My Thoughts About Mass Effect 2 With A First Time Playthrough. (no Spoilers Tho This Thread Will Contain

My thoughts about Mass Effect 2 with a first time playthrough. (no spoilers tho this thread will contain spoilers as it is about stuff i'm doing in my playthrough and the big important missions)

So this one is already off to a rocky start. as i'm using mods to better enhance my experiance, just trying to get a unofficial bug patch fix was already a challenge, I'm downloading everything from Nexus athe Unofficial community patch is 4 gbs big, it was a very slow download. every time i tried to download with the mod manager, it just crashed and broke at 2 gb's. too bad i couldn't just download 1 half and then the other half. thats not how mods work. following that, just getting used to how the game handles was also strange, i will admit i'm using an omni-key seperator mod which makes it so that instead of the space bar doing multiple actions, i can set each action its own key. onto the actual game, the story set up is nicely and we get a look into how things are different. (MAJOR SPOILERS COMING UP NOW) you die... and then you are brought back to life over 2 years of surgery by Cerberus. an organization from he first game that showed up for one mission and then fucked off. (END OF MAJOR SPOILER HERE) the game has 2 new hacking mini games which is a breath of fresh air as 1 is a memory game(i think this becomes easier the more you fail at it so there's no punishment for failing, which is alright) and the other is a match the image kinda game (however, the way its explained is extremely bad) there are also now some quicktime events to do depending on if you're a paragon (goodie) or a Renagade (baddie) and.... its never clear what they are going to do so probably best to get a quicksave before talking to anyone just in case. combat feels a bit more sluggish then the first game and kinda hard to see things. This game is alot more action heavy then the first one. i'm not exactly complaining about that but i did really like the first games handling of the RPG elements it had. i am still at the start of the game so i'll try and let ya know how that all goes tho.

Also i am using 8 mods at this time, the community patch (becasue it fixes alot of bugs and restores things, and corrects lighting in certain scenes), infinite sprint (because walking is too slow), screen shake remover (not as bad as ME1 but still bad enough), easy resource gathering (because i don't wanna have to grind all the shit), and weapon and armor stats (becasue thats easier then trying to work out things with words (or maybe they were actually there and i just missed it)) and a few others just to make my time a bit better. all in all, I'm very excited for this game, if only my wisdom teeth pain was gone so i could actually fucking enjoy the game now.

My thoughts about Mass Effect 1 with a first time playthrough. (no spoilers tho this thread will contain spoilers as it is about stuff i'm doing in my playthrough and the big important missions) Pt2

So the controls for driving are still wired to me. just strange as it feels like a mix between halos warthog controls and every other simple car games controls. it keep messing up when driving around with it. combat is kinda simple at this point since i have the few abilities i like, the 2 companions i like, and the guns for each mission. and while the AI is pretty stupid, that doesn't stop me from sending them in a room of bad guys, closing the door behind them, waiting for them to die, revive them from outside the room, let them die again, and then panicking when the door opens and i die seconds later, 20% of the time it works 100% ,but other times i charge in with my team and try to coordinate attacks and movements with them. i also now have all of the characters. and after doing some research i found out something that's kinda icky personally speaking. there is an alien race called the Asari, they are the blue alien women. the Asari companion you get is 106, that is and i quote from the game "considered a child" and doing some research online, Asari live roughly to 1000 years old. they start puberty around 50-60 and are, technically speaking, a teen/young adult until they are 350 (give or take) which is when they are considered to be a full adult. thats all fine... except for the fact that she's a romanceable option, and just like that, the icky feel.

but yeah. i'm still greatly enjoying this game... also almost every human besides the player (unless they choose to be) is racist against any aliens. buts very nice to say "shut up, stop being a twat" and they will immediately shut up and start being cool with it, its nice.

My thoughts about Mass Effect 1 with a first time playthrough. (no spoilers tho this thread will contain spoilers as it is about stuff i'm doing in my playthrough and the big important missions)

I don't really know how to do threads so imma just wing it. I've been enjoying this game so far. some stuff has been annoying like the stupid flying gun turret things. I feel like the game also doesn't balance very well and with stuff not fully told to the player is annoying. for instance. the Mission on Ferros, you need to find out what Seran is after, its a mind controlling plant, and you can try and beat the place without killing innocents. I went for this path and ran out of concussion grenades. turns out, you could melee them... NOBODY SAID THIS But I did look online for how I could do it cause if i was expected to subdue 16 people spread out people with 5 grenades, that's just bullshit. but I'm past that now and doing a bunch of side missions. will try to keep this updated as i play. Also I got a glitch where I broke my arms while dealing with a cult. that was also funny. quick update: I will also just quickly add i am using 2 mods i consider to be essential to improving this game and thats an infinite sprint mod and a screen shake remover mod. Because the sprint lasts about 3 seconds before you're winded and the screen shake is vomit inducing another quick update: I FUCKING HATE THE DIALOGUE OPTIONS DON'T FULLY GO WITH WITH WHATS PRESENTED! FOR EXAMPLE! Guy: i don't think my dad would like, he doesn't like spectres (spectres is a short version of elite task force kinda thing that operate outside the law) me: *clicks the "too bad" option* my character: damn, your dad sounds like a dick. me: THATS NOT WHAT I CLICKED!

ITS SO ANNOYING!

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My thoughts about Mass Effect 1 with a first time playthrough. (no spoilers tho this thread will contain spoilers as it is about stuff i'm doing in my playthrough and the big important missions)

I don't really know how to do threads so imma just wing it. I've been enjoying this game so far. some stuff has been annoying like the stupid flying gun turret things. I feel like the game also doesn't balance very well and with stuff not fully told to the player is annoying. for instance. the Mission on Ferros, you need to find out what Seran is after, its a mind controlling plant, and you can try and beat the place without killing innocents. I went for this path and ran out of concussion grenades. turns out, you could melee them... NOBODY SAID THIS But I did look online for how I could do it cause if i was expected to subdue 16 people spread out people with 5 grenades, that's just bullshit. but I'm past that now and doing a bunch of side missions. will try to keep this updated as i play. Also I got a glitch where I broke my arms while dealing with a cult. that was also funny. quick update: I will also just quickly add i am using 2 mods i consider to be essential to improving this game and thats an infinite sprint mod and a screen shake remover mod. Because the sprint lasts about 3 seconds before you're winded and the screen shake is vomit inducing another quick update: I FUCKING HATE THE DIALOGUE OPTIONS DON'T FULLY GO WITH WITH WHATS PRESENTED! FOR EXAMPLE! Guy: i don't think my dad would like, he doesn't like spectres (spectres is a short version of elite task force kinda thing that operate outside the law) me: *clicks the "too bad" option* my character: damn, your dad sounds like a dick. me: THATS NOT WHAT I CLICKED!

ITS SO ANNOYING!