Why do people like Andromeda?

'cause it's a fresh story?

honestly when it first came out I was a bit skeptical, especially with all the rotten reviews and all it got when it was released.

I love the setting.

I love exploring new and different planets (unlike the barren wastelands that ME1).

I love the characters that offer new takes on familiar races. Peebee and Vetra are basically outsiders to their respective cultures and have a different and fresh takes on the asari and turians. The same with Kallo. He's a different from other salarians we've seen and isn't a scientist and/or a spy he's a pilot and a damn good one. Drack is my favorite krogan of the series so far. He's ancient and knows that he doesn't have much time left and wants the best for his people and knows his way isn't forward the krogan as a species but he's a warrior who knows how much the krogan has lost and others like Vorn and Kesh know how valuable he is because of his knowledge. Cora is a human biotic trained with asari commandos and has spent a lot of time around asari to the point she kind of idolizes them only to learn that they are capable of making mistakes that can last for centuries or millennium. In a day and age of real world scientists are mostly atheists to hear Suvi and debate with her about the faith and science co-existing, regardless of the players own believes or not.

I love the Nomad I think it's the best vehicle/mount BioWare has ever done.

I love the combat.

I love the crafting system.

I love the War table/Apex strike teams.

I will have to go in detail at a later date due to bad weather and a personal issue that I need to resolve right now.

Jet packs giving vertical movement.

I think MEA reminds me of dragon age 2. I loved dragon age 2 it was a fun game that had a lot of cool stuff in it like a character who changes dialouge and such based on choices. However it did have more then a few flaws. MEA was a fun game but had flaws. The biggest one for me is the facial animations but the patch fixed that. I preffered the combat in ME3 as well and some other things.

For people like me who can see past a few flaws if it is a fun game you should be careful of reviews. I held up playing DA2 for a while because the reviews were so bad and yet I have played DA2 more then the other two dragon age games. Now was MEA my favorite mass effect game? No it wasn't
Was it a good game though yes it was. I do hope they make another one with ryder that is a few years into the future so he is a little more mature and that we can still have our LI's carry over. I want my cora

Yeah these aer things I like about Ryder over Shep too. In that Ryder feels more huan in that they show they're emotions and an empathy with their crew. For example the mission wher yoyu go and rescue the Moshae an dyou discover wha tthe Kett aer really doing to the Angara. I liked Ryder's reaction and how they try to comfort Jaal by saying "we're with you we'll  try to stop this if we can" or words to that effect. I know they don't sa ytha texactly but what's going on in that scene when Jaal breaks down is effectively what Ryder is saying.  I'm not saying Shep didn' tdo anything like thisbu tShep definitely feels a bit moer robotic than Ryder emotionally. MEA may not have had th ebest story but like with the trilogy it stil had it's own moments for me.  Plan on playing again on my new computer once I've finished my latest run of the trilogy. 

I really enjoyed the crafting system and the ability to make some really cool weapons.
I added a energy beam mod to a Reverent assault rifle and instead of firing bullets it fired a purple energy beam that looked something out of Ghostbusters it also made the gun harder to aim and it burned through clips pretty fast, but it was pretty cool to be able to do that.

I like being able to add mods to weapons and armor that actually make sense and are easy to understand and I can actually see how they work. I also like being able to customize the colors on the armor to make them look cool or completely silly.

Now I absolutely HATE the War Table in DAI mostly because of the real-time in the real world aspect of it and it does effect certain quests that I have to wait anywhere between 5 minutes to 24 hours and in some cases when I got nothing to do I have to run around Haven or Skyhold or go to a region and do something to kill time or just save the game and turn it off. The War Table in MEA first off is basically playing the MP mode without leaving the SP mode and the operations only grant me resources and since I can have six teams and level them up and buy them equipment that is all I have to do and since none of the operations effect the SP mode I don't have to wait anywhere between 5 minutes to 24 hours for an APEX team so I can advance in the story. Also I like how they set up the APEX teams and they make me like a general.

