Ugh....this is really bad. 

Haven't seen the comments, and probably won't. But I know I've been suffering from a peculiar lack of excitement for this game despite being a big Mass Effect fan, and I don't know why.
It could be the focus on exploration which reminds me of... well... No Man's Lie, and I don't want to re-experience that. It could also be that in the last couple of years there's been an uptick of RPGs that have raised the bar and really made the Bioware formula look seriously outdated, so I guess I'm just a little anxious to see if Bioware themselves have noticed and raised their game accordingly.
But you say they've reworked how they approached morality, that's reassuring.
And I know people are making fun of the running animations, but... running animations have always been the bane of Bioware's existence. That's nothing new.

EA really haven't given this game an advertising push as large as previous entires, so that hasn't helped things.

I was personally hoping they took what the learned from Dragon Age: Inquisition (My favorite game this generation) and applied it to the latest entry in this franchise, but it seems that despite Inquisition taking two steps forward... Andromeda is two steps back.

I loved the first Dragon Age on PC but just could not get into Mass Effect. Very, cookie cutter overly-slick sci fi that felt like Star Wars lite, overly heavy dialogue, complex controls (at least on console). Just not for me..

Tough I dont see massive technical issues with it I have to admit, that the game looks as generic and uninspired as sci-fi rpg-s get :-| I have 0 interest thus far for this game, and in all honesty I think they should have just let the original trilogy be and start with a new franchise.

The models look like sacks of dead flesh, sewn together and puppeteered by amateurs.
The voice acting is bad.
Poorly written dialog.
Bad hair (I saw the PS4 version).
Limited character creation.

These are a few things I have taken away from seeing the game being played for two hours.

I don't know where all the hate is coming from for Andromeda, to be honest. I, like pretty much everyone else, hated, hated, hated Mass Effect 3's ending (at least before they changed it through DLC) but the ME trilogy is still one of my favorite gaming experiences ever. Sure, the animations are jilted, but that's no different from the rest of Bioware's games. As to hating it for being a Western AAA game, look, I love Japanese games as much as anyone (this year alone I've bought Gravity Rush 2, Nier, Nioh, have Persona 5 on preorder, and will get Zelda whenever I eventually pick up a Switch) but that doesn't take away from the pleasure of Western RPGs. They're often a little janky (cough *Fallout* cough) and God knows that games like Horizon are absolutely going to slaugher them in the graphics department, but they pack in great stories and tend to be extremely memorable. 

While I've avoided a lot of videos and stuff due to spoilers, I think some of it is coming from the fact they have been apparently making this game for 5 years (or 4 after they completed ME3s DLC that no one played) and then people say 'This is the best they can do.' Yet, with Fallout, no one cares because they know the animations and stuff are crap. All game series and developers excel in different areas. I think some people didn't like the DA:I graphics or animations but I liked them, compared to the previous games.

This said, it's got a hard time living up to ME2 in general gameplay, story etc. I did always wonder how they were going to follow up from 'being that will wipe out all life', but I guess I'll find out next week when it arrives. Maybe the dev team should leave ME behind and make something else, still sci-fi, mind you.

... whatever happened to those rumours of another Bioware RPG?

I was watching Ashley from the Know play the game and she was horrible at it. I still love her, but she almost ruined the game for me with her boring playstyle. Luckily I watched some gamers who are actually good on twitch and it saved the experience for me.

Played two hours so far. It's amazing as one would expect.
Gameplay is perfect and very fluid. I don't think third person shooter mechanics can get any better than that.