I agree. Some people are overly critical these days. If a game doesn’t have everything perfect often times they try to rip it to shreds, especially on the social media. Andromeda wasn’t my favorite game but I sure had fun with it. I thought it had a great beginning and the fighting mechanics were top notch. I like how they added verticality to the mix.
You can see other games out there where the critics give games like Days Gone or Assassins Creed Odyssey,bad scores but people find them enjoyable anyway.
I’ve learned that some of these talking heads don’t know what they are talking about.
People wanted to complain about Andromeda they didn't have any actual complaints
I have seen people take small parts of dialogue change some words and use that as a basis for complaint
I have also seen people complain that a low oxygen planet had fire on it even though at the start of Mass Effect 2 their is fire in space which has no oxygen
I also liked how in ME:A you made actual choices rather than good or bad ones
Like most renegade choices were just you slaughtering a person for no reason
I seen negativity that was just way too over the top. Like the Shepard Ryder comparison I mentioned. This particularly rude person. Was so unpleased with Scott Ryder not being manly as John Shepard. That he starts dropping slurs that made him seem like a phobe. Apparently people can be homophobic towards fictional people. Never knew they could be that serious.
If you want to analyze the whole situation, you surely could write a master thesis about it, as it is much more then what meets the eye and many things are criss cross connected and intertwined.
One of the biggest problems: The hype and especially the overhyped anticipation towards the new installment after what happened to the controversal ME3 ending. Some people were overemphasized on this topic as much, as the slightest inconsistency would drive them wild.
Choosing Sheps background is not really what makes Commander Shepard the iconic individual they are, as does the N7 training do not. Both Ryder abd Shepard start as some unknown from the lower ranks. Neither background actually interests the other species much, or they pretty much do have equal personnel. It's what Shepard has to do, to deal with, to overcome, to be able to grow into over the course of 3 games. Both save the realm they have access to via the support of their crew and certain key enhancements (Shepard Body 2.0 from Cerberus, Prothean Cypher, Ryder's SAM), as without them, non would have had any chance to succeed or survive.
These are the main differences between Shepard and Ryder. Shep had 3 games to develop, while Ryder is stuck on one. Shep exists to fight the biggest threat in all history, Ryder is bound to ensure survival on a much smaller scale due to the lack of resources. And you can't copy or reinvent something as the Reapers again.
So having only limited amounts of time and with the Archon an antagonist, that is weak and hollow compared to the Reapers, those critics forgot the most important rule of all: You can't compare apples and oranges.
The only installment you could compare MEA lorewise to is ME1 and not the complete trilogy. It is a new installment, a follow up. Tied to the universe, but not the person, which is why it should have gotten the fair treatment of something new. And Mass Effect is and always was more then just Commander Shepard.
But they refused to. They were unhappy and dissatisfied with a product that did not live up exactly to their expectations, so they tore it apart.
I doubt these people could be pleased. Someone could hand them and they'll complain it's too heavy.
Exactly. You can never please them all, but time has it and the current state of gamers, that people care too much about what others say, instead of making their own opinion/impression first hand. I remember before ME:A's release the music choice in the release trailer was controversal too. Instead of orchestral boombastics from Two Steps from Hell, they came up with the then still in the charts Human by Rag'n Bone Man, calling it totally off. In retrospective, it is the most fitting song they could ever choose tbh, as it complete hits the tone of the entire game and shows the interested player what this title is about.
But what's done is done, you can't change that. As long as 1000 people's complains about not being satisfied leads to 1.000.000 blindly following their 'advice', not much will change. This goes both ways of course.