Were we Too harsh on Mass Effect Andreomda???

This will go well.

Anyway, Bioware were on a hiding to nothing with ME:A. It could have shit a gold brick for each person and people would have still complained.
Oh well, I like it so thats all that counts.

Yes.

Also, there is no we. I was not harsh on it. 

Yes.

When I divorce memeing/SJWism-in-muh-games from legitimate criticism, no. 

Thank you for your feedback, I will take your criticisms into account as well Yeah I agree that maybe if it had been delayed a month that would have helped a lot of the initial negative storm that hit them so hard. Its a shame because I really would have liked to see them maybe pull off a ME2 for a sequel. I think people are slowly starting to be more lenient on the game after several patches.  

Yes and no.

Yes because the game rightly needed to be criticized for it's shortcomings.

No because the overall outcry by people was atrocious and what I hate most about gaming culture sometimes.

No.

Personally, I think the game simply wasn't ready to be released. The backlash it got was in that sense justified, if only so that Bioware will hopefully never release an unfinished game again. Problem with this situation however is that the reviews and meme-vids will not cease to exist whilst the state of the game does change. You can only make one first impression you know? The meme-vids were always a bit over the top and are now not accurate anymore at all, but I still believe that Bioware should've known better. They should've postponed the game and fixed the animations atleast. Even though that wasn't even the biggest issue with the game, it was the most visual, and it made it so easy for people to burn this game to the ground. I can't believe that Bioware did not see this coming, but what's a fact is that they didn't do anything about it and in in the end they really shot themselves in the foot. Can't really blame youtubers itching for views for capitalising on this mistake, even though I find it despisable. That's just how the world works.

But, after all these patches, I can say that the game has improved a lot. Its enjoyable, but still not a high flyer. I guess that for me its just a good game. Nothing more, nothing less. This is, of course, purely personal. I've seen a lot of people here who love the game and I'm very glad for them. I've also seen a lot of people who either despised the game or feel like me, and I can understand why. people need to understand that it's a divisive game. There is no consensus about this game being a masterpiece, just as much as there isn't a consensus about it being shit. Therefore I believe a grade in the middle is justified. And that's what the game received, even whilst being quite broken at launch. So I don't think the metacritic score was too harsh. It pains me that a Mass Effect game gets a 7, but I still think that it simulates the middleground between the 'lovers' and 'haters' adequately.

" Talking about Pathfinders being the first on the ground, testing planets, finding a suitable spot for colonies, etc. It looked like you were going to has some influence over how the Nexus grew and developed over the game.
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Yup I was exactly there with you as well! That is how I felt, I was extremely saddened that it was not really part of the final game

I think that most people who criticized the game tended to have valid points, which may or may not have been exaggerated(as they are for any game)

That said a combination of the memes being largely about animation issues in the game as well as BioWare being viewed as the "SJW developer" these days invited a lot of hate from third parties who never played the game but either saw one bad animation or that Cora had "tumblr hair" and went on a rant about how bad the game was.

Of course I still stand by my opinion that the game is the worst in the Mass Effect series, even considering the pre-EC ending to ME3.

I will be anxious to see that video! Let me know when you post it! It'll be interesting to hear some more in depth thoughts on it!