@firerwolf replied to your post“Finally, FINALLY, after 90 hours of gameplay, I’ve completed my first...”
Ditto. I loved the game's story, writing, characters, and if you really care that much about animation then people need to go back and play the old games again because their animations were shit.
A lot of the complaints/critical articles I’ve seen about the game come from people that only seem to have played the first hour or so. Less the articles, but personally from the people I know that have voiced disappointment/complaints haven’t even made it through the first mission on Habitat 7, but feel that despite only playing like the first 30 minutes that means they’re qualified to judge the rest of the 60 hours involved in the main mission line and story of the game.
And the articles...I’m highly doubtful that some of the writers of these articles have played the original trilogy (which is fine; you don’t have to be a fan or have played the OT in order to have a voice on Andromeda. It’s just that some people dig at Andromeda for similar flaws that the OT had but then claim that the OT didn’t have them and I’m just ??? Did we play the same set of games?), or if they have, didn’t listen when Bioware announced that they were going a different direction with Ryder in that they wanted a coming-of-age sort of story (”Wahh no lone listens to me, an untrained Pathfinder!!! Why I am not being treated like a hero like Shepard was?”....um, because, you’re an untrained Pathfinder who wasn’t even the second in line for the job? Not an already-established war hero/N7?), where you grow into your hero status rather than already having it established a la Shepard.
Maybe it’s nostalgia painting the OT in a more favorable light (because, as much as I love the OT and Shepard’s story, the OT had its flaws too) or the usual snobbish “all reboots are trash” mentality, but either way, Andromeda has an undeserved rep as being a bad game.