Bioware: Mass Effect Trilogy Exclusive to 360 - Mass Effect 2 in '09? (XboxOZ360)

Superfragilistic - 518 days 3 hours ago

It's personally my favourite RPG this gen. But PS3/Wii fans shouldn't lament, looks like the Mass Effect universe will continue to expand on all platforms after the trilogy. :)

EDIT: Bubbles to Paul War for a refreshingly multiplatform attitude! :)

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Lifendz - 518 days 3 hours ago

hopefully the PS3 has more in the way of RPGs by then. Surprising move on EA's part considering the growing install base of PS3. I'll remain skeptical until I get something a bit more official.

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CAPT IRISH - 518 days 3 hours ago

I like to see were they take ME after Shepard's trilogy

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edhe - 518 days 3 hours ago

Well, to be honest, you can play mass effect 1 for the least number of notes required in this generation. In the UK anyway. Christ, you could get a 360 and ME for less than Wii and BIG BEACH PARTY!!!

So it's not a bad thing really.

However - more ME, woop woop \o/

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Superfragilistic - 518 days 3 hours ago

Agreed. Personally I hope it's not another MMO (aka KOTOR) but a new adventure series or RPG trilogy set before or after the current trilogy.

Best bit in that article is that all three in the current trilogy will be released this gen. Awesome. :)

EDIT: @Green - Now how can I argue with that. Too Human trilogy, Mass Effect trilogy, Gears trilogy, Fable trilogy and errrrr a Halo quadrilogy??? ... ;)

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green - 518 days 3 hours ago

GEoW and Mass Effect are the most important 3rd party exclusives on the 360.So it's a given that Microsoft will do everything to ensure the continued exclusivity of those IP's till at least the end of the 360's life cycle.

@superfragilistic: If mass effect 2 is coming out end of 09, then that should put the final installment at 2011.Good to know that the 360 will still be supported till then with games like mass effect and the Too human trilogy.

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morganfell - 518 days 3 hours ago

Well I am afraid I can't agree with you as The Witcher on PC burns Mass Effect to the ground. The Witcher, with 5 different endings, twice the length of game. a serious upgrade system, much better graphics, motion captured fighting, currently 3 full free adventures in development, a full blown editor released to the public, the ultimate Witcher releasing free this fall to owners, no elevator simulations, no landscapes that look like a barren moon, and no cheap attempt to imitate the force, The Witcher easily smokes Mass Effect as best RPG.

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Sega Saturn - 518 days 3 hours ago

Unlike Guiness, morganfell is bitter!

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green - 518 days 3 hours ago

Metacritic says hello, and gives you a big disagree

Mass Effect 360, 91% based on 73 reviews.
http://www.metacritic.com/g...

The witcher PC, 81% based on 48 reviews.
http://www.metacritic.com/g...

And i am 100percent sure that the general public disagrees with you as well buy purchasing more copies of Mass Effect than the witcher.

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mepsipax - 518 days 3 hours ago

whoever played the pc version of mass effect has really found the best, as for the witcher, blah, boring and repetitive, while I loved it when I first started playing, all the dialogue was boring and uncaptivating unlike mass effect, and the combat system was retardadly easy, there are some cool moments in the game no doubt, but still mass effect is a better game IMO, the witcher is more generic medievel/ancient crap with "magic" ooo, I'm sorry but mass effect is a sci-fi rpg and we don't have many of those around.
Anyway Mass Effect had lots of depth, I don't know what it was, I think it was the great combat system, one second you're interogating an alien, the next you're getting shot at, I don't know hard to explain but I still think mass effect is the better game.

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morganfell - 518 days 3 hours ago

Yes and metacritic is always right about everything and I mean everything, right? Bitter? No, I own Mass Effect on the 360 why should I care other than the fact that it isn't what it was cracked up to be. Look it's a shooter, not it's an RPG! Guess what? It's neither, Jack of all trades and master of none.

I was amazed how Mass Effect received all of those scores that compose metacritic. Things like a 10 in graphics when it has bland low res textures, over half the planets are barren nothing and you can only explore one small area. Worse aliasing ever in a game. The jaggies were poking out my eyes. Ahhh! My eyes! The game got a pass in many areas. It had a horrendous frame rate even becoming a slide show in some areas yet the game was given a pass by the same websites that attack other games for the very same issues.

Graphics weren't the only issue. I had to use a female character because the male Shepard's voice over was atrocious. "We'll stop him sir!" Judas Priest it sounds like Elmer Milktoast.

