Legendary Review ME3
Let me just say that this MAY HAVE SPOILERS. I'll try to keep it to a minimum but be warned.
I'll be adding more as I go through the game.
Mass Effect 3
First off, I noticed that the ages old bug that all your stats and skills still get completely wiped out when you first get to Mars still exists.
Since ME2 was barely any different, I don't expect ME3 to be either.
Like ME2, ME3s combat is quite a bit harder. Although in some ways very funny. All I have to do is point my weapon at someone and they go completely bonkers. Running side-to-side, back and forth so fast that the Flash would be impressed. It's almost comical. It also means that a sniper rifle is useless. Sniper rifles used to be my main weapon in ME2 and 3, but in LE? It's just gathering dust.
The UI in LEME3 is absolutely NO different than Old ME3. No improvements whatsoever. In fact it's a little worse as some icons in the quick-bar appear squished. Graphics are a tiny bit better and I'm hard-pressed to see anything else different at all.
The same new bug I noticed in LEME2 where my squad simply vanished is occurring in LEME3 also. I was with EDI and Kaiden on Jacob's mission and they both vanished once I went outside to get the guns back on-line. They didn't re-appear until the cutscene where I enabled the first gun.
It's been many years since I played an un-modded ME3. Was the planet scanning so obscenely slow? It literally takes over a MINUTE to rotate the planet to the back side. I thought we got a planet-scanning upgrade in ME2?
One thing I don't understand... ME1 has a bug that sets what's called a "bool flag" incorrectly in relation to the conrad verner "Intimidation" plot. A bool flag is basically a single variable bit that's either a 1 or a 0. But, instead of correcting the bug and changing a SINGLE BIT of 1 to 0, which would be simplicity itself... they instead wrote an entirely new scene with new dialog, animations, and story lines in ME3 to "fix" the problem? Talk about overkill.
For the most part, Legendary Edition appears to be almost completely a graphical update. I could have gotten the same thing from the ALOT mod for free.
