Things that Mass Effect 2 did WRONG

[Paralyze]

The key to the 'Infiltrator in close-combat' problem is roll a Soldier like everyone who remembered how crappy the other classes were in the first game.

 

[keithdrover]

Shepard's voice was just about the incredibly lifeless, boring, white-washed (not always a bad thing, unless the two previous adjectives are present), uninteresting, unemotional voice and immersion-splitting thing I've heard. I couldn't take ANY dialogue he/she said seriously.

 

[Leviathan_]

Loading screens.... So many friggin' long loading screens.

The cover system did some weird stuff while I played ME2, but that just always happens in any game with a cover system.

and ofcourse: The scanning. Very boring shit that takes too long.

Unlimited ammo and self regen was fine imho. But I wouldn't mind having the ME1 system back either.

 

[Bellvedere]

Shepard's voice was just about the incredibly lifeless, boring, white-washed (not always a bad thing, unless the two previous adjectives are present), uninteresting, unemotional voice and immersion-splitting thing I've heard. I couldn't take ANY dialogue he/she said seriously.

I couldn't stand talking to Jacob as female Shepard. Even if you turn him down as a romantic interest the way she starts the conversation just sounds so... terrible. Really flirty and juvanille. It's like you're 30 woman and you're the boss. Other than that the voice wasn't so bad though I don't know about man sheppard.

 

[Funkysandwich]

More shotguns.

Seriously, I only found one other shotgun besides the shitty starting one in the entire game, and I did all the major and I'm guessing most of the minor missions, since I didn't search all the planets.

Yes! In ME1 I had an awesome shotgun that could blow the head off a geth at 100 meters! It was near unstoppable, had about 30 shots till overheat.

I wish I could've taken that gun into ME2.

And I wanted more pistols. I only found two of those as well.

They should've just simplified the system a bit more, and made identical items stack.
You can't kill off weapons variety just because of sloppy design.

 

[Agayek]

[b/]Scrape the Paragon/Renegade System[/b]- I'm not meaning the whole idea. I like the way Mass Effect 2 handles alignment with the whole good cop/bad cop idea, and the way it's handled with the speech wheel is very clever and organic. But there are some serious problems.

First of all, the more Paragon and Renegade you are, the more speech options it unlocks, some of which are vital to get the best result out of your game. That right there destroys the whole concept of the decision making. If I see an option I should be able to choose which one feels right to me. Instead I find myself sticking with one option though out the game rather than making decisions so I can get the benefits later on. Key dialog moments should not be decided though how often you picked the high or low option in conversations. You should have too look at the situation, the characters and the options and pick one that seems right to you.

Also the Scaring system in this game was just tacked on. It makes very little sense in a game like Fable, even less in more believable world like Mass Effects. No tacked on explanation that makes no god damn sense is going to change that. It's also another factor that effects decisions you should be making on your own terms.

Meh. I kinda like the alignment system. I do basically what you describe above, and have run into dialogue options I can't take all of like 4 times, over the course of 4 playthroughs. Maybe I'm just weird, but by the end of the game I end up with full, or close enough, Paragon and ~40% renegade, and I can still take almost all of the conversation options I want.

On the other hand, I couldn't agree more about the scarring. The scars should stay exactly as they were at the beginning of the game, with the option of healing them with the surgery upgrade you can research. The way it is now, it just feels shoehorned in, and aggressively unnecessary.

 

[Agayek]

Yes! In ME1 I had an awesome shotgun that could blow the head off a geth at 100 meters! It was near unstoppable, had about 30 shots till overheat.

I wish I could've taken that gun into ME2.

And I wanted more pistols. I only found two of those as well.

They should've just simplified the system a bit more, and made identical items stack.
You can't kill off weapons variety just because of sloppy design.

Haha, yea, shotguns are badass. If you want a third shotgun, play the game as a Vanguard.

Spoiler

On the Collector ship, where you choose new weapons to get, you have the option to either use Assault Rifles or Sniper Rifles, or be able to use the M-300 Claymore Heavy Shotgun (ie. The Krogan Shotgun). It annihilates basically everything at any difficulty below the one below insanity (Hardcore I think) in one shot.

Edit: I'm really bad at spoiler tags tonight.

 

[ChipSandwich]

I actually prefer the new inventory system, the old one was essentially just "4 guns with different numbers", as someone else in this thread has mentioned. Although I agree that the custom mods should be in. Make them one-time purchases (or finds), like the armor mods, and make them available for everyone.

In ME1 I absolutely hated having a ton of useless crap to sell off at the end of each mission and then ending up with 9999999 credits, or "you are near the 150 item limit". The new system is simpler, but emphasizes choice. And anyway, there's more variety in the weapons in ME2, although I do think they should have 2 options for each weapon class available early on. Using that goddamn 3 round burst SMG for half the game gets annoying, but at least it's better than being stuck with only a pistol in ME1, for the whole game. Luckily, the AR and Pistol do this already, and there's a new free DLC shotgun which is available at the start.

Health regen is a bit of an iffy issue, I don't particularly care either way, but I do think that it tends to make games too easy on default difficulties, and higher difficulties having to rely on overwhelming force (i.e. CoD: WAW's grenade spam), which tends to present a risk of fake difficulty. But like I said, it doesn't really bother me which system a game employs.

I really don't understand why they couldn't have just given you minerals as rewards for quests or for exploring. I suppose it makes sense in a space exploration context, but true 100% realism isn't always fun. Still, I prefer it much more than driving in the Mako.

The thermal clip system really only bothers me with snipers and the Vindicator Battle Rifle. Everything else has enough ammo to last.

Shepard's voice was just about the incredibly lifeless, boring, white-washed (not always a bad thing, unless the two previous adjectives are present), uninteresting, unemotional voice and immersion-splitting thing I've heard. I couldn't take ANY dialogue he/she said seriously.

I noticed this at times as well.

Still, despite the game's shortcomings, I'd probably give it a 9/10.

 

[RenegadeRed]

Here are ME2's flaws:

 

[Amnestic]

The key to the 'Infiltrator in close-combat' problem is roll a Soldier like everyone who remembered how crappy the other classes were in the first game.

Lolwut? Vanguard, Infiltrator and Adepts were absolute demons in ME1. Vanguards have been nerfed a fair bit in ME2 (though the new shotgun with DLC helps rectify the issues somewhat) but Infiltrators are still all kinds of awesome.

Engineers are pretty powerful too.