What should I expect?

What should I expect?

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=aXCM0lZxh4U
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

>interesting characters
>best cast in the series
>better dialogue (think ME1 minus the wikipiedia expositions)
>blade runner in space setting
>better gameplay
>streamlined leveling
About the last point: bioware cut too much from it, but they didn't drop all rpg elements like some would want you to believe. The biggest difference is that skills/passives are determined by your class. Separate branches from ME1, that you decided to skip or didn't manage to level at all and made slight differences in gameplay in the end are gone however. By the end of the game, you will fill out the entire tree.

an okay game

>ammunition
>worse biotics
>more diverse guns
>only shooting and minigames as gameplay
>big, great cast
>better hub worlds overall, but worse Citadel
>shit and unnecessary story

>shit and unnecessary story
More like barebones as fuck, but I agree. This is sidequests+worldbuilding: the game basically.

boring reddit soylent game with terrible character creator

best soundtrack

youtube.com/watch?v=aXCM0lZxh4U

daddy issue the game.

The best one and dat miranda ass

The Good
>better cast and story
>no more mako bullshit

The Bad
>ammo
>ruined weapon customization
>dumbed down character leveling
>biotic and tech powers less powerful
>combat is more grindy

the last bad point being the most important to me. I didn't even know the first game was a cover shooter until watching a friend play it. The second game however, requires this, and while it is still a fun game, the gameplay and overall experience is less than the first.

HERD U TLKIN SHIT

it's the best of the 3 and anyone who says otherwise is a dumbfuck

If you don't romance Tali or Miranda you're a gay.

...

now i gotta jerk off again

I really dislike the leveling system and resource gathering but overall I loved it. People bitch about it being so disconnected from the Reaper threat but I think that's exactly why I enjoy it more than 1 or 3. Mass Effect has such a great world and characters when it isn't trying to be so grandiose.

>The second game however, requires this
Only if you pick soldier. Other classes are less cover dependent, especially vanguard.

>the gameplay and overall experience is less than the first.
This really depends on what you got out of ME1 though. I got hooked with the characters, setting and the wold in ME1, but the gameplay felt really rough at times. Imo, ME2 is the better game, because it doubled down on those parts and made the gameplay smoother. I just wish it had a more fleshed out story like ME1 did.

>Mass Effect has such a great world and characters when it isn't trying to be so grandiose.
This is exactly why I think a small scale spinoff set during the trilogy could work and could potentially be better than a sequel to ME3.

miranda sucks. why do people like her?

I stayed loyal to Liara even though she did her own thing.

Play femshep
>Be bffs with Tali and gossip on your bed after pillow fighting and pizza.

>Experience the best romance Bioware has ever created with Garrus.

>Blown off Jack and Miranda because you are a boss bitch.

>Clutch your space purse a little tighter when Jacob walks by you.

ME2 had worst waifu selection. Ashley or Liara all the way.

+
More characters with more interactions
More varied weapon types
No enforced Mako missions

-/+
Easier weapon mechanics
Practically removed inventory
No omnigel
No skill required for security minigames

-
Pants on head retarded story
Character assassination
Dumbing down of abilities
Dumbing down of progression
Less customisation
Worse soundtrack

>Character assassination
Explain

OH GOD KILL IT KILL IT

i'm pretty sure people speak entirely in buzzwords on this board; i don't know what he's talking about, you don't know what he's talking about, and he probably doesn't know what he's talking about either.

Udina turns from an opportunist with humanity's best interests at heart, to generic sleazy politician 74
Shepard seems to forget the fact that it was Cerberus who fucked his squad, depending on his origin
Liara requires the DLC to be anything like her previous self
The council receives a full frontal lobotomy, as opposed to be obstructive for political reasons
This fag receives Bioware's cock directly into his mouth

Udina was always a sleasy shit
Shepard mentions "hey ur cerberus i dont like u" a lot in ME2
who cares about liara to begin with lmao
I killed off the old council for a reason

But I romanced Garrus.
Am I safe?

>Udina was always a sleazy shit
He was an asshole, sure, but it was made very clear that he genuinely did care about the interests of humanity. His fuck up in ME1 wasn't due to malice, but because he hadn't read the script and didn't know how badly he was fucking the galaxy.
>Shepard mentions "hey ur cerberus i dont like u" a lot in ME2
Yeah, but he doesn't mention the horrific trauma or the one survivor he encountered that was driven utterly insane by them
>who cares about liara to begin with lmao
>I killed off the old council for a reason
It's bad writing regardless of what you liked beforehand

THE PRIZE

>expecting good writing from videogames

I accept your concession.

