Andromeda is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Using metacritic user scores, the place where melodramatic gamers go to figuratively scream their heads off and act like it's worse than Hitler?

Ik, I was trying to make an immature joke.

Meh.

The game is still a laughing stock and it's going to be remembered as such down the road.

Don't think so.

Dragon Age 2 recovered in memory, despite the painful re-used locations.

I think MEA will do the same, a game that's much better than its reputation at launch. 

yeah I agree I think once DLC's come out assuming there are any of course and people consider returning to the game and see the improvements things will recover. We'll  just have to wait and see though. I really liked MEA and I really like DA2 as well. Neither game deserves to be trash talked like they have been. I just hope that Bioware don't give up on doing this sort of game and just stick to MMO's like Anthem which they may be in danger of doing if DA4 dosen't go down well. I need me some good SP RPG stories  in the style Bioware delivers so I want them to continue. 

... and that's the thing with humor... it's hit and miss.  That's what makes the opinions about ME:As one-liners just really opinions.  Some people love that line in ME3 and others really don't find it all that funny.  It's just a stupid one-liner.  Perosnally, I like the tone ME:A has.  I don't have much desire to play a really renegade Ryder because, IMO, a hardass renegade at this stage does not suit the story that Bioware is trying to tell within this game about a young and inexperienced PC stepping up the plate and getting a job done despite a whole lot of people around him/her who had a year to succeed and didn't generally making life difficult.

yeah humor can be a bit hit and miss. I personally liked those lines from Grunt but all those Krogan bit's were quite funny in ME3 and very well done as well.

In the case of this new trial, however, people don't have to stop playing after the 10 hours and wait for the game to be released.  If they decide they want to continue, they can purchase the full game right away and continue on immediately.

yeah indeed they can. But I'm glad I waited because I know I'd have wanted to jump straight in and play the rest of it anyway now that I've experienced it. But being a Bioware game and the kind of game I like I had a feeling that was going to be the case which was why i waited until the official launch. So I could play the game at my own pace and in my own time. Just as I do with all my games. I didn't like the idea of the 10 hour clock ticking down tbh on me either. To fully sample a game like what Bioware makes you really need time as games like Bioware's are better when you don't rush them I think. Mainly because you can take in the surroundings and what's happening around you. After all each playthrough is between 100/200 hours long games that are designed to be that long are not really meant to be rushed.

As far as the jokes and one liners go, I think the game would have worked much better if they just would have made it an option like sarcastic Hawke. There were times in the game where I had no idea what Ryder was going to say, and the paraphrase gave you no indication of what Ryder was going to say.

Look at the first time you meet the Angarans.

The Angarans contact you and you only get two options. Let's all stay calm (C), We come in peace (P). If you pick the casual option you get "Listen, sorry to show up out of nowhere, but I swear, we're the galactic good guys". This from let's stay calm.

Then when you go to leave the ship you get only two option again Lighten up (C), or This is a great moment (P). If you pick casual you get the joke about of things go bad and I get eaten, please destroy the vids. This from lighten up, and the response isn't even casual, it's a joke.

Then when the Angarans come and scan you, the first face to face words to say are, "Need me to take my shoes off", completely out of the players control. Not, we come in peace, not, I mean you no harm, not, I would like to see your leader. "Need me to take my shoes off"

Then when Jaal asks you why you're there, you get the options, You have a vault(C) or We come in peace(P). If you choose the casual option here you get "Our intentions are simple. We'd like to look in your vault and then we're out of here." This actually is a casual response and not a joke.

How are you supposed to even consider this dialogue option when you have no idea whatsoever what you're going to get? The answer can't be well, just choose the professional response all the time to be safe.

They should have just made the joke responses their own option, and had actual casual responses for that dialogue choice.