Mass Effect: Andromeda Pre-Release Thread

[RangerBoo]

Holy shit! 73% right now on Metacritic. Surprised Polygon gave it 7.5. Thought they would have given it a 9.5 just for the SJW politics alone.

 

[Jarmaro]

I IGN gives 7.7, other sites mostly give -1 or -2.
Wonderful beginning of the day.

Edit: They say game retreading plot from previous mass effecrs, I was right.

 

[Reinhardt]

 

[RangerBoo]

The reviews in process aren't saying such good things about Andromeda either. This, this is fucking magical. I am going to enjoy trolling the ever loving hell out of the Bioware devs on Twitter. Reap what you sowed assholes!

 

[Blaine]

Wew lad, dem IGN forums....

 

[Grif]

Wew lad, dem IGN forums....

>Nintendo going to pay reviewers to keep the score around 85

 

[RangerBoo]

Wew lad, dem IGN forums....

Aww.... Looks like the console kiddies are already butthurt.

 

[Talby]

If mainstream sites are going as low as 6 you know this is a pile of shit. This may actually be worse than DAII and ME3.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

CODEX EXCLUSIVE

The silver bullet that finally kills Bioware...

https://webmshare.com/Dm8wX

I know everyone is focused on the fact it looks like she is walking like she pooped her pants, but look at her arms.

Who moves their arms like that? Why can't they extend fully? She do a bunch of cheater reps at the gym or something? Why are they so far back?

This is deviant art level game development.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

"Indie studio"? "Amazing things"? Reeeeeaaaally...






So translation: you lost your job, and now you're living off the government and smoking weed.

 

[Frozen]

I have seen the end of feminism (Trump) and now to witness the end of BioWare...

Too much winning, plese stop it, I cant take it anymore!

 

[Reinhardt]

There is no brakes on this train.

 

[Morgoth]

The only way to win is not buying their shitty games.

Alas, Biodrones have cognitive dissonance. This game will likely sell enough to warrant another ME game.

 

[Iznaliu]

I have seen the end of feminism (Trump)

I saw Anita Sarkessian drop dead on November 8. Did you see that too?

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

There is no brakes on this train.

It's less of a train and more of a ship. A sinking one.

It's as if the Titanic was full of people we hate and we get to watch it go down live. Popcorn, anyone?

 

[mastroego]

7.7/10 IGN
6/10 Gamespot
7.5/10 Polygon

...

Has EA stopped greasing palms or something?

No, the bribes bought votes around 7 instead of 2 or 3.
Even bribing can only go so far.
Reviewers are now starting to understand that if they don't provide a MINIMAL quantity of truth in their reviews people will just skip them and look for user reactions.
Plus, the game was already getting ridiculed everywhere... you cannot rate it 10 when the cat it's already out of the bag, you risk getting caught in the shitstorm.

 

[jaydee2k]

These ratings are still too high. They survived DA 2, they will survive this too.
Virgin kidz will throw buckets of money at them anyhow...

 

[Iznaliu]

RPS breaks out of the bribery straitjacket with its review; though unfortunately praising the derivative combat. Comments are also surprisingly competent.

Some choice excerpts:

Mass Effect Andromeda feels like a game that exists because there needed to be a new Mass Effect game. It’s hard, as deeply as you explore it, to find something that shows any other reason for it to be.

Giant decisions sproing out of nowhere, with no warning. You’re just idly clearing out yet another identikit ‘dungeon’, and then suddenly you’re asked to decide if you should kill a bunch of innocent people for some potential wider benefit

Everything feels this inconsistent, people explaining their reasons for not liking other people like primary school children, all spats and no sophisticated moral reasoning.

