ME:A - Nvidia CES 2017 Trailer (Now HQ!)

To show that if you're not cautious you can DIE DIE DIE!!... Almost.

But yeah as pearl said I think it was just random selection, as long as the person knows the controls they're probably not too nitpicky about it.

I'll most likely stick with one throughout my playthrough.

I'd say so. I think we might not be loosing replayabilty after all, maybe the opposite? because now you can go with a mixed build too if you want to and they might be fun too if done right. Also, depending on where is the cap, you may be able to go with a full, lets say, soldier, but you can also have some points in other profiles, as an extra, and if so, you can have a lot of different extras, whitout having the full experience of playing another class. I don't know. it's starting to sound well to me.

In ME1 all character could use all weapons. It was just an another limitation starting from ME2. Like another one starts now with MEA: we can only use 3 skills at the same time.

Combos, avoiding being attacked by all enemies. 
Sentinel could hit all enemies in ME2 and with the assault rifle it could have a quite powerful weapon. It doesn't mean Shepard didn't need squadmates.

this game looks better with every new video or screenshot,
awesome graphics, effects, environments, gameplay

thanks

Not if you are at least decent with shooters, but you are right. That's still more about having a company, though.

I meant it more in a general sense, not that it was necessary to have them for combat. Truth to be told, if you're good at playing the game, squadmates aren't really necessary in Mass Effect, regardless of the class. They were simply meatshields and combo setters.
I do hope they'll be more useful and their AI is more advanced this time.

I'm excited about the prospect of a classless system. In my mind, it doesn't restrict roleplay opportunities but expand them. Now there's no arbitrary limit boxing in what kind of character you can forge.

It makes a lot of sense to me, and doesn't 'break lore' at all. There is no reason why a person with biotic abilities would be tied into being a biotic fighter. We see the beginnings of this in the fact there isn't just adept but also vanguard and sentinel in the original trilogy, where a biotic can add tech prowess to their style, or be more focused on good old fashioned soldiering. This new system simply takes that to its logical conclusion: for example, "I may be born a biotic, but I never particularly excelled with my biotic training and instead had a real interest in all things tech, and prefer to focus my efforts in that direction, while having my rudimentary biotic training to fall back on if I need or want to."

With this classless system, there are almost endless opportunities to create a backstory for why your Ryder might favour one fighting style over another -- as opposed to the original trilogy where it seemed as though if you were a biotic you were locked into that for life regardless of your aptitude. That made sense for Shepard, as explained elsewhere in this thread, because Shep had already pursued a degree of specialisation and was an accomplished soldier already. Ryder is far more of a blank slate than Shepard ever was, and so the perfect canvas to paint a new and less restrictive gameplay mechanic upon.

I'm greatly looking forward to creating all manner of backstories for my various Ryders, which explain why they favour the combat path they decide to go down.

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As for the video more generally, I find it difficult to follow and get much out of these short and choppy combat videos. I'm looking forward to a longer, more detailed video that covers a specific section of gameplay. We had a couple before DAI was released, and hopefully we'll have similar this time around. I expect there will be a developer stream at some point (I predict there will be something on Valentine's Day) where they talk us through a section and answer some questions. They did this with DAI, and I see no reason why it wouldn't work for MEA as well. It's a lot more intimate and fulfilling than a short combat video like this one. Still, I'm glad we got to see some of the skills interface, and I'll be watching it again and pausing to read a bit more of what was on screen.

Except this isn't really a classless system.  Fallout has a classless system.  You pick what weapons or skills you want to use and put points into whatever makes you better at them.  You can do anything, but you can't do EVERYTHING.

Here you have access to ALL the classes at once, and simply switch them out whenever it's convenient to you.

Maybe not. Scott Ryder didn't had all profiles open on that video, so perhaps there isn't enough skills points to do everything in one playthrough.

Besides as people stated before it's really not that much of a problem since there isn't any kind of lore breaking in this. Shepard could use any kind of power in previous games, the only difference was that he/she chould only change profile between games.

Which is really just gameplay and story segregation, since class abilities changed from one game to the next, and players may want to respec if their chosen class was no longer enjoyable to them.

But Ryder appears to be implanted with autobots or something, making him biotic or not, expert at any weapon he/she chooses, etc...