Booohooohooo! I do not own a 360 and my video card sucks. Wah.

Glad to hear it, Bioware completely deserves all the success they're having.

Heh....

Lucky shot, I say

I am willing to sell my mother to get a 360 and a copy of this game. Well, not my mother. Maybe some of my organs. Anyone up for a spleen?

Yet no DRM was required either for Mass Effect 2. Proof that piracy is not the main problem that developers face, but whether the game they create is actually good.

The sheer quality of Mass Effect 2 is astounding. Bioware damn well deserve this one.

When Martin Sheen is the third best thing in your game, you know your game is good!

1) Plot
2) Gameplay
3) Martin Sheen
4) Everything else.

...cause...Martin Sheen is awesome.

please dont say this is as good as it gets, I'm beginning to feel like the only human in a world of ants, i really didn't like either of the games, like not at all.

so why am i the only human in a world of ant instead of it being the other way round, well one way to look at it is that i am wrong, and the other is that everyone else is, you damn dirty ants!

Bioware deserves it.

They did a damn good job with this game.

I haven't beaten it yet, I'm taking my sweet time with it.

Greg Tito:

40 perfect scores from gaming publications

Sorry, this is actually sad. There should never be a "perfect" game.

40 "Wow, this is damn good" is fine. Can we get back to when reviews weren't all "FAIL/WIN"? Even Yahtzee has a sliding scale of crud.

Every minute feels like it's worth 60$.
There is way more than one minute in this game.

Sev:
I am willing to sell my mother to get a 360 and a copy of this game. Well, not my mother. Maybe some of my organs. Anyone up for a spleen?

this makes me feel bad, i have a 360 elite still in its packaging and all it does is holding up my alarm clock.

but i do have a gaming pc and a ps3 so i had no choice.

also they are quite cheap, like a 140 euro (with the game) if you dont care about online gaming.

The_root_of_all_evil:

Greg Tito:

40 perfect scores from gaming publications

Sorry, this is actually sad. There should never be a "perfect" game.

40 "Wow, this is damn good" is fine. Can we get back to when reviews weren't all "FAIL/WIN"? Even Yahtzee has a sliding scale of crud.

oh brother do i agree, it seems that every AAA title nowadays get at least 4 perfect scores, and 8 that want to give a perfect score but still have some dignity as a reviewer left so they give it 99-95.

The day 1 DLC serves as it's DRM, and while it is good, it is not perfect. I have been playing it for a few days now and I have had to reload more than a few times because the hitbox geometry surround some objects causes me to become stuck in midair.

Awesome, glad to hear it. Bioware definitely deserves it. That said, I still don't plan on buying this game.

MARTIN SHEEEEEEEEN. This game is the reason I forgot to eat dinner yesterday <3

WHAT?! And I just bought the first game a week ago?

Dommyboy:
Yet no DRM was required either for Mass Effect 2. Proof that piracy is not the main problem that developers face, but whether the game they create is actually good.

Those aren't the PC numbers, mind; so it's hardly proof of anything. That being said, it's fairly obvious that game quality (and/or hype) trumps piracy when determining game sales.

Dammit! That should be 2 000 001 copies sold!

My local EB Games didn't get enough copies to fufill all of the reseve orders there.

How does that happen!

*closes ears to make sure he doesn't hear ME2 spoilers*

TheNamlessGuy:
Heh....

Lucky shot, I say

There's nothing lucky about it, unless you consider genetics luck. Are we a bit jealous of other primates success here? Going back to the stone age are we?

WEWT!! GO BIOWARE!!

Lonan:
There's nothing lucky about it, unless you consider genetics luck. Are we a bit jealous of other primates success here? Going back to the stone age are we?

Nay not really.
I just don't see the fun in the game, and I for one think it's boring as hell.

Therefore I think it was a lucky shot that they went this far.
Because the game suck

The_root_of_all_evil:

Greg Tito:

40 perfect scores from gaming publications

Sorry, this is actually sad. There should never be a "perfect" game.

