I personally don't see much of a difference betweem unlocking everything in ME1/ME2/ME3 in under 60 levels and MEA requiring over 123 levels to do it. MET required a new games + to achieve and MEA most probably also requiring one.
Nothing is forcing you to use the respect feature if you don't like it. Nor is the game forcing you unlock everything in a single playthrough. But then I'm the type of player who doesn't use respec and often leave skill points unused because I got everything I wanted already.
I personally don't see much of a difference betweem unlocking everything in ME1/ME2/ME3 in under 60 levels and MEA requiring over 123 levels to do it.
As pointed out I miss the old ME where you explored space instead of your sexual orientation.
ME4 is supposed to continue ME1, not ME2 and not ME3 - more RPG, less shootin' and whatnot. And more Mako.
Seems, by social network trolling from Bioware employees, ME4 will be even less RPG than ME2 was and Mako will now emulate GTA5 boredom instead of being fun bump_around. Sure, there are millions who bought GTA rubbish with bald tyres and icy roads, but to me that game is yet another carracer crap while ME1 had something unique. Frustrating for some perhaps, challenging and fun for me.
I hope the reviews will clearly state that Bioware lost its top spot in visuals in RPGs (especially face/hair) to CDPR and is now trailing by far.
I hope the reviews will clearly state that Bioware lost its top spot in visuals in RPGs (especially face/hair)
ME, DAO and DA2 look "old" by the time they released. Low textures, low poly meshes for 2007, 2009 and 2011. DA2 had Dark Souls, The Witcher 2 and Skyrim that released the same year too (really showed the engine age). ME2 was pretty good looking for 2010, ME3 wasn't much of an improvement over it in 2013 though.
In term of face/hair, anything scanned from real person looks good (which is usually what very good looking games do anyway), the rest had low textures faces. Hairs were like plastics too.
DAI was much better in term of landscape and mesh/textures, but the hairdo…arghh!
MEA seems to have better good landscape/mesh/textures and the hairdo looks slightly improved over DAI.
ME II was one of the best looking for it's time( still holds up pretty well, unless one of companions sneaks up on you in the dark)…I'll be damned if ME III didn't look worse overall.
Bioware still makes pretty good looking games, but they have noticeable issues with faces, hair and body proportions.
In fact, I know of no upcoming RPG that's likely to be more impressive than TW3 in terms of technology at all.
Horizon Zero Dawn wants a word with you… (although TW3 wins in term of mocapping).