Were we Too harsh on Mass Effect Andreomda???

Perhaps they were more forgiving because it was the first game on the new engine (Frostbite) also their fiirst attempt at a more open world type game. I don't know but that would be my guess. Personally as I've said before though I don't have a problem with MEA now but I can see why a lot of people did at launch because it was very problematic with the bugs and animations. For me I'd say those problems are fixed but for other's that's a different story.

Apart from Cassandra, Dorian and Sera I found DA:I to be worse on nearly every level to be honest.
It seemed to me that in DA:I they forgot about the actual game part. Endless trudging across another landscape fighting repeating spawns of mobs was not fun, especially when the combat is not exactly great to begin with.

Probably explain why I never finished it.

Wow, that's how I felt too.

Probably like this? I've fallen through geometry in DA:I, but not near as much like I had with Andromeda where it could be anywhere. I went through the tempest (I've seen NPCs fall through it too), I've fallen through the nexus, elladdon, and anything else I can't remember since I haven't played since launch week. Inquisitions biggest issue was banter bug and conversations just freezing (characters would still move) and having to restart the game to get by, it was almost a guarantee every time I went to the desert to help the warden with the demon army. 

ME:A has many flaws, some so baked in that they will never be fixed. (asari clones, subpar voice acting, subpar companions) That said, ME:A is not a bad game. In fact, I enjoyed the bulk of it and would say it's a good game, but it's not great. So, yes, I think some critiques were too harsh, but would BW made all those patches without the outcry?

Mass Effect 2 had NO story.  Good characters, sure, but nothing held them together than Shepard's own badassedess.  They don't even acknowledge each others' presence, even when you would think they would at least remark that X is on board!

It completely forgot about the events of ME1, almost to the point where the Terminus Systems might as well have been Andromeda.

The Collectors, the supposed villains of the story, are barely in the game at all.  And the Reapers, that Shepard is supposed to be preparing to go to war with?  Shepard does FA about that either.  ME2 was basically Shepard depopulating the Terminus' merc population.  Poor slobs unfortunate enough to get in Shepard's way on the way to yet another daddy issue.

 Mainly, Shep is TIM's b*tch, running around playing gofer for him while The Illusive Man does all the thinking.

And believe me, Shep doesn't do a lot of thinking in ME2

"Ash!  Thank goodness you're okay!  Listen, the Collectors are behind the colony disappearances.  Find Tali, she has data that can verif-"
Bioware "assuming direct control"

"Hey Ash, long time no see. Wanna join Cerberus?  It'll be just like old times"

or

"Okay, we just plugged this piece of Reaper technology with unknown capabilities into our ship.  Now everyone be extra alert and watch for..."
*assuming direct control*
"...ROAD TRIP!  Everyone in the shuttle!"

Seriously, why did TIM sink so much money into discovering the Cure for Death for Shepard (besides "Shepard is the protagonist")?  Shep didn't do a d*mn thing any other merc couldn't do.  The Cipher?  Alliance connections?  Reaper expertise?  Nope.  Shepard is "a symbol" (nevermind a symbol everyone believed was dead)

Yeah, ME2 has some good points, but in the end it's all style and no substance.  Maybe MEA's lukewarm reception is people finally waking up to that.

I only fell through the map once and it was because of a mod. I use the iron man mod and stupidly fast travled while flying.

Please no. 
Mass Effect 2 is without a single doubt in my mind the worst Mass Effect game so far(not counting the mobile games obviously). The less like ME2 the game is, the better. 

^^ this. The story was all over the place and had little relevance to the reaper threat. Plus I dispise ME2 the most for turning the franchise into a GoW corridor shooter.

to get really nitpicky as well, ME1s armor design looked better than 2+3.

Completely agree with this, and your other post on ME2. One reason why The Witcher (that's me btw!  ) get's more props is because that instilled an upward trend of improvement in each game. Mass Effect went the exact opposite direction, I like ME2 a lot for it's characters and most of it's mechanics, but the Cerberus railroading and lack of story prevented it becoming a masterpiece.

yeah mods can do things like that and it looks like the preson playing in the vid is using one as well given the outfit they're wearing is not a conventional DAI outfit. I have and do use mods in DAI and have had strange things happen because of it but never a falling through the floor or anything.