My Fear for the future...

I've played a lot of games, and perhaps more importantly, read a lot of books... I don't think some people have done the latter and can tell the difference between something that is well written, versus hot garbage a la Andromeda.

It sounds snobbish, but I still think there's a divide between people who have a university education and have written and read pages upon pages of content, and those that have basically a high school education. The latter won't see any of the dialogue and story flaws of Andromeda. Like Trump, Bioware loves the poorly educated.

I've played a lot of games, and perhaps more importantly, read a lot of books... I don't think some people have done the latter and can tell the difference between something that is well written, versus hot garbage a la Andromeda.

It sounds snobbish, but I still think there's a divide between people who have a university education and have written and read pages upon pages of content, and those that have basically a high school education. The latter won't see any of the dialogue and story flaws of Andromeda. Like Trump, Bioware loves the poorly educated.

Team is full of new hires - they haven't done it before. They have no proven track recored (fanfiction doesn't count)...

If a surgeon fucks up badly enough - say he/she cuts off the wrong persons leg, I'm pretty sure he's going to be fired. Andromedas writers just happened to cut off an arm and a leg, and threw in a vasectomy while they were at it.

That's such an incredibly ignorant statement it's hilarious.

There's a reason why red states vote Trump - theyre poorly educated (largely due to religion). There's a reason why the majority - not all - of Andromedas supporters love the game - I suspect theyre poorly educated. They are unable to think critically. That's my stance, I don't care if you think it's ignorant. I think anyone who loves this game is being incredibly ignorant.

There's a reason why red states vote Trump - theyre poorly educated (largely due to religion). There's a reason why the majority - not all - of Andromedas supporters love the game - I suspect theyre poorly educated. They are unable to think critically. That's my stance, I don't care if you think it's ignorant. I think anyone who loves this game is being incredibly ignorant.

... or maybe they just consider it to be mindless entertainment.
... or maybe they've learned to accept mass media entertainment in spite of its flaws.
... or maybe their tastes are different from yours.

I've seen a lot of people indicate that they enjoy the game.  I don't believe I've ever seen anyone suggest that it's some sort of flawless literary masterpiece.

I have to say that this is one of the better troll attempts. Not quite the Empire Strikes Back to your previous efforts, but solid all around. ***

The one point I will concede is that ME:A is not actually that bad all told. It slipped up in some major areas like presentation (most notably facial animations etc) and the main story is atrociously poor. Yet in many ways, it does what DAI tried to do and improves it across the board. The Nomad is fun to drive, the banter is good, the sidequests have more substance to them and the terraforming aspect gives you a legitimate reason to be there doing any of this.

And yet, it still pales next to the older games, because the tone is too light throughout and the narrative though strong at first with the need to colonize and rescue the project, never develops into something more meaningful, due to the woeful sub Halo style story with the dreary Remnant and Kett. The cast are unfairly maligned IMO, but they needed greater drama both from outside menaces and internal, rather than just being happy campers all the time.

MEA does a lot of things right, and those decrying the loss of the past would do well to remember that the formula was getting stale and if experiments like DA2, DAI and MEA don't get everything right, they are at least trying. To that end, I prefer MEA to ME3 which felt tired and unambitious in its dogmatic adherence to old formula. But there is plenty still to do. The game has shot itself in the foot with a very dull campaign and any dlc or sequel must provide a more credible and sensible story than the hokey antics of the Archon and his cronies. We need real intensity, real suffering, triumph over genuine adversity etc.

And we absolutely do not need Cerberus or the Reapers. New series remember?

This was a very wobbly start, but if Star Trek had stopped making movies with The Motion Picture, we'd never have got Wrath of Khan. Think about that - a world where WOK was never made... Can we afford to let this series end so soon and let something like that happen?