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Mass Effect 2: Spoilers and footage, exit stage right

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I thought we all knew that asari store their eezo in their boobs, which is why the two most powerful biotics, Benezia and Samara, have them large and exposed. Notice the boobage of Miranda and SuZe, who are also biotics.

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  • CyborgZetaCyborgZeta Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Speaking of asari tits, I've noticed that the bigger they are the stronger the user's biotic abilities are (see Benezia).

    Are they not boobs but instead giant sacs of element zero or something?

    EDIT: Beat'd.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    They feed their babies eezo, that's how they become biotic. Inside each boob is a dying star.

    THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    -Tal wrote: »
    They feed their babies eezo, that's how they become biotic. Inside each boob is a dying star.

    THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED

    What happens if they become black holes?

    Couscous on
  • SurikoSuriko AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Sex scenes are in the game again, one of the candidates is in the spoiler (which is a pretty big spoiler for one of the romances):
    Mass Effect 2: Have sex with a variety of species and races. Also some exploring or something.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Achievements ruin everything.

    Couscous on
  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Couscous wrote: »
    -Tal wrote: »
    They feed their babies eezo, that's how they become biotic. Inside each boob is a dying star.

    THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED

    What happens if they become black holes?

    If they ever become black holes, they will be the supermassive kind.

    if you know what i mean

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Couscous wrote: »
    Achievements ruin everything.

    Mass Effect 3 Achievement: Boned Every Alien in Citadel Space...a few in Terminus also D:

    This would only be available to people with saves from all 3 games.

    Egos on
  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Egos wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    Achievements ruin everything.

    Mass Effect 3 Achievement: Boned Every Alien in Citadel Space...a few in Terminus also D:

    Achievement unlocked: Check for STSDs. *

    *Sexually transmitted space diseases.

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  • HtR-LaserHtR-Laser Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Question for those who have the game: can you run outside of battle?

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  • NartwakNartwak Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    ha ha ha
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  • ED!ED! Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    HtR-Laser wrote: »
    Question for those who have the game: can you run outside of battle?

    Yes.

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  • HtR-LaserHtR-Laser Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    ED! wrote: »
    HtR-Laser wrote: »
    Question for those who have the game: can you run outside of battle?

    Yes.

    Thank god.

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  • BirudojinBirudojin Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Nartwak: Read the codex entry for it :)

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Nartwak wrote: »
    ha ha ha
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    thank god, there are other species than the asari -aliens find attractive :mrgreen:

    Egos on
  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    OK guys I need to know this straight up

    Female Turians

    do they exist in ME2

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  • SzechuanSzechuan Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    HtR-Laser wrote: »
    ED! wrote: »
    HtR-Laser wrote: »
    Question for those who have the game: can you run outside of battle?

    Yes.

    Thank god.

    Not to belittle all the hard work that's gone into the this game, but this is probably my most anticipated change/improvement.

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    -Tal wrote: »
    OK guys I need to know this straight up

    Female Turians

    do they exist in ME2

    Male Shepard needs some Avian loving.

    Egos on
  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    They do not.

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I haven't played the game.

    Seriously on
  • donhonkdonhonk Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I DONT WANT TO SEE YOUR AVATAR AND SIG TWICE IN A ROW

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    ergh does anyone know the track used in the end and beginning of the Samara trailer? it doesn't seem to be the song titled Samara.

    edit: nm I think I found it..

    Egos on
  • ED!ED! Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Szechuan wrote: »
    HtR-Laser wrote: »
    ED! wrote: »
    HtR-Laser wrote: »
    Question for those who have the game: can you run outside of battle?

    Yes.

    Thank god.

    Not to belittle all the hard work that's gone into the this game, but this is probably my most anticipated change/improvement.

    I wouldn't get too excited; only can run for like three seconds and then you're fatigued or some shit. So I don't even bother doing it.

    Game is still a lot better than ME1. ME2 is definitely more FPS than RPG, but its a game that is a lot more focused than ME1 was. Each of the missions I have had so far all feel different (though I've only done two missions that weren't part of the main storyline), as do the level designs. The mission to get the soldier of the party is so far my favorite (for sheer action), although getting the adept was equally heart pounding. So far I feel like this is a game where the developer listened to complaints (well some of them), streamlined the hell out of what they had, and has delivered an incredibly (so far) solid experience.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    It's not even the loving, I just want to see some female turians. There's no good lore reason to not have them and they were supposed to be in the first game, so maybe they had the time to finish the model for ME2 but I haven't heard anything.

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    -Tal wrote: »
    It's not even the loving, I just want to see some female turians. There's no good lore reason to not have them and they were supposed to be in the first game, so maybe they had the time to finish the model for ME2 but I haven't heard anything.

    Yeah I know. I find it odd that the Turians seem to be all fawning over the asari.

    We should be seeing some Turian femmes. At least the Salarians are kinda explained (they remain on their homeworld as officials right? or something like that)

    Egos on
  • LawndartLawndart Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    parabola wrote: »
    I'm at the point where the default male shepard is the only one that looks right to me.

    Funny, I'm in the exact opposite boat.

    After, fuck me, like at least 10 playthroughs, including 3 in a row with my latest and not that fugly outside of the giraffe neck FemShep that've made me consider her the "real" Shep, I'm running through yet again with an even more Renegade DudeShep and trying two firsts for me: Playing an Infiltrator and using the default DudeShep appearance.

    And man, he just looks off in some inexplicably creepy way.

    On the plus side, I'm finally to the point where sniping doesn't suck.

