For anyone thinking about buying Andromeda - it's now $20 in the US...

And if you're on the fence, but for some reason you wish to shop at Gamestop and you haven't gotten around to purchasing MEA (AND you're browsing the Andromeda forums), do it! It's well worth the cash. Or quite a bit more, in my opinion.

The patches helped a lot, and underneath the warts* is a pretty fun game. Some dumb moments, some characters who are hit or miss, but also a lot of awesome Biowarey things. It's the most Mass Effect 1 anything has been for me since original flavor Mass Effect. S'a good way to spend a hundred hours or so.

*Mostly but not entirely sandblasted off by patching

Last day of the steam sale too. You can pick up the Witcher 3 for about 20p if you fancy it.

I have heard a lot of good things about Witcher 3.. I tried to play Witcher 1 and I actually hated it. I didn't like the combat system and stopped after about 1 hour lol.. But i have heard good things, in fact, great things about Witcher 3..

As for Mass Effect Andromeda, despite the negative criticism about it, i love playing it.. yes, there are about 5-6 quests which are bugged for me (i play on the PC), and those have not been fixed with patches. I really enjoy the combat system and the quest markers, and a lot of it.. I dislike Liam's character, but overall I enjoy it a lot.. I think it is totally worth playing it. I am hopeful they will fix some of the quest bugs such as collection quests which do not increase your counter lol.

I'm going to say it: Witcher 3 is incredible. I just can't get into it like you and many others. It's one of those awesome titles that just didn't grab hold of me even though I own it and still can't get past an hour into the game. It's a great game not for me. It's a great title to benchmark against for comparisons. I know I made the mistake of comparing Andromeda's missed potential to the Witcher 3's success of hitting the target. One day, several years from now, I will say, "Wow." like I did with Alpha Protocol. 

Also, CDPR fans. People can talk about BioWare fans as being melodramatic and maudlin... spend 10 minutes behind a group of them at a BioWare display. Swear to God, I'm bringing a taser to the next PAX South. 

I really do need to at least start the damn trilogy. I literally have the whole trilogy (DLC included) in my Steam backlog.

Of course, I still bought some more damn games because of Gaben's jedi mind tricks.