40 "Wow, this is damn good" is fine. Can we get back to when reviews weren't all "FAIL/WIN"? Even Yahtzee has a sliding scale of crud.

That depends on ones criteria for formulating an arbitrary review score. If purely down to the individual reviewers tastes, then there is no reason a game cannot get large numbers of "perfect" scores, though also acknowledging that reviews are purely subjective. Alternatively, if the score is based on a more "objective" checklist, then again a perfect score is entirely reasonable, where the game ticks all the boxes & leaves the decision down to the readers personal tastes. From what I understand, liking Mass Effect 2 or not will boil down to whether you like Sci-fi RPGs (& Bioware's brand of RPG in particular) or not. If you do, the perfect scores reflect the likelihood that you will be hard pressed not to like this game. If not, then the review scores are ultimately irrelevant since you wouldn't have bought it anyway.

Deserves every single award it get. One of the best games that I've played this year and probably this entire decade.

Cousin_IT:
perfectly reasonable explanation

Fair enough, but having one person who actually says "I didn't like this", "I think it could have been done better" would have been good.

Seriously, does N perfect scores actually mean anything anymore? We're going through a global recession and we've had a perfect film, a perfect MMO, and now two perfect games?

It's all a little silly really.

(This is not to say that ME2 isn't worthy of it, I haven't played it so I wouldn't know)

The_root_of_all_evil:

Greg Tito:

40 perfect scores from gaming publications

Sorry, this is actually sad. There should never be a "perfect" game.

40 "Wow, this is damn good" is fine. Can we get back to when reviews weren't all "FAIL/WIN"? Even Yahtzee has a sliding scale of crud.

5 stars out of 5 is technically a perfect score. When you go to metacritic and see LOADS of places scoring something 100, that's what they gave it. 5 stars out of 5.

Imo that's not nearly the same as giving something 100 out of 100, but meh.

TheNamlessGuy:

Lonan:
There's nothing lucky about it, unless you consider genetics luck. Are we a bit jealous of other primates success here? Going back to the stone age are we?

Nay not really.
I just don't see the fun in the game, and I for one think it's boring as hell.

Therefore I think it was a lucky shot that they went this far.
Because the game suck

It isn't luck for a game to sell well if one person out of 2 million dislikes it.

IMO Bioware deserves every bit of money they made from this game, and I hope this convinces other developers to put in as much work as they did.

sgtshock:
It isn't luck for a game to sell well if one person out of 2 million dislikes it.

No, but I said that's why I think it's a lucky shot.
As in "In my opinion"

TheNamlessGuy:
Heh....

Lucky shot, I say

I think that it's more skill in gaming development rather then luck.

Dommyboy:
Yet no DRM was required either for Mass Effect 2. Proof that piracy is not the main problem that developers face, but whether the game they create is actually good.

Er, this has no mention of the number of pirated copies. So therefore there could have been 2 million in sales, but 5 million pirated copies for all we know.

RanD00M:
I think that it's more skill in gaming development rather then luck.

Read above, thank you.

The_root_of_all_evil:

Cousin_IT:
perfectly reasonable explanation

Fair enough, but having one person who actually says "I didn't like this", "I think it could have been done better" would have been good.

Seriously, does N perfect scores actually mean anything anymore? We're going through a global recession and we've had a perfect film, a perfect MMO, and now two perfect games?

It's all a little silly really.

(This is not to say that ME2 isn't worthy of it, I haven't played it so I wouldn't know)

There are no doubt many more "perfect" movies, games & books etc out there atm. The difference between them & Avatar (& the like) is not quality, or indeed reviewer support, but the marketing/PR department & public hyperbole surrounding them. After all, it is the PR monkeys that collect all these review scores & reviewer soundbites to dangle infront of us consumers, which is how most of us probably find out what reviewers beyond our favourite publication(s) think in the first place.

Incidentally, I would be very interested to see if Yahtzee sang, or was able to sing, the same tune if zero-punctuation relied on being able to review games before general release, rather then acting (to paraphrase his own words) as a sort of post-release reality check.

For once, a game deserved all the hype.