Listening to the reviews was a mistake!

The setting was fine. Why not leave the Milky Way? That certainly isn't the problem this game faces, unless someone's a hardcore fan of the trilogy and simply hates to leave the familar settings.

The animations aren't the problem either. Not anymore at least. For one thing, based on my personal feelings, it's the dialogue writing, that won't go away. And secondly it's most of the companions that don't rise up to previous games. Not even the ME series, but Bioware games in general. And thirdly, it's the largely empty worlds, even as compared to DAI. There's only generic stuff in there. A whole lot of dropped in enemies and critters to fight, if you're so inclined, a few caches to open and a few generic ruins.

it is worth noting that facial animations aren't something I've ever cared about...still don't actually...but going back to watch some MET stuff after this 'controversy'...yikes.

For me it's just little stuff and attention to detail, body language, shrugs, head inclination, even the Asari in the background face-palming when he talks about his wife paying for his shuttle transfer off-world. Then you play ME:A and people don't even look at you while they are talking to you, you feel like shouting at them "Look I just risked life and limb to save your bloody friends, stop playing with the McGuffin on your wrist for just two damn minutes and acknowledge that I exist!"

Heh, did people just favorably compared anything related to a face in FO4 to Andromeda in any patch? Because I've played FO4 for an hour during yesterday's free trial, and my expert opinion of its graphics is: "Ye gods, run for the hills!"

Funny you say that, because I was thinking just how horrendous protagonists looked in FO4. I customized both, and ye gods, run for the hills.... pretty much what tuned me off the game. Thanks for the free trial, but... yeah, no thank you. Andromeda gals look like they are Aphrodite reborn in comparison to that nightmare, and actually...alive not made out of plastic.

Don't know about that there were a lot of good looking Ryder's in the forums despite the limitations

The FO4 characters look awful to me. I spent most of my hour in CC. The rest of it was walking around a house with nothing happening. i think I have seen as much as I needed it to get it that the Andromeda is even more brilliant than it appears when not compared to the other games released about the same time. I just really disliked the look of FO4, and that's even discounting that the one year old game did not recognize my extra-wide monitor and could not be forced to run in anything but a resolution I run 8 year old Origins in, and Origins looks better for gods' sake than FO4. I don't need flexibility, if it churns out plastic dolls that look crappy. Gimme living, breathing, beautifull chars in Andromeda... and a game that knows what resolution i can run on in 2017 by default. I did not spend $1500 on a monitor to size down a new game to 10 yo standard.

Really? That's all you did in FO4? And base your judgment on?

Yep. My character looked terrible and nothing was happening. It started in 600x800 pixels window, and I fought and fought with it first to get it to run in anything approaching the size of my screen. Then, just walking around the house gave me motion sickness. There was no intro, no cutscenes, nothing. Just house with a droid and a baby. I'd keep trying, but I was getting so much negative stuff in just trying to run it and creating a char, that I did not feel it was worth going on.

As as I said, good thing it was free.

It was a combined effort actually. Granting everyone early access to the first ten hours of the game, so any youtuber could spew their hatred certainly was Bioware's or EA's booboo. While all the while keeping the game as something top secret that couldn't be revealed to professional reviewers until one or two days before release. Also the company's fault.

People instantly homed in on bad animations and their political agenda conspiracies. That already divides the fault equally. The companies granting access to the wrong people and the semi professional haters having an agenda to fill their youtube channels, which nobody would have watched in the first place, if it hadn't been about a game everybody was interested in. So quantity reviews against quality that couldn't be delivered until the particular reviewer had time to analyze the game by actually playing it.