Loonerinoes said:
I remember Casey Hudson specifically stating that ME3 was going to try and add some of the expansive feeling you got from ME1 without necessarily bringing back stuff like the inventory mess that was there.
Not that that won't stop the naysayers obviously. Heck, if even Portal 2 gets its day-one DLC detractors, why the heck shouldn't this game? *sigh*
but remember, that was BEFORE they decided to make it "appeal to a wider audience". as much as i liked mass effect 1, and mass effect 2. i liked the first more, as im a fan of RPGs, and ME2 was just a bit more repetitive and less interesting. it was cool that you could fire abilities around corners and such, but everything just seemed simpler, and not complex enough to warrant a second playthrough as if you wanted to see how a certain final upgrade worked, you could just save and make the choice twice with no real difference overall.
i liked how a number of little ME1 things made comebacks, but it just seemed insignificant, unless all those people you couldve helped come back in a much bigger way in ME3. and the story was focused a bit much on the squad. dont get me wrong, i like character development, but it just wasnt as interesting without the overarching story.
not to mention combat made no fucking sense at all (if thermal clips are universal, why cant i just use the ones assigned to my assult rifle for my sniper?). well thats an overstatement, but i still wish the ammo thing made more sense. and the cover system was a bit more irksome. and the ability progression was shorter and less interesting/complex/meaningful.
anyway, whenever something was made to appeal to a wider audience, that wider audience is call of duty players. and by call of duty players, they mean dumb jocks who want to shoot stuff and bang hot alien babes, rather than experience a good story with solid gameplay to back it up and sex as an optional thing which is the cumulation of an entire game of romance development. (also, ME1 did the sex scene loads better without making it porn, and the romace was a bit more interesting with the 2 you could pursue it with.)
so yeah, unless they lied through their teeth to make the shareholders content while going with what they know will be a better game (and what are the odds of that?), this will almost guarantee a worse experience overall. im just going to forget about this game until it comes out, so i dont look at every piece of evidence and get hopes up and crushed again and again, before i decide whether i will buy it.
