Mass Effect 2

[Yoshi]

Better late than never? The PS3 is finally getting this in January.

[Spike]

Without the first game? Never would have been better.

[Nash]

Better late than never? The PS3 is finally getting this in January.

The first game wasn't released on the PS3, so what's the point with this one? If you've played the first game, it was either on the 360 or PC. If you liked it enough, you probably played the sequel on the same system as well. It's just a weird scenario where someone would play and like the first game, pass on the sequel on the 360 or PC, and then decide to play it on the PS3. It's also a weird scenario for someone to not play the first game, get the sequel on the PS3, and then go back and play the first game on the 360 or PC.

[Yoshi]

Totally agree. But it'll sell modestly and set up perhaps some additional marketshare for ME3 on PS3. After all, I am sure a lot of people will lose their saves somehow between iterations or something similar.

[Dyne]

. It's also a weird scenario for someone to not play the first game, get the sequel on the PS3, and then go back and play the first game on the 360 or PC.

I just got the 2nd game (from Icarusfall iirc) so I can't say if they have it already, but who's to say they don't just lump a small backstory bit at the start and call it a day? Do you really need to know the 1st games happenings for the 2nd? From what I read it's only necessary for those "oh, that connects back to the 1st game" bits and aren't integral to the overall story.

I do agree though that anybody who really wants to play it will have found a way by January.

[epmode]

The connections from the first to second game are trivial. Even the biggest decisions are glossed over and nothing really matters.

That said, ME1 is still worth playing for the main quest chain. Stuff actually happens. Nothing like part 2, in other words.

[Melf]

First trailer of PS3 version.

[Opaque]

I was going to give you shit for posting a trailer of a port, but man the improvements are just fucking insane.

GOTY.

[Yoshi]

Are there idiots who don't install every 360 game they play?

[Nash]

Are there idiots who don't install every 360 game they play?

The ones who still don't have the hard drive space to do so.

Ramon.