Impressions on the game so far

Classless systems can work, I don't deny that.

But this system didn't.  The restrictions made the power varieties pointless.

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.

Then score and quit it.  Just don't spend a whole bunch of time trying to convince me that I also should hate just because you do... and we're good.

Oh, you're one of "those"

*in a generally curious tone* what's that supposed to mean?

You know it is funny because I was actually going to use that rationale and that exact quote in reply to one of Anarchy's comments up there (the one about the compass), but I decided against it...and no.  I am really not 'one of those' people.  I generally don't like hard games or games with steep difficulty and learning curves or games that are just annoying to play.  In my...somewhat busy life...I find it a lot more enjoyable to play a game without dying/ staring at various loading screens thirty times, and dying a lot frustrates me and messes up things like story flow.  Its why I rate beloved titles like the Last of Us and Uncharted lower on the scale because even though they may have been good games, they were hella frustrating for me to play and all my attempts to git gud, was met with frustration.  Same with the Tomb Raider reboot.  

No, my original point was due to a conversation I had once between fadeaway9z (I think that was his name, I miss him) and Laughing Man on this very subject.  The short of it was that BioWare, since they gave you access to every single power in the game that Ryder could spec into, they had to limit Ryder somehow, or do something in order to not make even Insanity SUPER EASY.  I mean so easy a two year old could probably pick up the game and just steam roll right through it.  Out of their available options, what they did, gimping the powers to some insane degree, or making the enemies meat shields to same degree, I like the option they did the best.  

However, I still wish they went for something else.  I would have enabled you to have all your powers in a profile available instantly upon switching, but you could not change favorites again, your ability to swap would go on profile, for like...a really long time. 

So imagine how easy the game would be if you could swap out powers at will and had access to every power in the game at your finger tips?  At least unless you are really arguing they should go back to a class based system which is not...ideal to me.  They should improve on what they have, instead of trying to go so monumentally backwards.  

And my current Ryder is effectively playing three classes in her profile set ups.  Two Sentinels, an Engineer, and a Explorer.  I use the different profiles for different enemies and to utilize them against different tactics and am switching between them fairly frequently.  (though I am keeping to the Explorer profile more this PT then I have any other pt in the past...which is a bit weird).  My last Ryder had essentially two classes he flipped between, Infiltrator and Soldier.  

So while I would never suggest 'git gud' being the optimal strategy to do in a game, if the game is too hard, or too easy, then meh its not in our purview to fix it.  However I would suggest 'git observant' or perhaps actually try and play around with the system and try out different things (good advice to me actually considering I am pretty stuck in my ways and don't like trying out new powers and had a fairly good idea of what I wanted my favorites to be before I started playing) and you might be surprised at the results.  

I don't hate ME:A, it's too bland to elicit any strong emotions. And I'm not spending any time at all trying to convince you of anything. I was simply pointing out that being unable to finish a game should not invalidate you scoring it. The fact I couldn't be bothered to finish it should surely count for something.