Yeah its about where I expected to be, however, these are some of the most polarizing reviews I've ever seen. The consensus is that its a decent game with some bugs and lacking animations. Ive seen a complete split on story, characters, gameplay, and combat. Its bizarre. I love the combat so far, its a blast, its different and I think its jarring people, its not a refined ME3, its totally diff. The animation gripes are warranted, but becoming an echo chamber of pure ignorant drivel. Like that stair run glitch, you can't replicate unless you remap the default controls in an attempt to. Remember back when Assassin's Creed was a good and polished game? Remember how you if you want you can still
make things look silly if you want?
The facial stuff is a mixed bag, I still think its mainly an eye problem, obviously should've been called to attention a long time ago, but it is what it is. Mass Effect the trilogy had a ton of stuff like this. Remember
this? How about the bug in Mass Effect 2 that made you
appear behind Mordin like you were going to rape him? I think its blown a bit out of proportion, but its clear that this game lacks polish. A shame, but it can be attributed to a development studio whose only claim to fame outside of mass effect is BOOGIE, the EA dancing game. I'm personally having a lot of fun with it, but I can see people not liking it. If anything, my only real gripe is that the characters and world are gonna land flat. Mass Effect 1 had so many great Sci-fi ideas. Humans were new, great science-fiction with mass relays and mass effect fields, great politics with the genophage, and an awesome arking story involving robot gods who created everything in the galaxy just to harvest you as a surprise twist. There isn't that great world being shown to us here to break the fall of the shaky mechanics.
And on a side note, I'm sick of this game being prepared to The Witcher 3. It's all I see, it gets old.
The Witcher 3 is one of the best games I ever played, but its a game with
- A bigger team
- A Bigger budget
- More development time
- A studio who has worked on one IP for 10+ years with all of the source material already laid out.
- And it was a game that had all of its problems before and during launch as well.
TL DR version! The games reviews are all over the place, its gonna be a to each their own game, but the internet "le bad animation joke" memes are getting kind of out of hand. If you loved Mass Effect or even liked Dragon Age Inquisition, I think this game will be worth playing.