Mass Effect 2 Anticipation Station

[Qonas]

Who can't wait for Mass Effect 2? I can't. Seriously. It's so bad I have no interest in Dragon Age: Origins except to see the thing on shelves already, which means we're that much closer to ME2.

Reapers. Cerberus. Wrex. Shepard. I need my fix!!!

Also, needed to have this thread just so these pictures could be posted. Found them on the Penny Arcade forums, from a Brazilian (hey JCM!) user there:

 

[Shegokigo]

Shegokigo Shepard cannot wait to get back and brutally beat her way through mission objectives again. Hopefully the "Renegade" side is a bit more "indepth" with the "choice style" of options.

 

[RealBigNuke]

To be honest, I'm looking forward to DA:O a lot more.

Although ME2 does look pretty good - here's hoping my biotic/tech/sniper character gets some shiny new abilities to toy with and make the fights even more unfair.

 

[Gusto]

Man Wrex was awesome.

I wonder what racists I get to kill THIS time! Can't wait!

 

[GeneralOrder24]

I'll pick it up, and I'm sure I'll enjoy it, but my biggest gripe about the first is you never got to be evil enough. Sure, you could pick the "evil" option, but Ol' Dick Shepard always seemed to try too damn hard to justify the choice. I want conversation trees that allow you to be a flagrant intergalactic douchebag. Something like this.

Morally Questionable Quasi-Villain: "Do you really think that killing me will solve your problems?"

Good response: "Perhaps You're right. I'll let you go, but don't show your face around here again.
Neutral response: "One less criminal in the galaxy is always a good thing."
Evil Response: "No, I just have alot of extra ammunition and no place to store it."

Game one was severely lacking in option 3, I thought. I think the reason it suffered is you were limited to three options for your conversation progression trees, and they always picked a lawful evil response over a chaotic one (Which are always great)

If I knew they improved upon that, I'd be just as giddy with anticipation as you guys, but for now, I'm just gonna sit back and wait.

 

[CynicismKills]

I think the problem is you guys were expecting more of a Sith than a Renegade. It seems to me they mean it in the sense of a bad-boy kind of guy moreso than anything else, i.e. do what you know is right, but in whatever way you want, morals and regulations be damned.

 

[Iaculus]

Actually, I thought much of the point of Renegade versus Paragon was so that you didn't have the black-and-white choice of shiny sparkly goodness or baby-eating. If nothing else, it made it more conceivable that others would put up with your shit.

 

[bhamv3]

I want to be able to punch more snooty reporters.

 

[RealBigNuke]

I want to be able to punch more snooty reporters.

That was probably one of my favorite moments in the game. Coincidentally, so was decking that blithering doomsayer at the start of the game. I wish you could finish more conversations that way!

 

[Alucard]

I'm looking forward to it but I've got a question I've already beaten Mass Effect for the PC several times but deleted all my content.

Will I be seriously handicapped if I play Mass Effect 2 without my previous files from Mass Effect 1?

 

[GeneralOrder24]

I think the problem is you guys were expecting more of a Sith than a Renegade. It seems to me they mean it in the sense of a bad-boy kind of guy moreso than anything else, i.e. do what you know is right, but in whatever way you want, morals and regulations be damned.

Eh, I wanted something where my options were more than just "Picard or Kirk" (I realize it's not quite THAT black and white.) The heritage of the game studio screams for it. I'm not just talking KOTOR, either, it goes back much further than that. It becomes less of an RPG when you have less play choices.

I miss the fallout days where you had the option to steer pretty much any conversation into combat.

 

[AshburnerX]

Eh, I wanted something where my options were more than just "Picard or Kirk" (I realize it's not quite THAT black and white.)

So you wanted a Janeway and Sisko option?

Janeway: Ignore the rules and have everyone praise you for it, despite the fact your directly responsible for the deaths of everyone on board your vessel. Violating the principles of you swore to uphold gets you into the mess, while not violating them again is what keeps you in it.

Sisko: Get away with murder because your treated like divinity by an endangered race, until you lose your mind and seek revenge on the asshole who's been prodding you for years. Oh, and your actually an alien but don't know it.

 

[Shegokigo]

Well, there goes my interest in ever seeing Deep Space 9. Thanks Ash.

 

[GeneralOrder24]

Eh, I wanted something where my options were more than just "Picard or Kirk" (I realize it's not quite THAT black and white.)

So you wanted a Janeway and Sisko option?

