Just finished Mass Effect 2 on PS3 for 1st time

[G1eet]

You honestly think it was a good idea to put all that power in the hands of Cerberus? The Illusive Man is a manipulative bastard; of course everything he says sounds so reasonable

Why destroy all that wonderful technology? I got my revenge; I struck back at a puppet species, chased them to their home, and destroyed every last one of them. Ender Wiggin would be proud agree that obliterating such an advantage seems silly.

I hardly think the Illusive Man would have thrown his lot in with the Old Machines (though those creepy ass prosthetic eyes don't help matters), and at any rate, it's just Cerberus, a pro-human terrorist cell that works best when it's concealed in the shadows. I don't think the Collector base can hide very well in populated space. If I.M. really is stupid enough to turn on humanity, I can just space-phone my rachni buddies, clan Urdnot, or Admiral Hackett...

So, yes I honestly think saving the Collec- ASSUMING CONTROL.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I lost Legion, Thane (NOOO!!!), Zaeed, and Miranda on my first playthrough. Had Legion go through the vents and he got rocket'd in the face. Had Zaeed lead the team both times. Sent Jacob back with the crew and then had Miranda hold the biotic barrier for me (which got Thane killed). Zaeed died during the defense and Miranda died at the end somehow. I kept Kasumi and Garrus with me the whole time. I then blew up the base. I had everyone's loyalty except Zaeed's and Miranda's.

I was pissed that Legion and Thane died they were two of my favorite characters.

 

[infohippie]

I imported a Shepard that had been through ME1 twice and reached max level in that, so I hit level 30 in ME2 fairly easily. I romanced nobody on my first playthrough because I was staying loyal to Liara from the first game.
I used Garrus and Miranda as my team most of the game - between the two of them that let me do two Overloads at a time and between Miranda and my Adept we could do two Warps at a time. When I could see I was going to be fighting Krogan and Vorcha, I swapped Garrus out for Mordin so I had his Incinerate ability.
Had everyone's loyalty and all upgrades, rescued Kelly and the rest of the crew. I had Legion go through the vents, Jacob lead the fire teams, Tali escorted the crew back, Samara did the biotic shield. I destroyed the collector base and I was maxed out on Paragon and had just a few Renegade points.

I've been wondering why so many people used Tali as a regular on their team. I like her as a character, but I found her assortment of abilities fairly useless in combat. I also see many people used Grunt a lot. Across eight playthroughs, I've never tried taking him as part of my team. I might have to play ME2 yet again and try out Grunt this time. I think I avoided him a bit because he just wasn't Wrex.
And I hated Jack, she was just plain annoying, although her recruitment mission was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed fighting the YMIR mechs with just a pistol and my biotics.

Oh, and I played a female Shepard nearly every time. I just couldn't take the male Shepard seriously with his somewhat camp voice acting, Jennifer Hale did a much better job of the voice acting.

 

[Vault101]

You honestly think it was a good idea to put all that power in the hands of Cerberus? The Illusive Man is a manipulative bastard; of course everything he says sounds so reasonable

Why destroy all that wonderful technology? I got my revenge; I struck back at a puppet species, chased them to their home, and destroyed every last one of them. Ender Wiggin would be proud agree that obliterating such an advantage seems silly.

I hardly think the Illusive Man would have thrown his lot in with the Old Machines (though those creepy ass prosthetic eyes don't help matters), and at any rate, it's just Cerberus, a pro-human terrorist cell that works best when it's concealed in the shadows. I don't think the Collector base can hide very well in populated space. If I.M. really is stupid enough to turn on humanity, I can just space-phone my rachni buddies, clan Urdnot, or Admiral Hackett...

So, yes I honestly think saving the Collec- ASSUMING CONTROL.

its not TIM going with the reapers that would worry me (that would never happen) its the oposite, putting humans( or worse cerberus) in power it causes resentment among other species and if theings get really bad there could be uprisings in the future

I like humanity too much to have aliens resent them, and I also like aliens as well

 

[Vault101]

I imported a Shepard that had been through ME1 twice and reached max level in that, so I hit level 30 in ME2 fairly easily. I romanced nobody on my first playthrough because I was staying loyal to Liara from the first game.
I used Garrus and Miranda as my team most of the game - between the two of them that let me do two Overloads at a time and between Miranda and my Adept we could do two Warps at a time. When I could see I was going to be fighting Krogan and Vorcha, I swapped Garrus out for Mordin so I had his Incinerate ability.
Had everyone's loyalty and all upgrades, rescued Kelly and the rest of the crew. I had Legion go through the vents, Jacob lead the fire teams, Tali escorted the crew back, Samara did the biotic shield. I destroyed the collector base and I was maxed out on Paragon and had just a few Renegade points.

