The Glade 4.0

Watch it! Gogogogogogogo!

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HD version at:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-1 ... ect/708362

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

This is the only reason I watched the VGA's (which were terrible).

Next year can't come soon enough.

Considering there are no other award shows for video games, the largest entertainment industry, I'm amazed how bad the VGAs are. I'm also amazed they are still aired on Spike, rather than a bigger network. The VGAs always come off as being a half-assed thrown together popularity contest, rather than a legitimate award show. Some of the oddball nominees and voting contributes to this opinion.

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Can't wait for this game to hit.

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The Dude abides.

ME2 just got shipped to me from Goozex, quite excited to play it!

ME2 was amazing, I can't remember the last time I was this excited for a game an entire year before it's release.

I can. It was for Mass Effect 2. lol.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

I was disappointed with Mass Effect 2. I played it for a few hours, and it just missed. I don't know, perhaps I'd have gotten into it a lot more if I wasn't brought back from the dead to be Cerberus' lapdog.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

The story was a little weak that time for a few reasons. I'm hoping they can dial it up to 11 for part three and finish with a bang.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Watching that trailer reminded me how good the musical score was for the first Mass Effect.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

I sorta hope ("Don't **** with") Aria is back.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I am WAY too excited for this game. I'm actually thinking about playing through 1 and 2 again.

I need to play through 1 and 2 again on principle. CURSE YOU USBFAIL!

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Grenade 3 Sports Drink. It's fire in the hole.. Your hole!

^ - This for me.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

If that's your only complaint, I say keep playing. The story and universe is so awesome I wouldn't let that deter me.

I actually never finished the first ME. I got to the last planet before the end of the game, and got distracted by other things. I plan on eventually finishing both games, but they are low on my priority list for some reason. I agree that they have a good storyline and it's well-crafted. I just was never fully sucked-in to the point I couldn't tear away.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!

The first one, I played for a bit, then put down and let sit until the 2nd one was about to come out. The 2nd one though, I played straight through. It seemed like the pacing was much more steady on the 2nd one.

I'm assuming ME2 follows the same intro area -> four locations to acquire the McGuffin -> betrayal or big decision -> final battle format as every other Bioware game?

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

It's bigger (with far more than four locations to visit), and the big decision is much, much later (pretty much after the final battle), but yes. The way it handles the final battle (with your whole crew involved in various ways, rather than just your party of three), was very new. Also, getting to play Joker as the main character for a bit was different.

You've been talking to Khross too much.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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On a related note:

ME2 PS3 version footage (final code or beta was not specified)

[youtube]1g9F0rgVzuw[/youtube]

Also, they said ME3 would hit all platforms (meaning PS3, 360, and PC) simultaneously.

PSA

I just got a **** bug while playing ME2.

If you are like me and you decide to revisit ME2 before the launch of the next game, you might care to know that Lair of the Shadow Broker has a bug that can keep you from recruiting both Samara and Thane. Luckily, I got Thane before it happened. The main thing that you need to know, is that you have to ask Liara about Samara and Thane's whereabouts before you initiate the DLC mission with her.

I didn't find out that I was stuck until I had already done like 6 loyalty missions, the overlord DLC and some other side **** so I can't just reload an old save. Don't let this happen to you!

I'm currently stuck at level 30, everyone loyal, with the reaper IFF but I wont be able to get "No One Left Behind" without Samara. Bioware knows about this bug but hasn't made a damn peep about fixing it and it's pretty frustrating.

They try to appeal to who they think gamers are. (12 year old boys.)

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Digital Foundry did an ME2 comparison of the 360 vs PS3 yesterday after the demo came out.

Notes:
- PS3 has a new shadow/lighting renderer, sometimes better, sometimes worse
- Framerate has been uncapped on PS3, results in some good frames but also tearing
- Normal mapping seems to be pretty cut-back

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digit ... o-analysis

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So a mixed bag basically . . .

Wonder if they did a general de-bugging?

I'm sure Mass Effect 3 will fare better on the PS3. The real question is...what are they going to do about ME1 imports? The default non-import Mass Effect 2 sucks balls and it would be a huge downside for the PS3 gamers wanting to play.

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"I love this **** team right here."
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