Mass Effect 2: More waxing goddamn nostalgic.

[Spacehost]

Oh damn, do I have to put ME2 on again?

I'm still having conversations with squadmates that I haven't had before. Such a huge game.

[moosegrinder]

Playing through again with the DLC this time and just met Zaeed. That fucker is NOT leaving my party.

[JoeK]

He's a tough son of a bitch and also tells a cracking tale or two

[Rudi von Starnberg]

Let's try to keep things spoilered in here for now (even character names!) as a courtesy to Alex. There's stuff on this page that I wouldn't have wanted to know when first playing ME2.

[Spacehost]

Agreed. I mean, Zaeed and Kasumi are the names of the DLC so there's not much you can do, but Captain LeChuck should secure some of those names. Or use their pseudonym.

[Spacehost]

Those are now the my official forum names for those characters when we're discussing the game.

[JoeK]

I just love Zaeed's voice. It's bloody great. He sounds like a proper cock-er-ney geezer.

He'll shoot you and then shit on you for good measure.

[JoeK]

For the love of all things good, please let Aria be back in ME3.

She is just the best character in the whole ME universe as far as I'm concerned - would bloody love Bioware to do some 'Tales of Aria' stuff...there's enough not told about her life that it could be mega awesome ace etc etc.

[Spacehost]

Careful of spoilers! But yes.

[Mallet]

I'd forgotten all the little touches this game has.

The game shop on the citadel and the 2 Krogans talking about fish and guns had me laughing again. I also finished the Firewalker DLC for the first time, is it my imagination or did most people hate it? I quite enjoyed it if I'm honest, don't think I'd pay for it but for a freebie it's not bad.

[Roblet]

Aria? Bleh.

I've just played the bit where she gives her self-aggrandising introductory speech and I still think it's toe-curlingly embarrassing, gratuitous f-bomb and all.

^ Early game, spoilered for Alex.

[Vaya.]

That's #1 complete for the 10th and probably final time.

[spoiler at link]

http://steamcommunity.com/id/vaya/screenshot/468610754586226478

on to 2.

[Garibaldi]

Aria? I just had to google her as I'd completely forgotten who she was.

[Alex W.]

That was staggeringly abrupt. Saved my crew.

I kept my previous Shepard's slightly dodgy face on the basis that I was unlikely to cobble together a reasonable substitute in the editor.

Getting used to the new controls and hacking is a remarkably good simulation of the feeling that your limbs and brain don't quite work.

[Roblet]

It's a shame you can't tinker with the existing face rather than having to start all over again. Technical obstacle I take it?

I hope I can give my canonshep a skinhead for ME3.

I really like how you wake up and within three seconds you're pistol-toting in over-the-shoulder action game view, it's a real statement of intent.

[Hexx]

That was staggeringly abrupt. Saved my crew.

I kept my previous Shepard's slightly dodgy face on the basis that I was unlikely to cobble together a reasonable substitute in the editor.

Getting used to the new controls and hacking is a remarkably good simulation of the feeling that your limbs and brain don't quite work.

So the death was what was spoilered for you? I think most people awaiting the game at launch knew it was coming (the trailers were very very suggestive...but I know a couple who went in blind and where just shellshocked by what happens. Especially as it's a bit brutal with Shep struggling and suffocating in space

(Although it's obviously undone a few minutes later )

[RubberJohnny]

It is a remarkably pointless scene, everyone survives and you get everything back in like half an hour. It's there to give an opening action scene and to justify a "this is why you're level 1 again" thing.

[MikeJones]

It is a remarkably pointless scene, everyone survives and you get everything back in like half an hour. It's there to give an opening action scene and to justify a "this is why you're level 1 again" thing.

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Well, yeah. And it's fucking amazing.

[Flub]

I loled at "Space Batman"

[Alex W.]

I knew what was coming, I was just expecting slightly more run-up.

Edit- although starting just after the title card instead might've been a more impressive opener.

[Spacehost]

It is a remarkably pointless scene, everyone survives and you get everything back in like half an hour. It's there to give an opening action scene and to justify a "this is why you're level 1 again" thing.

It's a standard trope, and a pretty smart way of dramatically changing the lay of the land while staying in the same universe.

I did wonder if they basically wanted to have the pretitles of ME2 as the ending of ME1. Ultimate cliffhanger!

[Alex W.]

Or they could just give their entire fanbase the finger, which would be more or less the same thing.

"See you in two years, suckers! Hope you like waiting!"

[Vaya.]

I forgot how awesome this game is.

Doing project overlord for the first time. Great fun.

[JoeK]

Replaying the Zaeed mission and whilst I think I've played it both ways,

is there a way to both safe the folks about to burn in the factory, and kill Vito too, or is it one or the other? If there isn't, then I bloody well hope Zaeed's able to batter him good in ME3!

[Rudi von Starnberg]

It's one or the other.

[Alex W.]

SR2. Aww yeah. I'm getting the band back together.

[Alex W.]

I'm doing the dialogue choices the same way as before - respond as I would like to respond - and I'm getting a much more varied distribution between Paragon and Renegade points this time around.

Is there a way to turn off the Achievement popups? They're getting on my nerves.

[SteveH]

I am so weary of this game right now I have played it a variety of ways in order to give me a nice choice of saves to carry over. But then found I had somehow deleted my main shep and so now I'm frantically playing it again, But it means also doing the side missions and DLC as I want as complete a carry over as possible. It is getting tiresome doing all that stuff again for the umpteenth time though

[Alex W.]

I mean, the popups listing progress toward achievements. The dash popups are ok.

[Rudi von Starnberg]

Now's the time to download all the DLC if you haven't done that already, by the way. Except Arrival.