I'm confused how its a gears of war clone. Gears of war invented big guns? Or did gears of war invent cover? Perhaps they were the only people to put those original concepts together?

@Tevor_the_Third: Blizzard games run on toasters. Sadly.

@Powersupply: lol its Tal Rasha.

At first I thought "putricide" said "patricide". Which come to think of it, makes more sense.

Damn 15 gigabytes?

I'm just pointing out that X-box live has 19 million users.

@PeaceFrog: @PeaceFrog: By lack of guns I meant "lack of gun selection", or lack of the sheerly huge amount of weapons tradionally found in RPGs.

I'll be pirating their games from now on because I can't ensure 24/7 internet access. Even if I buy them.

@Ueziel:

@Ueziel: Their are more complex moral choices. See, now your just debating semantics.

@zlarm: Exactly, your choices effect so many things in the game its not even funny, including the development of every character on your ship, whether or not the krogan have a hope at curing genophage, and I'm only 1/3 of the way through the game.

@Ueziel: You've ranted on and on and still have not about it without a logical reason. How do you suggest Bioware increase make exploring 50 planets on food interesting from a reasonable design standpoint? You simply CANNOT.

@dragon83: No, Mass Effect is an action RPG, replacing turn based combat with a live action gun play one. Argueing ME isn't a RPG because of lack of guns is like argueing witcher is like god of war because of lack of swords.

lol. I just realized I'm acting like a huge fucking fanboy in my (rightful) defending of this game. Normally I don't even do this.

@Razgriz: lol. Despite how much I enjoy bioware RPG, I can never bring myself to play them more then once.

@Bennal: A bit of a spoiler, but you can unlock different appearances for them.

@Komrade Kayce: a hell lot of decision, including random sidequest and dialogue you thought didn't matter.

If you never liked ME1 as a RPG, I could see why you'd have trouble liking ME2, but I don't understand how anyone could argue that ME2 is a step back from ME1 in anyway way shape or form, even from a RP perspective :/

@Ueziel: "And I also do not see any sort of balance issue with allowing me to change my tactics as befits my surroundings."

@Isaac Daniel Knight: Yes