Mass effect 2 is overrated and here's why.

[vlad321]

Mass Effect 2 is indeed worse than ME1 and if it wasn't for the connection to ME1 it wouldn't have been "kinda good" and it would have been a lot more "meh, not worth the money" type of game.

The story sucked really hard. I can sum up the story in 3 points. Gather people, walk into a trap, get a key, kill Collectors. That's it and that's all that happens. Thankfully the character development is stellar, but it is not near enough to fix the absolutely shitty story.

While the AI blew chunks there is a combination which is absolutely broken. Get Garrus/Legion/Thane and give them snipers. They never run out of ammo, always hit their targets, and just generally rape anything at any time on any dificulty setting. All I had to do at one point was just hide and save my ammo and let the other 2 completely wipe the floor with any enemies.

Also the pacig sucked, jsut as a mission you went on got exciting and you got pumped up, it ended.

The RPG elements were absolute shit. I mean, they were as pathetic as pathetic RPG elements can get. It was jsut embarassing.

The shooting elements were also weak. What the hell is up with a total of a few guns, all of which do just about the exact same thing?

Scanning is far far far worse than the Mako.

In the end it was an RPG/shooter with horrible RPG elements, poor shooter elements, and a pisspoor story. Good thing it tied up with the first one so well for it to get 10 more points to bring it up to 80-ish.