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  • -Tal-Tal Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    On the other hand, even though we haven't seen female Turians, there seems to be a lot more species diversity. ME1 was pretty Humans/Turians/Asari/Salarians, ME2 has a lot more of the other species sprinkled in.

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  • Fartacus_the_MightyFartacus_the_Mighty Brought to you by the letter A.Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    This was probably already asked or posted somewhere, but the search function is failing me: If our existing ME savegame is a character we don't want to import to ME2, or if we just don't have ME, do we still have an "exposition" part at the beginning where we flesh out those previous decisions? I'm talking about the sort of thing they did in the beginning of KOTOR2, where you end up describing what happened in (your) KOTOR1 to determine how the story progresses (even though it has almost no impact).

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    -Tal wrote: »
    On the other hand, even though we haven't seen female Turians, there seems to be a lot more species diversity. ME1 was pretty Humans/Turians/Asari/Salarians, ME2 has a lot more of the other species sprinkled in.

    The question is...female batarians?

    Egos on
  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    hate to double post this is affecting one of my playthroughs. Do we expect Liara will be a sexy bad ass in the second game?

    Or still a nerd/miss I'm gonna faint.

    Egos on
  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    So has it been confirmed whether having a romance in ME1 will prevent you from hooking up with a character in ME2? Also is it possible to have all party member 100% loyal without affecting your romance plot? I'm asking because I just watched a couple leaked clips invoking:
    Tali Romance
    and
    Recruiting Legion
    Who is awesome
    and I'm wondering if it's possible to get both.

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  • EgosEgos Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    you can fool around if you had a ME1 romance. What I dont know is if you can romance someone if you didn't in 1 and they arent a squad member anymore.

    Egos on
  • l337CrappyJackl337CrappyJack Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Heatwave wrote: »
    So has it been confirmed whether having a romance in ME1 will prevent you from hooking up with a character in ME2? Also is it possible to have all party member 100% loyal without affecting your romance plot? I'm asking because I just watched a couple leaked clips invoking:
    Tali Romance
    and
    Recruiting Legion
    Who is awesome
    and I'm wondering if it's possible to get both.

    You can most definitely have a romance in ME2 if you had one in ME1. Just don't expect them to be too happy about it in ME3.

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Egos wrote: »
    Dragkonias wrote: »
    Egos wrote: »
    This is a bit silly. But you know that Exogeni prick?

    I really hate the Charm option to keep him alive. I can't wait to see

    "I will fucking kill you" intimidate option

    Jeong...you douche. I don't even get why Lizbeth's mom is upset when he gets killed.

    I thought the charm option was awesome.

    Hands down my favorite one.

    Its good in how elaborate it is. :) Its more the idea of Jeong getting wealthy that bugged me.

    Can we kill him in ME2?

    If not, surely ME3, Problem: SOLV'D


    All our mistakes, correctable. Next game

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  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I hope there's a situation like in ME1 where your confronted by all your potential love interests, only this time it's set on a talk show hosted by Dr Chakwas.

    "So your the father of three asari babies and now your trying to get in the pants of a loyalist, a psychopath, a personal assistant and a exiled Quarian?"
    ["Wooo...."]
    "In my defense, I didn't know embracing eternity meant...y'know...having kids."
    ["Oh-no-he-did-not!"]

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  • Vincent GraysonVincent Grayson Frederick, MDRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Prospero wrote: »
    I just saw that Character Gen. video. Why does Bioware always feel it fit to include a majority of eye shape options that do not occur unless a person is horribly mutated? Same with nose shapes, unless a person has a pig nose, you can rarely see much of their nostrils when they are face-to-face with you. I feel like I must be some kind of genetic improbability according to BW's idea of human anatomy. I also hope the women's hair is improved, in lieu of the men's staying practically the same.

    I hope this as well. The hair options for female characters were awful, ranging from plain ugly to decent but with a fucking fivehead. Who do I have to kill to just get a decent normal human haircut (and god forbid the hair look like hair rather than a rock solid wig grafted onto their head).

    At least this time we can see Miranda has good hair so maybe there'll be better choices for the PC.

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    A friend of mine commented while I was playing ME1 and did that Hanar prophet mini quest thing.

    "So I take it the Hanar are space Mormons...? Overly polite and never shut up about their faith."


    Seems about right to me.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I had my femShep's hair pulled back in a short ponytail, which wasn't terrible but I'm more than ready for a change in ME2.

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  • DragkoniasDragkonias That Guy Who Does Stuff You Know, There. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Prospero wrote: »
    I just saw that Character Gen. video. Why does Bioware always feel it fit to include a majority of eye shape options that do not occur unless a person is horribly mutated? Same with nose shapes, unless a person has a pig nose, you can rarely see much of their nostrils when they are face-to-face with you. I feel like I must be some kind of genetic improbability according to BW's idea of human anatomy. I also hope the women's hair is improved, in lieu of the men's staying practically the same.

    I hope this as well. The hair options for female characters were awful, ranging from plain ugly to decent but with a fucking fivehead. Who do I have to kill to just get a decent normal human haircut (and god forbid the hair look like hair rather than a rock solid wig grafted onto their head).

    At least this time we can see Miranda has good hair so maybe there'll be better choices for the PC.

    Miranda's good hair comes from her being a face capture. So I wouldn't hold my breath.

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  • KageraKagera Imitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    My female Shep got hit with the ugly stick a few times.

    You know that one part where the Rachni talks through the dying Asari? Her eyes move like that.

    It's awesome.

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