Were we Too harsh on Mass Effect Andreomda???

I don't but it is through the intrenet hat I discovered ME in he first place and watching a couple of vids of it. Decided to give it a shot. I'm glad to say I don't regret it.

Completely depends on the game in question. If I like the overall content of the game and if it seems enjoyable to watch, I'd buy for myself. If it's not enjoyable, I'm not buying the game, plain and simple. 

I don't think that's true at all. People with extreme opinions tend to be the loudest. Most people, even Bioware fans, are conscientious and logical as well as emotional. You have to remember that the vast majority of Bioware fans don't engage on forums. They are quietly playing and enjoying (or not) the games. They're not spamming Twitter with hate or adoration, flaming forums or sending cupcakes. 

It's like watching TV, basically. It's entertainment.

Well, Bioware clearly listened when people said "Be more like The Witcher"

I mean, we've got graphic sex scenes in place of romances  

"More organic romances?  I don't think you spelled that quite right"

This game is like the Suicide Squad of Bioware, few people still think it's good but the truth is out there and it is awful.
Maybe it is not as bad as SS was to DC though, I might've been a little harsh. Hey the video is right!

I'm with you LK47! I hear you! I can afford those games, but I hate feeling burned. So I do what you do... and NO... I don't trust game reviewers at all. I use them to reinforce my line of thinking or help me see the positives that I didn't get or appreciate. There are some great reviewers out there, but I tend to watch actual gameplay videos. If it's a PS4 title, I'll watch my friend Paul play the game with him occasionally handing me the control for stuff I can do without failing too many times. I also liked watching him play the Last of Us, the Witcher 3, Horizon Zero Dawn and Uncharted. They're incredible cinematic and I can enjoy those a lot more than sitting next to Debbie (my wife) while she watches E! Bravo! Oxygen or whatever reality crap is on. (I fantasize about being abducted by aliens that just need a skin flake for DNA testing... no probes... I'm 45. I'm still reeling from my last prostate exam. I hate being completely organic. No Walters... synthesis is still a bad idea.) Anyway, I hear you man. You count on BioWare because that's your drug of choice and when it's bunk.. there is no real substitute. Thankfully, BioWare still appreciates its own name and delivered 1.09. It still has some missed potential, but I admit it sucks to be without Andromeda right now. I can't wait for Volta to get here for true 4K on a single GPU. $1600 for SLI that might not be supported is too big of an amount when that can be spent elsewhere like cigars, pizza, beer and weekend trips. Dude, I get where you're coming from.

NAILED IT. I'm here because I'm not on Andromeda and I really don't want to play another non-Frostbite/BioWare game. I love Fallout, but that's done and over with. I love X-COM, but that's done and over with. I love Far Cry, but again... done. I'm at my best when I get about an hour or two of BioWare instead of watching TV. It's been like that since Baldur's Gate and that's why I'm here. I'm not on any other forums. I just don't care or not invested enough. I have never really gotten into the forums until I noticed that BioWare wasn't responding like they used to do in the past. Most of the time, it was to collect screenshots or find a fix for an AMD/ATI issue. That's it. The less the communication, the more I come here for information. That's not cool. However, the up side is now I have some very cool, mature and KICK ASS members that I can ask to play co-op with or something. I don't need my anti-BioWare pen-and-pal friends from the gaming shop or even Paul and his beloved PS4. I've also learned a great deal from everyone here about building a rig. They saved me $4200. That's not an exaggeration and the savings could mean more. I started with a budget of $3500 and it quickly escalated (with chair, gaming keyboard with keypad, mouse, pad, headset, a cooling kit, etc.) to the point I was about to blow $7.5k Now I'm down to $2950 and I have a five-year solution that's going to give me what I want: the ability to see what the developers see. That's appreciating the art the best way I know how. I'm a nerd... I know it. 

According by who's standards? Yours?

I agree and while i feel ME3 could have ended with a more absolute conclusion, there was NO way Bioware was going to satisfy the outcomes of the player's decision throughout the entire trilogy. I think they was a bit too ambitious in that aspect, but the decisions you made did impact the game for the most part....if you didn't pick the right squadmates for the assignments during that suicide mission in ME2, squadmates would be be getting waxed left and right.

The decisions you made in ME2 (though minor is some regards) took affect when you fired up ME3.....i still think they did a decent job keeping a track of decisions that transferred over to ME3. Could they have tallied everything up to...."Since you did this in the trilogy you get ending A" and if you did this...ending B?....possibly.

I think because there was so many other decisions being made in between, is because they couldn't satisfy everybody's gameplay decisions and options.....still the star child felt a wee bit like a cop out when that storyline was venturing on the aspect of the Reapers being the creators of everything. It was really turning into something epic and much more bigger than humans in the universe, and they squandered it a bit with those endings....which wasn't bad, i just thought it could've been waaay better just with how Epic the Reaper storyline was and in how they was teasing their Godly status....

I suspect, when "Anthem" hits the shelves, people will start singing MEA's praises in comparison.

That's how is always works with BW games.

Previously, folks bitched incessantly about DAI's CC because UGLY HAIR. Now, since seeing MEA's CC, DAI's CC was the greatest thing since canned beer.

I still haven't finished this game because I don't care enough about the....oh good. I've forgotten the name of the sh*tty villains.

Were we too harsh? Gee...are we critiquing art projects of 3rd grade children or are we talking about 60-100 dollar video games we purchase instead of other items to entertain ourselves? This was a flaccid follow up to a fantastic trilogy. Five years of build up and anticipation and we get this boring half-assed meander through empty environments? Voice acting that sounded like they did casting out of a local homeless shelter? I just finished playing Mass Effect 2 and decided to replay the Witcher 3 next. Very different games that are both good for different reasons and both so much more engaging that ME:A.
You know how when you go to a fast food restaurant and the person there makes it quite obvious to you they would rather do anything else than serve you? That's the way ME:A feels; the people that made this game would have rather been doing anything else than make that game. The 'I don't give a flying sh*t about this game' just permeates it. Well, they got my money. So mission accomplished. I got suckered. But for me, it's the last straw. I won't buy another Mass Effect game because of how poorly this one was made; assuming they bother to make one.
So short answer? No, 'we' weren't too harsh. We weren't harsh enough.