'I dislike or hate the game' (General feedback)

Yeah, Ryder is always so neutral and down the middle. You can use the "emotional" reply, but you never really get into stern, angry, dickish, etc. The only time you're not down the middle is when you get two over simplified options to solve a problem.

In terms of the dialogue of the game, its probably my biggest complaint. You're usually just shades of paragon. Especially after they talked about how the new system lets you be "any Ryder you can possible think up!" but its just DAI all over again.

Well, to be honest, I am having a good time with the game. What I will certainly grant you is that it does seem more generic and sort of been there, done that, seen this seen that. That being said, there is a good sense of mystery (the jaraad, the scourge, the water that powers up the vaults etc. in general very little is explained, its all just theory) Big reason why I and probably you too feel like its not as revolutionary or so well written or scripted is simply because of what you are expecting. The big reveals in this game are not really big reveals because you know that something is coming and if you played previous ME's, you also know when its coming. You could say its uninspired and it would be fair, they did not really go off the rails with the story, especially the structure, but I disagree that the game is boring. Its not breaking any new grounds, but its giving us a new story in a new galaxy, its bound to be different than the trilogy, because its about something else, but still in the same universe, therefore it will feel samey. I dont know, I was kinda dissapointed too, but the more I play, the more I actually enjoy it, it feels like there is a lot of content, sure some fetch quets are there, but when did we grow to expect none, as long as they are at least somewhat cleverly hidden in the narrative and explanation, I dont mind doing them. Like I said, it does feel sort of washed out, like if you use the same teabag for a second tea, but I feel like that has got to do more with me, rather than the game. Nothing can now thrump the feeling of Reaper reveal, or the epicness of the suicide mission, because you know how they feel and know that they should be there. So in the end you are dissapointed. I did get a rise couple of times out of some of the scenery and action (tho the cutscenes and explanations especially towards the end are sparce). Overall, I take the game for its own merit, I dont think its completely fair to compare it, hair to hair, with the original trilogy, as much as we would like to. And about the companions? Hey I like them well enough, sure its no Liara or Garrus per say, but I did not instantly love them after finishing the first game for the first time. I liked them at first and grew to love them during the multiple playthroughs, dlcs and sequels. I am willing to give MEA a chance for sure. I also wish the story was better, deeper, richer, the scinematography more immersive, the characters a little bit more endearing, but what is there is not bad at all, its a great stepping stone. I just hope Bioware rises to the occasion. I still like those guys, even if EA makes it somewhat harder for them Oh and yea, if anyone at Bioware or EA actually reads any of these things sometimes. As much as open world is a thing now, its not great for story driven games. FF XV failure of gargantuan proportion should tip off any company that is still continuing this trend. The reason why it worked in games like Skyrim is because the open world is the centre of it, the main story quest was hardly any more important than the main sidequests, if you want a perfect narrative and storyflow, its way easier and cheaper to do it in a smaller world. Big locations are fine and all, doesnt have to be just mission maps like in the past, im just saying, Kotor had this down very well, you had the planet which felt like a planet, but you only got the investigate the part that you needed. That being said, MEA is a huge step up in terms of open world/good content,sidequests ratio as oposed to Inquisition imho. Even tho the main story still does seem short.

Oh but it does. This game's story completely lacks the ambitions the first game had. I mean I haven't even mentioned this yet, but where's the music? Why is the no ambient music playing when I'm exploring or visiting hubs? How come the music that does exist during cutscenes, feels so bland compared to what we heard in the trilogy?

When the game wants you to explore? You're making it sound like you don't have control over your own activities. What are you talking about?

Edit: I mean that seriously. It'd help clear things up if you could describe a particular moment in the game and what you think your incentives are at that moment.

So, a predictably weaker story + a lack of background music = shitting on the originals?

I think there's people who have legitimate, justifiable concerns and criticism for this game. 

And then there's people like you. 

Brainless nitpicking that leads to some truly daft conclusions. 

This is a good point to make. 

I'm close-ish to the end in and still feel like Ryder is his own guy and not "me" in universe.

I think the dialogue options being 4 variants on being polite doesn't help either. There have been moments I want to tell someone to fuck off or even just intimidate them and my best option's are always friendly or too cordial.

Maybe I guess. Just from the pre-release stuff they had about how much more roleplay ability this dialogue system gives you, then getting no point to ever just be like "if you fuck with me I'll shove a biotic lightning bolt so far up your ass..." and instead just be like "i hope you keep your word. it would be rude if you didn't!"

Its so... boy scout. Like even Captain America gets a little pissy and he's the biggest boy scout ever.

In my opinion, the reapers killed the series. I thought Mass Effect was great when It was just a bad-ass Turian spectre that had gone rogue and taken control of a robot army, and your Job was to find him and put the rabid dog down. The reapers lead to the writing becoming bloated.

If it ended on that conversation it would have been fine, but Mass Effect 3 has way more issues than just the ending. The start of the game is some of the worst shit ever written by Bioware, "We fight or we die", ugh.

Only level 10 here, but man this reminds me of all the same issues I had with Inquisition. I'm pushing ahead but not really interested. So sad, ME is my favorite franchise.

Mainly quantity > quality issue. Give me a tighter, more focused path w/ better writing, characters and less quests. A 50-hour awesome game (like ME2/ME3) > a 100+ hour medicore one.

Oh it sure does, but I think people would have been a little more forgiving. The fact that it ends with star boy and a whole bunch of mumbo jumbo, upsets people. And then it ruins their honeymoon phase with the game so they go back and look at everything that sucked.

Like, if you really sit back and look through ME2... it isn't a great narrative. But it ends well, you made new pixel friends and you're not angered by the end of it, so you go "Hey, that was a good game!" and don't give it too much more thought until 7 years later on an internet forum when you're discussing it with total strangers.

Its like sports man, if you're team plays bad but wins then you're more forgiving about the poor play early because they pulled it out at the end and you focus more on the positives. If they play bad and lose then you're like "fucking fuck losers lost and ass goalie sucks and the coach is shit..." 

The committee asking Shepard "what do we do?" was ugh to me.  I think ME 2 has issues too.  I thought killing Shepard just to go to work for Cerberus was awful.  The Collectors were copied from Star Wars: Republic Commando (buzzing around shooting particle beams).  Same goes for the interior of the ship and base from what I recall.  It should have been called Mass Effect 2:  The recruitment missions or The character chronicles