Thank you so much, it is greatly apreciated. I will let him play this game, only when I or mom is around. The rest looks like he and I will have so much fun playing, I will get this game.

So is there any difference on the PS 3 or the 360?

This is ME1, ME2 is worse, but ME1 isnt on PS3.

I don't think it's worse. I only played through ME2 once yet, but when I got to the six scene there everyone even kept their clothes on, felt like Bioware censored themselves there after all the [censored] they got about ME1.

Unless you're referring not referring to six, I do suppose that ME2 is a bit more violent. But just tell your kid to only take the Paragon choices and he shouldn't see too much of that.

Get both, There really good

The Guide to ME1 vs ME2

Story

ME1 and ME2 are part of the same story. I don't get how players complain that ME2's story svcked when its a continuation of ME1. That is like referring a friend to LOTR, "The Fellowship of the Ring was good but you should skip The Two Towers because nothing is resolved and its boring."

Combat

ME1- You play an Alliance soldier who can't hit the broad side of a barn unless he is using a sniper rifle. Third person cover shooter without wall sticking.

ME2- You play a former Alliance soldier that http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7zNY0I5JNI that can aim down all of his or her weapons. Third person cover shooter with wall sticking.

Inventory

ME1- Loot, loot and more loot. Sift through countless unneeded items and be forced to convert to Omni-gel if you want to pick something else up. Upgradeable weapons that all look the same. Lots of useless armor, but all are upgradeable and unique.

ME2- No loot. No Omni-gel. Less upgradeable weapons but all are unique. No upgradeable armor other than Shepards'.

Dialogue

ME1- Paragon or Renegade.

ME2- Paragon or Renegade, with certain situations resolved instantly granting a bonus to either score.

RPG Elements

ME1- More skills and based more on stats.

ME2- Less skills and based more on player skill.

Characters

ME1- Great characters that are as dumb as posts in combat.

ME2- Characters (most) that will make you want your ME1 party back. Still dumb in combat but have upgraded themselves to "brick".

Enemies

ME1- Most will march towards you like lemmings on a suicide trip.

ME2- Use cover and tactics.

Environment

ME1- Other than main areas: Copy/paste, repeat.

ME2- Beautiful unique environments with less to do.

Exploration

ME1- Drive around a DOS era rendered planet surface in a [censored] vehicle looking for the next cookie cutter pre-fab base.

ME2- Scan planets. Scan planets. Scan planets. No vehicle without DLC.


If you decide to have a proper story for Mass Effect, should you get ME1, you will have to pick up ME2. It isn't a bad game and it may surprise you.

Speak for yourself. After how much they neutered the LIs in ME2 compared to ME1, I think Kelly is the only mature thing going in that game.

No, most of the game is filler content about squadmates, not story.
The story is almost non existant, thats why it svcks. (also reapers go from good villan to crap in about the last 5 minuetes of the game.)

Li's are silly to me and serve no purpose when one is saving the galaxy. They are also useless when they aren't even carried on or recognized within the storyline and only in the LI subplot. Its pathetically useless.

"Yes, I am going to stop trying to figure out a way to deal with the Reapers and have six with you... right now... in space." - Commander Shepard

Thats ME3s plot twist, that is how he will defeat the reapers.

Its demeaning to women to portray your orderly/secretary as your own personal stripper as well. sixual harassment? Hostile workplace, em?

I liked her as a character and was pleased that I saved her (did she mentally "bond" with Thane?). . .but having the game offer to have her 'dance' for you seemed like cheap pandering to my inner 13-yr-old virgin. Like jiggle physics. . .

Kelly Chambers is the Fifth Element!!

I get the feeling things have really loosened up in the future. Remember, Kelly comes across as inappropriately flirty from the word "go."

Heck, in ME1 they wanted to allow full homosixual LI possibilities. The game was coded for it. The wireframe animation was there, the voice acting was there...they bailed on the idea at the last minute. They only did that out of fear of public outrage...which is odd that what they went with in ME1 was tame by prime time television standards, but it still got all kinds of insane press by wingnuts who thought it was too "graphic." :rolleyes:

I would have allowed it with a parental lockout code blocking ALL LI options until the code was entered. All a game owner had to do was go online to the Bioware website, enter a product number (unique to each game), and fill out a form affirming they were over 18 and understood that the unlock code would make ALL the LI options available. Each game would have a unique unlock code, and once issued, the owner was free to explore anything in the game.

Let the player decide, but prevent minors from getting the game and having full access up front.

I will never get why some parents see nvde as something bad and killing as whatever. In Sweden we have nvde people on daytime TV. You raise your kids however you want, I just don't get it.

Anyway, I think both games are good in different ways, but have no replayvalue.

Be careful, though, if you let your son play ME. Picking the default "good" path every time (upper right of the dialogue wheel) with Ashley ends up in a romance.

If you supervise him playing, it should be fine, though. Also, it's really nothing like Baldur's Gate in gameplay or enjoyability, but it's not awful. I think you'll enjoy it.

Wait, so you let your nine year old kid play a game where you can literally blow people's heads off, yet a little sixual content is too much? :blink:

Or am I missing something vital here?

Yay generalizations! Lets make more! I love making generalizations about places and people 100s and 1000s of miles away from me!

Hey, I find this crap. I'd rather my child see neither till they're old enough. My parents did not want me watching movies with blood, killing (unless it's Disney death), and nudity. Wasn't till I was old enough to handle it in a mature way did they let me start buying more mature stuff, and that required the talk first too. Doesn't mean I didn't try to get away with watching R rated movies and such.

There is no dismemberment in ME, unless it's robots.

Yes, you're missing that people can choose how they want to parent their kids.

Some parents (edit) not all.

He's talking about the Fallout games. Which have the most extreme gore I've ever seen.

Deadspace has you kick zombie babies.

Precisely.

And yeah, parents have every right to parent the way they wish, but it seems like a bit of a double standard. Or better yet, it can teach "Hey violence is okay, but six is a no-no!"

Too many people make sixual stuff out to be some kind of a villainous activity.

@Ratslayer: Indeed, but it doesn't zoom in on it and play it in slow motion. Nor do their internal organs come spewing out.

Edit: And what about the language in the Fallout games? Or the sixual content in them?

Still haven't played that game. So many games so little time :cryvaultboy:

Mass Effect series are awesome games,and I would recommend them for you to play them,but not so much for a 9 year old kid.
If you have kids,buy a Nintendo Wii,it's full of games for their ages.
Buy them Super Mario and Zelda games,they are excellent at their genres.

And buy Mass Effect 1+2 for yourself.

Meh. I watched the movie Predator with my dad when I was nine. I haven't de-spined anyone. . .yet.

Children used to be exposed to death in real life at a very early age. In non-western cultures they still are. They used to be considered advlts at age 13.

In the West we coddle kids too much by refusing to expose them to death and sixuality - as if the two don't exist. Its unnatural and retards their mental development (in my opinion).

Even as advlts we still hide from death and cloister old people away in retirement homes so we aren't reminded of it. . . .