One website did a review and actually bothered to speak the truth as they talked about the fact Mass Effect isn't so much a RPG as it is an elevator simulator. I am in a starship and a trip up one deck in a freight elevator takes forever.

Was anything wrong with the game? Not according to that pinhead Casey Hudson. I call him a pinhead because the inability to admit where a game can be improved leads to the inability to improve a game. Maybe they will come up with more great ideas like their moronic way to institute DLC. That was some forward thinking design.

And gun, thanks for speaking the facts.

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CrazzyMan - 518 days 3 hours ago

Of`course, if this game would be released on PS3, more GAMERS would be able to play it...

BUT, i`m 100% confident, that EVERY mid range PC(400$) by the end of 2009 will be able to run games like Mass effect 1/2, Gears 1/2, and EVEN Crysis at 1080p with HIGHEST settings.

Of`course, x360 probably by that time will cost 250-300$, BUT, on PC you wil get:
a) chepear games(they cost 50$ usually), so 10 games = -100$.
b) FREE online, that`s another 50$ per year, or -150$ for next 3 years.
c) PC exclusives, which are must play(like startcraft 2, diablo 3, witcher, crysis, compnay of heroes, Total War series and etc.). Though S2 or D3 have chances to come to consoles, but you never know, they might not.
d) in the end, it`s cheaper, 500-550$ vs 400$.

Overall, having PC and PS3, you will be able to play:
1) PS3 exclusives
2) PC exclusives
3) ps3/x360 multiplatform games
4) x360/pc multiplatform games at 1080p with better textures and etc.

What is better value for money, you decide. I already made my decision. =)

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green - 518 days 3 hours ago

First of all words like xbot are not allowed in the gamer zone.Leave your fanboyisim at the door, but if you can't then post in the Open Zone with your mate DarkSniper and co.

Secondly,you know who the mods are on N4G, so why don't you send them a PM telling then that i have multiple accounts as you claim.I am sure they will be happy to help you not.

So from your argument about the high scores that Mass Effect got, that means that MGS4 did not deserve all the perfect 10's since it was reviewed at a time of immense hype.

You come here trying to prove a point but end up looking like a complete idiot that is completely enraged and bitter that the Mass Effect trilogy will never see the light of day on a Sony console.

Let me give you a little advise.The best way of not getting bitter and psychotic toward gamers and other games not coming to your console of choice is to never or hardly ever read news about the other console.If you did that then news like this will never bother you.

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kevnb - 518 days 3 hours ago

its mostly sony fans who get upset over something going multiplat, im not sure why they are so in love with their console. Its so bad, although Im a ps3 user I come off as a 360 fanboy half of the time.

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green - 518 days 2 hours ago

LOL.I am an adult but if i were a kid and i ever saw you stupid display of fanboyisim, then i would pray day and night that i never grow up.

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mepsipax - 518 days 2 hours ago

check out my avi, Bioshock sucks, and I don't care for it, biggest disappointment for me in recent memory, anyway console exclusivity is stupid IMO, the only reasons theres exclusives is not for the people who own the system but to get new people to buy it to play that one game, the only time exclusives are okay is in this example, where they don't think they could achieve the same level of quality as they could with the 360/PC version on the PS3, it's not that the PS3 couldn't take it its just that the PS3 is a very diffrent beast then the 360 and Bioware would have to devote a large team for the port.
edit: oh and also, Crysis can't display at 1080p, thats something HDTV's have 1080 horizontal lines in progressive scan, computer games have always been in High "Resolution" not High "Definition" computer games base it on displays, my PC can run Crysis at 1280 by 1024? I think, thats the max, and it looks fraggin brilliant.

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green - 518 days 2 hours ago

"Also green you are a know xbot with multiple account taking into the consideration of all your bubbles."

Did you just say that you never called me an xbot?

Oh great no bubbles to reply.I know whats next, endless PM's calling me out as an xbot.

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Mausenheimmer - 518 days 2 hours ago

Don't bother arguing with Morganfell. He combines an, at best, loose understanding of the 360 and claims to own one to disguise his typical fanboyism. If it's for the 360, Morganfell will instantly claim its worse despite overwhelming facts to the contrary.

And Morgan, I'm sorry you weren't any good at Mass Effect. You should still be able to recognize why other people enjoyed it. If not, I guess you aren't that in touch with the rest of the gaming community.

Also, I can't wait to see what they do with Mass Effect 2 next year.

