I've been playing #1 on the PC, the graphics aren't mind blowing but they are quite nice maxed out.

I'm assuming the 360 version looks close with a less steady framerate.

I don't think that Mass Effect shot was from a cutscene, but I could be mistaken. Regardless, Bioware doesn't really use CGI cutscenes anyway. Most of their cutscenes use in-game graphics.



Exactly. You can debate whether or not the graphics are good or not, but you simply cannot debate that they are Xbox-level graphics. That is just completely ridiculous. Even if Mass Effect graphics are not quite as good as some other Xbox360 games, it is still well beyond what could be done on the Xbox.


Consoles are generally set on "medium" settings compared to PCs. The consoles have a video card roughly equivalent to a Geforce 7800. It takes a Geforce 9800 (or Radeon equivalent) to completely max out the game on PC, and it will then look quite a bit better than the console.

I have once, but they gave me a $10 certificate for my trouble.

Having been playing the game over the weekend, that screenshot looks like it's from Virmire. Definitely not cut scene, and yeah, I believe pretty much everything in the first game used the game engine anyway.

http://kotaku.com/5455846/mass-effec...eady-revealed-[update]

Sex scenes already online

Okay so 3 things

Don't know anything about the game but the long trailer looks pretty cool. Just saw it on the Vikings-Saints game.

She IS Sarah from Chuck.

Just saw a long commercial for this during the Vikings game. I've got goosebumps. After Mass Effect, I played Fallout 3, which unfairly put Mass Effect to the back of my mind. But all those wonderful gaming memories are coming back.

sarah :O

I've been playing ME2 for a few days now, perhaps about 10 to 15 hours in. Action is fantastic, the story is superb so far. They removed a fat portion of the exploration stuff that made ME somewhat tedious (searching planets in vehicles for instance), although mineral excavating is a bit boring.

the launch trailer was awesome, great music.

This post courtesy of Firehawk12 and Supaet from cag. Oh, and also brought to you by the letter M

Those would be the links to download and add to your queue all the CE stuff that comes with the CE of ME2 free of charge.


I don't even have a 360 right now, but i added them to my username on the site just in case I get one and get the game.

Must be a mistake, hurry and get them before MS catches it.

i remember the shitstorm that rose when that 'author' commented on TV about how bad the sexual content was, only to have the gamers call her on having never played the game. They spammed her books on Amazon and flamed her to hell and back. lol good times.

Thanks for the heads up, glassdragon. I added them all as well even though none of them pushed me to pre-order or get the CE.

1st of all. I'm not the one trying to prove anything to you or even debate the issue. The graphics were 'good', but nothing blew me away. Period. I'm sorry but that's how I felt when I finally played the game. I was expecting "mind blowing" graphics and instead I got "pretty cool but nothing blows me away" graphics.

We can end this now because respectfully, I'll never agree with you guys on this issue. But I'm cool with that because being the minority opinion on an issue here on dvdtalk is nothing new to me.

Mass Effect 2 Has Some Fancy Disc-Swapping Action

I had no idea the game came on 2 discs, not that it makes a difference.

http://kotaku.com/5456070/mass-effec...wapping-action

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I don't really care about needing to swap out discs, but it just seems weird to finish a game on the first disc.

I'm assuming you finish the game in the same area you begin it, and the rest of the core of the game takes place in more alien locales.

^^ If it plays out like the first one did, that makes sense.

I'm not sure if you're even reading the responses or if you even remember what you said originally, but the point of contention is your comment that the first game had XBox level graphics. Not whether the graphics were just good or blew you away, as we already acknowledged that they weren't "mind blowing."

Bioware games tend to have a linear start and finish and a very non-linear middle section. So it makes sense to put that non-linear part all on one disc rather than split the non-linear part across two discs.

Yep it's dead, sorry. Was up when I posted it though

Yeah, people are (understandably) having issues with this:

...not that you weren't "blown away" by the graphics.

You truly believe ME1 had the same caliber of graphics as games from the first Xbox? Even if you take away it's "HD", it's still not even close.

Boooooo! This is what happens when I randomly decide to go to bed early. Let that be my lesson.