@rivaan I would caution against getting cool equipment just for the cool factor. It should help serve the character. Aegon has a sword because it's an heirloom reflecting his family's long history as military officers, stretching back to their feudal age. It's equal parts ceremony and practicality.
Salissa is a marine with a big gun and a big shield. Her whole approach seems to be about overwhelming force and more dakka. There's no character reason I can see for her trying to get something like a sword when most human military operators would be fine with more situationally practical omni-blades, power gauntlets, batons, axes, knives, or machetes and the fact that her shield is a big melee weapon already.
@PrivateVentures You might be seriously overestimating the skills of some SA engineers to replace and update both an arm and a leg on an experimental, one of a kind, prototype warsuit - that they'd probably never even heard of before - in less than twenty-four hours, while also fitting a new VI system in place. I doubt that his suit is modular, so I imagine they'd have to make new limbs from scratch, and I only said the engineers did patch repairs. Like using their omni-tools minifacturing abilities to do some temporary repairs to allow him to walk.
@PrivateVentures Ok, that's something I guess. Try not to just update and increase the suits capabilities without running it past either @MrDidact or I either.
@SgtEasy If you can get past bad facial animations, it's a great game. But, it requires character investment, willingness to grind, and of course, hardcore difficulty for full realism ;)
@SgtEasy In my opinion if they don't fix the facial animations the game is worth it even if only to see the hilarity and have a good time laughing your brains out, but can't talk on the story and gameplay since I don't own the game. Still I want to play it!
Personally, it's the facial animations that get me. But there are plenty of other problems that accompany ME:A. I've encountered plenty of glitches, bugs, etc in the game, and the story could definitely be better. To me, the exploration and combat are awesome, everything else is really meh.
But it's a decent game all around. Could definitely use some improvements in areas, but if you're a ME fan you should like the game.
Combat is better than it ever was in ME 1, 2 and 3.
Bigger open world element, so it may feel more MMO ish.
Weapon development system with lots of research. Really cool, especially augmentations. But Weapons, even in singleplayer, are leveled from 1 to 10, so there is more grinding.
Lots more grinding.
The faces are just about as bad as what everyone else has said, but I'm still having fun xD
P.S Go Male Ryder! I started as Fem Ryder, and immediately regretted it!! Nothing like the badass that was Fem Shep!!