Mass Effect 2

Originally posted by NemeBro
There is a reason for that.

I found that in Mass Effect 1, I would often say **** the diplomatic or intimidating approach, and just kill everything, as in outside of dialogue and in combat. 😐

Triggers and prevented actions can more than take care of that. In fact, they were already doing that in the first.

Originally posted by NemeBro
I am an experience whore by nature, killing everything was always the best way to get experience, and level 57 or 58 on your first playthrough does not lie.

Killing everything doesn't always yield the highest experience in bioware RPGs, which is one of the reasons I like them. Usually, quests that are completed with the least amount of death will result in the highest experience and "light side" gain.

Originally posted by NemeBro
By not giving you experience for killing enemies, it actually makes the choice of whether to be a diplomatic goody two shoes douchebag or whether to go the "RAWR SHEPARD SMASH" approaches viable ones. Because they honestly were not to me.

Huh? That was the option in 1. It worked just fine.

Originally posted by NemeBro
But meh, preferences. It does not really change the game technically either way, since the level cap is lower.

It did for me. I have no motivation to kill the enemies, which is the primary motivation for playing RPGs, for me.

I still hate it that it's missing.

I used to get out of the mako, rape the big ass robots, and get experience. That was awesome...one hit you're dead.

I'm perfectly happy with enemies not having EXP in ME2. This obviously wasn't meant to be a grinding RPG, so it makes sense.

Keep in mind that Action oriented Rpg change from the traditional formulas of normal rpgs. I happy they gotten away from that because it wasn't important anyway.

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
huh mmm

id heard that theres a paragon way to do it and a renegade way to do it. perhaps i should have saved miranda for the renegade playthrough. that would make sense considering shes pretty much the most renegade women there.

also, i completed jacob "last black man in the galaxy"s loyalty mission in like 10 minutes last night. man hes such a boring, uninteresting character. im disappointed. why are black men in sci-fi always so lame? like lando.

Renegade option just has you bone Jack, which you can do before the final mission and from then on she will not talk to you anymore, she seems to lose respect for you. In fact it does not even get you the Paramour achievement to do it this way, and you can then get into a relationship with another character.

Paragon option is to wait to haz seckz.

Honestly, Paragon/Renegade does not really come into that much play when pursuing an actual relationship with one of the girls.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Triggers and prevented actions can more than take care of that. In fact, they were already doing that in the first.

Killing everything doesn't always yield the highest experience in bioware RPGs, which is one of the reasons I like them. Usually, quests that are completed with the least amount of death will result in the highest experience and "light side" gain.

Huh? That was the option in 1. It worked just fine.

It did for me. I have no motivation to kill the enemies, which is the primary motivation for playing RPGs, for me.

I still hate it that it's missing.

I used to get out of the mako, rape the big ass robots, and get experience. That was awesome...one hit you're dead.

2. Yes, it actually does. 😐 It was the same in Dragon Age: Origins, in Mass Effect 1 and DA: O killing enemies was always the best way to get experience.

3. I disagree. I went with the option that would let me kill them in gameplay, though this would often get my Renegade, it still limited my choices.

4. Then you're just a big jerk and suck pewpy.

out of curiosity what do you guys' sheperds look like?

with some help from a site i created this one for my femshep. my maleshep is just the default.

edit- it doesnt have the bangs though. how the hell did whoever made that have bangs?!!?!?

i noobed out on the suicide mission. jack died when the ship got attacked... didnt lose anyone else though.

god damn it i hate scanning planets though.... guess you kinda half to if you wantto buy the upgrades though huh?

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
out of curiosity what do you guys' sheperds look like?

with some help from a site i created this one for my femshep. my maleshep is just the default.

edit- it doesnt have the bangs though. how the hell did whoever made that have bangs?!!?!?

That is a hot shepard I must say. What site did you use?

Jennifer Hale sounds sleepy in ME2 =\

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
out of curiosity what do you guys' sheperds look like?

with some help from a site i created this one for my femshep. my maleshep is just the default.

edit- it doesnt have the bangs though. how the hell did whoever made that have bangs?!!?!?

Meh, I dunno how to screenshot my gosh darn 360 and am not gonna be a loser and take a picture with my phone. Though my first Shepard in 2 was a full Renegade, which showed off his cybernetics as you gaiz know, and to coincidently he actually looked a little like Ahnold. 😐

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
i noobed out on the suicide mission. jack died when the ship got attacked... didnt lose anyone else though.

god damn it i hate scanning planets though.... guess you kinda half to if you wantto buy the upgrades though huh?

First time I played no one died.

Cuz I is ossumz.

You guys like these ?

i found the storyline in mass effect 2 to be superior to pretty much any JRPG that exists : )

too late to edit-

what do you guys think are the tiers of your squadmates. i mean all characters have their strengths and weaknesses but i feel that some characters are simply more useful to have with you than others.

for example im fairly sure that miranda would be considered high tier, if not the highest tier... shes ridiculously useful in pretty much every situation there is, great damage to shields and armor and excellent biotics... garrus is also high tier because he does an insane amount of damage with his weapons and is not limited to any distance.

examples of low tier would be imo someone like jacob who's pretty much worthless at range, and he has no abilities that are unique to him.

what about you foo's?

god damn, scions on the harder difficulties are game breaking 😬

when they throw two of the cheap ****ers at me at once and theyre on platforms so i cant even get close enough to use my weapons it makes me bored and want to play something else.

Stop being a puss!

Your team mates are going to get pawned by the Scions on harder difficulties so you're going to have to 'man' up and go solo.

What class are you using?

Ugh.

Top difficulty setting, Mordin Solaris recruitment mission. No Medi-gel, two dead allies and virtually no ammo in the final section.

The fact that I pulled it off made me feel like Captain America though 😄

I got the perfect ending no one died and all is well. Now I have to kill Cerebus.

Originally posted by Ms.Marvel
too late to edit-

what do you guys think are the tiers of your squadmates. i mean all characters have their strengths and weaknesses but i feel that some characters are simply more useful to have with you than others.

for example im fairly sure that miranda would be considered high tier, if not the highest tier... shes ridiculously useful in pretty much every situation there is, great damage to shields and armor and excellent biotics... garrus is also high tier because he does an insane amount of damage with his weapons and is not limited to any distance.

examples of low tier would be imo someone like jacob who's pretty much worthless at range, and he has no abilities that are unique to him.

what about you foo's?

Truthfully, I really only need squad-mates for just that, taking down defenses I either am not able to or backing up my ability to take out said defenses.

That is why I find people like Jack to be nearly useless, like Jacob she is not good at range, and sure her warp ammo can take out biotic barriers, but you do not find people who have them all that often compared to armor and shields.