Yeah, I loved it as well. The game did rather well and thankfully we another another Dragon Age to look forward to by the same team.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda | Review Thread
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Yeah, I loved it as well. The game did rather well and thankfully we another another Dragon Age to look forward to by the same team.
VincentMatts
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To be fair, that could be said about any game ever. Fact is, they had the time and theyve done it before, twice.
That should also affect Zelda's scores.
I can't trust review outlets for a long time now, the scores they give are always way too high.
The Last Guardian was another case of a technological mess but still geting 9/10.
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Agree, but to clarify the Best Buy Visa checkout deal is an extra discount on top of the 20% off with GCU (and that's good for all new games, not just first 2 weeks like Amazon Prime).
I've not used Visa Checkout myself yet, but from what others have posted between GCU and it new games are like $38 when the checkout deal is available.
But still, so many games drop to $40 Ina month or two and are then $32 plus tax with GCU so waiting is usually wise.
ME:A I have preloaded on PS4 Pro. I had PSN credit from X-mas gifts so I took the chance on it, being a huge fan of the trilogy. Looks like I'll be a little disappointed with it from all I've read,but I should still enjoy it as I don't have super high standards for games, movies etc. compared to the vocal minority on here that seems to hate everything. As long as I can escape from reality in another galaxy for a few hours at a time, have fun with he combat and characters, I can overlook technical jank and occasional bad writing.
MAX PAYMENT
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Is this game really the hill some people want to die on.
Mass Age: Inquisition.
God damn it.
Interfectum
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Yeah probably the biggest disappointment for me and the main reason I'm not getting it at launch.
The Emperor
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Low framerate is very different from the kind of bugs Andromeda seems to have.
Melchiah
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I pre-order for content and convenience; retail special editions, which come with soundtrack, art booklet, and/or steelbook, or digital ones for having them preloaded and ready to play at midnight on release. There's no reason not to, if I'm sure it's my kind of game, since in Finland you don't have to pay deposits for retail pre-order, and you have a week after release to decide if you want to actually buy it. That's a plenty of time to see what the reviews say.
This made me laugh out loud
Tertullian
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Yeah, can someone who isn't lazy like me pull some review quotes about the multiplayer? It's pretty clear that the writing, characters, animations, etc. are bad, but what about that sweet sweet horde mode? Will that be worth buying for $15 later this year?
The Witcher 3 is the exception and that is one of the reasons why it's still the best open world rpg. We shouldn't accept it as an inevitable trend, but aim for the Witcher 3 quality.
Is this game really the hill some people want to die on.
What are you implying, that nobody is allowed to actually like the game?
GillianSeed79
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So I can get past janky animations, some minor non-game-breaking technical issues and even some bad voice acting, but the writing and narrative - which are what I play Bioware games for - better be good to excellent. If that turns out to be mediocre or just plain average, which it sounds like Andromeda is, than I'm not going to pick it up until later because I just don't have time for that in my life right now, especially when I haven't gotten to games like Horizon yet. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised, but it sounds like Mass Effect: Inquistion, which is the opposite of what I want. I really think Bioware lost a lot of its magic after being bought out by EA. Andromeda feels more like a "product" released to meet shareholders earnings expectations rather than a game filled with artistic endeavors so to speak. It's probably no where near as bad as people will/are making it out to be, but I doubt if it will live up to the prior trilogy. Let's just hope CD Projekt doesn't get bought out. No offense of course to the bioware team. I'm sure they sunk their life into this project. But also fuck side filler content fetch quest bullshit.
GameAddict411
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I knew what I was getting myself into from the early previews and impression of the EA early access thread. I am a big mass effect fan so the negative reviews won't stop from enjoying it. It's just too bad that they didn't make the best game they could. They have no excuses. ME3 had a very tight developing schedule, but EA gave bioware 5 years to make this game. It should have been extremely polished.
Yakuza has terrible animations and little variety, Horizon Zero Dawn has broken cheeseable stealth, Zelda plays at a subpar 30fps. Each reviewer has different things that will drag down the score.
Well, Metacritic has the average review score as 74. You can work that out from
http://www.metacritic.com/browse/games/publication/popular
The Emperor
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FFXV was the last really tame review thread I can recall for a big game.
It gave me 60ish hours of enjoyment, but the last 10 or so were pretty rough. Mission design and world need a few tweaks and it could be a legit great game. The best part (besides the side content) was the world wasn't "open". I hate open world games.
Let's be honest here for a moment though, DA:I came out at the beginning of the gen in one of the worst years in gaming, critics and players were STARVING for any decent game to play so you can understand how it got such scores and awards, today the RPG climate is very different, some true classics came out since, the standards are absurdly high, critics are much more demanding and tough, you really can't compare between the two.
I will bet that if DA:I would come out today it would get 70+ MC as well.
Ryzaki009
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Thankfully. I just feel so confused when people talk about its characters and plot being awful. I'm just like "I don't feel that way at all."
Meanwhile I was always so so on the ME series. I always felt DA was better (even DA2).
I wish BW would go back to linear character focusted stories tho. That's what they're best at.
Nuts and Bolts is better than any other Banjo Kazooie game
Putyouinmyoven
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I'm disappointed, but that's because ME2 is one of my favourite games of all time, it had a lot to live up to, but I was expecting 9's as for the original trilogy. After 5 years it's a bit of a sting.
I assume with these reviews the game will drop in price fairly soon so I'll probably pick it up then.
I assume with these reviews the game will drop in price fairly soon so I'll probably pick it up then.
Andodalf
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Yeeep. Meanwhile I'm sitting here changing my region to see if the game is out anywhere!
I think technological issues should be out of their personal opinion and drag a score down.
