Well I haven't played ME2 on PS3 (except for the demo t see the new graphics). The reason I make this post is that I have a good friend who only owns a PS3 and therefor never played ME1. I couldn't get him to sign up here just to tell about his experiences but I thought it was kinda important for the devs to know how someone who never saw anything of ME1 got along with ME2.
After he played ME2 for around 50 hours I got into a talk with him. Apart from him saying that he thinks that it is a coverbased shooter and not a RPG (That's not why I made this post though don't worry), it was shocking to me that he wasn't even aware of the most basic things.
He didn't know what a Reaper is, for example. He understood they were a thread but didn't get that they were these giant AI-controlled ships. (he thought they were some old race and that they use those ships in battle)
The Asari were a corrupt race of strippers and criminals for him and he didn't even know they were monogendered.
Bringing up anything related to ME1 that was mentioned in the comic resulted in
"What?"
"The thing, explained in the beginning?"
"Oh, that, yeah whatever"
(He didn't care who lived or died on Virmire for example and barely even remembered the decision. Same about the LI)
There were a lot more of these examples, but you get the idea. For some reason he never cared enough to look at the Codex and then it all turned into a ride through random stuff for him, that only kept him playing because the gameplay was entertaining and diverse. His comment about ME3: "I'll probably get it but not before it's 30$ or less"
So yeah... A problem of understanding the story resulting in a lack of immersion. (Personally I'd blame the comic that rushed through the events of ME1 without making anyone really care about what happened there)
Hope that helped a little bit. GL with ME3 Bioware
Modifié par Vyse_Fina, 11 mars 2011 - 04:23 .