Drack, Peebee and Cora look MUCH better in this iteration. I mean - Peebee looks like she now has full-on autism, but she at least is exuding some sort of personality with that knowing grin.

God, this game is such trash. I stopped playing it. I *literally* couldn't keep playing. It was so awful.

@nativepixel: Yeahhhh.....that made my brain hurt.

@couly: yeah, it really sucks. Very very poor attempt by Bioware this time around.

Nabbed this. Thanks Gamespot!! :-)

@kdogpa: Millenial script, high school voice acting, forgettable characters.....and that's just the beginning. At least for players of the OT.

Examples of in-game dialog:

"I think I made him angry! Maybe it's because I SHOT him in the FACE!"
And
"Stupid shields!!"

Who wrote this trash???

First-party games?

I'm listening.

@inebriantia: *almost.

That about says it, IMO.

OK - hate-free post alert:

Why have they released separate patches for the, uh....'personal' versions of the game versus the Early Access versions?? What can we glean from the patch notes that are included for the Early Access patch notes compared to the patch notes for the owned versions?

Because it looks to me like - in the Early Access patch notes - they ARE addressing multiple facial/animation issues.

Could we construe this to suggest that PERHAPS they are having all their teams systematically go through the game and make the improvements that they weren't allowed the time to make before launch?

I would REALLY like to hear from anybody who has played the Early Access version in the last 18-24 hours with this patch 1.04 installed. How do things look? Any less jank? Any better (i.e. less fetal-alchohol-syndrome-y) expressions?

So - perhaps - does seeing the Early Access patch notes give us a preview of what they will be pushing out to the rest of us soon??

@xxmavr1kxx: Very true. Are some things inappropriate? Sure - but everything has to be taken with context. Aaryn Flynn's comments should have been taken in context.

Plus - to be honest - as a gamer girl and lifelong fan of the Mass Effect franchise - if I had been questioned by Bioware about what I'd like to see in a new Mass Effect game, I would have been lying if I hadn't said that I'd really like to see more scenes of intimacy/a more adult-style romance cut with my love interest.

I think CatholicJack needs to find a sense of humor. To read the comments about 'soft core porn' and take them literally w/r/t a new Mass Effect game is....dumb beyond words.