Am I the only one who actually thinks MEA will be a good game?

For it to be shit it would have to be seriously like Mindjack or Ride to Hell.

Im more concerned it turns out to be in the upper echelons of mediocrity.

No your not! I think people are just upset because nothing that we've seen so far gives us a fare indication of ''new'' and 'fresh'' Its more ''been there done that'' But that could just be bad marketing we won't know for sure untill the 16' of march.

This is The Doctor Who cycle all over again: "I hate it! The predecessor was much better"

DA2 was injustly hated in the moment. Everyone reminded DAO was way better and DA2 was simply a bad product.
Then DAI is released and people like it. But what happened after a year with DAI? DA2 started to be praised, and people start to use it against DAI, which was "a bad product".
ME3? The majority of people agreed it was pretty good except the ending. Then a year later, the hateful trend started, how ME3 was garbage, its predecessors were much better, etc. etc. etc.
Now? It's starting all over again. I'm start to see people saying "at least DAI was better at X" "DAI is not as bad as people gave credit for" but that's not all of it.
I'm starting to read ME3 had better animations, the plot is presumably better than Andromeda, etc etc etc

This is a cycle Reaper's style.
We hate the new things we see because we want it to be like the older games. At the same time we hate the old things coming back telling "they are uninspired" "and a copy".
We hate and we idealized the past.
Then this game will be the part of the past and people will start to see through the "nostalgia-glasses" how the game wasn't as bad as it was painted, or even it was pretty good.
But that will no matter anymore because Bioware would be ultimately destroyed by its own fans and we won't be able to say it was EA's fault.

A good what? A good shooter? Maybe.

A good RPG? doubtful.

A good Mass Effect game? Unlikely

Good banging? Well they seem pretty confident about that...

I'm actually more confident it'll be a good Mass Effect game then both a good rpg and romance/banging.  It's pretty subjective.

In other words, the only way to "save" the franchise is to indoctrinate the fans and harvest them into a super reaper fan? I like your thinking!

Not everyone is going to like it that's a given because everyone has a different opinion on what ''good'' means. That being said there hasn't been a Mass Effect that I didn't like in some way so I'm sure I'll enjoy it despite its flaws.

I believe it will be a good game.

After Shepard.. the concept of the Ryker brothers so far..well i am a bit worried but...lets wait and see. I am available to give the benefit of doubt.

I'm afraid it'll be disappointing.

I'm afraid it'll only resemble Mass Effect on the outside.

If I'll get it at all, it'll be at a huge discount, many months or even years from now. Unless, you know, my friends are telling me it's really good. But I expect the opposite.