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Monday, December 14, 2009

I cannot stress to you enough...

...how many times I shit my pants watching this. As if the game could be built up anymore in my mind? Can I say a game is my favorite game of all time without having played it yet? I cannot express in words how this makes me feel...just look in my pants. The video shows the 2 characters I plan to use in my squad, Thane and Grunt.
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  1. AmateriaDecember 15, 2009 at 11:23 AM

    I'll comment on this, cause no one else will. I didn't get far enough in the original Mass Effect (big surprise) but is that "trust" element a present part of gameplay. KOTOR had that sort of feel to it, making sure that different characters needs were being met, otherwise it changed how the game played. That trust seemed to have significance in this trailer? Is that new, you think, or maybe just a rehashing of a tried and true principle?

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  2. I 3N3MY IDecember 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM

    Not too sure about the "trust" element honestly. I know that in all the BioWare games I've played KOTOR, Jade Empire and Mass Effect there has always been team building and establishing trust. Whether that's just part of the storytelling or actually impacts the game is not totally clear to me.

    Mass Effect has a very big climax with the always incredibly badass Wrex where he draws a line in the sand and basically asks "Whose side are you on?" At this point in time you can try to win him over several different ways or just kill him. Is this building trust or the illusion of it? I have read that with Mass Effect 2 if you don't properly get your stuff together with decisions you've made and your squad you WILL die. Not just game over/retry die, but the climax comes and your character doesn't survive.

    Like I've said numerous times. I'm disappearing when this game launches. I have to get all my playing out of the way before May 22nd....baby time.

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