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Mass Effect: Andromeda | Review Thread
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mercenar1e
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she is looking...
"its just the way we did mo-cap"
nelsonroyale
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Yeah, that question is actually more interesting to me than the game
yeah, this is basically how I feel. I thought the first game was pretty good, but the sequels felt very modularised, with poor sense of exploration given the premise. More over, the writing was always pretty weak in my opinion.
I was actually hoping the distance between this and the trilogy would revitalise the formula...seems not.
*FemSacarcsticHawke was the best Hawke.
1. Not made by them.
2. It's a great game!
I don't think that really works because within an outlet different reviewers are going to have different averages, you'd have to normalize based on individual reviewer, and then you'd have to normalize based on more complicated bias's beyond that (like rating certain genre's higher/more harshly as an example)
ronaldthump
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reading the gamespot review, you gotta wonder how it scored higher in some of the other reviews for the plethora of technical issues.
The problem is every site gives super low scores from time to time, just for the lulz/clicks you'll get some ACTUAL trash game get a 1 or 2 once in a blue moon. Then any major release is still on the like 50-100 scale.
lastplayed
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xenorevlis
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Totally, it's not like Mass Effect games have been nominated and won several story, character, and writing awards.
Oh wait...
Yeah, sorry, but no. The writing in the previous games is superior to much of the dialog and plot delivery than what I experienced with the trial. Stop making excuses for the subpar quality.
Game reviews are inherently based on subjective opinions, not a checklist of technical qualities. Surely you've played a video game that had loads of bugs but you still loved anyway right? I'm not saying MEA is going to be one of those games mind you.
Basketball
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Hey remember that shitty game called Dragon Age Inquisition
Don't do any of that
game comes out ... does all those shitty things
THIS IS THE ONE THING WE DIDN'T WANT TO HAPPEN
Don't do any of that
game comes out ... does all those shitty things
THIS IS THE ONE THING WE DIDN'T WANT TO HAPPEN
DXMD is good, though, just incomplete. Still better than Invisible War too.
It's a non weighed average.
Mr. Pointy
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So this is the Star Trek: Voyager of the Mass Effect series?
geordiemp
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Preach, its like, go on then, tell me a game you reviewed in past 6 months that had great story and acting...Even Paragon etc I did not really care that much, it was just atmosphere and characters and combat that I enjoyed.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
I kinda want to cry.... no way that head animation got a pass in development. Lol
Not that hard. God that game was a weirdo trainwreck.
Best character in all their games imo.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Joking aside though,...
I'm sorry, but I don't play RPGs (and ME) to experience a lack of an interesting and compelling story, villains, characters etc. And I don't care how good the combat is this time around, cuz that's not the main reason I played / playing the first 3 ME games or just RPGs in general. The story and everything related to it is the most important thing in RPGs. Plus, the fact that you can't controll your teammates and give orders to them like you did in the first trilogy is a huge let down for me as well cuz there no tactical thinking envolved at all during combat and you can only hope that AI is good enough to handle the situation, but even if it is good enough... still, all of this removes very important layer of combat I think and make it simplier for a casual audience. Sure, the combat is faster now and all, but I also want more depth, complexity and tactical thinking.
I mean, some may say that ME stopped being an actual and traditional RPG after the first ME, moved towards more action oriented gameplay in ME2 and even more so in ME3 and they're right. but even then this movie was made without the cost of better story etc. (let's just forget about Terminator at the end of the ME2, it doesn't really matter). So... you kind want to aproach the game from a different point of view and look at it as a more action oriented type of game (which it is) and maybe then you can sort of accept the many negatives and shortcomings it has in terms of story, villians etc. but.... I just can't do that, especialy looking back at the first trilogy and remembering all that was in there during the course of all three games in terms of story (and everything related to it), characters, villains etc. I can't help but think that Andromeda just never gonna top all this or even get close, and by reading some reviews it is safe to say at this poit that the first trilogy is better when it comes to story, villains etc.
I want to play the game myself for at least 30 hours and then say how I feel about it... but I don't know if I really wan't to do that right now, at the full price and at a time when there's more games waiting to be played and which certeinly wont dissapoint me. And so, I'll go for Nier: Automata this month which is a pretty safe bet at this point, even with screen resolution scale problems that this game currently has and which are temporary fixed by moder already. I feel sad for ME, this universe deserves a lot better in terms of story etc. I mean, If the writers in your team is not talanted enough, how about starting to take insperations from really good Sci-Fi books if you can't write interesting and compelling story, villains etc. on your own? How about working with best Hollywood writers which wrote amazing sci-fi scripts, characters, villains etc.? Think about it. There's no shame in all this.
80% of the sidequests, if not a bit more, are fetch/kill/gather(which are mostly from kills) quests.
Personally I'm referring to the game design aspect of the quests, and presumably so is Drillary Clinton. Yes, in Nier the sidequests are a vehicle for exposition, maybe more so than in other games, but the quest structure and objectives aren't very good for the most part. I did the sidequests in spite of those, just to get at more of the story.
DarkLordMalik
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I legit thought the last one was from Evil Within. Silent Hill 3 was truly ahead of its time.
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Probably
BreezyLimbo
Banned
All ps2.
oh my god
I forgot about SH3
SH3's animations blow out alot of games out of the water to this day. My god. That game was a technical masterpiece.
I think they will fix medium priority bugs as well.
That RPS review... Sigh.
I guess this time it would be a good idea to wait for the first wave of patches/DLCs before making the purchase. Hopefully the multiplayer user base will still be large enough at that time. BTW, are the technical problems that serious on regular PS4? I can deal with a few frame rate drops now and then but hiccups all the time would be unbearable.
I guess this time it would be a good idea to wait for the first wave of patches/DLCs before making the purchase. Hopefully the multiplayer user base will still be large enough at that time. BTW, are the technical problems that serious on regular PS4? I can deal with a few frame rate drops now and then but hiccups all the time would be unbearable.
chillybright
Banned
I choose D: all the above.
with more weight on the last two possibilities.
They'll have to fix it, whether it bombs or not. Bombing will just kill any future games.
Chobel
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While you're here fella, when will we get a full technical breakdown of the game? Although I'm hoping by this stage it won't set your consoles on fire from the amount of bugs reported....
Yea I know you were, that's why I didn't quote you lol
Didn't get that impression from Drillary though.
killatopak
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Guess I'm not gonna buy this game then.
I still have a lot of games to play and hopefully, once I get the time, the price should be way lower.
I still have a lot of games to play and hopefully, once I get the time, the price should be way lower.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
That's very disheartening. I'm not that far into the game and my stomach for these quests is already almost full. I think I'll skip most of them.
I know GMG is one of uslol
Can't believe this shit game got a 89 on PS4: http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/dragon-age-inquisition
like how? one of the most boring games ever.
chugen
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Hard disagree on that - Invisible War created a phenomenal world. The limited memory did make levels a little cramped, true, but stuff like coffee shop rivalry and (particularly) the NG Resonance AI were brilliant.
lastplayed
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It's looking like the Enterprise at this rate.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
I mean I was only complaining about the structure of the quests
Myself personally I generally don't touch Japanese produced games due to their art style and gameplay, no matter how highly they are rated. Same with loads of popular games I tend to play what appeals to me.
I have no interest in Multiplayer these days, but I will pick up Andromeda later this week. I quite enjoy janky games but the price of this game is putting me off a bit on PC.
I have no interest in Multiplayer these days, but I will pick up Andromeda later this week. I quite enjoy janky games but the price of this game is putting me off a bit on PC.
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