Mass Effect

[winner]

After clocking in at 40+ hours to do all the main sidequests (not going to hunt anomalies), I've watched the ending.
It was so much fun. Especially some of the character missions and the later story missions. Some of them really got my adenaline pumping~
Overall, the game felt more polished in every aspect since ME1. I'm starting to miss some of the characters already...

My fave bit of the game (spoiler):
[bgcolor=#000000]Shepard: Why is there a piece of my armor in you?
Legion: There was a hole...[/bgcolor]

[zoolander]

Legion was cool but I didn't get him till the end of the game.

I just started a second run. First time through I did Sentinel class and straight up Renegade. Tech Armor is really dope. Got to level 25. Got just about all the upgrades and equipment and did all the side quests. Just a hair over 30 hours.
Spoiler: [bgcolor=#000000]All my squad mates survived the last mission but Tali. Unfortunately the whole ship crew was wiped out. ;_;[/bgcolor]

Now I'm trying a play through on insanity and as a Vanguard, doing all the Paragon options. I've only done 3 missions and died about 30 times already. Vanguard is bad ass though. Shockwave, Charge + Shotguns = so satisfying.

I pretty much love all the changes they've done with the game. Only gripe might be I wish there were more side missions since there doesn't seem to be a whole lot. One more "hub" type world would be nice since none of them really match the Citadel from the first game. But they are also giving away a bunch of really good free DLC so it's hard to complain.

[Amplifier]

I beat it after about 30 hours of playtime, did all the side missions (save for searching every single planet). End mission was really easy, if you listen to the obvious hints the game gives well before, and think about the choices. I really enjoyed it, and I'm hoping the third game keeps it up.

Though, I want more stuff to do. There just wasn't enough to see or explore in ME2. None of the locales were especially large, and there weren't very many places to begin. There's dozens of planets to scan, and you can land on a handful of them. Was sad. The upgrade system could also use a tweak or two.. Also: AMMO RAGE

[Yuna]

Glad to hear you all liked, I will start my playthrough today!
So far I just played like 30 minutes tops at my cousin's house.

Of all the people I know (in person) I'm the only one who kept his own save. 'Cause my Xbox died before I could play Mass Effect, so I ended up playing on PC, and luckily now I can use my Sheppard. But more than the class itself, I'm hyped because of my choices.

[Mugen]

I love the thermal clip thing in ME2.

playing on PC on high settings and GOOD GOD! best graphics Ive ever seen.

transfered my saved files from ME1, and just continuing the storyline!

[ebc]

I don't like it! so far the story isn't keeping me very interested and all I wanna do is hump Miranda but I checked that scene on youtube and it's not even that good!

-_- I'm not good at rpg and team style games where you have to use everyones abilities to beat the game. I just like running around freely shooting bad dudes in the head.

[Yuna]

I don't like it! so far the story isn't keeping me very interested and all I wanna do is hump Miranda but I checked that scene on youtube and it's not even that good!

-_- I'm not good at rpg and team style games where you have to use everyones abilities to beat the game. I just like running around freely shooting bad dudes in the head.

I have just played 5 hours and I have to agree with you.

I am mostly disappointed about this game. Much less abilities than you had in the first, combat while somewhat improved, feels like a bad third person shooter, the way of equipping your weapons is horrible.

The story this little to no effort to grab you on.

The thing that probably will make me play the game till the end is the space opera mood. In this aspect I have no complains, I simply love it.

It's sad because so many people are saying the game is awesome, while only a few are pointing whats "wrong" with the game.
Overall I don't feel it's bad by any means, just they made some changes that they shouldn't have.

In ME1 I played a Vanguard and it was the bomb, in this one I used my save and decided to keep my class, what a mistake. It feels horrible.

And as I've read in some review, you can't "choose" anything in what to upgrade, since you have less than half the options you have in ME1.

[zoolander]

I agree main story is weak and not much happens in the big picture with the reapers and what not. Seems like it's focused more each character this time rather than the overarching story.

There still aren't any memorable side missions or assignments either. Mostly just stuff like "buy groceries for the ships cook" or "find the datapad and bring it to so-and-so".

