Should I play this now?

You mean, lettings us skip it like we can in-system? Oh yeah, and the goddamned landing/taking-off scenes NEED to a skip option, I'm so tired of watching the same goddamned scenes over and over again, it makes every single mission tedious, and is why I don't play the SP often.

To me the landing cinematic was a load screen so I am not sure if that would happen, but I spaced out and forgot they called the Forward Stations, so have all the Forward Stations unlocked so you can just fast travel to the main quests.

Oh, I agree that the system sucked. Just pointing out that giving in to the bad incentives isn't optimal play.

Or bioware should re-think not letting us skip scenes, or keeping ALL missions COMPLETELY on their planet of origin.

I don't really get these topics, TBH. All that was fixed in the ME patches was the technical performance of the game. So if you tried it when it was first released and thought "quality content, but BLEARGGGGGH! What the hell is my Ryder doing? That's not any kind of 'running' I've ever come across. Is she twerking, is she running, I don't even know." Then chances are you'll enjoy it now.

On the other hand if you didn't like the writing, gameplay, voice acting, or exploration well those weren't touched so chances are you still won't like the writing, gameplay, voice acting, or exploration.

I have played the campaign all the way through once (on top of hundreds of hours invested in Multiplayer) and although I found the campaign to be shallow and lackluster, I was ok with it because that was back in the day when we were still hoping for DLCs to improve it further and to bring some hope for the future of the Mass Effect franchise.
Now knowing that this messy thing is a finished product and that it might as well be the end of the Mass Effect franchise, I would say playing it through should be a pretty disappointing experience overall.

Might as well play it now. I saw in the bargin bin the other day and it has been patched a lot since launch. It might not be the trilogy but if you go in open minded you will be suprised at how fun it can be. In fact I think it is a damn shame that it is already in the bargain bin, in the long run people will begin to realize just how underrated this game was.

Well, ME:A is a bit weak on choices and consequences relative to earlier games in the series. Bio games are always weak at doing this onscreen, but ME:A's offscreen effects are weak too.

Play it, but expect no polished material.

hence the flop, obviously.

Just look for yourself.

I kind of want to play another run. I definitely did one complete run. Can't remember if I completed a second run or not. I do have an incomplete run. Thing is, I don't have the hard drive space for both it and TW3 and I haven't completed TW3 yet, so...