Mass Effect 2 is full of brilliant stories, but it does a terrible job of setting things up for the third game.

Companion article:
https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysid...

00:00 Intro
02:41 Space Mystery!
05:18 Cosmic Horror
06:55 The Plan
15:34 And then Mass Effect 2 Happened
20:28 Shilling my Book
21:47 Ending

My "personal setback":
https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysid...

My Mass Effect Series:
https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysid...

My Book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095PX8HTW/...