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Originally Posted by mashxx
I'm really struggling with getting into Mass Effect 2. I enjoyed the first one, but this one seems meh. Plus the combat is quite ridiculous/atrocious. I'm having hard time abandoning legendary games, but it seems like it'd be the best choice for me.
Yet, the reviews seem to contain pretty much unlimited praise.
ME2 was wildly overrated. The narrative structure is so repetitive: find companion, do companion quest, repeat. I prefer story-driven games to open-world but there is so little room for exploration that ME2 barely feels like an RPG. After the brilliant Citadel in ME1, ME2's version was a crushing disappointment, especially as there is no similar hub area.
The combat received a lot of praise, which I always found baffling because it's essentially a Gears of War clone, only bad. Shooting and movement felt stiff and unresponsive compared to the slickness of GoW. ME3 improved this and every other aspect of the game considerably.