Were we Too harsh on Mass Effect Andreomda???

Why are you shocked?
I was fortunate to play all 3 games at once, rather than spaced out over 6 years or whatever it was. That means my first memory of mass effect was not me2, which i dont think is true for a lot of people.
I like to think that means i can look at it without the attendant emotional baggage of it being my entry point.

Strip away all of that and you have what is described above: A series of character moments vaguely tied together with a nonsensical plot.
The combat (remember how useless biotics are), railroading in plot, planet scanning and mini Normandy piloting, lack of inventory and meaningful gun choices, stripped down progression system, binary choice in dialogue to hit the morality checks, ridiculous level design with waist high wall-o-rama.. ugh I can go on.

Still, you get to push that guy out of the window.