Is it really that bad?

The majority of opinions I've seen have been positive tbh. In my own personal experience, I've absolutely loved it. I played the first mission to get try out the character creation and new combat system, but I won't be going any further until release so I can fully enjoy the experience. I'm as excited as ever.

Although the character creator is limited compared to past iterations, I've found I could make a good looking Ryder much easier. After having a play around for a bit I made a few great looking Ryders, and then managed to make a Donald Glover lookalike in about 10 minutes.

Combat is amazing. Sure the controls are really clunky at first, but I got used to them after half an hour. In the grand scheme of a 100-hour plus game, that's nothing. The movement feels great, and it has a lot more depth than previous systems.

Overall, the game feels like Mass Effect, and that's what I was most excited about.

Personally, I think gaming communities nowadays tend to make mountains out of molehills. Most complaints I've seen have been to do with subjective or relatively insignificant matters, but of course that makes it the worst Bioware game yet.

Bad animations, weak writing, bland characters, uninspired quests, poor and intrusive UI, slow and clunky galaxy map, huge planets with very little content a'la ME1's uncharted worlds, very hit and miss voice acting...

That's what I remember from when I played. Could be something more that I've forgotten.

I just finished playing the trial and had the total opposite experience. 

To the OP, always make your mind up yourself, it is no where even close to as bad as what you are hearing. 

Damn, those are nice. 

There are some flaws, but personally I find them very minor. I can't wait to continue my game next week. The game just isn't as polished as it could've been.

I had a great time in the trial SP, lively combat (looking forward to being more badass, can see potential) loved the story and writing, good characters, wasn't fussed about the faces/lips issue people seem obsessed by, found the character creator fine actually, quite like the slow crafting/exploration process. Bit overwhelmed by crafting options. Weapons alone I think there are 750 craftable weapon recipes. There's also Armour and Augmentations to craft. And each one needs multiple ingredients.

Honestly, it's not that bad. People gotta love complaining and whine about everything kek

Story is good and in a few minutes you need to know more.
Characters are pretty sweet.
The combat is super fun.
The jetpack is love, the jetpack is life.
The animations are not as bad as people are saying... Maybe a few characters are a bit rough but not bad.

I dont know man. I had fun. This feels like a ME game. Didn't get any DAI vibe. Im gonna play this game for +150h for sure!

The CC will be updated? Did they say that?

Investigating options isn't the same as "the CC is gonna get updated"

I guess every semi open-world is now a DAI clone.

The Witcher 3 : Wild Inquisition
Deus Ex : Human Inquisition
Inquisition Of Mordor.

DAI is the new SJW & "Bad Writing."

I've played for about 4 hours now.

First things first: insanity really looks insane. I died immediately in the first fight. I died quite a lot. The enemy's aim is sharp and your health and shields low. Good.

And the small bit of the game I played just left me wanting more, of everything. There's so much to do, so much to collect, totally my kind of game.

I didn't find the animations that annoying to be honest. Dialogue felt very natural. But I didn't get that far into the game, because I don't want to get too hooked yet and it's kinda pointless, as I'll be playing the full game on my PS4 and not on my PC, so my progress won't be stored anyway

(I had to scale down to medium settings to get my unstable PC to not crash...and I can tell, medium setting do not look good.. at all )