Back when I was in high school we had 'Reading Comprehension' classes, where we had to read a text and than rewrite it in our own words.
What I've heard from reviewers is that the story gets better as the game goes on. Can't speak for myself yet.
Big game, but sadly empty and without good quality content. Quantity over quality... The game is one huge waste potential. There are some extremely good features but also some extremely bad. Let's get to it. GOOD: - Vast, new Galaxy to explore with aswesome new planets and places to see. - Some interesting side-characters and team mates (sadly, not level of trilogy crew). - Absolutely great combat system, dynamic, fluid, smooth. Good balance between risk and cover combat at higher difficulties. - 3 new interesting spieces. - Exploration is done much better than in DA:I - A lot of dialogues and side quest - Quite long game - Very good overall visuals of everything but character faces. BAD: - Generic, boring story. Same scheme for everything. There is nothing deep or ambitious here. Bioware played it 100% safe, no controversy, no emotions, nothing memorable. - Many sides quests, but quality is low. Many quests are simple "track, kill, pick up, deliver" or "scan the hell out of this area". More story side-quests are also mostly generic and boring, not even one memorable quest with some sort of plot twist. BioWare should learn from Witcher 3 story quests. - Your team mates are shallow, cliche and many times irritating (PeeBee...god...). I din't want to romance anyone in the end, since your right hand seems more interesting and sexy than any of NPCs. - Animations are tragedy. This could be forgiven 5 years ago. But we have 2017 and animations are immersion-breaking. Dialogues which suppose to sound tough, emotional, serious are being destroyed by stupid eye rolls, creepy facial espressions and smiles that arre totally oposite to the voice and scene tone. Absolutely garbage. This is RPG game and belive me- you will spend A HELL LOT OF TIME speaking with many different NPCs. Animations will make you skip and speed trough them just to not see this crap. - Character Creation is easy the worst in any AAA RPG I have ever played. Why did BioWare just not include DA:I CC? I have no idea. It's like they want to force you to play their "child faces" twins... - Faces are awufull. Textures are low res even on 2K on Ultra, lightning is tragedy, as characters many times look like plastic dolls, not living beings. - Exploration, while better than in DA:I is till just a time waste and it just try to force you into beliving that game is longer and has more content than it really has. Jumping puzzles, scanning everything is boring, boring, boring. And why our new car does not have Cannon like Mako had? I have no idea.... - Combat- ther variety of skills is great but you can only equip 3...that is a joke, especially on PC, where you could easy have 5-6 of them. 3 makes combat not as complex as it could be with more active skills. - Crafting is useless feature, again it is just to force you to play longer (grind for materials). - Music is just average. Not as good as in ME1 or ME2 by a long shot. - Game just feels rushed, unpolished, unfinished. If you focus while you play you can see that many thing were not finished. - Last but not least- main protagonists are absolutely joke and in many situations they seem like sort of "space teens power rangers" that try hard to be serious and mature. You can't even compare them to Shepard. Overall, let me sum this up: Game is big, but this is illusion, like DA:I was. Empty maps with useless activities, improved exploration which sadly gets boring after first 10-15 hours. Everything feels unfinished, rushed, beta stage. Story is cliche, boring and without any good plot-twists. Honestly - I can hardly remember it after beating it. Nothing memorable really happened. Combat is great but why so limited with active skills? Animations are great in combat and absolutely garbage B-grade outside of it- expresions, walking, lipsync- just bleh. Very average game, but touching a little "good game" territory. As a great ME fan (over 1000h in trilogy and 450h in ME3 MP) I am very dissapointed what has become of my favourite RPG universe. 6/10, for combat mostly and planets/areas. BioWare- you should be ashamed. But you won't since it's all about money. There is not good people left there and no passion for gaming. Try to be like CD Project Red Please. Try again to create game with love.
I didn't bother with the trial, as I had busy past several weeks, but can anyone tell me if there are options to at least colorfully describe where everyone can shove their oppinions, just generally be a dick or is the entire dialogue in this game a pre teen drama ? Even though it's probably a mediocre game where I'll wait for sale, I still kinda want a big RPG and I loved Mass Effect. I don't really care about bugs and I could probably get over bad/missing soundtrack or even terrible animations, but the dialogues are a deal breaker for me.
I honestly cant stand the modern "by the numbers" games, the main issue is that during last gen, the OCD teen and sadly lots of journos pushed the idiotic Open World is Best agenda, giving low scores to linear games and actually talking and reviewing lit as minus, same with co-op and MP, this group of mindless baboons pushed for more messing around in Open world, more co-cop to mess around with bros and more MP to prove whos the best killah. Good narrative and storytelling was replaced by who can put more buckets on peoples heads, travel farthest on the map, race cars from the rooftops and beat up hookers. Dragon Age Origin was PERFECT, yes it wasn't best looker, but it was actually FAN game with strong narrative and story, it had no OP, same with ME trilogy. And now we see the results,every game is open world, every game has unnecessary MP. Thats why I also have PS4PRO, Sony is the only ones that still make SP linear games that just awesome, wit strong narrative and interesting story, Uncharted Series, TLOUS, GoW, basically ALL their exclusive games are SP games first, HZ is the first OW game. Modern TR games have good balance of OW and Linear story telling, they have OW areas with fake OW, no messing around or wondering, you cant explore than longer than hour/two. P.S. also games and especially OW games SHOULD STOP with the idiotic gathering and scanning, I dont want to gather minerals, flower or cow manure and no I dont want to scan/take image of everything like a teenage girl with her first camera phone. These kind of game techniques are the most time wasters, if ME:A lost the mineral finding and mining and left it only to space planet scanning which is very fast now, they game would move much faster. Also scanning should go away or be limited to some ares or have bigger are of effect, you turn it on and everything around you is scanned., because walking slowly and finding stuff to scann is again time consuming. More meat less veggies: No gathering scanning, no taking photos, no fetch quests, no random drop fights that have no meaning besides extending time, fights should have meaning, like defensing something and you take over it and push story forward or pick something up thats serious not another object to scann or random item. MP mode shouldn't be advertised from SP, it shouldn't have any benefits for SP, items shouldn't be walled behind MP. Also sending virtual soldiers to virtual battlefield through text menu is idiotic and makes no sense, this could be faster by simpley having a casino, instead of "sending soldiers" that you cant even see and waiting for a timer, better implement it as casino games, much faster and makes more sense.
Okay... There's a problem with Ansel in this game. Ambient occlusion is gone and probably something else too when you use it.
No there isn't anything even close to the simplistic "sarcastic" option from Fallout 4 and the dialog is unintentionally funny at best. Just wait a bit if you must buy it, it will almost certainly get a big discount in 2-3 weeks.
