To all Hardcore ME-players!

Having played the 10 hours I remain of the view that I'm going to enjoy this, I loved the trial.

The review scores vary between around 6.0 and 8.0, I guess that puts me up at the 8.0 end.
Reading the reviews I'm much more aligned with those, than the others at the 6 end which appear harsh and too caught up in the 'legend of Shepard'.

I can see some flaws already, mostly in areas that don't trouble me personally.

Mass Effect 2 may remain the high water mark, but I intend to play the hell out of this game.

It can't be ME3 bad, right?

I watched it.
I liked it.

/shrug

We all have different tastes

(and no I most definitely did not like the ME3 ending. I use an ending mod.)

As for the rest of the game... I loved the 10 hours I got.. just didn't get very far.
But it was awesome up to where I got 

This 'bout sums it up for me as well. I was very skeptical, due to how flaunting the teasers were, showing practically nothing about the game itself outside of the visual cg teasers of potentially involved characters and battle mechanics. I do still reserve my final judgement though, knowing full well the game's EA has shed some light on some glaring issues, most of with which has already been openly beaten to death on the forums. But the game itself, it's still Mass Effect. It's still about being given that opportunity to explore planets and interact with the other characters in a rather unique series of dialogue options, which feels to be much more expansive than it had ever been in the past.


While I do love ME1-3, it was the one thing that did turn me off, despite loving the rpg aspect of it. Their options were simply far too linear, so much so, the magic of attempting to be clever with personal choices a on a multitude of matters concerning several missions felt too artificial. In the end, it was only ever about whether you wanted to be Paragon or Renegade, not about what any of your choices actually entailed. At the very least with this, this does not feel like the case at all, and I love it for that. Though admittedly, I do agree the writing isn't as well thought out as it could have been, but given the layers of the game, it sort of makes sense that it was a bit shirked during its production.

Which is why opinions are opinions and people say play it for yourself. Ive seen just as many people saying it is good.

What bioware chose to do a safe ending after me 3? I'm shocked. (for the record i have no idea what the ending involves)

GUYS. Let's not talk about the ending here please.

So much this.

There is ONE thread only (IN SPOILERS) for this topic.

I've only play the 10-hours access. What I played I enjoyed especially single player. Although I hate the Nomad. With multiplayer it was a lot of lag and crashing, so hopefully they work on that. I've pre-ordered all the OT and this game. Mass Effect is my favorite gaming series/franchise, so I'm willing to give Andromeda a chance. I think you're going to have to wait until more of people to play the game and more of us play more than 10 hours to get better opinions or views of the game.

Spoiler free as I can -

I've completed ME1 all achievements on two separate gamertags. Same with ME 2 & 3. ME 1 is my favourite, mostly because I'm an RPG gamer at heart and the combat being lacklustre never bothered me but the stripped down RPG mechanics in 2 & 3 really did. I would consider myself a huge fan and a pretty big player. Anyway...

Andromeda - I went into the trial expecting to hate it based on all the reviews. First bit of the trial oh my god I just loved it. Story pacing was superb I thought. I love how the game introduces you to things (like the scanning and the characters) and how you become pathfinder managed to both surprise and touch me. The environments were jaw dropping - all little details like weather effects, skies, optional paths. I spent so long just walking round looking st the world because it was gorgeous. I played the first prologue bit through twice and the second time found some completely new things I had totally missed my first time. Not something that was really possible in the trilogy, so really great emphasis on exploration. Animations I didn't think were as bad as the internet has made out. Never experienced any bugs or glitches and the combat was really exciting. I play vanguard (now called scrapper). I loved the trial enough to definitely know for sure I wanted to play more. I'm seeing estimates of 100+ hours to complete so it's a really amazing sized game with a wealth of stuff to do. I'm certain bugs will be patched out and I'm hoping in the future entire new planets will be released as dlc. Very happy with what I played and I can't really go into exact details because of spoilers but if the rest of the game is in any way similar to the trial it might even end up my favourite of the series. Even without Wrex.

Holy crap, I thought I was bad!  Played ME1 6 times, ME2 9 times and ME3 6 times.

I can't imagine a world where you wouldn't want to try Andromeda if you've played the entire first trilogy start to finish more than 10 times.  The game is good, but inconsistent, and has technical limits that are mind-boggling.  You'll most likely enjoy it a lot, but still have disappointment that it ultimately doesn't live up to its namesake.