ME3 is the worst ME since ME Andromeda.

Likewise

I certainly like, nah love, all four games. It's just some are better than others. To use movie examples, I love all the Star Wars films but can still easily say Attack of the Clones is the worst. Even among favorites, one has to be the least favorite. 

Stating "ad populum" isn't actually a counterargument. Without presenting a more objective, falsifiable standard as a substitute, it isn't relevant.

You'd have to explain why ad populum is not a cogent argument in the case of entertainment media, where the primary purpose is....well....popularity?

You must have something, seeing as you applied a standard to declare that 50 Shades is "objectively bad". I've never read/seen that, but it seems to have accomplished the objective of being popular and making its author a lot of money.

Albiet, it is a critical failure, but if that is your "objective" standard for media, than MEA is likewise "objectively bad" compared to ME2, the one you say is "worst".

Unless your standard is arbitrary? 

I didn't actually state my opinion of MEA (if you want it, like most critics I'd say it's mediocre, opposite day or no). Where did I say "it sucks"?

le shocked gasp.

All the effort i expend waxing eoloquent on how awesome Andromeda is and how great the RP is and you think you're alone?

Personally I only like ME1 and 2. I can tolerate 3, more so because of the MP. But as for Andromeda, it's just so dull.

There are different things I like and dislike about all the Mass Effect games, but in the end none of them were as exciting to me as playing ME1 for the first time. Yeah, a bit of its intro sequence was taken right out of Top Gun, but watching it made giddy to start playing, even on subsequent playthroughs.

Then ME3 came along and let it all go out with a pathetic whimper, and MEA picked up right where it left off.

I need to go and watch the ME1 intro again to remind myself of the good old times, just as I occasionally watch the DAO intro to remind myself that Wardens weren't always bumbling idiots.

And I still hope that the next ME will, somehow, turn out to be great.

The wraith is better than the claymore, Jurassic world is better than jurassic park, ghostbusters 2016 is better than ghostbusters 1984, def leopard is the greatest metal band of all time, and breast reduction is better than breast implants. 

Now hole up a minute here I do pretty much reject the basic premise of these statements. And well most of this stuff was clearly either A. resolved in the actual game itself or B. set up for future exploration in the sequels.

And before the squeal of bad writing for that comes up lets look at what would have happened if ME 1 would've been the only Mass Effect.

The Reaper threat- unresolved
The Nature of Cerberus- unresolved.
The fate of the Protheans- unresolved.
The fate of the Council - unresolved
...
And this is just the major plot points that I can think of off the top of my head. We live in a world of continued serialized story telling, yes if those games fail to deliver and aren't resolved in future instalments it will leave people wanting but its also the risk we take because the rewards are so much more powerful when people hit home runs with it. In general, at least for me, serialized story telling will always trump episodic storytelling. But if Mass Effect wasn't a critical success then it would be just as unresolved as Andromeda...perhaps even more so.

As for the rest though even with the lack of apparent resolution (for now) we still have a terrific, inspired, RPG filled with a cast of interesting fleshed out characters with full written story arcs, a more realistic and nuanced protagonist then Shepard, interesting moral choices baked into the framework of both the side quests and main quests (though in this area perhaps the trilogy over all gets the win) and some pretty fun combat on top of it providing the cherry. I won't say that Andromeda improved on every aspect of the trilogy but they made improvements where it counted and held its ground where it could.

ME2>ME1>ME3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>MEA

I just don't think this is a very fair, or reasonable really, standard to have for any piece of entertainment let alone Mass Effect.  

Though it is also the reason I do tend to believe so strongly in primary plots/ conflicts versus secondary plots.  

What was the main conflict of Mass Effect 1?  To stop Saren and the Geth.  Did the game resolve that primary plot line?  Yes it did.  All that fluff about Cerberus or the Consort or the Council were just secoondary plot lines, interesting in their own right maybe, but not important to the overall game or its completeness.  

What was the main conflict of Andromeda?  To find a home for humanity in Heleus.  Did the game resolve this plot line?  Yes, it did.  All the other stuff about the Benefactor and Jien Garson and even the Kett to some extent was just fluff, interesting as it may be, had nothing to do with the resolution of that main plot and could be explored further in sequels as either primary or secondary plots on their own.  

And well I can spend all day probably thinking of examples in other media but I hope I have conveyed my point with at least some sufficiency.  In short if a game/ movie or tv show is not complete until every single plot line is wrapped up then there has not been a single major complete project through entertainment in something like...70 years.  If we were to use your standard.  

And even if we are to use your standard and apply it to Mass Effect and Andromeda specifically we do not know if they have actually abandoned it.  The trailer that dropped in December included references to the Arcs (even more then the ones we know about even), showed pictures of the two galaxies, and we were told by Mike Gamble that these choices were quite deliberate so there is a distinct possibility that they will continue on with the 'sub plots' set up in Andromeda in future installments so, thus by your logic, 'completing' Andromeda.  Now this could all be corporate speak or maybe these plot lines will be resolved in such a way as to make people unhappy and thus people will then go on to confuse their personal dislike with the writers leaving these plot lines unresolved (as has been demonstrated by the reaction to other popular franchises) but until we do know these things then we do not know how these plot lines will be resolved or not no matter if we are using your logic or mine.  

ME2
ME3
MEA
ME1
is how I rank them ( though in my case I haven't played the LE yet