Mass Effect 2

[soltrain]

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LOTSB spoilers

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Beat it last night after work. Should have really been apart of the main game - as you are going to miss HUGE canon stuff if you don't get DLC. The ending makes it seem like you are pretty much done with Cerebus now that you can just get your intel from Liara who is now the Broker.

The Shadow Broker looked awesome and the fight with the Spectre was great. The locations were amazing, too. I have a feeling that Drell that you saved is going to be in your party in the third game. I hope Thane sticks around, though.

Your "for sure" party (by my thinking) will be....

Garrus (seeing it through, friend of Shep)
Tali (same)
Legion (loves Shep, fighting for Geth - plus he is just a total bad ***)
Grunt (loyal to Shep, rather have Wrex)
Jack (what else will she do?)

Questionable...

Miranda (Cerebus might leave?)
Jacob (same, but might be loyal to Shep instead)
Thane (possibly die)
Professor (stop genophage, but I'd rather him stick around for hilarity purposes)

Out...

Kasumi (DLC, just doesn't seem likely to stick around)
Samara (eh, might be just because I thought she was super boring, might have to go take care of other Justicar stuff)
Zaeed (bounty hunter, maybe he retires)

As for additions - Maybe Aria? The drell from the Shadowbroker?

I doubt they spend much time "building your team" again, but there has to be SOME changes.

[Jasong7777]

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Downloading LOTSB Now.............

Taking forever.

[goh]

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Certianly more worth it than the others. Lots of stuff afterwards too.

Visar was the first Arasi that I liked.

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Too bad she died/wasn't on our side.

[soltrain]

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Certianly more worth it than the others. Lots of stuff afterwards too.

Visar was the first Arasi that I liked.

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Too bad she died/wasn't on our side.

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Liara's apartment was swank as hell. And Visar's boss fight was very cool.

[Cusefan]

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Being an expert in throwing people around with your mind makes me feel more like an incredible badass than just knowing how to shoot a gun.

I can do that too, You can train a extra power with 5000 Zero G...

[jgo777]

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Quick question - I'm getting ready to start my second play through and I want to play through on Insanity. How many of you guys have beat the game on insanity starting with a new character? Was it frustratingly difficult?

I beat ME2 the first time with a character that I transferred over from ME1 and I ended up at level 27 with him (soldier). I could play through again with that character, but that's not really exiciting me.

I'd rather play through the second time on insanity with a different transferred character from ME1, but I'm worried it will be too difficult on insanity starting at level 1.

What do you guys think? I don't mind a challenge, but I also don't want it to be a huge pain in the ***.

[BIG CAROLINA]

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This is one of the best games that I have ever played. For all who have not played this game you are really missing out on an excellent story with a great combat system to boot.

I am not even done yet and I can't wait for my 2nd run through (which I never do when I finish a game). I hope that the ending is just as good as ME1.

Ohh yeah, I learned the hard way to not let Krogans get too close to you during combat.......... they are vicious.

[Cyros]

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Quick question - I'm getting ready to start my second play through and I want to play through on Insanity. How many of you guys have beat the game on insanity starting with a new character? Was it frustratingly difficult?

I beat ME2 the first time with a character that I transferred over from ME1 and I ended up at level 27 with him (soldier). I could play through again with that character, but that's not really exiciting me.

I'd rather play through the second time on insanity with a different transferred character from ME1, but I'm worried it will be too difficult on insanity starting at level 1.

What do you guys think? I don't mind a challenge, but I also don't want it to be a huge pain in the ***.

The general advice I've seen is to use a new character since the game would treat you as a level 27 Shepard with all of the ugprades you had at the end of your first run.

[Cusefan]

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This is one of the best games that I have ever played. For all who have not played this game you are really missing out on an excellent story with a great combat system to boot.

I am not even done yet and I can't wait for my 2nd run through (which I never do when I finish a game). I hope that the ending is just as good as ME1.

Ohh yeah, I learned the hard way to not let Krogans get too close to you during combat.......... they are vicious.

Its my 2010 Game of the Year, Red Dead finishing in a very close 2nd...

[goh]

Re: Mass Effect 2

Quick question - I'm getting ready to start my second play through and I want to play through on Insanity. How many of you guys have beat the game on insanity starting with a new character? Was it frustratingly difficult?

I beat ME2 the first time with a character that I transferred over from ME1 and I ended up at level 27 with him (soldier). I could play through again with that character, but that's not really exiciting me.

I'd rather play through the second time on insanity with a different transferred character from ME1, but I'm worried it will be too difficult on insanity starting at level 1.

What do you guys think? I don't mind a challenge, but I also don't want it to be a huge pain in the ***.

Yes it's highly recomended to start a new character for Insanity.
To clear up what Cyros means,it'll treat you like a level 27 with upgrades...but you won't actually have them. You have to get all your upgrades and weapons over again so it's harder using a transfered character. Even if you transfer a different ME 1 character you'd be starting at level 5 so the same thing applies just less. You do still get some of your ME 2 bonuses like starting out with 50k of each element.

If you haven't updated your game you can make it a lot easier using the infinte points glitch/cheat. The easy parts of the game will be harder as you won't be able to do it right until level 10 (I think) but it's better for the easy parts to be harder and the hard parts to be easier.

[gbeazy]

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how long is the overlord and shadow broker dlc? Gotta be careful with Bioware dlc

[Solidice]

Re: Mass Effect 2

Quick question - I'm getting ready to start my second play through and I want to play through on Insanity. How many of you guys have beat the game on insanity starting with a new character? Was it frustratingly difficult?

I beat ME2 the first time with a character that I transferred over from ME1 and I ended up at level 27 with him (soldier). I could play through again with that character, but that's not really exiciting me.

I'd rather play through the second time on insanity with a different transferred character from ME1, but I'm worried it will be too difficult on insanity starting at level 1.

What do you guys think? I don't mind a challenge, but I also don't want it to be a huge pain in the ***.

I used a newly imported Sentinel and Vanguard and was able to beat it on Insanity(so I started as a level 5 I think). the Sentinel was pretty easy actually. Vanguard was really tough in a few places though.

my first playthrough in ME2 was with that Sentinel on Insanity.

[jgo777]

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I used a newly imported Sentinel and Vanguard and was able to beat it on Insanity(so I started as a level 5 I think). the Sentinel was pretty easy actually. Vanguard was really tough in a few places though.

my first playthrough in ME2 was with that Sentinel on Insanity.

So it sounds like ME2 has some kind of dynamic leveling system where the difficulty is set by what level your character starts at? Is that right?

I think I'll transfer my ME1 character and go with a Sentinel. The character I will transfer from ME1 wasn't maxed out so I'll probably only start on level 2 or so.

[thaima1shu]

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So with the Microsoft Points deal and spending 2400 points and getting 800 free, I went and just bought all the DLC stuff essentially. Gonna be doing my third playthrough now. I'm unsure what I really want to do, so luckily the download is taking a while, giving me time to think about it. I did a vanguard imported from ME1 first time through, then a Sentinel imported from ME1 the second time. Now I'm going to do an insanity run. I don't know what class I feel like using for it though. Maybe I'll just go through insanity twice and do it with both a Vanguard and Sentinel. None of the other classes look all too appealing to me.

[Money99]

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Man, I really need to pick this game up. I loved the first one but haven't had time to pick this up.

I really wish I had saved my original ME1 save. Does it make that much of a difference to start fresh with ME2?