Janeway: Ignore the rules and have everyone praise you for it, despite the fact your directly responsible for the deaths of everyone on board your vessel. Violating the principles of you swore to uphold gets you into the mess, while not violating them again is what keeps you in it.

Sisko: Get away with murder because your treated like divinity by an endangered race, until you lose your mind and seek revenge on the asshole who's been prodding you for years. Oh, and your actually an alien but don't know it.[/quote]

Benjamin Lafayette Sisko is the baddest motherfucker to have ever existed in the Star Trek universe. There are two main rules in DS9: 1: Nobody fucks with Sisko when he's angry 2: Those who try, learn nobody fucks with Sisko when he's angry.

 

[Occasional Poster]

Well, there goes my interest in ever seeing Deep Space 9. Thanks Ash.

This.

 

[AshburnerX]

Well, there goes my interest in ever seeing Deep Space 9. Thanks Ash.

This. [/QUOTE]

It's been off the air for 10 years. It is officially beyond the scoop of the spoiler law. Besides, it honestly felt tacked on in the last season... like they were trying to think of a way to get rid of Sisko as a character without killing him. It's especially bad because there wasn't jack in foreshadowing for it.

Still, go and watch DS9. Your not watching it for the story, your watching it for the characters.

 

[Bowielee]

Still, go and watch DS9. Your not watching it for the story, your watching it for the characters.

Shego, could you link the Scanners head explode .gif on this one for me?

 

[AshburnerX]

Still, go and watch DS9. Your not watching it for the story, your watching it for the characters.

Shego, could you link the Scanners head explode .gif on this one for me?[/QUOTE]

It's kind of like watching stuff by Donald P. Bellisario after Quantum Leap: The over arching plot isn't always that good, but the actually character interactions usually are.

Except for Odo. He was kinda a one trick pony the entire series. MORN was more interesting than him and he never said a god damn word.

 

[Occasional Poster]

Well, there goes my interest in ever seeing Deep Space 9. Thanks Ash.

This. [/QUOTE]

It's been off the air for 10 years. It is officially beyond the scoop of the spoiler law. [/QUOTE]

Yes, that is a valid point. It's been 10 years and I am still on the third season so I guess I can't expect to avoid spoilers easily. I was mostly just surprised by getting DS9 spoiled in a thread about ME2.

Speaking of ME2, I can't wait!

I am very curious about the improved combat mechanics. I think the new characters that have been revealed so far look very interesting.

 

[Qonas]

Well, there goes my interest in ever seeing Deep Space 9. Thanks Ash.

This. [/QUOTE]

It's been off the air for 10 years. It is officially beyond the scoop of the spoiler law. [/QUOTE]

Yes, that is a valid point. It's been 10 years and I am still on the third season so I guess I can't expect to avoid spoilers easily. I was mostly just surprised by getting DS9 spoiled in a thread about ME2.[/QUOTE]

Welcome to the wonders of Halforums. But still, continue with your DS9 watching. You're literally just getting to all the good stuff, where the small story hints and character quirks that will drive the meat of the series are being dropped and established. Just because some part of Sisko has gotten spoiled (and even then, Ash oversimplified the "revenge" part. It isn't even revenge at all as....well, you'll see ) doesn't mean you should stop. That spoiler doesn't tell you what is going on in and around the station, and with all the other characters. And, as it's been stated, DS9 was very much character driven.

Love that show.

As for ME2, it looks like the new combat mechanics are going to provide for some smooth commando-style controls. The new reloading bit is going to add much to the game, I think, even if there's a wacky storyline reason for it (just like with the unlimited ammo). Cover's nothing new but seems upgraded, which'll be a plus.

The new characters are kinda interesting, but seem like a continuation of characters from the first game. Tits McGee being the Ashley-type, the assassin dude being a Wrex-type, etc. That's not to say the assassin doesn't look and seem cool, which he does. But he's basically filling the same role Wrex did so it doesn't seem like anything new is being brought to the table. If the rumors are true, however, about the

Spoiler

Salarian scientist

then THAT character will quite possibly rock hardcore.

 

[Necronic]

Mass effect was such a let down for me. I picked it up again and played it through a second time (not all the way) and was just so meh'd by the whole thing. Granted, my opinions are mine alone, but I don't care too much about the sequel. DA:O is definitely on my watchlist though. want want want.

 

[Nile]

I really, really, really hope they bring Wrex back.

The rest of them, I don't really care about.

 

[Frank]

Fucking A! A salarian? God damn that's pleasing.

 

[Bowielee]

I killed Wrex off

 

[Shegokigo]

I killed Wrex off

You WOULD.

