TopcatPlayer wrote...
I think the shooter lovers are mistaking RPing for dialogue options, there's a lot more too it than that and choosing what colour your armour is. At least in ME1 you could choose whether you were going to just action shooter the game all the way through or whether you were going to dig in and make a complete character that hacked, and looted, and added stats to skills instead of powers while tanking out your support characters. The hallmark of Bioware games are meant to be choice, the fact that ME2 took away a lot of that choice understandably worries a lot of the fans and so the smart thing would have been to address the issue first.
Sorry Topcat, you are so wrong it's rather funny >.>
Let's look at the major defining options of ME1, ME2 and the ME universe in general...
When the game was advertised and first released, it was an action RPG-Shooter hybrid. The main points of the game was it would be a trilogy, with choices mattering and carrying on. It would have a new type of convo system giving the player full control of many situations. It would have some RPG elements like skill trees mated with shooter gameplay.
ME1 gave us beyond the above:
1) An inventory - this thing was a trainwreck. It was so hard to manage and got so full with all the repeat similar guns we picked up.
2) A pretty beefy but also very generic skill tree that backed the shooter system - ok, my rifle now does 2% more damage and is now 2% more accurate even though when I"m aiming my crosshairs are directly on the target I still somehow miss alot.
3) A huge variety of guns, armor and mods - most of the guns were throwaway and pointless. Armors were a bit better, but still ended up feeling same samey alot. Mods were generally how you really set apart your weaponry and armor and was, IMO, the most enjoyable RPG element meshed into ME's design.
4) Planet exploration/sidequests - hotly argued point because of how dumb the Mako was and how rinse and repeat the missions tended to be.
ME2 gave us:
1) No inventory - when compared to the silliness that was ME1 inventory? It was an improvement. Was it the best one? No. We could have used a more smartly designed one that let us continue to make use of mods and armor.
2) Lack of squad customization - this is one of the biggest flaws of ME2 and I can't defend this at all, so won't try.
3) Stronger weaponry and skill tree design - yes, there was less skills and weapons overall, but each weapon or choice in general ended up being more meaningful then the silly amount of tick points or I to XIII whatever ME1 introduced.
4) Planet scanning and specific N7 missions - See point 4 above except that in general, the N7 missions were much better though I think most people feel planet exploration + N7 missions and something less arduous then scanning would have been the best compromise.
So beyond these major points, how is ME2 a shooter only w/o any RPG elements? You could play ME1 w/o doing any shooting an be only a hacker? Really? Are you sure you're not talking about Deus Ex? Because short of a couple of heavy paragon/renegade moments, you had to kill and shoot things alot in both games while making decisions both in convos AND in your skills/weapon choices, etc - which, makes BOTH games an RPG-Shooter.
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I'm simply saying people need to be patient and stop jumping the shark so much and wailing that Bioware has sold out.
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