MaddenNFL64 said:
The people complaining seem to be the biggest fans of the series on GAF.
You guys think there's a chance you might have a change of heart when it's released?
I would love to have a "change of heart" after playing it. That said, I'm not vehemently raging against the game, just some of the choices being made appear profoundly dumb.
I thought the gameplay in ME2 was a step up, in some respects, from ME1. I hated losing the RPG-ish stuff for stat customization, but I still felt the game played better during combat. It's nothing to write home about, but it made combat at least feel more exciting. It seems ME3 will be building off of that again, and I'm glad that we're getting some amount of customization for approaching combat with the new weapons stuff. That said, the presentation for that still reminds me of something I would expect to see in a common shooter.
I think a lot of the secondary characters were really good, the dialogue system (red and blue aside) was still pretty decent, and the overall direction wasn't terrible. It wasn't headed entirely in a vein that would have stayed more true to the space opera of the first, but it was by no means a terrible game. It was more disappointing to see it deviating towards more commonplace solutions like cover based shooting, chunkier visual design, characters and writing that were far more pandering, and so forth.
There are some choices showing up in how Bioware is handling the property that have taken that next step of ME2 toward what we've seen thus far for ME3. They talk more about the action action action, focus too much attention on romancing, and with really odd designs like the cerberus operatives/ninjas/night sticks/combat robots/Ashley/Vega/so forth it just seems like a major misstep in logic.
I'm praying that the conclusion isn't terrible. I quite like the games, and I would hate to see it all end on a sour note. I'm just not seeing anything so far that makes me feel it would be to the contrary.