The most infuriating thing about ME2 is if you chose sole survivor and did the Cerberus missions.
When Jacob reveals that he's with Cerberus, the guys who fed your squad to a thresher maw on Akuze and experimented to the one that survived (aside from you), did it again later, killed admiral Kahoku, turned a human colony into husks, did a bunch of horrible experiments to create super soldiers and spread rachni once their experiments on them backfired.
What do you do?
Do you pull your gun on him? Question him about any of it? Even Remotely start to show distrust?
Nope.
The worst you can say is "I remember blowing up a few Cerberus facilities back when I was a spectre".
But ok, maybe you don't want to burn any bridges yet before you get out of there.
And what happens next?
They literally ask you a question about Akuze during the shuttle ride.
And there's no option to even mention Cerberus' involvement.
Even when you talk the Illusive Man and he wants you to work with him you can, again, not mention any of the things they did in ME1.
You'd think that might be something you would want to clear up before that.
But no, it continues like this throughout the entire game. Sure Tali and Garrus mentions it briefly but you can never even bring it up.
This was what killed ME2 for me.
Also half your crew don't wear armor.
And Miranda and Samara wear high heals.
A minor complaint but enough to break my suspension of disbelief
EDIT:
Some more things a though about after posting.
The ship just feels lifeless, sterile, in ME2. No nice music, no atmospheric blue lighting.
A bit sad that they removed the Mako too, as one of the few people that liked it. Driving it was like juggling buttered eels but personally i enjoyed it. Beats scanning any day.
I also feel the combat went in the wrong direction, into a Gears of War cover based shooter with health that depletes fast, regens fast when in cover and slow bullets (which makes no sense lorewise). While ME1 had a cover system the gameplay was most enjoyable when you didn't have to use it.
Also the hubs feel tiny and the citadel is just underwhelming.
When Jacob reveals that he's with Cerberus, the guys who fed your squad to a thresher maw on Akuze and experimented to the one that survived (aside from you), did it again later, killed admiral Kahoku, turned a human colony into husks, did a bunch of horrible experiments to create super soldiers and spread rachni once their experiments on them backfired.
What do you do?
Do you pull your gun on him? Question him about any of it? Even Remotely start to show distrust?
Nope.
The worst you can say is "I remember blowing up a few Cerberus facilities back when I was a spectre".
But ok, maybe you don't want to burn any bridges yet before you get out of there.
And what happens next?
They literally ask you a question about Akuze during the shuttle ride.
And there's no option to even mention Cerberus' involvement.
Even when you talk the Illusive Man and he wants you to work with him you can, again, not mention any of the things they did in ME1.
You'd think that might be something you would want to clear up before that.
But no, it continues like this throughout the entire game. Sure Tali and Garrus mentions it briefly but you can never even bring it up.
This was what killed ME2 for me.
Also half your crew don't wear armor.
And Miranda and Samara wear high heals.
A minor complaint but enough to break my suspension of disbelief
EDIT:
Some more things a though about after posting.
The ship just feels lifeless, sterile, in ME2. No nice music, no atmospheric blue lighting.
A bit sad that they removed the Mako too, as one of the few people that liked it. Driving it was like juggling buttered eels but personally i enjoyed it. Beats scanning any day.
I also feel the combat went in the wrong direction, into a Gears of War cover based shooter with health that depletes fast, regens fast when in cover and slow bullets (which makes no sense lorewise). While ME1 had a cover system the gameplay was most enjoyable when you didn't have to use it.
Also the hubs feel tiny and the citadel is just underwhelming.