This game is NOT an RPG. It is IMPOSSIBLE to rolepay

Yes, how dare people have opinions other than yours. These heretics, man, not realizing you're always right and they're always wrong. Keep being condescending, that will sure show them.

And the point was more that, yes, TW3 doesn't have many roleplaying options. There's an absolute shit ton of autodialog, far more than in any Bioware game. You cannot define Geralt's personality beyond ''stoic guy with a heart of gold'' and ''stoic guy with a heart made of slightly less gold''. You're always the good guy. The most ruthless you can be is when you let Roche and co. die to Djikstra's hand, which is pretty similar to Ryder's decision on Kadara. Other than that, you mostly decide if X person needs to die because they did Y bad thing for Z reason, which again is very similar to the choices in Andromeda, for the most part. It's pretty similar across the Witcher franchise in general, really. You have few opportunities to be a dick for no reason, because Geralt isn't like that. 

So in the end, TW3 has about as much freedom in choices as Andromeda, and less choices in how you define your character in dialog and other systems (gender, sexuality, combat training, etc.). Yet TW3 is still an RPG, while somehow Andromeda isn't. 

If they play Snarky Paragon Diplomat, you mean. Because there's no choice here. To me, that's the opposite of 'fun.' 

Pretty sure I don't - but the constant complaints about things which the games have never had and now suddenly ME:A is shit because of it is a tad ridiculous.

Criticise its actually flaws by all means, not just imagined ones.

I must have gotten the same copy bc it's by far the best RPG mass Effect game IMO

yes i often get that feeling too...

But how am I wrong? In W 3 you got three dialog options...if you were lucky and none of them changed Geralts characterization. In Andromeda you get between 2-4 plus investigate or flirt options and all of them are distinct from one another. Allowing the player to play very different Ryders. I mean sure i suppose you can't be ruthless but neither can you be a paragon of virtue. You are only human in Andromeda. Sometimes you make mistakes. Sometimes you make moral compromises. And sometimes you triumph.

 not. even. close.

I honestly don't know how you can say that (no offence). 

MEA is  :poop:  compared to DAI.

Honestly if i were to rate the games PURELY as RPGs and not just games it'd go...

MEA
ME2
ME 1
ME 3

While making all of these choices on the way: SPOILERS


The Bloody Baron's men
Decision: When first arriving at the Inn at the Crossroads in Velen, the Bloody Baron's men come in and Geralt decides whether to fight them or not.

Consequences:

Fight: Fighting the men will result in Geralt being turned away from the Baron's estate and he will have to find an alternate route into the fortress.

Not fight: If Geralt chooses to be upfront and honest and not secretive, or he chooses to buy them drinks, he leaves things peacefully and can get to the Baron's fortress through the front gate.

Annabelle's cursed spirit
Decision: bring Annabelle's bones to Graham or bring Graham to her.

Consequences:

Refusing Annabelle's request: If Geralt refuses to bring Annabelle's bones to Graham, she asks Geralt to bring Graham to her. But she already doesn't trust Geralt, and reveals herself as a Plague Maiden and attacks him. Geralt is able to fight her, but she can't die until the curse is broken. Keira advises Geralt to see Graham about lifting the curse. Geralt goes to Graham and informs him of the curse and Annabelle becoming a Pesta, and that her forgiving Graham can break the curse, but he needs to be there to prove his love to her.

They go to the island where they are attacked by wraiths of the victims of the curse, blaming Graham for their misery. They make it to the top of the tower, where the pesta waits. Graham explains he didn't mean to leave her and that he still loves her, so she asks him to prove it by kissing her. Graham kisses her, as she returns to a human form, and dies, reunited with her, and lifts the curse.

Rewards: Geralt receives 500Tw3 icon xp.

Bringing the Bones to Graham: Once Geralt acquires the bones, he takes them to the fisherman, Graham. Graham admits his role in allowing the peasants access to the island leading to the massacre, and not knowing his love was still alive when she drank the potion. Geralt gives her bones to Graham to bury and leaves. However, before he gets far, Geralt hears a scream from Graham's cabin, and finds him dead, surrounded by rats with his Annabelle floating over him in her true appearance as a pesta. Now that the bones are off the island, the curse is broken, but now Annabelle is free to roam the world to spread plague and she will almost ruin Kerack.

Rewards: Geralt receives 270Tw3 icon xp.

Keira's storyline
Decision: Let Keira go to Radovid, send Keira to Kaer Morhen, or kill Keira.

