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What exactly is so good about Mass Effect 2? That's what we aim to explore here, as we go deeper into the reviews to highlight aspects of the title that the gamer press is excited about.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
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Diandra worked on Diablo 4 and also other games at Blizzard including WoW: Dragon Flight. She’s also been at Bioware, Carbine, RIOT, and she is currently working at Crystal Dynamics.
Brian was the Lead Writer on Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls, worked on StarCraft: Heart of the Swarm, StarCraft: Wings of Liberty, and was also a writer on Mass Effect 2. He’s also been involved in movies such as the Iron Giant.
Diandra and Brian discuss their industry experience, the games they have worked on, how the writing process works, and much more.
Interesting, I think this game is better than what is suppose to be the best all time game this gen in GTA IV, but I doubt this will outscore it, I thought the same thing with uncharted 2.
Interesting although totally different games, uncharted 2, and Mass effect currently both scored at 96.
Is there game announced in the next year that will uncrown these kings, or take out top dawg GTA IV, and can it be an exclusive, or do sites tend to score an amazing multi-plat game higher.
The biggest flaw is probably that it's on two disks. That just plain sucks. The 360 is starting to show it's age, but at least the game itself didn't take a hit. It looks great, plays great, and the story is very interesting. Nearly the perfect game.
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please dont take this as a slight against mass affect, i think bioware is a great team and they deserve the success their getting.
Still need to finish this game. I'm loving the impact of my decisions from the first game.
I have a lot of issues with ME2, actually, so I do see it personally being much in the same boat as GTA4. Meaning, I think it's overrated by the media. I think ME2 is a good 9/10 game and nothing more; but throw away some RPG concepts, water-down the storyline with too many main characters resulting in many small storylines with a very stretched-out and almost as small main storyline, and up the shooter-elements and that's what people look for in RPGs today.
Anyway, I'll probably import my mail Shephard over and play a different class all over, but I'm going to despise having to waste time searching for ores just so I can actually use the occasional upgrade I'm lucky to run across or afford all over again. And, hopefully this time I find some way to make more cash because my first time through I couldn't afford all my armor and weapon upgrades for the shotgun or heavy pistol.