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morganfell - 518 days 1 hour ago

Any good? No I had no trouble going through it despite the world's most idiotic vehicle ever. The gut scrambler would have killed any human being. No you are quite wrong. I had no issue with playing the game and being good at it. Mass Effect had the issue with not being able to be a good game.

Just because a large number of people make the claim doesn't make it true. The 3rd Reich was full of people that said the policies of Der Fuhrer were the best thing ever and look how wrong they turned out to be so you can set aside that line of reasoning right now.

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tordavis - 518 days ago

Bubbles for Paul and Superfrag for always having a true gamer perspective and keeping it real here at N4G.

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deeznuts - 517 days 23 hours ago

This statement is wrong before it even began. Mass Effect is on the PC. Not exclusive.

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zethos56 - 517 days 23 hours ago

Console exclusive, Microsoft exclusive, whater you want to call it. It's considered exlcusive if it's only on one console.

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dan-boy - 517 days 22 hours ago

it's a shame that other people are not going to be able to enjoy it aswell. i'm looking forward to mass effect 2 for sure.

morganfell: man you are one bitter fanboy. i know you try aand come across as all knowing, but after reading comment after hate filled comment from you--------> the open zone is where you should dwell me thinks....there's plenty of people who can relate to you in there.

especially after reading you say the other day that sony getting bioshock was a bigger scoop than ff13 going multi-platform. sad and twisted you are. lose a bubble also!

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Jinxstar - 517 days 21 hours ago

I played it. I found it dull and laggy with a cliched story and weak characters I didn't feel attached to... I know I am one of very few who feel the game was lame but there were so many planets you either A. Couldn't go to or B. Were damn near desolate. I had incredible lag when there were more the 4 or 5 enemies on screen at any given time. No checkpoint's at all so if you die you get dropped back 5 or 6 hours of game (Happened to me 2 times) Also I feel there is way too much Sci Fi crep on the 360 anyway... I really didn't enjoy it at all and for the "Next big thing" coming to the 360 after Halo3, which I played/ beat/ went online to kill noobs and returned within a week, I felt let down greatly... and don't care for anything from bioware anymore... Game on if you like it but for me it really is "Meh" gaming.

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badz149 - 518 days 3 hours ago

thanx also for making it available on PC!

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00 - 518 days 2 hours ago

Yay

thanks for supporting bioware and Microsoft.

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The realness - 518 days 2 hours ago

Thank bioware! they have always had a thing for xbox consoles.kind of like insomniac and sony.or bungie and MS .or kojima productions and sony.this is good .It keeps the balance.

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Vertius - 518 days 1 hour ago

At least by getting it on the PC, we can play the game, and support Microsoft as little as possible!

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XboxOZ360 - 518 days 3 hours ago

EA's new approach under the ever watchful and guiding rule of John Ricciliello is a completely different approach as they had before.

Remembering that was CEO of BioWare/Pandemic prior to EA acquizition comes with the entire knowledge and desire to see his old project see the light of day as they were originally conceived when they were independent developers. John Ricciliello wants GAMES to expand not implode. Like EA did with so many development studios it gobbled up several years ago.

Again, it comes down to ppl not reading what is happening within the industry, and simply seeing the sign EA and assuming the worst, or that they are still the same. Most don't even know the ex-CEO is the new COE of EA . . . and assume EA is as it was years ago, and won't even give iot a chance to be different.

You know what assuming does, don't you . makes an ass out of U and Me. So look at who's actually RUNNING Electronic Arts now, and see that Bioware's ex-CEO is now its new CEO, albeit in a different form.

Why do you think Peter Moore moved over to EA Sport, for his health. He could see it changing, and wanted to be part of that.

EA's approach now is to acquire great studios, use their unique game engines and help those studios do things financially they could never of dreamed of if they had of remained as they were.

Now BioWare have the clout and stability to work on 4-5 years of work on one title, while they also work on others. Something they could not have done if they stayed independent.

Edit: And to the person/s that disagree, how can you disagree on something that is FACT, not rumour or fiction . . sometimes I wonder about the mentality of some ppl within the confines of this site, seriously . . John Ricciliello IS the current CEO of EA, he WAS the CEO of BioWare and thus has Mass Effects best interest at heart . . as well as EA keeping its mits off developers it acquires . . . what is to disagree with about that . . shheezzes. . . . .

