Just finished Mass Effect 2 on PS3 for 1st time

[Vault101]

Am I the only person who thinks that Mass Effect 2 is crap compaired to Mass Effect 1?

probably.....

 

[G1eet]

Let's see if I can remember this.

I was a lvl. 30 Soldier (ME1 import), mostly Paragon, but I saved the base.
Legion died when the Collector security drones zapped the Normandy.
Jack died similarly.
Zaeed and Miranda were in my squad the whole time.
Tali was my techie, Garrus my bravo squad leader.
Samara was my biotic; she died.
OH GOD; REPRESSED MEMORY: Grunt got fucking kidnapped by a seeker swarm. HOW COULD THEY CARRY HIM?

 

[rsvp42]

I was a Vanguard. Sent Legion through the vent because he's an expendable robot (but he lived). Jacob led the fireteam because Miranda and Jack need to shut up. Samara provided the shield while Garrus led the other team, sent Jack back with the Doc. I worked with Tali and Thane the whole time.

Everyone lived (except for the rest of the crew that I didn't arrive in time to save) and I destroyed the base. Awesome first time, if I do say so myself.

 

[Dr. Feelgood]

Romanced Tali, did 4-5 loyalty missions not knowing the consequences, everybody but Thane, Samara, Tali, and Garrus died, and saved the base not knowing it was evil, and had about 75% paragon.

 

[Vault101]

Let's see if I can remember this.

I was a lvl. 30 Soldier (ME1 import), mostly Paragon, but I saved the base.
Legion died when the Collector security drones zapped the Normandy.
Jack died similarly.
Zaeed and Miranda were in my squad the whole time.
Tali was my techie, Garrus my bravo squad leader.
Samara was my biotic; she died.
OH GOD; REPRESSED MEMORY: Grunt got fucking kidnapped by a seeker swarm. HOW COULD THEY CARRY HIM?

you honestly think it was a good idea to put all that power in the hands of cerberus? the illusive man is a manipulative bastard of coarse everyhting he says sounds so resonable

plus like I said there's really no thourght to it, (the only thing that bothers me about the game) regardless of what you truly belive "Paragon" will alyways be right and turn out for the best and "renegade" will always turn out a little worse (well kinda), you dont need to think because unfortunatley thry turned it into a way to get "points"

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

I imported my ME character over with 100% paragon and 20 or so % renegade. Romanced Ashley in the first one, blew up the base, didn't kill Wrex, and saved the council, oh, and didn't kill the...creature things...the ones that sing, can't recall the name atm.

In the second one, my whole team lived, ship was fully upgraded, won everyone's loyalty and such. Romanced Miranda, had Legion go through the vents (it makes sense, he's a robot after all). Had Miranda lead the fire team then had Jacob lead the fire team, had Miranda and Grunt with me when I blew up the place.

I played an Infiltrator with full paragon and a touch of renegade.

 

[zHellas]

I had everyone's loyalty, romanced Miranda, upgraded the ship fully, and only Legion died (rocket to the face).

That was my first playthrough.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

about an hour ago, and Everyone survived, I played as Adept, upgraded all ship parts, had everyone's loyalty(Bar Miranda, she got into a fight with Jack) romanced Tali, but romanced Liara in the comic. had Legion go through vents, Jacob lead fire team, then Miranda lead fireteam,Mordin evacuate the crew, then Samara do the Biotic Bubble and had Tali and Garrus on my team the entire time, I have yet to do LOTSB because the crew got kidnapped before I could and I wasn't about to let Scotty- I mean Engineer Donnelly Die. I blew up the base, told TIM to piss off and played about 90% paragon to 10% renegade. So is this me being good at the game or a noob being ridiculously lucky(I didn't use any guides)

I know this just sounds like me bragging but it's not supposed to , so my question is this: how was your 1st playthrough of ME2 and what happened at the end(I.E. who survived, was the collecter base destroyed) and WTF is up with the army of reapers flying through space towards the Milky Way at the end about? why didn't they just go in like that in the original ME and we would have been spared the Terminator-Reaper-prototype thing at the end?

I'm guessing you only have a ps3 (not a 360 and a ps3 HA jk) so did you really enjoy the game?

