Mass Effect 2 Media Blast: Dev Diary, Armour Customisation, Screens and Space-Brassieres

I really didn't enjoy the first game. The story was cool, but the gameplay itself was something I tolerated, rather than enjoyed, for the most part. Sounds like they've made a lot of improvements to the combat and weapons/armour this time around though, so perhaps that will change!

Why doesn't Bioware allow you to choose the character arc and story progression from the first game instead of making you import a save game? How many of us have kept Mass Effect installed for this to happen? I moved from a desktop to a laptop and in the process lost all of my savegames. How difficulty would it be for Bioware to just include a feature that allows you to select at the start "I saved the Council" from the first game? Seriously?

I'm not happy with this quote from the SyFy ad:

"Video games can be powerful and resonate with people the same way that movies or television do."

I agree with the text of that statement, but two key oppositions:

1. For a lot of veteran gamers, video games have resonated emotinally with them for a long time, years before games had mocap, gigabytes of textures, and tons of shaders. Some of us have had emotional connections with games that rendered in 320x200 or even text-based MUDs.

2. This quote seems to restrain games into a genericized statement of "video games need to be exactly like movies". That's the last thing that video games need to become; they need to allow the player to guide the storyline, and truly have some level of control, instead of just playing along with a predetermined storyline to reach its inevitable concluision (looking at you, Jesse Stern and Infinity Ward). I cringe at the quote in this context, imagining people like Bobby Kotick, John Riccitiello and Strauss Zelnick salivating at it, trying to line up movie tie-ins and signing TV producers and writers to go after the next Modern Warfare or the next tie-in game for the next blockbuster movie.

I'm getting such a mass erection from this game, and not just from Miranda's silky underwear.

Starting with Mass Effect 2, I am officially becoming a "year behind gamer". January 2011 this will be on Steam for $20 bundled with all the DLC. I want to play a complete package, and I have no problem waiting to get it all in one chunk. To me, waiting between DLC/expansion packs is worse than the year wait for the bundle (Fallout 3, I'm looking at you).

So will there be any weapons or armor in this game? It seems like the best stuff was taken out and put into sleazy pre-order exclusive DLC packs. And it kind of sucks you can only carry one weapon with the inventory system gone now. I found being able to switch to s sniper to CQC weapon in ME1 to be very helpful.

AWESOME!!! The planetary exploration and fuel burning are EXACTLY what I was hoping for, as it's reminiscent of games like StarControl 2 and StarFlight, which are some of my favorite sci-fi games.

To make things better, they were also using a mouse to fly the ship. :D

Crap, I CAN'T STOP SMILING! Must resist facial spasm.... I'm buying this game day one!

Minor detail, but I like how they chose the PC version to show the menus for armor customization and travel.

I hate RPGs and only came here to see the bra. thanks Alice

I expect the usual forced moral dilemma from bioware.

Oh god I can't wait. Just finished Mass Effect playthrough and it's just so good.