Collective Criticisms of Mass Effect: Andromeda via Game Play Articles

Well, most of them remind me of DAI, to be honest...

Yeah what were the good aspects of the game?

You took the words from my mouth miss.

Lets just forget that all the preview articles loved the game (apart from one article) and just focus on the small part of them which prove my point.

half of that is bs and the OP left out the positives. Still believe the game is going to be great! I care about my own opinion. They played a freaking early build!

Interestingly, none of those reviewers mentioned terrible AI. All my other criticism (cover system = wildlands cover system = garbage, empty/dull/static planets) seem to apply.

The problem I have with this is that some of the criticisms mentioned are refuted by other groups that played the game. I know some people have stated how much they enjoyed the characters and that you can tell you are in for a fantastic Bioware story. A number of people have stated that they loved the combat and thought it was very enjoyable, as well as some who have stated that the worlds feel very full and assuredly not devoid of content. I could try to go through all of the reviews I have read in the last two days and find the specific reviewers who stated this, but I'm not going to at this point because I assume other people have also read through them as well. The point is, taking these as for sure issues with the game is silly. They are opinions. A lot stated issues with facial animations, so that's probably an actual issue, but for the others I think they are mostly just opinion, which is fine, but since we don't have a list of praises this just seems to paint the game in a negative way when from what I read it was almost universal praised as a game with the issues not detracting from the reviewer's fun.

I feel like a lot of the criticisms are simply the symptom of the limited time they had to play the game. I expect the animations to be garbage, so all the complaints about that aren't a surprise to me. Hopefully most of the bugs are gone from the final release. There was a lot of conflicting statements about the characters and about the quality of the open worlds, so that's something we'll have to see when the game actually comes out I guess.

The list is useful if you keep in mind it is what it is; that being a list of exclusively negative opinions.

The only one that really concerns me is the unremarkable story/characters which apparently five outlets mentioned. This is bread and butter for a Bioware game, and why I'm a fan. And I think it's the most important aspect for them to nail.

Regardless, this game could score in the 70s on metacritic and I'd still get it no question. I've yet to be disappointed overall with a Bioware game, so they haven't even used up their mulligan yet!

Much depends on your view of the world.

The proportion of the previewers ('reviewer' implies too much) that raised specific concerns were:

• 47% - Facial Animation problems
• 23% - Cover problems
• 17% - Buggy
• 17% - Story/characters unremarkable
• 13% - Open world too empty
• 10% - Combat unremarkable
• 3% - Unremarkable graphics
• 3% - The Tempest is unremarkable
• 3% - Lack of innovation
  

What is wrong with casual

ME1 is my 2nd favorite game of all time and I really enjoyed DA:I, and I love what I see from ME:A.

So /shrug

Also I really think you're just seeing what you want to see. Impressions have ranged from moderately positive to very positive, some have been glowing. I don't know what you're talking about calling them "average" impressions.

Clickbait article.
If the journalist made those claims about the Secret IP , yes that article would work because it's more or less what is happening.
The new IP is about "experience" and doing something brand new with your friends.
MEA is still marketed as a story heavy RPGs , call back to ME1 (a game where you talked and talked and talked) , comparison to Witcher 3 and DAI , also romances, companions and all of that.