I thought money in the game was pretty useless

Was the items were so boring. No unique items in an RPG? Blasphemy. You didn't even have to find the best stuff, the best weapons were all bought from the merchant on your own ship. It was easy to have the best equipment half-way thru the game.



Hopefully they'll put in a bunch more items, both to find and buy, so I can use those 99,999 credits I have built up.

I'll see if I can get any more info on that from a buddy at work who's testing on ME2. He said it's awesome, they actually listen to the testers feedback and if they think the tester has a good idea it's changed the next day. He also said to expect more videos and info at GDC.

There's now sprinting in there that doesn't take up your energy, they've worked a lot on making the gunplay controls good (it won't handle like Kane and Lynch) and one of the small things I'm pumped about is they made it so you can hot-key 4 abilities to the D-pad buttons because some of the testers were saying how in ME1 majority of the time they just hit the abilities button and used whatever was last. So yeah now you have 4 to choose from and you don't have to stop gameplay to select them!

The Spectre weapons level 6 or 7 are available at the start, and level 10s are on a second playthru. But you could still be an unstoppable tank on the highest difficulty fairly quickly with those level 6 ones and some decent perk things, if you had the creds for the items.



All other western RPGs have unique items, Morrowind, Oblivion, even another Bioware game, KOTOR, that require you to do quests or go exploring to find them, and I couldn't figure out why they didn't do that with ME. Would've added a lot to the game IMO