'I dislike or hate the game' (General feedback)

Are you serious?

You'd take any of those 4 over Liara? Wrex?  I'd even take Ashley over them purely due to the fact that her face doesn't "hurt" to look at.

And we still have all of the other non-recruitable characters:

Anderson
Saren
Matriarch Benezia
Nihlus
Joker

All of which are fleshed out waaaaayyyyy better (imo) than any character in Andromeda.  

I've had hours to calm myself and think about the game more, and....my point still stands.

This game honestly feels like a spin off. It just doesn't come close to having the same quality as the trilogy, in so many aspects. Perhaps this would've been easier to swallow if Bioware Edmonton were working on a new Mass Effect trilogy, that takes place hundreds of years after the Milky Way's settlement in Andromeda, and this game developed by Montreal, was just to bridge that gap. But no. This is it. THIS is our new Mass Effect.

Everything about this game just SCREAMS it had a troubled development. We all knew it. Casey Hudson jumped ship. Key developers were being let go left and right. Chris Schlerf who was suppose to be it's lead writer, ended up leaving production at some random point, and we don't know why. The facial animations, the bugs, the scuttlebutt from former employees, it all adds up. This was a game that was a victim of developmental hell, caused by bad company policies, infighting, and poor management.

And you know what the real sad part is? "Mass Effect 5", or "ME: Andromeda 2" if you prefer, is something that's no longer a guarantee at this point. Even if it does get made, we now know that it'll be made in a toxic and broken environment, by a bunch of developers who have no passion. Unless EA hands the series back to Edmonton, which I don't see happening, this series is pretty much dead at this point.

I never thought I would say this, but this game to me is looking like my favorite as well. Still early in the single player but I'm loving it so much.

I don't give a rat's ass about Metacritic or any review site;I never have nor I ever will because most of the time their opinions on games don't reflect my own. I think it was done well, and there are people out there who agree with me as well. You and the others have to stop preaching your opinion about the game like it is the word of God itself. You are just making it unbearable for those who actually enjoy the game.

Too bad. Some of us actually care enough about our franchise to call it like they see it. And whether you care about Metacritic or not, the harsh reality is that it's used as a metric by the higher ups, to gauge the success of their game.

www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/16/is-metacritic-ruining-the-games-industry

So there are people over at EA, who are looking at that 74 score, and unless ME:A surpasses all expectations commercially, it will be a factor into the possibility of a sequel.

Too bad. Some of us actually care enough about our franchise to call it like they see it. 

This whole post is so hateful it's actually upsetting

I care a lot about Mass Effect, and I feel ME: A looks great. I call it like I see it.

It's not that that I'm complaining about. 

You can dislike it and still be more rationak about it. This thread just started off really mean and angry. 

How many hours you got in? What do you think about the immersion, had it break much?

I hate it when people think that they can police other people's feelings. I feel the same way as the OP (actually, he is too kind to game IMO). Some of you people just want to have your safe spaces, and the very notion of someone critiquing what you (supposedly) like is considered a threat to you, because it shakes your belief system (that is often build on delusions, or fear of being labeled as haters). I can be an ass and "irrational" as well (probably what I'm doing now), and considering what Andromeda turned out to be, it would be totally justified. 

Cheers.

This isn't "criticism" this is more of a rant.