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Where is gil? I've tried to find him.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda |OT| Ryders on the Storm
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Where is gil? I've tried to find him.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
In the garage there's a middle floor with a machine room and the tempest core.
His Majesty
Banned
I like Kadara and Havarl a lot more than the open terrain from Eos and Voeld.
TC McQueen
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MaleRyder has less facial animation jank and doesn't seem as big of a weirdo, so I guess he's the best.
Male.
The default Sara face model is infamously unemotive with a really strange neutral pose.
Then in the voice acting department, Sara's characterisation leans too heavily into the arc of the character starting out awkward, bordering on completely unsuitable for the mission that she then grows into.
While Scott is more about overconfidence, which is just more fun to play as.
bonesmccoy
Banned
The latter 2 are basically the same world with a swapped colour pallette. Really poor decision to stick you on them one after the other.
Fatalmephisto
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I had people today while I was doing my Podcast freak out cause I said I loved how Ryder was written. I love how she's nothing like Shepard. Plus I would never compare to her Shepard.
Cora together with Peebee is a great combo. They give each other shit and it's hilarious.
Male Ryder definitely. I don't know what they did with FemRyder but it's a lot harder to override the janky facial animation even with custom character.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Man I love this crazy moon planet, you can practically fly everywhere and Vetra laughs like a maniac every time the Nomad is airborne for a couple of seconds.
Ok though I am enjoying myself enough with this game on replays im definitely ignoring planet scanning, apex missions and additional tasks. The allies and relationship quests as well as heleus assignements have been mostly high quality and thankfully there are a good number of these.
BroRyder... he just works in the role, especially with some of his riffs. The animation is just too weird for SisRyder. Depending on DLC though, I might do a run through with her. Her voice actress seems to have better range than BroRyder.
One thing that killed replayability is the shit scanning and sidequests and time and transitions. I wouldn't do a second playthrough. Also no Paragon or Renegade and the wide gulf in how things can play out also means less reason to do more than one playthrough. What was their replacement for Paragon and Renegade, barely changed dialogue that results in very few changed answers, and maybe 1 every 15 hours context sensitive option for Hug or Shoot?
One thing that killed replayability is the shit scanning and sidequests and time and transitions. I wouldn't do a second playthrough. Also no Paragon or Renegade and the wide gulf in how things can play out also means less reason to do more than one playthrough. What was their replacement for Paragon and Renegade, barely changed dialogue that results in very few changed answers, and maybe 1 every 15 hours context sensitive option for Hug or Shoot?
Don't believe so, even all the way up to the final mission you can (and should) come back at a later point, they even prompt you in the case of Eos specifically that the radiation has dropped.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Absolutely none, you can revisit as many times as you want and the game will in fact have quests or stages of quest make you go back there anyway.
SolicitorPirate
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Sara is the One True Ryder. Anyone telling you otherwise has been indoctrinated.
Great!
Is that also the case for the game as a whole? I can play it at any order and pace I want?
Man I love this crazy moon planet, you can practically fly everywhere and Vetra laughs like a maniac every time the Nomad is airborne for a couple of seconds.
Try jumping over the the canyon she has another great line. Vetra is the best.
CarbonFire
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I wonder if they broke something late in dev and didn't have time to fix it. Considering how much the patched FemRyder face changed from the gold master unpatched version, it's a bit hard to believe that this was entirely intentional.
Yeah I won't replay this either just like I didn't replay Inquisition. I don't feel like driving around those planets again nor do I want to see the Tempest launching/docking or the planet animations again. I feel like if you only kept the story missions it would be a 15-20 hours game and that would be fine instead of ballooning it to 40+ with uninspiring filler. Some of it was really bad and you wonder who the target audience was. There is a really awful quests where you have to find a UV lamp for some pothead growing space weed.
I still don't understand why the Nomad had two modes. You either drive fast but can't climb hills or drive slow but can climb hills. Why not drive fast and can climb hills?
SolicitorPirate
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Just saw the memory with the Ryder family gathering.
