largely due to the fact that I'm thorough to the point of being neurotic. If someone has something significant to say, I often check again to make sure they've said to me everything they have to offer. Probably part of why my first playthrough clocked in at over 50 hours.

And I think that with the disdain Garrus shows for politics and red tape, he'd be miserable on the Council. He's at his best when he's unrestrained.

And as tedious as the Mako could be at times, the Hammerhead looks like a definite improvement, from what little gameplay there is to be seen of it right now. When is the next tasty buffet of DLC goodness, end of this month?

you dont have to go to a special point to save. just hit start and then save game anytime you want (cept during combat). i like that MUCH better than having to go all over the place just to save (GTA games...)

No, he means lack of 'Autosave' points. It can be very bad for you to go through a Mako map, clear most everything, and make one mistake and have to start back at the landing point becuase you forgot to save.

This is something I noticed between the two games. ME1, I'd be to save 70 by the end of the game; while my first ME2 play through I think I barely got past save 10. ME2's small mission format allows for much more frequent saves; though has the draw back of lowering epicness of some missions.

oh. yeah i agree with that. cant count how many times thats happened to me

I finally bought Mass Effect 2, should be finishing Mass Effect 1 sometime this coming Weekend.

I just finished Noveria, still have Feros to do, but have completed all the Sidequests available, unlocked Uber Weapons via the Millionaire Achievement, and am around level 37.

So far I'm up to Save 208, I save every chance I get. lol.

Really enjoying this game so far. Hope the Second game holds up.

Anyone got the latest Game Informer? I saw this year's Game Infarcer and it had a mock preview of Mass Effect 3. The thing talked of a feature where you could import any character of any game into this "game". It lists that your favorite star quarterback from the Madden games, Lara Croft, even Sora from Kingdom hearts with all his wussy crud did in the games.

It has a pic of the cover, with Kratos' head covering Shepard's.

I like it, even if it is a joke.

Nah, you'd want to import The Spy. I'd suggest The Sniper, but I just have a vision of Garrus in a Professional's Panama.

There's a new heavy weapon on the Cerberus Network btw, called the Arc Projector, sort of zaps multiple enemies at once by linking electricty between them.
Hope this Kasumi thing ends up being free. I reckon the original idea was always Shepard's dirty dozen and they decided to keep 2 characters back for the DLC, shouldn't cost anything imo.

It won't. She'll be like Zaeed, through the Cerberus Network.

The fact our last squad member is (presumably) another human is disapointing. Where's our Hanar Spectres and Volus Adepts, Bioware?

Also, I'd just like to add...

"Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, everybody lives!"

I hope she ends up being a bit less like Zaeed, and is more of a real character.

Just wanted to point out Kotaku has some more Kasumi info here. Supposed to be 90 minutes of content, and it IS paid. Not Cerberus Network. Sounds good though. I thought Samara's loyalty mission was a nice change of pace and this sounds a bit like that. As far as being another human, I don't mind too much, as long as she's not as boring as Zaeed is. But my friends and I are still pulling for a elcor/hanar/volus squad in ME3. I think the codex mentions that elcor shoulders are suitable for mounting Alliance vehicular weaponry on, so he could be the heavy weapons guy. Then I'm all for a hanar Spectre and biotic volus.

I'm up for the James Bond-esque feel to it, if I can kill someone and make a related, but witty, one-liner about it. It'd be even better if a squadmate calls you on it.

*Shepard throws someone onto a spiked railing.*
"Looks like he got the point."
"Shepard, you just murdered someone in cold blood. I don't think it's funny."
"But-"
"No, that's just wrong, Shepard. I think you need to go to sensitivity training."
"Again?"

Dont know if it was posted or not:

Found this on another board, thought I'd share.

Just wondering, remember the last lines Shepard spoke near the end of the Launch trailer?

WE WILL STOP AT NOTHING EVEN IF IT COST US OUR LIVES.

A lot of the stuff he said didn't sound like the stuff he said in the narative comercail. So I wonder, has anyone found him say the lines he said in the Launch trailer? Or was it made for the Launch trailer itself?

Apparently, Bioware are considering DLC to extend and enhance (Shush) the relationship content in the game.

I might be a cynic, but I'm guessing that'd be a load of unwinnable arguments (For example... You don't take them on missions, you do but you never go anywhere nice, you do but you actually look at a member of the opposite sex...) and, if you romanced Jack, Shepard getting the jive knocked out of him.

