How could you say the story's not that good if you didn't finish the game?

I admit, Mass Effect has always has those stupid annoying things to it (mining in 2, driving on planets in the 1st one). But I actually think the story is pretty damn good, for a video game. 

Well, story bored me along, perhaps it got better right at the end. 

I have to admit that i am picky and i do not judge story in category 'for a video game'. Either it is good, or not. But again, it is my personal taste - I found as well almost all Hollywood movies to be bore, so perhaps i ask for too much. Usually game-play is my main focus, or at times atmosphere - the last game i enjoyed this way was 'Metro'.  

Also enjoying it. Music is great, loving the store and characters (yes I agree books usually have better story but its good for a game and the story is better than ME2). Insanity is fun with my infiltrator.

Mining is gone you basically shot a probe into a system and see if you find something. If the system is reaper occupied you have to watch how many probes you shot out otherwise they come in system to case you down. You only need to collect war assets for the final battle.

Combat is better than ME2. Ya its has a few rough edges but its solid (ie running to revive a buddy near a wall your character wants to take cover and not revive.) Glad they brought back upgrades and lots more guns. Also I am glad you can't just wait for your health to come back. If you get hurt enough you only get a bar of health. Medpacks only restore parts of your health. 

Ok I need to get back to ME3.

It pretty badly bashed on Metacritics as of now ...

LOL, 4.7 that's really, really bad, means lots of fans disappointed  

I never pay attention to player's reviews.  People bitch and moan about critics, but the Metacritic score is usually pretty solid.  The user scores are all over the map.  

Dominons 3 has a Metacritic of 82.  Although Dwarf Fortress has no critic reviews, so I give you that.

Yeah "reviews" are a tough nut to crack. I'm way more forgiving in my games. Things that someone might dock a game for like a couple points might not bother me. At the end of the day not matter how professional or not its usually just an opinion.

Your enjoyment of Mass Effect 3 depends largely on whether or not you enjoyed the first two as all. Or more if you enjoyed 2 more than 1 as its closer to 2. 

Gonna pick up ME 3 later this week. Agree i liked ME 2 better than 1. ME 2 i can replay it and still enjoy the game (minus the mining of course all agree that sucks). ME 1 was "OK" considering it was the first of the series, and introducing us to the characters, and universe. It was also plagued with the problems of being 1st of the series. Despite that i enjoyed it anyway. People called ME 1 a "beta" of ME 2. ME 2 was one of the very few games i thought was much better than the original. So I am glad to hear ME 3 is more like ME 2 as well.

I do own and play through DA2, and yes it was a disappointment considering I played through Origins 11 times, but after beating DA2 once, I can't even will myself to play it again.

hmm, I'm reading some more user reviews and it does seem like they rushed this one too. Less characters, less dialogue, less options, less polish. I trust users more than the obligatory string of 90+ of paid reviewers. They don't even bother to pretend anymore. If you want to know about a game's flaws, you have to ask the users (a decent number of them is enough to form a fair idea). 

I don't know what kind of high level strategy Bioware is attempting. What I can say is, as far as I'm concerned, it ain't working.

I stopped trusting players when they flooded the internet with anti-Fallout 3 garbage.  It seems like they find a few things they hate about a game, probably through reading about it, not playing and then go on some kind of Asperger hyperbolic tirade on every forum, and then the lemming basement dwelling troglodytes who find it hip to hate shit join in.

So you didnt even finish the tutorial part?

Your opinion on this is worthless.

So glad they brought the Faunts back! I am just listening to the music in my bonus content and looking at the art work. Gonna have lots of time later this summer to make case studies.   I seriously need to stop listening to the music and play the damn game GRR!!!!