Admiral Hackett pissed me off. I’d be on my way to do some serious shit and he’d be like “SHEPARD! DROP EVERYTHING AND HELP ME OPEN THIS JAR OF PICKLES!” It’s like…fuck you, man. I’m pursuing a man who threatens to doom the galaxy and you want me to do some shit that your fucking secretary could do?
Infiltrator had higher damage output, defense, and utility than Vanguard did. The only area in which the Infiltrator lacked was crowd control, and that’s what Liara and Kaidan are for.
If I beat ME1 with the same character at least twice but the second (or third) playthroughs I don’t do the side quests that I did in the first play through will the import to ME2 still count me as doing all the side quests or will it read my file as having never done anything beyond the main story?
Psycho crusher looks awesome definitely going with vanguard first time in ME2.
i really like this game
its awesome, nearly every sidequest has a point and the only thing id consider “annoying” about the game is the resource collecting mechanic but i really don’t mind it since its much better than the me1 system, everything in this game is better than the me1 system - you use EVERY weapon in your arsenal and every party member is useful from the start
the only thing id wish theyd changed is the random swearing - i swear a lot in real life but it sounds so cheesy and out of place in this game
awesome game 10/10
Don’t click if you want to know (apparently one of?) the endings 
wtf, my ending
The aliens came aboard my ship when I first used the IFF, and were hijacking all the crew members. I had to use Seth Green to go to the AI’s core, allow the AI access to the ship, and flush out all the bad guys. After that, I was asked if we should save them, or just go after the bad guys. I went with saving the members. So, while traveling to the main base, these Orbs attacked our ship, and in the process killed two people of my team before I even got to the last part.
Once I got to the Collector ship, I had to decide who was going to lead different parts of the team, people to do this and that. People died all over the place, doing all sorts of different tasks. n the end, everyone died besides Sheppard, Miranda, and Garrus. I killed the Mastermold looking guy at the end of the game, and afterwards both my other team mates died. Sheppard was running to the Normandy and jumped off a ledge to the door of the Normandy. Joker catches his arm, but then Sheppard falls off and that’s that. The end is just Joker talking to Illusive Man about how we’re going to use the Technology to advance Humankind to face the Reapers, who you then see approaching our galaxy. Cut to credits.
Took me about 12-13 total hours, with 3-4 of the loyalty missions completed. About as much time as it took for ME1. I may play it again, but WoW takes up much of my time as is.
12 hours? No wonder. Took me 45 to do EVERYTHING.
How come all the guns in this game suck except for the ones that can only fire 10 shots till they’re all out?
Shotgun only has ten shots, then the vanguard’s primary weapon is out if ammo once you kill one shielded enemy. Then you resort to the shittastic SMG. Ammo makes combat more tedious, since biotics got nerfed so much.
I keep hearing about how shotguns suck now and SMGs own the game. That’s odd.
My experience so far has led to a fondness for the heavy pistol and sniper rifle. The sniper rifle definitely gets the “biggest improvement” award.
You’d really have to blaze through with 0 ship upgrades to get that ending!
I finished in 12 hours. I pursued a few character specific/side quests and messed around with upgrades as well. If I had rushed through, I’d say 9-10 hours.
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I had an ass ton of people die. Aside from Shep/Joker I had Samara, Legion, and Taylor live.
holy hell, sniper rifles are sooooo much better.
im going to have to echo the sentiment that shotguns are ass.
dunno about SMGs, since soldiers can’t use them.
the last level of soldier’s adrenaline rush looks like hax, if it is what i think it is then my soldier turns into neo from the matrix minus the bad acting.
dont know whats with the shotgun hate, im whoopin ass with it. only downside to it is the low ammo count.
So any consensus on which teammates are best/good?
Just got done with the Archangel mission, and I’m loving this game too much. I really like all the unnecessary fat they cut out, and the shooting makes the first game look like a joke. I’m going Renegade since my last file was a Renegade run, so just gonna keep it consistent. I haven’t got many upgrades, but do your party members armor ever change? I can’t imagine it would since there is no more inventory. If not, that will be the only down side from not having to manage an inventory every few minutes.
disappointing sex scene
no boobs or nutin ;/
theres alternate outfits for your party members. i just got the one for Miranda, not sure about everybody else.
I can only speculate and recite what I’ve heard, since I haven’t gotten many squad mates myself. However, my favorites so far are Zaeed Massani and Archangel, and many of the reports I’ve heard have said that Legion, Grunt, and Jack are extremely powerful.
does anybody know how specifically to trigger a romance yet? and how the hell you get a squad members loyalty back after you’ve lost it?
I’m really digging the infiltrator. Mainly because the pistol and sniper rifle are bad fucking ass. I swear the pistol is as accurate as the sniper rifle just without the zoom. I only use the machine pistol when I’m out of pistol and sniper rifle ammo. I just now unlocked AI hacking so I haven’t had a chance to test it out but the infiltrator’s other abilites are pretty nice. Especially the cloaking ability that lets you do a lot of extra damage while stealthed.
I just got Jack on my team and that bitch is a beast. I haven’t recruited everyone else but I imagine she’ll probably always find a place in my squad.
sweet i used my codes online and now i can’t use them on xbox…gotta love following instructions.
Ship upgrades?
Apparently I missed something.
-shrug-
I don’t plan on really playing it again right away, maybe later down the line.
On veteran the shotgun is downright amazing rips through everything with incendiary ammo, kills mechs without armor in two shots. The SMG takes about a year to strip armor and the same amount of the time to go through health. The non-heavy pistol is a joke not worth anyone using, and the heavy pistol is Halo 1 pistol tier, if not better. Only fires 25 shots though, not enough to take down shielded targets. Also not being able to use biotics on armored targets really nerfs biotic abilities, almost makes them not worthwhile. Also no grenades WTF? How does a shooter not have grenades? I don’t understand why they were taken out.
Also anyone on PC notice the controls are a big clusterfuck? ME1 PC controls were resourceful and intuitive. ME2 feels like I’m playing 360 with a keyboard and all the keys are mapped wrong.