OT: I had Grunt, Legion, and mordidon die for me. Kept the base and left Cerberus. And the Reapers were planning on using Sovereign (reaper from the first one)to open a portal at the citadel to let them in. When his plan failed they had to come from dark space ( where ever that is) and thats why they are coming from the milky way. In fact watch this vid it answers some questions, and its a great scene from the first.

 

[mireko]

1st: Lost... can't remember. Samara, Jack and Thane, I think.
2nd: Saved everyone
3rd: Saved everyone

Destroyed the base each time, never let Kelly die. Never did any romances either (BioWare's fault). The game can be pretty dickish about killing Mordin for no reason though.

 

[Googenstien]

I finished almost 2 weeks ago with my first ever play through on Normal. Had all loyal but Thane.. had issues with his stupid quest and his son killed that dude. Think I did all quests and DLC available too.. had all chicks romance ready but game kinda told me to pick Jack so she jumped my ass right before suicide mission.

Sent Tali in vents, Zaeed led team 2, Miranda made the bubble. Jack, Zaeed and someone else died.. as well as all the ships crew (I just wanted them to follow me, not run off to their deaths - was a poorly worded selection choice)

I reloaded the game which left Tali in the vent to die again.. but only lost Zaeed again on my second attempt.

Started a NG+ on insanity to see if I can get the trophy.

 

[G1eet]

You honestly think it was a good idea to put all that power in the hands of Cerberus? The Illusive Man is a manipulative bastard; of course everything he says sounds so reasonable

Why destroy all that wonderful technology? I got my revenge; I struck back at a puppet species, chased them to their home, and destroyed every last one of them. Ender Wiggin would be proud agree that obliterating such an advantage seems silly.

I hardly think the Illusive Man would have thrown his lot in with the Old Machines (though those creepy ass prosthetic eyes don't help matters), and at any rate, it's just Cerberus, a pro-human terrorist cell that works best when it's concealed in the shadows. I don't think the Collector base can hide very well in populated space. If I.M. really is stupid enough to turn on humanity, I can just space-phone my rachni buddies, clan Urdnot, or Admiral Hackett...

So, yes I honestly think saving the Collec- ASSUMING CONTROL.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I lost Legion, Thane (NOOO!!!), Zaeed, and Miranda on my first playthrough. Had Legion go through the vents and he got rocket'd in the face. Had Zaeed lead the team both times. Sent Jacob back with the crew and then had Miranda hold the biotic barrier for me (which got Thane killed). Zaeed died during the defense and Miranda died at the end somehow. I kept Kasumi and Garrus with me the whole time. I then blew up the base. I had everyone's loyalty except Zaeed's and Miranda's.

I was pissed that Legion and Thane died they were two of my favorite characters.

 

[infohippie]

I imported a Shepard that had been through ME1 twice and reached max level in that, so I hit level 30 in ME2 fairly easily. I romanced nobody on my first playthrough because I was staying loyal to Liara from the first game.
I used Garrus and Miranda as my team most of the game - between the two of them that let me do two Overloads at a time and between Miranda and my Adept we could do two Warps at a time. When I could see I was going to be fighting Krogan and Vorcha, I swapped Garrus out for Mordin so I had his Incinerate ability.
Had everyone's loyalty and all upgrades, rescued Kelly and the rest of the crew. I had Legion go through the vents, Jacob lead the fire teams, Tali escorted the crew back, Samara did the biotic shield. I destroyed the collector base and I was maxed out on Paragon and had just a few Renegade points.

I've been wondering why so many people used Tali as a regular on their team. I like her as a character, but I found her assortment of abilities fairly useless in combat. I also see many people used Grunt a lot. Across eight playthroughs, I've never tried taking him as part of my team. I might have to play ME2 yet again and try out Grunt this time. I think I avoided him a bit because he just wasn't Wrex.
And I hated Jack, she was just plain annoying, although her recruitment mission was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed fighting the YMIR mechs with just a pistol and my biotics.

Oh, and I played a female Shepard nearly every time. I just couldn't take the male Shepard seriously with his somewhat camp voice acting, Jennifer Hale did a much better job of the voice acting.

 

[Vault101]

You honestly think it was a good idea to put all that power in the hands of Cerberus? The Illusive Man is a manipulative bastard; of course everything he says sounds so reasonable

Why destroy all that wonderful technology? I got my revenge; I struck back at a puppet species, chased them to their home, and destroyed every last one of them. Ender Wiggin would be proud agree that obliterating such an advantage seems silly.

