I'm not disagreeing with you, in fact i have this same debate constantly with people. I nearly got killed in work when I said Mass Effect 3 was an awful game! But then ofcouse the usual "oh its just the ending" and I have to constantly explain myself that the ending isn't the issue with that game, regardless of how bad it was.
Mass Effect 3 isn't exactly an awful game but I don't really look at it as a role playing game either. I look at ME3, DA, etc as adapting the idea of a RPG to a control scheme suited for a console. You lose a lot of the spirit of the genre in that translation.
