Mass Effect 2

[sportsdude]

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are you only able to switch armor at the pre-set stations or can you do it anywhere through the menus? In Dragon Age and ME I liked the ability to set my armor whenever I felt like it, and if you can't do that in this game, I'll be disappointed. Will it stop me from playing it? Of course not.

[ChubbyBanana]

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Kotaku has an article about the various ways people are pissed,the DLC/EA account mess ups and not being able to take the helmets off: http://kotaku.com/5457584/mass-effec...-helmet-issues

From that Link:

The situation is getting particularly heated in this forum thread, sent to us by Kotakuite Dorikin, in which players call for the termination of whoever made the decision to not include a helmet toggle feature.

Wow. I mean I'd like to have the feature, but wouldn't exactly wish someone become unemployed over it.

I love the internets

[Flawless]

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How much better is this than Mass Effect?

A lot better in terms of combat and performance. I was playing the first game the past couple days to finish up my renegade playthrough, and I don't remember it being so unpolished, but it had been over a year since I last played.

[ChubbyBanana]

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A lot better in terms of combat and performance. I was playing the first game the past couple days to finish up my renegade playthrough, and I don't remember it being so unpolished, but it had been over a year since I last played.

I agree.

I also love the improvements to combat. It seems that aiming/cover is a lot easier to navigate this time.

The Sniper Improvment is huge. It no longer feels like an unresponsive scope, and has really made sniping quite simple.

[Chizzypoof]

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are you only able to switch armor at the pre-set stations or can you do it anywhere through the menus? In Dragon Age and ME I liked the ability to set my armor whenever I felt like it, and if you can't do that in this game, I'll be disappointed. Will it stop me from playing it? Of course not.

As of right now, I can't change it other than on the ship. I just got to Omega, (first world I chose) and purchased an upgrade for my armor. I had to go all the way to the ship to put it on. A little tedious.

[goh]

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lol..
I'm picking the game up used. Then will use whatever deals they have etc.....

Why? You know you have to pay $15 for the Network if you buy it used right?

There's some old acquaintences in Afterlife if you transfered over and did shoot them in the head...

Spoiler

Fist & Helena. They don't seem to actually do anything though. No quests or bonuses just cool that they're there.

[Altimus]

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are you only able to switch armor at the pre-set stations or can you do it anywhere through the menus? In Dragon Age and ME I liked the ability to set my armor whenever I felt like it, and if you can't do that in this game, I'll be disappointed. Will it stop me from playing it? Of course not.

Doesn't look like it.

But I do love the customization options for the armor.

Also space hamster FTW!

[jmood88]

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Apparently to import ME1 saved data, the save has to actually be on the same device you used when you beat the game. I got a new 360 since ME1 and made sure to move off the old ME1 data to a memory card just for this purpose. ME2 will not recognize those saved games on the new 360 or from the memory card. Luckily I have the old hard drive so I'm going to see if I can plug the old hard drive into the new console and see what happens.

Pissed because I have a level 58 character to import.

That's not true. I transferred all of my stuff to a new hard drive and just imported one of my characters.

[allBthere]

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How much better is this than Mass Effect?

I've been playing for quite a while but all on one space station...so it's tough to say, but the station is way more crammed with stuff which is one thing i thought needed improvement. I'll be checking out the council soon on the citadel (i guess) ...so after being to a few more places i'll have a better idea. The shooting is much much better though, as are the graphics.

It's more cinematic too, right off the bat...it's really quite impressive. I'm loving it, but want to play way way more before I give even a half-assed review or too many impressions. I want to let it sink in and just fully enjoy it (which I am) without making too many judgements or comparisons.

[Pokes]

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lol..
I'm picking the game up used. Then will use whatever deals they have etc.....

The difference between this used and new is going to only be $5.

[jmood88]

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Man, I've been playing this for the last couple of hours and time has been flying.

[thaima1shu]

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I'm an idiot. I think I didn't transfer over the right save files to my new hard drive. I must have transferred my New game + file or something from ME1 with my character or something, because it doesn't give me an option to import a character. I don't know why I didn't just transfer over everything. I am massively pissed at myself right now

[frostbyte06]

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gamestop, but won't be picking it up until thursday

One of my friends grabbed an extra code card from gamestop for me, so I don't need a code anymore. Thanks for the offer though.

[jmood88]

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I thought with the whole "dark second act" thing that everything would be serious and depressing but there has been more funny stuff in the little I've gone through than I remember there being in the whole first game.

[poster]

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That's not true. I transferred all of my stuff to a new hard drive and just imported one of my characters.

I don't suppose you did anything different when doing this? I copied my data over to a memory card and moved it over from my old 20 GB to my Elite some time ago. It won't read my saves, won't even read them off of my memory card which still has my data. Guess it's time to start over.