[SPOILERS] My (long) Andromeda final review

A good comparison to this is well really any L&O but for this example let's use SVU. Now I don't remember the name of the episode in question but just like this it had a plot and subplot. Main plot was finding out who murdered a lawyer. Sub plot was he was involved in an adoption scam that involved a couple who don't actually have their real child. What happened to the baby was never brought up as it wasn't the focus of the plot. Now in this case these examples are minor plot points or sub plots. Yes they should be resolved and hopefully in some way they will. However that doesn't equal bad planning or poor plot development.

This forum is hardly a circle jerk.

I agree with pretty much all of the OP's points. Most of them didn't bother me quite as much as they did bother them and I did find the gameplay better, so I am rating the game higher (7/10 for me) but I can't say they don't make valid and good points in that post.

Just because people disagree with the OP doesn't make them a biodrone.

Your post comes off like my kid does during a temper tantrum. It's why it's hard to take you seriously.

I love how BioHatedrones are reacting to the post, which is overly emotional, and has no solid points regardless (ME2 = 10/10, seriously?). It's as if you can have the right to blindly hate the game, but not love it... for some reason? Seriously, it's very easy to say silly things. So much salt.

Miranda shooting at a wall. I've had all the ME1 squadmates shoot at the wall a few times as well.

It's funny you showing it, because the gif clearly shows you making most of the damage and your companions just finishing off when his life was almost ending. The others are just generic pictures of companions attacking. I didn't say they don't attack, I just said their damage is laughable, and since you can't give them commands, you can't use them to take down specific enemies with armor/shields. That becomes especially true when you have to kill enemies that can only be attacked at specific moments, like the destroyer (can't remember if that was the name) or the Architect. In MET, like I said, I had to use my companions power to take down enemies with shields/armor. In this game, if you face a fiend, for example, you have to count mostly with your own powers and gun. 

Being emotional doesn't make me wrong. Yes, I tend to write with emotion when I really don't like something, but I think I have, yes, provided solid arguments. And man, ME2 was one of the most praised games of all times. Won many GOTY awards (I bet ME:A won't even be nominated) and has a score of 94 (96 on Xbox) on Metacritic reviewers (professional reviewers, not users). 

ME2 is a game that make standards. Every new game Bioware designs, people ask "will there be a final mission like in ME2?". I remember people asking this when ME3 was released and when DA:I was released. 

I made a trolley post about this issue to Iakus the other day...and sadly he did not take the bait.

The only bad thing i noticed about squad AI in the game was the unfortunate tendancy to hunker down and not engage the enemy unless ordered to do so. And sure they were pretty useless in Combat while Ryder was a juggernaut of destruction in MEA...but then that happened in the OT. And i rarely ever opened the power wheel. And Shepard had pretty much a three power limit. And when i tell my squad to do things they do it into MEA. My favorite examples were telling Drack...when he was in the party...to go after big armored targets...and when i charge into battle i often have Cora go in front of me.

And sure they trimmed down the tactical options for the squad...no power wheel...but they greatly enhanced the options Ryder has in battle.

And, as I have pointed out, the fact that you could give companions the order to take down specific enemies' weapons and armor already make them more useful than any companions in ME:A, it's not only about AI. 

I can give another example: When you face shielded enemies in ME3 (I'm not talking about kinetic shields, I'm talking about real shield, cerberus enemies), you had to use some sort of biotic powers to take down their shield or just shoot them in the foot. Or charge to make them briefly vulnerable. 

As I said, when you were facing heavily-shielded or heavy armored enemies, or enemies that required a specific approach (like those guys with a shield from Cerberus) your companions' powers had to be used, especially because I played as a vanguard, which have no real power against armor or shield. 

Vanguard especially required a good use of companions' powers because if you charged carelessly it could end in a quick death. 

I'm a pretty poor shooter player as well, mainly because aside from Mass Effect, I don't play shooter games. I don't doubt many players could solo the entire MET without ever using companions' powers, but that doesn't change the point that the fact you could actually use them against specific enemies already make them more useful than in ME:A. And as a pretty poor shooter player, I found ME:A to be laughable easy, especially because of consumables.