@sackmanjones: Yeah, it's kind of a bummer when there is a game that seems good, good enough you should be able to find more people that can share the enthusiasm, and yet a lot of people just don't feel the same way. I don't know, I suppose if you compare it to some of the best games that have similar aspects to what this game offers you can complain, but what it does is good in my opinion. I said in a previous post that I am thirteen hours in, so my feelings can change, but the whole 'I'm not feeling it in the early portions of the game, maybe it'll get better' can only be the total opposite, or get even better because I have liked it from the get-go and that's to my surprise.
Unfortunately, I am still actually waiting for the moment to sink in where I think 'this game isn't as good as I thought it was', where I get bored of it. I hope that doesn't happen and I know it's a really pessimistic view, but with all the negative talk, it makes me slightly worried still. So far I have been really really enjoying it despite some of its flaws. Going on a tangent, a lot of people are saying the characters aren't great, but I am liking them so far. Liam is probably the only somewhat boring one so far in my opinion. The issue is that it feels exactly like what Bioware has done before, so the characters kind of feel cliche, as we've seen these kinds of characters in Bioware games before. It doesn't bother me much, but that's what it feels like to me.
I would even go so far as to say that as a first impression, I like these characters far more than I liked the original cast when they first appeared in the original Mass Effect. All of them beside Wrex really were kind of a bore to me, to be honest. For instance, I totally skipped over Tali's dialogue whenever she had something to say when I first played Mass Effect, but they all turned out to be some of my favorite video game characters in gaming by the end.
@zurv: That's what I've been doing, doing everything I can before moving onto the next story bit, and it's been great to me. There are some obvious things you cannot do on the first open planet Eos due to having to upgrade either the suit or the Nomad, so that's kind of cool that they make you go do something else. You're correct, though, I have only done what I could on Eos and haven't gotten further. I am about the leave it, though for later I believe. I can tell, depending on how many locations there are, this game will be much longer than the previous Mass Effect games and more akin to Inquisition.
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