Another good opinion of MEA, its failings and successes.

yes exactly,
worlds not alive
dull, bland conent in exploratin
game not finished
feels empty
all the side quests are boring fetch quests
same ancient civilization technology thng, like protheans
same enemy, converting other species into them or monsters

very good video

a wasted opportunity

MEA = DAI

Dragons = Architects
MMO style quests - both
Marked for glory - both
Nomad = mount

Only you have the power to fix the world(s). Using the power of the anchor / Sam. The inquisition / Nexus all but smashed needs to rebuild and choices need to be made.

Both villains see you as nothing and put themselves among gods.

Boom! DAI in space! 😆

They were too afraid to upsetting the audience and it ended up flat. It's the old cherrycakes that are holding Bioware back.

Replace the likes of Walters with new people, bring in Scotts, Russians and Poles, if possible.

Like these guys, amirite?

So much this^

Every ME:A bashing video on youtube is basically the same crap regurgitated, yet people keep creating new ones like they've discovered some kind of epiphany...

Replacing people is not the answer.

The answer is making the game they want to make.

Of course, with that comes a lot more risk. 

Pretty much yea, game plays it safe, rehashes stuff that the OT has already done rather than doing something new. Besides that, I agree on the way the crew acts, everything is a joke, few instances are taken seriously, and the protagonist is given no respect which is poor considering their role.

Pretty much nails it.

the problem with this "action-rpg" is too much action, not enough RPG.

Some people aren't that eloquent, and so link to someone else's post/video/blog that accurately sums up how they feel

And some people prefer to simply dismiss others as "lazy" rather than come up with their own counterarguments.

Yup.

The game isn't awful.  It's far and away better than the dumpster fire that was ME3.

It's just very bland.

Counterargument to what? The OP didn't make an argument.

Video's an awfully inefficient medium for this sort of thing anyway. Except for the handful of people who add value as a kind of performance, all video does is slow down communication and make responding more difficult.

except way, way shittier

Look, whether you like the story and characters is subjective...don't like them, so be it. I just find it funny when people say the characters are bland and uninteresting when the first Mass Effect was entirely populated with them. Garrus was a C-Sec schlub, Tali was a plot device that sat in engineering, I forget how many "Wrex/Shepard" convos I had, and, holy shit, was there anything more vanilla than Kaiden? Liara was the most realized character of the bunch and Ashley had some edge to her at least but almost none of them became interesting until Mass Effect 2, sometimes even Mass Effect 3, when the entire story was structured around the characters and team building.

Garrus became Archangel the Badass, Tali was an essential Geth expert with a controversial Father who could get her exiled, and Wrex, if he survived, became an important clan leader and ally. Conversely, Liara and Ashley were mere footnotes in ME2 (not counting the DLC) to allow other characters to take center stage.

Comparing Mass Effect 1 to Mass Effect Andromeda directly I don't see how one game's characters are more interesting than the other but, again, my opinion.

As for the game itself, it's pretty damn vnersatile. Don't want to do "fetch quests"? They're labeled "Tasks:", don't do them. You think some of the side quests are boring? Not essential, skip them. Don't want to research/craft? Don't need to...just pick items from remains or use cryo pod points for caches on the planets that contain armor and weapons that level to where your weapon tier is at. You can have a fully fledged narrative experience while completing only essential main/loyalty and spattering in side missions in under 50 hrs, just like the other Mass Effect games.

Profiles bother you? Stick to one play style
Don't like romance options? Don't flirt.
Don't like planet scanning? Skip it

You can edit the experience you want