Is it really that bad?

Loathed Tomb Raider, Witcher was and is amazing (so preset characters are not a total killer, Bioshock is an FPS with a story, and I completed each Bioshock exactly once. Now the 'what I am like as a gamer', is out of the way he is right about not being able to define Ryder in dialog, the tones really don't have much to choose between them, and they all seem to lead to the same conclusion, as you agree to do what ever it is, or with whatever the npc is saying, you can't call people on things, or disagree, or be idealistic or a thug, you just kind of ARE, you are Ryder and he is a little bland tbh.

What's wrong:
- The story setup is too fast and contrived. It doesn't let anything settle in before it's set several things in motion without properly explaining them
- The animations are just distractingly bad. We could laugh over a few strange looks in the trilogy and in Inquisition but here the faces look dead most of the time, which is a shame because some characters, especially aliens and Cora and PeeBee look really good... they just don't animate in an equally attractive way making every conversation have a prominent awkwardness to it that I haven't had before in a BioWare game. The lip sync is actually pretty good right now. It looks like they got a lot of help from the DA:I team's face animators. The eyes and eyebrows constantly animate in the wrong way, however.
- The UIs, menus and other technical aspects such as swapping back and forth between gameplay and menu screens feels terrible.
- The galaxy map frankly feels like an unfinished mess. I'll elaborate on this in particular down below.
- Even combat animations such as melee causes trouble with the models. Ryder's weapon in his other hand appears stretched like it's elastic while he punches.
- The companion AI is often suicidal. They don't know when to retreat.
- It has a serious hard-on for referencing the first game in a really pandering way. One companion is an archeologist like Liara but it just doesn't work when we've barely been here for more than a few years, and right after becoming Pathfinder (which is like becoming spectre but zero subtlety) you get an email to be interviewed when you visit the Nexus (the new Citadel) and it uses this "pathfinder" role in such a try-hard way it just pales in comparison to the context Mass Effect 1 had for Shepard and the way he became a spectre as well as the surrounding circumstances.

What's not so bad:
- Combat is fucking great. The sense of urgency and real strategy involved is a welcome change. I loved pausing and all that before, but now I use my squad commands more than ever to select targets and control my flanks.
- The atmosphere and sense of freedom.
- There are proper side quests too unlike Inquisition.

I gotta say the galaxy map is just obtuse and obnoxious to use at times. I hate how the cursor follows the camera via raycasting now, how sluggish the movement feels and how many times I have to lift the mouse to get it back to position and unlike ME2 and 3 I can't quickly release Right click without getting a visual showcase. When you pick a planet the way it wants it to be immersive fails because if I'm already orbiting a rock or a planet, I first go back to the overview map, select another place but then it first zooms in on the planet/rock I'm at and then abruptly shifts view as it starts zooming towards the selected planet. When it arrives it goes into this ME1-esque angle where the planet can be seen in the corner but then abruptly changes to the ME2-style zoom of the planet for scanning it as if there's a menu-promt without a UI that is just skipped. I suck at explaining this but it feels so broken.

I really like W3, but you gotta be into the whole witcher thing I suppose - 'cause there ain't no getting around that in the game. 

So is the problem you are using a pc instead of a ps4 or xbox platform?

That over glorified porn simulation really does get hyped up and I literally never understand what's so extraordinary about it.
Now, I played it and I thought it was a good game but seeing so many people from critics to fans praise it like it's the second coming or something never fails to make me laugh.

And yeah, the game had a lot of flaws as well but you bring them up and the fans will automatically "well! story made up for it!"
And this is just in general.

But also, they seem to not be even willing to wait for the full game to see it's story.
I mean I have my gripes with ME:A (CC, animations) but this hate wagon seems to be a lot of people who've been waiting to shit on Bioware.
There's a difference between critically voicing your opinion and just all around bashing/attacking bioware employees.

Um I see nothing wrong in those pics.

Are you serious? No it doesn't there are some bugs that can be patched but it is not that bad.

For one thing and that is actually a legit issue now that you mention it. I'm pretty sick of pc ports not getting full attention that consoles seem to have, but this is just one of many issues of which are more universal across all systems.

The only thing that really annoyed me on PC was when I hit m to open up the map. It wouldn't allow m to close the map. I had use escape to get back to game. Other then that, I don't really have any complaints about the game.

You know it is funny when the trolls try to use other games to validate their little doomsayer speech about Mass Effect Andromeda.

It's like the game was released on version 1.31 with several bugs and issues already patched.
After all it's not like Witcher 3 came out with save corrupting issues, or a control so sluggish which required a alternative method to be implement for Geralt to respond well to keyboard/controller commands or a "witcher vision" that was totally not friendly for color blind people.


ps: i love the Witcher 3 but yeah apples and oranges.

I just can't believe planet scanning is back in more or less the same form. And that swooping in and out cutscene as we explore the galaxy map? Pure filler.

It's an action game first and an RPG second. But it does have things like dialogue options and choices, as well as a skill system and upgrades for weapon and armour. 

But I can safely say that it's the most fun I've had with a game since TW3. I was pretty blown away with it, to be honest. The combat is fantastic, and the storyline and side quests are surprisingly good and well fleshed-out. It doesn't do anything all that new, but everything it does it does really well. It feels sort of like the devs took the best aspects of other action-rgs of recent years and bundled them together into one really impressive package.

I'd highly recommend it, just don't go into it expecting that it's some fully-fleshed RPG in the classic sense. Like I said, it's first and foremost a (really, really good) action game, with a sprinkling of RPG elements on top of it.