Comments on: Mass Effect 2: Choices don’t matter

By: James

James — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:23:26 +0000

what about the zaeed mission where you can either save the slaves or leave them. That completley involves the outcome of the mission.

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:28:31 +0000

@Rob, it’s not the choices that he’s referring to. They’re are plenty of big choices. All of yours, the ending of project Overlord, etc. They’re all big, but they have little impact. Either way the game ends very similarly. They could change the outcome slightly, and make your more paragon/renegade, but there are no major changes to the outcome of the game that result from these seemingly big decisions.

By: Connor

Connor — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:30:51 +0000

I don’t really see how the choices are any different than Mass Effect 1′s. No matter what choices you made in 1, you always were trying to stop Saren, and none of the choices had an effect on that final goal (“change the core story of the game”). Choosing whether you bring Samara or Morinth with you is no different than choosing between Ashley and Kaiden, at least in the way I see it. The only real consequence is you don’t have the one who died to use in your squad. Mass Effect 2 actually does have choices that can effect the story, in that it is possible that EVERY squad member can die (including Sheperd himself) based on your actions.
Also, I’m sure most people didn’t choose to kill Wrex, they were just unlucky enough not to have a high enough Charm/Intimidate (I know I was).

By: Ankur

Ankur — Sat, 29 May 2010 07:17:57 +0000

Hi all

Interesting reviews about the game, i have played it for just a few hours an really liked the experience….but after playing it i wondered whether i should have played ME1 before in order to have a better understanding of the game, its choices or the importance of upgrading the ship(which i still havent figured out yet..:) )…but since i know that i would eventually finish the game..i still feel that when i finish it, i would probably regret of the choices that i made or what if i could do things differently..what if i reach the suicide mission and i do not have the necessary ship upgrades..or probably wrong characters recruited!!! But my point is would i have the energy to play all over again!!!!!!!!!!!

By: SoulFry

SoulFry — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:48:57 +0000

Hmm, since i have not finished the Suicide Mission by now i can’t say about the end of Mass Effect 2 but so far i personally think, if it were not “Mass Effect” and “Bioware” had nothing to do with it, it would be nothing special and would drown in many other good games these days …
I played Mass Effect with all Characters Classes, each of them have now Level 60 and i enjoyed every one of them (except the crapy Pineapple Station(?) arena matches) but for now, my first playthrough with Mass Effect 2 is not the intense RPG Experience i enjoyed in the first one…
Plus, if you ask me you have to play ME1 prior to ME2 there are a lot of things in ME2 which are not making any sence without the knowledge from ME1 … (*SPOILER*) my wife asked me all 5 minutes in the scene with the Collector-Ship or the scene with the Prothean-Technology where you get this strange Vision from the Reapers (which you saw multiple times in ME1) and on the end is a Collector …

(*SPOILER-ALERT*)
Is every Crew-Member having problems with his/her son/father/family or is this just me??
Yesterday i recruited the Asari Justicar and her “loyality-mission” was to stop a Asari with a little problem, that kills everyone who “sleeps” with her thus making her stronger/faster/better … and then, the unbelievable twist … IT’S HER DAUGHTER OMG … like i didn’t see that coming a mile away … this is nearly the same for Thane, Miranda, Jacobs and Mordin … only Jack, Grunt and Archangel “Garrus” have a different background, but it all comes down to “recruit -> talk with them after each mission -> help them -> loyal” … in ME1 i talked to them because it was interesting to find out more about their background and the race background … in ME2 they merely talk about anything interesting and you also can’t ask about something they said … i still don’t know how Miranda got enhanced (deeper information is a no-go in ME2)

And the last thing now: the Codex in ME2 is a joke … there are no real informations compared to ME1

Well, before you all flame me down to a tiny bit of ashes, i have to say i got ME2 on Monday and played it each and every day from 8 in the evening until 4/5/6/7 in the morning since i have family i can’t play earlier
It is a realy good game, but compared to ME1 it is a way weaker experience…

By: Ahmad Dajani

Ahmad Dajani — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:22:25 +0000

@ eadwinn:

Ok, but you are missing the point of this article. I need choices that changes the core story of the game, not who lives or who dies. If you played Dragon Age: Origin you will understand what I mean.

By: apad

apad — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:51:27 +0000

the choices affect whether shepard and other characters will live or die , because un the end of mass effect 2 almost all of you characters can die including shepard and that will have a huge effect on mass effect 3

By: eadwinn

eadwinn — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:48:47 +0000

“If you managed to upgrade the Normandy enough before going to the final mission (suicide mission), you can finish the game by only losing one of your squad mates.”

^All of my team survived.

By: Ahmad Dajani

Ahmad Dajani — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:12:21 +0000

@erkki @ rob

Those choices will change what will be happening in Mass Effect 3, but I didn’t see any choices that could change the base story of Mass Effect 2. Most of all decisions you made in Mass Effect 2 were geared towards the outcome of mass effect 3.

By: erkki

erkki — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:03:45 +0000

SPOILERALERT

U can get shepard killed and u can get all the others killed too. Or save them all.

U can chose to save the enemy shis or destroy it. Allso all those ghenophage choses. So i would say those are pretty big things to alter the story