Man it was weird seeing my super fucking Chinese Ryder twins and their white-ass mum. If I squinted, I could be convinced Sara was mixed while taking much more after her dad. But there's no way in hell anyone could convince me my Scott had mixed ancestry. Dude looked like he just stepped out of South East Asia into Andromeda
Man it was weird seeing my super fucking Chinese Ryder twins and their white-ass mum. If I squinted, I could be convinced Sara was mixed while taking much more after her dad. But there's no way in hell anyone could convince me my Scott had mixed ancestry. Dude looked like he just stepped out of South East Asia into Andromeda
digoutyoursoul
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Man I love this crazy moon planet, you can practically fly everywhere and Vetra laughs like a maniac every time the Nomad is airborne for a couple of seconds.
What mission is that?
Yeah for every great sidequest there's 2 or so filler junky quests. It's hard to know what to focus on at times. Safest thing to do is ignore quests under additional tasks in the journal , planets scanning, and apex missions and you hit the good stuff at much more regular intervals.
edgefusion
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By hills you mean the tiniest of inclines. Driving around Eladaan is a massive pain in the arse because every small bump sends you slowing to a fraction of your top speed unless you switch modes for a couple of seconds while you crest...which still slows you just not as much. They're clearly so excited by the Nomad too, they even make vague head-nods to how bad the Mako was and how much of a huge improvement the Nomad is but they hobble it with this pointless mode-switching.
JeffG
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vetras loyalty mission
digoutyoursoul
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Thanks 👍🏼
Shadow Broker
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I think all my save files are corrupted. My game has been crashing and I've posted on here early about it so I decided to call Sony support since I bought it digitally.
Dude said the game probably got corrupted while it was downloading so I had to delete it and redownload it. It just got done downloading and I started up and it crashed again on the Nexus. So now I'm calling Sony support again and it's a 40 minute wait to talk to someone. If it wasn't the game itself that was corrupted I'm thinking it's my save file. I think I just lost all my progress.
Dude said the game probably got corrupted while it was downloading so I had to delete it and redownload it. It just got done downloading and I started up and it crashed again on the Nexus. So now I'm calling Sony support again and it's a 40 minute wait to talk to someone. If it wasn't the game itself that was corrupted I'm thinking it's my save file. I think I just lost all my progress.
Yeah I like them both, they're written as kids way in over their heads and the actors sell it well.
SolicitorPirate
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Yeah, I really like the Ryders. I don't think they are as good a vessel for roleplaying, the way Shepard or the Inquisitor were, but they feel a lot more like real people who exist in that world, rather than well, a vessel.
ROUGE_BLOCK
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Yeah there's something seriously wrong with it, set it back to default pronto or it's just bad times ahead
To a certain extent. Progressing the main quest unlocks new stuff, but you are free to drop it at any point and go do stuff on any of the planets you have unlocked.
I got chinese Scott and white Sara, so it looks like two different family halves remarried.
mercenar1e
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MrCookiepants
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Am I crazy or does this game have the most enjoyable third person shooting mechanics ever?
Jumping and dashing around, crazy biotic powers, guns feel awesome. It makes otherwise mundane content very enjoyable.
Jumping and dashing around, crazy biotic powers, guns feel awesome. It makes otherwise mundane content very enjoyable.
It's the best part of the game I would say.
digoutyoursoul
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Andromeda Flu?....
bluecapsule
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I love the combat system as well. It's just a shame that we can only use 3 abilities. Even a 4th one would feel so much better. But it's definitely the one area they really nailed imo.
Yeah, the combat is fantastic
ArgyleReptile
Banned
So....
During Alec's third Flashback, is Sara Ryder supposed to be an invisible specter that no one can see or hear?
Frozenprince
Banned
This. Sara is so adorable and ernest how could you not like her best?
They are kids having an adventure. They act like kids having an adventure. It's fun. It's meant to be fun.
Fatalmephisto
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Yeah, that's what I love about Ryder.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Yeah, my family memory was humorous too. I look pretty southeast Asian. Mum and dad are appropriately somewhat dark skinned. Camera pans to honky-ass brother who looks adopted.
Shadow Broker
Banned
I feel defeated. I had to delete my save data because it got corrupted. I lost all my progress.
But she isn't "abandoned" because she is too powerful, she just thinks that. She has issues, but they aren't related to her biotics.