Can anybody explain to me what's so good about Mass Effect 2?

[QUOTE="h575309"][QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"] Nooooooooooooooo Empire was the best star wars film, never let me here you blaspheme again! :PHahadouken

Fine fine Ill concede the Star Wars thing. I still think my point about ME2's story stands though.

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Agreed. I have grown up with Naughty Dog and the Jak series and loved every second of it. I just can't have fools posting around that Uncharted beats everything and should be on top. Yes the animations are better, but atleast Mass Effect lets you choose what to say. They go the extra mile an creating bonds with your character.

CoreoVII

I dunno, I like them equally for totally different reasons.

The Chloe and Elena love triangle may not let you interact as much as say Miranda and (SPOILER), but I didn't feel any less attached to them because of it.

The games do different things, both do them exceedingly well. I love Fight Club and The Big Lebowski equally, even though they are totally different kinds of movies. There is a place for everything.

I don't know why it has to be a fight. My guess is it's between guys that only have one choice. I'm a big advocate of buying both consoles now.

Fine fine Ill concede the Star Wars thing. I still think my point about ME2's story stands though.

God damn HTML is fine GAMESPOT...Jeesh

h575309

[QUOTE="CoreoVII"]

Agreed. I have grown up with Naughty Dog and the Jak series and loved every second of it. I just can't have fools posting around that Uncharted beats everything and should be on top. Yes the animations are better, but atleast Mass Effect lets you choose what to say. They go the extra mile an creating bonds with your character.

Hahadouken

I dunno, I like them equally for totally different reasons.

The Chloe and Elena love triangle may not let you interact as much as say Miranda and (SPOILER), but I didn't feel any less attached to them because of it.

The games do different things, both do them exceedingly well. I love Fight Club and The Big Lebowski equally, even though they are totally different kinds of movies. There is a place for everything.

I don't know why it has to be a fight. My guess is it's between guys that only have one choice. I'm a big advocate of buying both consoles now.

Unfortunately I own all the consoles this gen. Also I loved when Drake picked Elena. This has to be fight because when I argue with someone on a topic it allows me to see there true feelings about said debate. We can all agree that everything is great all day but I believe the Mass Effect Trilogy so far is beating Uncharted by a mile. Uncharted 2's Multilayer is so addictive though.

[QUOTE="-Snooze-"]

In ME2 you customize your character and his party, you level up abilities. You make story based choices. You research upgrades, it has multiple endings.

In UC2 you can shoot people, punch peopleand climb at given intervals.

ME2 is far more a TPS/RPG hybrid, then UC2 is a platformer/TPS hybrid

Adrian_Cloud

[QUOTE="h575309"]Fine fine Ill concede the Star Wars thing. I still think my point about ME2's story stands though.

God damn HTML is fine GAMESPOT...Jeesh

Hahadouken

Well, once you finish the game you'll probably see what Im talking about (or not :P). Im not saying the ending is bad or anything of that nature. I actually really liked the ending. Either way, its my favorite game of the gen, simply for the combat itself. I absolutely love it and couldnt get enough.

Ok, so just yesterday I finally finished Mass Effect 1 on PC and without a sigle doubt I rushed to a store and bought ME 2 for PC, go home, and installed it.

After seeing the MC average review of 96, same as Uncharted 2, seeing the IGN article "ME 2 is better than U2" I had a lot of expectations from this game, "Wow, this is a game that is better than U2, one of the best game of all time" so I played the game and I thought.......

WTF? How can anybody said this game very good?

You can't change your armor, just upgrade it, and you can't change or modify your friend's armor, you can't toogle-helmet in the middle of the mission, there's no equipment in the menu, when you gained level-up you can't upgrade your status anymore, just skill point....

Gameplay...what? So I'm playing Gears of War+COD now? Seriously? I want to play RPG, not TPS! So now if I'm taking cover your heal regained just like when I played COD? What the....so what's the point of having Medigel in this game? Only for Unity? Pfffttt!!

Graphic.....did I heard some lemmings said this game on 360 has better graphic than U2? What a bulls**t....I played it on my PC and everything are maxed out!! Better than U2? They're not even on the same levels!! U2 graphics and animations are 100 times better than ME 2!! Seriously, anybody said ME 2 graphics are better than U2 proves he didn't have a PS3!

So, I only played it until I met Garrus as Archangel and then I got bored up and then turn off my PC, never touched it again.

So, please SW, can anybody told me a reason why ME 2 is so good besides the story? Because so far, ME 2 is one of my biggest dissapointment this year, better than Uncharted 2? I'm really glad GS only gave this game score 9.0 not 9.5 because ME 2 is no way better than Uncharted 2

ihsanqueen

I loved ME1 but it had its flaws...I just bought ME2 for PC and wasnt that happy with it...I mean yea it was basically the same as the first game, except they took out the random boring planet exploration missions, they altered the fighting to be more smooth, take cover etc...but still it just doesnt FLOW too smoothly...I found myself turning it off after about an hour each time I played...Until yesterday. I was about halfway through the game and I just marathoned it and loved it...the 2nd half of ME2 is def the best part of the game. Maybe give it more time...and Yes, the graphics dont touch UC2, I had all maxed on my laptop running a quad core, 4gb ram, nvidia 260gtx.

[QUOTE="Adrian_Cloud"][QUOTE="-Snooze-"]

In ME2 you customize your character and his party, you level up abilities. You make story based choices. You research upgrades, it has multiple endings.

In UC2 you can shoot people, punch peopleand climb at given intervals.

ME2 is far more a TPS/RPG hybrid, then UC2 is a platformer/TPS hybrid

jasonharris48

Uncharted 2 is a better game......Adrian_Cloud

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[QUOTE="ihsanqueen"] Yeah, the funny thing is in ME 1 you don't need Medigel to use Unity but in ME 2 you need a medi-gel? Then, what's the point of Unity skill in ME 2? Just remove it and change the term like ME 1, just click the 'F' button to use Medigel to regain your health and revive your fallen member

ihsanqueen

in ME1 medigel doesn't revive fallen party members

in ME2 unifying Unity and medi-gel puts a limit on how many times you can revive party members, that's pretty much the extent of the changes made

it's not really a big deal

yeah i hear you, i enjoy static healthbars as well, but you have to be fair and see that they're throwing a LOT more enemies at you in ME2 than in ME1, overall if they had kept the exact same health interface in ME2 you would be dying a lot more often, it might've even been considered "broken"

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[QUOTE="Adrian_Cloud"] Uncharted 2 is a better game......Revan_911

[QUOTE="jasonharris48"]

[QUOTE="Adrian_Cloud"] Uncharted 2 is a better game......Revan_911

Could the debaters that believe The Uncharted franchise is better than Mass Effect please list WHY THEY believe so? With reasons? Specific gameplay elements? Characters? What?

Mass Effect 2 is one of the greatest RPGs of all time. If you don't think so............you're wrong.texasgoldrush

The fact that it's fun? The gameplay mechanics are well done. And just because the game has bad graphics doesn't mean it sucks.