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

Again I ask: What's the point?  Why lurk the forums constantly complaining?  If you don't like the game, stop playing it and move on...it's that simple.  It seems to me that people who don't like the game are all-to-eager to try and convince others as to why they shouldn't like the game either.  It's the whole "misery loves company" mentality I mentioned before.  I just wish people could learn to be miserable by themselves instead of feeling the need to bring others down with them.

Constructive criticism is one thing, but people here just complain to complain.  They offer nothing to any conversation...only complaining on top of complaining.

Just move on already and let others enjoy the game.  No need to try and convince others to be miserable with you.

Because humanity does not work that way, it never worked that way and you better hope it never will. The second people stop constantly "complaining" is when everything will go downhill, FAST.
Besides... as long as there are people who think the game is perfect, there have to be people who tell them "wrong". There is a huge difference between: I like the color red and I like the color blue AND this game has bugs/this game has no bugs.
Last but not least, any criticism is good, no idea where this idea "only constructive criticism, with a lot of suggestion, is good criticism" came from.
And before I forget it, except for some, very few, exceptions, most people here do not want you, or anyone else, to be miserable with them, they just want you, or anyone else, to realize this game is far from perfect.
So Bello, here is a stick, go fetch.

Still dont get why we needed 4wd and the 6wd modes. They add nothing to the game except more annoyance. But then the entire game is chalk full with decisions like that.

In a sci fi setting it makes zero sense especially when we know that the wheels are electric motor powered. It was tedious friction which ended up making me not too fond of the Nomad as it really does not add anything. The fact that then they pad it out by requiring you to upgrade that is like being spat in your face.

Thats my big issue with this game in particular having a lot of features that add nothing except unnecessary tedium. there is no story reason either, they exist purely to add tedium. The inventory UI, need to research a weapon 10 times and ofcourse they level gate it, quests requiring going to multiple planets which basically entails the entire massive padding of the travelling. Stuff like this is what really kill any desire to replay the game, absolute padded tedium that adds nothing at all.

The contagion mission is the perfect example of the BS they have added to their game systems and thats why this game is a 6/10 at best. Here a post borrowed from neogaf to show what i mean:



Here's the thing, they don't need to reinvent anything to make the open world stuff work, they just need to take into consideration how many non-story related steps are required to actually complete the content you're engaged in. I've already illustrated the steps required to go anywhere but lets take the Contagion quest as an example. I don't think the writing in this one is bad- on the contrary I really liked it and that unto itself is part of why the travel mechanics getting in the way annoyed me so much. Once you've completed the requisite steps on nexus to track Ruth down, you're asked to follow her shuttle into space- okay fine. Then you have to fly to not one, but 5-6 systems in following her trail. Let me illustrate what that actually entails:

Hold E to board Tempest
hold E to open galaxy map
hit space to zoom out from the nexus
hit space to see the cluster overview
click on the first system
watch the ship fly there
right click to scan for ruth's trail
launch probe
click anomaly
fly to trail/ hit tab to skip
click to scan/gather data
hit space to zoom out to system view
hit space to zoom out to cluster view
click on the second system
watch the ship fly there
right click to scan for ruth's trail
launch probe
click anomaly
fly to trail/ hit tab to skip
click to scan/gather data
hit space to zoom out to system view
hit space to zoom out to cluster view
click on the third system
watch the ship fly there
right click to scan for ruth's trail
launch probe
click anomaly
fly to trail/ hit tab to skip
click to scan/gather data
hit space to zoom out to system view
hit space to zoom out to cluster view
click on the fourth system
watch the ship fly there
right click to scan for ruth's trail
launch probe
click anomaly
fly to trail/ hit tab to skip
click to scan/gather data
hit space to zoom out to system view
hit space to zoom out to cluster view
click on the fifth system
watch the ship fly there
right click to scan for ruth's trail
launch probe
click anomaly
fly to trail/ hit tab to skip
click to scan/gather data
hit space to zoom out to system view
hit space to zoom out to cluster view
Click on Kadara's system
Watch the ship fly in
Click on Kadara
Watch the ship land
click on the lift to go to the slums
run out of the slums manually to the badlands
fast travel from the badlands to the nearest forward station
drive to find her crashed shuttle
track the footsteps of whomever took Ruth
deal with Roekaar

Quests in general if they need to be continued on a different zone need to at least offer to take you to the next point of interest or somewhere close to continue the quest. It becomes a major pacing issue if you have to go through ridiculous steps that contribute fuck-all to the story to be able to get to actually play the game part of the game. The story of having to contain a cross-species disease is fine, good even, even better when the idea of the Roekaar trying to weaponize it comes into play. But Bioware needs to find a way to channel you between points of interest with far more efficiency because what they've got right now is not working for me.

