Mass Effect 2 [Xbox 360/PC/PS3]

[Bort]

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Are you playing a female Shepard, or eyeing up the gilfs?

FemShep FTW. Kimmy Shepard has got one Fine arse.

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The two gilf's were rather rough. I doubt they spent too much time refining to get some vintage gold.

[mekanor]

Just played through. Bit of a let down after shadow broker and overlord. Cool to see it leading up to ME3, but nothing really special. Shadow broker must have been a fluke.

[Sketcz]

For those playing on the PS3, can you do me a major favour?

Set your PS3 to French in the options menu, then load Mass Effect 2 and see if the game has French text/dialogue.

If it does, that means the French version probably has English, and I can pick it up via trade-in locally.

Thanks in advance.

[Neon Ignition]

Finished the DLC last night and I can see why people haven't been knocked for six by it. I was mainly glad just to get my true female Shepherd back in active duty for one last mission before the wait for ME3 begins. It was alright but for ME3 I think I'd prefer to have a premium priced 12hr DLC expansion rather than these bitty mission packs.

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I am secretly hoping that if I don't buy Arrival, they will include in on the PS3 version of Mass Effect 3

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[Magnakai]

Just finished ME2 last night after getting bored with the original and skipping it. It took my OCD self about 50 hours, with all planets scanned and way, way too many minerals. No romance though. Forever alone!

It's far improved over the original. I played that for about 6 or 7 hours and just dropped it out of boredom. I had a similar experience with Assassin's Creed 2 - another superb sequel.

I'm really looking forward to ME3 now! Are any of the DLCs worth playing? From what I can tell in this thread, Arrival isn't worth it.

[112]

Magnaki, you should have got the PS3 version, it has all the DLC minus Arrival on the disk

Also, im about halfway through the game, but were you not tempted by

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Minx Miranda's pert ass

at all? I couldn't help myself to a bit of

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Kinky Kelly

action!

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[fuse]

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I was gutted I didn't get any Kelly action! Major exchange of flirting, went for dinner together, still nothing. Bah! Felt like I went for the boring option with Miranda too, think on second thoughts Tali or Jack would've proven more interesting.

[Magnakai]

Oh, I played as a lady. I was so annoyed by the first game that I thought I should try a different voice actor. I'm glad I did, she's awesome. Plus I made her look a bit like my girlfriend, so I got the whole kick-ass girlfriend fantasy thing going on. I did try to seduce various ladies, but apart from some Kelly "action", which doesn't really count, nobody bit. Le sad!

I'm thinking about replaying from ME1 as a Renegade female. I played ME2 as an adept, which was awesome. Are there any other ridiculously powerful classes with kick-ass area of affect powers?

[Sketcz]

For those playing on the PS3, can you do me a major favour?

Set your PS3 to French in the options menu, then load Mass Effect 2 and see if the game has French text/dialogue.

If it does, that means the French version probably has English, and I can pick it up via trade-in locally.

Thanks in advance.

I like the cut of this poster's gib.

[sj33]

Just completed Arrival. After reading negative feedback across the net, I went into it expecting the worst, but I thought it was pretty decent. Not exactly up there with the Shadow Broker DLC, but possibly the second best.

In the long-term, I do hope that Bioware step away from the smaller, nugget-sized DLC and works on less, but more substantial pieces of DLC. I was quite happy to pay ~?20 for Oblivion: Shivering Isles, and I'd prefer to see Bioware do something of a similar scale.

[Cobertizo]

For those playing on the PS3, can you do me a major favour?

Set your PS3 to French in the options menu, then load Mass Effect 2 and see if the game has French text/dialogue.

If it does, that means the French version probably has English, and I can pick it up via trade-in locally.

Thanks in advance.

Yes, in a word. Reinstalls a bunch of French data when you change the language. Everything is in French, including voice acting. Female Shepard is rubbish in French, though Kelly's not so bad.

[cavalcade]

French Mass Effect 2 does indeed have English, I can confirm this. I'm tempted to do a Youtube video of bad French dubs in AAA console games though.

[Sketcz]

Yes, in a word. Reinstalls a bunch of French data when you change the language. Everything is in French, including voice acting. Female Shepard is rubbish in French, though Kelly's not so bad.

Thank you very much!

Apologies about the need to re-install stuff, I hadn't anticipated that.

[Supergoal]

I just got this game and started playing. Having totally missed ME1 I feel kind of lost with so much going on from the beginning regarding information on races, tech and locations etc. I'm still not sure what I'm doing when in combat either. I can see that it's an amazing game, but I'm worried I'll drop out of it due to overload.
I guess I need to have a day off work and focus on it to get it going for me.