Game play has never really been their problem, they couldn't ripcord and pull Anthem around soon enough on the end game narrative and game cycle. The writing on Andromeda was not fully up to spec through the red lense of their prior games.
People are too forgiving for ME3 nowadays because the characters developed in the previous games carried it and received some iconic resolutions like Mordin.
But pretty much every character that ME3 introduced was dogshit. Except Javik, Javik's great but you couldn't even enjoy him originally as he was cut from the base game to be sold as DLC.
People are too forgiving of Andromeda nowadays. It was pretty universally and infamously disliked and heavily criticized when it was released. Horrible bugs, bad graphics and animations, rote gameplay, bad story and dialogue, unfinished story beats, etc.
The studio even got shut down because of it, which back then, happened more due to failure rather than because of the trash way this industry works now.
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u/Consistent_Laziness 9800x3d | 32GB 6000 | 6950XT 8h ago
Putting anthem on that list is crazy. That’s probably how we got here. They know anthem marks the beginning of the end for them right?