I hardly think the Illusive Man would have thrown his lot in with the Old Machines (though those creepy ass prosthetic eyes don't help matters), and at any rate, it's just Cerberus, a pro-human terrorist cell that works best when it's concealed in the shadows. I don't think the Collector base can hide very well in populated space. If I.M. really is stupid enough to turn on humanity, I can just space-phone my rachni buddies, clan Urdnot, or Admiral Hackett...

So, yes I honestly think saving the Collec- ASSUMING CONTROL.

its not TIM going with the reapers that would worry me (that would never happen) its the oposite, putting humans( or worse cerberus) in power it causes resentment among other species and if theings get really bad there could be uprisings in the future

I like humanity too much to have aliens resent them, and I also like aliens as well

 

[Vault101]

I imported a Shepard that had been through ME1 twice and reached max level in that, so I hit level 30 in ME2 fairly easily. I romanced nobody on my first playthrough because I was staying loyal to Liara from the first game.
I used Garrus and Miranda as my team most of the game - between the two of them that let me do two Overloads at a time and between Miranda and my Adept we could do two Warps at a time. When I could see I was going to be fighting Krogan and Vorcha, I swapped Garrus out for Mordin so I had his Incinerate ability.
Had everyone's loyalty and all upgrades, rescued Kelly and the rest of the crew. I had Legion go through the vents, Jacob lead the fire teams, Tali escorted the crew back, Samara did the biotic shield. I destroyed the collector base and I was maxed out on Paragon and had just a few Renegade points.

I've been wondering why so many people used Tali as a regular on their team. I like her as a character, but I found her assortment of abilities fairly useless in combat. I also see many people used Grunt a lot. Across eight playthroughs, I've never tried taking him as part of my team. I might have to play ME2 yet again and try out Grunt this time. I think I avoided him a bit because he just wasn't Wrex.
And I hated Jack, she was just plain annoying, although her recruitment mission was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed fighting the YMIR mechs with just a pistol and my biotics.

Oh, and I played a female Shepard nearly every time. I just couldn't take the male Shepard seriously with his somewhat camp voice acting, Jennifer Hale did a much better job of the voice acting.

as much as I like tali I never used her, everyone hates miranda I kind of like her even though she can be a *****...I think shes a good person underneith

plus yeah I never played as male shepard (in fact you wouldnt belive how shocked I was when playing ME1 for the first time I selected a dialogue option...and she spoke!!??)

also alot of people think the "reapinator" at the end was laughable..but I found it kinda creepy (no where near as creepy as the encounter with sovergn though) I guess its kind of funny, the first game which is somwhat camp and colurful has the scary big bad (and of caourse saren)

while the second which is effectivly darker and grittier in tone has the "funny" big bad (well I found it scary)

 

[ModReap]

65 hours

Kasumi in the vent (live). Garrus first strike team (live). Jacob biotic barrier (Grunt dies). Jack distraction (dies). Leigon took back crew (live). Destroyed base.

Everyone loyal.

 

[infohippie]

as much as I like tali I never used her, everyone hates miranda I kind of like her even though she can be a *****...I think shes a good person underneith

Yeah, I never really understood all the Miranda-hate, either. I think she comes across as a fairly good person too.

 

[Sweet_potato1]

Am I the only person who thinks that Mass Effect 2 is crap compaired to Mass Effect 1?

yes

 

[Sweet_potato1]

anc[is]

I failed Thanes and Samaras mission.

You can fail their loyalty missions? How?

thane, I'm not sure. but you can say the wrongs things to samaras daughter that will make her leavr

 

[Vault101]

as much as I like tali I never used her, everyone hates miranda I kind of like her even though she can be a *****...I think shes a good person underneith

Yeah, I never really understood all the Miranda-hate, either. I think she comes across as a fairly good person too.

I liked all of them in their own way, except Ive always been unsure about jacob, one one hand hes a nice guy and I like that, on the other I always found him a little bland and so I let him die on purpose first time around, but back on the other hand mabye his lack of issues is refreshing (seriously If I could rename the Normandy I'd call it The Asylum)