I got the game the day it came out but today is really the first time I sat down and played it for a long amount of time. Most other days, I'd try to slip in an hour or two after midnight but since I usually wake up a 5am, I tend to fall asleep playing and have to go back to an older save.
Anyway, WTF? That whole lack of memory thing is actually the excuse they gave for not having a holster animation! I can't believe it!! I kinda got used to it but it just doesn't feel right. Do you know how tired your arms would get if you held a gun like that all of the time? I just came across that hot Krogan female (told you guys I'm not very far into the game). If my Shephard can somehow romance her, I'll overlook every single flaw in this game!
I'm starting to really enjoy the game, now. I guess I just got too used to the awesomeness that was Mass Effect 2 and these changes are kind of jarring to me. Even the conversations don't seem to branch in any direction. It's just questions and answers. I don't think I've had to make a single choice, yet. It's disappointing.
I guess ME3 is about the culmination of the choices we made in the earlier games. Add to that the constraints that current hardware and media have and it was obviously unrealistic for us to think that every choice would lead to an entirely different outcome. There were just too many possibilities. They'd have had to have made three different versions of Mass Effect 3 if they went all out like that. Still a great game but it has some questionable design issues.
And for the record, I would totally pay to download that holster animation. It really is that big of a deal to me.
