Mass Effect BioWare Montreal's Mass Effect: Andromeda - where element zero meets trisomy 21

[Fedora Master]

You bumped the thread for this?

yes, to remind me to come back and abuse original poster for being so retarded. but it will feel much better after i destroy my head trying to play this game

 

[ind33d]

did anyone actually play Andromeda? a dev is claiming the game was actually fine but journalists were bribed to give it bad reviews. i own it but never installed for this reason

 

[Frozen]

No. Memes were way better even if it was good (it wasn't)

I tried to play it when it came out but when I saw you can't create a white character I gave up.

 

[cvv]

did anyone actually play Andromeda? a dev is claiming the game was actually fine but journalists were bribed to give it bad reviews. i own it but never installed for this reason

The gunplay - shooting, adepting, jetpack flying - was the best of the series. The only reason I kept playing beyond 5-ish hours and even finished the damn thing.

The environmental design was jaw-dropping. Planets looked straight-up phenomenal. (Bet they'd still look great today, 8 years later; say what you will about Frostbite but it always looks amazing).

Everything else - plot, writing, characters - was borderline unbearable. Which is obviously a problem in a Bioware game, considering those had been traditionaly ugly but well-written (well, the ones beginning with Jade Empire and ending with DA2).

 

[Atlantico]

did anyone actually play Andromeda? a dev is claiming the game was actually fine but journalists were bribed to give it bad reviews. i own it but never installed for this reason

who the hell cares what game devs and game journos think

MEA is literally the second best Mass Effect game after the first one. Everything said about this game applies to Dragon Age Inquisition. It's like journos and NPCs took everything they wanted to say about DAI and vomited it on MEA.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

did anyone actually play Andromeda? a dev is claiming the game was actually fine but journalists were bribed to give it bad reviews. i own it but never installed for this reason

Yes. Unlike most people my main gripe is the repetitive semi-open world shit. The core gameplay is actually the best in the whole series; they finally managed to make a decent third person shooter. If the game was only 10-20h long it even recommend checking it out if you're looking for a sci-fi third person shooter. But the actual product drags on and on, and you have to repeat the same shit over and over. Don't remember much of the story except that there were some commie aliens and unintended funny faces. The old setting and companions were a lot better.

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

ME3 combat is better, packs more of a punch. Shooting in Andromeda feels like you're playing airsoft. The only objectively better part of that game is the open customization of powers.

 

[soulburner]

All I remember about Andromeda is how the companions fail to keep their mouths shut for more than 2 seconds. Whenever they open their pie holes, the pretty amazing sounds (I absolutely adore the high dynamic range of Frostbite games) become softer, so you don't miss what the hell they are saying. They never had anything important or even mildly interesting to say and that's what killed all the fun for me.

 

[Iucounu]

did anyone actually play Andromeda? a dev is claiming the game was actually fine but journalists were bribed to give it bad reviews. i own it but never installed for this reason

I've played it 2-3 times (just for science). On release it had lots of bugs (some of which were related to animations) that Youtubers made fun of, but most of those bugs where patched when I bought it.

The gunplay - shooting, adepting, jetpack flying - was the best of the series. The only reason I kept playing beyond 5-ish hours and even finished the damn thing.

Not that much better than ME3, from what I can remember.

The environmental design was jaw-dropping. Planets looked straight-up phenomenal. (Bet they'd still look great today, 8 years later; say what you will about Frostbite but it always looks amazing).

I thought environments looked OK, nothing special. More importantly, the "harsh" environments were just static window dressing without any depth or challenging gameplay whatsoever.

Everything else - plot, writing, characters - was borderline unbearable.

Agreed.

 

[Atlantico]

did anyone actually play Andromeda? a dev is claiming the game was actually fine but journalists were bribed to give it bad reviews. i own it but never installed for this reason

I've played it 2-3 times (just for science). On release it had lots of bugs (some of which were related to animations) that Youtubers made fun of, but most of those bugs where patched when I bought it.

The gunplay - shooting, adepting, jetpack flying - was the best of the series. The only reason I kept playing beyond 5-ish hours and even finished the damn thing.

Not that much better than ME3, from what I can remember.

The environmental design was jaw-dropping. Planets looked straight-up phenomenal. (Bet they'd still look great today, 8 years later; say what you will about Frostbite but it always looks amazing).

I thought environments looked OK, nothing special. More importantly, the "harsh" environments were just static window dressing without any depth or challenging gameplay whatsoever.

Everything else - plot, writing, characters - was borderline unbearable.

Agreed.

I hate NPC posts like this tbqh

what a waste of fucking time

 

[Bad Sector]

did anyone actually play Andromeda?

