Nothing could have followed up and be better than or even match the Mass Effect trilogy. Andromeda attempts to be its own thing and I respect the evolution of a franchise over time. I'm not saying Andromeda was perfect, but only that it's good enough. It's a good way to waste time even if it isn't a 100% good waste of time.

I thought the gameplay was improved. I mean the actually mechanics. Clearing whatever the underground chambers were was a slog. The majority of the enemies were rather uninteresting too.

The story was pretty weak but it had some interesting side stuff. It could have been far better especially with the arks.

Huh...I guess I agree with middling. I had more fun replaying the trilogy.

I thought the story was great. It started slow but really picked up in the second half. And the gameplay really reinforced the idea of exploring a new galaxy by having the Mako driving around interestingly designed planets, instead of the boring procedureally generated ones in ME1. The only thing weird about the gameplay was having a jump button but I got used to it pretty quick.

i really liked the combat, that was the best part of the game. i remember the shotgun/biotic build was especially fun.

the bulk of the negative reaction to it had to do with bugs and/or missing content on launch

I played it after it was nominally fixed, but the story is complete shit and the gameplay is cookie-cutter third person sfslop