I got enough hours in this for first impressions... and man does this game feel outdated. The graphics in the dialogue scenes that you look really much in the Mass Effect games look in this like they are from PS3 era. Then when you travel around in the different environments there are moments where the game looks really beautiful. The combat gameplay is really good. Driving the rover is quite annoying and it feels like they have added the slowdown/tire grip loss so that traveling takes longer between places. The crew has some intersting characters in it (hopefully they get better after more playing hours) but nothing compared to the Normandy crews (ME 1-3).
** Well, I finished the game, and the biggest problem was the state that the game was in when it was released. There was so much freezing, really awful frame rates, glitches and I had about 10 hard crashes during the first playthrough (first one was during the character creation so it soured the experience right from the start). The first patch improved the visual side of the game but it also made the frame dropping a bigger issue than it was before. One thing that I've heard from the developement is that that Bioware's upper management decided to make the facial animations and human models a lower priority and outsourced those to a smaller EA studio in Romania. That seems so stupid to me since you spend so much time in the conversations and the the eye definitely focuses on the faces during those. Also the dialogue/lipsync/-algorhitms lead to some really unintentionally funny moments. Last one of those was in the final scene of the Movie Night sidemission when during the emotional ending to the questline one of the character's eyes started rolling around really wildly... Well I got some laughs out of that. I also hate it when the dialogue gets skipped in mid sentence because you accidentally cross some invisible line that triggers some other dialogue that ten starts going.
I wasn't a big fan of the quest lines that took place in multiple planets because you had to watch the same landing/loading screens so many times so you could go and pick up some item/talk to someone and then repeat the same on a different planet. This started to bother me especially at the latter part of the game when I had already done most of the quests. I just stopped doing the task-missions alltogether and just finished the story.
The Nomad-driving got better after I upgraded it but still the vehicle feels really underpowered and it looses grip really easily even with the upgrades so you have to use the slower six-wheel drive. The game has big flaw since everything is supposed to be new and foreign. You are the Pathfinder yet everywhere you go there are already tons of people there. And most of them are from the Milky Way so it really doesn't have the feeling of exploring new planets and looking for a new home.
Also the Kett are basically Collectors and they have similar goals to the Reapers and they basically make husks out of the people they take. So everything feels really similar to the original trilogy except the new race of aliens and the Remnant robots. There are quite much problems with the game but still it is a Mass Effect game and I found it pretty good at that. The crew and story got better and the loyalty missions were really good and had some humor in them.
The main story is quite short and most of the time is spent on sidequests and "exploring". The main story line got better and the final mission was good times. The gameplay/combat is the best of the series. The soundtrack is great one too and so are the weapon sounds.
Overall the game was dissappointment to me but it still has good parts in it that manages to overcome the big flaws and tecnical problems. Some of the dissappointment offcourse came from the hype I had built for the game during this long waiting period. Also it didn't help the game that I started this right after finishing Horizon: Zero Dawn which was so polished and fresh gaming experience.
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