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Mass Effect: Andromeda | Review Thread
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blankempathy
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Last animation gif I swear, this game would be funny if it isn't so soul crushing
"I will now perform the dance of defeat".
ScaryShark
Banned
When people demand something be changed because they didn't like it, instead of just evaluating and critiquing the art it is absurd. The idea of genuinely petitioning a company to change an ending in any other medium would be completely mocked.
It's only gaming where people legitimately feel they are owed an ending that lines up exactly with what they want instead of the one the people who actually created the thing chose to end it.
This is an Andromeda review thread though, not a ME3 ending thread and my original point has gone off on a separate tangent so I'll leave it at that.
Just woke up to see the reviews and....
Shame,
FemRyder was really starting to grow on me.
she is looking...
truestatic
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Last animation gif I swear, this game would be funny if it isn't so soul crushing
Is it childish of me to be kind of expecting that yang guy and a few others to say sorry? Like they got really nasty the past couple days.
Did he ragdoll onto a cryoblast patch on the ground and is now breakdancing? That's great.
Still, my interest can survive the silly ragdolling. Hell, souls fans would call that a feature.
FlutterPuffs
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Play it! Best story in a game this year.
It's definitely open world. One with a world much smaller than others but fits the definition.
Most of Nier's sidequests are pretty bad game design wise. They do give you extra exposition on the setting and characters, but the objectives themselves are not only dated, they're pretty tedious and boring. I've had to recommend several people with less patience than me to outright skip them and stick to the main story, as the sidequests really bog the game down.
WrenchNinja
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Worked for Sherlock Holmes
Aw fuck! This is the biggest negative for me so far.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
Last animation gif I swear, this game would be funny if it isn't so soul crushing
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Now this is actually some good jank. I'm not opposed to shit like this.
As I stated earlier, this is what I find interesting about Mass Effect: Andromeda. Their last three games were arguably poor, but mainstream critics didn't seem to think so. Did they finally just catch up now? Is the game really that much worse? Does it offend in ways that are more intolerable to mainstream audiences such as production values?
Chobel
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Well Damn! I mean I expected it to underperform critically, but I thought low 80s, not low 70s.
Not even remotely similar.
Not even remotely similar.
Mass Effect 3 was great. I absolutely loved the game. Watching Garrus' home planet Palevan burn while standing on one their moons. Mordin sacrificing himself to cure the genophage. The resolution between the quarians and the geth that could lead to either Tali suicide or Legion's sacrifice. Having so many lives (Joker's, Shepard's, Garrus' family) all in limbo. They handled it really well. In the hands of a lesser developer, all these huge missions could just end feeling forced or trite.
I did play the game after they patched the ending though so I was never all that bothered by the game's conclusion.
I did play the game after they patched the ending though so I was never all that bothered by the game's conclusion.
Don't mind people like that, it has nothing to do with you, it's just a problem on their end. It doesn't matter if the game ends up good or bad, people just need to be nicer to each other over video games.
Oh yeah that reminds me of "don't worry, they're just suddenly cancelling the multiplayer beta because they have so much faith in it already"
Last animation gif I swear, this game would be funny if it isn't so soul crushing
No way a game with the Spinarooni is a 75
Last animation gif I swear, this game would be funny if it isn't so soul crushing
oh shit that's actually really good break dance move..
That one's 91 on MT though ,and is far above average as a game.(despite being at the tail end of the Fromsoft games)
Drillary Clinton
Banned
Yeah they seem very par for the course last gen JRPG.
2 is actually their best reviewed game
I have also never seen so much genuine critique of something in my life. Essay upon essay upon essay on the social boards and across the net. It was an insane pouring of hearts on that thing. So many people were against it for so many well-articulated and passionate reasons. Maybe you don't remember it, but I remember beneath the ugliness and colored cupcakes a temporary renaissance of great amateur criticism. It's a shame it's probably lost now.
