Mass Effect 2 is just about perfect for me.
I've been gaming since 1990 and it's rare that I find a game I care about this much. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me feel accomplished, it made me care about the characters and had me genuinely worried about them. The fast paced combat, the ammo system which made us feel panicked as we had to swap weapons mid-fight, the global cooldowns which kept the action going with constant streams of powers sent through the battlefield...
Just about everything in this game was absolutely wonderful. I really can't describe this in words. ME2 is one of those few games I give a 10/10 in my personal little book of gaming opinions. I got to shoot badguys like Master Chief, throw them around the room like Luke Skywalker, set them on fire like the Human Torch, run-smash into them like Samus, and hide behind cover after unleashing a nuke that could take down the alien ships in Independence Day. All this without much immersion-breaking pausing.
And I got to talk a lot to lots of interesting, funny and engaging people as well. Whether I felt drawn to Garrus' romantic clumsiness, laughed at Mordin's craziness, turned angry at the same salarian, cheered for the poetic krogan, was strangely drawn to Aethyta on Illium, wanted to hug Tali when she was down and was happy with what I could do for her in the end... the writing is just absolutely amazing, and it blew my expectations out of the water.
This is the first time I feel Bioware touches upon Baldur's Gate 2 in quality once more, and it might actually even have surpassed said game.
I could go on, but I'll just stop. I sound like such an idiot, I'm sure =)
Modifié par KiddDaBeauty, 06 août 2010 - 02:36 .