What's most important to you in a Mass Effect game?

I want to choose Romantic (NOT the same to sexy time) BUT it's not on your poll. And I always trust Bioware when it come to story&choice.

What about you OP? I guess that you choose Graphic and Animation (Which no one even care but maybe you do, that why you act very different from most of user on this forum) .

How is that even a response to his question?

What the hell is wrong with you, man?

It's fair to say that BioWare has a reputation on delivering on this. Yeah, BioWare screwed up here and there, but it's a learning process and so far the journey has been fun. Andromeda has some bad moments (some can never be patched unless it's redone), but that's a very small portion of the larger picture on the Frostbite canvas. It's was exasperated by the game-breaking issues up until patch 1.05. The version at launch for the PS4 was at best: embarrassing. That was almost four months ago. I came back to Andromeda at 1.09 and this is the version that should've been released. This is the patch for me on the PS4. It still needs polish, but it's good-to-go "as is." There are still issues about the inconsistency in the writing, but hey... that again was a small picture of a huge (and overwhelmingly so) canvas. I love Drack. I love Cora. I love Peebee. I see why people love Reyes. Peebee's loyalty mission is a standard-bearer as far as companion quests go. When you discover the Architect, it's epic. I love ME3 with all its faults as Commander Shepard. I'm digging being a 22-year old again trying to fill the role of a Pathfinder. I gave this game a 7 after my first playthrough. It really deserved a 6, but I saw a lot of the unpolished material that might get fixed. By 1.09, minus a few things, this is an 8. How the QA got this so wrong is beyond me unless BioWare had already fully committed to fixing it (which they are... that's not fiction. That's a fact) and they're still feeling the sting from the cold reception. Either way, the lesson is already learned because we are talking about BioWare. They may correct, over correct, under correct, but they try. They also released DLC for every title, sometimes a lot more than others, but they do for every title. Nothing has changed in those aspects. 

Escapism from reality in a fun relaxing manner but still feeling challenged with no real life threats whatsoever attached. All threats are in the game but I play the supreme within the boundaries of Bioware's fantasie layout. Bioware carved out a little niche I was very enamored with. Now they are becoming a carbon copy of other developers. But unitarily is in and diversity is out and being bought up by EA on that front isn't helping their creative juice flow abundantly or having much creative freedom.

Companions and Dialogue for sure.

1) Story & Choices
2) dialogues w companions

Ever wonder why games and movies both are rated by it? Are these publishers in agreement with their fans cause they seem to disagree when that's the first thing that gets put next to their titles.

i see just a bunch of salty people if they seriously let metacritic scores bother them but they're also not pointless.

Mine would be, I guess, story and decisions. But not main story and decisions. Interactions with companions and loyalty missions are higher for me than the main story. Reapers are cool and all, but without Tali, Legion, and Mordin there, the main story would be good, but not great. Having that story interlaced with relatable and lovable companions with interesting backstories and fun missions associated to each one is what makes Mass Effect better than many of the other RPG's and other SP games I've played.

World-building. Andromeda feels particularly shy in this area because they've left out a lot of secondary races that added a lot of atmosphere and intrigue to the game. I'm not a huge fan of Star Wars anymore, but when I started with ME2, I got that kind of feeling that there's this huge universe that will keep you interested because it's way too big to explain.

In MEA it also feels like we have lesser versions of the enemies than in the OT. The soulless Remnant try to fill the void of both Protheans and Geth, the Kett: Collectors and Reapers, and the bandits are just faceless goons that are no where near as interesting as the gangs or Cerberus from ME2. Angarans are just <insert new goodguy race>.

"Living is making choices" Captain Picard

Story, choices and interractions with your team is what makes a Mass Effect. Combat is fun, but everybody here's for the story. Le sexy time, well, it comes with the squadmates interractions, so we can't remove it. Graphics is another plus, but I can live without it, if the rest is good.