Pretty disappointed.

Not my opinion!

Pretty disappointed.

Ammunition - Seriously, Does the entire galaxy take a huge step backwards in weapons technology or what?

Half the time as a Infiltrator you're spraying it out with the SMG, instead of lining up "killshots" with the sniper like the trailer advertised, simply because the starting Sniper has 10 rounds (as in 10 rounds total ammunition capacity). You get +1 round per ammo "clip" picked up. Talk about retarded.
There is a 60 round "Semi-Auto" sniper when you go recruiting for The Assassin but you trade damage in exchange of capacity/RoF.
Also later in the game you can choose between getting a even more powerful (Single-Shot, 12 rounds if I remember) sniper or a New Weapon Mastery.
However while all the ammunition is supposed to be universal, all your weapons have different ammunition pools.
So it's much better to pick Assault Rifle Mastery (for infiltrator) for example, since it gives you access to another powerful weapon that doesn't share the same ammo pool as the Heavy Pistol.

All this means that in some battles unless you rush the enemy positions and pick up dropped ammo, you're forced to use a weapon you don't like. Not Fun.
Oh, and your teammates have unlimited ammo for whatever weapon they're using.
They were prepared !

Scanning for Ore - Tedious and boring, I'm sure in the future, we'll be scanning planets manually.

Ore in general - I like to complete everything so I've pretty much harvested the majority of the unexplored galaxy so far and I'm now sitting on a few hundred thousand of the various ores, but having upgraded almost everything, there's nothing else to use it for.
Should make it possible to sell on the Galactic Market or whatever.
Unless the market value for Eezo is 100cr - 100000 units. or something. But even then I'd rather sell it than have it rot in the cargo hold.

Friendly AI - I don't remember this from ME1, but You have to babysit your teammates quite often, they tend to either lag behind when set in "Follow" mode or you need to spend time to place them carefully behind cover since if you're a bit off, they just stand in the middle of the battlefield without moving to the closest cover (I guess they really do trust Shepard with their lives).

Hostile AI - All enemies have fixate on you. It's like your teammates have a permanent -90% aggro modifier or something.
It's even more obvious for Infiltrators, since while cloaked, the enemy will attack your teammates, but as soon as cloak drops, they turn around and start shooting you again.
Then again, your teammates are horrible shots, so might be you just do 2k more dps than them.

Inventory - What inventory? Gone, removed, dropped. Finding better guns was always fun, now you get a new one every 2-3 missions and even then it's probably something your class can't even use (unless you play a Soldier).
And don't get me started on the Armor. I've found two new pieces for each slot (Helm/Shoulders/Chest/Legs) and most of the new ones suck/look horrible.
Standard military-issued N7 equipment FTW when saving the universe.
It's not like Cerberus could possibly have any high-tech prototype superarmor lying around anywhere.

Oh and your teammates dont' have armor (except two) they have outfits that offer limited or no protection from high-tech gunfire.
They're just that rambo.

Starting Choices - Since I played ME1 a long time ago, I didn't have any savegames from it. However instead of giving you a option of "choosing" what happened (At the start of the game, ask "Have you played ME1 or whatever", so many ways to implement this), you get railroaded into some Human-Centric bullshit choices.

But despite all these flaws, it's still a great game. Just at the moment it feels like "The Two Towers", somewhat mediocre compared to Fellowship of the Ring and Return of the King (ME3 hopefully !).

Maybe the ending will surprise me, and elevate the game to Masterpiece status.


BRB. Saving the Universe.

Agreed, though it's not so bad. Just always bring Grunt with you, he is a monster, he gets an insane extra ability that enhances his survivability, he is trained in assault rifles and can use incendiary ammo. What more do you need ? :p

I feel your pain. This is particularly bad since when you need to focus on a tough enemy and use a heavy weapon to take him out, you have to deal with 100 more insignificant b*stards taking shots at you. Thank God for power armor and throw field !

Agreed, though in all honesty, there were certain weapons and mods that made all the rest pretty much useless and the game ended right there :p

Can't really comment on that, since I imported my ME1 character. Everything and I mean EVERYTHING you did in the first game, comes back (in some way or another) to haunt you, from tough choices (rachni queen) to side quest characters, you get info on all of them, some will even send you messages and stuff.

The story is awesome yes and as usual with top notch voice acting. I've spend around 45 hours into the game and I just can't get enough, I still have a shitload of systems to explore and since my preorder is arriving on Friday, which will enable me to use the DLC bonuses and quests/extra char, I think I may tone it down a notch in terms of speeding through the content.

Thinking of finishing up the last parts of me1 with my soldier, so I can play with some different choices. I mean, who the fuck chooses Udina over Anderson for council? And kills Wrex? Tsk tsk!

I don't really have time to go off on a rant so I'll just be brief with one point that's been pissing me off.


The writing is horrible, and often it feels as if the writers have been forced into churning out bullshit just to appease the player by providing unnecessarily contrived dialogue options.

As an example, I'm speaking to Kelly, she says something to the effect of 'will you catch me if I fall?' and the options are 'STFU AND GIVE ME MY RENEGADE POINTS' 'Yes' and a completely inane 'Yes and I will grope you as well' which I can only assume is there as part of some bizarre scheme to get this bitch in bed.

What, you can't get there with Kelly? She was so flirting with my female Shepard, it has been my sole reason for 2nd playthrough.

Going to cry in a corner now.

I read that you can, but you can't romance anyone else in your crew if you want her.