I did play it some time ago and remember liking for the most part. I found it closest to the original Mass Effect in terms of giving a sense of exploring space (instead of interpersonal character drama - which ok, was fun in ME2 the first time, but did nothing for the overarching plot). Here is what i wrote at the time:

I agree with @Atlantico that it feels the closest to Mass Effect 1, though i'd guess it depends on what you liked about that game (assuming you liked it of course). It gave me a feel of exploring a galaxy like ME1 did and ME2 and ME3 never did - the main part i missed there was being able to actually *land* on those planets (most of the ME1 planets could just as well be randomly generated but they still gave a sense of being in space), but at least the planets you can land on were varied and quite large to explore (even if some of the minor sidequests were a bit repetitive and formulaic). The characters weren't as interesting as the previous games though and overall i found it much less imaginative - but still i think it is a decent action sci-fi game (well, i wouldn't play it for so long if i wasn't enjoying :-P).

If you are more into character stories/writing then i'd say it is the least interesting of all ME games and the overall plot has its questionable moments (and TBH i still find the first game the most imaginative overall - so many different looking and behaving species in ME1 and yet in MEA you travel across galaxies only to end up in a planet with humanoid dogbunnies).

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

The only thing I remember about this game is that it got completely squashed by Nier Automata when it was released.

 

[J1M]

did anyone actually play Andromeda? a dev is claiming the game was actually fine but journalists were bribed to give it bad reviews. i own it but never installed for this reason

cvv is correct in what he said.

I will add that an additional failing is that there is basically just one type of enemy and the game really needed some antagonist variety.

 

[cvv]

Especially mémorable becauz Dragon Age Inquisition had a much better reputation and when I played it just felt insufferable.

To me DAI felt like half of it was still written by the remaining Bioware veterans and the other half by the new retarded DEI hires.

In Andromeda I didn't feel a single competent writer anymore. It was all retarded, all the time.

 

[felipepepe]

I generally agree that ME:A a competent Action-RPG/Shooter, but with mediocre writing that feels more like a YA novel than a sci-fi classic. ME1 had a grandiose scale, that first chapter until you become a Specter is solid and sets the tone really well. ME:A starts like "you, your dad and your brother/sister have been chosen to save humanity!", it was written by/for an entirely different audience.

Also, it had a launch so bad that it was impossible to recover.

And yeah, Dragon Age: Inquisition has better writing, but the gameplay is just a mess... possibly the most boring party-based combat system in an RPG. MEA is much more interesting in that sense.

 

[Fedora Master]

Jesus fucking Christ stop making excuses for these shitheaps you retards

 

[BosanskiSeljak]

I see literally no redeemable qualities for either ME:A or DA:I

As much as I dislike mass effect 2, I wouldn't want to kill myself if someone forced me to replay it. DA:I? I'd rather kill myself. ME:A? I tried 3 times and didn't make it past 2 hours.

 

[Bulo]

The game plays well enough, but the writing is abysmal. I've memory-holed most of it, although a few things still stick out to me.

• Ryder is called the "Pathfinder", but he spends the game walking in other people's footsteps. Also, MY DAD IS DEAD
• The game introduces a new ancient civilisation that exists solely to facilitate a weak gameplay loop and give the Big Bad something to fight over. Their architecture looks like shit.
• The new allied alien species seems to have been inspired by the sort of white woman who would describe herself vaguely as "spiritual"
• The companions all speak and act like teenagers (felipepepe hit the nail on the head when he compared the game to a YA novel)
• The Mako isn't a Mako

Positives:

• The environment art is (mostly) fantastic, the high point of the series
• The bad guys were interesting in premise. They're a race of warlike mutts composed of choice DNA from the various species in the galaxy, who treat their own biology like a test bed. The Big Bad was fun. The boss fight wasn't
• The krogan companion was a good, sympathetic character: an old warrior who was confused and disappointed in himself because he had lived to an old age rather than dying a glorious death like his fellows
• You can play as a Ken doll who constantly wears an expression which suggests he doesn't quite understand what's happening around him

 

[Inec0rn]

I see literally no redeemable qualities for either ME:A or DA:I

As much as I dislike mass effect 2, I wouldn't want to kill myself if someone forced me to replay it. DA:I? I'd rather kill myself. ME:A? I tried 3 times and didn't make it past 2 hours.

Same, I don't even understand how DA has had 4-5 releases?

 

[Atlantico]

And yeah, Dragon Age: Inquisition has better writing

Oh.. no. No no no. Wow hahaha no.

That's the same dumbfuck NPC drivel your kind just can't let go. DAI is a game peerless in its shit writing. Peerless. MEA is a mediocre Y/A novel sure, while DAI is a dangerhair colonic spasm.

 

[Padzi]

Ok, but explain one thing to me, did you think you were kenough and that is why you decided to go a for pathfinder Ken playthrough?

 

[Naraya]

What I see ITT: people who shit on Veilguard but will buy it.

 

[Morgoth]

Ah yes, Andromeda. Played maybe 5 hours of the trial?

What a tragedy. Such a good premise, all ruined by (surprise!) awful writing and incompetent plot structure. There is some fun combat in it though...

 

[Padzi]

Played maybe 5 hours of the trial?

I've played 50 and I was far far far away from ending.
I envy you. I wasted time trying to finish it.
Andromeda is crap.