Can we take off the hype goggles for a moment?

i'm not i already know it's not going to be good

I remember when ME2 came out, and the fan base was hypercritical of every new character announcement. "They're all too dark! They're all Renegade! ZOMG EDGY LINKIN PARK LOLZ" Then in the runup to ME3, the focus returned largely to the cast of the first game, and everybody was super mad that they weren't getting their ME2 characters back as squaddies. This was because contrary to first impressions, ME2's characters were -great-. Even the mediocre ones had their moments.

You have been here still for some reason after saying nothing but negative posts for the last 2 years. I still am puzzled why you are supporting the game. Unless you are just saying it to get under people's skin.

Just stop with the pessimism.

Sarfux,

We both know he has always been negative. I have gotten to the point when he posts in a topic, just to ignore him as he is always negative about something.

If you want something "deep" & non-"Mary Sue" then you don't want "Star Wars" in the first place. The whole concept, as someone else pointed out, is classic "good vs evil space opera" & you can't get more Mary Sue than that.

In any event, the OP makes one good point: it would be quite well if people would stop with the faux prophecies of either doom-&-gloom or bunnies-&-sunshine.

I honestly don't understand why people are so hyped about this. I mean, this is the company that considers the monolith to be a full op and the two different line of dialogue in ziost to be continuation of your personal story.

To me it looks like another Forged Alliances type story which is fine; I'll play though it for the story and to see what changes but I think a lot of people are getting unreasonably excited about it.

The big question for me though, is this: Has Bioware increased their QA staff? Because if this new update is as buggy as SoR (all the bugs in Cora/Underlurker, meat tree, huge lag, Rishi datacrons, etc.) it might make more sense to take about a six month absence from the game to give time for the bugs to get fixed.

Listen guys, you can bet your lightsaber I'm as stoked as the rest of you. This looks like the breath of fresh air this game so sorely needed. It was high time we had an expansion that wasn't just "mediocre story+level increase". And don't get me wrong, all props to Bioware/EA for actually giving this game another chance. But can we talk about the list of characters? Their descriptions have got to be the most mary sueish things I've read in a very long time. When I read the blurb for the first time, it had been copy/pasted, and my first thought was "nice try bub, but no self respecting video game company would be that cliche." Guys this is tumblr fanfiction level stuff. I'm not posting the specific descriptions because I like having posting privileges, but I think I can sum up my point nicely by saying that there is literally a character with the title "the dark prince" and an equally pseudo-edgy quote to boot. Now, with the exception of the new character list, I love the direction the game is taking. I just pray to all that is holy that those character blurbs were a rough draft, because right now I am legitimately worried you hired Stephanie Meyer as your lead writer.