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[DreDk]

Mass Effect 1 is the TRUE Masterpiece.

Mass Effect 2 is a good game that due much of its glory exclusively to the first episode: beacuse, as a stand alone game, ME2 is only a very bland and monotone shooter with unuseful dialogues.
YOU HAVE TO KNOW that our love for the second one came mainly from the HERITAGE that ME1 has leave to us.

And please Bioware do not compare ME2 to Empire Strike Back,  it would be better if you compare it to The Phantom Menace.

ME1 is a work of love for Xbox360 (with some flaws).
ME2 is only a good
multiplatform game (I am more than sure that it will come out also for the PS3):
ME2
just performs ZERO OPTIMIZATION for the Xbox360: it just use the
last hiteration of Unreal Engine as it is.
Where is the anti
aliasing? Where is the motion Blur? Why ALL the
in-game texts are UNREADABLE?
Ok, the frame rate now is stable, and there are no clipping anymore... But I am quite sure that ME2 achive all of this only thanks to the last progress made by the Unreal Engine itself!!!
And how they solve the infamous elevator scenes problems: just
replaced it with loading screens...

My ideal Mass Effect 2 would have been the first one without texture clipping and frame rate issue (and maybe a better inventory system).

And what we have now instead? A bland shooter with:
No more RPG elements
No more intriguing
Story
No more intriguing quests
No more explorations
No more deep interaction with life-like characters
No more
vast area to play (like citadel)
No more "realistic" location (for example: citadel in ME1seems full of life..)

Furthermore, ME2 is such an inferior Cinematic Experience:
-) missions
screens,
-) loading screens,
-) areas that become unplayable soon after you have finished a mission (some time with sudden "jumps" back to Normandy or the magical "press B" to end mission ),
-) No more direct passage between ship and land/planets,
-) Many many super short and super linear level with nothing to do (except shoot...)
-) Space "cut scenes" that are rendered with a different style
-) The impossbility to talk to your fellows during the missions
-) Less inspired design
-) Inferior cinematic-visual appeal (no anti-aliasing & no motion blur & different grain filter).

And what has happend to the epic wonderful soundtrack?!?! Considering that it is created by the same people who created the first one, the only reason for such difference is that Bioware/EA leave a very short amount of time to the composers to create the music (or a shorter budget...)...

Also the characters and their dialogues seem to be less deep and efficient. And also their moods, motivations (etc..) are so weak...
Just consider the re-union scenes with Liara, Tali or Wrex. Very badly
written!
This time around all the character seems just lone puppets (not aware of what happend araund them) that are poor interpreters of a very limited and confined "dialogue tree". No progression in them, no evolution, no adaption to the plot (well actually, which is the plot?).

My only deep concern here is that usually the second episode of a trilogy is the most important one in terms of plot and storyline...
With ME2 the guys of the Bioware seems to have just finished their ideas!!!

But what the hell is happened to Bioware in the last 2/3 year?Have you spent all this time to convert ME2 to PS3?!?

Considering that ME2 came from  the same Company that has gives us so many MASTERPIECE, I just came to think that maybe all the problems here came directly from EA.
It is THE EA EFFETC?
Just considering what is happened with Dragon Age (A PC-game brutally ported in "some way" on the consoles) maybe this is the case...

But I do not understand why EA keep following bad business decision!!! The NEW-EA is still the OLD EA!!!
With ME2 everything seems to point out that EA just want to use the prestige and the heritage of ME Brand in order to make a mass marekt game. EA STILL follow short time sales!!!!
The problem is that If ME3 will be like ME2... well, Mass Effect brand will have a certain death!
Is it possible that no one can understand that?
It is sad to said that but, following this path, in the long period also Bioware will have a certain death!
And un fortunatelly this has already happened many time in the past under EA!

Please Bioware do not let EA rape and waste your IPs!
Please Bioware do not let EA rape and waste your IDENTITY!
Please Bioware do not let EA rape and waste your CORE BASE!

If is it true that Bioware listen to their fan, I really hope this time they will be able not only to listen but ALSO to UNDERSTAND what their fans are telling them!

Sorry for my English (I am Italian)
Sorry if I was too Hard with you.
I have deeply loved your game, I really hope that I will able love them also in the future.

Good luck!

FL


P.s.: This sentence from Mrs Christina Norman has really worried me:
“Fans complaining (About lack of RPG experience in ME2) is a small
percentage of the overall post (In the Bioware forums)” ...

[Stanley Woo]

Let's be honest, DreDk.



Different people enjoy different aspects of games. It is impossible to please everyone all the time. Sometimes you will agree with our decisions and love the game we release, sometimes you won't. Is it impossible for us to predict what you as an individual will and won't enjoy, and it is a little misguided to believe that a) we can cater our games to individual gamers' tastes and preferences, and that you have to like everything we do.



I'm sorry you don't feel ME2 was as good as ME1. Perhaps you will like future products better.