[Wiggles]

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Official Trailer

Wiggles posted:

Game Information

Wiggles posted:

Platforms
Xbox 360 and Windows PC.

Release Dates
November 2007 for Xbox 360 and June 2008 for PC.

Wikipedia
Mass Effect is an action role-playing game developed by BioWare for the Xbox 360 and then ported to Microsoft Windows by Demiurge Studios.

It is set in the year 2183 AD. Thirty-five years prior, humanity discovered a cache of technology on Mars, supposedly built by a technologically advanced but long-extinct race called the Protheans. Studying and adapting this technology, humankind has managed to break free of the solar system and has established numerous colonies and encountered various extraterrestrial species within the Milky Way galaxy. Utilizing alien artifacts known as Mass Relays, the various space-faring races are able to travel instantly across vast stretches of the galaxy. Within the game, humanity has formed the Human Systems Alliance, one of many independent bodies that make up the collective of "Citadel space".

The player assumes the role of an elite human soldier named Commander Shepard, who commands the experimental SSV Normandy alongside Captain Anderson. The Normandy is sent to the human colony world of Eden Prime to recover an unearthed Prothean beacon. To assist in recovering the beacon, the Citadel Council, the galaxy's primary governing body has sent one of their top agents, a turian "Spectre", named Nihlus. A small team consisting of Nihlus, Shepard, biotic Kaidan Alenko, and the quickly-killed Corporal Jenkins, who is replaced by Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams, discover that the Eden Prime colony is under attack by alien synthetic life-forms known as the geth, led by a rogue turian Spectre named Saren Arterius, who kills Nihlus. After the battle ends, Shepard locates the beacon and receives a vision. While initially struggling to understand the vision, it turns out to be images of biological creatures being slaughtered by machines.

Screenshots

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Two years later...




Countdown

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North America


Europe

Official Trailer

Wiggles posted:

Game Information

Wiggles posted:

Platforms
Xbox 360 and Windows PC.

Release Dates
January 26th 2010 in North America and January 29th 2010 in Europe.

Save Files
Provided you keep your save game files, the decisions you made in the previous instalment will affect the characters, the politics and the universe in Mass Effect 2.

Digital Rights Management (DRM)
The boxed/retail PC version of Mass Effect 2 will use only a basic disk check and it will not require online authentication.

System Requirements
OS: Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista SP1 / Windows 7
Processor: Minimum - 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent AMD CPU, Recommended - 2.6+ GHz Cure 2 Duo Intel or equivalent AMD CPU
Memory: 1 GB RAM for Windows XP / 2 GB RAM for Windows Vista and Windows 7
Video Card: Minimum - NVIDIA GeForce 6800; ATI Radeon X1600 Pro, Recommended - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT; ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT; or better.
Direct X: DirectX 9.0c August 2008 (included)
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
Hard Drive: 15 GB
DVD ROM: 1x Speed

Editions

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Regular Edition, Collectors' Edition: Contains Collectors' Armour and Rifle, art book, first issue of ME: Redemption comic book, 'Making of' and behind the scenes videos. Terminus Armour: Pre-order at Gamestop, Inferno Armour: Pre-order at various retailers, Collectors' Armour: Included with Collectors' Edition.

Screenshots

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Videos

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Teaser Trailer

Mirrors:
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIOaJA-apis
Gametrailers - http://www.gametrailers.com/video/de...45798?type=flv

Wiggles posted:

E3 Extended Trailer

Mirrors:
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpK2XnIaeI
Gametrailers - http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3...50067?type=flv

Wiggles posted:

Developer Diary - July 2009

Mirrors:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHPt2qGkhpI
Gametrailers: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/ex...52551?type=flv

Wiggles posted:

Developer Diary - Nov. 09

Mirrors:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL5u2xi6mNQ
Gametrailers: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/en...58665?type=flv

Wiggles posted:

Stars of Mass Effect 2

Mirrors:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm0iy8o88xs
Gametrailers: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/th...59910?type=flv

[jechtman]

I just knew it was going to be jellyfish.

Let the first few pages be about the Hanar

[Wiggles]

jechtman posted:

I just knew it was going to be jellyfish.

Let the first few pages be about the Hanar

After Canuhearme? finished the thread off with...

"I anxiously anticipate the new quote for the Mass Effect Megathread which, for all intents and purposes, will be around to usher forth Mass Effect 2."

I knew it had to be the jellyfish.

[jechtman]

Wiggles posted:

After Canuhearme? finished the thread off with...

"I anxiously anticipate the new quote for the Mass Effect Megathread which, for all intents and purposes, will be around to usher forth Mass Effect 2."

I knew it had to be the jellyfish.

If there is the option to punch a Hanar in ME2, even if I'm paragon I will knock it's lights out.

[hypno]

Let me tell you about the glory of the Enkindlers.

[jechtman]

hypno posted:

Let me tell you about the glory of the Enkindlers.

