[QUOTE="mo0ksi"]It has enough role playing elements to be called an RPG. But it has plenty of evidence to see that it's action-centric. The original was never a deep RPG, and in some ways it was poorly done because it was torn being a TPS and an RPG. Mass Effect 2 knows what it is this time. It knows it's an action-RPG. Action comes first, and with the way it was executed it felt like this is what the series should have been in the first place. It's a lot more engaging, and the pacing isn't halted like the original and its god-awful inventory system and empty planets. It kept the most important RPG elements of the original onto ME2, while making great improvements with everything around it. This results in a much better GAME than the original could have aspired to be. It surpasses the original in every aspect except for maybe the storyline. Revan, you complain, complain and complain thinking that it's going to make yourself feel a little better. Quite frankly, that's pretty damn sad. People arguing about meaningless stuff on forums is sad. Deal with it. It's not like my post is any sadder than 360 Pwns PS3 lolz threads. And no Mass Effect had RPG ellements and it was an RPG. In ME2 they scrapped it, wanted to target a wider audience and made it a shooter. Not that there's anything wrong with that, people want to make money, but Bioware sold out big time.
[QUOTE="-Feath-"]RPGs are not about playing a role, if that were the case, Half Life 2 is an RPG where you play the role of Gordon Freeman, hell even a game as mind numbingly stupid as counter-strike is an RPG. The things that set RPGs apart (or should), are the choices that you make and how they affect the narrative, your character and others around you, along with the game world itself. Now I don't know if the TC played the same game as me, but Mass Effect 2 was an RPG and a good one at that; it was no Deus Ex, but it was good. You make similar choices in GTA IV. Does that make it an RPG? And choices in GTA have much more consequence. In ME2 in every dialogue you have you can choose to act like a goodie or act like a baddie but in the end the same things will happen, you will fight the same battle. I am not talking about choices in ME1, it was really mind blowing how they connected the two games together, but the only choice that really mattered in ME2 is at the ending. Where you choose to back up Cerebrus or blow everything up. No other choices in this game mattered.
[QUOTE="Doctor-McNinja"][QUOTE="Revan_911"] Yet it had less RPG elements than....any other RPG game. And it just doesn't feel like playing an RPG. It feels like playing a third person shooter. A stiff third person shooter. Fallout 3 plays out like a first person shooter yet it's still very much an RPG. Agreed. Mass Effect 2 plays like a third person shooter and it's a third person shooter. With dialogue choices.
the first one you'll have to use your brain to defeat enemies so there're tactics. Besides
PostNothing
I lol'd. I played on the hardest difficulty available and i don't know what you're talking about. If using incidneary ammo against one enemy and synthetic ammo against other enemy makes you a tactical genius, i don't know what it makes people who play Dragon Age on insane.
there are so many games that cross genres anyway, but MAss Effect is more RPG then third person shooter.
It's like saying MGS4 is an RPG, but it's not since it as more attributes to a third person action adventure then a stat heavy based RPG.
AdmiralBison
Mass Effect is. Mass Effect 2 is not.
please explain why Mass Effect 2 is not an Action RPG?
It has more RPG elements then just being a third person shooter.
Yet it had less RPG elements than....any other RPG game. And it just doesn't feel like playing an RPG. It feels like playing a third person shooter. A stiff third person shooter.
[QUOTE="Revan_911"][QUOTE="timmy00"] You CAN'Tcompare ME2 with Gears of War 2. There's a huge difference between them.
timmy00
Why can't I? ME2 can call itself RPG all it want's it still felt like playing Gears. Shoot, duck in cover shoot. I had the totally same feeling. At least gears didn't bore me with "deep" storytelling. Like I said completely different games. Gears of War is a huge action shooter. ME2 have RPG elements. How the hell did you have the same feeling? The only thing they have in common is that they are both TPS and have a cover system. That's it.
I'm sorry if you can't see how deep ME2 story is. Not my fault but it doesn't change the fact that it is still an Action RPG.
It wasn't deep at all. It was "Fetch this character" Fetch that character, and all of this had nothing to do with the main story. If Jacob a security officer was good enough to be on my team, then i could just use ten random people and do the damn mission.
[QUOTE="Revan_911"][QUOTE="Vaasman"]And warp and reave and singularity and inferno and iceburst and combat drone and barrier and tech shields and adrenaline rush and cloak and charge and... seriously I should just stop it's too easy.
Vaasman
Maybe, i didn't bother playing with all classes,i just wanted this boring game to end so i can complain about it.They all felt like the same power. Shooting was what this game was about., you can use a power now and again, but they were useless because enemies had shields/barriers. So you shoot them 50 times to lower their shields, and then you have the choice of ending the enemies life in two shots, or using a power.hahaha this is just too much fun. Well it's not fun, i was bored out of my mind i spent 50$ on it and complaining gives me comfort.
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