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LordRazziel
10/19/19 5:03:36 PM
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From Metacritic
It's fine to not like a game everyone likes, but when you claim it's objectively bad and everyone else is stupid for liking it, you become a wiener


This review contains spoilers. RPG? --- I don't get it... I just don't. How could this game have received a 9.0 user score? It must be because the current generation of gamers is made-up of FPS f-boys who care more about ownz and lolz, than a deep RPG experience. Mass Effect 2 isn't an RPG.. it doesn't even have elements of an RPG. The only thing that had RPG elements in ME2 was the marketing letterhead. ME2 was a third person shooter in space. Period. None of your choices matter or make any difference to the story line, except who is or is not around after the credits roll. Big woop.

Completely linear gameplay -- huge disapointment throughout the entire experience. Side-missions are nothing more than 10 minute long fire fights, without any purpose. No loot, no weapons or armor to find, no unique artifacts.... just more fps lolz and ownz.

Mining -- makes me so sick I don't even want to write about it. Bioware took away immersive planet exploration in an awesome all terrain vehicle.... for a glorified game of darts. Congrats developers. You epic failed. All you had to do was add some more alien villages, or interesting ruins to explore. Instead, you Bioware typed select-all, Shift-delete. "We're golden yo!" I've met smarter rocks.

PS - to the people who complained about ME1's planet exploring vehicle controls -- you're just too dumb. Sorry. The controls worked perfectly, and exploring the mountains of a distant world was great fun. Try learning how to control a vehicle other than a Halo Bullfrog buggy... or whatever it's called.

Inventory - Shift-Delete.
Armor, Weapons - Shift-Delete.
...a new bioware trend.

Finally... the final Boss.... WTF kind of special education, highschool drop-out, pregnant at 16, eats paint chips, glue sniffing, embarrassment to humanity, brainchild decided that a giant skeletor in the middle of space was a "awesomz lolz yo, yo" final boss?

Skeletor...really? In space??? How was this thing supposed to do anything, go anywhere, or simply be a threat to anyhing in the ME2 universe? Was he going to fling asteroids across known space?
Oh, and the best part was that he was made from a mix of biological DNA.... so he was the giant mutated baby of Rosanne Bar and Shaq?? Bioware is so dumb.

You get a 4 because the graphics were pretty. That's about it.
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Irony
10/19/19 5:05:54 PM
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Smash Bros isn't a fighting game
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Freddie_Mercury
10/19/19 5:09:12 PM
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This review contains spoilers. RPG? --- I don't get it... I just don't. How could this game have received a 9.0 user score? It must be because the current generation of gamers is made-up of FPS f-boys who care more about ownz and lolz, than a deep RPG experience. Mass Effect 2 isn't an RPG.. it doesn't even have elements of an RPG. The only thing that had RPG elements in ME2 was the marketing letterhead. ME2 was a third person shooter in space. Period. None of your choices matter or make any difference to the story line, except who is or is not around after the credits roll. Big woop.

Completely linear gameplay -- huge disapointment throughout the entire experience. Side-missions are nothing more than 10 minute long fire fights, without any purpose. No loot, no weapons or armor to find, no unique artifacts.... just more fps lolz and ownz.

Mining -- makes me so sick I don't even want to write about it. Bioware took away immersive planet exploration in an awesome all terrain vehicle.... for a glorified game of darts. Congrats developers. You epic failed. All you had to do was add some more alien villages, or interesting ruins to explore. Instead, you Bioware typed select-all, Shift-delete. "We're golden yo!" I've met smarter rocks.

PS - to the people who complained about ME1's planet exploring vehicle controls -- you're just too dumb. Sorry. The controls worked perfectly, and exploring the mountains of a distant world was great fun. Try learning how to control a vehicle other than a Halo Bullfrog buggy... or whatever it's called.

Inventory - Shift-Delete.
Armor, Weapons - Shift-Delete.
...a new bioware trend.

Finally... the final Boss.... WTF kind of special education, highschool drop-out, pregnant at 16, eats paint chips, glue sniffing, embarrassment to humanity, brainchild decided that a giant skeletor in the middle of space was a "awesomz lolz yo, yo" final boss?

Skeletor...really? In space??? How was this thing supposed to do anything, go anywhere, or simply be a threat to anyhing in the ME2 universe? Was he going to fling asteroids across known space?
Oh, and the best part was that he was made from a mix of biological DNA.... so he was the giant mutated baby of Rosanne Bar and Shaq?? Bioware is so dumb.

You get a 4 because the graphics were pretty. That's about it.

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It's fine to not like a game everyone likes, but when you claim it's objectively bad and everyone else is stupid for liking it, you become a wiener

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MorbidFaithless
10/19/19 5:11:24 PM
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Yeah. 2 was a pretty major letdown for me. Never bothered with 3.
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konokonohamaru
10/19/19 5:12:29 PM
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I don't care if you don't call it an RPG, it's still one of the best games of all time
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LordRazziel
10/19/19 5:12:56 PM
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Why did you just copy my post? I wasn't trying to pawn it off some copypasta. I appended it stating it was from metacritic, and how I felt about it
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MudKip_Master
10/19/19 5:14:22 PM
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To this day I have never played a ME game. Maybe I should get the trilogy sometime...
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Crepes
10/19/19 5:15:04 PM
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Still a great game whatever genre you think it is.
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LordRazziel
10/19/19 5:27:42 PM
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MudKip_Master posted...
To this day I have never played a ME game. Maybe I should get the trilogy sometime...

