Some says it kinda disappointing, considering it took like 5 years for the game. Especially cheap animation and buggy AI that get stuck or repeating it last action.
And mass effect has always been 3rd person.
Yeah I saw the backlash across the net to the game. And I have seen some people claim to get through the game pretty fast. And that's possible since you can skip cut scenes and all conversations.
The animation... eh... if I wanted better animation then I'll play Witcher 3, the game that had a ton more money in development than ME:A. The story, lore and other stuff is really why I play. I was wondering about the multiplayer because I remember enjoying ME3. But that's fine, if I want to play real enjoyable MP with jetpacks and stuff, I'd just fire up Titanfall 2 again.
Though my asian gal looks like she's depressed all the time and since she seems to act like it too, it fits well especially in the beginning where so much emotional baggage gets tossed on a person.
I found the AI in combat gets stuck because it can't react well to players with jetpacks. It feels weird. Like Bioware looked at all the games that have jetpacks and decided to add it in without realizing how that's going to change the game. I'm playing as a vanguard with an elemental melee weapon, a shotgun and a sidewinder pistol (basically a spamable sniper with bigger magazine) and one power -Charge-. I found the AI tends to play horizontally and unable to deal with vertical play. Not a fan of the consumable elemental ammo. But since you can mod/craft weapons to have those elementals, that's actually not a big problem for me.
The crafting system and the modding system feels like it was pulled from different versions of Firefall. It works pretty well.
I brought the basic version on sale from greenmangaming and I don't regret it. I do think anyone buying the deluxe versions are being ripped off though. You get weapons and armor that I wonder if it lasts long in a person's game because you can craft better stuff.