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piemanz wrote...
Also,loading screens...mission complete screens breaks the immersion imo
Shotokanguy wrote...
Just go all out guys. Get creative with the combat. Go all out with the plot.
MAKE IT THE GREATEST GAME EVER!
Erasculio wrote...
From the point of view of a PC player:
The Good (in comparison with Mass Effect 1)
*No more Marko missions. Which means, no more hours wasted climbing vertical mountains in generic looking worlds.
*No
need to always walk around with characters having specific skills in
order to hack terminals or open containers. Everyone can bypass and
hack.
*The characters no long equip weapons they cannot use
properly. My Sentinel is not stuck around running with a Shotgun
permanently strapped to her waist.
*No more generic subquests in
the same recycled areas. Most of the ME1's assignments were in the same
looking rooms filled with big boxes.
*Being able to see to which planets we have been and which planets and systems are still be to be explored.
*Faster trading. Having direct access to the trading screen without having to talk to a NPC and wait for the greetings is nice.
*Being
able to skip dialogue lines and cutscenes. As beautiful as Ilium is,
not having to see the docking animation every time the Normandy lands
there is great.
*Limited armor customization so looks isn't always linked to function.
*Better graphics, as expected from a newer game.
*Higher number of interesting party members. ME1 had some interesting characters, but ME2 has more unique personalities.
The Bad (in comparison with Mass Effect 1)
*Planet
scanning. Bioware replaced a silly gameplay device meant to
artificially inflate game length (running around in the Marko) by
another (wasting hours scanning planets). Scanning is even worse than
the Marko assignments since it's required in order to get some critical
updates for the storyline, while the mountain climbing was optional.
And there's also the problem of how 3 resources are very easy to get
(and there's nothing to do with the excess; we can't even sell those
materials) but Element Zero is far less common, so players are stuck
scanning worlds and finding only the resources they don't need while
trying to find the only resource they do need.
*Fuel and
probes. If scanning weren't bad enough by itself, having a limited
amount of probes (which also happens to be extremely small in the
beginning of the game) and limited fuel only add more frustration to a
feature which is far from being fun. I wonder who thought the new map
system introduced in ME2 was even close to being a good idea.
*Worse
hacking and bypassing systems. The ME1 mini game was annoying, but at
least it could be finished in literally two seconds; the current
bypass, and principally the current hacking, are still annoying and
take a longer time to be completed. It's also far less interesting to
hack or bypass objects; while in ME1 hacking a terminal would often
give small pieces of information, now it only gives money.
*Limited
armor design. While we now have the option of changing the color of the
N7's armor, and mixing a few pieces, we still have less options than we
did in Mass Effect 1. Some weird design decisions (why no helmet toggle
for anything other than N7 armor?) and a very limited armor design for
party members (who in ME1 had multiple armor look options, but in ME2
have only two) make this a bigger problem than it had to be.
*Ammo.
I mean, WTF? Ammo? That doesn't make any sense. Why would the Mass
Effect Universe go from a system in which all weapons may be used
always, even if with some pauses between shots, to a system in which
guns become unable to fire unless there's an ammo clip around?
Lore-wise, it makes no sense. Gameplay wise, adding an ammo requirement
doesn't add anything other than minor frustration to the game.
*Shorter
missions. The ME1 storyline missions were very long and elaborated, but
ME2, despite having a higher number of missions, has only simple and
quick assignments.
*No main hub. In ME1, the Citadel was our
home base; it was where our characters learned the most about the ME
universe, where we learned about gameplay, and the place our characters
were meant to grown the most attached to; it's no surprise that ME1
ended in a fight defending the Citadel. In ME2 there is no such home
base; we can barely explore the Citadel beyond a few ugly looking
areas, we can only enter one room in the Presidium, and the place that
was advertized as the ME2's hub, Omega, is just small like any other
hub.
*Worse story. In a typical example of “Middle Chapter
Syndrome”, Mass Effect 2 does not introduce a big threat like ME1 did,
nor did it offer resolution to said threat like ME3 will probably do.
It only adds a self-contained story that probably could have been
skipped and cannot have a bigger impact on the main tale, not to
mention the inclusion of many plot holes (which I won't describe here
in order to avoid spoilers). The main triumph of ME2 is negated by its
own design; all characters that could have died in ME1 have only very
small roles in ME2, as Bioware probably felt it would not have been
wise to having the story rely on characters that may not be there.
