Time for a compliment, EA

Not a bad game at all - but to say it puts other games to shame is a very vast and unfounded statement. 

Even as somebody who likes the game - I can't ignore glaring design problems like;

1. The broken research economy, 4 runthroughs and exploited for 2 months and I STILL Don't have more than half of everything researched.  The game demands like 10 playthroughs to get all gear to rank X.  All this focus on opening power diversity - but now gun diversity has been obliterated. 

2. Broken enemy scaling, play after level 80 and you're punishing yourself. (Weapons cap at 80, you can reach Rank 6 in a profile by 80 - it is our effective cap, but enemies continue to scale to 132, getting stronger while we no longer do.)

3. The fact that choices mean not a thing outside of narrow and unimportant  details - there is no real long term consequences to what you do.   I think the biggest impact in the choices is who shows up in the final run - and even then - I gave Velez Kadara - and yet Sloane still shows up to fight for me... like lol....

4. The fact that dialogue is short sighted - and often when you pick and option, what Ryder says after isn't even relevant to the choice you made.

The game's combat and environments are stellar - but as a whole this game lacks too much or does things in stupid ways that make no sense.  It is the worst game in the series thus far - and it could put other games to shame, but those games would have to be awful to begin with.

I've played this game 4 times, obviously I enjoyed it enough to do so - but having seen all it has to offer, and how it offers it all - I could never rate this game above 5/10, and it disappoints me to say that, as somebody who's bedroom is littered with ME products.  I love this series - but this game has alot more fixing before I will give EA any credit.

Variable based text in codex is something even I can do in RPG Maker with 2 minutes of work, I'm not even talking out of my butt here - the feature you're praising is something that takes little to no development effort - it's not really an impressive feat to me personally, but if you enjoy it then I'm in no position to take that away from you.