It came out today and I bought it!
It's on my Christmas list so we'll see if I have it in a month. (I can't believe I'm 26 years old and still make a Christmas list.)
We won't judge you too harshly, DMiller.
I too am waiting until after Christmas. In fact I'd just do a preemptive change of the above "we" to "I".
I'm sure this had been done to death, but for everything that Mass Effect gets so spectacularly right, it really is a sloppy game. For fun, let's run down some of the problems.
-Autosave is non-existent, meaning an hour can be lost thanks to a one-shot-kill.
-Face shadows are horrible.
-Texture pop-up is beyond horrible.
-Item management is unnecessarily painful.
-Mako has very wonky controls, turning can be a hassle and it jumps around a lot.
-Party AI is not very good.
-One-shot-kills. Come on now.
-Frame rate reminds me of Perfect Dark multiplayer at times.
-Elevators take forever.
-Re-entering the ship takes forever.
-The non-storyline worlds look like pallet swaps of each other.
I'd probably hate Mass Effect if I didn't love it so much...
Yeah, that's what I'm doing!
That's impossible. You not only have problems with it, you TALKED about them! That's something you SHOULD NOT DO!
The difference is, I don't talk about them ALL THE TIME.
A single game only comes out once, but a hardware maker's policy decisions affect everything on their system... if a game does affect others negatively in some way though a single game's decisions are worth complaining about. (my first thought here is "Myst and the adventure game genre"...)
Well neither do I. I only talk about it when the subject comes up, and well that basically includes any time Nintendo announces something to do with something online in any way... apparently.