Mass Effect 2 gameplay thread

[Greyblades]

I've been told the halo ones did well, though then again I consider anything that send 12 yr old halo brats into a rage doing well.

[rajpoot]

Never saw the Halo movies. Watched one that was about Batman when it was aired on TV, didn't like it. Maybe I've been looking at the wrong sort of stuff but there are only two kinds of anime I've ever seen. The ones for 12 year olds, and the ones that are marked 18+.
Games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age, and Witcher and the sort, they ought to be made into live action movies. Epic stuff like the Lord of the Rings series.....maybe not that epic...but still.......

[Krusader]

Mass Effect 3 "not-so-big spoilers, but spoilers nonetheless"
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Now the Illusive Man and Cerberus wants to kill you, no matter what you did in ME2? Wonder if Miranda & Jacob might be enemies if you did not treat them nicely in ME2

[Hooahguy]

I wonder what this means for Miranda more than I do Jacob.

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After all, if you bring her on to the final boss and choose to destroy the base, she quits Cerberus. Plus I deeply care about this because I romanced her whenever I could. Jacob doesnt do anything really. He stays with Cerberus either way.

[gaelic cowboy]

I guessing they had to limit the amount of reused characters otherwise you could end up with potentially no characters if they all died in the suicide mission. I always felt that the people who campaigned for certain characters in ME2 were maybe going to be dissapointed in ME3. Hence I was glad Liara was not in ME2 at the start as it meant she probably be back for ME3 but when Garrus was in the whole story for ME2 I was a bit apprehensive.

There was a huge campaign for Tali if I remember rightly and they have probably made it so the character will not be in ME3 now, I'm guessing that most of the ME2 characters will be done like Wrex was if he did or did not survive Virmire.

[rajpoot]

Apparently there are....(no real spoilers)

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many good and bad endings...And they'll depend on what squadmates are with you at the end..
Well I just hope that they have this one absolutely butterflies and daisies sort of ending where everyone lives happily ever after...I got enough of cliffhangers and sad endings from Dragon Age

[Hooahguy]

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Im also glad Legion is back. I love that guy. Though I wish he was a squaddie.

[Monk]

Mass Effect 3 "not-so-big spoilers, but spoilers nonetheless"
Rock Paper Shotgun article

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Now the Illusive Man and Cerberus wants to kill you, no matter what you did in ME2? Wonder if Miranda & Jacob might be enemies if you did not treat them nicely in ME2

Yeah they kinda wrote themselves into a corner with ME2 and Cerberus involvement.. not at all surprised.

[Krusader]

Yeah they kinda wrote themselves into a corner with ME2 and Cerberus involvement.. not at all surprised.

I always felt the Cerberus involvement in ME2 was not entirely..."natural". It wasn't unbelieveable, but they were really portrayed as evil in ME1, nothing about humanity's interests at heart. Felt like someone at Bioware had a soft spot for Cerberus and really wanted them in.

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Another 180* with Cerberus now after, in my opinion they tried to paint Cerberus in a more positive light or rather being more "gray than black", has to be believeable, because there are definitely some Shephard savegames out there with a pro-Cerberus bent.
As for characters, I can't see Wrex or Liara becoming squaddies really, as Wrex seems to become the new Krogan Overlord, while Liara is the Shadow Broker. I'd say its more likely you go to Wrex and ask if the Krogan can help you attack the Reapers (Reapers being the most dangerous enemy around, should suit Krogan real fine) and Liara being Shadow Broker, one you can get lots of information from.

[Monk]

I always felt the Cerberus involvement in ME2 was not entirely..."natural". It wasn't unbelieveable, but they were really portrayed as evil in ME1, nothing about humanity's interests at heart. Felt like someone at Bioware had a soft spot for Cerberus and really wanted them in.

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Another 180* with Cerberus now after, in my opinion they tried to paint Cerberus in a more positive light or rather being more "gray than black", has to be believeable, because there are definitely some Shephard savegames out there with a pro-Cerberus bent.
As for characters, I can't see Wrex or Liara becoming squaddies really, as Wrex seems to become the new Krogan Overlord, while Liara is the Shadow Broker. I'd say its more likely you go to Wrex and ask if the Krogan can help you attack the Reapers (Reapers being the most dangerous enemy around, should suit Krogan real fine) and Liara being Shadow Broker, one you can get lots of information from.

You have to remember in ME1 the only background you got on Cerberus was from The Alliance, who labeled them as nothing more than a terrorist group. And this:

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From an admiral scared, on the run and looking over his shoulder every five minutes.

I could buy that we didn't "get the whole story" the first time pretty easily.

More on Cerberus in ME2 and implications for 3, and ME2 and ME1 ending spoilers: Read at your own risk!

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I felt that the endings were much too black and white in regards to cerberus. Either the Illusive man declared you an enemy of Ceberus and went out of his way to insult you "I should have known you'd choke under the pressure." Or, you become the Ceberus Hero set to uhser in a new age for the galaxy with ceberus at its head. With the power given to them by the Collector base their influence would soon outweigh even the Council's. I doubt, if you chose a Renegade ending, anyone would be able to defy Cerberus with the technology they had at their disposal.

Now contrast that to the first game's ending.. No matter what you did, good, evil, neutral, in the final battle of the game no matter WHAT ending you take - the game ends on a "The reapers are coming..." note, setting the clear stage for the next game. It's very neat, very tidy, and VERY easy to continue the story. Whether the council was dead or not seemed very minor in comparison to the impending threat, and the only question seemed to be whether humanity would lead, or simply be one of many, in the coming alliance to defend the galaxy.

ME2 was the complete opposite.