What score this game deserved after latest patches?

Heh, I would describe my journey through Inquisition as being royally bored, then royally pissed. In Andromeda I was royally entertained, and that's what I essentially want from a video game.

Wow. Just wow.

Surprised that the majority is giving it a good score?

I'm more surprised so many people are giving it a 6. People are coming around.

There's a bizarre blind over hype around this game as if it's the perfect RPG or almost.

But no it isn't. Could be for you, but hardly for a player more demanding. On many aspects some past RPG did quite better. The only four obvious elements are:
- The overall writing quality has a finesse and efficiency level that few RPG can beat, TW1 does but very few other RPG. But this doesn't even include the TW3 main plot that is quite questionable.
- The world mini living, with mini events, mini scheduling, abundant use of NPC, a few more, is at a quite high level.
- The graphic pure quality and detail level. Not that much above AAA games but it is much above for AAA RPG.
- The card mini game, but it's not that well merged in the game. It's a filler and a great mini game and an ok collecting activity, not much else and not that major for the RPG.

But it cumulates weak aspects:
- The world isn't fun to freely explore, for example unlike games as Morrowind, Skyrim and many areas of DAI.
- The world is a very lame arena like or almost. Games as DAI or even MEA at a lesser degree, are hugely better, another more classic example for connoisseurs is Gothic 2.
- The game is weak on secondary activities, stealing, fishing, hunting, spying, sneaking, many more. Best past examples are certainly some of Bethesda releases, but some other did well too in their way, at least much better than TW3. This includes DAI, DOS, more.
- The combats are weak, they are really dev weak on action gameplay design, not awful, but far from pro as Bioware and many other. What to say many RPG did much better, ME2&3, MEA, DAO, even DA2, DAI not as bad than TW3, Gothic 1&2, more.
- The controls design, with mouse and keyboards, are a collection of absurdities, despite many games in past shown how do it well.
- The witcher sense is an awful gameplay mechanism, a lot of gameplay heaviness to implement some strict hand guiding, boring.
- There's no good tricks solving, no good puzzling design, no good exploration and progression trick design. Obviously Divinity Original Sin is a lot better on all those aspects, but in fact even games as DAO and DAI do quite better.
- You can say all your love about horses, it won't change that horse brings a burden in RPG by adding pointless heaviness in exploration, and explore in deep, in comparison of walking exploration. Beside adding an attracting feature the only positive is allow manage wide big areas with not too many obstacles so more arena like. Other than that it cumulates negative aspects.

I could add more, but the point is stop this absurd idea that TW3 is a perfect or best RPG for anything but combats. NO.

I've always been calm and in the hothead? That's funny. Also this forum is a better indicator than metacritic.

Oh I'm so upset you kill me.😂🤦‍♂️

To each their own, the point is the glitches and I include some terrible facial animations, problems with spawning, many more, was all just details. Main female character was at least some weird hero with some handicap, but also someone quite expressive and out of social conventions. From the glitch I made a strength, but common, it's just details.

The only single glitch and design choices that polluted a lot my first play, was the awful bad and unclear management of "no save". And it didn't help that I was enjoying combats only at a difficulty where I had pain to almost never die. But a second play changed the figure, and 8.5 looks fair and solid, when at my first play it would be more 7.5 or 8. But remove the glitches, I don't care, it must be done, but it can't change a rate I could give.

For the controversy, ME series point of view:
- ME3 9/10
- ME2 8.7/10
- MEA 8/5/10
- ME1 7.5/10

FWIW, swap the ME1 and MEA scores around and you've pretty much got my view of the series.

I would have give it a 8 after my first playthrough, now i say it deserve a 8.5.

The level of perfection is down to individual tastes, obviously. Outside of technical issues and glitches.

I never got into the Witcher. I have the first one lying around somewhere, since I got it on sale. I hated Geralt which doesn't make for a good start, so I dropped the game and decided never again to play a game with a fixed lead. So there's that. That game can be as good as it likes without me being interested.

With Andromeda it was the story, the characters and the lead not drawing me in the same way as previous Bioware games did. I found myself playing for an hour, just to save and quit before picking it up again the next day. I finished it within a month or so, tried my hand on NG+ and got bored again. So my score is obviously lower than what other people believe this game should get.

I want to be able to be more renegade but I think Ryder needs the opportunity to express negative emotions, period. The convo after Liam's post-loyalty mission was the only time when she really showed emotion beyond happy or neutral or defiant, at least in my memory. She rarely got upset even when things were really sucking for her/her family/the mission.