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Munkeh111 on 07 January 2009

@ madskillz, there is no way, 1 has to go

Anyway, I am looking forward to playing it again in the summer, I loved the game and the setting

The first time I played it, I just played as an evil soldier, I have just started playing as a good vanguard, I want to experience the game in a different way this time, the branching dialogue trees should make it feel fresh



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Mistershine on 07 January 2009

I hope ME2 can read ME1 saves. I'm counting on the Rachni to help me out after saving the queen.



Munkeh111 on 07 January 2009

@ mistershine, that is pretty much the only thing confirmed about the game (though having the Rachni helping you is pretty unlikely



madskillz on 07 January 2009
Munkeh111 said:
@ mistershine, that is pretty much the only thing confirmed about the game (though having the Rachni helping you is pretty unlikely

They were something pissed and attacked me after I whacked the queen. Oh, and Wrex was egging me on to do it ... so I do believe they will be a pivotal part in ME2. With the other thing, Munkeh, yeah, I tried it several ways and just realized some characters will die no matter what. Makes you think, though.

 



Munkeh111 on 07 January 2009
madskillz said:
Munkeh111 said:
@ mistershine, that is pretty much the only thing confirmed about the game (though having the Rachni helping you is pretty unlikely

They were something pissed and attacked me after I whacked the queen. Oh, and Wrex was egging me on to do it ... so I do believe they will be a pivotal part in ME2. With the other thing, Munkeh, yeah, I tried it several ways and just realized some characters will die no matter what. Makes you think, though.

I had accidentaly found out about the Wrex thing, but I did find it difficult to decide the latter one, I can't quite remember precisely what happened with the Rachni, but I thought by killing the queen you wiped them out?



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Jereel Hunter on 07 January 2009
Me said:

**spoiler alert**

 

having completed mass effect a while ago now - I pretty much forced my work colleague to play it as he loves a game with a deep story and now he is three quarters of the way through it we sat and had a chat about the game.  It seems that as we allocated the points on different things we have had different outcomes in points of the game, I spent all of my points on weapons, armour and medical skills where he made a point of building up his intimidation and charm.

The outcome of this is things like he managed to persuade rex to go along with the plan where un my game he had to die and he got the "famous" love scene, thus getting an achievement I didn't.  He also commented that he had quite a few different speech options through the game that I wouldn't have had. 

I am now considering playing through the game again (after i'm finished with Fallout 3 and the big February is out of the way) - so I was wondering has anyone on here played through it multiple times and perhaps vouch if it's worth it?

 

Between me, and the guys I know, we pretty much determined the magic number is 3. You need 3 playthroughs of mass effect to truely experience it.

Things to Note:

You *really* want to experience mass effect as 3 different classes. it allows you to use different teammates and truely experience the whole game...

But at the same time, if you restart the game with your same character, you can reach higher levels, and you get more skill points. At certain points during the game (and when you make enough nice guy/jerk choices) you get free charm/intimidation points. So if you use the same character for 3 playthroughs, you can get lots of charm/intidimated without using any of your points on it.

I opted to go through as 3 different characters, but I'm about to do a 4th playthrough and go back over it as one of those 3 to experience more options.

 

I also recommend being the jerk on your last playthrough. His dialogue is the best by far, and you'll not want to go back after it.



Mistershine on 07 January 2009
Munkeh111 said:
madskillz said:
Munkeh111 said:
@ mistershine, that is pretty much the only thing confirmed about the game (though having the Rachni helping you is pretty unlikely

They were something pissed and attacked me after I whacked the queen. Oh, and Wrex was egging me on to do it ... so I do believe they will be a pivotal part in ME2. With the other thing, Munkeh, yeah, I tried it several ways and just realized some characters will die no matter what. Makes you think, though.

I had accidentaly found out about the Wrex thing, but I did find it difficult to decide the latter one, I can't quite remember precisely what happened with the Rachni, but I thought by killing the queen you wiped them out?

 

 That's what I thought. Anyway, I saved an entire species and I bloody well expect some gratitude!



Jereel Hunter on 07 January 2009
Neoraf said:

Totally worth it.

