Sounds good. I tried replaying ME1 recently but after playing ME2 it's hard to get into the older one. The charm/intimidate thing is annoying. As I understand it, you could get points in charm and intimidate without having to spend skill points on them, but it's much too slow a process that requires multiple playthroughs. Most dialog choices that rely on those skills require more points than you will ever have until late in the game.
The other thing that bothers me is of course the inventory system. It's frustrating trying to manage the weapons, armor, and all upgrades used by everyone in my squad. I can always just ignore certain squad members if I don't feel like using them, and thus reduce the amount of item shuffling I have to do, but it's still annoying.
Probably my least favorite aspect of ME1's inventory is how everyone has all four weapons even if they aren't trained to use them. That means when I'm outfitting my squad, I have to go to the skill screen, figure out which weapons they can use, then only give them better weapons of those types and ignore the others. And unless you're playing as a soldier, you have these extra weapons that you can't really use getting in the way and no way to get rid of them.
Combine ME1's skills and leveling with ME2's squad control, combat, and inventory (or lack thereof) and I'll be a happy man!
P.S. The other thing I noticed is that ME1 gives you XP for getting codex entries. Which means if you're obsessed with getting every possible XP, you have to dig down deep into all those "Investigate" dialog options. Great for your first playthrough, not so great after that. With ME2 I'm able to skip a lot of dialog without missing out on anything.
Now if they'd just make the "skip dialog" button different from the "select dialog" one...
. I couldn't care less about Liara/Ashley.
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