GodsOneMistake said:
YES you need to buy the game. It is a perfect ten, I have yet to figure out what people are talking about when they trash the game.
To copy pasta myself:
Combat - The cover system really should have been more like Gears of War, GoW was far more fluid. ME's is mostly just an annoyance. The squad AI is abysmal. They fail horribly at finding cover, they can't hit the broad side of a barn, and seeing my alien sniper dood unloading his assault rifle at a wall while we're getting charged by thorian creepers made me go D:. If you play a shock trooper/vanguard the game gets extremely lollerskatesy once you unlock the barrier upgrade. Having super recharging shields = easy mode.
Supporting Cast - A completely forgettable cast of NPCs really drags this game down. They've never once bitched about my choices (I play a renegade) no matter what. I slaughtered the thorian controlled colonists and my squad did not give a shit. What happened to the good ole days when your teammates would openly object and in some cases even flat out leave until you were more inline with their ideals? (Ah, Baldur's Gate series, how I miss thee). How am I supposed to care about them when they never present any sort of personality? I'm not going to go out of my way to bullshit with everyone on the ship after every mission just to advance npc plot. That's what we in the business like to call a "waste of my fucking time." After all, why bullshit with characters you don't care about? In NWN2 I actually enjoyed some of the characters like Neeshka and hated others just for who they were like the god damn druid *****. In ME I just flat out am not interested in the characters.
Graphically, I've noticed more than a few spots where the fps got laggy and textures took a little to load, and then the planet roaving is just pathetic. All you ever run around on barren, mountain-covered terrain. The only thing that ever seems to change, is what colour the rocks are.
Story: Another "I don't give a fuck" section. Saren is doing..stuff..and is gonna destroy everything, la la la. Whatever. So far having only one glimpse of Saren with only vague hintings at what he's doing isn't very involving. The occasional run-in or glimpse of him would be kinda nice. Or maybe running into a Saren induced atrocity, etc. As it stands I'm pretty disconnected from the story. Once again, Baldur's Gate quality material this is not.
Overall this is a very mediocre and forgettable game. Every aspect screams 'I'M AVERAGE!' Sadly, this is the state of the RPG these days. Just a bunch of "me too" games trying to be something special and failing. The glory days of the BG series are long gone, and I doubt we'll ever see something as engrossing or well done again until the developers start taking chances and thinking outside of the worn and overused box.