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Superfragilistic - 518 days 3 hours ago

Damn you can talk! lol

Anyways I'm not so fully convinced of EA's piety, but Mass Effect with sex scenes, Dead Space doing Saw-like gore, Mirror's Edge giving me motion sickness, Mercs 2 letting me blow up in game advertising and their patience with Spore are helping me forget the bitterness I have towards them for screwing over Bullfrog, Origin and Westwood (amongst many others!).

They'll have to do a lot more good before I'm wholly convinced of their changed ways... but yeah, they're on the right track. :)

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mepsipax - 518 days 3 hours ago

as long as EA doesn't take over take 2 then EA will have gone up in my books, I guess you can't be evil and make terrible games forever though, doing better than Ubisoft though, (unless they make BGAE 2 amazing) yay for the downfall of games being made for gamers, long live the big heartless corporations!

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XboxOZ360 - 518 days 3 hours ago

@ mepsipax :
There's a distinct chance Ubisoft are going to make a solid push for Take2 and I believe Take2 would rather go to Ubisoft than even consider allowing a take over by EA, even if EA are changing their tactics.

EA, while it has changed its ways in recent times under the new CEO and the new team he has brought in, it still is the biggest Publishing and developing house out there bar the 3 major ones. Ubisoft are fast coming up the rear and they need some excellent acquisitions to both maintain their role and to gain a deeper footing within the industry. It is one the right track, and studios like Take 2 can see the benefits in moving towards Ubisoft, rather than EA.

Ubi have recent broadened its overseas studios and moved into China/Asia so anything is possible.

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Mausenheimmer - 518 days 2 hours ago

I find it amazing you would say that after they just said the Mass Effect Trilogy was staying on the 360.

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Superfragilistic - 518 days 3 hours ago

Coming from Oz (as in Australia) I can say "Here, here! Give me Netflix goddammit & stop charging me over US$100 for games!" ;)

EDIT: @OZ below. Holy Sh!t... You just made my day with Mass Effect and Jade Empire! Wow. :)

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XboxOZ360 - 518 days 3 hours ago

Jade Empire is actually "In the works" as they like to say, and it has been "tagged" for the 360 . . . I'm working on an update to the Up-coming games listing, and that will be in it.

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green - 518 days 3 hours ago

Jade Empire was my second best RPG on the Xbox right behind KOTOR2.A sequel would be supper awesome.

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Gun_Senshi - 518 days 3 hours ago

Mass Effect was never exclusive to X360, PC says Hi.

Jade Empire? PC Says Hi again

Disagree?

OK so Mass Effect and Jade Empire are not on PC...

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Charmers - 518 days 2 hours ago

@ 4.4 okay fine they are Microsoft platform exclusives, there does that make you happy now ? The fact is if Sony had such a massive stake in the PC market we would be seeing them do exactly the SAME thing as Microsoft.

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thewhoopimen - 518 days 2 hours ago

Personally I thought Jade Empire was one of the most hackneyed watered down Asian-themed RPG ever. The only thing remotely Asian was the B movie kungfu stuff with generic style names and the somewhat Asian looking buildings. The dialogue was distinctly western ideas thrown in with some asian sounding spin. I was horrified at how little research Bioware actually put into this RPG. Asian lore, particularly Chinese Lore predates Western lore/culture by at least a 1000 years. There is alot more material, story, art, craft, architecture, weaponry, armor developments, food, history that they could've used instead of some McDojo sh!t they came up with. I mean seriously they have like 4000 years to work with. This is from my perspective as an Asian.

If you disagree... say something...

Edit: Hahah. true enough.

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Superfragilistic - 518 days 2 hours ago

Okay! But it's the very first one in the description above...

In the just released September issue of Australian 360, comes the commitment of Bioware CEO Ray Muzyka "to bring the Mass Effect trilogy exclusively to the Xbox 360." :)

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PimpHandHappy - 518 days 2 hours ago

the 7 ppl that agree with this fool need to be shot!

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PimpHandHappy - 518 days 1 hour ago

just because your two accounts have 2 and 3 bubbles doesnt mean you need to act like a little spugde eating punk

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Pain - 517 days 23 hours ago

....just proved ur a Retard M$ butt luver...

please dream some more that PS3 was a Crappy half a$$'d PC/console jammed in a case.

and ME on 360/pc = good PC games should stay on PC's, less chance they Suck on PS3.

I'm sick of DX 9 clippy choppy bogged framrate making My PS3 look inferior like the PC therr ported from.

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SoIid Snake - 517 days 22 hours ago

Mass Effect 2: Biggest Alien orgy since 'Nam!

