BioWare should have delayed MEA till N7 Day 2017

I think the game was intended for a new audience from the start, not the same fans of the OT.  If they got some, then great, but where emphasis was placed in the game is telling for what audience they were aiming for.

If I only judged it on everything but story, companions, and dialog I would agree with you, but if I add in those other factors it still drops to the 6 out 10 I gave it.  It's just personal preference is all.  I didn't like the three areas I mentioned and others do.  More time wouldn't have changed my mind or score in the least unless they completely redid those areas and gave them the same attention they were given in the OT.

I don't think that's the lesson EA is taking from it.

I'd say they were very aware the state Andromeda was and only released it when they did because they knew it wouldn't improve much with time. They just decided to cut their loses. So the lesson was that that Bioware team couldn't make a great Mass Effect game. And that's why that team likely doesn't exist anymore.

The actual early reception would have been better as there would not have been as many memes, and the early access would not have went over as badly. Also, once people get going on something they look for everything, so if there would not have been so much bad press early I doubt all of the social arguments would have occurred either.

Having said that. Even with less bugs and better animations, the game at it's core would have been the same. So if people didn't like things like the protagonist, squad, story, writing, tone, quests, world design, etc, more time would not have changed these. It would just have saved it from becoming the butt of so many jokes and memes.

A lot of things could've been fixed with a delay
•animations
•falling through geometry
•more time to balance weapons out
•multiplayer stability (absolute mess on launch and I stopped playing it)
•more time spent on perfecting dialogue
•maybe more time to get the UI setup better and to make the inventory system something that's worth being called an inventory system.
List could go on but most technical issues would've benefited from a year off. It's the meat of the game though that I doubt would improve by much cause the direction was already set in place and much of everything was already near finished when it launched.

Yeah, combat is the best thing about it, despite being dumbed down with no squad commands or power wheel. We all know that. Everyone praised that, meanwhile anything else is just above average, that's why it got the reception it got. Five years.

It's not good in your opinion you keep forgetting that.

Give the andomeda series time.
Me trilogy grew over the years.
Tali and garrus and liara were nothing special at all in Me1.
On the contrary on Andromeda the characters although first timers they all have depth.
On every bioware game the same things over and over
"it sucks, the previous was better".
Be patient!
(I also like the trilogy more but there is nothing wrong with andromeda)

OK. Then what, in your opinion, actually doomed it?

Really? Even if you go by the Metacritic critic score that isn't a terrible score. Second going by the responses here, Facebook, Twitter etc.. counterdict your statement.

You're starting to sound like suikoden. So this site and Metacritic are the only ones that matter eh? Nice bubble you live in. Let's just agree to disagree on that.

Fair enough.