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Mass Effect: Andromeda | Review Thread
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I knew this was coming. LOL
You just have to love how petty gamers can be.
To be fair he did come and hype how highly game is scoring in mock reviews.
Jimmyfenix
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He is enjoying nier from what i understand. He should enjoy the good times before getting to mass effect
Hmm, Im kinda lost. Reading the comments here it seems like the game got 4/10 or something like that, yet I see the reviews and aren't ... that bad?
For what I'm reading seems like a decent game, just not at the level of the original, but that's seems far for the doom and gloom I'm reading here :/
For what I'm reading seems like a decent game, just not at the level of the original, but that's seems far for the doom and gloom I'm reading here :/
Gonna laugh if he reviews it higher than Zelda.
Holundrian
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The only person you shouldn't ever trust again is yourself.
I mean the guy clearly outlined it was impressions from the first 3 hours everyone by now should fucking know how meaningless that is for a RPG that probably is 20 times that for its complete length. So be smarter and stop blaming other people for your lack of judgement. His impressions were a 100% fine.
SprachBrooks
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Why would you attach so much importance to that guy's views though? He's a huge fan of the series and MA: Andromeda is fundamentally a MA game, so logically he'll adore it.
PinkyMonkey
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As long as this game is more Like ME1 rather than 3, I'll enjoy it.
How did ME3, a generic shooting game, end up getting such high scores is beyond me.
How did ME3, a generic shooting game, end up getting such high scores is beyond me.
Jesus he just wrote what he felt about the game playing it. I am sure you like games that are not rated highly either.
Yeah, from the reviews the game seems fine. Not as good as I would like, but not as bad as I feared.
Audioboxer
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Expectations were high for a series that has critically knocked it out of the park. It's hard to regress to mediocrity and accept it after waiting 4~5 years for this.
That's what happens when you put your CCC team on your AAA game.
You think they talked about the weather when shinobi met a bunch of bioware guys?
Iriscomeback
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That's because these scores are not up to what you might expect from Mass Effect. So for the franchise this is pretty bad.
Okay, but it was a single tweet about the Witcher 3, not a review. This tweet is essentially being used to dismiss his long-form writing in other examples, even when he explains in detail why something isn't working.
LordOcidax
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lol...
ChaosZeroX
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Surprised its as low as it is. Was expecting about an 83 ish or so
Kapten Stoffe
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jim2point0
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Zombie James
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"This feels like a direct-to-video sequel to Mass Effect."
Jeff Gerstmann summed up what I was feeling during the preview phase so eloquently. Sad and disappointing that Andromeda ended up this way.
Jeff Gerstmann summed up what I was feeling during the preview phase so eloquently. Sad and disappointing that Andromeda ended up this way.
Continuation of what made the series good while not being impressive by itself.
On a grading scaling, a 7.5 is a C. Passing, but not solid.
Hypothetical changes to how games are reviewed doesn't really change the conversation about ME:A reviewers scoring a game lower because they think it's less good. If ME1-3 are all a 7.5 - 8 on that scale, ME:A probably still isn't a 75.
This please. When someone brags about how large their game it, it gives me pause. I'm certainly not going to be as enthralled with it at hour 80 as much as their project manager and sales guy say I will be.
One game doesn't make Nintendo masters of the open world.
Audioboxer
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?
That will delay a review needing to wait to get it on the day it releases. Unless you mean you feel sorry for him if he has to buy it at RRP, and well, yeah... lol.
ME2 got a 97...
I think any reception outside of earth shattering reviews on the same level would give some people reason for pause, and cause the hardcore fanbase to get ornery
That was Horizon, or did he say it for ME:A too?
Or the average game is pretty good, and deserves around 7 according to them? I don't get why 5 HAS to be the average score, that makes no sense.
GlamFM
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What are you implying here?
What kind of bullshit is this?
You think he was payed to give us his impressions?
Because if not you should just shut up.
Shinobi is a ME fan. he gave us his impressions after 3 hours.
End of fucking story.
backflip10019
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Soul of the Beast
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The villian in Mass Effect Andromeda feels a lot more determined and passionate than any of the main characters.
He feels like a convincing individual with motivations and beliefs.
If you ask me I would rather be on his side, even that means I am the bad guy.
At least it's a lot more interesting than these generic, tryhard, bland, soulless teenage movie stars.
He feels like a convincing individual with motivations and beliefs.
If you ask me I would rather be on his side, even that means I am the bad guy.
At least it's a lot more interesting than these generic, tryhard, bland, soulless teenage movie stars.
LordOcidax
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He is going for the best clickbait/drama formula... 10/10.
Giant Bomb was saying the same thing in that it felt like a direct-to-video Disney sequel.
Or... perhaps he simply enjoys the game? It's disappointing for Mass Effect, but it is not a complete bomb and people are having a good time, despite the issues.
ME:A. Maybe EA/Bioware only hires yes-men mock reviewers. Would explain this disaster.
"Oh, senpai! What wonderful fill... questing! So much scanning! Such grind... content! Wow!"
Except I have also played the first 3 hours and they are really really bad.
Yet people jump through hoops defending his impressions.
I am glad he enjoyed it!
I wish I did!
But we can't have it both ways where we have like a giant thread about what Shinobi thinks, then a few days later say "why does anyone care?"
PinkyMonkey
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What made the series good for me was engaging dialog, exploration and an interesting story. None of those things were present in ME3.
But unlike other games, people can play Mass Effect games for different reasons.
I didn't know he hyped Horizon mock reviews too.
And he is repeatedly linking the playstation store page for the game on twitter. I get enjoying a game and wanting people to play it, but he is too insistent on this one.
The Artisan
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it shouldn't be this low
Persona 5.
Holundrian
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What games actually get 4s nowadays. Sites generally don't review such games because they're mostly unknown and probably won't get clicks anyway.
Fact of the matter is the landscape is dominated by 8s. A 7 is clearly below the overall average.
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