From: Jeff Zero | #042
As a female Shepard you'll be stuck with Jacob out of the two of those, and I should warn you his romance gets kind of shafted in ME3. I won't make any sort of ME3 statements beyond that probably, since spoilers are a big no-no for a series this tightly-written, but you should really be aware of that one in advance.
I guess I'll just have to find a new partner if I go on to ME3. Can't get too attached saving the galaxy and all I suppose. >_>
By the way, how did you like ME1 based on watching it? What sort of character was the Shepard you saw? Also, big suggestion -- look up 'Commander Shepard Is a Jerk' (specifically the ME1 one since you're playing ME2, obviously) on YouTube if the uploader whose run you watched was mostly Paragon. Renegade Shepard is absolutely hilarious.
I watched a mostly renegade fem Shepard. The options to just hit them to shut them up are hilarious but just killing people gets old and I would actually want to avoid combat unless it's necessary. I guess that's the downside of being a badass. =/
The first third(?) of the game, I was really into the story. Characters/sidequests and alien physiology/customs all very interesting and I've mentioned before but I am not a big sci-fi fan. So I was surprised how much I liked the universe and functions of it.
I started losing some interest as it went on but that may just be my short attention span. I don't regularly play long games for that reason. Kept drawing parallels to Jade Empire since that's the only other Bioware game I've played. Biggest moment of impact was choosing between Kaidan/Ashley. Got a pretty big "WTF" moment from me.
Overall the game seemed pretty cool but I skipped a lot of the actual gameplay parts outside conversations/dialogue choices so I'm not sure how my reaction to it would have differed if I had actually played it.
Those driving sections looked like SUCH a pain btw.