Joe Cooler wrote:ihatethunderbay wrote:Your loss.
I can't see any other game this year topping it. I might go so far as to say it was better than Uncharted 2, which was the clear GOTY last year.
It had one of the most intense endgame sequences I've ever played. Anyone on your team can die (and I mean 'die for reals in story' and not 'drop in combat'), and if they do, it's all on your shoulders.
No idea how BioWare is going to top themselves.
I dunno, Assassin's Creed 2 was ridiculously good. Regardless, I do plan on picking up Mass Effect 2 but I worry that I will be missing out on a lot having not played the first Mass Effect.
If you can find it cheap and you have the cash to spare, I really would recommend picking up the first ME and doing an import into ME2.
For one thing, it feels awesome to continue 'your' Shepard like that, and for another a lot of the default choices that it decides you make if you start a new ME2 character just plain suck.
If you get it on PC, though, you can download ME1 savegames to import into ME2.
But yeah, I really liked a lot of the ME1 characters and it's worth getting to know them before you see what they're up to in ME2. However, you can still start ME2 fresh and not be totally lost or anything.