As for me? It was all about Liara and Tali. We were sexy bitches, kicking alien ass and blowing shit up. Threeways after every successful mission too.

 

[bhamv3]

I killed Wrex off

You WOULD.

As for me? It was all about Liara and Tali. We were sexy bitches, kicking alien ass and blowing shit up. Threeway's after every successful mission too. [/QUOTE]

Plus Liara and Tali actually made for a pretty well-rounded team. One's for biotics, the other's for tech. I usually give them both shotguns equipped with explosive rounds. They don't shoot often, but when they do, they make it count.

 

[Shegokigo]

Their skills + My sniping, shit was dead WAY before it knew we were even on the planet.

 

[CynicismKills]

I was the combat/tech mix (class name eludes me) with Ashley and Liara as backup. Worked out pretty well.

The tattoo'd character they just announced seems kinda stupid to me, at least in the context she was presented (herp derp I'm a bad girl who swears and wants to bone, I'm a unique snowflake!).

 

[Shegokigo]

I was the combat/tech mix (class name eludes me) with Ashley and Liara as backup. Worked out pretty well.

The tattoo'd character they just announced seems kinda stupid to me, at least in the context she was presented (herp derp I'm a bad girl who swears and wants to bone, I'm a unique snowflake!).

If Tali isn't back in ME2, I think I know who's partnering with Liara and me.

 

[AshburnerX]

The tattoo'd character they just announced seems kinda stupid to me, at least in the context she was presented (herp derp I'm a bad girl who swears and wants to bone, I'm a unique snowflake!).

This. That was a stale sterotype in the 90's and it's almost 2010. They could have done a little better.

 

[Nile]

I killed Wrex off

MONSTER!

My party was always Tali and Wrex... We left no survivors.

 

[Iaculus]

Fucking A! A salarian? God damn that's pleasing.

No kidding. I mean, we've had reps from both the other Council races. Wonder what'll be the deal with this guy? In the last game, a lot of the aliens were playing against their species stereotype to some extent - for instance, the disciplined turians produced Garrus the maverick, whilst the cheerfully brutal krogan produced Wrex the disillusioned warrior-poet.

 

[bhamv3]

Fucking A! A salarian? God damn that's pleasing.

No kidding. I mean, we've had reps from both the other Council races. Wonder what'll be the deal with this guy? In the last game, a lot of the aliens were playing against their species stereotype to some extent - for instance, the disciplined turians produced Garrus the maverick, whilst the cheerfully brutal krogan produced Wrex the disillusioned warrior-poet.[/QUOTE]

Salarians have fast metabolisms and tend to have quick, hyperactive mannerisms, so this guy will probably be slow and deliberate.

Also, he'll have a very short name.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Fucking A! A salarian? God damn that's pleasing.

No kidding. I mean, we've had reps from both the other Council races. Wonder what'll be the deal with this guy? In the last game, a lot of the aliens were playing against their species stereotype to some extent - for instance, the disciplined turians produced Garrus the maverick, whilst the cheerfully brutal krogan produced Wrex the disillusioned warrior-poet.[/quote]

Salarians have fast metabolisms and tend to have quick, hyperactive mannerisms, so this guy will probably be slow and deliberate.

Also, he'll have a very short name.[/QUOTE]

Hell, they only live for what, 40 years? Life's too short for more than one syllable.

I've read that he's a scientist, but I'm hoping that he takes a page from the salarian military style of ethics, which is basically a bunch of black ops who will sneak in and pwn your ass before the war even starts.

 

[bhamv3]

Fucking A! A salarian? God damn that's pleasing.

No kidding. I mean, we've had reps from both the other Council races. Wonder what'll be the deal with this guy? In the last game, a lot of the aliens were playing against their species stereotype to some extent - for instance, the disciplined turians produced Garrus the maverick, whilst the cheerfully brutal krogan produced Wrex the disillusioned warrior-poet.[/quote]

Salarians have fast metabolisms and tend to have quick, hyperactive mannerisms, so this guy will probably be slow and deliberate.

Also, he'll have a very short name.[/QUOTE]

Hell, they only live for what, 40 years? Life's too short for more than one syllable.

I've read that he's a scientist, but I'm hoping that he takes a page from the salarian military style of ethics, which is basically a bunch of black ops who will sneak in and pwn your ass before the war even starts.[/QUOTE]

Ah yes, just like the Silent Step, who defeated a nation with a single shot. Or the Ever Alert, who kept armies at bay with hidden facts.

(I love Kirrahe!)