Therefore, it's only logical to assume that all characters who could
have died in ME2 will have at most a very small role in ME3.
The Ugly (in comparison with Mass Effect 1)
User
interface. This is so bad it requires a section specifically about it.
The storyline is nice, the characters are nice, the missions are nice,
the combat is nice, but everything related to the user interface is
horrible. I mean:
*Incredibly clunky inventory system. In
this day and age in which even single player RPGs try to be a copy of
WoW and kids think “character development” means “raiding to get 3p1c
g34r, L0L!!!111”, Bioware is to be commended for designing a system in
which finding new equipment is not important. However, the system is
extremely filled with artificial limits: being unable to change weapons
in the middle of a mission, being unable to change armor, very small
weapon customization (we cannot mod our weapons so the same pistol
could become many different guns like the upgrade system in ME1 allowed
us to) make the new system far worse than what we had in the first Mass
Effect. There's also a considerably smaller number of weapon and armor
options in the newer game.
*Weak upgrade system. Upgrades
are either found too rarely or sold in a half dynamically and extremely
disorganized way in stores. The upgrades also lack the diversity the
ME1 upgrades did: we don't have to choose between two conflicting
upgrades that would give us different functions, we just keep adding
upgrade over upgrade. By the end of the game, most players are going to
have the exact same weapons under the exact same upgrades, very
unlikely the big variety we could have in ME1. The option to Review
Upgrades is also an unreadable mess; instead of sorting upgrades like
the research screen, it just shows everything in a very cluttered and
useless list.
*Map system. A big W!T!F! here. ME1's maps may
not have been the best looking maps ever, but they fulfilled nicely the
job of letting we know where we are and what the important things
nearby were. ME2's maps in the hubs are more drawings than real maps,
but if that were the main problem, it wouldn't be a significant issue.
However, no map anywhere else other than hubs? Whose idea was that? It
doesn't make any sense from a lore point of view (the Normandy could
scan planets from above in order to give us at least a basic layout of
the area), it doesn't make sense from a gameplay point of view (I can
think of at most a extremely small number of recent games that didn't
have at least a map filled as players explored around them) and it only
shows a huge lack of polish.
*Party control. PC players had
a great party control screen in Mass Effect 1, allowing us to access
all relevant party controls through a nice interface. Such interface is
gone from ME2, replaced by a very simplistic and incomplete system
which offers only very basic functions.
*Radar. Having to
pause the game to see the radar is ridiculous; it completely halts the
flow of battle by requiring us to stop the game in order to access very
basic information. Considering how Bioware was trying to make combat
more seamless, this change makes no sense.
*Weaker
health/shield bar. The health and shield display were bad in ME1, but
they have become even worse now. Not being able to see health while
shields are up is silly, and it removes the ability of damaging health
while shields are still up that was a nice element of strategy in the
first game.
Mass Effect 2 is not better than Mass Effect
1. Bioware solved many of the annoying flaws in ME1, only to replace
them with equally annoying flaws in the newer game.
Guest_Sgt.Budsky_*
) but perhaps a more emotional experience after the deed to allow players to metaphorically see into the souls of the characters you 'BioWare' have developed. Pillow talk and such, really hear what the character has on their minds, if Shepard "performed" well, (based on paragon 'sensual' or renegade 'rough' 
), what might be troubling them or have players brace for some teary ephiny that'll spawn half a dozen internet comics that have people laughing out of their seats. Also, it'd be nice if Shepard can let his/her guard down and be the one that gets support rather then being the pillar of strength for everyone else. Saving the world "twice" would take a lot out of someone, maybe some cutesy shenanigans like throwing a grape at your LI so they can try and catch it or vice versa. Maybe I'm looking too far into this now?Modifié par Sgt.Budsky, 15 février 2010 - 01:09 .
Modifié par mjs0066, 15 février 2010 - 02:11 .
Snarlinghamster wrote...
Most of this has already been said. The Normandy upgrades to actually mean something. .
Arrtis wrote...
me3 needs more customization.More powers and more exploration.
Modifié par Samtree1, 15 février 2010 - 05:14 .
Modifié par kovrec, 15 février 2010 - 06:00 .
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