Mass Effect 2 Devs Break Down the Suicide Mission

🚀 Sign up for CuriosityStream and get free access to our streaming service, Nebula! https://curiositystream.com/storymode ▶ Support Story Mode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/StoryModeOn ▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/storymodeon ▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gaming/StoryModeOn/ ▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storymode_on/ In this video we discuss the finale of Mass Effect 2 Legendary Edition with Lead Writer Mac Walters and Character & Environment Director Kevin Meek. 00:00:00 - Start 00:01:37 - A clear point of no return 00:07:13 - The origin of loyalty missions 00:11:47 - Benefits of being forced to have certain party members 00:14:22 - Designing the character selection screen 00:17:50 - Designing ambiguous choices 00:23:01 - Wyatt lets Mordin die 00:25:51 - How gameplay increases urgency 00:30:08 - The design of the Collectors 00:35:13 - Wyatt loses Garrus 00:38:11 - Tour of the Story Manager tool 00:43:59 - Remaster challenges - updating while maintaining bugs 00:49:52 - Design of the Illusive Man 00:53:10 - How the choices in ME2 affect ME3 00:58:17 - What are you most proud of? 01:01:33 - The Opening of ME2 is on Nebula Founder-level Patrons Sharon Fagen Arne Meyer Kunal Nayyar Susan O'Connor Story Mode Team Michael Tucker (https://twitter.com/michaeltuckerla) Brian Bitner (https://twitter.com/BrianBitner) Alex Calleros (https://twitter.com/Alex_Calleros) Vince Major (https://twitter.com/VinceMajor) Wyatt Strain (https://twitter.com/wyattari) Featuring the song: “Detached” by Emil Rottmayer Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7cxBKVNrfK9xoJAL2L3gDr?si=z63tF_7AT_-9XcYEbsFglQ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/emil-rottmayer/sets/detached-ep