Anyone else think Horizon might impact MEA's review scores negatively?

NPD, VGChartz sales data for just about every mainstream release for at least the past two years.

Predicted steam sales of Mass Effect Andromeda: O

I'm not calling you a fanboy, directly. I'm referring to the hype and anticipation around the game. It's a similar situation with Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. That is a good game, but it's not the amazing spectacle everybody was making it out to be. It also, like HZD, got a lot of insanely high scores from the gaming media and was considered a masterpiece. Now? People realize it was a mediocre to decent pseudo-open world game with a largely silly story. My impression is HZD will largely follow that same path after it has become stale after a few weeks to a few months.

The Witcher 3 definitely did do something new... It successfully combined BioWare, choice-driven storytelling into a Bethesda-type open world experience. That had never been done before, and CDPR set a new standard for open world RPGs. Not to mention, that game has the best side quest content you'll ever find in any RPG. That game was truly innovative in its ambition and scope.

From my perspective, HZD and TW3 aren't even in the same category. That goes for Mass Effect Andromeda as well. It looks like a quality new IP that could potentially become something great after a few games. With this initial showing, it just relies on too many generic open world staples and there are some issues with the game (animations and VA as I already pointed out). The Brom situation might not be everywhere, but it shows inconsistency.

Yet, it wont... aside the fact that BW hasn't really stepped out of their comfort zone for 10 years now, they simply no longer have the writing talent to get anywhere near TW3's characters, story or world building. You might think W3 was nothing special, but it indeed was very special. Not even Bethesda pulled off the creation of a rich, SEAMLESS, believable open world on the level of CDPR, while also filling it with meaningful content. Usually open world games do only one of those things right... TW3 did both. That indeed was a first in games history.

Of course, then there was also the exemplary post launch support for two years, most of which free... but that's not really a game quality.

That doesn't mean that you can claim that. Do you have any evidence to back those claims?

Because so far as i know EA usually doesn't release info about sales apart from saying if they had profit (like when DAI was release) or loss.

I have no idea if it'll impact Andromeda sales but can I just say that I'm super pissed I can't play this game on PC?

I swear: Dark souls and wicther fans are the worst fanboys.
Neither of these games is perfect by any means!
I love witcher very much but blind fans should face it, replay value is dead bottom compared to Inquisition, combat is unbalanced , you can easilly cheese through the most game by aarding the shit out of everything human. WHen aard is not an option just counter OR igni to death then roll and igni again.
While geralt is way more diverse and deep than inquisitor geralt is always geralt on subsequent playhroughs whereas EACH inquisitor is different.
ALso Inquisition has way more diverse landscapes than just a marsh, and eastern european type forests.

Also people constantly bitching about facial animations in andromeda whereas skyrim, fallout, all bethesda games have literally garbage animations. Lip sync you say?? Check ciris rerutn to caer mohern muted and check out the bad lip sync and animation in there.

The truth however is than massive games like these theese technical features matter little. So yeah just stop whining.