Remember when Romance Choices was the biggest concern?

That's actually an improvement what you describe.

I prefer fans that worry more about technical issues and overall quality than romance options.

BSN users (and tumblr users...) place much more importance on romances than the typical player. Ask other forums what's wrong with DA2, DAI, ME3 or SWTOR and the majority of complaints won't be about romance at all.

Worried? Me? Not in the least. I already know what I think of the game and the early access just reinforced that. It's not like people who are bashing the game does it as a personal insult towards me. What they or reviewers or anyone thinks of the game doesn't concern me. Why should I be worried?

just check out the romance thread in the spoilers subsection, then tell me no one is worrying about it

You haven't been to the Character & Romance thread have you?
Or the characters subforum?

BioWare should have had an official 'Bug Creation Department'



On-topic, nothing I've seen that would justify bad reviews, but we'll know tomorrow.

Urrrmmmm....I think that's a pretty rose-colored view.

The actual gameplay in Pre-ME titles put out by Bioware titles has rarely been especially stellar.  There have certainly been fewer glitches than stuff put out by Bethesda, but that's a pretty low bar.

What distinguished Bioware was that the stories contained within the game were a lot better than the what was served up by just about every other PC game developer:  A thin string of contrivances that justified shooting people or cutting them into bits with giant meat-cleavers.

The plot, character development and world building were enough to make us care what happened next...even if the gameplay was kind of lame.

Player character romance is an obvious topic to explore when telling stories.  When Bioware was doing licensed content, they had to be very careful about how they treated the subject.  I don't think its an accident that Romance became both a bigger deal and less heteronormative (I can't believe I actually managed to type that word.  My 'American Dad' fingers kept rebelling) when they started developing their own IPs.

Yeah, I'm sorry that's plainly not true. Every Bioware game has had issues people talked about other than romances (because every game in history has issues). People complained plenty about Jade Empire being a console action-focused game, Dragon Age Origins looking brown and dated while not being isometric, ME1 having stupid gameplay mechanics such as the torrent of loot and poor gunplay, ME2 being too dumbed down, DA2 being just overall unfinished, so on and so forth.

At least the multiplayer fixes should be coming relatively soon. Anyone who enjoys good animations for speaking with characters is screwed. Especially since they now have more speaking than ever. Sadly it seems they went for quantity rather than quality.

Maybe if you play the game on mute you might actually enjoy it.

NO SPOILERS!

Yeah its dreadful when EA buys companies off and then makes them release their games in unfinished states.