"..."
"What?"
"I saw you looking at that Asari Commando!"
"What? She was trying to kill me with her brain!"
"Yeah, I'll bet she was."
"Miranda, she threw me ten feet in the air! And broke Mordin's ribs!"
"I'm fine! Ribs are just bruised. Could use aid."
"You were still looking at her."
"But-"
"Sometimes Shepard, I wonder if you really care at all."
"Sigh."
"Still could use a hand!"

I am all over this. Hope it's true.


"Now don't say I don't take you anywhere nice."
"What, no turian plague? No angry krogan? Nothing??"
*beams*
"...wait, is that a classy antique store staffed by Blue Suns mercs?"
"...okay, we might have a fight to win first."

http://tinyurl.com/yz773jk

Source, I has one.

To be honest? I'd like to see more things like that added to the game instead of just side-missions that involve gunning things down. Don't get me wrong, gunning things down is right and proper and the game would benefit from more of it, but I'd like a little more... well. Roleplaying.

Hell, for those of us who were loyal, maybe a little more recognition would be nice. Maybe an achievement "Kept in in your trousers".

If we get more side missions, I want more that are like Samara's or Thane's. I kinda get tired of constantly just gunning things down. Thats my biggest comaplint, is that it too much shooter not enough role play. First play thought I rather dreaded some missions just becuase I was getting bored of every mission feeling the exact same.

If that's true then romancing Tali will be all the more sweeter.

I got an email from an Asari whio's helping the Rachni, saying that the Rachni are going to join the battle against the Reapers, but surely this wouldn't happen if you decided not to release the Rachni held captive in ME1? Seems like a pretty big descision, but it didn't seem to affect the storyline in ME2 (apart from that email).

I get the feeling the final game may expand the concept of suicide mission... If you build bridges and get allies, you could have every civillised race in the galaxy fighting as one against the Reapers. The victory will be more decisive, and may well usher in a new era of peace and understanding, or possibly just a cease-fire until everyone kicks off against everyone else again.

If you're a genocidal arse, the battle will be much closer, and whilst I imagine civillisation will survive and the Reapers will be thwarted for the last time, it'll be a lot bloodier, more people will die and more worlds will be rendered uninhabitable (Remember, the Reapers prefered method of dispatch seems to be orbital bombardment).

Just my thoughts on all that, though.

Yeah, seems the Paragon road might end up seeming to be the more difficult one - with the Reapers getting deeper into Civilized Space (I can see the Terminus Systems being completely lost and the Batarians becoming a refugee race like the Quarians), but at the end of the game you effectively rally every race under the banner of survival - Krogans fighting alongside Rachni, Batarians and Humans side by side, etc.

The only real "devastating" choice I could see down that road is being forced to choose between the Quarians and the Geth, and even then maybe not (Since there is a chance to see Tali and Legion finding common ground at least).


The Renegade Option would see a lot more fast and decisive victories against the Reapers, but at the cost that the majority of the galaxy doesn't see them as a threat until it's too late. I can see Citadel Space being thrown into chaos, with Cerberus and its technology being embraced by Humanity as a means for survival. You beat back the Reapers, but it destabilizes all of galactic civilization.


Also likely whether or not Wrex is alive or dead, and what you do about the Genophage will likely play into the ending as well.

gonna hafta play through ME1 again, this time saving kaiden and the council and killing wrex just to see what happens in me2. great game.

You run into a chick on ilos that was saved by the queen, she basically just tells you shes fine and grateful.

And if you kill Wrex its supposed to make thigns on Tuchunka a little harder when you go for grunts mission. But i cant comment for sure, always gotta have a Krogan watchin my back.

I take it it's not possible to keep Wrex alive on the first play through of M1? I just beat it last night, and started at new ME2 game with my ME1 Male Shep. I LOVE all the returning characters from ME1! The Asari From Feros meets up with you again, only she's green like the clone version of her. You get a message from the Queen, you get to help the undercover cop bust a merchant. Even the annoying fanboy makes a return.

I really wish they'd give us a DLC that adds some of the ME1 locations to the game. See if EDI and Legion can get Vigil back online, speak with the Consort, return to the places you saved..ect.

No its really possible, on one of the planets near the end it comes to a head and you can either attempt to talk wrex out of going ape jive or just shoot him in the face.

I've found it rather difficult to kill him.

Not if your Persuade skill is high enough. I've never had a problem getting Wrex to see reason.

Really? I wasn't even the one to shoot him, Ashly did. I was following the what looked like the best options to keep him alive, but I guess I should have looked around for more side missions to lvl up my Persuade skill, or something.

Oh well, one play through is enough for me. ME1 didn't seem to have a lot goin on outside the main story anyway. Plus I played ME2 first, and the default game has Wrex dead to. Though I take it if you keep him alive, the odds of you getting a Krogan army in ME3 is much higher. I'll have to make do with Grunt and whatever he comes up with.

