Wow, and after all that "this is our love letter to PC gaming!"-talk with the first one. Thats a really scummy move on their part.
But really, all things considered, the first game turned out to be kind of shitty except for the setting (generic plotline, easy combat, unbalanced classes, weird encounter balance, pretty bad writing (for video game standards), extremely shitty loot, horrible pay for cheats in disguise-DLC etc. etc.). It was fun to plow through once but the more I thought about the game as a whole the more disappointed I became with it. In comparison to BG -- the comparison that they drew themselves, all the time it was a very watered-down RPG experience. If they strive to make the sequel be even less than that (ME -> ME2) and cater to the console crowd then Im really not interested to see where they go with the series.