This decision presents itself in the quest For the Advancement of Learning, the final quest of Keira Metz's quest line. Following Geralt and Keira's soirée, Keira leaves Geralt and travels to Fyke Isle, having extracted the information that Geralt has not destroyed the laboratory in the tower there. Geralt goes after Keira and confronts her as she emerges from the tower with the mage Alexander's notes in hand. This decision is not presented in a clear-cut manner, but rather the outcome of the ensuing conversation between the two characters determines Keira's fate. The possible consequences are outlined below:

Keira goes to Kaer Morhen: Any sequence of choices that ends with "Go to Kaer Morhen." will send Keira to the witchers' keep. To reach this dialogue option, one must be diplomatic, without exiting dialogue and letting Keira go to Radovid, and without being imposing and preventing Keira from making her own decision by trying to take her notes by force. Insulting replies will also lock out this outcome. At Kaer Morhen, Keira saves Lambert from being killed in The Battle of Kaer Morhen quest. It is worth noting that taking the notes from Keira after making the choice to send her to Kaer Morhen, is of no consequence. Also, it is still possible to save Lambert during the battle even if Keira is not present, though Keira's presence guarantees Lambert's survival.
Keira goes to Radovid: Occurs from any sequence of choices that ends with "Do what you want." or "Do what you think is right" or "Farewell". These will usually be denoted by the dialogue exit icon. Later, Geralt finds out from Triss that Radovid ordered Keira to be captured and then impaled. This triggers the quest A Final Kindness which is otherwise unavailable.
Keira dies, there and then: Occurs from any sequence of choices that ends with a hostile or insulting remark, such as "Can't let you do that." or "I don't like two-faced serpents." Attempting to take Keira's notes without sending her to Kaer Morhen triggers this outcome. Choices such as "Can't believe we fucked." may lock out the Kaer Morhen option before presenting the choice of whether to let Keira go, or to prevent her from leaving with the notes. Geralt fights and defeats Keira near the tower on Fyke Isle, thus ending the quest, and the sorceress' life.
If all of Keira's quests are not completed, Geralt will not have the chance to influence her decision, and she will go to Radovid by default.

The Whispering Hillock's spirit
Decision: Free the spirit or kill the spirit.

Consequences:

Spirit dies: If Geralt kills the spirit (whether through direct fighting or tricking it), the village of Downwarren is safe. The orphans in the bog, however, are taken by the Crones, most likely to be eaten. Anna goes crazy over the loss, but survives, and her husband takes her away from the bog to seek help from far away.
Spirit is free: If the spirit is freed, it saves the children from the Crones, who are eventually placed in the care of Marabella at Novigrad. However, the spirit attacks Downwarren, killing most of the villagers. The Crones punish Anna for losing the children and curse her as a Sea Hag. When Geralt removes the curse, Anna dies due to the nature of the curse keeping her alive, and her husband commits suicide over the loss.
SarahEdit
Decision: Help Sarah or evict her from the house.

Consequences:

Help: If Geralt helps the Godling, she will still live in the house and she will stop sending nightmares to the dream so she can awaken and help Geralt, and in exchange Geralt will convince the banker the house is permanently haunted so he won't try to take it. Sarah and the dreamer room together in the house, becoming friends.
Eviction: If Geralt chooses to evict the godling, he will gather ingredients and use them to drive Sarah out of the house, which will awaken the dreamer. Sarah will appear at Bald Mountain, where she becomes friends with another godling named Johnny. Johnny will berated Geralt for throwing out Sarah, but she admits she is happy with her new friendship.
Whoreson Junior Edit
Decision: kill or spare him during Get Junior.

Consequences:

Kill Junior: If Geralt chooses to kill him, during Payback with Ciri they learn he is still alive and now lives on Temple Isle and she wants him to pay for what he did. However, when they arrive at his residence, they learn it's not Whoreson Junior but Dudu, who decided to impersonate him and take over his finances, turning it around into a legit business that has doubled in profits.
Spare Junior: If Geralt spared him, Ciri tracks him down to an area in The Bits to find children pelting rocks at him and calling him names while he sits in an alley. When questioned, he curses Ciri and Geralt, blaming them for his misfortune as he is now penniless. Feeling this is a far worse punishment than she had in mind, Ciri leaves him to his fate.
Helping TrissEdit
Decision: Help the mages, or not.
Consequences

Smuggle mages out of Novigrad: If Geralt helps Triss smuggle the mages out of the city, the hunters turn their attention to other races, like elves and dwarves, to persecute. Zoltan will not be able to help Geralt rescue Margarita, because the guards will not trust the dwarf.
Abandon the mages: If Geralt choices to ignore Triss's request in helping the mages, they are rounded up and kill. Zoltan will be able to help Geralt in rescuing Margarita by getting them drunk and Geralt could easily circumvent the prison guards.


That's just in Act 1.  There's also three different major endings to the game all effected by the choices you make.  Or you can say the same thing 2-4 different ways, and have no effect no anything, just windows dressing and illusion of choice via lazy, cliched, generic writing.

Those are such superficial choices though... They have no connection, one to the next.  They don't impact your future dialogue options.  

The fact that all of you are finding that you've been playing the same Ryder (where he/she starts off insecure and clumsy, and then gains courage along the way), doesn't that tell you that you've been hoodwinked by Bioware's illusion of choice?  It's a lazy effort on their part to avoid having to balance your choices in potential future installments.

He never even talked about the choices. He's talking about how he felt Geralt's personality was only limited to snarky person with a heart of gold or a snarky person without one.

I dunno, I was able to RP my Ryder the way I wanted. Got the interrupts I wanted. It all worked out for me pretty well.

Look up what an RPG is and you'll see various kinds op, it's like I told you before, bioware does RPGs their own way and others do it there way. I could say the whitcher isn't an RpG just cuz I can't make out his looks to be "my" character yet it still doesn't change the fact that it is an RPG.

I'd literally argue Andromeda is the most RPG a mass effect has ever been as well.