Building up Intimidation or Charm really affects dialogues and choices.


Hmmm... Mass Effect...
Such an amazing experience...

A masterpiece.

 

Agreed. My friends all thought I was exaggerating when I said it was the single greatest IP of our generation. So I made them play through the first 2 hours. At least 2 have bought it so far. And i was convinced to play it by a friend too... This is truely an impressive game that got so very many of it's sales by referrals, which is amazing for a game with no multiplayer.



Munkeh111 on 07 January 2009
Jereel Hunter said:
Me said:

**spoiler alert**

 

having completed mass effect a while ago now - I pretty much forced my work colleague to play it as he loves a game with a deep story and now he is three quarters of the way through it we sat and had a chat about the game.  It seems that as we allocated the points on different things we have had different outcomes in points of the game, I spent all of my points on weapons, armour and medical skills where he made a point of building up his intimidation and charm.

The outcome of this is things like he managed to persuade rex to go along with the plan where un my game he had to die and he got the "famous" love scene, thus getting an achievement I didn't.  He also commented that he had quite a few different speech options through the game that I wouldn't have had. 

I am now considering playing through the game again (after i'm finished with Fallout 3 and the big February is out of the way) - so I was wondering has anyone on here played through it multiple times and perhaps vouch if it's worth it?

 

Between me, and the guys I know, we pretty much determined the magic number is 3. You need 3 playthroughs of mass effect to truely experience it.

Things to Note:

You *really* want to experience mass effect as 3 different classes. it allows you to use different teammates and truely experience the whole game...

But at the same time, if you restart the game with your same character, you can reach higher levels, and you get more skill points. At certain points during the game (and when you make enough nice guy/jerk choices) you get free charm/intimidation points. So if you use the same character for 3 playthroughs, you can get lots of charm/intidimated without using any of your points on it.

I opted to go through as 3 different characters, but I'm about to do a 4th playthrough and go back over it as one of those 3 to experience more options.


I also recommend being the jerk on your last playthrough. His dialogue is the best by far, and you'll not want to go back after it.

I went for it first, I watched some reviews and I just saw some of the "nasty" dialogue, and it was just brilliant, I especially liked the part when I just slapped someone



Jereel Hunter on 07 January 2009
Munkeh111 said:
Jereel Hunter said:
Me said:

**spoiler alert**

 

having completed mass effect a while ago now - I pretty much forced my work colleague to play it as he loves a game with a deep story and now he is three quarters of the way through it we sat and had a chat about the game.  It seems that as we allocated the points on different things we have had different outcomes in points of the game, I spent all of my points on weapons, armour and medical skills where he made a point of building up his intimidation and charm.

The outcome of this is things like he managed to persuade rex to go along with the plan where un my game he had to die and he got the "famous" love scene, thus getting an achievement I didn't.  He also commented that he had quite a few different speech options through the game that I wouldn't have had. 

I am now considering playing through the game again (after i'm finished with Fallout 3 and the big February is out of the way) - so I was wondering has anyone on here played through it multiple times and perhaps vouch if it's worth it?

 

Between me, and the guys I know, we pretty much determined the magic number is 3. You need 3 playthroughs of mass effect to truely experience it.

Things to Note:

You *really* want to experience mass effect as 3 different classes. it allows you to use different teammates and truely experience the whole game...

But at the same time, if you restart the game with your same character, you can reach higher levels, and you get more skill points. At certain points during the game (and when you make enough nice guy/jerk choices) you get free charm/intimidation points. So if you use the same character for 3 playthroughs, you can get lots of charm/intidimated without using any of your points on it.

I opted to go through as 3 different characters, but I'm about to do a 4th playthrough and go back over it as one of those 3 to experience more options.


I also recommend being the jerk on your last playthrough. His dialogue is the best by far, and you'll not want to go back after it.

I went for it first, I watched some reviews and I just saw some of the "nasty" dialogue, and it was just brilliant, I especially liked the part when I just slapped someone

Yeah, it was great. A while back they started a thread with people's favorite Commander Sheppard quotes... most of them were from the "nasty" dialogue choices.