All players: Give your own score!

I went with 7/10, and I feel that is generous, based on my 10 hour experience.

CC is bad, I had a ton of visual bugs and a couple crashes where I got stuck on a never-ending load screen. I had to dashboard and relaunch the game twice before I decided my save must be bugged. I loaded an earlier autosave and was able to get back in the game that way.

The game itself is all too similar to DAI for my taste, in that it feels like a chore instead of a pleasure to play and explore (I hate the damn scanner already), the UI is just so much stuff in your face. The tutorials were really nothing but a box of text that briefly pops up and then disappears before I had a chance to read it all, so I ended up wasting precious time trying to figure out how to do basic things.(Mom of a toddler here, so others will likely be able to give more laser focus to what is happening on screen compared to me.)

The jump jets turn everything into a platformer with jump puzzles galore, which is another thing I hated that they added to DAI. I can't jump! I suck at Mario style games and it's unfortunate to see that be a requirement now for a Mass Effect game.

I was never a huge fan of the Mako, but at least it had guns and was a little easier to drive than the new Nomad has been for me.... I actually rage quit the game last night when the Nomad would not go up a smooth road path. I had my son try it today, and we both think it is a buggy invisible wall there, as the character could walk there on foot, and the car would drive around that section, but not go through it. So, hooray for bugs?

I also don't seem to like the rather immature player character, unfortunately. :sob: I suppose a young teen would enjoy Sara more than I have?

I won't lie, I actually tried to cancel my preorder, that's how frustrated and annoyed I was by the experience. I ordered the digital edition through the Xbox store though, so I'll probably just try to play again at release since it's apparently a nightmare to try to cancel a digital order.

Hopefully it will get better from here as they maybe patch things? Maybe? At any rate, I hardly feel it could be any worse as far as my tastes and preferences go.

I dare say if you loved DAI this will probably be a superb game for you. I wish I loved it. I WANT to love it, I really do.

It might be time for me to break up with BioWare for good. We just don't seem to want the same things or see eye to eye like we used to, #prettygoodbanging aside.