Why New Vegas > Mass Effect 2 as an RPG

This is one quest in New Vegas. Look at the variety of skills it uses and the number of options you can do to complete it. This is leagues beyond anything ME2 does in the whole game.

Ill give you a better reason, ME2 doesn't even qualify to be an RPG .GeneralShowzer

^ ME2 leans more toward the shooter spectrum. 3/4 shooter, 1/4 RPG maybe.

^ ME2 leans more toward the shooter spectrum. 3/4 shooter, 1/4 RPG maybe.

Parasomniac

How do you like them apples

Well, whatever Mass Effect 2 is doing, I like that more than New Vegas RPG elements.

Edit: I had a good laugh at the post above. Well played.

Well, whatever Mass Effect 2 is doing, I like that more than New Vegas RPG elements.

Twin-Blade

That's probably because you are both shooter fans, not RPG fans. TC is right, as an RPG NV is way, way better than ME2.

I agree. It's a pity that quest was so bugged - it's pretty much a manifestation of why New Vegas is hands-down the best RPG of this generation from a gameplay perspective.

i liked mass effect 2 more

That's probably because you are both shooter fans, not RPG fans. TC is right, as an RPG NV is way, way better than ME2.

alexandros1313

You're pretty much kidding yourself if you think Mass Effect 2 is a better RPG than New Vegas.Juggernaut140

This

Better game = subjective
Better RPG = FNV

Better Game = ME2
Better RPG = FNV

coreybg

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Better Game = ME2
Better RPG = FNV

Avian005

More like broken.

The better game is subjective.

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[QUOTE="coreybg"]

Better Game = ME2
Better RPG = FNV

coreybg

More like broken.

The better game is subjective.

[QUOTE="alexandros1313"]

That's probably because you are both shooter fans, not RPG fans. TC is right, as an RPG NV is way, way better than ME2.

Avian005

So how did you do that? What does it mean that you played ME "as an RPG"?

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Better Game = ME2
Better RPG = FNV

Avian005

No. Mass Effect 2 is a better movie than Fallout: New Vegas. As a VIDEO GAME, which is an entertainment media defined by interactivity, Fallout: New Vegas could flush Mass Effect 2 down an irradiated toilet.

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[QUOTE="Avian005"]Fixed

More like broken.

The better game is subjective.

^ ME2 leans more toward the shooter spectrum. 3/4 shooter, 1/4 RPG maybe.

Parasomniac

New Vegas is probably a better RPG, but Mass Effect 2 is a far, far better game.TheOtherTheoG

That entirely depends on what people are looking for in a game.
For example, I prefer complexity and depth over polish and action, so I thought NV was a better game. Others disagree; it's a subjective claim.

Mass Effect 2 clearly wasnt as focused on Roleplaying elements like Fallout New Vegas was, in fact the RPG elements in ME2 were minimal.

Not only is Fallout New Vegas a much better roleplaying game, but it is also a much better game. Mass Effect 2 is one of the worst games I ever had to play, and after 5 hours in I was losing my will to continue and had to force myself to keep on playing.

Of course quality is subjective and I can understand why people like it, but if anyone says that the roleplaying in ME2 is deeper than that of New Vegas, then he is easily wrong.

In the future, I'll make sure to enjoy games based on rigid definitions of a vague genre instead of the actual experience they provide.

If NV is so obviously a better RPG than ME2, then why did nearly every review publication unhesitatingly lavish ME2 as far and away the best RPG of the year? Oh wait, lol, the gaming press. What am I thinking? To IGN and Game Informer, a two-path good cop/bad cop character tree is a revolution in RPG design. /gagBrownesque

To tell you the truth, maybe because it it is too much like Fallout 3, and it has bugs and glitches. I think that is the reason they said ME2 was the best RPG of da year

Nah, the whining about the changes Bioware made in ME2 are ad infinitum, I just can't understand why people cry so much. Anyway, ME2 is not a traditional RPG, it's a step foward in the genre, I really can't see nothing that comes close to it.

Nah, the whining about the changes Bioware made in ME2 are ad infinitum, I just can't understand why people cry so much. Anyway, ME2 is not a traditional RPG, it's a step foward in the genre, I really can't see nothing that comes close to it.

padaporra

I challenge you to relate one single way in which ME2 advanced the ROLEPLAYING genre.

Nah, the whining about the changes Bioware made in ME2 are ad infinitum, I just can't understand why people cry so much. Anyway, ME2 is not a traditional RPG, it's a step foward in the genre, I really can't see nothing that comes close to it.

padaporra

Only thing I agree with is your sig

Cause shes from Chuck

Ahh as much of an WRPG new vegas might be it is still plagued with glitches and problems allot have been fixed But I'll be waiting another few months before I even touch that game.

Good thing that I don't sit there worrying about what genre a game is when playing it then.soulitane

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Nah, the whining about the changes Bioware made in ME2 are ad infinitum, I just can't understand why people cry so much. Anyway, ME2 is not a traditional RPG, it's a step foward in the genre, I really can't see nothing that comes close to it.

Brownesque

I challenge you to relate one single way in which ME2 advanced the ROLEPLAYING genre.

How do you like them apples

GeneralShowzer

pure rpgs are boring... hybrids are the way to gocampzor

[QUOTE="soulitane"]Good thing that I don't sit there worrying about what genre a game is when playing it then.Master_ShakeXXX

Oh you :P

But really, people saying ME2 isn't an RPG are just damage controlling. If you (not you Shake, just a general message here) didn't talk to everyone, that is to say interacted with your world, nor levelled up and managed your stats and character cIass, then you just did it wrong and fail at RPGs anyway.