[quote=@Dynamo Frokane]
<Snipped quote by Ace of Hearts>

The whole collectors plot really doesn't mean much of anything in the grand scheme of things, they are just another baddie faction being controlled by the reapers. Apart from the human colony abductions to build that ridiculous terminator they weren't posing any sort of threat to the universe that the was some how more pressing than the reapers. 

Mass Effect 2 has a Dark and funny script with a some cool characters, b[b]ut the whole game is essentially a glorified side quest.[/b]
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Just like New Vegas.

I always felt like the characters were the main focus of Mass Effect 2, not exactly the Reaper part. and it's not just 'some cool characters', most of the quests you have are recruitment and loyalty missions. ME2 isn't filler, it just doesn't focus on the Reaper conflict as much as it does Shepard and their crew.