I also mean that the average score nowadays is too high.
Inquisition came out in a pretty shitty year and there was barely anything on new consoles. Had it come out a year later in a post Witcher 3 world it would have been trashed.
Hasphat'sAnts
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Think about all the cool Trek type stuff that was in the first ME: the Thorian, the protheans, the rachni, the genophage.
If this game doesn't offer something similar it's a huge wasted opportunity
BossDarkseid
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The Romance scenes can't be all "that"...
*sees the Cora romance*
Oh. Animated butts, lewdness everywhere. In an alternate timeline, EA had a facial capture solution that was cheap and efficient enough to give BioWare Naughty Dog level stuff quickly.
BioWare sure know their audience.
I'm curious as to how I'll feel about the game when I play it fully. From the trial it felt quite evocative of the Trilogy, but moreso of the first game...so when some reviews say it doesn't feel like the Trilogy at all I'm a little "Hmmm...."....but ultimately I am sure I'll enjoy it, but I'll equally be a tad disappointed if by the end I feel like "Oh, that was cool...didn't really do a whole lot new other than keep r34 artists in business for the next 5 years".
*sees the Cora romance*
Oh. Animated butts, lewdness everywhere. In an alternate timeline, EA had a facial capture solution that was cheap and efficient enough to give BioWare Naughty Dog level stuff quickly.
BioWare sure know their audience.
I'm almost scared for how they'll animated a Human Turian sex scene
I'm curious as to how I'll feel about the game when I play it fully. From the trial it felt quite evocative of the Trilogy, but moreso of the first game...so when some reviews say it doesn't feel like the Trilogy at all I'm a little "Hmmm...."....but ultimately I am sure I'll enjoy it, but I'll equally be a tad disappointed if by the end I feel like "Oh, that was cool...didn't really do a whole lot new other than keep r34 artists in business for the next 5 years".
Ryzaki009
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BW's endings do tend to be pretty hit or miss.
And yeah I'm getting sick of open world games too because they need certain things to be done right and most devs don't bother so why not just go linear and focus on your strengths? Meh.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
The writing/narrative are where it becomes make or break for me.
I don't think Bioware lost its 'magic' overall, but I feel (only from reading reviews so far, obviously) that Montreal, in this instance, and for whatever myriad of reasons that exist, either weren't prepared or couldn't make things come together in a satisfactory way for a project of this scale.
The 'EA wanted a thing to sell' is probably at least a part of it.
Earliest is Korea (I think), and that's not until another 40 minutes.
Holundrian
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Interesting I must be missing out on a ton of 7s then. Guess I got to pay more attention.
Plenty of old core developers/writers are still working there. Some left and came back (like ME's original writer). They are just working in different teams. I think their quality drop over the last 6-7 years is purely because they are trying to adapt to EA's demands.
Darkstorne
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Hehe, I powered through for the environment design. And I also felt that ME1 was the best of the bunch, but I value story in an RPG more than anything else.
I kinda fooled myself in Inquisition with the whole "It's okay, it's cross-gen" excuse. I hate that we're still picking two/three party members to be useful and having the others stand in one spot doing fuck all. I hate that party banter outside of cutscenes is just flapping lips, with zero other animation emphasis - they could at least turn to talk to one another and have body animations that match their mood. I hate that the Bioware story model is so often defined as "linear start with a big set piece moment, multi-choice middle where player collects McGuffin, linear end with a big set piece moment". Just.... GAH! Try branching out a bit, Bioware! At least try and move this party system forwards a bit. The "choose two/three and leave the others doing nothing" thing has been around literally forever, and the party dialogue systems have remained unimproved since the very first Mass Effect introduced the dialogue wheel. Let's start moving forwards again, please.
Dargor
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No wonder NeoGaf lost so many people that provided good info. Stop trying to take people down. Thats fucked up.
This is just not true though
Primethius
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Broken cheesable stealth that only works on a handful of enemies?
Zelda is a unique case. It plays largely fine in handheld mode. If I had to review it, I wouldn't dock it technically.
BouncyFrag
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That's how I see it. Will be playing tonight when it unlocks.Hahaha true true
Been reading/watching some more positive reviews and they actually seen to like the planets and find enough reason for exploration. It's tempting to just pay those 44 euros and check it out for myself. Especially because I liked quite a bit in that trial.
Nuts and bolts was easily the best Banjo, and Judgment while not as good as 3 at least tried something new.
For me it just has no identity. When you try to blend every paint color you get a grey sludge. That's what DA:I was, it didn't know what it wanted to be, so everything it did it did with mediocrity.
TheDinoman
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Ow, the edge.
I think people are missing the point. The first Mass Effect wasn't the smoothest game, from the UI, loading times masked in elevators, and really big, boring worlds to drive the Mako around on. But many (including me) were able to look past those issues because the promise was so great - a big sci-fi space opera with some great characters and a plot that really picked up in the last third of the game, culminating in a super satisfying finale.
When you don't have that kind of writing, those characters, that plot that engages you...the other issues become so much more difficult to ignore.
When you don't have that kind of writing, those characters, that plot that engages you...the other issues become so much more difficult to ignore.
TheLostBigBoss
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MGS4 is bad and GAF should feel bad for liking it
-tetsuo-
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You must not go into many Inquisition threads. It gets heavily shat on on the regular, as it should. That game sucks.
Dusktildawn48
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I'm still pretty hyped for this!
Interfectum
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Eh, besides some weird framerate stuff Zelda has been one of the most, if not the most, jank free open world games I've ever played. Even with all the crazy physics stuff and massive world I've not run into a single bug or floating rock or NPC stuck on a roof, etc.
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