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mrstickball on 01 February 2010
STEKSTAV said:
Borrowing the thread a little.. how do you import your ME1 savefiles? Which files do i have to copy into the save folder for ME2? Ive tried a bunch of stuff but the game cant find them when i try to import. Just shows an empty box.

Did you beat Mass Effect 1? That is a prequisite for importing.



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Fame_Mcswagg on 01 February 2010

I also just finished mass effect one and it was amazing. My only gripe is that is was a lil short for my taste. I finished it at around 15 hours. Its weird because it seemed so much longer then that but thats what my final game save says. I just picked up mass effect to I hope finding previously traveled planets are easier to find



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STEKSTAV on 01 February 2010
mrstickball said:
STEKSTAV said:
Borrowing the thread a little.. how do you import your ME1 savefiles? Which files do i have to copy into the save folder for ME2? Ive tried a bunch of stuff but the game cant find them when i try to import. Just shows an empty box.

Did you beat Mass Effect 1? That is a prequisite for importing.


Yeah i did.. though i noticed that this was a xbox thread. I was talking about the PC version.



twesterm on 01 February 2010
rocketpig said:
twesterm said:
rocketpig said:
twesterm said:
I'm not going to dare touch that spoiler text but that did make me think of one complaint I have of the game-- the mission end screen.

It makes sense and in some ways it's kind of neat, but it just makes the game feel too gamy and really takes you out of the world.

You know a game is good when you find yourself nit-picking about mission complete screens or how the damage appears on your screen, as I did as the game progressed.

And I'm not one who usually has a hard time finding faults in a game.

Yeah, I have a few issues with the HUD too but I'm waiting to reserve judgment on that since I may just still be use to Mass Effect.

Prompts in the environments seem smaller and harder to notice, sometimes the dialogue wheel seems harder to read, and I really don't like the pictures of the squad mates in the middle of the bottom of the screen.  Still though, I'll wait to know if those really bother me since I'm just coming off Mass Effect and I might just be use to that HUD.

The squad members at the bottom also irritated me because I found it unnecessarily difficult to track if anyone had died. Another thing that bothered me at times was tracking down a selectable object, which would appear from the next room at times and lead me on a wild goose chase trying to track down a safe or something.

Also a little random but still on the UI, I HATE the screen going red as you get hurt.

That works on some games but not every freaking game in the world needs to have that.  It's not that interesting.  You have a health bar, I know when I'm doing, I don't need my screen to turn red.



 

numonex on 01 February 2010

Every decision and choice you make in Mass effect will have an impact on your game in Mass effect 2. Every decision and choice you make in Mass effect 2 will have an impact on your game in Mass effect 3.

It is amazing how the games continue on from each other. You could start all over in Mass Effect and the game could be completely different in the other two games. Endless possibilities in Mass effect makes the game unique and personal for the individual gamer.

Bring on Mass effect 3 which will conclude a great RPG trilogy.



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ShadowSoldier on 01 February 2010

Wait till you play Mass Effect 2



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Tyrannical on 02 February 2010

My whole play through of Mass Effect was spent wishing it was a new KOTOR instead.



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selnor on 02 February 2010
Tyrannical said:
My whole play through of Mass Effect was spent wishing it was a new KOTOR instead.

IMO Mass Effect is so much better than KOTOR. Thank god we dont hav another Star Wars spin off. Bioware have fleshed out a beautiful Sci Fi that deserves so much praise. Please Bioware make and finish ME3 before any KOTOR game.



perpride on 02 February 2010

It's funny cause I, like you Twesterm, never finished the first Mass Effect. I don't know wtf is wrong with me, but I think it had something to do with frequent frame rate drops or something...

Anyway I plan on starting part 2 after I'm done with FFXIII, do I absolutley NEED to finish part 1 in order to do that?



twesterm on 02 February 2010
perpride said:
It's funny cause I, like you Twesterm, never finished the first Mass Effect. I don't know wtf is wrong with me, but I think it had something to do with frequent frame rate drops or something...

Anyway I plan on starting part 2 after I'm done with FFXIII, do I absolutley NEED to finish part 1 in order to do that?

You don't have to, but only a few hours into the game it will without a doubt make ME2 better.  I've only just got past the Archangel part and if I hadn't played the first game that part wouldn't be nearly as awesome if I hadn't played the first game. 

As a bonus, you also get some bonuses at the start of the game if you import a saved game from Mass Effect.

Mass Effect is pretty cheap whether you buy it for the 360 or PC and if you don't side quests and play it on easy you can breeze through it pretty quickly.  I think my playthrough this weekend took about 15 hours but I also did all the Citedel sidequests and some others.

So yeah, you can play Mass Effect 2 without playing the first, but that would be a giant disservice to yourself.  That would be like watching The Two Towers without watching The Fellowship of the Ring.