Hold it, get an evangelical permit first, then we'll hear it.

[Canuhearme?]

jechtman posted:

If there is the option to punch a Hanar in ME2, even if I'm paragon I will knock it's lights out.

I can see it falling into a formless blob, then saying something like, "This one is most displeased with your violent tendencies."

Edited:

hypno posted:

Let this one tell you about the glory of the Enkindlers.

Fixed.

[Uberman77883]

Enkindlers = Protheans.

[jechtman]

Canuhearme? posted:

I can see it falling into a formless blob, then saying something like, "This one is most displeased with your violent tendencies."

"This one will not pray to the Enkindlers for mercy on you."

Nah that didn't sound right.

[Canuhearme?]

Uberman77883 posted:

Enkindlers = Protheans.

Earthclan = Human.

[bepassley]

i hate all that "this one" crap they spew out

fucking jellyfish, can't even be called a man o'war

[jechtman]

Uberman77883 posted:

Enkindlers = Protheans.

Just for those not knowing.

[Canuhearme?]

jechtman posted:

"This one will not pray to the Enkindlers for mercy on you."

That makes me think of Hanar enemies.

The concept of Hanar wielding an assault rifle and wearing body armor in and of itself is hilarious.

[Frayyyy]

I wish you could get an Elcor in your party

[Canuhearme?]

Frayyyy posted:

I wish you could get an Elcor in your party

In that same vein, it should have a Volus commanding a machine gun mounted on its back.

[jechtman]

Canuhearme? posted:

That makes me think of Hanar enemies.

The concept of Hanar wielding an assault rifle and wearing body armor in and of itself is hilarious.

If anything it would be a bubble gun shooter.

Hang on, just thought of something...

[Frayyyy]

Canuhearme? posted:

In that same vein, it should have a Volus commanding a machine gun mounted on its back.

That would be beautiful ;_;

[jechtman]

Oh and Wiggles, post a link or two to the previous Mass Effect Megathreads somewhere in the op.

[Canuhearme?]

That reminds me.

$20 says we see the pathetic Turian officer who couldn't even talk down a Hanar in Mass Effect 2.

[bepassley]

Took a video for proper justice :(

[Canuhearme?]

bepassley posted:

View YouTUBE video


http://youtube.com/watch?v=zOvGGDH03gg

Took a video for proper justice :(

That's something Space Marine Shepherd would do, but I just couldn't bear myself to do it.

[the_killer24]

Canuhearme? posted:

In that same vein, it should have a Volus commanding a machine gun mounted on its back.

They should totally take the mako gun and mount it on an Elcor

[bepassley]

the mako would do a 90 degree turn and flip you off of a bridge before you got a shot

[RaveRaze]

Hanar + Elcor = Best possible species ever

[the_killer24]

bepassley posted:

the mako would do a 90 degree turn and flip you off of a bridge before you got a shot

wait what

[bepassley]

the_killer24 posted:

wait what

Exactly

[hypno]

I wonder if we'll see Turian females this time.

[Links]

Thought you were going to have a collage of all our Shepards, Wiggles.

[ze spy]

FUCKING KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE NAMED THIS

ze spy posted:

Because it's a big stupid jellyfish?

Fuck YEAH!

[Canuhearme?]

Mass Effect 2 needs more murderous Elcor.

Edited:

And Shifty Looking Cows

[bepassley]

mass effect 2 needs more wrex

Edited:

Wrex kwon doe?
^eh napoleon dynamite quote failure

[Fire Kracker]

Canuhearme? posted:

Mass Effect 2 needs more murderous Elcor.

Edited:

And Shifty Looking Cows

i ran them over

[TheManest]

So wait which armor is that? is that one that comes with the Collectors' Edition?

[Tyler72493]

To kill the Rachni Queen or not. You decide, FP.

[HumanAbyss]

The Jellyfish should join your team as a member. That would be... Fun for the first 5 minutes watching them die.

Edited:

Tyler72493 posted:

To kill the Rachni Queen or not. You decide, FP.

Don't kill her. IMO.

[Mark£d_OÑ£]

I need to get some money and preorder this. Sucks that I only have Mass Effect on 360, I can't use my saves on PC. :frown:

[HumanAbyss]

TheManest posted:

So wait which armor is that? is that one that comes with the Collectors' Edition?

Yes, that's the Collectors Armor.

[Canuhearme?]

Tyler72493 posted:

To kill the Rachni Queen or not. You decide, FP.

Live.

[HumanAbyss]

Mark£d_OÑ£ posted:

I need to get some money and preorder this. Sucks that I only have Mass Effect on 360, I can't use my saves on PC. :frown:

I'm getting it on 360. Due to the lack of modability, and the overall preference of gamepads to M+K for TPS and the fact I have 4 level 60 saves ready to go.

[Tyler72493]

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Hate the last post of the page.