Patience required

User Rating: 6 | Mass Effect X360
I'm not that far into it and the story hasn't really been fleshed out yet but my main impression is that this game appears identical to KOTOR style games except it takes place in a different universe. The gameplay is only slightly different in that its FPS although KOTOR offered that if you chose not to use turn based battles.

I'm almost curious if this game was originally intended ot be KOTOR III and they decided to go with a separate storyline ? If you changed the character models slightly the various alien species would fit right into Star Wars themes.

My only gripe thus far is the sheer amount of innane dialogue. Everyone you talk to has lots to say and you basically have to listen to it. In previous KOTOR games you could click through it which was nice but this one you're forced to listen to everything an NPC has to say. I find sometimes I'm just clicking "I have to go," because I don't have the patience to stand there for 20 minutes talking to one useless NPC.

I chose the renegade path, why can't I just pistol whip the person and get the info immediately instead of jabbering away constantly.

At this point I'm playing for lack of anything else to catch my interest.