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[Archmage Silver]

So, have you guys already pre-ordered your copies of Mass Effect 2? I know a few of you have, and I've also pre-ordered the CE myself.

North America: January 26th
Australia: January 28th
Europe: January 29th

[Qwinn]

Just broke down and pre-ordered the CE from Amazon, with delivery on release date. Total cost of that was about $66.

This means I'll get the Inferno Armor instead of the Gamestop pre-order goodness, but Gamestop isn't selling any more CE's so what can ya do. The Gamestop armor looks a lot better, and at least combat wise it has better stats, but combat in these games usually isn't all that tough, the "negotiation bonus" on the Inferno armor that I'll be getting may indeed wind up being the better option in the long run. Here's hoping, anyway.

Qwinn

[Eleima]

Thanks to you, Archmage, I've already gone and pre-ordered my Collector's Edition! Can't wait.
Oh, and the good news is that I already have the Inferno code from my DA:O box, and GameStation will give me the Terminus armor too. And I'll get that art book I've been leering at lately! Sweeeet!

[Bluenose]

Yesterday afternoon, when I saw the pre-order boxes on the shelf in my local Game. Couldn't resist. Low will-power, so I get fewer special moves in combat.

[Archmage Silver]

Looks like the CE is pretty popular around here, no votes for the regular edition as of yet.

Thanks to you, Archmage, I've already gone and pre-ordered my Collector's Edition! Can't wait.
Oh, and the good news is that I already have the Inferno code from my DA:O box, and GameStation will give me the Terminus armor too. And I'll get that art book I've been leering at lately! Sweeeet!

Inferno Armor from DA...? Don't you mean Blood Dragon Armor? Terminus and Inferno Armors are pre-order bonuses from retailers as far as I know.

[Eleima]

You are absolutely and completely correct, Archmage Silver, I was indeed referring to the Blood Dragon Armor and not the Inferno Armor (which I don't believe I'll be getting). I don't know why my fingers typed that, my mistake.

[Archmage Silver]

No problem, Blood Dragon Armor isn't exactly my first thought when I think of ME2 either.

On the pre-order items, I'm not quite sure which one of those I'm getting... I'll probably find out when the game is released, but I'll take either one really.

[Qwinn]

If you pre-ordered via Gamestop, you get the Terminus armor and weapon.

Pretty much any other retailer, and you get Inferno armor.

Qwinn

[Archmage Silver]

If you pre-ordered via Gamestop, you get the Terminus armor and weapon.

Pretty much any other retailer, and you get Inferno armor.

Qwinn

Yeah, so it would seem. I pre-ordered from a Finnish retailer though, so I'm not quite sure how it will go - the retailers here had wildly varying pre-order items for Dragon Age, so it's a bit random.

[berelinde]

No, I haven't pre-odered it, and I'm unlikely to buy it at all. I'm not into sci-fi, apart from Babylon 5, so I didn't enjoy ME 1.

[Qwinn]

S'funny, I actually prefer sci-fi settings (NOT star wars, though, that setting bores the hell out of me, thus why I never got the KOTOR games). But I also like RPG's, and most RPG's are in fantasy settings, so what can ya do...

I must commend your good taste in Babylon 5, though. If you had to only like one sci fi setting, that's definitely in the top 3. (Farscape and Firefly being the other two, IMHO).

ME isn't what I'd consider the optimum sci-fi setting. Most of the aliens are simply way way too human - hell, you can find more cultural differences between US states than you find between humans and some ME alien races. Other than that, it's decent, but that's a pretty big flaw IMO. The best rendition of truly alien races I've ever encountered in a sci fi setting were in the ancient (as in, they came on 5 1/4" floppy disks) Starflight games. Man it was a serious tragedy when that franchise died. Best, most creative writing in a scifi computer game ever.

Qwinn

Edited by Qwinn, 23 December 2009 - 10:28 PM.

[darlarosa]

S'funny, I actually prefer sci-fi settings (NOT star wars, though, that setting bores the hell out of me, thus why I never got the KOTOR games). But I also like RPG's, and most RPG's are in fantasy settings, so what can ya do...

I must commend your good taste in Babylon 5, though. If you had to only like one sci fi setting, that's definitely in the top 3. (Farscape and Firefly being the other two, IMHO).

ME isn't what I'd consider the optimum sci-fi setting. Most of the aliens are simply way way too human - hell, you can find more cultural differences between US states than you find between humans and some ME alien races. Other than that, it's decent, but that's a pretty big flaw IMO. The best rendition of truly alien races I've ever encountered in a sci fi setting were in the ancient (as in, they came on 5 1/4" floppy disks) Starflight games. Man it was a serious tragedy when that franchise died. Best, most creative writing in a scifi computer game ever.

Qwinn

Your my hero

[Vicen]

Nah...I think ill just get the normal version as I have the blood dragon armor code from DA:O and my char at the end of mass effect was lvl 50 so you get some special type of ammo or something I believe...Which is enough for me!

[Philiposophy]

I just ordered the regular PC version. There didn't seem to be a Collecter's Edition on Amazon, but I wouldn't have bothered with it anyway, tbh.

[Archmage Silver]

I just ordered the regular PC version. There didn't seem to be a Collecter's Edition on Amazon, but I wouldn't have bothered with it anyway, tbh.

The Collector's Edition sold out AFAIK.