but personally, I could give two shits about facial animations. Even on my original playthroughs, I turned on captions and skipped through most of the voice acting, preferring to read it. I care more about what's being said than how it's being said.

I'm about halfway through my fourth (I think) playthrough of ME2 and I am taking my sweet time because of how strong the writing is. People bemoaned the lack of an expansive Citadel, but at least what they had there was great. Some great examples:

Salarian game salesman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2b-W6n07Y

Gunnery Chief:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2b-W6n07Y

And my personal favorite, Tupari Sports drinks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhSWswrXa-4

Granted, these are little throwaway comedy things but that level of care was evident throughout the game, regardless of how "important" the dialogue was. That was (mostly) tangibly missing in ME3 and (judging from some of these reviews) sadly I think that may be missing from ME:A too.