Yeah, the BSN was a nightmare. "Not the Warden Wednesday" comes to mind, off the top of my head. Lots of parallels to here, as far as that goes. I haven't been paying enough attention to the forums to note if there's a lot of pulling quotes out of context to support one argument or the other, but with how some posters do like to cherry pick stuff out of my posts, I wouldn't be surprised.
For all the negatives with ME A, I actually had a good time with it. I couldn't reproduce some of the graphical glitches people were reporting, and posting to YouTube, and I tried, because I wanted them on video for my own amusement. I do hope, however, that that next game carries on with that story, there's a lot of threads that got left hanging to the negative press that I'd like to see picked up, with more of old school BioWare's attention to story. For what it's worth, I enjoyed CP 2077. I'm more on the line of "it's just alright" than "it was good", and it was fun. I'd be more excited about crashes, if I hadn't had FO 4 crash about once an hour, and Horizon Zero Dawn crashing once a day since I got this PC back up.
I'm with you on the "hype train" thought though. I'm kinda glad BG 3 isn't "in the news" every day. There was a lot of hype here for Solasta initially, and I played it. I was looking through the options today, and most everything that people are looking for here is there, and can be turned off. It's almost like they used 5e as a guideline, since the mechanics to support turning off core mechanics have to be built into the game from the beginning.
I have all three Witcher games, and maybe one day I can get into the hype. But when I initially played them, I just couldn't. It's not like "it's too twitchy" is the problem, I played a lot of Aion, which had a lot of PvP. They just never grabbed me. It's interesting to read through this thread though, and catch all the games that some liked, and some hated, and entry points into gaming. One could almost write a thesis about it, just based on this thread alone, let alone the millions of threads elsewhere that lay out the same scenarios.
