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It's mainly the start of the game (the first 10 hours or so) which is so-so. I'm now 65 hours in and it has become a lot better, including the companions.

A patch apparently will be out soon to solve some issues including the facial animations, human/asari eyes and make the galactic map transitions skippable.

The main weak points for me are the slow moving plot at the start and the dialogue which isn't very natural and can be real sloppy at times, especially when trying to convince people of an opposite viewpoint. All in all it's still a fun and decidely Mass Effect game though.

I tried the veteran difficulty last night (since there is an even higher difficulty) and it went from faceroll to wtfpwnd!

Went back to story mode for now, guess it's for people have raid gear and want to do the chapters over for command exp/achievements?

Witcher 3 is rather slow to get into not only because the story advances rather slowly, but also because you gain levels really slow at the start. I hope you're not trying to complete all question marks, Cern, as Skellige has an abundance of them. I did most of them in Velen, but gave up in Skellige as needing to go to harbour (to sell) then sailing back out every 4/5 questions marks got boring fast. I tried doing all the side quests though, but still need to finish the game (I'm halfway into Act 3 I think). I love how the choices you're given aren't black & white and how you cannot always figure out the consequences of your actions.

Hey all,

No PS4 here either and also eagerly awaiting the new Mass Effect game! Witcher 3 is a really great game though I still haven't finished the (base) game.

I'm now playing SWTOR again (just solo going through the story). I didn't much like the Rise of the Hutt Cartel expansion, but Shadows of Revan was really good and Knights of the Fallen Empire so far is great (only got to chapter 5 of the 15 or so). It's got a good, more cinematic story with some nice updated graphics in the new zones, but the difficulty is laughably easy and there's no class story anymore, all classes go through the same storyline. I'm only planning to go through it all once anyway, but might go through some more class stories (Imperial Agent is supposed to be really good).

Hey Las, found an appropriate Reinhardt video for you to watch: https://goo.gl/0aWKt4. .

I preordered the game from GoG and played it for a few hours. It started off stuttering badly, but once I changed the res & uncapped FPS it ran great. I now only have a bit of stuttering when entering a planet's atmosphere, but nothing too bad and it otherwise runs fine. (For reference I have an AMD FX-8320, nVidia GTX 970, 8 GB RAM & game is on an SSD).

I find the gameplay soothing: just exploring, scanning flora & fauna, mining & crafting stuff. So far I've spent more time on foot than in my spaceship . All planets (all 8 I've visited) have been sort of similar so far, though one had weird bouncy tentacle blobs as creatures, kinda funny. Not sure how long it'll keep interesting, but so far I've been having fun (learing alien languages).

I also played Elite: Dangerous, but got bored fast (was before the Horizons expansion thingy though). The spaceflight in NMS is very arcady though, nothing like E:D where even taking off is hard (landing is done autmatically for you at a button's press, same with takeoff).

Couple more random thoughts:
The UI isn't great due to the hold mouse click instead of just clicking.
Inventory management is a bit of a pain, especially since upgrades share inventory slots (you can upgrade your personal inventory from dropships on planets though and bigger ships come with more inventory slots).
Finding crashed ships is cool, but you need to spend quite some resources to repair them so only do it on ships that are a serious upgrade (and not like I did for just 1 extra inventory slot . Ok, so according to the NMS reddit you can only find crashed ships with 1 or 2 slots more or less than your current ship and apparently you can use a beacon more than once so in theory you could get better ship > back to beacon > get better ship > ... (though that'd be utterly boring). You can also buy the ship from aliens landing at space stations, trade posts, ... though they are expensive.
While the textures aren't the sharpest, it's still a beautiful game thanks to the excellent use of colour.
So far the survival part is the worst part, collecting stuff to keep your life support going is boring. It's not hard since you come across the neccesary stuff on each planet, it's just really boring since you also need to dedicate some inventory space to it.
Seems like a lot of negatives, but I'm still having fun in the game which is most important (And somehow all stuttering has dissapeared now, even when entering planets. The more/longer I play the better the performance, so might be a caching thing or maybe a patch, dunno, buit game runs super smooth now).
Feeding creatures is possible and the 2 I've fed have shat rare minerals .

Thanks Las, those guides are cool, I only watched some for the heroes I play most (D.VA, Junkrat & Mercy) and I learned some new tricks.

Also was fun last night, actually went a lot better than expected , especially once we got the more evenly matches, those were really great. I still have problems countering a good Reinhart though.

I'm in the Overwatch beta and I've got one additional key if anyone's interested. Beta starts on May 3 until May 9.

Though tbh Battleborn looks like the better/funner game for me. Its PvP has some MOBA influences and the TTK is slower so you have some time to react at least (yeah I'm not getting any younger ). And it has some co-op PvE as well. Hadn't heard from it before, but got a beta invite and tried it out. It's from Gearbox, the makers of the Borderlands series and it has the same kind of (sometimes juvenile) humor in it. I liked it enough to pre-order it and it also comes out on May 3 .

PS: for a comparison between both, see this video and for a long(er) explanation video, see Totalbiscuit's video.