Every time, the "lol it's a piece of shit not worth $0" brigade descends on these topics. Wonder how many of them have played more than the free trial.
It's a flawed game that I paid full price (well minus Prime discount) for and got more than my money's worth. The key is not to play it as a 60-100 hour game. Play it like a 30-40 hour game like the rest of the Mass Effect games and you're in much better shape.
-Main missions
-Loyalty missions (and most of the rest of "allies and relationships" category)
-Heleus missions enough to get planets viable
-DO NOT do any "additional tasks"
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-Profit
This game gets more underserved hate than probably anything I have ever seen in my 25 years on this planet. I'm not even just talking about video games or media. I mean anything.
They should do studies on this game. So much to learn about human behavior, marketing, social media, the gaming industry, etc.
A lot of things get a ton of undeserved hate, to be fair. A LOT of things. But this is definitely up there. Got some deserved hate too, but the undeserved hate almost completely drowned out and trivialized that. Still my GOTY for now. Thought PUBG might surpass it, but now I'm not so sure since I can only play that game more if I rebuy it on a new Steam account (my dumb ass didn't have two factor authentication enabled, and my account was compromised for 17 hours during which the asshole thief got me banned from PUBG for cheating... guess he was mad that I didn't have any trading cards or any such shit of value on my account, and did it for spite...).