Listening to the reviews was a mistake!

Manveer Heir is the most recent example, but I think it started with Jennifer Hepler back in the day...

Every game has pros and cons. The hour's gameplay I get out of Bioware games justifies MEA buying even with all warts attached. Making up your own mind is inevitable which no review can compensate, is my experience.

Cudos for ultimately taking the gamble and try MEA out.

Playing ME1 now I am seeing a lot of similarities...
I like the storyline(s) and its development a lot more (just met Rachni Queen--such a cool moment, which has no correlative in MEA) but the "feel" of play is similar.
As are the frustations. Like at least collecting minerals and other things in MEA does have a purpose (crafting, habitation), even if tedious to complete, but in ME1 it's all about XP and credits--part of me feels like I have to get those data discs, and I do that some, but it is pretty frustrating to drive that Mako around just to get them. I abandoned minerals quickly.

Define bad. To some it is a rainy day, to some it is a sunny day. Bad is bad and not utter garbage and crap. I can still enjoy and play a bad game. And sorry to wake you up, but MEA received what it deserved and I have yet to see this "hate". I am not lurking in some dark shady message boards and reading every youtube comment, so maybe there is hate, but this forum, and the youtube vids that are linked here, there is no hate in it. It is full of criticism, some good, some not so good, some born out of ignorance because the person doing had no idea (so yes bad), but hate? One reason why this "haters" are so damn zealous are people like you, who label their unliking of the game and because they dare to say "game is bad" as haters.

MEA is playble, to some degree... cant count how often MEA crashed or I had to restart it because of some weird bugs, and on top of that, half the game is unpolished, unfinished, an alpha state game and we are not even talking about the subjective stuff like story and writing. The "bad" things about MEA are measurable and so yes, all MEA received was well deserved and warranted. And do not even dare to come with some BS arguments like "Bethesda has more bugs and noone hates it", thats BS, 1) Bethesda gets a lot of your so called hate for their many many bugs and 2) their open world games are on a whole different level... when BioWare would bring up MEA with this kind of features like TES or Fallout? Well, noone would bother with just one asari head model, the community would fix it in no time. Noone would bother with weird animations, the community would fixs it in no time. Noone would care about bugs because the community would fix that, soon enough (look at the unofficial patches for the TES games and even Fallouts). And I could go on and on and on. MEA has nothing, absolutely nothing, to bring to the table to play with the other boys in the AAA league.

That's awful for a AAA game. That's as low as most people were willing to go to ensure they get future review copies for EA if anything.

Andromeda is like the 70th highest rated PS4 game this year, to put its awfulness into perspective.



Edit: it's 82nd (tied for 87th) out of 130 games. That's horrendous.

They don't take bribes or anything. DAI was an amazing game by the time it came out, sure if it was released today it would've had the same reaction as MEA. There is a reason why Bioware decided to launch DAI before the release of TW3 because everyone knew it would be the gold standart.
Nonetheless it surpassed Shadow of Mordor and became GOTY you can't do it with bribes

This. also the young of age.
The change in tone is welcome and you can actually CAn be serious in your responses.

They basically do take bribes in the form of ad revenue for AAA games.  That's why many games - like Andromeda or Inquisition, will get a higher scores than they deserve.

kotaku.com/5893785/yes-a-games-writer-was-fired-over-review-scores

It has quite a lot to bring to the table.

Comparing Bethesda and Bioware is comparing apples and oranges. I certainly play them for different reasons, since Bethesda never had much of a story to draw me in. Most cringeworthy with lost son in FO4. I play Bethesda for the available mods and the exploration, Bioware's for the character interactions mainly. In my case, that's the source of my disappointment, since I hardly got the feeling of playing a lead I could immerse myself in and to feel at home chatting with my pixel companions.

I still call it a good game and would now rate it somewhere between 6 and 7. Which brings me back to reviewers. The ones I like and go looking for advice, came up with the same rating. The secret lies in looking at previous reviews of a certain person. Of games I already own, and to look, if that reviewers mirrors my tastes and my judgment of the particular game. Then I can say that they will probably look for the same things in games as I do, and I can trust them to not be entirely wrong.

If it's one or two reviewers true but not while you're picking GOTY

I was disappointed by Andromeda too, all I'm saying is that although MEA and DAI are sinilir, DAI came out at the time where open world sandboxes were not being overdone yet.
Your point goes for nearly every game really, big open worlds with little to do in it. It sums up 80% of AAA games that came out in the last 3 years or so

I hope you realise that it has won over 800 awards. It has nothing to do with fanboying it's simply a very good game, if you don't think so it's your opinion but you should know that you're the minority here and a very minor one