People need to stop praising ME1

You just have a real lack of a critical eye if you gladly swallow ME:A and bitch about a game that did almost everything better 10 years ago. Even the animations are better lol

The charcters in MEA are wooden as hell, they are some of the most thinly written characters in any Bioware game I have played. None of them begin to pop and feel real to me at all. The fact that you and I disagree fundamentally on thise proves that it is not an objective statement, and a matter of personal attachment and preference.. I do know I think the character writting MEA sucks. To each their own.

They're not exaggerated, but they are rather stiff, Liara and Tali in particular. Wrex and Ashley are about the only characters in the crew that have anything resembling a discernibly strong personality. More than that, the characters are like islands on the ship, which is a problem that didn't go away until ME3, when they actually moved around and acknowledged the existence of the rest of the crew. 

To me Kai Leng was actually worse than the ending. I mean that. Worst character EVER.

Top 3 worst things about the trilogy:

1. Kai Leng
2. FemShep talking to Jacob
3. the ending(s)

The characters in ME3 are not wooden, you might not like the writing in that game, but you need to come up with a better word to excapsulate that than just repeating my own. I agree that we will just have to disagree on this (which was the whole point of my post to begin with).

You copied before I edited. I meant MEA, as shows in my fixed post lol.

ME 1 was a clunky mess of a game with a servicable story and solid cast. Tier 2.

But after playing it AFTER playing DA I man it was hard not to downgrade it. After the solid and smooth and fast paced combat on top of great RPG mechanics it just made ME 1 really hard to play. Especially on higher difficulties where the enemies became such meat shields. Like you could press the trigger down on an enemy,make a sandwich, and they'd still be alive.

Look at the game from the 2007 time period rather than now. Of course 07 graphics and controls will look/feel like crap compared to what we have now, kind of a given and one would be naive to think otherwise. Regardless I would say it's aged well considering it hasn't stopped me from playing even after playing games that look much much better. Graphics are the last thing I look for in a game and I'm serious, I can play pixel games and not be bothered so long as it plays great and it has a great story to play through. Which ME1 does, and it's the best of the franchise to me. I'll just put it right here, EVERYTHING I say about this game WiLL BE OPINION!

Gameplay: I view the gameplay superior to the rest of the franchise, why? Well I'm not restricted to 3 abilities (andromeda), and I'm not using an auto cover system (andromeda), I also can use the strategic camera and wheel since I think it was the best in ME1 while ever since it slowly deteriorated to be more if a gears of war game with ME2+3. You were also restricted on what weapons depending on your class, it made that decision matter more where as after ME2 they gave you the ability to use whatever weapons. It also had the most intriguing inventory system, you could change weapons + armor on the fly but it was a disorganized mess (unfortunate they scrapped it rather than actually fixing it). You also didn't have to go out of your way for materials or mine crap to make gear, that was/is a huge turn off with ME2 and andromeda (ME3 scrapped it and instead spoon fed you the weapons). Next up is the mako, clumsy, the most annoying thing about that game when you spend 15 minutes looking for the right spot just to climb a mountain.......only to slide right back down the fucking mountain and trying again and again. However, regardless of its issues, it did help sport the exploration theme to the game just as the nomad does for andromeda but better. It had a gun, and it didn't have no 4 wheel/6 wheel drive bullshit put in place just "because" and it kept a constant speed regardless of terrain unless going straight up a mountain (so annoying having to switch between 4/6 wheel drive in the nomad fir the smallest of slopes. So while annoying, I'd still say the mako is the best vehicle in the series that you drive (sorry to those who want to bring up the kodiak).

Dialogue: was just fine, and at it's time was probably the best one out there. Compare it's potential to what andromeda attempted to achieve andromeda (and it's not even just andromeda that fails on it, look at FO4 as another) could've been better on the 4+ options had they actually differed, but ME1 made two options better than saying yes in 4 different ways seriously though, I loved what they were trying to do with andromeda dialogue, but if they can't make it work go back to the paragon/renegade system as it actually worked and had differences, people didn't go back and replay those games various times for nothing.

Sound: again, in 07s time it wasn't that bad, I'd expect games now a days to sound better. Let's look at the music now, I'll just bunch up ME1-3 together on this one as they all made music a big part of their games, it gave life to their environments/scenes, and you'll see the music is a big part of why ME1 in specific was popular because of it.

Story: well since you agree it's good I'll just cut it short and say awesome.

I could go on and on, but I only tried responding to what I saw you mention as I could write an essay on ME1.

You'll find ME1 is my favorite of the franchise, you'll also find what I do like about andromeda is because it follows some of the roots ME1 established that ME2+3 abandoned. Exploration being a part of it, not being restricted to bland corridors where that gears of war shooter (ME2+3) comes into play. It also felt more like an RPG than the other two, and you'll find out I also see andromeda more of an RPG than ME2+3 because of it incorporting what ME1 had. A big part of why ME1 was so popular is this question right here. How many sci-fi space RPGs are out there in the market? Especially ones that have you choices, and ones that happened to carry over into the next game? The concept of ME was new at the time, it got a lot of interest because of that. It also introduced the franchise which just makes it even better, many games that first introduce said world happen to be a lot of people's favorites when it comes to said franchise.

It wasn't a problem. I like that each character had his/her own corner of the ship. You always knew where find them.

When the characters move around so much (like in ME:A) that you need a map to find them then you have a problem.

 Ok, apologies, critique still stands.

I'll have to report you for attacking me like that. Try not to let yourself be so easily triggered.

Are the animations better in ME:A? No.
Story? Nope.
Characters? Nope.
Sound/Music - Hell no.
Pew Pew Bang Bang? Yep.

1/5 versus a ten year old game is pretty bad. That's why it's on the verge of a 69% metacritic score. Right up there with Bioware's Sonic.

If you were to compare Andromeda vs it's current peers and ME1 versus it's peers when it came out, in comparison - Andromeda is a fail on every front. Every current AAA comparable trounces Andromeda. IMO of course.

Have a nice day!