Did you love your 10 hours of MEA early access?

Considering most of the negative press is focusing on the limited CC and the less than stellar facial animations (two things we've been aware of for some time), a lot of the negative attention is overblown. People love to focus on the negative even though the game has A LOT of positives.

Indeed! I wanted a change of pace with my profile!

No idea. I have a feeling Microsoft and Sony would probably take issue with you trying to circumvent release dates, however. I wouldn't be surprised if trying to use a VPN on consoles violated both of their Terms of Services.

I definitely agree that a lot of systems were chucked at us in a very short amount of time. The time limit certainly didn't help things, although I didn't let it bother me and went at my own pace regardless. There isn't a lot of explanation for many of these features. It seems a lot of it will just be trial and error early on. What BioWare should have done is have a time limit cap only on MP so players can't progress through it too much. The lock on story prevented players from progressing in single player, so having a time limit on that really didn't make any sense.

Likewise. I'm not sure if I'm going to restart my character or not, but that time limit was definitely a constant presence that detracted from the trial. Especially when you get to the final hour, the constant notices (at least on Origin) was incredibly distracting. MEA just isn't the kind of game that you can really package into a 10 hour trial. The game is just too large with far too much content. Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the game regardless of that time limit.

Friggin internet where the most obnoxious just feel the need that they have to impose their opinion on everyone.  Will watch a youtube video about the game and the likes will be outpacing the dislikes 5 to 1 but the comments section will be filled with haters squaking their opinion.

I've only played a few hours, but by then I already knew I was going sink hundreds of hours into the game.

And that was also why I quit, because I can't save my progress anyway (trial on PC, full game on PS4)

Spent the last few minutes of my trial in character creation. Aside from the obvious problems, I loved every minute of it. Really looking forward to full release now.

You know that Bioware were pretty much done when they became a part of EA right ? but I still like them. They have not fully giving up and even if their games like this one is catering to fast paced action players on a console, they still invoke a few RPG elements into the games and story is often good.

If you want real RPG you would not buy any of the games from the big pubs anyway

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Don't care about facial animations, because gameplay and atmosphere is important for me. I like such games, where you can explore something. ME 3 was too much action movie and not enough game.

Be honest, you loved hearing Ryder say, "

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ryerye, are you just looking at things in the office and saying that you love them?

Mass Effect is so hot.

Very hot indeed.

We were only able to see the prologue and the first major planet. Personally, I was enjoying exploration. It reminded me a lot of ME1, except there were actually interesting things to find and pursue. The world seemed pretty large, but the trial had us somewhat confined due to environmental hazards that would prevent us from exploring too far outside of the Critical Path.

Side quests are what you would expect from Mass Effect. Some of it is fetch quests while others are collecting items or completing certain tasks. I didn't personally have any issue with them as I plan on exploring everything anyway. They are just an extra incentive to go around and try different things in the game. I definitely was not getting a DAI vibe in this game. It really does feel like a combination of ME1's exploration with ME3's combat and ME2's character development.

OK...this thread made me buy the game. I'd like to know how the writing is, however. There wasn't much about that in here. I've heard of some "hilariously bad" writing but if that happens rarely, and doesn't affec the protagonist, I'll be able to live with it.

Also, Does the world make sense? I watched someone playing the first 45 minutes and was rather put off by that off-hand comment about the Milky Way being old news, as if 95% of it hadn't remained unexplored in the MET. The answer to the question of why we explore faraway places rather than closer ones is, of course, because we can and we're curious, but I expect a little awareness of their own reality from the characters, especially if they're explorers.