I love the ME trilogy but Andromeda never felt appealing to me after watching some footage. I really wanted this to be good though and I really wanted to play it...and for some strange reason I still do, but I'll probably wait until it's on sale, which will probably happen within the next couple of months from the looks of it...
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Mass Effect: Andromeda | Review Thread
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You're gonna love it. Relax (lol)
Devilinthiscity
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Damn. After watching that Giantbomb quick look their review will probably be around the same.
texhnolyze
Banned
Yeah.. when I love a game, I want it to last forever.
I replay a lot of RPGs, even the 100-hours ones, due to this.
plasmawave
Banned
EA should just port the trilogy to the current consoles.
Audioboxer
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If this was PS3 era UK market it would be £17.99 in a few weeks. We don't quite live in those times anymore, but it's not staying at £42.99 in retail for long. EA will cut and try to rely on MP DLC/DLC in general. Gotta save face with those sales numbers if reviews do cause some people to hold off buying at launch.
Cornbread78
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Not worried, I'm sure I played worse, lol. I'll happily pick up my copy tonight from Gamestop between 9-10pm as instructed..
Either way, it'll fill a sci-fi void for me.
Either way, it'll fill a sci-fi void for me.
cripterion
Member
I honestly prefered Dragon Age 2 to Inquisition. Not even nostalgia as I replayed it before DA:I. Never thought it could get worse than Inquisition though. This sucks.
Freeman76
Member
They are available on X1 via backwards compatibility. I don't think the effort of porting something like ME1 is worth the bad PR associated with its performance.
We are now at the point where every thing Bioware released after EA acquisition has been controversial.
DA 2 the playable vomit
ME 3 and its vanilla garbage state
Da:I lucked out with no competition, with hindsight regarded as one of the worst because of some awful game design
Me:A Unfinished and shallow mess
You can like all those games, and they all had good points to them, so it comes down to personal preferences, but obviously they all have issues with a huge amount of people.
It's impossible to have hope for what's next.
I also don't understand how this is a 5 year long project with
1. the fewest squad members since ME1,
2. not possible to customize appearance or armor on squadmates
3. not possible to select powers for your squadmates
4. a worse character creator than the otherwise excellent on in DA:I
What gives? Has development really been this rough that even asset creation was faulty?
1. the fewest squad members since ME1,
2. not possible to customize appearance or armor on squadmates
3. not possible to select powers for your squadmates
4. a worse character creator than the otherwise excellent on in DA:I
What gives? Has development really been this rough that even asset creation was faulty?
2017 no longer YOAT
FlutterPuffs
Member
Too early. Just one dud in a quarter full of hits.
Audioboxer
Member
They're just becoming kings of cookie cutter. Kinda like how Ubisoft shit out some "Ubisoft open world generator" games (although Ubi are getting a bit better). Bioware seems to have some generic AI system which shits out quests and writing. Instead of a bunch of people having a bit more TLC for putting some soul and heart into writing and quests (and characters).
Experiment more, try the unexpected and give some hard hitting writing a go. Even humour. Some of the clips I've seen where they've tried humour are like something from a 90s sitcom. It's either stale, cringey as fuck or so boring run of mill you can't quite wrap your head around how so many people can get together and be so... safe? Unless upper management is demanding that, but if so, EA gotta look at some of these project leads. I don't want anyone losing jobs, as that is crushing, but people gotta get some guidance or advice to try harder and stop being so safe.
The old ME team probably cared more about getting to work on something fresh and trying out new ideas and concepts than they did about who was going to handle the franchise. (I'm not saying that they didn't care, I'm sure they did, but after having worked on it for so long, it's not difficult to see why they'd want to move on.)
cartoon_soldier
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It definitely looks like a game that went through Development Hell.
Did something big happen at Bioware in last 2-3 years?
Wait, this wasn't done by Bioware Bioware? Who did this then?
Now it makes complete sense. Bioware would have delivered a comfortably decent game, maybe not top tier.
texhnolyze
Banned
That would be one way to save this, free for all MEA owners
I would welcome that offer.
