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[Conestoga Joe]

haberman13 wrote...

I'm an anonymous boob telling you to skip ME2.

If you LOVED ME1 for the RPG-ish ness, and have an aversion to Gears of War style games you will hate ME2.

Not really.

[GhostwriterDoF]

fortunesque wrote...

Babli wrote...

fortunesque wrote...
-awesome post-

Great post, my feelings about both games are exactly the same. Although I still enjoy ME 2 very much and I am still playing it, but mainly because I want 7 tottaly different Shepards to ME 3.

Thank you. I honestly thought it'd get ignored again in favor of arguing XD

Sifting through all the complaining we get to come across posts like yours, fortunesque.  Usually I play RTS games and not shooters or RPGs unless I can mod them.
My introduction to ME was with 2, although I’ve been reading the threads here at this site for months before that, both for DA and ME. So I have a good idea of how the Communities fan-base-and-bias between 1 and 2 has played out in the threads.
I’m now playing through ME1 for the first time so I can see for myself what all the flustering has been about. Although I like the action in ME2 more, I really like the variety between the two games. Both seem to fall short in some areas, while being strong in others.
So far I think the best part of both games is they are happening in the Mass Effect Universe.

[Jaron Oberyn]

Pyrate_d wrote...

People advising you to not play ME2 are doing you a disservice. Try the demo.

It does have a weaker plot, but the gameplay is vastly improved.

So how are we being of disservice? I say play it in order to bring your ME1 characer into ME3. But ME2 is terrible. It's a chore to play. It's trying so hard to be a shooter game, but there are much better shooters out there. Much better. It's like mcdonalds trying to manufacture weapons for the military. It's not their area of expertise. Shooters are not Bioware's area of expertise. They need to stick with the story telling/rpg elements that has earned them the reputation they have today, because their reputation is starting to take a fall. And being acquired by EA sure isn't making it any better. You just shot yourself in the foot with your comment above. Apparently we're doing them a disservice, but the plot is weaker. So how do you figure?

-Polite

[hooahguy]

PHub88 wrote...
The sidequests seem so few and far between...the citadel,omega,illium, and tuchanka are all incredibly small with sidequests SO dumbed down that they throw the solution to them in places your guaranteed to already go..find a trinket...family data...its impossible to miss and its there just so they can act like they cared about sidequests.

And fighting through cookie-cutter levels with almost the exact same enemies is better? At least in ME2 sidequests, while there were fewer of them, were unique. In ME1 it was, "drive for 5 minutes through barren terrain, kill a few guards on the outside, which was easy because of the Mako's cannon, then enter it, fight your way through a room that looked just like one you were in a side quest ago, then go upstairs to a room that looks almost identical to all the rest, do an action, get a short one-liner saying the result of that action, then thats it. 
The only good side quest in ME1 is BDtS. 

[Schneidend]

Mass Effect 2 is the best shooter/RPG hybrid I've played. I enjoy Borderlands and both of the new Fallout games, but ME2 tops them both.



The RPG side of it could admittedly use some tweaks. More skills, more armor options, deeper weapon upgrades, but Christina Norman has promised she's focusing on that sort of stuff for ME3. And, since Christina is awesome, and the shooting was already extremely polished in ME2, I'm not going to sweat it.

[Pacifien]

I think I'm just gonna go ahead and lock this thread considering the original poster's attitude elsewhere in spite of everything that was said here.