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 Post subject: Re: Mass Effect 2
PostPosted: 03 Feb 2010, 08:10 
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Just finished it. 51 hours 26 minutes. Longer than the time it took me to finish ME1, which is about 40 hours. I don't think you can get the level 30 achievement on playthrough 1, as I did everything possible and only ended up with level 28.

The final segment was very tense. However the very last fight is a bit anti-climatic. In the end, I don't think it's necessarily better than ME1, but still a great game!


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 Post subject: Re: Mass Effect 2
PostPosted: 03 Feb 2010, 19:37 
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over 50h? how did you manage to do that? i scanned like almost all systems to depletion, did all sidequests + dlc-missions, had everyone loyal and still only got about 35 hours :shock:

i mean it is definitely a plus to the first game where it lasts only about 20+ hours until your done - so way more game for the money you spend, but i don't know - is there a part of the game i missed?


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 Post subject: Re: Mass Effect 2
PostPosted: 03 Feb 2010, 20:24 
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over 50h? how did you manage to do that? i scanned like almost all systems to depletion, did all sidequests + dlc-missions, had everyone loyal and still only got about 35 hours :shock:

i mean it is definitely a plus to the first game where it lasts only about 20+ hours until your done - so way more game for the money you spend, but i don't know - is there a part of the game i missed?


Well, I usually take far longer than most people to finish a game. Not sure why, maybe because I'm very thorough with everything. Heck, it took me over 100 hours to finish Dragon Age :P I did everything you could possibly do in ME2, including all N7 missions by visiting every single planet. I also spent a lot of time talking with team members, reading codex, scanning and mining minerals, and even read a lot of the planet descriptions.

SPOILER!!!! Highlight to see.
Did you lose any team members at the end?


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 Post subject: Re: Mass Effect 2
PostPosted: 03 Feb 2010, 20:58 
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hmm okay, i didn't read through all the texts, figured most of them wouldn't tell me something substantially new compared to part 1, then again, maybe i'll take a look some time later (i totally like this universe and the work of drew karpyshyn - so i also got the novels, both CEs, the comics so far, and and and ... )

to your hidden question, no i didn't - if you want to know how i did that i can pm it to you;
funny thing is i managed to get all achievements in 1 run through except the lvl 30 one, even with all DLCs so far; lets hope "Kasumi" (placeholder(?) for the next teammate to come i think) and the "Anti-Grav-Tank" DLCs, or whatever may come (they're all just pretty much rumors so far) offer more exp to finish this one - i don't like being forced to do the game over again just to get the 2 final lvls.


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 Post subject: Re: Mass Effect 2
PostPosted: 03 Feb 2010, 23:53 
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hmm okay, i didn't read through all the texts, figured most of them wouldn't tell me something substantially new compared to part 1, then again, maybe i'll take a look some time later (i totally like this universe and the work of drew karpyshyn - so i also got the novels, both CEs, the comics so far, and and and ... )

to your hidden question, no i didn't - if you want to know how i did that i can pm it to you;
funny thing is i managed to get all achievements in 1 run through except the lvl 30 one, even with all DLCs so far; lets hope "Kasumi" (placeholder(?) for the next teammate to come i think) and the "Anti-Grav-Tank" DLCs, or whatever may come (they're all just pretty much rumors so far) offer more exp to finish this one - i don't like being forced to do the game over again just to get the 2 final lvls.


Regarding my question, I also did not. Just wanted to see what people did. I'll send you a PM.


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 Post subject: Re: Mass Effect 2
PostPosted: 06 Feb 2010, 12:22 
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Well, I'm fairly close to wrapping the game up now... not 100% certain how close I am to the end, although given that I've got all the characters, lotaltied them up, am through the Omega 4 Relay etc... can't be too much further to go.

Have to say, while I really enjoyed this game prior to a just-before-Omega-Relay event, since then I've been scratching my head trying to figure out why I'm just not finding it fun any more. What more I've played has just been a horrible slog that I'd rather not have had to go through.

I think I'll go back to Dragon Age...


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 Post subject: Re: Mass Effect 2
PostPosted: 06 Feb 2010, 21:08 
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Well, I'm fairly close to wrapping the game up now... not 100% certain how close I am to the end, although given that I've got all the characters, lotaltied them up, am through the Omega 4 Relay etc... can't be too much further to go.

Have to say, while I really enjoyed this game prior to a just-before-Omega-Relay event, since then I've been scratching my head trying to figure out why I'm just not finding it fun any more. What more I've played has just been a horrible slog that I'd rather not have had to go through.

I think I'll go back to Dragon Age...


You are very close to the end. Which part do you find to be slow?


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 Post subject: Re: Mass Effect 2
PostPosted: 07 Feb 2010, 14:55 
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Just finding the combat to be tedious. That's my main complaint. Husks. Husks. Collectors. Oooh! More Husks... boredboredboredboredboredboredbored...


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 Post subject: Re: Mass Effect 2
PostPosted: 07 Feb 2010, 18:48 
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Finished, level 25, 34 hours ish, didn't explore world so probably missed a handful of missions, but I'm glad that the last mission in this game was by far the most fun, there are so many games where the last level is such a letdown.

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 Post subject: Re: Mass Effect 2
PostPosted: 07 Feb 2010, 22:56 
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...but I'm glad that the last mission in this game was by far the most fun...

Were we playing the same game? I felt the end was a letdown of epic proportions. :(

...am I too demanding or something? 8)


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