It's really fucking good. I'd highly recommend picking it up.

2 is the best
1 has great story, but kinda shallow gameplay
3 kinda dropped the ball on the ending, but I don't think it's as bad as many many make it out to be.
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hockeybub89
10/19/19 5:30:15 PM
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How is not being a RPG supposed to be a criticism? That's just describing what genre a game might be.

LordRazziel posted...
immersive planet exploration in an awesome all terrain vehicle....

Oh I thought we were talking about Mass Effect 1 and not some game you made up in your head. Because Mass Effect 1 had a slow, cumbersome vehicle that reacted weirdly to elevation change and lumbered across mostly ugly palette swaps.
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LordRazziel
10/19/19 5:31:25 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
LordRazziel posted...
immersive planet exploration in an awesome all terrain vehicle....

Oh I thought we were talking about Mass Effect 1 and not some game you made up in your head.

I'm not. This isn't my review.
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Metallic Slug13
10/19/19 5:32:26 PM
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konokonohamaru posted...
I don't care if you don't call it an RPG, it's still one of the best games of all time


Yes Mass Effect 2 is one of the best games ever made. Don't care whether it gets classified as an RPG, Action-RPG, TPS, whatever
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LordRazziel
10/19/19 5:34:49 PM
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I'm gonn move up my thoughts to the top of the post. Admittedly, I thought 1 or 2 people would think it was mine, but not everyone.
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hockeybub89
10/19/19 5:36:12 PM
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LordRazziel posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
LordRazziel posted...
immersive planet exploration in an awesome all terrain vehicle....

Oh I thought we were talking about Mass Effect 1 and not some game you made up in your head.

I'm not. This isn't my review.

You is valid either way
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LordRazziel
10/19/19 5:39:07 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
LordRazziel posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
LordRazziel posted...
immersive planet exploration in an awesome all terrain vehicle....

Oh I thought we were talking about Mass Effect 1 and not some game you made up in your head.

I'm not. This isn't my review.

You is valid either way

Huh?
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TheDreadedWave
10/19/19 5:39:24 PM
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Freddie_Mercury posted...
to the people who complained about ME1's planet exploring vehicle controls -- you're just too dumb.
Got'em!

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Eamon696
10/19/19 5:40:25 PM
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Ultimately, who cares what the genre is?
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ElatedVenusaur
10/19/19 5:41:09 PM
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1's game-play is really clunky, but it's got a great story and establishes the setting exceptionally well.

2's game-play is great and the story and setting are still great, even if not quite as good as 1's. I was amped and ready to play more when the ending sequences played.

3's gameplay is also great, but it has the weakest plotting of the 3. With that said, it's still great story-wise, until the ending, but it does 2 especially a disservice by essentially sidelining all the squadmates from 2 and dumpstering most of Cerberus' development and also idiot-boxing them.
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pres_madagascar
10/19/19 5:44:45 PM
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Andromeda has the best gameplay in the entire series, but the worst everything else.

2 is the overall best game in the series

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MasterGakke
10/19/19 5:47:42 PM
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1 was clunky but at the time the 360 had few RPGs so it was very welcome, and it's still good. 2 is a little too streamlined, but the combat was so much fun that it totally worked to feature it so much and it's one of the GOATs. 3 was a Call of Duty-style campaign tacked on to a multiplayer game and was mostly bullshit random enemy spawns on multiplayer maps interspersed with cutscenes featuring the squadmates you wanted to use but couldn't because all the dev time was spent on multiplayer.

Play the first two, pretend EA went out of business and never made the third.
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LordRazziel
10/19/19 5:57:44 PM
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ElatedVenusaur posted...
1's game-play is really clunky, but it's got a great story and establishes the setting exceptionally well.

2's game-play is great and the story and setting are still great, even if not quite as good as 1's. I was amped and ready to play more when the ending sequences played.

3's gameplay is also great, but it has the weakest plotting of the 3. With that said, it's still great story-wise, until the ending, but it does 2 especially a disservice by essentially sidelining all the squadmates from 2 and dumpstering most of Cerberus' development and also idiot-boxing them.
Still well worth playing and enjoyable even though the ending is a major let-down.

The build up to the end was great. When the fleet you helped bring together starts jumping into orbit, I got fucking chills.
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LordRazziel
10/19/19 5:58:55 PM
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MasterGakke posted...
1 was clunky but at the time the 360 had few RPGs so it was very welcome, and it's still good. 2 is a little too streamlined, but the combat was so much fun that it totally worked to feature it so much and it's one of the GOATs. 3 was a Call of Duty-style campaign tacked on to a multiplayer game and was mostly bullshit random enemy spawns on multiplayer maps interspersed with cutscenes featuring the squadmates you wanted to use but couldn't because all the dev time was spent on multiplayer.

