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Mass Effect - 8 days until you already know what happens from the spoilers you read
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It's more like my lack of time prevents me from replaying games. Also, I remember pretty much everything from the games I play. Nothing is "fun" anymore when you know exactly what's going to happen. I tried playing Baldur's Gate 2 over again, and just found myself clicking the "next" button in every dialogue, because I've seen it all before.
I obviously don't have the game and haven't read any of these spoilers that are everywhere, so please try to skimp on direct game references unless you're really vague.
Hopefully it's good.
B is most certainly true. As I've said, you are going to want to play it again. And again. And again. And again. And as I've said, you're going to probably do all the side quests and do them again to see the differences in choice, and so the average length will be 25 hours if you explore and pursue everything.
You can say I'm wrong, of course, that the main campaign is not six hours long, but I did beat it, and you will, too. And you'll see that I'm right, but you're not going to care, because it was an awesome journey and you will go through it all over again.
The only thing I didn't complete were two scavenger hunt side-quests (you don't get them from anyone, they just pop up the first time you find a special item). I was close to beating them, and would have if I built up my decryption and electronic skills earlier, as certain debris or anomalies on planets required a certain level of decryption and electronic. You get those items from those debris of anomalies, and I was about three away from getting the total for both.
Edit: I just want to say, I'm not complaining about the length. I think it's perfect. There was no filler and it was precise and to the point. It didn't drag on. And it kind of promotes extra playthroughs, you know? A 60 hour game is going to be a lot less compelling to play again than a 25 hour game, I'd think.
Uhh the enemy AI was pretty generic, and I really only got to experience the real basics of commanding a squad but it seems like your party members are pretty capable on their own, but if you take the reins you can really pull off some techy shit. I never *had* to give my party any orders to get through a specific part (probably due to me not having progressed very far yet) so it might swing a tad on the easy side, but like I said, I never really made it past the early stages of the game.
Things will get more difficult as you fight more challenging opponents. You'll definitely bring up the squad ability menu and utilize their abilities later. But yes, they're pretty good at handling things on their own. They don't run into walls or shoot the ground like they used to in demonstration footage.
That's fucking awesome. I know it'll probably piss off a lot of people, but I have so many other games I'm playing as well. I was hoping for something around 20-30 hours.
you know, better downloadable content than "here's an extra planet that is basically a phat lewt store and then we forgot about downloadable content altogether"
KOTOR II is not a Bioware game
People say you shouldn't go around liming everything but I just agree so hard.
I'm definitely going to sneak mass effect in any time the whole crew isn't around. Rock Band actually comes out first though, technically, since the 20th is the street date and it should have already shipped days before hand.
Although seriously durandal, 12 hours for episode 2? 22 for Bioshock? Do you crouch walk everywhere?
It didnt even take me 12 hours to beat Half Life 2
ok.
I have yet to play the game, so my opinion is subject to change but If I hear "exploration" and bioware in the same sentence my mind wanders to things like baldurs gate 1 & 2. My mind then conjures up a completely unrealistic number of hours of gameplay for side quests.
25 hours is pretty good. it'll take me more than two days to beat because I go outside from time to time.
And if you beat the game and want to play it again, well then, that play time just doubled.
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Man dammit I take my time. I also play on the highest difficulty from the word go.
Okay, and like 30 minutes of that was
I'm curious whether those who have played through it already skipped dialogue at all via subtitles.
Still don't believe that if you take the time to explore and do side quests, it's 25 hours long?
But yes, it's a game where you're going to want to play it again, and do the side missions all over again to try out different results. I'm going play it a second time using the same career (you can do this, and stats and equipment carry over) except I'm going to be an ass and do different romance subplots.
I'm 12 hours in and have only visited three solar systems, plus the citadel. I've only completed one story line quest since leaving the citadel and have a ENORMOUS list of side missions to do. Of course I have been reading every little piece of backstory they give, which is a lot, and have been rather extensively exploring each planet I land on to make sure I find all of the deposits, crash sites, artifacts, etc that aren't listed on the map from the get go. I can't imagine wraping this up in 25 hours with all of the stuff in my journal right now, maybe in thirty. I'm not saying you dind't beat it in 25 I just, man, that seems fast for doing all of the side stuff based on what I've picked up so far.
I'd be able to tell you more if the wife would stop kicking me off for Guitar Hero. So annoying.
All signs point to scattered street date breaking that was quickly fixed. I wouldn't bother looking too hard. I didn't hear about other stores either.
I don't think I will be as I'm steering clear of ME threads now anyway.
That's all.
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Oh man those are some big spoilers some of you dudes really might not wanna click that one just as a heads up.
And graphical problems? I knew that it would have the patented UE3 texture pop-in but hearing other stuff really put me off.
So the messiahs of gaming is just a "good game"? Great, thanks a lot guys.
To be fair, you could beat the Fallouts in like 20 minutes each. Long as that 10 hours doesn't encompass like 80% of the game, I don't mind.
25 isn't unreasonable, you can usually beat most games in well under that timeframe, and it is near KotOR's duration (and Taris took some people 6 hours).
My question: do they handle the translation of alien races, or do any of them work like KotOr with repetitive alien speech and then subtitles? I heard someone said something like "most of the aliens have an electronic twinge to their voice because they're being translated by a computer" or something, which I thought would be cool, but maybe people have other related experiences to share about that.