btw do you guys play with the film grain on or off ?


In the first game I prefered it off but in ME2 I just like it on.. gives it more of an atmospheric feel...

Seriously I wish they could re-release the first game with ME2's graphics engine.... I would replay it again and again!

Saw absolutely hilarious things today in ME2:

• Quarians really love their sex toys
• Mordin singing 
• Krogan love poems
• 'Is dressing like a whore standard issue?' - not an exact quote by the Asari during Miranda's loyalty quest, but was hilarious
  
• Engineer Donnely talking about Miranda 'she always makes me stand at attention'

Just great.

Yeah, there are some really nice little touches in the game

Looking through my mail from all those random people from ME 1. In fact, Illium is truly the place to find old friends, round every corner I found someone I recognised. It was just great

The game is brilliant, I am now just installing the second disc. I have finally got Thane, I have been looking forward to getting him for a while now. The loyalty missions are every interesting, especially Jack's

Oh, and am I the only one who is basically just doing the story. I haven't got into many of the side missions because the main storyline is so engaging

Haha the side missions are time killers! i have played over 20 hours on this game already. I own it on the PC btw

The game is brilliant but sometime it gets too repetitive, to be honest it doesn't feel like an RPG at all once your further into the game it feels stage base now, like you need to do all these mission and your done, go back to ship, new mission, Same thing over and over again.

But am still enjoying the game, matter fact am going to be playing it now haha

It is true that it does get a bit repetitive, but I have spent ages getting minerals, I just haven't found any side missions on those uncharted worlds.

At the moment I am on Illium, and so I just have 3 missions to, which will have pretty similar combat (though I will use different characters) but interesting stories.... The story is the saving grace of this game, because the combat certainly does not quite match up to GeoW or Uncharted, even with the powers

Does anyone know where you pick up your bonus armour in the game? I have downloaded it but can't find it anywhere.

Have you tried the armor customization thing in the captains quarters?

Yep. It's not there.

Finding sidequests on random planets is pretty easy:

When you fly to a planet, and zoom in to read the description, it will give an audio 'anomaly detected' and signal there is something there. If it doesn't give that warning, then there will not be a mission on that planet.

If you want to do side missions, the easiest way to do them is to make sure you have 100% exploration in a various cluster. Omega only has 1 side-quest mission for the 5 star systems available. Usually, there is one and at most two side missions per star cluster...So they aren't very frequent.