Most Underrated Game: One Year Later

I think people incorrectly judge one Andromeda game against a whole trilogy in MET. Whilst I love the ME1 story and characters the rest of the game, actual gameplay I don't enjoy and don't enjoy going back and playing it. I'd put MEA ahead of ME1 in ME games I like and the only thing I think MEA fails on against ME1 is characters including NPC's on the crew. ME2 is a good game but its story, well really there isn't much of one. Find out who's behind the kidnappings, recruit some great characters, do their LM and do the suicide mission. I think MEA's story is disjointed and ruched but it's more interesting than ME2's (just know I'll get smashed for that comment. 

ME3 finally started getting the combat right to make it a good part of an ME game, its story is great but a bit blocky but some of the new characters were just crap (Diana Allers  ). Throw in some stupid war assets and trying to force people to play MP and then the stupid ending and yeah a great game and better overall than MEA but certainly not without faults that needed DLC to raise the bar. In terms of replaying the game I played ME3 more times than I can remember but somewhere just under or just over 20 times, ME2 4 or 5 times, ME1 <5 maybe only 3. MEA I am playing my 13th time and really its all about the fun of combat plus I like both Ryders and SAM and a couple of the squad mates. The missions for the most part are fun and the game universe is far more interesting and interactive than anything in MET. Graphics are better (once they were patched), the Nomad is great and exploring is far more enjoyable than in ME1 or ME2.

Anyway that's my two cents worth.

Also a big part of things is whether the player can stand the player character. This is the character they'll have to put up with all game, so if the player finds Ryder, say, unprofessional and that unprofessional...ness ticks them off, chances are they'll ditch the game. And it doesn't matter what they're expectations are when entering the experience.

You've changed what you've originally said from "anybody I see" to "people I know" and you've added in the "discussion first bit" which was never a part of your original post. Your pushing a game you like onto others on the off chance they might enjoy it, your "agenda" is not about wanting others to have a good time - it's more selfish than that. Wanting people to have a good time would involve taking into account people's varying taste, yet per your first post you're targeting "anybody you see who says the game is trash" (except it turns out you're really not), and the qualifier "anybody who says it's trash" doesn't take into account their tastes or anything else. Nothing wrong with this, just don't paint it as an exercise where you're only thinking about the other person.

The "face is tired" meme is not a joke, instead it's an example of bad writing. Or you could say the joke is the bad writing. Sure it can mean that fake smiling all day has left their face weary, but it is never used as a reason to go off at someone randomly without any context provided. And I have worked with people for 20 years and I have never heard anybody go on an outburst then turn around and say "sorry, my face is tired". So congratulations for working with some ... unique individuals.

I should address this because some people keep saying there's nothing wrong with it:

When people go off at someone they tend to say “sorry, didn’t mean to snap. I’m just tired” because it implies that they’re feeling run down, weary, a weakening of mental resolve which leads to them having a short temper or a lack of patience. If they’ve been fake smiling all day “Sorry, having to smile and kowtow to arseholes all day has left me in a foul mood. My cheeks ache, my feet ache, and a hot bubbly bath is all I can think of right now.” Here the foul mood is stated explicitly along with some causes. However, if someone’s face is tired maybe it just aches, maybe their muscles aren’t responding the way they should, but it doesn’t necessarily lead to a shortening of temper because different people have different tolerances. 

So if you’re writing and you write “yada yada yada YOUR GORRAM FATHER! Sorry, my face is tired from dealing with everything” well firstly the face being tired doesn’t necessarily explain the bad mood and secondly “dealing with everything” doesn’t explain the face being tired. So it just fails on multiple levels. If someone IRL snapped at me, then said "sorry, my face is tired" my response to them would be some variation of "suck it up and stop bitching about it". It's not an adequate explanation in my books.

I can’t believe people are even defending it. It’s a meme for a reason. I challenge anyone to find the line "sorry, my face is tired" in a published novel, and unlike Lebanese Dude's challenge, this isn't a challenge for just a handful of my friends.

Casual emotional Ryder is very "I have no idea what I'm doing". I think it fit the protagonists the best. It was my first character, I might be biased a bit.

Logical/professional isn't bad though, it come off as more "science" than "military" though. Or maybe it came off as that because I was Sara, lol.

First off no he isn’t. He is simply asking people to give it another chance. Also regarding the face is tired line, while it may not have been the best line what it implies is 100% accurate if you’ve ever worked with people.

"My face is tired" just comes off as weird sounding.

"Your face? Nothing else? Just the facial muscles? And how exactly did they get tired? Been opening your mouth for too long? Been sucking on something that you shouldn't have been? I mean, tell me how exactly did your face muscles get so tired, and nothing else? As a matter of fact, don't. I don't wanna know. But the second that you start shooting up there in ranks, I guess I'll know."

What is this so called "Mass Effect Magic"? Do we need yet another 20-25 hour campaign of gathering your group mates to save yet another planet? I for one am glad EA took the Dragon Age Inquisition-esque route and made it into an open world space concept.

It does not come with a context that makes it work, its just bad.  Maybe its a Canadian thing or something that makes sense up there, but it was a absolutely terrible line for most people. Go ahead defend the game I can and do, i like the game but the line is terrible a lot of the dialogue up to that point is terrible.

I'm willing to roll with its a cultural thing I dont get. But my initial reaction was a WTF who says something like that. Maybe a Australian wrote it, but that line is decidedly not part of my culture. hard to gauge things like that a persons norm might not exist in another culture, hard to say when you are in that culture since its just your norm.

Yeah, on access you get 10 hours free around launch. And the first 10 is the worst dialogue in the game, I wonder how much that influenced fan reviews.  I can't even blame people, if 10 hours in you don't like a game its 99.90% of the time safe to say the game isn't for you.