Impressions on the game so far

I don't know about you but I have quick access to 12 powers.

And in the OT, the most "powers" we got were 4 with only 3 of them being assigned to any button on the controller. The other ones were accessible for the pause wheel which you can do now anyways.

The other "powers" where ammo which is now a consumable. So with 4 consumables (all three ammo types, shield boost, and RPG), a minimum of "3 powers", the melee, and the jet pack slam, you have pretty much the same arsenal. With access to 9 other powers on the favorites wheel, it blows out the OT's combat.

I can also give orders to my squad mates easily. I tell them where to go, I tell them both to attack something, I can have them regroup, I can even cancel my commands now. They do one of the three abilities. Pretty simple just like before but it's situational now. Cora for example will use charge if the enemy I assign to her is far away or if I have used a "power" to prime. I can always use the pull/throw to launch an enemy in the air and click the dpad for Cora and what do you know, she always uses charge if it's available! If she is next to an enemy, guess what? She uses Nova! If she's with the group, she automatically uses shield boost.

The same goes for other squad mates. You just need to learn how to play the game and let the old systems go.



The anagara can speak English bc well guess what they've already met humans but you wouldn't know bc you're complaining at the beginning of the game! The Archon, did you not see that he was studying Humanity already? The colonies on Eos had been sacked by the Kett already. Oh and the other Arks, have been sacked by the Kett as well studying the MW races but you wouldn't know yet now would you? Is that dumb, nope. You just look dumb for being ignorant to the full game. No offense. I do agree the pacing of the story blows and is sometimes confusing or feels like it has holes

I get the performance complaints and menu complaints but there are so many systems in place and it's a massive game that both are acceptable in my eyes. Witcher 3 had both problems and these two games are about the same size.

The Nomad vs the shuttle is subjective so I understand you like games more streamlined so you can stay in the "action". Guess what? There's multiplayer! My good friend who has never played a mass Effect had the same complaints of go here, scan this, very little enemies, just let me fight stuff! And I introduced him to multiplayer and he hasn't stopped playing in three days.

I also think the Nomad needs guns and there needs to be enemy vehicles and friendly not vehicles to make the game more fun and less empty.

After 129 long hours, I finished this game: 6.5/10

It's not bad and it certainly isn't great. In that sense, it certainly doesn't leave me feeling like a Mass Effect game should.

I agree with pretty much everything OP says, apart from the plot holes, I never cared for them in any game or I wouldn't have been able to enjoy any of them, and the final rating. For me it's still a 7 out of ten. Good game. Fun for a while, but not that magic Bioware experience drawing me in for weeks on end, always itching for a replay to resolve something in a different way or to try some entirely different approach.

Other than that, meh story, agree, weak set of companions, agree. Bioware can do better than what they delivered with this one. They've proven it numerous times. And I'm not talking about the ME series, but about all Bioware games I ever played.

I'll give BW credit for one thing. The Reaper sound still leaves an impact on me even when I hear it in MEA.

If there's one MASSIVE thing that I felt was missing from MEA, it was an as-compelling enemy as the Reapers. The Kett were fine - on par with the geth as an opposing faction - but they were just basically things to shoot at.

The Reapers were something else entirely. It was like Bioware mashed together all the scariest aspects of B5's Shadows, BSG's Cylons, 40K's Chaos and Cthulu.

On the other hand i just realized he could have been lucky. Remember he likely knew where Aya was but not how to get there so he tried setting up a blockade/ hunting party looking for it and Ryder just happened to stumble into it.

meh find them more a cross between the Yuuzhan vong and the Skitters.

Nope, you have SLOW access to 12 powers.  Swapping profiles puts everything on cooldown and dismisses any "pets" you have.  So why bother?

My infiltrator in ME3 had access to six active powers, plus could order my squadmates to use their powers.

we know there are hyper lanes of a sort in me. Every time you go to the galaxy map and plot a course a line pops up connecting you to your destination. Sometimes passing through systems way out of your way and not the.most direct path. Also when you leave a system you always seem to go the same way, so if there is a story reason for it the Archon could fairly accurately predict the tempests course and just wait.

That's first impressions, and it matters, but scoring the whole game based on that first impression seems presumptuous.

First: In Mass Effect 3 I had at least 5 powers without ammo powers: Schockwave, Charge, Nova, Pull, Flare (amazing), plus healing squad. And comparing this "pause wheel" with the pause wheel from previous Mass Effects is pathetic. On the previous ones, I could pause, turn the camera, mark enemy locations, give orders to companions, use my powers. On this one it exists only to use consumables or swap weapons.
And don't come with this bullshit "yes, you can give your companion orders". I want to give SPECIFIC orders, not just BASIC things like "move there". Great, Cora uses charge. What if I DIDN'T want her to charge at the moment? Like I said, they wanted to make the game harder, but they did on the dumbest way possible: REMOVING FEATURES. You just look dumb because you're comparing things like they were the same when they just aren't. Just like comparing it with Witcher 3, which had very little performance issues on release (and most things were fixed in last than two weeks, and I say that because I played the game since day 1). 

Oh, and shove multiplayer wherever you like it. FUCK multiplayer. "No offense.". I don't want to "stay in action", I just want to move around without having to take a huge detour because this truck can't climb anything and it's a lot worse than the mako, which is at least 2 years older. Being able to fly around with a shuttle would be much nicer. 

That's twice that happened and I got the missing link to the board error. This place is a mess today lol

"we know there are hyper lanes of a sort in me. Every time you go to the galaxy map and plot a course a line pops up connecting you to your destination. Sometimes passing through systems way out of your way and not the.most direct path. Also when you leave a system you always seem to go the same way, so if there is a story reason for it the Archon could fairly accurately predict the tempests course and just wait."