Vanguard is rubbish on the higher difficulties, since the class involves getting close and personal if you do not hug your cover in Insanity you will die very quickly. Personally I find that the Soldier and Infiltrator classes are the best, since both allow for precision aiming and better defensive abilities (either with increased armor or cloaking). Infiltrator was actually what I used to play through insanity.

Also, Soldier + Mattock Rifle + Warp Ammo = unstoppable. You can kill two or three enemies during the Adrenaline Rush without reloading even on high difficulty.

Hmm I might give that last class a go when I've finished this playthrough as a Vanguard.

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Nah the Vanguard is good



=P

Seriously though you just have to know how to play them. You use charge to move forward because it recharges your barrier and makes you invincible for a few seconds after you hit. You just find an enemy on their own, slam into them, shot gun them in the face and backpedal behind cover while you're invincible. Now you're close to the rest of the enemies and can shotgun them in the face.

Also getting advanced training Stasis helps a lot. Because it not only allows you to take one enemy out of action so they don't shoot at you, it allows you to gain ground and when they come out of stasis they collapse on the ground so they're completely vulnerable. And as I said. Team Cryo Ammo is hilarious. Just max out Cryo and Fire ammo. Equip your team with Cryo and yourself with fire you take down their armour and they freeze them so you can finish them off.

Also team members with drones like Tali that distract enemies so you can get in close are really useful. As well as Kasumi because she can knock out targets whil you stasis others letting you move in more easily.

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Ni hao.

BTW Do you think we could all post our Shepard =D
With stats and stuff. I'm curious as to see all the different ones.
I tried this on another fourm and only one or two people posted.

I'll edit mine in soon.

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Ni hao.

My only fault with it is how the combat and mission structure is really linear. You get kettled through these beautifully designed areas, taking down wave after wave of enemy. The different weapons and abilities make the combat varied but there is only a finite number of combinations you can use to mix it up.

I keep thinking about the opening level to Deus Ex, and all the different methods you can use to get to your goal. The option to not fire your weapon once during a mission would be sweet - and could make getting Paragon status way more interesting.

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I just went for the default one because the character creation thingy was gooseberry fool; all the character faces throughout both games look like they were drawn from the same handful of templates.

Well I created all of mine. Apart from the last one.
(I don't know what race they're meant to be I just liked how it looked =P)

The first character I made:



The other 2:

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Ni hao.

I might make another one when I begin my ME1-ME2-ME3 epic play-through.

Just played Arrival again. Yeh that wasn't good. No choices at all

It's probably going to effect ME3 more than anything so far, but there was no way of altering the outcome. Worst DLC pack so far (from both ME and ME2)

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Pinnacle Station says hello!

Making what happened in the DLC a choice wouldn't really have made sense anyway. Stopping the Reapers is pretty much Shepard's only goal in life, so if he suddenly decided to let them arrive for the sake of 300,000 Batarians (And I mean, c'mon, strawberry float the Batarians), it just would have seemed silly if you ask me. I actually quite liked how that was a forced decision.

You didn't exactly get a plethora of choices in the Shadow Broker DLC...

Did you? I can't remember.

Admittedly, that was only a sidequest of sorts rather than continuing the main story. Arrival was basically created to bridge the gap and put the pieces in place for ME3 - in other words, giving Shepard the reason to go to Earth - so I presume they thought it wouldn't be wise to for us to be able to put these pieces wherever we wanted.

Man, I played the Firewalker DLC for the first time.

It's gooseberry fool, isn't it?

Also went and visit the crash site of the original Normandy.

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Mass Effect anime to release in 2012



http://www.vg247.com/2011/04/07/mass-ef ... e-in-2012/

Hmm...

Spunk

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Dragging this topic back to life slightly, but the PS3 Genesis Interactive Comic has quietly been released on Xbox Live for 320 points, handy if you don't feel going through the first game.

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I was looking for this topic.

I started playing through this last week. It's so strawberry floating awesome. Why didn't anyone tell me it was so good? For shame, GR.

Anyway, here's a list of everywhere I'm at:


Much left to it? I'm 35 hours in, and it feels like I'm nearing the endgame, but I'd like to make sure have it polished off before Friday for LA Noire.

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HQG

Got a copy of this during the week, Argos went bananas and were offloading the PS3 version for a tenner.

I'm about ten hours in, and thoroughly enjoying it, but something weird has happened. I've plumped for Hardcore difficulty and went with Infiltrator (massive wuss, y'see) and realised that I take much greater enjoyment out of wandering the Normandy, chatting with crew members and flying around the galactic map. When it comes to landing places, I also enjoy wandering around, chatting with locals and getting stuck into the conversations. If I can I actively avoid all combat-based missions for as long as possible, as I don't find it as enthralling as the chatter. So yeah, I'd like a Space sim where the combat is done in a style similar to the recruiting assassins from Assassins Creed: Brotherhood; where I pick my squad out, survey various missions, send them out and then sit back and chill with some ice brandy.

I'm also doing a Paragon runthrough (I want to sweep up Trophies and I get the feeling Loyalty is thin on the ground if you go full Renegade). However, when I go through my Renegade playthrough would it be considered racist if I specifically made Shepard black? Because it's not intended, I just think that for a Renegade he should resemble Shaft as much as possible.

My current Shepard is an ugly bastard, which is why he has to get to know his crew personally, they're not going to respect (or shag) him for his mangled features. Also he's called Susan.

Fun game.

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Looks like the DLC for this is going on sale next week. Currently winning in the voting system on XBL.

Is Arrival worth it?

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Awesome. I was just thinking of buying the DLC so will definitely pick it up on sale.