I'm too afraid to watch any reviews until I finish the game myself.
51% complete...51 hours played, 'gon be a long one.
Overall I am enjoying the game. There are issue I do have with the game, and facial animations aren't one of them. Maybe I'm too biased to know, but, they don't look any better or worse than most other games, and they're probably better than a lot of other critically acclaimed games. Examples? Iunno, any bethesda game, but nobody seems to mind there.
But issues, let's see...
- the crafting system is garbage,
- sam talks way too goddamn much,
-the multiplayer is a shell of it's me3 self,
-the profile system feels tacked on and only useful when you're past level 50+,
-bugs bugs bugs too many to even list here,
-call me crazy but i feel there's delay in the aim which makes targeting harder than it needs to be,
-while freedom in leveling is fine the classless system is simply too overwhelming for the first 10-20 hours,
-other previewers mentioned how chatty your squadmates are while you're out and they do chat, as big as the game is, it feels few and far between, not to mention there isnt that much recurring dialogue when you talk to them on the ship periodically besides "great job on the last thing blabla"
-wheres the damn music? it's there but it's so quiet i forget theres even music in the game
-as i feared, open world game = repetitive filler missions, there is good content, but as you can see from my hours played and % completed, there's filler.
-remnant Sudoku puzzles
-minor complaint, no option to change temperature to farenheit. YES I KNOW 50 degrees celsius is hot, but I don't intuitively know how hot that is, just a toggle in the options menu please?
-talking to random npc's you have to be in a very specific spot to even press the button to talk, and it leads to situations where you're running around circles to find the sweet spot just to engage in dialogue
-shops only stock ONE augmentation, and when you want say...5-10 kinetic augmentations, you have to buy one, go to the elevator on the nexus to go to a random place, then go back for it to restock to buy ONE more. it's tedious, and not fun gameplay. Wouldn't be a problem if you could...
-NO CRAFTING AUGS, this confused me and goes to the shitty crafting system. you research an aug, you expect to be able to spend resources to then develop it? NO, you get one free copy for research (related bug mention, bio converter will not give you a free copy its bugged so you have to spend remnant research for some shield aug which will then award you your bio converter), which gives you the privlidge of...making them? no, finding them randomly in the world. if you want an aug, research it immediately and hope you get lucky enough to find a second or third one if you need them.
-cryo perks that give you periotic rewards. they're on a 45 minute timer, and you must be on your damn ship at the avp station to press the button, they don't stack, so if you're on planet for 4 hours and come to collect a reward once, you''re screwed out of like 5 ticks of that perk for not coming back in a timely fashion.
-ui isnt the most user friendly thing out there
-no control of your squad powers, this one is REALLY bad imo. fuck facial animations if you cant even CONSISTANTELY set up combos on command like you could do in the past games, it's inexcusable.
Angry mob of ea/bioware haters on the internet, you got your priorities wrong, there's a lot of legit gameplay problems that need more attention over some minor animation quirks.
Mind you this is my experience, your mileage may vary. Mind you, I do enjoy the game, but with as much time as I put into it, issues can start to pile up.