Curious about the complaints surrounding Andromeda.

Yeah, it's really not that flawed. Just the lowest reviewed Mass Effect game, in the league of COD Ghosts and whatnot. It's reception was warranted by its terrible development cycle, and despite that, I enjoyed it, but boy - five years worth of waiting just for a disappointment, even another disappointment to some people. You sound angry, take a chill pill. Like you implied, it's just a game.

And that's it in a nutshell. I didn't go looking for a shooter, I was looking for an RPG with shooter elements. For me it's the first Bioware game I don't feel the urge to replay, to try something different, to look for something I haven't discovered yet.

There's quite a lot to be said in favor of MEA, such as not forcing you into MP, as ME3 attempted with it's galactic readiness system. Good job and lesson learned by the devs that it doesn't sit well with certain people to have to do MP in order to get the best out of your game. It's also that the combat is more fluid than it ever was before.

But there's also a lot to say against the game. The lackluster story, the weak crew, as compared to previous games. And last but not least, that you're no longer able to make your squadmates do what you want them to do. Make use of their abilities when you decide it's the right time to use them. That takes away from the overall improved combat, since your mates don't do much damage at all in most instances.

It's because all the slogging around had no purpose.  I've said it before, that this game was perfectly set up to make the side quests meaningful.  They could have made them have a direct influence on the colonies you were establishing, and then have the colonies grow or change over the course of the game.

Now you're not just doing quests for AVP points, you're doing quests because your colony may start a greenhouse, a science lab, etc.  You could have even tied which pods you opened to this.  Now you'd be looking forward to doing sidequests because you would want to see what effect it would have on your colonies and you wouldn't have to system hop as much because the quests would be tied to the planet your were on.

It was all there already in the game.

The game has/had some issues, but most of the criticism is out of proportion and not justified. I think the gameplay was great and I liked the story and characters for the most part. I don't have any issues with that. I would like to spend more time with my crew in possible DLC and continue to explore Andromeda galaxy.

There were some animation issues at release but they fixed most of them and personally I think the animation issues were not as bad as many claim. I only encountered like 3 or 4 major animation issues during my whole 80+ hour playthrough (e.g fused characters at one point and Ryder turning her head 180 degrees in one scene), the rest of the animation issues I encountered were some minor ones, like minor NPCs with stiff facial animations.

Many people also complain the game is extremly buggy. Personally I don't see this. I only have encountered around a dozen bugs in my playthrough (including the few animation bugs mentioned above) only two major ones were I couldn't progress a quest and had to load a save game. Rest was some minor stuff like issues with crafting certain items or finished missions not disappearing from journal and so on. So nothing really gamebreaking. I'm not saying there aren't more bugs than I personally encountered, but to say the game is a bug fest is IMO completely exeggerated. There are definitely not more bugs than in any other title that size. Just the handful of small bugs you would expect in any game.

The only thing that I didn't like were most of the small side/fetch quests. There were too many and they got boring after a while and distacted from the main and companion quests. They should have axed 30% of those small fetch quests or made them a bit more interesting and important to the main plot.

You can call me a crazy, but I think Zelda BOTW is one of the most overrated games of all time. Hell, every Zelda game is overhyped for no reason.

That also includes the Nintendo Switch. 

I agree with that - having the colonies change and grow as a result of doing side quests would be a very good thing, even if it was largely cosmetic.

Pretty much this.

Facial Animations - Are now basically fixed.  They're fine.  Eyes look fine.

Dialogue - Lines from the NPCs change depending on the type of lines the player is most frequently selecting.  This means that the dialogue is too variable to make blanket assessments of it.  Some of the jankier lines only sound janky because they align with the sort of dialogue the player most frequently selects rather than the actual situation and are avoidable if different dialogue patterns are used.  Also, this game is clearly meant to have a more humorous take on the story than the previous Trilogy.  This lighter tone was asked/demanded for by the fans after ME3... so Bioware delivered a game with a lighter tone and now those same fans are bitching about that tone... which just shows that they never really wanted a game with a lighter tone to start with.  and I'm convinced that if Bioware had delivered a game with a dark tone, the complaints would have been that the game was too dark.  The fans just want to complain.

Voice Acting is generally of very high quality... nicely expressive... not generally stilted and certainly not  "shrieky" or over acted (for an example of this sort of shriekiness I'll refer you to the scene in the Normandy when they are descending towards Ilos where the lines were delivered in a horrible over-acted way).  I've not yet encountered any lines delivered that poorly in ME:A.

UI - I'm having absolutely no problems with it beyond my desire to be able to sort the various Journal listings alphabetically within each category.

Dialogue (second comment) - No matter what range of dialogue Bioware puts into the game, there will always be a demand for a wider range enabling a wider variance of personalties in the main character.  I'm not against them continually expanding that range, but I personally am having no problem with roleplaying a less "renegading" character than Shepard this time around.  I really feel that too many people just refuse to accept that this is a different story in a different galaxy with a different PC.  Many are still locked on staunchly demanding a rewrite of ME3.  They loved Shep too much and want to duplicate him here and just can't adapt to anything else.  I like that my Ryder is a different person than any of my Shepards.

Yeah, you're crazy

... ah yes, the picture is clear now OP... Starting yet another internet fight was your real goal in starting this thread.  Bait... more subtle than usual, but still bait.

8/10 Troll points.

Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

People still debate ME3's ending my dude. The debate will never go away.