Yeah, the Steam client can annoy the bejeezus out of me somedays too. I don't know what Valve's programmers are doing to that thing, but I swear moving from IE to the well-documented-to-be-way-faster Webkit rendering engine actually slowed their shit down a lot.
Got a few hours into Mass Effect 2. I was not expecting the story to take such an extreme turn right at the beginning, and being that I've been playing the game super-Paragon style (I figure my Shephard is essentially Jean-Luc Picard with hair) I'm not sure how that's going to clash with the story. I'm hoping a bunch of moral ambiguity and ugly grey zones don't crop up in the plot that end up annoying me.
In terms of gameplay, some of the changes I like (party order controls are significantly easier, powers seem more effective, cover controls are smarter and easier to work with, character textures are significantly more detailed) and a lot of them I don't (finite ammo for practically all weapons, flying around the galaxy map is just silly, clunky resource kerjiggering for upgrades, character animations are definitely more stiff and amateurish-looking, and planet surveying is going to get real annoying real fast).
Even still, with the way this game is slowly laying things out, I have a feeling this one's going to take me a lot longer than the last one. Right now, I'm not minding that thought. Despite my complaints, its still awesomesauce.
