ME2 deserves every amount of praise its getting just because its such a well balanced game, One of my all time favorite ever!!!

And I agree with one of the editors about "jack"

When I started to see the previews of this particular character I completely hated her and thought to kill the character off an way I could

But then when I played her loyalty mission, I got to know a little more about her life, which made me actually like her

Its such a remarkable thing ....when a story is able to accomplish that!!

no not really its the exact opposite. They are way strong in ME2. What difference would it make if I got those characters. I didn't comment on the characters being better in ME1. I said the story seemed weaker and I prefered the old battle system.....

yea I hear insanity is really hard. the stat thing just isn't my cup of tea. Im not saying its a bad game by any means just that I prefered the first one.

Mass Effect 2 is one my favorite games of all time, but I agree that the main underlying plot was better in the first one. The storytelling in Mass Effect 2 is still top-notch, but if you take a step back and look at what really happens in the game it just doesn't feel as satisfying.

I wouldn't go so far as to say it was just a stall, however. The game answers some questions which were left unanswered at the end of the first game - such as the fate of the enslaved Protheans - and explores the motivations behind the Reapers' actions. There's also no way of knowing how important the plot will be to the overall trilogy. It's possible that there were critical plot elements introduced, but you won't realize it until you play the third game. It's also possible that after playing the third game, Mass Effect 2 will feel like a glorified side story.

That's just what happens when you're the middle of a trilogy. The first is the hook, the second is the setup, and the third is the payoff. It's generally difficult to judge the quality of the setup until you know the payoff.

I still disliked her....

First game the only two characters I liked were Wrex and Tali. They never left my party, regardless of what class I played. This game I added Thane, Mordin, Grunt, and *spoiler 10th character* Legion to that list, more than doubling the amount of characters I liked from the first game, so a pretty nice progression. Overall though even the bad characters were better than the majority of ME's cast.  That said, Garrus is still a pussy who does whatever you tell him like a whipped dog.

Still has nothing to do with anything in this thread......

I hear Sentinels are even better for Insane. Haven't tried the class yet, though.

What difficulty are you playing on Fame_Mcswagg? I haven't played an Adept yet, but based on my experience with other classes I'd bet Adepts are fairly weak. If you're steamrolling through the game, my bet is it's a function of your difficulty setting and not your class.

Also, don't try and pretend the original Mass Effect was more balanced. I just finished replaying it earlier this evening, and it isn't even remotely balanced. The mechanics were definitely more complex and ambitious than Mass Effect 2's; too bad many of those mechanics just didn't work very well.

You don't like any of the Asari's? :(

If we're talking about dislikes, i didn't like working for cerberus. I really hated them in the first one, and the story in ME1 also played as if they were just up to no good and basicly made you think they were some sort of neo nazis trying to make human the surperior race.

And then, bam, second one its all about them and their lame ass illusive man. Wtf, are we seriously taking orders from some sort of 80's comic book villain.

But the story overall was great. And the new characters were alot better than the first one since there were more, better background stories and "bagage".

Im glad they atleast attemted to justify their score but the comments from the previous article were a bit unnecessary. But ME2 is that awesome! Like i said before EVERYONE needs to play this game!