Quote Originally Posted by Errorname View Post
Cerberus is the worst part of the series and the main thing that keeps ME2 from being hands down the best game in the series is how central they are to it.
Not to mention the whole
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opening ME2 with straight up killing Shepard, and then resurrecting him 5 mins later as a reason for why he's now beholden to Cerberus.

Change the opening to pretty much anything else, and Cerberus can be in the background/less of a focus. The opening also killed the stakes on the expected one way mission for me as well.
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When your game opens with resurrecting your MC, a suicide mission climax is rather meaningless when its already shown MC can be brought back from the dead.


Gameplay wise ME2 was lots of fun, story wise needed to be less Rogue One and more Empire Strikes Back.