I've been wondering why so many people used Tali as a regular on their team. I like her as a character, but I found her assortment of abilities fairly useless in combat. I also see many people used Grunt a lot. Across eight playthroughs, I've never tried taking him as part of my team. I might have to play ME2 yet again and try out Grunt this time. I think I avoided him a bit because he just wasn't Wrex.
And I hated Jack, she was just plain annoying, although her recruitment mission was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed fighting the YMIR mechs with just a pistol and my biotics.

Oh, and I played a female Shepard nearly every time. I just couldn't take the male Shepard seriously with his somewhat camp voice acting, Jennifer Hale did a much better job of the voice acting.

as much as I like tali I never used her, everyone hates miranda I kind of like her even though she can be a *****...I think shes a good person underneith

plus yeah I never played as male shepard (in fact you wouldnt belive how shocked I was when playing ME1 for the first time I selected a dialogue option...and she spoke!!??)

also alot of people think the "reapinator" at the end was laughable..but I found it kinda creepy (no where near as creepy as the encounter with sovergn though) I guess its kind of funny, the first game which is somwhat camp and colurful has the scary big bad (and of caourse saren)

while the second which is effectivly darker and grittier in tone has the "funny" big bad (well I found it scary)

 

[ModReap]

65 hours

Kasumi in the vent (live). Garrus first strike team (live). Jacob biotic barrier (Grunt dies). Jack distraction (dies). Leigon took back crew (live). Destroyed base.

Everyone loyal.

 

[infohippie]

as much as I like tali I never used her, everyone hates miranda I kind of like her even though she can be a *****...I think shes a good person underneith

Yeah, I never really understood all the Miranda-hate, either. I think she comes across as a fairly good person too.

 

[Sweet_potato1]

Am I the only person who thinks that Mass Effect 2 is crap compaired to Mass Effect 1?

yes

 

[Sweet_potato1]

anc[is]

I failed Thanes and Samaras mission.

You can fail their loyalty missions? How?

thane, I'm not sure. but you can say the wrongs things to samaras daughter that will make her leavr

 

[Vault101]

as much as I like tali I never used her, everyone hates miranda I kind of like her even though she can be a *****...I think shes a good person underneith

Yeah, I never really understood all the Miranda-hate, either. I think she comes across as a fairly good person too.

I liked all of them in their own way, except Ive always been unsure about jacob, one one hand hes a nice guy and I like that, on the other I always found him a little bland and so I let him die on purpose first time around, but back on the other hand mabye his lack of issues is refreshing (seriously If I could rename the Normandy I'd call it The Asylum)

 

[Xaositect]

Aced the mission, everyone survived, and I couldnt give a shit because of the poorly developed characters creating no attachment, even previous characters destroyed past attachments (Tali+Garrus), and generally also because of the anticlimactic dumbfuckery happening on screen.

Some people seem content to forget all the hideous bullshit leading up to the final clip, and just go "Oooooh, reaper armada, real scary".

I was damn near close to weeping, remembering how fucking awesome ME1 was at the end, and how this.... thing masquerading in its form was just an insult.

I even went into denial at one point, convincing myself that they clearly didnt give a shit about ME2 and just wanted to concentrate on ME3. I mean why else would they just cram the entire second act with such a huge, badly written waste of time?




I havent played through the game again since, just a few of the DLC packs (some of which make an admirable effort to save the game from all the damage the main plot and gameplay did).

Am I the only person who thinks that Mass Effect 2 is crap compaired to Mass Effect 1?

No, not by a fucking longshot.

 

[Josh123914]

UPDATE: I'm replaying ME2 but this time trying to get 100% paragon(I hate greyed out options) and was just wondering if there are any tips on the best ways to unlock P/R options because I did mostly paragon on my 1st playthrough and I still couldn't resolve half my desicisions with the blue option

 

[G1eet]

You honestly think it was a good idea to put all that power in the hands of Cerberus? The Illusive Man is a manipulative bastard; of course everything he says sounds so reasonable

Why destroy all that wonderful technology? I got my revenge; I struck back at a puppet species, chased them to their home, and destroyed every last one of them. Ender Wiggin would be proud agree that obliterating such an advantage seems silly.

I hardly think the Illusive Man would have thrown his lot in with the Old Machines (though those creepy ass prosthetic eyes don't help matters), and at any rate, it's just Cerberus, a pro-human terrorist cell that works best when it's concealed in the shadows. I don't think the Collector base can hide very well in populated space. If I.M. really is stupid enough to turn on humanity, I can just space-phone my rachni buddies, clan Urdnot, or Admiral Hackett...

