What score this game deserved after latest patches?

If I wasn't such a huge Mass Effect fan, I would have waited for a discount.

50% off isn't bad at all. The patches did somewhat help it out.

7 out of 10.

With being a Mass Effect fan and updates,
8 out of 10. I'm just very invested in the series but I'm very forgiving to problems they are willing to fix. It's nice to see support on the game.

I bought a new game recently, and played 5 hours. I regret it because it looked like something I would play alot.

You'll find some people say play past the first 10 hours and see if you like it after that point. My POV - if you don't like the set up, you'll not enjoy the rest as much.

If you could buy it used, try it out for acouple of days then return it before 7 days for a full refund. It's the safest bet money and time invested-wise.

if you read my post i was talking about one specific aspect of the game and talking only about the people i know on the forum.

which is its blessing and its curse.

I would say probably 7/10 at launch probably 8 now as a lot o the bugs that have been irritating me have been zapped but for the most part I'd have said it's always been a pretty solid game.

Not to troll but just because I'm genuinely interested,  what are the sources that you have which point out that the negativity on this forum is overblown? As far as I know we simply lack the overview Bio or EA have to make statements about the ratio of fans liking/disliking the game. But then again, I haven't really searched yet. I must say that, from a personal point of view, reactions to the game aren't that positive. From the eight real life ME fans I hang out with only two finished the game. The others were quite dissapointed for various reasons. Now the other people who might have bought it aren't going to buy it anymore. I'm not presenting this as an universal truth or relevant argument, in fact, I know that it's just a personal experience and nothing more, but I do wonder how that relates to the bigger picture. When I go to Mass Effect related social media for instance, like the official facebook, I also see a lot of negative comments. Some by trolls, but a lot by disgruntled and dissapointed fans. And yes, I do know that that doesn't say anything persé because we always deal with a silent majority. Still makes we wonder what the numbers really are.

The guy who wrote The Witcher books has been on record stating that he only sold the rights to CDPR for money and pretty much doesn't like video games and thinks the games are vastly inferiors to his novels because he thinks he's the next Tolkien or Martin. He doesn't like all the young people reading and buying his books. He doesn't relate to them because he's in late 60s or early 70s.  The things is the game made the books successful or more successful. Chances are more people came to his books through the games and it's the games that got it a Netflix series and without the games The Witcher would be just a Polish Game of Thrones knock-off series of books.

Back on topic: ME:A before and after the patches is a 4.5 out 5 (or a 9.5 out 10).

Yeah I know some people o other forums who feel that MEA is their favourite ME and whilst I wouldn't quite go that far as it's not mine I still like the game a lot as it would take a lot for it to shift ME2 in my eyes which is my current favourite ME

To be fair, the company itself may not be rookies, however the actual studio that made it is a new studio. It's Montreals first actual game on their own. Still think the game is a 6/10 disappointment but I can understand why it underachieved.

Yes, and I have seen the youtube videos explaining the timeline and difficulties and so on.   But there is a difference between an explanation and an excuse.   There may be an explanation why the game was released the way it was, but there is no excuse.   

I don't know how anyone can objectively score this game an 8 or 9. I do my best to objectively critique games based on a number of aspects. This game is average-bad in most of them. They do well in very little categories that I can justify any more than a 6 or 6.5/10 at best. I don't know, I guess subjectivity could be in people's opinions. I don't usually care what people score games, but for some reason this game...when people give it like a 9/10 I react like "are you nuts?"

Heh, according to this Razorfist guy he just blatantly ripped off Elric of Melniboné.