Open world happened. It seems that they put most of their resource on it.
Spieler Eins
Member
Ouf, worse than I was expecting.
2017's crazy consecutive run of great games is over
It was always the streak of Japan coming back to consoles guns blazing, Mass Effect never had a place in it anyway.
As Durante has mentioned earlier, for me the first ME trilogy was already on a downward spiral, especially as far as writing is concerned (not just the ending). I literally had to stop playing ME3 several times because I couldn't stomach some of the cringe-inducing dudebro dialogues.
This just seems like the continuation of that trajectory. Bioware desperately needs better writing talent.After Drew left, nothing really good has come out of Bioware in this regard and with ME:A they seem to have reached a new low.
ThoseDeafMutes
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His writing is sometimes long-winded but if you want to see truly bad writing, I'd suggest watching some of the clips people recorded from the 10 hour ME:Andromeda trials.
P.S. He knows what a Hanar is and was complaining not that "the franchise" didn't have anything imaginative in it, but that Mass Effect Andromeda offered nothing imaginative.
John Walker said:
"Floating octopus that thinks in cascading colours" is not a Hanar, it's basically the Aliens from Arrival, whose language and alien thought patterns drove the plot.
Clarkus Darkus
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Expected scores, My main concerns was the ME3 dlc team making this game as that was medicore dlc, Then along with the fact we was all used too knowing it was a trilogy we was playing, This always felt like a standalone game which feels out of place in todays gaming landscape.
All of us that said Mass Effect Inquisition was correct in our fears.
All of us that said Mass Effect Inquisition was correct in our fears.
digoutyoursoul
Member
The one game I wanted to be a big hit, a franchise I love and it's looking more like a fart in the wind. I can't say I have the most pleasant feelings towards the leads on this game or EA at the moment, feeling pretty disappointed to say the least.
franknbeans
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I'm about 10 hours into ME2 so I think I'll take my time with that and ME3. By the time I'm done with both hopefully andromeda's will have dropped to around $30. I like what I've played so far in the ea access.
I agree. Still, in the last few months PS4 game prices in the UK have been decreasing more quickly than before, especially if sales are not that great (at least that's my impression). So, if ME:A doesn't do great I wouldn't be surprised to see retailers selling it for £30 maybe even £25 before summer.
I don't have insider info for this game, but given what I have seen from other studios, this is my guess :
You have a completely unfinished game released in march, which means it was deliberately forced out for fiscal year reasons.
The game was a money sink for EA after 5 years, they probably froze the development at some point (probably cancelling out some of the QA of the game) to limit the financial disaster.
No way this got 5 full years and coincidentally is out in march in this state.
AcademicSaucer
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Bioware did that Sonic RPG right?
Here's the thing, despite all the shit Casey Hudson got after ME3, he was still a very good director. He was probably the strongest director at Bioware and is responsible for almost all of their slam dunks. Him leaving was probably the biggest blow to Bioware from a talent perspective.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
3/4 games you listed are published by....
Audioboxer
Member
That is some... truth. It wasn't as good as 2, but some cringe aside it was a decent package overall. I guess the ending debate did take away from some of the mid-game writing. Even 1~2 had some cringe, but it was propped up by good writing overall. Not everything needs to be perfect, just not so damn safe, or so sterile it's purposefully trying to induce a coma in players.
It'll probably be down to £35.99 in a week to two weeks..
Gamezone
Gold Member
EA didn`t mess up Battlefield.
Mysterious Stranger
Member
Why can't they copy the formula of mass effect 1? That had a good villain and story!
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Yep, I've zero hope in BioWare after all this. Zero. They have no one to blame but themselves and EA.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Disappointed by the reviews scores but I will still be getting this tomorrow and play the shit out of this.
Along with CnC and DK 😞
Golden_Pigeon
Banned
BOTW is the best game i played since Ocarina of Time.
Witcher 3 is the best western RPG in my book.
I think we're living great gaming times, beside some very bad management decision which are killing great game series.
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