Gary Swaby at The Koalition writes: Mass Effect: Andromeda released earlier this week and the consensus has been mainly negative towards the game. I – like many – adored the original Mass Effect trilogy. The first two Mass Effect games are easily among my top 10 role-playing games ever made and I’m sure many would agree. This put an enormous amount of pressure on Mass Effect: Andromeda, and frankly I’m not sure Andromeda was ever going to be able to live up to the first trilogy.
While Mass Effect: Andromeda was let in several key areas, one of its approaches to romances is something Mass Effect 4 should consider revisiting.
I hope Mass Effect 4 ignores the inferior prequels and instead closely follows the far superior Mass Effect: Andromeda and Dragon Age Inquisition.
Mass Effect 4 should just make Mass Effect 1 but better with current tech. Fans would be happy. As far as romance, they should take notes from the Witcher and Cyberpunk.
Later Bioware games have to little build up. You can have a normal conversation and all of a sudden BAM! The character you talk to becomes super flirty.
Reminds me of Baldur’s Gate. I wanted to practice some magic and Gale made it super weird. Not even gonna mention Astarion.
iii dunno about that.
the only really great and funny dating partner, is that outlaw guy anyways haha he was funny as hell.
other than that, i found every character to be very annoying.
Shout out to Keri the Asari reporter. Current relationship status be damned as she's game either way. Anything for a good story. 🤣
One of the best things about the Mas Effect series is the companions you meet along the way. So here is a tier list of all the companions from Mass Effect!
To think that Bioware at some point was capable of doing games like this, you see those characters and remember them like good old friends, and now check ME Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard etc and wonder what the hell happened.
some in andromeda are decent, I agree with peebee and Vetra being good companions. Except Liam he's trash tier
it's like bitch but your shirt back on, your not blue or spikey get away from me
BioWare thinks Mass Effect: Andromeda was a better game than what reception suggested; taught the studio not to shoehorn open-world without any meaningful content in it.
I played it and it wasn't as bad as people said. Is it in the 8-10 range? No.
It's a 6-7, which means it's a solid game.
Veilguard and Andromeda are of similar level to me.
6 to 6.5 ish
Though I think i enjoyed Andromeda's combat and sense of scale a little bit more.
I agree with you It was a 6.5 type game. Gameplay was solid everything else was lacking. Playing at launch with all the issues was just absurd. EA could have let the developers keep patching and fix the game but they stopped just like they did with anthem. It’s crazy to think multi billion dollar publishers can’t afford to keeping patching their games get medium size developers can support the game for years
But when you have android wilson running the company what else can we expect.
Except 6-7 doesn't translate as solid. 6 means a bit flimsy, but still good/enjoyable if you can look past the flaws. 7, a little less flimsy, and enjoyable. 8-10 would be "solid".
But I get your point. I skipped the game entirely, so I don't have an opinion on it.
I played this game back when I wanted to give every game I bought a fair chance and finish it, it was the reason why I stopped doing so, god the game was bad
I actually enjoyed Andromeda. It wasn't a 10/10, by any means, but I played it years after the fact, after a lot of patching, and I had a good time with it.
I liked it as well, and also played it for the first time over a year after it was released. The original trilogy was a better story overall IMO but I still enjoyed Andromeda.
It really wasn’t. Well for me nd I’m a big fan of the series.
Was it mass effect standard? No
But overall I thought it was a decent game.
6-7/10.
You might want to try playing a truly bad game. Go boot up two worlds or gollum to get the perspective you need
Lol. Its one of the only games that I have experienced buyers remorse with. The only one I can think of is riders Republic.
So delusional, the title was an embarrassment to the original trilogy. it’s the equivalent of 2042 to the battlefield franchise.
I think it get so much more right than it gets wrong, and what it gets right are the important things like story, characters, gameplay, an actual sense of exploration due to the size of it. And the things that it gets wrong are really minor, a buggy animation, a NPC standing in the wrong spot, a weird facial expression. Those things don't really matter when you look at the scope of the game.
Combat, that's it. Terrible writing, bloated uninteresting side content, laughably bland characters and development, generic planets. I guess it does one other thing right and that's humor. I never knew that Mass Effect could be such a good comedy.
The space exploration experience is definitely an immersive part of the experience so far for me. It's important to state that this game was never going to top the original trilogy and therefore the creative team has some enormous shoes to fill. This doesn't excuse the presentation, animation and story issues that are present but it's good to at least point out some positives rather than write off the whole game as a disaster which it obviously isn't.
It's true that facial/walking animations aside, along with some other questionable design choices, the game itself is enjoyable. It's not flawless, but if the core was exploration and aw, they certainly nailed it on that front.
Side Note: I like the characters, initially I thought I wouldn't, but they do grow on me. Ryder isn't as aggressive as I'd like though. Having that option would've been nice in relation to dialogue choices. Being sarcastic/bold/positive, can get a tad old, but I understand the logic behind it, and it does work for the most part.
The game is getting a lot of negative criticism. Justifiably so. But people mustn't forget, 7-8 is still good, and in many cases people love games that others dislike. So, while it sucks that we live in a day/age where games are released with things not as polished as we'd like, we do live in the day/age where those same games can be fixed. Does that make it right? I don't think so, but it's better than them not fixing it at all.
Side Note Extended: The animations probably won't get fixed, but the character creator + other aspects of the game can certainly get updated.