Xbox 1.3 FTL!

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power of Green - 517 days 21 hours ago

The EA overhaul was done to get talent and change the EA standing/image for the company not to suck the life out of the industry.

EA has said this from day one, they are not going to control their new studio's.

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CyberSentinel - 517 days 21 hours ago

@1.2: VeryAngryLemming: If you really believe that Mass Effect will one day go to Installation 3, then keep on waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting.....b36y0nd!

Blind Lemmings, Resistance Is Futile, You Must Comply!

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Fernando8777 - 517 days 18 hours ago

M$ dosent own Gear how many times do u need to hear that

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Tmac - 517 days 17 hours ago

Lol, so this rumor was shot down by Joystiq, a more tangible website than a guy runnin' wordpress lmfao!

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Superfragilistic - 518 days 3 hours ago

Did you play LO? 4 discs or 1 disc... either way it was awesome. :)

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Thoas - 518 days 3 hours ago

LOL if you say so.

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Jenzo - 518 days 3 hours ago

The first Mass Effect was on 1 DVD-9 disc, and it's sheer size of content and length still exceeds any game available for the PS3.

Can't wait to play the sequel to what I think is one of the best RPG ever made.

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vega75 - 518 days 3 hours ago

i guess the ps3 is great for fat kids that don't want to get up and change a disk.

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Thoas - 518 days 3 hours ago

You guys try to flip everything to fit your way of thinking all the time.

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Lord Shuhei Yoshida - 518 days 2 hours ago

The only child molesting going on here is Microsoft fornicating you with an iron stick.You say thank you,pay your 299 then ask for seconds.Hahahahaha,you bots crack me up

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IzKyD1331 - 518 days 2 hours ago

or its for the people who like moving forward in technology rather than staying in the same place

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Dacapn - 518 days ago

Haha they said "quality" when the game runs at about 12 fps. Whatever you say, Bioware...

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Jenzo - 518 days ago

Don't come in here crying like the little babies you are. It's not our fault that the PS3 has no RPGs. If Sony weren't run by inbred retards things might have been different. For now 360 is were it's at when it comes to RPGs.

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Xbox360_Mujahid - 518 days 3 hours ago

ur an infidel ! die u infidel !
X360 FTW !

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Lord Shuhei Yoshida - 518 days 3 hours ago

You see what I mean?

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Thoas - 518 days 3 hours ago

Do you know any other words?? Stay in school!

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King Kaz - 518 days 3 hours ago

King Kaz knows exactly what you mean, Lord Yoshida! Nazisoft's loyal legion of LEG HUMPING PIGS are of inferior intelligence! We must set our Sony Samurai on them! THOSE FILTHY PIGS!

Sony Samurai- ATTACK!!!!

MWAH-HA-HA-HA!!!

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Xbox360_Mujahid - 518 days 3 hours ago

u infidels ! u will die and burn in hell 4 supporting the console of satan , the PS2.5 !

X360 FTW!

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Sir_Ken_Kutaragi - 518 days 3 hours ago

It makes you ashamed to be a xBox 360 owner on this site...

(Er i'm not one tho!!!) ;-D

@King Kaz ;) They took a Bubble away from you already???
Man! They are BIG CRYBABIES!!!!!!!!!!! :-/

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Lord Shuhei Yoshida - 518 days 3 hours ago

Have no fear King Kaz.Reinforcements of the 15 million Sony Defense Force are arriving!Yoichi Wada has arrived to assist

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Microsoft_Warrior - 518 days 3 hours ago

stupid droids u fail ! Mass Effect FTW , X360 FTW ...... PS2.5 SUX !

muahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha

Microsoft RulZ

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Xbox360_Mujahid - 518 days 3 hours ago

@AssassinXIII

u mean this 1 ?

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Lord Shuhei Yoshida - 518 days 3 hours ago

A white and green fail train wreck?Hahahahaha

Just like your console

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CAPT IRISH - 518 days 3 hours ago

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Gun_Senshi - 518 days 3 hours ago

Which is the best version of Mass Effect?

PC

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CAPT IRISH - 518 days 3 hours ago

The PC version of any game is always better

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Jenzo - 517 days 23 hours ago

He's not young nor Asian enough for Tretton.

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IzKyD1331 - 518 days 2 hours ago

i can tell, shane kim sexually abuses you on a daily basis, he touches you "there" but you cant do anything about it....your master bill gates doesnt like it

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