So upon my recent purchase of Dragon Age 2, I've noticed a slight trend within the present. Bioware makes awesome games let's nip this in the bun right now... BUT! It seems with their sequels they manage to improve on major areas and take a step back in alot of smaller areas. Now this is just a spur of the moment thing I'm doing so bare with me if I'm factually wrong. 
   Mass Effect series did see dramatic changes in it's sequel along the lines of combat, stream lining UI, squad mate interactivity(if that's the right word for it) and a more epic cinematic feel when it came to the story. But, along with fixing old issues, we see new issues... Some of the little step backs I would see in the sequel would be the actual feeling of the universe of Mass Effect at first felt grand and open then it's sequel felt more closed off and smaller. The Citadel didn't seem quite big enough as much as the universe always claims it to be this enormous space station/port. Exploring other planets on side missions felt almost point A to point B in many cases. RPG mechanics also felt less RPG in ME2 compared to ME1. I completely agree that ME1's talent points felt almost worthless when you put your 1 point to make a .2 difference in a biotic recast or damage % in weapons training but all the points did make some kind of difference toward the end game and the RPG felt very RPG in that game. ME2 had something going for itself but, it did feel like a third person shooter at it's core.  Hell crouching went away! Crouching! And one big step back to me and probably thousands of people... Is probably the terminator reaper you fight at the end... Not too imaginative guys. But ME2 is a solid step up from ME1 in soooo many ways, but it seems Bioware has this complete weird habit of making weird step backs on numerous small things.

:OI