...

why haven't you played me2 yet? what is your excuse? I demand an answer

It's very good of you to reinforce my point further, but there really is no need

...

I know. Explanation is usually a sign of of someone not baiting though.

>Udina turns from an opportunist with humanity's best interests at heart, to generic sleazy politician 74
>He was an asshole, sure, but it was made very clear that he genuinely did care about the interests of humanity. His fuck up in ME1 wasn't due to malice, but because he hadn't read the script and didn't know how badly he was fucking the galaxy.
He did, but power does that to people. Suddenly he goes from absolute no one to the most powerful human in the galaxy. It's believable that it went to his head. ME3 further shows that.

>Shepard seems to forget the fact that it was Cerberus who fucked his squad, depending on his origin
And yet, he doesn't trust them in the beginning. It still pops up a few times even if you pick dialogue in their favor.

>Yeah, but he doesn't mention the horrific trauma or the one survivor he encountered that was driven utterly insane by them
He's against them from the start. Just because there are no references to any of his origins doesn't mean they ignored that aspect.

>Liara requires the DLC to be anything like her previous self
It is revealed that she kept that part to herself while she acted professionally on vanilla illium. Development does that to anyone. Even without the DLC, it's believable. Characters never remain static.

>The council receives a full frontal lobotomy, as opposed to be obstructive for political reasons
They were skeptics from the start, Shepard promised them a defeat of a god-machine threat. After Sovereign's destruction and Saren's death there's lack of evidence for any that. All they have is a hyper advanced ship wreck and Saren's corpse. Geth seemed likely from the perspective from anyone who didn't lsten to Sovereign. The council acted like they should: more trust worthy, suspicious that Shepard even survived and that he works for Cerberus of all people.

Still on 1

Shepard was always an alliance guy, he never officially joins cerberus and just uses them to complete the mission because he has no choice. He goes back to the alliance first chance he gets.

when i encounter things on this website i dont understand or don't care enough to understand i just bait for yous

>The Turian is loyal to you
>The Salarian likes you
>The Krogan is your bash buddy
>The Human Woman is someone you'll either love or hate
>The Human Man is boring
Quick which Mass Effect game am I talking about?

ME2 is the only one with a Salarian

Zero micromanagement, decent gunplay, repetitive but simple and quick minigames, datest ass in the galaxy
Final verdict: Muh cinematic experience/10

>It's believable that it went to his head.
>Development does that to anyone.
The problem here is that you can justify literally any change if you want to. It still doesn't make it a good idea to do so.
Udina and Liara are practically completely different people. This is fine if you get to experience their change with them, but having a time skip to justify a new personality is very poor writing, especially in Udina's case, where he becomes a walking cliche
Shadow Broker did a good repair job, though, I'll concede that. It's just a pity it also included Tela Vasir; one of the worst written characters in the franchise (including Andromeda)

>ME3 further shows that
Udina's early scenes in ME3, of a man drowning under his responsibility, is in my opinion some of the best writing in the series, and goes a long way to repairing his appearance in 2. The fact they then fucked it up with the Cerberus Coup pisses me off far more than the ending

>And yet, he doesn't trust them in the beginning. It still pops up a few times even if you pick dialogue in their favor.
I can't recall a single bit of dialogue that references that Cerberus murdered his squad for practically no reason, especially not to the man who would have authorised it. All I recall are generic refrences to the fucked up things they did in ME1's side missions.

>He's against them from the start. Just because there are no references to any of his origins doesn't mean they ignored that aspect.
You're doing the job the writers should have been doing.
In a game that claims to take choice into account, leaving it up to the player to headcanon explanations is lazy

>They were skeptics from the start,
They were devil's advocates from the start.
The ending of 1 makes it clear that the council are over that petty politicking, and actually trust you. That they'd shove their heads in the sand is, again, lazy writing. This one can't even be justified by the time skip, since they did it in ME2s intro.

I never said it had to be a squadmate
>Major Kirrahe is a bro in 3 if you take the time to save him
>Kallo the pilot likes you the more you get to talk to him

Well?

Male character runs like a soyboy

Infiltrator or Vanguard
Explain in 10 words or less what the fuck that's supposed to mean.

Soldier is very straightforward for a first timer, but Vanguard is great too.
>here is the newest buzzword I learned from the cool older kids on forechon

Sentinel can destroy any defenses enemies have and get tech armor, that's my fav.

