Listening to the reviews was a mistake!

Interesting. I walked the complete opposite path. When the game was still in development I spent a lot of my time trying to convince my more skeptical friends to wait until the game got released before passing their judgement. When that time finally came I acknowledged some funny bugs and facial animations but I kept telling everyone that the reviews were wrong and that the game was great. I wanted this game to succeed so hard that I tried to stay positive as long as possible. But the longer I spent in ME:A the more I saw through my own idyllic view of the game: I wasn't having as much fun as I wanted to believe. Not by a long shot. This isn't because there is one big issue I have with the game, it's because of a shitton of smaller things which, when added up, ruin the experience for me. The longer I play, the more of these little issues and design decisions I just can't agree with pop up. So I decided to leave the game for now and wait for further patches and DLC before completing my first playtrough.

I do want to make a clear distinction between myself and the people who are out there trying to burn Bioware to the ground though. The Witch Hunt we currently face is completely unjustified. This isn't the worst game of all time, not even of this year or quarter. Everyone giving it a 1/10 or a 0/10 is a troll whose opinion should, imho, just be disregarded. This forum, youtube, metacritic and other platforms of social media can really do without the anti-bioware shitposting. There are a lot of people however, like me, whom are still Bioware fans but just dissapointed with their latest games. (Didn't like DA:I as well, in fact, I think it's worse than ME:A). As long as this dissapointment is voiced in a calm and reasonable matter and is backed up with alternative suggestions for the future I see no problem with people voicing it.

I should probably also mention that while I loved the intense, cataclysmic feel the first three games, I also like the more light-hearted feel of ME:A. To me, it makes sense as the protagonist, unlike Shepard, isn't a professional soldier and is essentially untested. He/She won't act at all like Shepard considering within the first few moments of ME:1, Shepard was already receiving direct information from the Prothean beacons.

Also, while I've only been playing for a short while, I simply adore Sara and her "adorkable" personality. It almost hurts to play her like a total sarcastic jerk.

I did read your post but it didn't give the examples I was looking for, your on about some supposed crusade and people getting upset, you didn't give any example of reasons as to why it's happening though did you?

The thing is andromeda can very well be  viewed as a bad game, or even an abomination. If they've got their reasons, such as character creat.....I mean preset, or the unstable + unbalanced multiplayer, the animations, the reused story, being more limited in abilities.then I really don't see it as unwarranted and definitely not hate, but more so disappointment.

you really make it seem like bioware is this special snowflake developer that has people attacking them when it's always been there way before Andromeda ever happened. I can also show numerous other developers getting memed on (one of the examples I was expecting by the way) or getting mixed reviews. You have to do something wrong to get that attention, it doesn't just happen on its own and not because "it's popular to hate on bioware", do you even notice how most of those people played previous games of theirs?

its called a fan base. A fan base will be there to point out what is good, a fan base will be there to point out what is bad, a fan base will be there to point out what is unacceptable, and you'll have the fan base there to troll on others but they're far from the majority nor even enough to cause harm, not to mention there are bigger fan bases out there where you'll see much more of this. Bioware has it easy being the bottom of the triple A industry.

when I asked what classifies as a hater I was looking for examples like the memes, saying the game is shot but not explaining why, calling out bioware in harassment. Reviewing a game as bad isn't unwarranted hate to me, that's reviewing a game and pointing out that individuals issues. If they're giving 0s, 1s, 2s, 3s, maybe even 4s. I could see the case but there will be people that are that critical, and honestly, I don't know a lot of real critics that would even do that, at best you'll see most do 4s,5s and 6s when it comes to calling it a bad/mediocre game, which is where I have my own scoring point at. Regardless the score itself is really pointless to me and I tend to avoid the scores and look into the reasons for the score. I'm curious how many 0s there even are as I doubt there's that many so I don't see why it's an issue if one calls it a bad game, someone telling them otherwise doesn't change that and vice versa.

the easiest thing one could do would be to just ignore it if it bothers them that much, cause just bringing it up just brings more attention to it.

Some of the complaints certainly have merit.  However, the game is enjoyable to me and many others, despite all the criticism.  If you're already of a miserable critical state of mind, good luck with that and much of life; some folk are perfectly happy being miserable (oh the paradox).  I have personally enjoyed my time with the game despite its issues.  I have learned to think for myself and form my own opinion, but also that I am the filter through which or misery will flow.  It's up to me how I see anything, and no one else.

Paying $5 to try it out for the ten hours was fair imo. Then you wouldn't need to go by reviews to know it's not a good game.

Maybe because it's a 10/10 game? Makes you wonder why Andromeda is getting 5's and 6's - maybe because it's shit?

The main thing you are having fun. No need to feel dumb about everything. Cheers, and enjoy! I loved the game from day one. It is unfortunate that no mainstream site gave voice to those who were happy with the Producr and appreciated it, but there is nothing for it now.

edit: saw someone asking for the third PT, well, I am about done the second, I love it more than the first (it's NG+) and it will take discipline not to start the third one right away, as I want to see the next patch applied and see if it gives different skin textures. I was able to mod it in before 1.07 and I am in love with one of the presets that I want smoother skin on. If they don't patch it in June/July, I'd do the third round as is.

Cmon, BSN is pretty slow anyways.

Yeah, OP, MEA has a lot going for it. It's the biggest and most robust Mass Effect game and damn fun to play

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I like this human he understand!

The game in a polished state is a 8.5/10 in my view.
At launch, knock a mark off for it's roughness.

The launch reviews included some undeserved click-bait, but the lack of polish made those reviews easier to write.

The game sure is more polished now than at release. There seems to be very few glitches left for me now. Still I have enjoyed it immensely since the prerelease testing. And still am and will be going forward.