Play the first two, pretend EA went out of business and never made the third.

No, play the third. It's still a great game, imo.

pres_madagascar posted...
Andromeda has the best gameplay in the entire series, but the worst everything else.

2 is the overall best game in the series

I still haven't played Andromeda. I would have, even with all the negative attention, were it part of the main arc.
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TheDreadedWave
10/19/19 5:59:24 PM
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LordRazziel posted...
No, play the third.
No actually don't do this

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hockeybub89
10/19/19 6:00:19 PM
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Mass Effect 3 is very good for 90% of the story. And I had a lot of fun in the multiplayer.
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nevershine
10/19/19 6:01:10 PM
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I really liked the first 2 games, but for some reason, I couldnt get into 3.

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ROBANN_88
10/19/19 6:03:25 PM
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LordRazziel posted...
Finally... the final Boss.... WTF kind of special education, highschool drop-out, pregnant at 16, eats paint chips, glue sniffing, embarrassment to humanity, brainchild decided that a giant skeletor in the middle of space was a "awesomz lolz yo, yo" final boss?

Skeletor...really? In space??? How was this thing supposed to do anything, go anywhere, or simply be a threat to anyhing in the ME2 universe? Was he going to fling asteroids across known space?
Oh, and the best part was that he was made from a mix of biological DNA.... so he was the giant mutated baby of Rosanne Bar and Shaq?? Bioware is so dumb.


did he miss the part about it being a Reaper Larva thing?
Skeletor is only the core, and the giant squid shell was supposed to go on top of it

also, this isn't a real review from a professional game reviewer, right?
cause it reads like a long youtube comment
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EverDownward
10/19/19 6:03:29 PM
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The only one I liked enough to ever beat was the first one. The second game felt shallow in comparison.
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JE19426
10/19/19 6:04:37 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
How is not being a RPG supposed to be a criticism? That's just describing what genre a game might be.


The game was marketed as being an RPG. A game not being an what it is marketed as, seems like a fair criticism to me.
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LordRazziel
10/19/19 6:08:49 PM
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JE19426 posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
How is not being a RPG supposed to be a criticism? That's just describing what genre a game might be.


The game was marketed as being an RPG. A game not being an what it is marketed as, seems like a fair criticism to me.

It is an RPG, though. It may not be a rich one, but it's an RPG, nonetheless.
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AirFresh
10/19/19 6:15:17 PM
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LordRazziel posted...
Why did you just copy my post? I wasn't trying to pawn it off some copypasta. I appended it stating it was from metacritic, and how I felt about it
Because he found it funny and was chaining your message

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alphagamble
10/19/19 6:23:05 PM
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I failed my exams because of ME2

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LordRazziel
10/19/19 6:27:40 PM
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alphagamble posted...
I failed my exams because of ME2

no regrets

Regerts*
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pres_madagascar
10/19/19 6:27:45 PM
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LordRazziel posted...
No, play the third. It's still a great game, imo.

I still haven't played Andromeda. I would have, even with all the negative attention, were it part of the main arc.
You can usually get Andromeda for like $7 on sale on psn and xbl a lot. It's worth a playthrough for the combat and stuff alone.

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LordRazziel
10/19/19 6:37:22 PM
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pres_madagascar posted...
LordRazziel posted...
No, play the third. It's still a great game, imo.

I still haven't played Andromeda. I would have, even with all the negative attention, were it part of the main arc.
You can usually get Andromeda for like $7 on sale on psn and xbl a lot. It's worth a playthrough for the combat and stuff alone.

Yeah, I might pick it up. I still love the universe and Bioware RPGs.
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konokonohamaru
10/19/19 6:56:45 PM
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konokonohamaru
10/19/19 6:56:54 PM
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Sackgurl
10/19/19 7:06:42 PM
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LordRazziel posted...
The build up to the end was great. When the fleet you helped bring together starts jumping into orbit, I got f***ing chills.


this has more to do with the soundtrack to 3 than anything else. 3 had really consistently outstanding music.

but jump drive is still the best soundtrack from any mass effect game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWYQY-EEnw" data-time="

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Delirious_Beard
10/19/19 7:08:45 PM
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it's definitely super overrated
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LordRazziel
10/19/19 7:14:07 PM
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Sackgurl posted...
LordRazziel posted...
The build up to the end was great. When the fleet you helped bring together starts jumping into orbit, I got f***ing chills.


this has more to do with the soundtrack to 3 than anything else. 3 had really consistently outstanding music.

but jump drive is still the best soundtrack from any mass effect game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWYQY-EEnw" data-time="

The music definitely played a roll, it was more than that for me. Knowing I brought all those factions and species together gave me a sense of pride.

Delirious_Beard posted...
it's definitely super overrated

You're entitled to your opinion. What makes you feel it's overrated?
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