SteelAttack said:

It was great. It felt like an RPG. Yeah its inventory system was shit, and Bioware overdid it with the upgrades (explosive ammo grade VII, VIII, IX, really?), but in case you didn't notice, raising stats by tiny percentages is pretty much standard RPG fare. It's not pointless, it's the way stats are supposed to go up. You want cool shit to happen every single time you press a button, and that's fine, but don't go around saying that ME2 is orders of magnitude better than the first game, when there's a case to be made in regards to it being a step back in several areas as much as it was a step forward in others.

At least in ME if I wanted my infiltrator to focus exclusively on sabotage and sniper rifles I could do that. The way things are going, ME3 is going to be Modern Warfare 4: Future Warfare even before MW4 hits, thanks to people with a penchant for blowing up shit constantly and Bioware being unable to do anything else but catering to them.

But ME2 does basically everything ME1 did just streamlined. I guess if raising a stat by 1% makes you excited then I get your point but it really does nothing. The whole point of that system was to reach the skill classes or actual bonuses. ME2 gives you points to simply upgrade the skills, what matters. You can still build your character the way you want. Yeah the weapon upgrades are handled by finding parts in the game world but it is way better than getting a ton of versions of the same crap, again streamlined to make the upgrading easy to manage.

I do not see how ME1 is such a better RPG, it does very little and ME2 takes everything ME1 did and just made it work much more efficient. Yes it removed tiny stat upgrades, I have always seen that as pointless, so whatever. Every aspect that matters in an RPG ME2 still has with far improved combat, level design, game world, etc.

LOL! I finished Final Fantasy 13-2 on 2-13!  

*I can't wait to go back and play some more!*

robio said:

Sure. Don't you remember the line "John Romero is going to make you his bitch"? Not saying the end result was good mind you...

I forgot about that. Was that Daikatana?

Mass effect, it sounds like they should make the game catering to both audiences and let people just blow up stuff if they want or delve deeper into the mechanics and stats if they want. Double win.

Ubisoft in 2012?

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gamingeek said:

I forgot about that. Was that Daikatana?

Mass effect, it sounds like they should make the game catering to both audiences and let people just blow up stuff if they want or delve deeper into the mechanics and stats if they want. Double win.

That's some pretty cool stats there Leo. Congrats.

Time to go download the Mass Effect 3 demo. Happy, happy. Joy, joy.

I just played the 360 demo for Mass Effect 3....awesome shit, wow what an opening! Obviously its hard to guage how the entire game will flow from a demo, but it seems very very similar to Mass Effect 2 in gameplay and production. Apparently, the PC demo goes up at 1pm, so I will check that out after.

Dvader said:

But ME2 does basically everything ME1 did just streamlined. I guess if raising a stat by 1% makes you excited then I get your point but it really does nothing. The whole point of that system was to reach the skill classes or actual bonuses. ME2 gives you points to simply upgrade the skills, what matters. You can still build your character the way you want. Yeah the weapon upgrades are handled by finding parts in the game world but it is way better than getting a ton of versions of the same crap, again streamlined to make the upgrading easy to manage.

I do not see how ME1 is such a better RPG, it does very little and ME2 takes everything ME1 did and just made it work much more efficient. Yes it removed tiny stat upgrades, I have always seen that as pointless, so whatever. Every aspect that matters in an RPG ME2 still has with far improved combat, level design, game world, etc.

Dude, you're so exaggerated. Raising stats by 1%? Pfft. It's AT LEAST 5%.

I get your point, seriously. I really do. And I respect it. It's just that the game went from being an RPG with shooting elements to a shooter with RPG elements and I'm not entirely sure I completely like the direction the series went.