I guess - some of the side missions were internally good (Tali's = pure win) but the actual layout of the game wasn't great in that respect. Essentially, most of the side missions were situated so as to basically feel like level-grinding before going to the final showdown. The "delaying the inevitable" effect. When you know what you have to do, those kinds of quests are pretty meaningless.
This is partly just personal preference as to how I like an RPG to be laid out. I'd rather have the side quests interspersed throughout the first half of the game for character development before getting to the real thrust of the main plot. Often that requires a more linear game, though.
And however they choose to make it, I'll play it. Only game I've been actually looking forward to buying since... a long time.
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