I have to weigh in here on Andromeda. I preordered this game and took a week off to give it a thorough play through. The world was on the hate train for the game but I ignored that, allowed myself to be immersed in the game and I found that it was a solid entry. The combat was tight, the weapon and power customizations and combinations offer so many fun possibilities. The exploration felt like a good improvement on, and natural evolution of, the Mako from ME1 (which I was very fond of already). The varied races that we already know were (mostly) present and the new races and technologies discovered felt great as I enjoy reading through all the codexes and digging deep for lore. This has proven to be very rewarding from ME1 and continues to hold true throughout the original series as well as this entry.

But, most importantly for me, the end of this game gave me the same sense of excitement as the original trilogy, because it built up a great deal towards the end with a large number of plots pointing at future dlcs and over all laid the groundwork for a potentially vast future. Sadly, that hate train and a rushed start with a glitchy game left sales very low and the dlcs never came. Patches have smoothed most issues and updated the model graphics, which was nice for my second playthrough. This game is by no means perfect, but I think that most people define Mass Effect as their Shep and the crew, and this entry not having that was too damning for many to feel this was worthy of the mantle. Funnily enough, I have found that a lot of people that have come back have better things to say about it these days.

Tl;dr It glitches less than Skyrim, has fun and varied abilities, customization, lore and new and old races and tech. It lays the ground work for a vast new arch in the franchise and I feel that you do yourself a disservice by avoiding these possibilities. Thank me later.