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<blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 5072162" data-attributes="member: 8158"><p>I think Metacritic put it well: "Game of Year in January?"</p><p></p><p>Assembling a dirty-dozen-style team for an impossible mission is, IMO, the most engaging hook to hang an RPG on (tabletop or video game). You don't have to know each other well, and some you won't even like each other, but there's an impossible job to do and you each bring something important to the team.</p><p></p><p>Since I have some fellow players here, lemme ask some (spoiler-free) questions:</p><p></p><p>1) In your experiences, how does the aggro seem to be distributed between Shepard and the rest of the team? I have been running into a nasty situation where every enemy seems to concentrate fire on me, ignoring my teammates even when they're closer and moer exposed. Since I'm an infiltrator, that's a problem. I need to use my teammates as meat shields so I can snipe. The tactical cloak breaks the aggro (which actually makes the issue noticable), but the cloack's cooldown and duration are not optimized for consistent usage.</p><p></p><p>2) Anyone figured out how to make the amount of money you seem to need to be able to make to afford gear and upgrades? I'm still pretty early in the game, but I haven't found any way to make money. There are no loot drops to sell, and the resources I'm gathering from planets don't seem to be sellable either. Maybe something will change later in the game, but right now I'm full of palladium and have no way to sell it.</p><p></p><p>3) Has anyone gotten to the second disc yet? My biggest concern right now is that the game will turn out to be much shorter than I expect. With ME1, it didn't sink in for me that getting Shepard promoted to spectre is actually the middle of the story, not the beginning (with only three more major missions left over IIRC). Since we (supposedly) have a good amount of DLC coming out, I don't want to crush it over the weekend. With stuff like Risen, FFXIII, and Red Dead on the way, a second playthrough seems unlikely.</p><p></p><p>May want to spoiler-tag any answers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Felon, post: 5072162, member: 8158"] I think Metacritic put it well: "Game of Year in January?" Assembling a dirty-dozen-style team for an impossible mission is, IMO, the most engaging hook to hang an RPG on (tabletop or video game). You don't have to know each other well, and some you won't even like each other, but there's an impossible job to do and you each bring something important to the team. Since I have some fellow players here, lemme ask some (spoiler-free) questions: 1) In your experiences, how does the aggro seem to be distributed between Shepard and the rest of the team? I have been running into a nasty situation where every enemy seems to concentrate fire on me, ignoring my teammates even when they're closer and moer exposed. Since I'm an infiltrator, that's a problem. I need to use my teammates as meat shields so I can snipe. The tactical cloak breaks the aggro (which actually makes the issue noticable), but the cloack's cooldown and duration are not optimized for consistent usage. 2) Anyone figured out how to make the amount of money you seem to need to be able to make to afford gear and upgrades? I'm still pretty early in the game, but I haven't found any way to make money. There are no loot drops to sell, and the resources I'm gathering from planets don't seem to be sellable either. Maybe something will change later in the game, but right now I'm full of palladium and have no way to sell it. 3) Has anyone gotten to the second disc yet? My biggest concern right now is that the game will turn out to be much shorter than I expect. With ME1, it didn't sink in for me that getting Shepard promoted to spectre is actually the middle of the story, not the beginning (with only three more major missions left over IIRC). Since we (supposedly) have a good amount of DLC coming out, I don't want to crush it over the weekend. With stuff like Risen, FFXIII, and Red Dead on the way, a second playthrough seems unlikely. May want to spoiler-tag any answers. [/QUOTE]
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