Shades Of Twilight

Yes, we got Assassin’s Creed 2 before North America. Singapore had it since Thursday, 4 March 2010. I received an SMS (that’s “text message to you Westerners) from my regular game shop at 1pm saying that it was in Singapore. By 6pm I had a copy in my hands, and by 6.30 I was already home and installing it.

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The copy-protection on this however, is a little too extreme. It says it “requires” a constant Internet Connection for it to work. That’s lame, because what happens if you’re not on Broadband, but on dialup, and each minute you’re on dialup costs you money?! That is irrelevant in Singapore since everyone is already on Broadband, but it affects people in other locales.

Secondly, what happens if Ubisosft servers are experiencing heavy loads? We can’t connect to “authenticate” and thus we can’t play it? The North America launch is coming on 9th March, that is tomorrow. You can expect a sudden spike in users trying to authenticate to your servers, Ubisoft.

That’s exactly what happened to me the other day – Ubisoft Servers actually went down (see “Related Articles” below). The game just quit suddenly to desktop, and when I tried to relaunch, it was stuck at he Login screen of the launcher for about 5 mins. Then when the game started and I chose “Story Mode”, the game went to a screen saying “please wait, contacting server” and the only option available at that screen was “Exit To Windows”.

At least Bioware doesn’t force the requirement on the user. Dragon Age, for example, just says the achievements and scores won’t be updated on your web profile. Mass Effect 2 just tells you that you won’t get Cerberus goodies if you don’t have an internet connection. They do NOT stop you from playing their game!

And game companies wonder why people continue to get pirated copies.

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This is now my FIFTH run-through of Mass Effect 2. ME2 now holds the record for the most number of replays an RPG ever got from me. Basically all I’m doing is trying to do everything I didn’t do the first 4 times around.

The amazing thing is that I keep discovering small bits and pieces of funny things I never saw the first 4 times. The video below is a compilation of the majority of the funny bits:

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Ok I’ve just completed one run-through of Mass Effect 2.

When I imported another ME1 character, I was amazed at all the bonuses the second guy got! 55k of palladium, platinum, element zero, and iridium! Man, you can upgrade half the ship with all those freebies! And ELEMENT ZERO, the rarest element of them all, I have over 55k tons of it! In the first playthrough I could never get more than about 20k tons on board, thr0ughout the whole game!

Plus, he gets a bonus power right off the bat, from a list of “unlocked” powers due to my first run through.

Now I’m on my second run, this time trying to play a bad guy. Ok maybe not a “bad” guy per-se, but a ruthless, results-at-all-costs guy. Plus, it’ll be fun when the time comes to play good-cop bad-cop in the game with an informant!

Scattered among the various parts of the adventure are funny moments. One’s here:

Just listen to the conversation – funny as heck! Also, another part you may come to on Illium, is where a male Turian and a female Quarian were discussing relati0nships. The Quarian was lamenting about how disasterous her date with a human male went, and you can actually hear the Turian saying things to try to get into her pants!

The best part is – the Quarian says she has “stimulators” built right into her suit so she doesn’t need relationships now… wahahahahah! Funny!

Ok this is a short post. Just sayin’ how cool the game is to have funny parts.

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