FlutterPuffs
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AlexFlame116
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Nah they're great.
I kid I kid! You're entitled to your opinion. It would be wrong of me to change it.
Oh my gosh....why Bioware???she is looking...
Yea, Ocarina of Time's world is the perfect comparison.
"Pisseth off!"
Lol references aside, I guess that's fair to say. It becomes far less tedious once you get fast travel. Frankly I realize that so long as sidequests have an interesting story to tell, I'll put up with anything.
Oh my god that's what I told myself when I watched streams but didn't watch too much to avoid spoilers and thought it was just "bad luck".......................
Yeah fuck it.
Forceatowulf
G***n S**n*bi
Agreed. Especially the last paragraph.
I can count on one hand how many games I've played in my life that I would consider to have good writing. None of the ME games would make that list. Not even close. So I kind of shrug my shoulders a bit seeing people putting so much stock into that aspect of the game. (The atmosphere, art direction, music, and world design is what grabbed me)
Buuuut with that being said, everyone should desire quality writing from their games no matter the situation. And I don't believe games should get a pass on their shortcomings.
That window may not even be a window if Activision learned anything from Legion's precise content pace.
Truly the worst thing you could say about an RPG. Months and years go by and I'm starting to feel that I genuinely hate that game lol.
Well, at least I now know to set my expectations as low as humanly possible.
OuterLimits
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At least a majority of the bugs will be fixed in the somewhat near future.(hopefully)
At least they can all be completed very quickly,objectives are clear and have plenty of awesome lore and dialogue.
Puts most sidequests to shame if you ask me.Especially in the JRPG genre which generally dont handle SQs well.(see FFXV for example)
GasProblem
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The performance problems on consoles is what dissapoints me the most, although not unexpected. I'll wait for patches to do their thing and I'll probably get it when the price goes down a bit.
I was really excited for FFXV and was a bit dissapointed with that. I've been really excited for Andromeda and now this. Wish I had the money to splurge on a Switch and Zelda, but that will have to wait for a while.
Well, guess I'll get Persona 5 at launch then.
I was really excited for FFXV and was a bit dissapointed with that. I've been really excited for Andromeda and now this. Wish I had the money to splurge on a Switch and Zelda, but that will have to wait for a while.
Well, guess I'll get Persona 5 at launch then.
Great review, thanks !
Too bad about the game, a fresh start can open so many opportunities for franchises, but not all games manage to utilize the chance.
I was really excited for it. Still have several hours on Origin access, will finish that and if I hooks me, maybe I'll buy it some time later.
texhnolyze
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Not in the same sense of sc-fi as X. I played Xenoblade, it's more fantasy. MC maining a huge blade and all that forest area & traditional villages.
XV sidequests would have been the better example yeah.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
I mean.... so far they're just as bad as FFXV.
If this bombs, it won't be fixed.
I agree. ME3's ending was a bit shit, but the rest of that game felt really confident and its momemt-to-moment writing, particularly much of the character work, was noticeably better than the first two games. The gap between, say, the character writing of Garrus and Liara in 3 and Garrus and Liara in 1 is severe.
AlexFlame116
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Oh come on man.
Has there been any talk of a season pass yet? Seems weird for EA to not offer that up front.
Clearly the worst mass effect yet given the reviews. Not surprising since the game was produced in montreal and not by the original team in edmonton. Furthermore the main creator/designer of the original trilogy casey hudson was not involved. Will probably buy it anyways since i am a huge me fan. Loved ME3 unlike many fans.
Wind's Howling
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Sounds like I should wait a month or two before purchasing this, especially when Bioware releases a patch or 4.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
Breh all you do is go to point A, kill a bunch of things or gather items and return. Or take items from one character to another.
Bioware games don't have those, they just sell DLC packs separately.
How ?
Are you just ignoring all the writing and backstory that NieR's Side quests offer ?
They normally don't do it with Bioware games.
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