The future of the series

The environments are beautiful and artistic looking but it lacks that... tone or vibe ME1 had. That very cold, space-y feeling that made it special.
Colintrarian Moriarty can explain it with this retrospective



And who am I kidding? The music of course

Its not wrong. Ive recently played through ME1, all the missions 100%, and i can give you my look of them, thats totally honest, and not colored by nostalgia goggles.

Main quests of ME1 are great. The sidemissions, the ones that Hackett gives you, or some people on the Citadel. Theyre a hit and miss, some are good or passable, others are not. Id say its 50/50, ther problem with them is that everyone of them takes you to a similar looking barren world in one of the 3 copypasted warehouse/mine/underground base locations or a starship. MEA at least has some more variable places. Also those "Loyalty missions" in ME1 are crap. They are just crap. Talis is the worst one, hunt geth on 5 different planets, it gets tedious so fast. Batarian DLC is decent, the Pinnacle station is pure shit.

When you add the mineral collecting and all the other fetch quests, id say over half of the total of side quests in ME1 are not good or enjoyable. It certainly doesnt help that the game has this awful, clunky inventory and combat system, which has aged badly. Aside from the cerberus quests and the lunar base AI, for continuity, ill skip most of the sidequests whenever i do a ME1 run. Theyre just not that fun anymore.

First and foremost I have not threatened anyone at Bioware.  I may have used some unkindly words to describe them but I am NOT the type to threaten anyone.  Second, you may feel like $60 dollars is no big deal but that is a matter of opinion.  With that said why do you think you have any more right to express your opinion then I do about this game?

Finally a question.  Do you work for Bioware/EA or have a close friend or relative that does?  You seem to be taking the criticism of a game really personally.

Why would anyone complete all the fetch quests?

If you are referring to their appearance, then sure. There are really only two faces for asari in MEA. Whether that was intentional or due to a lack of resources, I do not know. I was referring to their personality and overall uniqueness. I found most asari in the previous games to be generic and largely the same in terms of substance of character.

1. Did you play Mass Effect 1?
2. Every Mass Effect had "boring repetitive fetch quests."
3. You do realize that "Mass Effect" explains how most of the science works in the franchise? Relays are mentioned in the game.
4. Did you miss the final assault between the Kett forces and the Tempest and Remnant fleet?
5. Define "meaningful choices." We have a lot of choices that can have several consequences. DLC and the sequel may make those consequences more apparent.
6. Beauty is subjective.
7. Vetra is rather badass. Avitus Rix is not too bad either.
8. Does Drack and Morda ring a bell?
9. There are cutscenes everywhere...
10. Being a "kid" is a bad thing? They are in their early 20s.
11. Okay? Mass Effect has never had great facial animations.
12. There's plenty of music. It's just not as memorable (or used as much) as the OT soundtrack.
13. Did you play Insanity in ME1-3? MEA is by far the most challenging as those games were cakewalks.

Be honest with me. Are you trolling at this point? Half your answers sound like a troll.

And I think this is what they're actually doing with their new IP, "Dylan".
I'm perfectly fine with it as long as they don't do those kind of things on a Mass effect game and totally kill what made the license great.

Either way, I think ME will always be relegated to the B and C teams now that EA has Star Wars - could see them doing a new KOTOR at this point before ME, and then ME kind of becomes the red headed stepchild (no offense gingers).

Can we stop abusing the word "fetch quest" already?

Call the side quest boring, fine,that's your opinion. Calling every quest fetch quest just shows that you have no idea what the word means.