That was just one example but the entire game is padded with BS all the way through. Peebee's loyalty quest which requires you to go to 3 planets in the exact order, doesnt matter if you are already on Eladeen, you first have to go to Eos. Doesnt matter if already visited that site before , you have to go when the quest mandates to get the item. Im sorry but when someone actually defends this kinda crap i can with 100% certainty say they are objectively and idiot.

This is not good game design, all this tells me that the game was in development hell as a lot of features cannot be justified at all. So again at best a 6/10 game cause it has numerous issues. So far i have not even touched the writing, dialogues, animations, characters, world building or how the narrative and the tone of the game do not match at all. Just pure gameplay systems having absolute terrible design all made to waste a players time. Every aspect of gameplay and its systems is padded to hell and back which do not make for a fun game.

Im not even bitching about slots anymore as using cheat engine and a couple of mods ive managed to get a ghetto soldier setup going with ammo powers. Ie soldier profile, turbocharge, grenades, barricade as a substitute for fortification and two consumable slots with CE to have no duration limit as my ammo powers. But the above padding cannot be removed and i hope to god bioware add proper fast travel, ill gladly take a loading screen on my SSD than experience what travelling to different locations entails as that is insulting.

I'm 50 hours in, and was hoping the game would pick up, but instead it is becoming more tedious. My completion is now at 47%, but Im not sure I will finish it.
Things I do not like:

- lot's of tedious missons with drab stories, and I am not talking about the tasks, I'm skipping those entirely...no the side quests themselves are tedious...and send you flying/driving all over the place to do trivial things...and do not add anything story wise

- leveling ads nothing to my character after level 25-30, skill points mean nothing to me anymore...I have all the skills I need maxed out
- same for crafting, can't craft anyhting better till I hit level 40....10 levels between crafting ranks is pityful
- apv points give meaningless bonuses, so that also not worthwhile
- loot is worthless....as you can't augment it, it is always worse than crafted items...
- money is worthless, all you need to buy are some resources or consumables...I have over 50K credit just siting there
- loot from stike team mission is pityfull and also not worth it
So basically there is no more character progress after level 25 or so, I stopped crafting, looting, spending apv or doing strike missions

- stop with the damn sudoko's...I can't be bothered with it, if I have a remant key I'll do a tower, else I am now skipping them..it's tedious, and I don't want to do the same thing 15-20 times over..

- overall storyline is not that great, and because of al the drab side quests, which do not tie into the main story what so ever, it is easy to lose the story line completely

Next game should be way more tight in storylines, character progress and not have you fly all over the place for nothing....bring back the old OT style of gaming...

If we're talking about game mechanic stuff like hazards, that wouldn't really matter, because if we had a Mako here, it'd suffer the same fate.

Yeah I certainly do not agree with environmental hazards here. I didn't really like it in ME1 either, but at least being in the Mako provided immunity. I think MEA should have gone the same route, if there were to be hazards at all, and simply have the character itself be subject to it and have the vehicle be the safe zone.

F**ing safe-zone babies. F**ing so sensitive that they don't get "it." All they hear is negativity instead of looking for the MAGIC in CRITICISM. Daisies. Snowflakes. When they get like that, hand them a tampon and a "binkie."

Exactly. Same issue, different vehicle and different engine. 

It's quite similar to real life 4wd vehicles.

The Nomad can go a lot faster in 4wd, but slips on hills.  Shifting to 6wd sends more power to the wheels for better traction, but you can't go as fast.

"Have you ever flown it off a cliff"

Fully upgraded, the Nomad is fantastic, took a high speed enhanced boost of a cliff with Jaal shouting yeeha!

Mako as okay, both are considerably better than that tissue paper armored thing we got in ME2.