70 hours in, i cannot get most of the complaints. At all. UPDATED OP#2

I play all games on ultra, unless they start crashing for some reason, so yeah, Inquisition as well. I think Inquisition is gorgeous, honestly. I've seen other people's playthroughs where they played with lower settings, though, and the hair really did look awfully shiny and plastic. If that's your case, then I completely understand why you don't like it.

The shiny hair in DAI is if you don't have the shader up high.

again that is a really ridiculous standard to follow now that the genie is out of the bottle. All games have glitches and bugs and I'm sure most developers would have relished the chance to add things that fans wanted in the nineties. Especially since companies now...like CDPR and bioware...have given us quality of life improvements like adding more romance stuff.

Yes some companies abuse the privilege. Yes unfortunately bioware is now among them. But what choice do they have? 'Gee we released a game with a few too many bugs in it but alas we can't make patches because we will just piss people off' 'damn you're right Bob. Oh well. Better luck next time'

Which Shader? I am pretty sure I just clicked "maxed out" and went with it.

Folks, I'd really appreciate help. Here is a screenshot I have. What I don't like: Eyelashes are "block-like", the eyebrows look and hair texturing. Is there anything I should tweak in graphics setting to make hair and skin look less shiny and hair look more natural? This one has modded brows, but I uninstalled it, because they just don't look right, and now most brows are like dotted lines. I don't have the screenshots though b/c I did the PT with the mod, and the second I am trying w/o eyelashes and brow.

So, do you guys know which settings I can tweak to help with shine and textures to look less unnatural?

Or is what I have the actual as good as it gets?

EDIT: sorry, it refuses to get the dumb pic into the spoiler tags.

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The problem with the logic is that you keep saying DAI didn't have anything like that, which is plainly false. I've already given you an example of the partial mouse support, which is a basic thing in games since the 90s.

Do you want more examples? How about the search function that didn't offer any visual cues and had players searching all over the place until it was patched? How about the SLI support that rendered dust as opaque, luminous mist that wouldn't have looked out of place on The Fog, that actually obstructed your view in dungeons? The stick-on facial hair and eyelashes? The borked MSAA implementation that brought frame rates down to single figures? The 30fps hard lock on cutscenes that meant on a non-potato PC the gameplay was fluid and the cinematic cutscenes were jerky (that last one hasn't even been fixed)?

As I say, the relative level of importance of each of these is in the eye of the beholder, but to suggest that DAI had 'nothing like' MEA's issues when you couldn't even control your character properly is just being silly. There were dozens of pervasive problems on DAI's release.

As for the eyes - actually, it was (IIRC) just the human and asari eyes, and how noticeable these were varied depending on character and whether you dealt with them close up. So no, not all eyes in the game.

Of course, I'm not suggesting any of this is acceptable. But, Elfen's point is that you can't cherry pick problems from one game to justify putting it down and handwave away stuff in the other game. Not if you expect your view to be taken seriously, at least.

Think that title belongs to Breath of the Wild now.

You're in the minority about Andromesa though, so expect the majority of people to disagree with you. It sold less than its predecessors, got mediocre critical reviews for a AAA / Mass Effect game, and received even worse user reviews.

This forum is probably the only place on the internet where a majority of people will agree with you - but even some of these diehards are dwindling away as they realize their initial impressions were perhaps biased to an extent.

Sigh you know that minority argument can apply to both sides yes? In all the internet places there are plenty of people who enjoy the game they just aren't as vocal for two reasons. They like the game said so and are enjoying it. Second they are tired of defending their game to the likes of you.

Seems to me like you had a really bad experience with DAI. I admit, I played the game on a PC at launch, and haven't encountered any of these issues, so I wouldn't know these things. I also don't remember an outrage happening because of that.

Of course, no game is perfect at launch, and bugs are a given. I recognize that, and I wasn't claiming that DAI didn't have bugs upon release, even though I haven't encountered any of them. My original point was that DAI wasn't released in a half finished state like MEA. That's what I was talking about. It's a finished game with bugs vs. an unfinished game with bugs. That's why I consider them incomparable.

As for the eyes - yeah, you're right, "just" asari and human eyes. The problem, though, is that you spend the majority of this game talking to humans, and those eyes were painfully noticeable, at least to me. The other aliens look fine, which is actually quite perplexing. The fact that they spent more time on the alien models than human ones is really puzzling.

MEA wasn't released in a half-finished state. It's hyperbole like that that keeps some folks from taking you seriously.