Um, I haven't been reading the forums that much yet. So, sorry if I'm repeating what someone else said.
First: Game Mechanics
As stated, I felt the generator lessened, the skin complexions looked... off when in the game lighting. Or maybe Shep's just getting old, probably that.
I enjoyed the jumping and climbing and such, but sometimes to proved a huge problem for me. For example, I'm crouched and try to jump over it but it just moves me to the adjacent cover (and no, I wasn't using 'A'). That was occasionally annoying..
But I didn't think their promise that it would be 'harder' was true. If anything it was easier. I never had any problems, except for banshees. Those were tough SOBs.
There were far too many cut-scenes that I couldn't skip though. I love watching them the first time, but after replaying it a few times or reloading I really wished I could just space-bar.
The slow Shepard was really cool at first. . . then I got mad. Though that's just me being impatient, so not a valid complaint.
I really loved that Shepard could use all weapons, my adept was sniping people and then warping them. It felt perfect.
The leveling seemed enhanced too, I felt the influence of experience more. But there were far too many mods to buy, ALONG with the weapons enhancements. It takes a lot of dedication and research (and google) to find out which guns are best and which mods work best. I think having one or the other would have taken a little of the strain out of shopping and going to the cargo bay.
My Shep's eyes decided they.. would overlap everything. It was actually quite distracting, her brow just wouldn't stay on her forehead. It just kept overlapping with her eyes. Took some of the beauty out of the cut-scenes.
(Never take my space hamster away from me again)
Second: Story & Such
Character relationships were fantastic. They developed so emotionally and truly I cried insanely during half the conversations. I felt friendship and trust with the squad-mates, and even Javik felt right. Though I was sometimes surprised, I loved that the companions wandered and talked to each other, it was great hearing their banter and conversations.
I wasn't particularly fond of the 'new romances'. None of them appealed to me personally, and felt very abrupt with the exception of Steve. I felt very bad for the Tali romancers, who barely get her before the game is over. And even as friends, the magic I felt with Tali in ME2 seemed to. . . vanish? My thing was Garrus and Tali at the end for all three games, they were the ones that never doubted Shepard and stayed with her till the end. But at that last run, I wanted to take Liara with me far more than Tali. It's like their friendship had lessened and that was very disappointing for me.
There were a few conversation bugs. Kaiden disappeared for me at the final goodbyes stage. Vega didn't talk to me after EDI was acquired even though he did in a previous load. Eh, no game is perfect.
I was one of the people who saved everyone in ME2, and I have to say. . . Well done on all their cameos. They felt natural of the most part and I really enjoyed the missions they were involved with. Mordin's death was heartbreaking, but it was well-written and I wouldn't have had it any other way. Thane however, that was awful. I cried for anyone who romanced him, that was a horrible way to end a romance (and I'd understand why you'd pick Synthesis if you romanced him). Not that it was a bad death, in fact it was awesome, it was jut sad. Even more, no one mentioned it. With Mordin everyone mourned him, but no one seemed to mourn Thane. Yes, I know, the Citadel had been attacked. . . but he sacrificed himself and that deserved more than the. . . really badass renegade death of Kai. Legion's death was also well-written. Fantastic, and sad. Though same thoughts as Thane's death. Give Legion a little credit too. . .
The dreams were haunting, they were... quite emotional and well-done. Though I know some people didn't like them. I loved the whispers and just felt everything they were suppose to convey.
(I just didn't like EDI's design. . . I felt it could have been better. . . And I also thought she would turn, not on purpose. But that TIM had programmed Eva's body a certain way because the way he spoke to her. . I had thought he had something planned.)
Character placement in some places was weird in the ending for me. . Well, really just the flashes. Joker, Anderson and Liara for me. . . I'm not sure if it's a bug with Liara, I thought it would be your romance. . . Speaking of. . .
Garrus' romance was PERFECT. PERFECT. It was everything I had wanted. I have no complaints about that whatsoever. But the endings. . .
The endings everyone hates. It broke my heart. I trusted Bioware . . . And I'm so confused. The Synthesis ending was just. . . weird. Never in the ME series had I seen that coming. The combination was. . . just weird. I really didn't like it like so many. I don't feel like it made sense. To be, ME and Shepard was about facing adversity no matter what. Being strong and believing you could do something. The ending just. . . let me down. And I felt even worse because Synthesis seemed to be the 'true paragon' ending, but at the same time I wanted my Shepard to live. It's just cruel to the gamers, Bioware made a mistake and though I'm not in a position to whine about it (though I am), I feel like they approached ending Shepard's story poorly. You can end a story without killing the person. Maybe I'm a sap. . . but I wanted a happy ending.
Why did we have to destroy the Mass Relays? That just didn't make sense to me. As people have said, this series was about choices. But none of them seemed to matter.
Sorry to everyone that thought this was TL:DR
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