What about sentinel?

Does the cool holo armor explode or was that not yet established

It explodes with an electric type effect

It's functional, but Infiltrator and Vanguard, in my opinion, allow for the best mobility and variety in taking down enemies.
You can also more easily cheese past bullshit if you do insanity runs.

Good action rpg "lite," pretty weak story with an incredibly rushed ending

jokes on you

>[Renegade] No way, fag

Vanguard or Sentinel are the only fun ones.

I feel like the whole recruit Morinth instead scenario only happened because they realized "oh fuck, AI hacking is going to be worthless in this game" and so they made the Biotic "Dominate" Ability instead

Take off your clothes and do your calibrations naked, Turian.

That's an order.

>The problem here is that you can justify literally any change if you want to. It still doesn't make it a good idea to do so.
>Udina and Liara are practically completely different people. This is fine if you get to experience their change with them, but having a time skip to justify a new personality is very poor writing
I agree, but the time skip didn't change their personalities at all. Liara learned to be professional as shown buy the shadow broker DLC. She just learned to hide the old part of herself. I actually buy that just from the events from ME1 alone. I'll give you Udina though.

>All I recall are generic refrences to the fucked up things they did in ME1's side missions.
>In a game that claims to take choice into account, leaving it up to the player to headcanon explanations is lazy
True, there could've been more. But it's more than enough to get the message across. Cerberus was still left being bad with or without that mention. Honestly, it would've been a problem if they were suddenly good. A retcon. But were shady and untrustworthy at best.

>The ending of 1 makes it clear that the council are over that petty politicking, and actually trust you.
Do they? Last time I checked they questioned your validity because you could've been an impostor. This is why they threw him a bone with the permission to remain in the terminus systems. Since this resolution is left on hold until ME3.

Both Tali and Miranda wanna suck my cock Sup Forums

WHO DO I CHOOSE? It's honestly one of the hardest decisions ive ever made in a videogame

Killing Samara is like the most evil choice in this whole series, Morinth is a bloodsucker that literally kills you in dialog. Then in 3 she becomes even worse.

I think I'm just going to to agree to disagree here.
Glad to have a few posts discussion without it devolving into mindless shitflinging

> most evil choice in this whole series,
And most retarded.
Or would be if it weren't the option to fuck her at the end

It's retarded but it was funny,

If only they made more outcomes like that as a way to say " you seriously picked this? What are you, a fucking moron?"

Shame 3 nerfed her ass.

If you're going to play ME3 go with Miranda. Don't cockblock your boy Garrus.

Sentinel is my shit.

They should have had a message like this on it.

Mechanically she's the best squadmate if youre trying to do higher difficulties. Narratively she also has the strongest connection to the plot by virtue of being the IMs second. Miranda always has something to say that's topical to the situation, compared to say Talk who exists purely to be an exposition bot for her race.

Liara is best girl though it's true.

Vanguard and use the geth plasma shotgun.

Soldier all the way. It's canon, and also fun. I like being a badass normal in vidya. Also it's a lot better to use squadmates abilities like tech and biotic cause they hit enemies instantly, while I just focus on being the damage dealer. Soldier can also take down any armor with proper ammo set up.

I tried all the classes but only 75% renegade/25% paragon male soldier feels right storywise. I know I will trigger a lot of autists, don't care desu

her turning into a generic banshee makes it all the more hilarious
the writers clearly wanted to show you you made a shitty fucking choice you evil cunt

>tfw long ass bug event, going smooth even though my vanguard can't break fucking shields in this game because they castrated his casting for a suicide dash
>2 hours probably + "cinematic experiences"
>gunning down the floating roly poly that shoots assfucking lasers
>teammates awol as a (buffed in this game to piss me off) geth zombie bitch blindsides me and kills me instantly

Fuck shields

Expect to roleplay the commander of a spaceship that leads away teams on rescue missions. Don't over think the combat, it's not a min/max JRPG.

Why the hell is the captain going down on away missions anyway

I think you will enjoy it if you liked the first game at least for continuity, but the gameplay changes are pretty radical -- few weapons to pick, less spells and later enemies get super rape attacks that bust your shield open in one shot, but they also have 3 layers of shielding, which fucked my vanguard for half the game (now i have a sniper rifle tho, faggots!)

As a spectre he had something akin to diplomatic immunity, he'd need to be involved in missions that would jeopardize space politics or whatever

I remember being 13 years old too. Fun times.