[QUOTE="dreman999"][QUOTE="Eggimannd"]I just beat Mass Effect 2 on PC about 2 hours ago. While I do find the Mass Effect series to be an enjoyable series, it's the kind of games that I can't play more than 1-2 hours at a time MAX before falling asleep from sheer boredom of so much BLA BLA BLA. I wanted to have the full experience so I pretty much talked to everyone and JESUS CHRIST sometimes there's way way waaaayy too much useless chatter.
The gunplay wasn't bad but nothing really great. Definitely doesn't compare to third person shooters such as Uncharted and Gears of Wars (not that it really should, it's an rpg/shooter)
In conclusion, if you're a fan of these kinds of games, they're really great games. If you're not much of a fan of talking, prepare for a borefest.
II_Seraphim_II
IT'S...A...RPG..... OF COURSE THEIR IS GOING TO BE LOTS OF DIALOGUE But Bioware takes it to the next level. My brother even commented "You know, everytime I walk in on you on your computer, I see you with your arms crossed, reading...do you ever actually play this game?" and he was right. Bioware needs to learn to be mre concise with their dialog, or at the very least add A lot more combat sequences so players aren't bored to death with the abundance of dialog. You spend more time reading than playing in Mass Effect, and that's no fun. And it's not like the dialog is exactly riveting stuff expressed in stellar cutscenes. All you see is your avatar standing there talking for 30min, then you drive around a barren planet for 30min inspecting random junk, and then you have a fight scene that lasts 15 seconds. That's horribly disproportinate.if you're talking about ME1 then yeah, the dialogue issue with that game was that it was un-naturally delivered
as in, rather than a character talk about their personal experiences and how they talk about their knowledge it's delivered at face-value to the player, letting the player delve into tons of back-story dialogue if they so choose
but to be fair, it's mostly optional, the game always gives you the dialogue option to simply ram through conversations like an out of control train, with the downside being you lost a lot of context
that's something that was worked on in ME2, backstory is delivered in spurts where characters will only talk about so-much before they usually "have to get back to work" or sometimes they say "but i don't want to bore you" (kind of a wink wink to ME1)... and the dialogue has a lot more personality to it and when they do go into some backstory they do it shorter and more to the point, and there's a lot more combat and zero driving around
it was a good idea in the first game, but on its own can get kinda tedious if you're a completionist type
edit: but it IS an rpg, not an action title, some rpg purists even say the Mass Effect series has too little story...
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