-the combat (best in the series)
-the skill/level/class system- allowing players to pick powers buffet-style, apart from class restrictions, was nothing short of brilliant
-game is huge, lots of content and replayability (although the quality of some of that content can be inconsistent)
-some of the environments are legitimately gorgeous, particularly the Remnant vaults
-some good characters and dialogue (if somewhat less memorable than other BW or ME releases)
-MP and SP were better integrated (via Apex) than in ME3

Does Mass Effect Andromeda have issues? Sure. But nothing that I think couldn't have been fixed with some more patches and a few DLC like it did with Inquisition.
I think Andromeda had the deck stacked against it from the beginning in the fandom. First there were guys complaining that the girls weren't hot enough, and using them as an example of Bioware pushing political agendas, then upon release people dumping on the game for every tiny flaw, reviewing it into the dirt until it was shoved into oblivion.

To me, it didn't deserve as much of the hate as it got. I loved that the female characters are relatable and aren't fresh-off-the-runway character models like in other games.
My Sara Ryder is relatable on a level Shepard wasn't for me. Don't get me wrong, I loved my Shepard and I loved the story, but I didn't jive with Shepard on a personal level. With Sara, she is much more personable (less military background and rank may have something to do with that).
I really love that I can customize my Ryder's personality on a level I couldn't with Shepard. It always saddened me that we had more response choices in Dragon Age than we did in Mass Effect (depending on game comparison, of course). While I liked the Paragon and Renegade options, I find myself more fascinated by Lexi's psych eval based on my game choices. And it's something I hope they continue into the next Andromeda game (they will, they have said they cannot go back to the Milky Way, and it would be a waste not to continue Andromeda and just try to do better the second go 'round).
I really loved the combat system. There were some things I think they should adjust, like make starting class mean something. Class specific passive abilities would be nice, but something that comes to mind is in the original trilogy, members of the crew and team often made comments about whatever class Shepard was in the game. Whether it be the comment about Shepard attending Grissom academy as a kid with their biotic abilities, or Liara talking about Shepard's class on her little time capsule.
The team was endearing, and I genuinely felt my heart ache when I upset Drack picking Salarian leadership over a few faceless scouts. He did get over it, but him being that upset with me for as long as he was really stung. I just hope in future installments it means something. Like Raeka saves Drack's life as repayment in one of the future Andromeda games.
Andromeda at it's soul is a Mass Effect game. As someone who has played the original trilogy uncountable times over the many years since ME3 released, I can see it and feel it. I think when the next Andromeda game drops and our choices in the first game REALLY come back to bite us where they didn't as much in the first game... that will make a big difference on opinions.

Re-evaluating is already happening (for a long time already), latest example from reddit old.reddit.com/r/MassEffectAndromeda/comments/gkdyrt/should_i_get_this_game/ - yes yes yes..

TYeah I've been seeing a fwe moer positive responses towards Andromeda of late as well. Suer it's not GOTY materia lbut it didn't deserve the amount of bashing it got.

I liked the mako, the crafting, the combat.
Unfortunately this sort of game lives or dies by writing.

I liked Andromeda because it was something new, Shepard's story was becoming boring and trying to make Shepard's story fit around another set of enemies post Reapers was going to get boring. I also think Andromeda had a great starting point for some of the characters for I think Drax had probably the best first game for any secondary character in a BioWare game ever. I liked the fact that The Reapers weren't there. I liked it was a new idea for the franchise to try and not just run it into the ground sequel after sequel being pretty much the same thing for my experience with games it becomes The Reapers The Decapitators are now out to destroy The Council so they can enslave the entire solar system.

For me Andromeda was still a pretty good game compared to other games released especially at that time, it might not have been the best BioWare game ever made, but I think a lot of people went into the game looking for reasons to dislike it instead of going in neutral.