So, yes I honestly think saving the Collec- ASSUMING CONTROL.

its not TIM going with the reapers that would worry me (that would never happen) its the oposite, putting humans( or worse cerberus) in power it causes resentment among other species and if theings get really bad there could be uprisings in the future

I like humanity too much to have aliens resent them, and I also like aliens as well

*noncommittal shrug* When the danger of losing the sum of organic sentience passes, then we'll redistribute the balance of power.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I was a Paragon (mostly), everyone survived, and I saved the Collector base. For science!

 

[Josh123914]

Replayed it for the 2nd time today, exact same thing happened excepted I got Miranda loyal too(I love the Death Mask) and when(SPOILERS) the Reaper Armada showed up at the end I noticed they were all sightly different shaped (I think I caught one that was a square, but only the body, the tentacles were still there) so, thoughts?

 

[holy_secret]

If I remember correctly, I had Kasumi go through the vents, Garrus lead the first squad, Samara played epic biotic bubble, Jacob was the second leader, I send Mordin away to escort the survivors and I had Miranda and Samara with me for the final battle. <3 me some Biotic ass-kicking ^^

Everyone survived, the base was pulverized and the illusive man was suggested a place to stay where the sun doesn't shine.

My next playthrough is going to be completely different. I'm currently trying to find out how to make EVERYONE die at the suicide mission, except for Shepard and the maximum amount of party members needed for him to survive.
Anyone knows how to manage this stunt?

 

[Mikeyfell]

My first ME2 playthrough I imported a level 60 Shepard, that saved me one hell of a lot of planet scanning.

I upgraded all the ships parts and had everyone loyal to me. I sent Tali through the vents, Garrus lead bout fire teams Grunt escorted the crew back (that was a big mistake, always send Tali or Mordin) Jack made the bubble and Thane and Mordin were my team the whole time.
Tali didn't make it,

so I reloaded my last save and took Tali and Mordin as my final team and Miranda didn't make it.
I was satisfied with that ending.

 

[Comic Sans]

Zaeed and Miranda got killed. Miranda wasn't loyal and Zaeed made a mess out of leading the strike team. Played as Paragon and destroyed the base. Second playthrough I manages to keep everyone loyal and alive.

Now I'm on an Insanity run and I've just finished Horizon. I'd heard a lot of people had trouble with the Scions and Husks at the start of the last Horizon battle but strangely I had no problems whatsoever.

Pro-tip: to make the end battle against the Husks and Scions (before the Praetorian battle) really easy, order your squad mates into the area. You have to do it pretty much step by step, or they will get too far and automatically come back to you. If done just right, they will get close enough to the already spawned Scions and attack them. Since their behavior is not triggered until you walk in, they will do nothing and slowly be killed by your squad mates. And when they die, the Husks won't spawn. So you avoid that whole battle, and depending on your class and the difficulty that can be a godsend.

Anyhoo, OT. I don't remember what level my Shepard was. I was using an imported playthrough but wasn't level 60 in that one so I had to scan. First game I romanced Liara, romanced Tali in the second, and later after I got the DLC I romanced Liara again. I sent Tali through the vents, had Garrus lead the fire teams, sent Tali back with the survivors, and had Samara do the biotic protection. For the final fight I brought Legion and Mordin. All of my squad survived, but I did Jack's mission before the relay so I lost most of the crew. After that I reloaded an old save from right before I did Jack's an had everyone live.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Zaeed and Miranda got killed. Miranda wasn't loyal and Zaeed made a mess out of leading the strike team. Played as Paragon and destroyed the base. Second playthrough I manages to keep everyone loyal and alive.

Now I'm on an Insanity run and I've just finished Horizon. I'd heard a lot of people had trouble with the Scions and Husks at the start of the last Horizon battle but strangely I had no problems whatsoever.

Pro-tip: to make the end battle against the Husks and Scions (before the Praetorian battle) really easy, order your squad mates into the area. You have to do it pretty much step by step, or they will get too far and automatically come back to you. If done just right, they will get close enough to the already spawned Scions and attack them. Since their behavior is not triggered until you walk in, they will do nothing and slowly be killed by your squad mates. And when they die, the Husks won't spawn. So you avoid that whole battle, and depending on your class and the difficulty that can be a godsend.

Nice one, I'll be sure to try it out on the next playthrough.

Me, I just got in the truck to the left of the entrance, got a couple sniper shots off at the scions, then mowed down the husks as they got close to the truck. I had the Mattock Heavy Rifle with me and that made it all a piece of cake. Having Grunt around was a big help too. After that the scions went down very easily. The area is comfortably big enough to avoid their attacks altogether.