Kiss Me Aaryn Flynn: It Looks Like Mass Effect

...really? it was very impressive don't get me wrong it was impressive but thats a lot of ill will.  reminded me a lot of halo tbh.

I was squealing! I loved everything I saw...minus maybe the facial animations. Those were a bit weird. Other than that, I loved the visuals, the combat...THE MOVING PONYTAIL!

That jetting around the field and the limited time standing in cover hanging with your butt out in the air.

I admit I was disappointed in the lack of hard cover.

However, I think it adopts ME3 Multiplayer roll/slide-outta-the-way tactics to make up for it. Hopefully.

Don't get me wrong i loved it but thse were the two concerns which really stood out.

What would the game have to be doing in order for it to look or feel like Mass Effect to you then?

ME1 era, ME2 evocation?

Games can evolve and develop as they should in this ever changing cultural and media climate and still retain their identity. 

Genuinely interested as to what you feel the game is doing to stop it being Mass Effect for you.

Game didn't feel Mass Effect for me either... however... in a marvelous way.
Well I hate action, I only like RPGs where you choose actions from a menu or issue them with your mouse. But between the abomination that was DAI (awful RPG, awful action) and action then it is better go full action like ME:A seems to have gone. I remember playing Inquisition and thinking "what the hell, I can jump but can't do jumping attacks" or "why can't I fadestep slash enemies in combos?" and ME:A seem to have a better identity when it comes to gameplay, go full cool button awesome.
I can expect the game is going complete frustration after launch, but for now it seems better than Inquisition, it seems their team is better than DA's, but then again DA team is working with them... perhaps they could learn something? If DA franchise is not going PoE/Tyranny/DOS way then, by all means, go ME:A way.
If gameplay actually looks like the trailer in the final version I take back what I said that Bioware can't do action. When I played Jade Empire I was sure they should stay away from action, FOREVER, when I played Mass Effect 1 I knew they were also useless on the shooter front, but I didn't care because I hated those styles and thus didn't care for those games. Now they have no good RPG games then they better learn to do good acion, and as far as ME goes, they seem to have learned.
On a side note, I don't care much for ME franchise. Played (the three games) once (in 2015), now I'm doing a "screenshot modded playthrough" of ME3. I couldn't care less about the direction the franchise goes but fortunately for ME fans I'm betting you're bound to be happier than DA fans. Just please keep your team away from DA, I don't want to see Lyrium Machine guns in DAverse again.

It looks damn fun. Those biotic teleportation and dodges really makes it seem energetic. In the Shepard trilogy the best combat encounter I remembered was Vanguard vs Tela Vasir from ME2 LotSB, and the game does seem to take that direction.

That's the inherent danger of implementing a particular feature just becuase fans love it. I do get this impression that the Mako is back but... why is it except "we wanted it" or as always the fans thought they wanted it becuase they liked ME1 which doesn't translate to a new game that focuses on different things.

At least it's not like a mount in DA:I this time. It actually speeds traversal up and the squad has banter along the way.

But yes, emphasis that they need a lot of work on cutscene animations and especially the mouth animations. It just does not look good enough and "polish" to me makes it sound like BioWare considers the features to be good groundwork, but those facial animations really need more insight than just a little touch-up. I'm talking about radically changing it to make it work, because it looks like there has been developed a system for it that simply isn't good enough.

I'm getting the same iffy MMO-vibe from this that I got from DA:I. Not at all a fan of the gameplay so far.

If you look closely - there is no combat roll, instead the character uses a dash animation for the dodge.