Pegghead said:
You want me to go into details? Well:
*The universe is busy, uninspired, uninspiring sci-fi
*The story is lackluster
I dunno, I've been a sci-fi nut all my life. Battlestar Galactica is busy, uninspired, uninspiring sci-fi. This is an original story like few we've ever seen and I feel it clashes Dune style science fiction with a Star Trek (TOS) twist which is absolutely awesome to me (and the other crapload of people who loved it).
*The characters were introduced so damn fast I had not time to get to know any of them (not to mention the fact that they just showed up without a nice introduction like say...Jade empire)
*The combat was boring
*Movement (both vehicle and regular) was awful
*The entire backstory and description for every single bloody race, weapon and planet was unvoluntarily thrust upon you ala text walls
As a plot device, I agree they should have introduced the characters more (unless you are talking about Mass Effect 2, in which case they weren't introduced because you were supposed to know them), but in Mass Effect 1 they didn't introduce them only when the situation didn't call for it, to keep you immersed in the gameplay.
The combat system is awesome and if you play on harder difficulties it literally becomes Gears of War with superpowers and awesome guns.
The movement system was basically Gears of War except a little slower (3rd person, A to run, A to go into cover) and the vehicle sections you are 100 percent right about. Not a game breaker though.
The backstory was NOT involuntarily THRUST UPON you. The game gives you a basic summary of each race through simply playing it. If you wanted to know about Asari mating rituals or Krogan battle techniques, you could check the codex, but otherwise there was nothing forcing you to read any walls of text.
*It is EXTREMELY overrated and was extremely overhyped
In your opinion.