A copy-paste?! Fár from it. They completely revamped the inventory and upgrade system, made the dialogue system more dynamic and fluent, majorly overhauled the exploration system, added a loyalty system for squad members and upgraded the combat system a LOT; more fluent, better damage system, easier access to powers. ME2 is obviously still a sequel, but far from a simple copy-paste. Whether you like the changes or not (scanning...ugh), it's a simple fact that ME2 changed quite a bit.Christemo said:
As for the combat, I find it strange that you do like Dragon Age, which has far slower combat than ME/ME2, but hate ME2 for it's apparent slow combat. I never had such an experience, maybe it's because I played Vanguard, not your most stationary class. I kept dashing from cover to cover, taking out enemies at long rage with my pistol, then Charged the more close-ranged enemies with my shotgun or flanked people and straffed them with my SMG. And that's not even mentioning the wide array of powers you have at your disposal from all your team members and of course yourself. You can combine their effects, execute complex plans to quickly take down a group of people or just rush their asses and shoot them to bits.
I'm pretty surprised you call that slow-paced and repetitive. Maybe you were just, as the old internet saying goes, 'doing it wrong'. Or you played a sniper, those guys are evidently slow paced, rather stationary killers. But with all those options to kill someone at your disposal, how can it really be repetitive?
As for the characters and story, that's taste I guess, although again I find your liking of Dragon Age compared to your detest of ME rather surprising, as I'm not seeing a bigger degree of complexity in DA:O's story compared to ME's story.
And you don't have to bang the alien (Tali), you can always stick to Miranda or Jack, or flirt with Kelly. Or don't do anything at all. You're not forced to do anything in the game.
