It's downright alarming buying a game to play another. MEA is shelved since April 7th. Waiting for a patch I don't trust will solve issues I'm expecting.
Well after playing it 4 times and spending over 500 hours on it, I needed to get some shepard back in my system. MEA is good in terms of combat, but Shepard is the protagonist that I want to be associated with. Now if only they could cut and paste the MEA combat system back into the trilogy lolol....
I dont know, im having fun with it and not planning to stop anytime soon. There are bugs of course which i didnt (or i did just cant remember) met in the previous versions, and most of the bugs i experienced are audio related rather than combat/gameplay. But so far i didnt think about stop playing it.
I certainly was affected by a good number of bugs and glitches, but they didn't bother me. Sometimes enemies would be inside walls shooting at me, sometimes they would be floating and completely still, sometimes my squad mates would teleport to my location (actually, this one happened all the time, in a way that I started to consider their positioning altogether because they would appear on the top of my head sooner or later), and other visual stuff, a bugged mission and a Vault problem that made have to return to the point when I got to Elaaden (worth of 5h lost I had to replay and re-explore). Even so, that didn't bothered me much. What bother me are mechanics. These are not really going to change any time soon, so I'm expecting this patch ... to see if it prompts me to play another time. If not, well, one can wait for the next game or jump in another franchise and forget this one. But I find terrible the idea of playing a game and before it even get 1 month old, people want the next one, not in spite of wanting to keep playing, but because this one feels like it might be skippable. Of course, I'm talking about some opinions, not the majority.
