Wow, you’re a dumbass. Ever heard about first impressions?

“Now if I’m dead honest I have to say that this demo felt entirely like a Mass Effect 2 DLC pack”

I like this site’s brutal honesty,sometimes all the marketing and hyped up promotion clouds what the game is like and not what the marketing says it is.
Well done.
 

Combat in it of itself has greatly been improved to add in seeable gun mods,  more melee options, more maneuverability with rolls and such, and thats just what they have shown so far. By the way the workbench is not combat, its an rpg mechanic since you are basically upgrading your weapons along the lines that suit your needs.

As for the scope of the story from what we’ve been told it is far LARGER than mass effect 2 or 1. It is Shepard going to all the major home worlds to get all the races united to take back the earth, thats pretty epic in scope considering that they will be fighting, on land and in space, giant machine organic hybrids.

As for exploration concerns, Bioware has stated many times they will have exploration in place, but the mining is gone thank god.

Origin does suck though.

Anyways, I am aware that Mass Effect 3 indeed has RPG elements, and Mass Effect 2 did also. The point is that it has been toned down so as to be more accessible to casual gamers, and there is nothing wrong with that at all. My thing is that it’s not even being pushed as an RPG title anymore, which is what it originally started as. When you mention Mass Effect now you think of action adventure.

Either way I’m sure Mass Effect 3 is going to provide us with an explosive conclusion to Shepard’s story.

Thank you for respecting my opinion. Also please look at my newest post.

youre an idiot. the game isnt even out yet and youre making these assumptions that the story is dumbed down. shut the fuck up and wait for the game to come out before you judge it

But I’m NOT using Origin.

The combat looks great I’m not denying that for a second. Combat was better in ME2 than ME1 but I’m hoping that’s not all they focus on, otherwise it becomes a linear third-person shooter, which could be remedied party from the lines of dialogue if its conversation dialogue.

Nah I’m not pissed off (except about the Origin problem). I just weary of the direction that is being taken.

you’re seemed pretty pissed off about something so stupid…

Combat looks all the way better. Maybe not in most traditional sense of RPG, but Mass effect series has never been a full RPG combat series anyway, its been a RPG hybrid 3rd person.

The RPG elements you just talked about IS the combat. That’s the RPG element they improved on. I saw the video where they were demonstrating it and yeah it looked cool, but it didn’t do it for me.The setting is less of a vast space-opera adventure and more of a LOLZ LETZ SHOOT TEH UGLY ALIUN THINGIEZ. A galaxy that looks tiny in scope without the sweeping vistas an countless stories to tell. No planetary exploration with hidden treasures and missions. I want more to explore, more to do, more to find, I want to be influencing the world and the characters not just from the missions.HOPEFULLY we’ll see more of that later on because its still a while to go before the release date.

Thanks mate.