Mass effect 2 on multiple discs

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**Kanluwen**

I fail to see how that's going to work out with anything other than Tali dying...

Which is a devious plan. Shepherd, you genius!

**Cheese Elemental**

Bioware have explained it all in-game.

A recent video reveals that Tali will be a potential romance option for a male Shepard. She takes some antibiotics and herbal supplements to reduce the risk of infection, so she can have a physical relationship with Shepard.

Source: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Tali'Zorah_nar_Rayya

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You know what? I'm actually going to go ahead and trade in three games for this. They'd be ones I'm done with anyway, and I won't have to pay anything!

**Manchu**

garret wrote:how does that work iv never played a game like that before.

Feel . . . so . . . old . . .

@Cheese: I was on the fence after Dragon ~~RAGE~~ Age but your pic gets me closer to buying it. But Kanluwen insists on raining all over my parade. :(

**Cheese Elemental**

A recent video confirms that Garrus will be a potential romance option for the female Shepard.

Source: http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Garrus_Vakarian

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And that's not all! Check out this codex entry...

**Manchu**

BRACE FOR IMPACT!!!

**Cheese Elemental**

I can't wait until Thursday. Going to stay at my friend's place so I can go to the midnight release at EB Games.

...what? I'm totally not buying it just because I'm a xenophile!

**Manchu**

No, not just because.

**Cheese Elemental**

Call me fethed-up, I don't give a damn.

**Manchu**

My only question is why the hanar? This one is just wondering.

BTW, mass effect rule 34 sure is lulzy but don't take that as an endorsement or suggestion.

**Cheese Elemental**

Manchu wrote:BTW, mass effect rule 34 sure is lulzy but don't take that as an endorsement or suggestion.

You don't have to tell me, I have... familiarity with it.

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We now have visual evidence of a Garrus romance too!

**BrookM**

metallifan wrote:
BrookM wrote:Is "git" such a bad word these days?

And oh dear, ME2 has two discs, oh the humanity! Oh the effort!

Okay, only thing I'm wondering about is that I install games before running them. I wonder how the two-disc approach works with this.

No. I was just being wildly random for a moment. It happens.

Are you telling me you've never, in your life, installed a multi-disc PC game? You've never played a Total War game, The Sims 2, SC4, or anything like that?

Alright, well basically you put in Disc 1. Always. Always start with Disc 1. If you don't... Well... I don't want to talk about it. I still have nightmares.

Install the game like normal, going through all the setup steps until it starts copying info onto the computer. Eventually, a popup message will appear that says "Insert disc 2". Do this, then click "OK". Installation will continue where it was paused, and files will begin copying from the new disc into the game's folder. If there's more than one disc, just rinse and repeat until installation is done.

Then it's just a matter of finding out which is the play disc. Some games use the last disc on the installation, but most will use Disc 1. Just try playing it on the last disc, If it won't start, put in disc 1 and try again. It'll always be one of the two unless the company that made the game is slowed.

Oh dear.. Actually, I'm referring to the 360 version. I played the first one on the 360, so ME2 is also a (rare) 360 purchase for me, hence the question, seeing as I always install my games to the 360 HD.

I am a PC gamer, not clinically slowed!

I am aware of disc swapping all too well, I remember Far Cry coming on five CD's.

**metallifan**

OOOoooooh, I see. Well, have you ever played FFVII, VIII, or IX? Remember those big playstation cases they came in with like 4 Discs per game? Same shebang. At some convienient point in the game (Such as right after a HUGE plot twist or development), a message will appear asking you to switch to the next disc. Just pop the old one out, put the new disc in, and them press start/ok and the game will resume after reading the new disc.

Installing the game would thus likely be the hybrid mixture of the PC method and the one posted here. And if this still isn't what you're asking about then you've totally

ing lost me

**garret**

i know of games like them. i remember one lik 2 years ago. i just never played one.

**iamthecougar**

Anybody here ever play the witcher? There were like 7 discs you put the first one in to start the installation then go through the rest and you only use the 1st one to play its an old system im amazed people are bugging over it.

**Locclo**

iamthecougar wrote:Anybody here ever play the witcher? There were like 7 discs you put the first one in to start the installation then go through the rest and you only use the 1st one to play its an old system im amazed people are bugging over it.

IIRC, the EverQuest II install was 10 discs. And didn't require a single one to actually play

I'm just glad we've developed the technology to put loads of data on a single DVD, rather than on a bunch of discs. Imagine some modern games that are huge on only CDs. Having read that Mass Effect 2 is on two Xbox 360-sized discs, the game must be (Dare I say) massive.

**metallifan**

Said pun was already made. But it still managed to make me groan.

Anyway, I love how it's 2 Discs on a freaking PCDVD Disc! And how we're pretty much getting a whole Disc for free

Free stuff rules. I've actually taken Tues. off work so I can go pick this up

**Kanluwen**

I'm doing my classwork for the next two weeks right now just to ensure nothing interrupts my first playthrough.

**Katavus**

Looks like an amazing game and def going to buy it, it is worth the multi disk if there is any, and the Romantic part of the Story line is there for people who take value of creating a character how they would want to create themselves, and people like romance, personnally in the first one i was a full kill everything that you can, friendly, enemy, neutral, the like MORE BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

**avantgarde**

I'm planning on picking this up at midnight and spending the next 12 hours playing it, then possibly writing a scathing review full of spoilers to cheese everybody off.

**Cheese Elemental**

Kanluwen wrote:I'm doing my classwork for the next two weeks right now just to ensure nothing interrupts my first playthrough.

Ha! I'm on my summer holidays until halfway through next month. I'll be at JB-HIFI at 9:00 AM sharp so I'm first in line to trade in my games (trade three, get it free). It's not out here until thursday though.

**Kanluwen**

Cheese Elemental wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:I'm doing my classwork for the next two weeks right now just to ensure nothing interrupts my first playthrough.

Ha! I'm on my summer holidays until halfway through next month. I'll be at JB-HIFI at 9:00 AM sharp so I'm first in line to trade in my games (trade three, get it free). It's not out here until thursday though.

UPS and Amazon say it'll be here by 2:58PM tommorow.

They've only been wrong once.

So I have until 2:58PM to get two weeks done...

And I'm already 1 and a half weeks completed.

Rawr! I CAN DO THIS! /montage

**Manchu**

Montage set to "Final Countdown".

**Cheese Elemental**

Maybe if I knock myself out, thursday will get here faster!

**Manchu**

Cheese Elemental wrote:Maybe if I knock myself out, thursday will get here faster!

ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!

**Asherian Command**

MASS EFFECT 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**DarkLight451**

Manchu wrote:
Cheese Elemental wrote:Maybe if I knock myself out, thursday will get here faster!

ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!

wheres the nintendo wii!!!!!??

**metallifan**

Bought it. Turns out WalMart only had Collector's Ed copies

Loving it. Sheer, unrefined awesome is all I can say.

**Locclo**

metallifan wrote:Loving it. Sheer, unrefined awesome is all I can say.

QF fething T. It is a glorious upgrade moving from the first game to the second. Looks like Bioware hit the nail right on the head with this one

**BrookM**

I could install both game discs, which is a blessing from whatever deity you hold dear, seeing as I've grown to hate the growl of a 360 spinning a disc.