I hate internet lingo, but "inb4 Patriot Snake."

It was good, but I loved Mass Effect almost equally, the improved combat and character exposition didn't make me go as wow as everyone else. Also I loved all the extraneous loot everywhere and the crappy fucking Mako.

PS driving Mako around barren planets > Scanning planets with stupid crosshair.

Wow. That's so nice it almost makes me wanna buy it twice.

Since, I already have it on PC from the launch...

Sort of want, but I'm holding out for a Steam weekend deal. I absolutely LOATHE the idea of multiple DVDs. Besides, I've got a huge backlog of games that'll probably get me through 2010, and still have some great 2009 games I haven't even sniffed yet (Uncharted 2, DA:O).

Thanks for that guys, I was going to grab it used around $30 at some point but $40 new is just too good a deal.

All i can say is, what a game!! Problem is, it was so good i compleated it twice in quick succession and now i couldn't pick it up again until the memorys have left me a bit,and the loading times are still difficult to bear.

@mrandydixon
I'm just waiting him to come along and say "god of war iz ten ten times better becauze itz on the ps3 and mass effect 2 isn't an exclusive because it's on pc and is shit anyway."
now that I have said it, it must be cannon.

@Xzyliac
Of course I hate fun...... fun sucks.

Nah, more like, didn't like the first one.

I just saved the galaxy, again, today. I agree that this ME2 wasn't a complete improvement on ME1. Where's the loot? Scanning planets sucks.

Thanks for the heads up! Just ordered this, from my iPhone, whilst taking a dump. Ain't technology grand?

did someone say rape?

@Rigby,

what you said arguably made no sense. The loot didn't suck in the second half- it got epic as hell as you uncovered new named items from new makers. What you were attempting, and failing, to say was that inventory management in ME1 sucked. Which it did. But I would rather have inventory management problems (which will always be the case in a true loot RPG) than use the same fucking SMG for 80% of the game like I did in ME2. Nothing but boring ass upgrades. Upgrades did not affect anything about a gun's physical characteristics, so I always felt like I was using the same gun- unlike in Bioshock, where upgrades actually felt like progress. The lack of actual "loot" per se in ME2 was a major turn off to an old schooler like myself. Also, the story was entirely in cohesive compared to the original. The original had a plot direction, and you felt constantly compelled to pursue the plot. In the second, the plot feels meager and takes the backburner to character development and loyalty missions.

Also, fuck planet scanning.

@Luftwaffles
The loot got insanely redundant and stupid once you hit level 45 or so. It was epic 5-10 times a game. Other than that it was just a huge list of crap to waste your time holding onto until the next time you visited a vendor and realized you didn't need 4 Inferno V ammo since you had Inferno VI for everyone if they needed it. The 37th set of useless Phoenix armor is not EPIC, no matter what level it is.

Your point that ME2 is not an old school RPG is a given...they didn't mean it to be an old school RPG...it's a hybrid. You certainly have the right to not like it, but the gameplay itself was significantly better, IMO.

I'll agree that planet scanning is meh...but driving around in the Mako looking for rocks to play a button pressing game for wasn't exactly the highlight of RPGing in my opinion either.

@BroGrimm,

right the loot got redundant once you hit 45. Who the hell hit 45 in their first playthrough? What I said was epic loot came into play the second half of the game. It certainly did. I concede the point about Phoenix, Inferno armor, the katana shotgun, etc. That was a little ridiculous. But honestly, who can say that the story for ME2 was better than ME1 and not be deceiving themselves? And I was just pissed that they went from "WOOOO CRAZY LOOT EVERYWHERE REDUNDANCY" to being "NO LOOT 4 U" Loot nazis. The gameplay in terms of how the levels played themselves out and the cover mechanics were largely similar to the first game. Only the AI really seemed to be improved, in my opinion. And yes, the Mako sucked... but to replace suck with suck and call it even isn't exactly successful thinking.

Hmm... Not bad at all. I think I'll still hold out for the inevitable Steam sale, though. My current To Play queue already stretches around the block.

@uftwaffles They got rid of the loot and planet exploring because EVERYONE was bitching about it when the first game came out. Reviews, gamers, fucking everyone. Some of my favorite movie plots are essentially "assemble a rag tag group of ultimate badasses" like Seven Samurai, The Dirty Dozen, and Magnificent Seven. I love, love ME 1 and all it's faults but the story, as epic as it is, is pure scifi cliche crap. The beauty of Bioware games is not the actual story, it's how you get there. ME 2's story was nothing new but the squad assembling and loyalty missions were superb. Saren (making him eat his gun was lol) was a better villain but a suicide mission is more to my liking. I just wish Bioware had gone balls to the wall with harsher penalties, difficulty, and decisions in the finale. It really was too easy to save everyone. The entire level should have had no saving. The backlash would have been awesome.

Planet scanning does suck. Unless you have a mouse. PC ftw.

Game of the Year IMO.....its gonna be hard for me to readjust my brain to playing the linear natured FFXIII

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