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Guess I'm not going to go full engineer - infiltrator looks pretty awesome now.

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With all the drastic improvements to classes, I wonder how they'll upgrade Soldier? I completely my replay as a soldier now, and I have to say I enjoyed the class even though it's your basic run and gun avatar. Having biotic and tech people in your party, you can divert fire to yourself and then clean up the floating and disabled Geth and Krogan.

But seeing the new class characteristics, I'm starting to think they really need to pump up the Soldier class a good bit to make it worth playing.

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So the full length cinematic trailer is up on the 360 now.

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The Vanguard trailer

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Not as cool as the other powers.

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Soldier

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I was just thinking about Mass Effect 1, and whether or not certain problems with it would be fixed in ME2. Like that texture pop in, for instance, was incredibly distracting, and I had always hoped they'd somehow patch in a fix for it. But I'm wondering if playing the game installed to the 360 HDD would help fix this problem or at least tone it down. Has anyone played through the game installed to their 360?

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So disappointing. The only improvements they made were making some guns and ammo soldier only. They didn't improve the soldier, they made every other class a little less. Poor show.

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I'm hearing a lot of unsavory things about this game with the recent reviews coming out. Such as no more items or equipment found from drops or caches, experience gains only happen at the end of each mission, a number of skills such as computer hacking and medicine completely removed, and also not being able to equip items on your comrades.

It's sounding less and less like an RPG and more along the lines of a cinematic third-person shooter... which is really not what I was looking forward to, maybe others will be happy to hear that. I can't imagine why RPG elements would be removed when it seems every other game goes out of its way now to incorporate some kind of RPG-like equipment/experience system. I really hope there's some depth with improved side-quests and stuff.

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The drops I can do without. They were just annoying to manage, but I loved the treasure hunting for cache's and the best stuff came from them. My worry is that they boil down the RPG elements to Fable 2 levels. Thats game was a great, but somewhat shallow for me.

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I also don't care much for the drops, and I really approve of XP only coming at a mission's end. This means you don't always have to kill people in order to level up - you can make the decision not to kill them and get the same amount of xp.

I don't like not being able to equip my allies, though. :\

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Heres a bit on how you will carry over ME 1 data



Customizable armour! Thats pretty cool! And they beefed up the planet scanning and what not.

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Is this 100% fact, or just a rumor? I don;t see the benefit of having that ability removed. Does this mean that the NPC's equip themselves autmatically as you get new stuff, or does that mean they always have the same armor, guns and equipment and everything just advances with their level? If it's the latter, that would be a disappointment.

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It was mentioned in a review that you can no longer equip weapons/armor on your allies, but I think it said that near the end of the game each character has a side mission you can do which will earn them a new outfit or something. Kind of disappointing to hear.

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Seems like they are releasing a lot of videos up until the game comes out.

Heres a quick look at the new and improved Normandy

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Official launch trailer!


So epic!

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IGNs review.

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Only one... more... day...

:drool:

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I'm going to the midnight release tonight.

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Some places in chinatown were selling this over the weekend. I can always count on my chinese brothas.

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This game looks amazing, especially after reading IGN's review.

I can't wait to play this game in... 5 months. :/

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I have it.

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I will have it after my 10:00AM client visit. Then I'll be "working from home" the rest of the day, which will consist of me playing ME2 and listening to my computer in the case a work e-mail comes in on Outlook.

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Haha that's pretty cool. :D I hope you make up for the lost work time though.

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Ill have it today as well, but I have to wait through 6 hours of school.

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I managed to squeeze today off from work, boy are my eyes going to be bloodshot later today. :p

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I worked 12 hours last weekend, and have been pushing 10-12 hour days for the last two weeks. I believe I am morally justified to have a little "me time" :D

Oh, and here we go. It's loading up! I JUST PEE'D A LITTLE!!

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Hey guys any word on the PS3 getting some effectual massage.. err.. 2 love any time soon?

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Installing to Hard Drive for better performance... install faster!

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LOL! I'm doing the same thing right now. I wonder how it handles the two disc format?

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I dont know. :p
Im not installing disc 2 though, I think we only use it once anyways.

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I strongly dislike all of you.

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Sorry Bond. :(

But you should have brought your 360 with you.

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OH MAH GOD CANT WAIT TO GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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God dammit. I've spent 30 minutes picking a class after importing my old avatar. I don't know what to choose... What makes the most sense? What fits the story? DAMN YOU BIOWARE!!!

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My copy is either on its way or shall be here sometime this week.

Decided to order off Amazon and pick up No More Heroes 2 today so hopefully finished before Mass Effect arrives.

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Illusive Man = Future Gman.

And I think theres some sort of free download that free for today only.
But I got the collectors edition which gave me the code anyways.
The collectors edition also got me Collectors armor and weapons.

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The Free DLC is with purchase of a brand new copy of ME2.

Heres a sneak peek at a tiny bit, but it will be delayed. ( http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/106/1063672p1.html )

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I already downloaded the Terminus armor and Normandy DLC.

So far the game looks and plays amazing. My only complaints would be that the new interface is hard to read at times and I miss outfitting my team :(