There are a ton of improvements and it's a great game but I admit there are some things that could have easily been better.

[Shuji-kun]

Just started playing #2

[Shuji-kun]

Mass Effect 2 was great, just beat it. Story wise, best one yet. Gameplay wise, best one yet. Locale wise, best one yet. Content wise, not quite as good, as the levels were short and the locales weren't very large. Now replaying it on Insanity.

[Asmodai]

Beat Mass Effect 2 earlier this week. Definitely an improvement. I liked it a lot better than Dragon Age - the characters seemed a lot less wooden and the action was a lot more interesting to me.

[Yuna]

Did you guys like the shooting mechanics ? I don't know, as Bioware said themselves, they sripped lots of RPG elements so the shooting obviously stands out, and it feels like some crappy 3rd person shooter. The "planets" or should I say, shooting stages are almost all alike and bland (by alike I don't mean the graphics, but the design of the stages).

I think I'll just finish this game in order to wait for Resonance of Fate which I have already ordered.

[Asmodai]

The shooting worked well on the PC version at least. Maybe not quite as impressive as Uncharted, but you had a lot of options and it was pretty entertaining.

[Tuffty]

Oh man I'm such a dork. I'm writing my final year dissertation and I find that when I read back over what I had written, I imagine the narrator you hear for the Primary entries in the Codex is reading it out loud. Actually think it helps me

ME2 is great so far, just found Grunt and people keep telling me to be wary about releasing him. Hell even EDI told me to beware the consequences, well fuck em! I'm the Commander of the ship baby! So I let him out, don't know how it's going to play out in the long run though. They certainly made it seem like he will have some impact in the future. Just following on from the side mission I found within the same system, where you find the crashed ship with the infected mechs, then you fly out to the abandoned station with the infected VI. It's all good, I like how they link up. Can't decide on party members though, they all seem pretty good, I seem to stick with Miranda and Dr.Mordin, going to give Grunt a go in the next mission and maybe use Jacob. I would call on Garrus but then there's no point having 2 soldiers with no tech/biotic powers.

Oh, and I will definately be tapping Kelly at the rate I'm going

[Yuna]

I just beat the game and my impressions from it changed so much I ended up loving it like very few games. I even got the DLC (Stolen memories of Kasumi).
Well, I wrote a review of it with my feelings on the game, if anyone wants to check it out is on
my blog: http://finalfrenzy.hostse.com/?p=101 or on
Gamespot: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/masseffect2workingtitle/player_review.html?id=716596&tag=player-reviews%3Bcontinue%3B1

As additional details, I'm a little sad I couldn't get Miranda to forgive me after siding with Jack after her loyalty mission, but at least I kept everyone alive at the end of the game.
Oh, and by some glitch or whatever I got to romance 2 girls in the game, Tali and Jack. One before the last mission and the other after ... weird huh ?

[Tuffty]

I returned to my quarters after a long time, only to find that my space fish are dead

Um, Grunt's just been talking about how he finds some old Krogan propaganda showing a victorious Krogan standing over a dead, mutilated Turian funny. And you know, I really felt a lil uneasy about hearing him say that. Again, I remembered about the warnings of releasing him and I just wonder if he will turn psycho at some point and take out a few of my crew in the process. I've got my eye on him and the other on Miranda's ass

[winner]

Wonder if you guys also changed all your squad members to their black costumes once getting them, I did~

And taking like 15mins to decide which option to take for the Samara sidequest, while the tables were flying!: 
http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7831/game00326.jpg

Since my character was pro-paragon, I chose the 'good' option. but I was seriously tempted with this one.
She's such an interesting character too, considering she might've been so easily missed in the game.
http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Morinth

[Yuna]

I changed all my characters colors to black! They look more bad asses like this 

I just played the DLC of Kasumi. It's not bad, but it sure is too short. At least she's a good character. She gets invisible and can sneak attack enemies giving them massive damage. But she's the less interesting of the characters by far.

[THUNDERDUCK]

I finally got ME1, I have ME2, but will complete the 1st to carry over my stats!

[THUNDERDUCK]

I left Kaiden and saved Ashley on Virmire.  Sorry buddy, 1 party member shorter, but I tapped it!