Poll: Did Mass Effect 2 Ruin Gaming For You?

After playing through and being blown away by ME2, I decided to pick up Yakuza 3 to play and all I can say is its extemely underwhelming. While the in-game cinemas are nice, the actual gameplay graphics are atrocious. It literally looks like a hi-res yakuza 2. The animation are some of the worst this gen. This game has some of the worst invisible walls i've ever seen in a game (there are places that look like you could explore that are part of the city that are blocked off by invisible walls). About 60% of the games story is told through text so the nice looking cinemas I mentioned earlier are few and far in-bewtween. The fighting system is shallow and repetitive when every 5 seconds some punk wants to fight with you. The minigames are badly implented as well. This game just feels dated, like sega was on a tight budget when making this. I think I would have enjoyed this game more if I had played it before playing ME2. But since I didnt, I cant forgive the overall laziness of sega, especially after playing though a super-polished title like ME2

I think ME2 has ruined games for me..

Yeah. I had the misfortune of playing White Knight Chronicles right after ME2 and I couldn't do it. To be honest though, I think that game would have annoyed me whenever I would have gotten around to playing it. The same thing happened with Heavy Rain, although I eventually went back to it and finished it.

I'm not having that problem now though. I'm currently playing Yakuza 3 and FF 13 and finding that my patience threshold has returned. I like Yakuza 3 quite a bit so far. I love games with realistic Japanese characters rather than the cartoonish anime nonsense found in most JRPGs. It's one of the reasons I found Persona 4 so appealing.

I had the same problem after playing MGS 4, I was mentally exhausted after playing it and had to lay off games for a couple of days.

GsStarCraft ruined gaming for me but Mass Effect 2 ruined other RPGs. Hell, I can't even look at JRPGs now because I know how inferior they are.

Ummm no. While Mass Effect 2 is great, imo it falls flat on certain areas, its like a mix of a good shooter and a good rpg, a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. The shooting mechanics and rpg elements are good but definitely lacking when compared to other games. For example comparing it to The Witcher makes ME2 fall flat out as far as rpg elements are concerned. The same goes for comparing it to other good shooters. Though then again this is all imo.

No, but Heavy Rain kinda did. Not really though.

Mass effect 2 is great game. I think one of the best this year... But it didn't ruin any game. I still like what I like. If one game is really awesome I don't think that other games have to have all the same things. I play different games and I look at different things from them. If story and characters are good usualy I like that game. I don't mind if it looks undated... If the gameplay is good and story I can forget all how the game looks like. I play games cause they are fun.

If you only play one game a Year, thing may be okay.;)

Despite the fact that Mass Effect 2 may be my favourite game of this year (possibly this generation thus far), it did not ruin gaming for me. If anything it made me appreciate gaming more because it can be considered a shining example of how far games have come and instills all that I love in video games. (Memorable Characters, high production values, epic story, great combat etc)

Mass Effect 2 isn't that good. :lol: But it is indeed awesome. Stalker and Crysis ruined console gaming for me though. :(

Luckily I could still play other games, but I wouldn't be surprised if it increased standards for other people, the game was so freaking awesome.

I don't get people who are saying Crysis, it probably had the opposite effect on me, but that's just me...

Nope -- it would take more (much more ) than the average graphics, average story,average gameplay etc present in Mass Effect 2 to ruin gaming for me

Nope -- it would take more (much more ) than the average graphics, average story,average gameplay etc present in Mass Effect 2 to ruin gaming for me

naval

I played about 30min or ME2. My oldest boy played it and beat it. He is going to be 16 in a couple months so he is in the "im young and im so cool and i know everything about everything" crowd. He never playes it after beating it. With zero muliplayer at all it has zero replayability. So there is 60$ gone for a one time go through.

ME2...very over rated

Uncharted 2 did for a little while for me.

Not graphically, just gameplay wise.

A few other games did this to me too.

Nope -- it would take more (much more ) than the average graphics, average story,average gameplay etc present in Mass Effect 2 to ruin gaming for me

naval

Not at all, as i'm currently paying, and loving FFXIII.

No, it was amazing but I played Resident Evil 5 afterwarda at long last and that was still really enjoyable. I am currently playing through SMG again and to be honest Im wondering if ME2 will even be my personal GOTY once SMG2 arrives.

The first was better, so no.

BioWare in general has risen my expections when it comes to character interaction and story.

Of the four gamesI played this year mass effect 2 is my least favorite, so no.

Uncharted 2 did that for me. Mainly the first time you visit that village in the mountains after you wake up. I was blown away.KukicAdo

Mass Effect is the worst Bioware franchise ever, with the exception of Jade Empire, and that was only one game. Fail.

For RPGS it has. One of the best games I have played.

[QUOTE="KukicAdo"]Uncharted 2 did that for me. Mainly the first time you visit that village in the mountains after you wake up. I was blown away.enterawesome

No. It was a decent game and I enjoyed playing it.

[QUOTE="naval"]

Nope -- it would take more (much more ) than the average graphics, average story,average gameplay etc present in Mass Effect 2 to ruin gaming for me

Ninja-Bear

[QUOTE="enterawesome"][QUOTE="KukicAdo"]Uncharted 2 did that for me. Mainly the first time you visit that village in the mountains after you wake up. I was blown away.KukicAdo

[QUOTE="KukicAdo"][QUOTE="enterawesome"]I was blown away pretty much the whole time. Especially the Nepal levels, the train sequence, and the ending in that one special city. My jaw literally dropped during that train ride. All I could think was "Holy ****, is this even real?!" dakan45

[QUOTE="KukicAdo"][QUOTE="enterawesome"]I was blown away pretty much the whole time. Especially the Nepal levels, the train sequence, and the ending in that one special city. My jaw literally dropped during that train ride. All I could think was "Holy ****, is this even real?!" dakan45

I cannot say that it ruined gaming for me since I have been gaming since near the beginning and have been through all of the ups and downs. I think that just the few first months of this year has been better than some of the holiday seasons in years past...

I much prefer Final FantasyQTEGamer

to each his own and all, but..

final fantasy? really?

No, but Heavy Rain kinda did. Not really though.

yokofox33

I wish more games were like that. I'd be lying if I said I was able to put the controller down. Me2 is good as well. I always get the itch to playing when Im not renting someones 360.

yeah it kinda brought down my enjoyment of a lot of other games

*but* then i got metroid prime trilogy and since then all has been fine

[QUOTE="dakan45"][QUOTE="KukicAdo"] Yes the whole game was one epic ride, can't wait to see the conclusion of this trilogy. jg4xchamp

I hated all the female characters in ME 2. (except Tali) Heck, I even made a thread asking how to kill them off during the final mission.

[QUOTE="QTEGamer"]I much prefer Final FantasyBoogie_J

to each his own and all, but..

final fantasy? really?

Yes. Every other game is not good enough for me now.