What REALLY killed MEA was...

Why are you still here commenting on a game you haven't even played?

Larian just gives another example on how things should be handled, shortly after the release of Original Sin II. Same as they did with 1. As did Obsidian with Pillars and Tyranny. On their official boards, devs engaging with users, giving hints on how certain features should be used and listening to suggestions on how to improve the games.

I. Am. Playing. The. Trial. Right. Now.

It is bad, if that helps.

Of course... but people who actually finished the game will always have a more informed opinion than people who have only played a few hours of it.  If one just reads a book jacket and tries to write a book review based on that... their review is far more likely to be inaccurate than a person who has quickly read the entire book... and a person who has studied the book in depth will be able to write an even more detailed and accurate review than even the person to just did one quick read of the book.  The problem here over the last few months has been with people who haven't played the game telling people that their opinions are arbitrarily more sound than people who have actually played the game... and that's just crap.  They also continually make "universal" type statements about specific contents in the game that are misleading because they are not universal.  Even after multiple playthroughs, playing something in a different sequence or not doing some of the quests but doing others will change the dialogue options offered in the game.  The wikis still have a number of "wrong" statements in them because what was assumed to trigger something actually wasn't related to that trigger at all.

I'm fine with people who sample the game and find they don't like it.  I'm not fine with being continually told that I shouldn't like it by those people.  I've played game 3 times through now... and I like it for a lot of moments a person who has just done the trial has no way of knowing about... and I still have a lot of other moments in the game that I'm sure I haven't discovered/unlocked yet.  I'm also not fine with being continually told (or having it implied) that my mental faculties are somehow inferior or that I'm the sort of person who's happy with a wake up not shitting myself (as was implied above by someone else - not you) merely because I like a game that person doesn't.  Those sorts of off-handed little remarks are just stupid.

No argument there. But then, the interwebs are full of bs claims about games. Neither MEA nor these forums form an exception, I guess.

FWIW, I'm not one of the MEA haters. I like both the SP and MP, in fact. I haven't finished SP yet though and, personally, will wait with any verdicts about SP until I have...

What is it about Liam that gets to people, anyway?

I don't mind him too much. At least he's not Jacob.

Hmm yeah I guess he is. Definitely better than Kaiden. That guy never grew on me.

In my case, boring as hell. Useless in a fight, in his unmodded state and obnoxious on the side.

At first Liam's misdirected enthusiasm made me not want anything to do with him but he grew on me over several playthroughs and now he's one of my favorite teammates. 

Your biggest issue however is you went in expecting and maybe even wanting it to suck. Personally I prefer not having to pause and tell my AI teammates what to do. I do see what you and others say about the Turians. They maybe aren't as varied in appearance but far from terrible. Please explain what you mean by on the rails conversation?