Someone With Mass wrote...
TMA LIVE wrote...
Well, what do you expect?
BIoware: Hey guys, how's it going?
Fan: YOU RUINED MASS EFFECT! IT'S NOT AN RPG ANYMORE!
Fan: Your ruined my favorite character!
Fan: I HATE YOU!
Fan: Are you making blow up dolls of my favorite character? I'd like a (blank) doll!
The ones who likes the system in ME1 better than ME2s, are f**king retarded. To put it mildly.
Agreed. I replayed ME twice recently just to have a character I'm not changing the class of. Despite popular opinion, it is not longer than ME2. Both take me roughly 20-25 hours to beat. ME2 does not have the damn mako driving sequences. Nor the long elevator rides. And ME2's side missions are varied so a majority of them don't feel like: go from A to B, kill guys inside building C.
The only thing I miss from ME1 was the looting. Also Saren is not as amazing of an antagonist as I remember. He has a few decent monologues, but other than that he's just doesn't feel as personal as most remember him as. I really like TIM as the antagonist in ME because he's not a direct antagonist. It feels like an Anakin/Palpatine situation because TIM is trying to convert you to his side, see things his way. TIM plays within the greys to do this. This really plays with your way of thinking and who you want to become. Whereas in ME Saren comes off as a fanatic whose gone crazy, trying to convince you that siding with genocidal super-machines is the best way to live when you can clearly see him going mad. TIM on the other hand tells you you have to sacrifice the little things in order to preserve everything and to defeat the Reapers.
So Harbinger was not meant to be the antagonist. It was TIM. This whole game was about who you are, where do you stand, what are you willing to sacrifice?