I've been wondering something. What took you so long to get into games? I mean there has a been tons of great games available since Tetris, so why the dry spell till ME?

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i'm an avid reader. both my brothers were always addicted to video games but i couldn't be bothered. the consoles never attracted me and i only own a laptop..i don't want to be tethered to a desk top..its kind of like a book to me b/c i can use it wherever just like reading my books wherever/whenever.
i very recently used to be the kind of person who tried to persuade my husband to get rid of cable and tv forever. then i began seeing some commercials for games like halo and i was thinking holy shit that looks good and fun..and then i was thinking maybe..i could play that too? my husband could not care less for games b/c he's mainly into productive things like gardening (it doesn't sound manly but the way he does it is believe me he rebuilds our fence and i don't know it just ends up looking like manly stuff lol)
so anyway i could never tear myself away from books to invest time into learning and playing a game. i quit my job a year and half ago had a baby and now have a lot of time to fill b/c i as i mentioned before i nurse her to sleep and she naps with me holding her. i was bored. and then i saw ME on the trailers for download on the xbox. i got the xbox b/c i did a lot of reading online and decided i had the best chance of finding good games with it. so in otherwords the games started to look more and more enticing and i'm no longer concerned about how dorky i'm going to appear to all of my uber intellectual girlfriends.

Simone, if you like a good story in a game Mass Effect is an awesome choice, but you should look into BioShock also. Very nice storytelling in that one.


Ok, now back to the question at hand. Toughest planet? Feros, I wasn't level up or prepared for those fights the first time. Took several tries, but I made it through.

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I don't care, that this thread is 2+ yrs old. Luna, absolutely sucks, on Veteran, level 60. One gets overwhelmed in roughly 15 seconds --the fact that Shepard & his two crew have the hottest Specter weapons, available, notwithstanding. I've had tough battles that took more than a couple tries, but, Luna...? KMA.

Conventional forum rules are out on this forum, lol, with so few members - feel free to post wherever you like

Yeah, Luna is a BITCH! But I also think that a few of the missions where you board ships drifting in space can be really F'ing hard!

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Oh! Absolutely!! I had to play the hostage scene two or three times, before I was able to do anything about it. (Some of that, was that I was extremely new, to it all... having only watched a walkthrough, to get a general idea of the theme of ME.)

Some of the Luna problem was that the bad guys outnumbered Shepard's crew by, maybe, 3 or 4 to 1. We just couldn't keep them just outside the entrance to the corridor. That, just sucked. One would sneak through, even with three 386 Assault Rifles, blazing... then, all it took was one shot, and Shepard was history.

Yeah! That's what would happen to me! Too many access points to try and cover - just one bad-guy gets through and hits you from behind and the rest follow as soon as you turn around! It's gets SO frustrating.

Damn sure does... and add to that, something that I was justs able to duplicate, which I think may be a bug (with the Xbox download, anyhow): I started over, with a brand new character, and decided go play, Casual. I played...
Eden Prime
Artemus Tao (to pick up, Liara)
Noveria
Feros
...then tried going to Luna to check something out, and sure enough... the bad-ass upside-down triangles with guns, were still there. The VERY FIRST time I played Luna, there were the same sort of characters as the colonists on Feros (after the Thorian got hold of 'em). It took playing Luna two or three times, I think it was, before the bad-asses showed up.

Each time I played it was a little more difficult, because I was working my way to level 60. However, ME didn't recycle back to the less-lethal synthetics, when I started totally over, again, as mentioned. Now, I'm wondering if there is any way to force, the issue! Perhaps, I'll have to delete ME1/re-download, or sump'm...? I do have it on another HD, so I suppose I could remove the Xbox HD, & plug in the external, to try that.

DAMN! I hate to have to start all over again, since I'm getting weary of all the all-too-familiar dialog! ROTFL