Aussie Charts: Mass Effect 2 Triumphant

16 responses to “Aussie Charts: Mass Effect 2 Triumphant”

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   Daniel

   February 12, 2010 at 4:44 pm

   Could say the game had a Mass Effect on the charts?

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      Needs A New Username

      February 12, 2010 at 8:58 pm

      lawl

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      James Mac

      February 12, 2010 at 10:44 pm

      Ba-dum tish!

      Also… Go you good thing!

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   who am iiiiii

   February 12, 2010 at 5:45 pm

   I dont get it, why does Mario Kart still sell so damn well?? Judging by all these sales figures there must be more copies of that then there are people in Australia!

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      Dilbert

      February 12, 2010 at 9:38 pm

      i might be way off here but im guessing theres probably a huge gap in sales numbers between number 1 and 2, like it sells a lot each week but no where near as much as mass effect 2 did so although theres only one place different theres a big difference.

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      Jimmy

      February 13, 2010 at 1:58 am

      Yeah, I don’t get it either.

      Notice though it’s only *full priced* games, so I guess it may be partially to do with the fact that its only competition comes from new releases (everyone else does the decent thing and drops the price soon after release :P)

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   Hamish

   February 12, 2010 at 6:17 pm

   I just started playing ME1 last night as the hype and reviews concerning ME2 tell me that it’s my duty as a gamer to play the best games on the planet. This appears to be one of them so I’ll make my way through ME1 over the next few weeks so I can play this game knowing the backstory.

   It aint a bad game, a little confusing with the menu’s but I’ll get there. If ME2 creams ME1 then it must be pretty awesome. Judging from what everyone is saying, I MUST play this game.

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      who am iiiiii

      February 12, 2010 at 7:49 pm

      Ive done this too, loving ME1 atm and cant wait to get to ME2 😀 – and this is coming from someone who really doesnt have patience/time for games anymore (except TF2 of course 😉 )

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      Milly

      February 12, 2010 at 9:03 pm

      I found part of the beauty of ME1 was that even with the confusing menus and overwhelming amounts of equipment, it was still damn fun to play. Make sure you do the side quests too, as the amount of references back to them in ME2 is crazy, but the good kind.

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   plmko

   February 12, 2010 at 7:04 pm

   Holy cheesecakes, people are still buying MW2?

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      Zwa

      February 12, 2010 at 8:45 pm

      And the PC version too no less :/

      The mind bogles. I swear if I met one of these people they’d appear as a strange alien life form to me.

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         oldschool

         February 13, 2010 at 2:40 am

         I thought the days of seeing *any* PC game feature on a “Top 10”-style physical sales chart when it is also available via online distribution were pretty much over.

         I guess for the truly big releases like ME2, some people still like to have something physical to hold on to.

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   Dilbert

   February 13, 2010 at 1:09 am

   holy crap 8/10 of pc titles are either warcraft or sims, shows what pc gaming has become.

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   Robertolini

   February 13, 2010 at 2:02 am

   It’s good to see Mass Effect 2 up there! Seeing as the original did dismally in sales.

   One thing I want to voice though, is the fact that too many people complained about the lifts. So Bioware got rid of them in the second installment of the series. As a consequence, everything feels disconnected, when traveling from place to place. The feel of the flow seems disrupted and so exploration is therefore discouraged.

   While the escalator scenes (loading) were annoying, but heck, this is a disc based video game, the game needs to load! Full stop! I’d much rather have the escalator scenes then some crappy loading screen that disrupts the flow of the game any day of the week!

   Take for example, when you board or disembark from the Normandy, gone are the decontamination chambers, instead it is replaced by a loading screen that takes just as long to load as ‘that decontamination scene’.

   What gives? The fools that asked for the escalator scenes to be done away with. Idiots!!

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      Zwa

      February 13, 2010 at 2:30 pm

      Don’t much care what they do on the 360, but when my computer can load new levels off hard drive in a couple of seconds I don’t want to be forced to sit around waiting for no good reason.

      As for feeling disconnected and discouraging exploration, I actually prefer it this way. When everything is connected I find it makes the world and locations seem smaller.

      Once you’ve explored everywhere it feels like you’ve seen everything there is to a place, as there is no paths to get anywhere else that must be it. This made the citadel feel really small in the first game despite the fact that it was meant to be massive.

      By putting breaks in between certain areas while you are travelling places it feels like there is a lot more to see it’s just you don’t have any reason to go there.

      In the end though I suppose it’s a prefereance thing.

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   jimmy barter

   February 13, 2010 at 1:35 pm

   now iv seen Mario kart in ever dam wii pack offered lately! maybe that’s the only reason its still on the charts!

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