Patching a Broken Game, this guy says the truth

1. The franchise should have ended in ME3. There is no way to continue the story of the OT without resorting to canonizing an ending, and escaping on large scale leave large plot holes.

2. This is how EA always have done stuff. Doesn't work? Scrap it. (RIP C&C)

The problem is that guy is relying on that clickbait kotaku article as a reliable source.

One point that is completely true, is that the game is what it is at this point.

If your only issue with the game was bugs and technical issues, then yes patches will improve the game for you. Had EA given Bioware more time the game would have been better.

However, if you didn't like the story, the writing, the protagonist, the antagonist, the tone, or other major elements, patches aren't going to make the game any more appealing. Just like EA having given them more time would not have produced a better game in any of these regards.

yep kinda reminds me about the Medal of Honor Franchise. darn... at this point I would totally accept a canon ending of destroy just to save this franchise. But when they completely deleted the original BioWare forums from existence I saw this coming 

I've only really had one bad bug (the save / viability issue). Guess I've just been lucky.

Mind you I am playing so slowly maybe they have all been patched before I get there.

Its not being lucky or unlucky, that is the nature of an open world game with having a lot of variables. I could understand the game being considered broken if everyone was encountering the exact same issues all the time, but it seems a lot of the problems that people are using as examples for the game being broken don't happen to everyone.

I find with BioWare games the internet as a whole loves to complain about it because its all clickbait.  I have seen plenty of people that are enjoying the game and there are plenty around here the polls just after launch where people wanted to show the same negativity around ME:A as ME3 showed plenty of people that were "okay" with the game and better.  There are flaws within the game and there are just a group of people that want to bring every little video that might be negative around here to prove how right they are about the game.  Even look since that Kotaku article how many videos or "news" sites are using it as a basis of the game being put on hiatus with no proof aside from that. 

I would think he feels that way, but my problem is that people are using that saying "everyone should feel this way" which is not correct.  I think Andrew Wilson put it right when he was talking about how some people like the game and other don't.  I just wish people that kept making all these videos would understand that the game just isn't for them, but it doesn't mean that it is broken at a fundamental level for there are people that are enjoying it as it is.

Meh, I've watched several of this guy's videos and I take everything he says with a grain of salt. He's been very critical since day one, which is fine... It's his opinion.  However, it seems like the only complaint he really has is with the animations. Again, that's fine. Again I say, however, to call the game broken, and be as negative as he is about Andromeda by the animations alone, to me, is mind boggling. If he hated the story, or hated the characters or the setting... okay, then I understand his animosity.  He makes video after video after video that he repeats the same thing over and over again about how awful the animations are, and then admits that Bioware is working on them and improving them and they are looking much better after each patch. Then he releases a video calling it a broken game.

Again, I say 'meh' to this guy and his opinion. It's one opinion that differs from mine.

The animations at launch sucked. No getting around it.  Bioware could have just ignored the outcry and left the game as is.  As I said in a different thread, they are responsible for launching the game in the condition it was.  However, the Montreal team as a whole isn't completely at fault.  Bioware upper management certainly is.  The Montreal team has been hard at work since launch to fix the issues the game launched with, and I'm sure they knew about.  They've been trying since week 1 to make it right.  I didn't start playing the game until 1.05 and while a few parts seem a tad wonky to me, the game runs great, I enjoy the characters and I like the story. In no way to I consider Andromeda a "broken" game.

That's just my opinion though.

Ha ha ha.  That's funny.  Very true.  Maybe it's time for me to start my own channel!

Again, I don't have an issue with this guy as a person.  His videos are far too long where he repeats himself over and over again.  Like I said, if he was critical of the story or characters or setting etc. then I'd understand the amount and length of videos he puts out.  However, it's all about animations.  Over and over again.  That's his only complaint and he has nothing but harsh criticism for the game, Bioware and the franchise in general because of it.  His videos were some of the first "reviews" or complaints I watched after the game's launch before i could get a copy.  I heard what he had to say, said, once again, "meh" and bought the game any way to form my own opinion.  It couldn't have differed from his more.  I'm glad I got the game.  I'll be playing it again and I will always enjoy it.

Subjective.  What you seem to think is great, I think is mediocre at the best.  I buy Bioware games for story/characters and that is it.  As long as combat is playable then I'm fine with it.  That hasn't been a strong point of their games anyway.  This is the worst for me in what I'm looking for in the series and worse than even DAI which I thought was the worst in that series.

As others have said, patches aren't going to fix what I find wrong with the game.  They made the decision to move away from what I think made the MA series one of the best ever made and give more focus to combat and the open world aspect than anything else.  Most reviews that tend to be critical mention story/characters as well so I know I'm not alone on that front.

Like I said, It's all subjective.  You like it and I don't.  Nothing wrong with that.