Enjoy people because this was the best reason to own a 360. Also you don't have to play one to understand two as some guys are saying. You just will actually know more about who your fighting against and about the history between the humans and the other alien races. Basically a lot, but all the characters from the first except for a few do not return as part of your party. It is still very much worth starting the series at 2.

That's not saying much, to be honest with you.

what do you mean?

is it the fact that the PS3 may not get ME 1 or is it more on the Future of the Mass Effect ip's future in general?

It's about the difference in experience for newcomers to the ME trilogy who only game on PS3. The lack of the first game makes quite a difference, as many have stated here.

Like I said, the extra content better compensate for the first game, but I don't have my fingers crossed, really.

ok, that's what i thought you were point too, just was not sure that is what you were talking about.

while i 100% agree that is one thing to worry about , I do not think it's going to be that far fetched for Bioware to make sure the game allows for fan's of the first one to be left with their first games efforts to be worthless. Stranger thing's have happened though, so I am not saying it would not be a problem or that it will be,I am just waiting on future info until we know more about it, i think it's kind of pointless to get all worked up over about it until we get more info.

Like I mentioned earlier, I can easily see Bioware implementing a short, interactive summary of the events that took place in the first game, prior to starting ME 2 on the PS3.  It could possibly be presented as a flashback, allowing you to decide how the flashback went (what choices you made in Feros, Noveria, Virmire, etc.), so that PS3 players not only get brought up to speed with what went down in the first game, but also gives them the chance to manipulate some of the major parts in the story (i.e., who you saved, who you killed, who you romanced, etc.) so that their experience in ME 2 is similar to that on the 360 and PC versions.

And that's merely one way that Bioware could make ME 2 easier for PS3 players to get into; I'm sure there are far more creative ways that this could be done.  At the end of the day, we don't really know exactly what Bioware is going to include in the PS3 version of ME2, but it's probably safe to say that they are going to include content that will try it's best at giving PS3 players a similar experience without having to play the first game.

Even then, playing the first game isn't really as important as some people are trying to make it out to be.  I personally only have one character imported from the first game, with the majority of my other "Shepards" created from scratch in the second game (I'm not a big fan of the first game's combat, so I just can't force myself to play the first ME again just to import a new character).

Well truth be told, this doesn't bold well for fans who wanted ME1 results to continue to effect you in ME3, and I think most of the melt down is from that. For those who are using it a console war bullshit, well meh.

About these choices... they dont have that big of an impact on the game as they like you to believe.

Ive played both ME1 and ME2 several times, taking different actions.. but the story that goes from ME1's decisions to ME2 always turn out to be basicly the same. Some minor things changes the dialog, but nothing makes the story do a 180' like most of you seem to believe.

Really?

I'm guessing you don't own one then.

he did not say it's the only reason...wink

it is a great game, an I do not think he's not implying it's the only reason to own an xbox360.

there is still plenty of games and social interaction, media and content that make the xbox360 a good system to own even with out including Mass Effect. But why would you do that other than if your not a fan of RPG's?..lol