Still, I don't see why in ME1, when your at the cloning plant setting up the nuke, you couldn't Save some of the research. Add that to the research you get in Mordins loyalty mission and the Krogan would be in great shape for the coming battle.

My guess is that will happen if you let that asari in the plant live. You run into her again in ME2 towards the end of the Grunt recruit mission.
I'd say its a safe bet for her to show up in ME3 (especially since theres no option to kill her in Me2) and you might be able to get some info out of her abou it.

http://masseffect.bioware.com/info/dlc/

March 23rd, a new appearance pack for Thane, Jack, and Garrus is being released. I especially like the armor Garrus has on, it didn't seem right with him in that beat up armor.

Excellent, didn't like that about Garrus either,. dunno if its worth paying for though. Thane looks like a blind man there. Firewater thing's coming on Tuesday though woot!

It'd be worth it for Garrus, but I dunno. I'd rather see later packs for anything else. Knowing my luck my usuals will end up in seperate packs.

I like Jack's new outfit but I hate those shades.

Really diggin thane's Horatio Cain glasses.

Yeah, Garrus is definatly needed. I wondered why he kept on his 'Archangel' Armor; thought was even odder that his alternate outfit didnt already repair that. I could almost believe that he didn't change armors till he got his revenge as a reminder of losing his old squad if that was true.

I kinda like the others.

So, the Incisor Sniper Rifle in Shepard's hands failed to impress me, so I gave it to Garrus. The results were ridiculous, so I gave it to Zaeed and Garrus together, and they shredded entire groups faster than anything I've seen in the game. I didn't really have to do much of anything, they just went in and decimated everyone. The ammo powers help, of course. It's a little unfair on anything below the insanity difficulty, and I don't take Zaeed along with me that often anyway. I just thought it was kinda cool to watch.

The trailer is up for Kasumi, by the way.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/kasumi-d.../63465?type=flv

I finally beat Mass Effect 1 last night. I did every side quest, hell hit level 50 in Virmire, which was neat.
I chose to get it on with Liara, and killed off Kaiden. Kept the Council Alive, and had Saren smote himself.

All in all. Great game and the end felt epic.

Can't wait to play Mass Effect 2 sometime tonight after I get home from Work.

Playing through ME1 again now, this time getting all side quests done and keeping Wrex alive.

The first time through was a pain, second time around however, the games not so bad. Still not one for the Sniper Rifle, Shotgun and Pistil work great for me. Also going to amass as much money as I can, since it seems it carries over well into ME2. Same as the metals ect you need for upgrades.

I do wish however, that the armor and weapons carried over to ME2 as well. BioWare really out did themselves with this series. All the muti endings, paths and out comes. I look forward to ME3 and what BioWare has planed for us, in the mean time I'm gonna enjoy finishing ME1 again and playing ME2 with this Shepard. The DLC coming out this week and April 6th are going to be great!

Now get to level 60.

Well given how they changed the inventory mechanics, I can see why they axed that, but I would have kept them as an aesthetic choice. That being said, I barely upgraded my armour throughout the game (I was using the stock N7 with the extra ammo legplates for the most part, because I'm a frigging awful shot) so I'm fine with the stock equipment.

Yeah I maxxed my Cash Out with 9,999,999 in ME1.

I really should do a second Playthrough and hit Level 60, I'll prolly do a Renegade Playthrough, and max that out, I just want to sink my teeth into ME2 first, then replay as a Renegade.

I did save Wrex on my first playthrough. My team consisted of Garrus, and Wrex. I was a Vanguard with Maxed out Pistols. By the end of the game, I practically could just send in Wrex and Garrus, and then wait to here, "All Clear Commander", and move forward with the story. lol.

Did anyone else pick up the new appearance pack?
I'm indifferent to Jack as a character, anyway, but I really like the new outfits they gave Thane and Garrus. Garrus especially, the red bits break it up nicely. I didn't notice those in the preview. Makes him look slightly more like the "Turian Renegade" that my squad points menu indicates him to be.

The Hammerhead content was kinda short, but that's about what I was expecting. It's not bad, considering that it's free.

Playing ME1 again (Spacer/ War hero) in preparation for my Cerberus Supporter. I plan to have him wear the "Cerberus" manufactured armor in ME2. He's not a Xenophoe like my Renegade Shepard was, his concern is to see the advanement of the human race.

I was talking to a friend of mine about muiltiple plays with this great game. Besides playing it as myself in a sci fi universe as a soldier. I think this game continues to be amazing if you were to approuch future play throughs with a different mindset.