An awkward, janky game that I love to death. The combat is rather bad, but that can't distract from the fun characters, interesting story and phenomenal world building. Unlike other RPGs with bad combat, it doesn't actively get in the way of the experience or your enjoyment and mostly just fades into the background by the midgame. The side content, however, is rather bad. Some quests, especially the ones on the Citadel, are actually quite good, but they're the exception. Good ideas are buried under cheap execution and reused environments. Having played through pretty much all of it, I can safely say you can ignore the vast majority of it. It certainly shows its age, but that doesn't stop it from being one of the best games of the Seventh Gen, even without the sequels backing it up.