Oh c'mon, it was not just some shitty port. They reworked the controls and interface for combat so it was far more fun than the console version.

Perhaps they should've removed the "lifts", but they did do some dialogue for those sections and thus removing it would've made those parts unusable.

Anyway, this time, its coming to the PC AND Xbox on release, so the PC isn't an afterthought like before.

It is much less clunky than the 360 version at any rate. Of course framerate sucks but ME2 has apparently fixed that.

I also don't see what is so bad about the lifts. I do walk everywhere but not a big deal to me. The bigger deal for me is the cringe worthy voice acting of certain characters (read : male Shepard). I don't see how that is fixed in the preview videos especially the Garrus one.

Bleh, the true Shepard was the female one. Especially more so when you play the bastard since she plays the part oh so well.

This post has been edited by H@H@: Dec 5 2009, 09:10 PM

Jennifer Hale. Man why wasn't she in Dragon Age. Luckily that Carth/ Kaiden guy wasn't though. Whiny as hell characters.

Well she has been in a lot of games of late (Brutal Legend, The Old Republic, Mass Effect 2), so perhaps she may have been a bit too overcrowded.

But if you notice, she commonly appears in every other Bioware game series that is released:
Baldur's Gate
Neverwinter Nights
Knights of the Old Republic
Jade Empire
Mass Effect
Dragon Age

It is very unfortunate that Alpha Protocol doesn't let you choose your gender. Otherwise, I'd start a frigging petition (In spite of the fact that I hate them) just to make sure she's in it.

Evil female lesbian Shepard was the best ever, but her nice guy dialogue is robotic as hell.

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This post has been edited by Aggroboy: Dec 6 2009, 10:52 AM

Her nice guy dialogue sounded too much like she was biting her tongue... Or at the very least, sounded like she was INCREDIBLY sarcastic.

This game will come in 2 discs worth of content, presumably dual-layer, and 15GB minimum HDD space. I wonder how much content do they stuff to need 2 discs. Also, no more elevator loading, they replaced them with normal loading screen hahaha. I believe the elevator loading is an Xbox issue, because it's super fast on decent PCs.

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This post has been edited by Aggroboy: Dec 7 2009, 05:15 PM

Oh most definitely was because of the Xbox. It was part of that silly movement of "hiding" loading screens by forcing you to wade through something in the game with no actual gameplay.

2 discs on the normal? Then CE gets how many? Ooh.

Reports say they will stop using weapon skills, so all classes can use the same weapons (assault rifle, machine pistol, heavy pistol, rocket launcher, shotgun, etc) effectively. Shotgun sentinel incoming!!

Probably they will also do away with the ME1 skill system, no more +1 rifle +1 rifle +1 rifle. Most talent points will give you some cool ability to use ala Dragon Age.

So, they're decoupling the FPS combat from the RPG skills...

That sounds strangely familiar...

I think Hellgate London did the same thing ("Crouching" as a skill still serves as my greatest example of "RPGifying" gone wrong)


Seriously though, what about all the weapon based skill abilities? I know most of them were quite similar (While others were downright useless) but does this mean no more shotgun that shoots ROCKETS?

Most likely class-specific weapon abilities will stay, but skill will be universal, sorta like borderlands.

This removes the annoyance of lanjiao shooting if you use non-class weapon, and being completely useless when enemies (like robo-Saren) keep overheating your gear.

Well if they keep the class specific weapon abilities, its almost the same thing I guess since the weapon abilities were tied to your weapon skill before.

Plus, that was the exact purpose of the engineer... To screw up your gear. If you could easily just swap stuff out to counter it, then its kinda useless.

Dunno, it's probably just more streamlined anyways. There's something weird about taking out big turrets/robots with a stupid small pistol but shotgun can miss completely at point blank.

No wonder. I really hate the way the guy shepard speaks. Reminds me so much of a robot. But no cause even Avina speaks better.

Speaking of the Engineer class, Bioware released a new Engineer demo. Apparently the ME2 engineer can have bots, hopefully they will do it better than Hellgate engineers.

http://www.youtube.com/v/dJWhGazhpNo

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Added on December 11, 2009, 8:09 pmhttp://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/masseffect2workingtitle/video/6242706

Voice Actors: Martin Sheen, Tricia Heifer and Seth Green giving interviews.

This post has been edited by Aggroboy: Dec 11 2009, 08:09 PM

New Cinematic Trailer Sneak Peek and Sentinel class video. It looks so powerful.

But still no sign of pre-order. A month and 10 days guys! Come on!