I've lost all interest in playing this game. But allow me to explain why...

I actually thought the writing was fine, but that's my opinion.

It took me something like 18 months or more to complete DA:I.  It was finally the trespasser dlc that spurred me on.  I wasn't all that impressed, and sort of thought it was the ending that was cut out to be sold off later.

I agree with the OP and would say he nailed down my main too gripes. I felt like the game was just a series of time sinks, but now I understand that they were desperate to get you to explore all the open worlds/planets they created. It just felt like my time was being wasted for no good reason, like the game was designed to be a time sink and not an actual game. Thats why I said previously I could come back if there were mods that removed all the loading animations (travel, etc) and made the Nomad 5X faster. I know alot of those animations are to mask loadscreens, but lots of games let you skip them once the content is loaded or are moddable enough that they let people swap out animation files for actual load screens that only stay up for as long as the content is loading.

Would also appreciate an accelerated xp mod so I could use my one time available augmentations without worrying about saving them because I am 3 or 5 levels away from getting the next tier suit or weapon. I ended up never using the unique augmentations because of this.

The other thing the OP explains well is the banter, its the recurring plot flag problem. Yes I already fixed the water or yes I already scanned this corpse, I don't need to be told about it again!

By comparison, the rest of my issues are very minor gripes. It took about 200 hours for me to through the towel in and decide the remaining 10% of my third playthrough was a bridge too far.

I've never really understood this argument to be honest, but perhaps its a generational thing (I'm a Gen Xer).

My view is that if a game interests me, then that is the most important thing. Creative problems and general disinterest in a game's premise, atmosphere, the day to day, minute by minute details of how a game asks you to experience it and play it - these matter to me. And happily are mostly absent from MEA. I'm fine with what's happening and how the game allows me to go about doing it. Its not perfect, but it exceeded my expectations after ME3 and DAI let me down.

But bugs and such? They have to be very serious for it to impact on me. In an ideal world, it wouldn't happen but that is very rarely the reality, so blaming this game for something like that is hardly fair. Bioware's games have always had dodgy technical issues and bugs, as have many classic games. Taken purely on a technical level, Fallout New Vegas is disgraceful, crashing frequently. Its also probably my favorite RPG ever made.

My standard response on this issue is 'I would rather play a game that delights and interests me , but which only works 50% of the time than a polished, smooth running bug free game which runs 100% of the time, yet bores me into a coma even thinking about it'.

I have issues with this game over its main plot and rushed later planets, but the bugs? Whatever. For me, the game was more hit than miss and none of the misses I cared about were anything to do with bugs or other technical what have you.

Atleast they got that far... I'm on PS4 and trying to leave the nexus to chase her down. Well it ends with a crash of the game every time.

Only way to get around it was to load back before i started the quest and avoid Contagion....Ironic huh.😂

Can people please stop creating threads about why they don't like the game or how they like it no matter what people say? It is getting ridiculous you aren't changing anyones opinion at this point. This section is becoming a dump of preferences, we get it already

until the new IP is announced, patch dates released and/or  DLC is presented there is nothing to discuss about this game anymore. 

I don't mind new threads , people can keep talking but it's like talking about the weather. 

You all are putting too much into the animations. They could have been done better but it doesn't take away from the experience, at least for me. I love this game. It's huge, so much to do. I've gone the other way I guess with respect to games. I used to like the linear games where you were driven down a story path and couldn't stray too far. I like open world better now, a lot better. It suits the Andromeda world really well.

I do agree about DA:I. I tried playing that game 3 times, each time I had to quit due to major boredom. I love Witcher too, but am stuck at 75 percent completion because of the same deal. I'll load it up and start playing, then 3 minutes in I'm falling asleep. I'll finish it at some point since I paid for the DLC's, but probably not for awhile.

I thought so too. I'm finishing a second play through and am already looking forward to a third.