Mass Effect 2 gameplay thread

**Beskar** · 01-31-2010, 17:50

Frogbeastegg was the frogger champion in High School and won a few national awards for her abilities.

**frogbeastegg** · 01-31-2010, 18:37

I see. Huh, glad that wasn't in the console version.

Originally Posted by Beskar

Frogbeastegg was the frogger champion in High School and won a few national awards for her abilities.

I doubt I've played more than 20 minutes of Frogger if you added up all its various incarnations. Arcade games aren't my thing; too simple, too repetitive, and I don't care about high scores. Not fond of falling block puzzles or match 3 games either. Drives me crazy when games shoehorn in obligatory mini games based on these styles.

Besides, I get enough of the 'frog attempts to cross busy road without dying' thing on my walk to work and back.

I've done a few more hours and I have to say that ME2 is on a definite upward curve. The second tier of party members are thus far more interesting than the first, the personal missions reveal some juicy stuff about the first tier of party members, and the game overall is that little bit more enjoyable. The illogical is being shoved into the background more, and people are finally asking the questions I'd expected to see in the first hours. Scary thought: I completed my Insanity run of ME1 in 8 hours. It's taken twice that time for ME2 to get good.

**Mailman653** · 01-31-2010, 19:45

If you talk to Joker after a mission, you can ask him what he thinks of the crew, and he will give you an opinion of the two people you went on the mission with. Speaking of Joker, I think him and EDI go well together.

**Krusader** · 02-01-2010, 00:48

Originally Posted by Mailman653

If you talk to Joker after a mission, you can ask him what he thinks of the crew, and he will give you an opinion of the two people you went on the mission with. Speaking of Joker, I think him and EDI go well together.

Aye. But also occasionally run past the two engineers. They will have comments on new squadmates, ship upgrades and such.

**Kekvit Irae** · 02-01-2010, 01:16

Originally Posted by Krusader

Aye. But also occasionally run past the two engineers. They will have comments on new squadmates, ship upgrades and such.

Gabby: Did you know that there's a woman down in the engine?
Kenneth: If she touches anything, I'm going to go down there and kick her off the ship!
Gabby: She's also wearing nothing from the waist up but tattoos.
Kenneth: Oh, well then, I might have to go down there and greet her.
Gabby: Did I mention she can rip you in two with her biotics?
Kenneth: Damn it, woman! Stop teasing me!

I love those two.

EDIT: Also, I am sad that the achievements do absolutely nothing in the game anymore. I miss all the little benefits they gave you in ME1.

**Krusader** · 02-01-2010, 06:09

I hoped Mass Effect 2 would have a similar system to Dragon Age with player profile, achivement lists and so on, on the Bioware Social site, but nope, nothing.

Also, what I've forgotten to write which annoys the hell out of me is that there are very few weapons in the game and you can only obtain new ones by finding them when doing Dossier missions. If I have the credits to spare, I would have loved to buy a new weapon, but nope, not allowed.

**Mailman653** · 02-01-2010, 07:22

Has anyone successfully fired the Cain? I've read that you have to hold down the button and wait for it to charge up. I don't know.....I'm playing on Insanity right now and I don't have the luxury of sticking my head out from behind cover to aim something that may or may not fire.

Speaking of Cain, I wonder if it's a Robocop reference or just coincidence.

M920 Cain

Cain, Robocop 2