Has MEA became COD?

Ok so killer Robots, aliens, Ftl, giant devices that jump you from place to place is fine, but art choices aren't?

What color choices?

Wait, I thought we were talking about MEA, not ME1.

Here are a few things I think would have improved the gameplay on the different planets.

1. Enemy "zones". Instead of having Kett bases randomly dropped around, have them concentrated in one quarter of the map, as you might expect an army to do...then entering the "Kett controlled zone" would seem more like infiltrating enemy teritory. On Kadara, you could have valleys which were Outlaw, valleys that were Kett, valleys that were Roekar, etc. of course, the Remnant could still be guarding monolith sites all over, but they would be the exception.

2. Variety of (random encounter)enemies. You have, what, 3 types of Kett, basically? 3 types of Remnant, 3 types of outlaw(which is the same as Roekar). And, most immersion-breaking, the same 4 kinds of violent wildlife on every planet. They really could have used a few more. Even some non-violent unique wildlife would help.

3. Gravity. Instead of having the same gravity, tweak it a little so jumps are higher, running is faster on one, slower/ lower on another. Wouldnt change much, but the "feel" would be different.

4. Night/day. Fighting at night could be awesome. Especially if nightvision was a part.

5. I have said this before and got taken to task for it, but I think replays would be more fun if you were limited to two skill sets. You could be biotic/tech, biotic/combat, or combat/tech. I know this kind of goes against profiles, but it would give me more reason to replay the game, to try out the different combos. Right now, I can play all things in one playthrough. Certainly two, with NG+.

6. More Caves. They already have a few caves, they could have added more and made the cave systems longer to add another different "combat map".

Thats all off the top of my head...other thoughts?

Here are a few things I think would have improved the gameplay on the different planets.

1. Enemy "zones". Instead of having Kett bases randomly dropped around, have them concentrated in one quarter of the map, as you might expect an army to do...then entering the "Kett controlled zone" would seem more like infiltrating enemy teritory. On Kadara, you could have valleys which were Outlaw, valleys that were Kett, valleys that were Roekar, etc. of course, the Remnant could still be guarding monolith sites all over, but they would be the exception.

2. Variety of (random encounter)enemies. You have, what, 3 types of Kett, basically? 3 types of Remnant, 3 types of outlaw(which is the same as Roekar). And, most immersion-breaking, the same 4 kinds of violent wildlife on every planet. They really could have used a few more. Even some non-violent unique wildlife would help.

3. Gravity. Instead of having the same gravity, tweak it a little so jumps are higher, running is faster on one, slower/ lower on another. Wouldnt change much, but the "feel" would be different.

4. Night/day. Fighting at night could be awesome. Especially if nightvision was a part.

5. I have said this before and got taken to task for it, but I think replays would be more fun if you were limited to two skill sets. You could be biotic/tech, biotic/combat, or combat/tech. I know this kind of goes against profiles, but it would give me more reason to replay the game, to try out the different combos. Right now, I can play all things in one playthrough. Certainly two, with NG+.

6. More Caves. They already have a few caves, they could have added more and made the cave systems longer to add another different "combat map".

Thats all off the top of my head...other thoughts?

Unfortunately that is at the risk of putting too much ressources  into that and not enough for the main story, ME 2 had lots of characters development, problem is the game was only that, 85% of the game was recruitment and loyalty and not a main plot. when you take into account that it had 10 companion (no dlc included) and you had to do 8 recruitment mission and 10 loyalty, well the game was only that, doing a recuitment and loyalty mission and barely fighting the reapers.

The main plot in ME 2 was quite small We barely learned something about the reapers in that, the suicide mission as awesome as it was, it was a bit useless, killing a reaper when thousands more are coming and destroying the collector base (at best its a reaper outpost, an infantry base and a laboratory, its not enough to really weakens the reapers because they have tons of reserves of slave soldier), is not going to weaken the reapers much, it does not give us more time to prepare for the invasion like killing sovereign at the end of ME 1.

At the end of the day you need to have your team quickly then you can do character development for them. Just like in DAO where with the exception of oghren (and even then is quest is directly linked to the main story) your team was quickly assembled after the beginning because you need companion with different abilities depending on their role. But that does not mean they could not be well developed after being recruited, at the end of the day you also need companion for gameplay reasons.

First off I've read all the articles on how this is the worst game ever made. However one thing people keep doing that's pissing me off comparing 
MEA to the Trilogy. First lets of let me say how the (beep) can you compare 1 game to 3 doesn't even make sense. Let's do a honest comparison Compare MEA to ME1.
Lets take a journey back to 2007. ME was not even considered in the same class as games Bioshock, Halo 3 or even Assassins Creed. Its got better with time because ME2 was the greatest. 
However I confused at why people are surprised this game turned out to be what it is. Bioware for 2 years kept talking about exploration. How can a game be about exploration and not have fetch quest. Could have it been done better? Absolutely. Since the end of ME3 (which was terrible) I feel its been fashionable to hate on ME just like COD. So in the future if Bioware makes MEA2 if the game is amazing will people just hate it because its Mass Effect or will they give it a chance?

I'm not sure what good the Superman thing does, since all BioWare protagonists are supermen/women that can mow through enemies lickety-split. They're only vulnerable in cutscenes, some more than others.