There’s nothing I’ve found that redeems its crappy writing, threadbare companions, moribund story, and ghastly UI. But, well, the best I can say is it occupies time

I’ve a very strong feeling that people are going to buy this anyway, and many will milk from it what they can in order to feel rewarde

Some choice comments:

I think more likely it’s the quantity. There seems to be this trend of making new games just agonizingly, grindingly full of content, the more of which there is, the harder it is to quality control

My answer: Maximise profit. I think the ‘AAA’ gaming business from 2000-2020 will be characterized by future gaming historians as the ‘let’s see what these muppets will let us get away with’ era…

Nah, John will still be accused of being a Mass Effect hating corrupt “journalist” by fans even as they combust in rage at exactly the same things he’s pointed out are shit.

To be fair I think it’s been pretty clear for several years that Bioware have never actually been the true heirs of the rpg glories of the Infinity days.

To me it reads exactly like the previous games. The collective hysteria that stopped people realising quite how moribund the whole experience always was has somehow been lifted.

 

[The Dutch Ghost]

Check segment 10:54
Holy crap, she is doing the infamous head spinning scene from the Exorcist!

 

[Reinhardt]

Virgin kidz should have standarts too.

or

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

To me it reads exactly like the previous games.

The older games in the series may have been overhyped and lame, but they were not a complete mess like this. There is a difference between "good for what it is" and nearly unplayable.

At least Bethesda's garbage is designed to be moddable.

 

[Athos]

RPS breaks out of the bribery straitjacket with its review; though unfortunately praising the derivative combat. Comments are also surprisingly competent.

Some choice excerpts:

Mass Effect Andromeda feels like a game that exists because there needed to be a new Mass Effect game. It’s hard, as deeply as you explore it, to find something that shows any other reason for it to be.

Giant decisions sproing out of nowhere, with no warning. You’re just idly clearing out yet another identikit ‘dungeon’, and then suddenly you’re asked to decide if you should kill a bunch of innocent people for some potential wider benefit

Everything feels this inconsistent, people explaining their reasons for not liking other people like primary school children, all spats and no sophisticated moral reasoning.

There’s nothing I’ve found that redeems its crappy writing, threadbare companions, moribund story, and ghastly UI. But, well, the best I can say is it occupies time

I’ve a very strong feeling that people are going to buy this anyway, and many will milk from it what they can in order to feel rewarde

Some choice comments:

I think more likely it’s the quantity. There seems to be this trend of making new games just agonizingly, grindingly full of content, the more of which there is, the harder it is to quality control

My answer: Maximise profit. I think the ‘AAA’ gaming business from 2000-2020 will be characterized by future gaming historians as the ‘let’s see what these muppets will let us get away with’ era…

Nah, John will still be accused of being a Mass Effect hating corrupt “journalist” by fans even as they combust in rage at exactly the same things he’s pointed out are shit.

To be fair I think it’s been pretty clear for several years that Bioware have never actually been the true heirs of the rpg glories of the Infinity days.

To me it reads exactly like the previous games. The collective hysteria that stopped people realising quite how moribund the whole experience always was has somehow been lifted.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Spoiler

Check segment 10:54
Holy crap, she is doing the infamous head spinning scene from the Exorcist!

"There's more to life than this."
*snaps own neck*

I'd laugh, but my face is tired.

 

[RK47]

Gonna need some snack, beer to settle down to watch a start till end playthrough video
Best Sci Fi Comedy 2017

 

[Infinitron]

To me it reads exactly like the previous games.

The older games in the series may have been overhyped and lame, but they were not a complete mess like this. There is a difference between "good for what it is" and nearly "unplayable".

At least Bethesda's garbage is designed to be moddable.

He has a point though. Even if the original Mass Effect was better than this, the franchise was still never worthy of becoming the phenomenon that it did. The 2006-2008 era was a bizarre period in gaming where a vast new audience of gamers lapped up substandard products like Mass Effect and Oblivion (and to some extent the first Witcher game, tbh) and elevated their franchises to a position they didn't really deserve.

The Witcher got better, but for the rest of them, the chickens have come home to roost (to one degree or another).