When do you think Mass Effect will finally return?

Like I told Foley it's about context. anyone who has ever had a real adult relationship, whether casual or serious, can see ME:A's hamfisted writing for what it is, whether one likes the characters or not.

Just to compare it sounds like you had a flawless time with The Witcher 3, but my friend had the save game corruption after marathon play session of the game on launch.  I cannot verify his hour losses, but he said he lost about 30 hours of time in the game and that was on the PC version of the game.  After that he has an opinion of CDPR that a lot of people are saying about BioWare now.

I found a lot of the problems in Andromeda that weren't quickly addressed were ones that had a lot of variables to them.

ninety nine percent of the awkward dork crap is due to player choice.

...i just said that?

you can though. Just click on other dialogue options where Ryder is not an awkward dork. For instance i was able to play my Ryder as a professional military bad ass who was kind of a 'Shepard junior'

Also i meant to mention this before but couldn't. How dork like Ryder is depends greatly on the romance. Suvi is the two awkward nerds. Vetra is sweet. Jaal is embarrassing. And Cora is the not awkward Ryder knows what he wants.

aside from a couple of wonky auto dialogue moments the game does not force you into anything.

I don't know....I really don't. It's hard to read the tea leaves on this one.

But I, too, love a good Underdog/Come Back Story. They're the best.

So, who knows. Anything could happen, including something great.

Here, Bioware sent you a couple presents...

I'm still choking on the concept that CDPR does better SP gameplay.

The stories of the Witcher games have been quite good. The actual gameplay went from interesting (1) to stupid hack'n'slash (2) to the point where I don't know about (3) because it sits on my shelf.

The gameplay in all 4 ME games, as far as actual combat and world interaction, is better than what I have experienced in either Witcher 1 or 2.

I agree.

The Witcher games have always had pretty bad combat mechanics. The story, facial animations and graphics have all been pretty damn good though with TW3 setting the standard for facial animations and graphics. Story is always subjective of course.

It's the first scene after Eos when you talk to your crew for the first time. Right after you try to establish some rules (Professional Emotion) and they just walk right out on you basically like, "ok whatever" and you're just standing there like a punk. That whole scene is very awkward.

Again, given the very nature of why you're there in the first place I'd expect the crew to have a fire under them and have at least a little respect for the person who shoulders saving every race on the Nexus. Drack of course is an exception (Krogan do what they want anyway). And I know there are more of these but I'd need to dive back in the game before I comment to refresh my memory.

For me playing a professional felt very odd. Given the description...

Professional: Marked by a square spiral, these are no-nonsense options that draw on intelligence, but are usually very formal and respectful without any tomfoolery.

...you'd think that being professional others would pick up on that and be professional back. Maybe I just expected too much from being a professional. I was leaning more towards a military feel and it just wasn't there.

I'd have to go back and look but I don't remember anything like that happening. I think I ended up picking something like 90% professional with the rest being logical (don't quote me on that). I didn't expect Shepard 2.0 but the damn crew needed to get their heads out their respective asses. You're trying to save the lives of not only humans, but every other race also.

To me this is where the game really falters when it comes to how npc's interact with you. Being a SGT in the Army I may have had to earn total respect from my soldiers but there was also a demand for the respect of my rank as well. So respect was 2 fold.

In the end maybe my expectations where too high...