I'm really looking forward to this game. I really loved the first one.

Already knew it was on the way, a friend of a friend is an Animator for Bioware and he let it slip a few months ago to my buddy. It's not like there was any doubt it was coming out though.

My feelings can be summed up in a single word:

Yay!

I never doubted there'd be another (sales for the first one were just too good) but it's definitely nice to see confirmation that it's under way. Yay!

-- Steve

Sweet. I want it to come out soon, but I hope they don't rush it.

Hurray, hope they shortened the elevator rides though.

Me wantie right now.

DamienHell:
Hurray, hope they shortened the elevator rides though.

Man I hated those damn elevator rides. Especially when I first started the game and didn't quite know my way around yet. I kept getting in those elevators trying to find my way around.

What happened to all the DLC we where supposed to get, if i remember correctly this was supposed to be a big part of ME

I was just playing Mass effect like half an hour ago. This is good news.

thebobmaster:
Sweet. I want it to come out soon, but I hope they don't rush it.

Agreed, I hope it's released with as a few bugs as possible. The last name was great.

Hey, bioware!

The inventory system in the last game needed to be reworked. I know it needed to be console-ified, but can the PC version pleeease be more mouse friendly and have the interface optimised?

That sounds like a lot of words for saying "Every bunker you find on every planet won't look exactly the same except with two dozen boxes arranged somewhat differently"...

ME was a fun game, but all the side quest levels sucked...

EDIT: Sorry, I ment "THE side quest level sucked..."

As long as they don't give us those HORRIFIC side quests and the TERRIBLE Mako again, I'm happy.

Kick ass. Mass effect was the first game in a while that had a really good ending. Hopefully Bioware will continue the tradition.

Well we all know its planned as a trilogy. And it was announced ages ago they had already started work on it. Due out later this year apparently. Loads of other sites have already spoken to the devs though and got some info about it.

Can't wait myself. So many good games coming out this year though.

*Begins happy dance, after having cursed the gods for no announcement last year and not bothering to check the BioWare website.

I liked the MAKO, just because it had a steep difficulty curve doesn't mean it was a bad control scheme. Of course, the similarities to the Scorpion tank in Halo helped.

Not being someone playing RPGs for twitch factor stimulation, I didn't mind elevator rides for the most part. They meant a good way of introducing sidequests (the news radio) and developing your party members. (See for example the "Who would win in a fight" conversation.) Really, the majority of elevator riding was optional.

What I'd like to see in the inventory management is wider detail area and multiple columns, with better grouping for items and more sorting options. I expect them to reuse the pre-fab planetside structures to a degree, because they make sense, but I'd like to see more variety; I hate to say it but the traditional way of doing that by section and texture like Oblivion's Ayleid ruins does offer some improvement.

anti_strunt:
ME was a fun game, but all the side quest levels sucked...

EDIT: Sorry, I ment "THE side quest level sucked..."

So true.

So it'll look and feel the same, but the actual story and content will be improved out of sight?

I wish more developers would do this. We've hit a point where we don't need to create a new engine every time a game comes out. They're all pretty enough. Now make them worth playing.

I hope they improve the vehicular combat.

I really liked the first one but my main question, as I am sure every man on this forum is dying to know...

Will there be more stemy blue alien lesbian sex?

I do, of course, jest. And I liked the MAKO, and inanely exploring the many many many planets. Thats just me, the sort of guy who walks places in Fallot 3 to gaze over the broken wasteland. Also, have you ever heard 'I don't want to set the world on fire' by The Ink Spots after playing Fallout. It sounds so, so haunting, especially with the old recording sytem causing reverb.

Anyway, discounting that last tangent, I really liked Mass Effect, and the MAKO is easier to drive than the Centaur in Gears 2. And all the buildings looking the same made sense- they were pre-fab. However, I think I would have liked more world on the Citadel and some of the larger planets. In fact, some more civilised planets would be nice, like the Asari or Krogan homeworlds, or even Earth. Nice to see it in Mass Effects high sci-fi style. Hmm, I wonder how they'll play it off from the ending. Will you be Shepard again? It should be interesting, though I hope they don't cock it up.

Kukul:
Also I want to see the bare ass for at least 3 seconds longer :D

Oh yeah, there's plans for that. But it'll be Shepherd's.

They announced a while ago that Mass Effect is intended to be a Trilogy. EA, being the money hungry douchebags they are, want to milk the series beyond that, but Bioware's creative freedom is in the contract; EA can't rush them or anything, so hopefully it'll work out.

Also, I heard they're trying to get a film together.

Can't wait to port my guy into Mass Effect 2!

Hmm...I thought this had already been confirmed? Wikipedia has had a page up for awhile now...?

Either way, I'm looking forward to Mass Effect 2!

PedroSteckecilo:
Already knew it was on the way, a friend of a friend is an Animator for Bioware and he let it slip a few months ago to my buddy. It's not like there was any doubt it was coming out though.

It was also officially announced on March 17th of last year that a sequel was in the works.

http://www.videogamer.com/news/14-03-2008-7778.html

In fact, the third one has also been announced.

Aardvark:

Kukul:
Also I want to see the bare ass for at least 3 seconds longer :D

Oh yeah, there's plans for that. But it'll be Shepherd's.

Forget that you could make a female Shepherd?

...does that mean the "levels" won't suck as much in ME2? :/

I hated those load screens. Now don't get me wrong they probably were needed from a technical standpoint but at least make them more interesting than a relay spinning or the Normandy speeding off.

Just switch it up a bit, maybe make them more user-friendly(interactive).

And how about allowing more races into your party?

Please, please Bioware, work on the side-quests and MAKO! ... and that's about it, really. I just hope they bring the same level of story and narrative from the last one.

As has already been noted, I hope this means areas outside the critical path will feature more variety than the previous mine/bunker/ship menu. If we have to keep seeing Kowloon-class freighters of modular design, can we at least get some modularity?

Actually, I could do with some help on this one. Should I buy Mass Effect 1? I like shooters, particularly Half Life and Gears of War, and I like Oblivion. Does anyone think I should get Mass Effect?

I'm just hoping for an OPTION to have a gay relationship, but that ain't gonna happen. Wanna know why? If we're sticking with Shepherd, then his sexuality was confirmed in the first game. If it wasn't he could have found but one bum-loving alien or HUMAN on one of the many pointless sidequests he embarked on.

And can I just say that a quote springs to mind, "A hero is only immortalized by the grandure of his death", at the end of ME the death was almost TOO perfect, Shepherd deserved to die like a hero. I mean, crushed by a giant evil space-ship from the Underworld of the Universe after fighting a semi-synthetic sociopath Alien? When I saw Wrex look mounrfully down and start to grieve, I though, "What a SPECTACULAR ENDING!" then when I went to turn the Xbox off I saw that wait, why's that bit of spaceship moving? Who's that sillhouette? IS IT SAREN!? *Hopeful* Oh no, wait, it's Shepherd, is he fatally wounded, at least? Nope, he made some shitty decision about politics, then stood in front of a planet looking ominous.

I don't like to use this word much, because I'm not a pre-pubescent American girl, but that ending is what's known as "LAME-OH"!

/endrant