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Post by cypherj on Mar 29, 2017 22:07:57 GMT
The story and missions have gotten better as I've played it. Unfortunately, the bugs have not, making it not fun to play at times. I'm about 30 hours in, and it's hard to keep playing through some of these issues. I almost want to quit and wait until they patch everything.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 22:13:36 GMT
The story and missions have gotten better as I've played it. Unfortunately, the bugs have not, making it not fun to play at times. I'm about 30 hours in, and it's hard to keep playing through some of these issues. I almost want to quit and wait until they patch everything. Are you playing on console? I'm on pc and I don't know what all these bugs people keep talking about are. Could you give me some examples?
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Post by cypherj on Mar 29, 2017 22:18:06 GMT
The story and missions have gotten better as I've played it. Unfortunately, the bugs have not, making it not fun to play at times. I'm about 30 hours in, and it's hard to keep playing through some of these issues. I almost want to quit and wait until they patch everything. Are you playing on console? I'm on pc and I don't know what all these bugs people keep talking about are. Could you give me some examples? I'm playing on PC, I can list some. - Falling through the floor of areas into empty space. - The quest marker appearing in front of you, then going behind you, then disappearing altogether at times - Enemies in walls and rocks shooting you, but you can target them or attack them back - Going into fights and not being able to draw any weapons - Being in conversations with NPCs using the dialogue wheel and getting attacked and killed while still in the conversation I could on, but I'll just get upset that the game was released in this state.
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Post by ComedicSociopathy on Mar 29, 2017 22:20:15 GMT
Lack of Renegade options is a big problem.
I want to revel in death and destruction with shitty one-liners, dammit!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2017 22:21:35 GMT
Are you playing on console? I'm on pc and I don't know what all these bugs people keep talking about are. Could you give me some examples? I'm playing on PC, I can list some. - Falling through the floor of areas into empty space. - The quest marker appearing in front of you, then going behind you, then disappearing altogether at times - Enemies in walls and rocks shooting you, but you can target them or attack them back - Going into fights and not being able to draw any weapons - Being in conversations with NPCs using the dialogue wheel and getting attacked and killed while still in the conversation I could on, but I'll just get upset that the game was released in this state. Ok, fair enough. i encountered the last one once on Eos, but I haven't seen any of the others. Strange...
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Post by vonuber on Mar 29, 2017 22:30:42 GMT
Funny isn't it. I assume most people gave up on ME1 after two hours, because that opening is just as slow - if not slower.
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Post by lierah on Mar 29, 2017 22:42:16 GMT
Did you like ME 1? I'm curious because this one is probably the closest to being what people asked for (not everyone, I know.). You said yourself you are bored with open world games... this probably wasn't ever going to be the game for you since they have said from the start they were giving the focus back to open world exploration unlike the last 2 games. From what I have seen amongst my friends - if you liked the ME1 exploration/driving etc then generally ME:A is what you wanted. If you preferred ME2 and thought it was the best in the series... you hate this one. Personally I'm glad its more explore and less combat (and and whoever said ME1 had more political intrigue... please... this one has far more in terms of clashing factions, uncovering dirty secrets, faction infighting and power plays etc Sometimes I feel like Im playing a totally different game)
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Post by hellcat0420 on Mar 29, 2017 22:45:19 GMT
I'm in disbelief. Excuse the random jumping of my reactions. I've had the game since launch and can't get into it. I've maybe played a total of 2 hours, all while being distracted by the Internet on my second screen. I'm really disappointed. I'm happy a few people are liking it, but it's just so boring. Even the action, which most critics have enjoyed is dull. I miss ME3's dodge mechanic. The verticality of MEA does nothing for me. It's just a bunch of jumping around, there's nothing fun about it. I'd rather have more linear levels and missions than these big play grounds with enemies appearing far away. It's not tense enough, there's no want for me to push forward. Just keep running to target to target. And what's up with picking up loot? Why is this fun? Fuck loot. Christ. Mass Effect was never about "picking up loot." Sure in 1 you'd find random shit in lockers and you would auto recover items after fire fights (and it sucked), and having loot sit around and asking players to pick it up, slows down the game. Very few people liked the heavy inventory in Mass Effect, why bring it back? Squad feels useless. Don't even care about them. You can't use their powers, then there is no point of them existing. And then there is the locales. I enter one building, turn around, and renter the next building because they all look EXACTLY the same. All the guns so far lack punch. I feel like I'm shooting paper clips. The baddies are uninteresting. They're straight out of that contrite piece of work called Destiny. The Ket? The Remnant? BAD WRITERS. *hits nose with newspaper* VERY BAD. They're so uncharismatic and uninteresting that it's painful watching them stumble at you. I don't know what to think about the Nomad. I don't know there's a mineral scanner and mining button on it. And I really hope I'm not driving around on planets looking for places to places to mine. Finding minerals in ME1 was not fun. Scanning planets in ME2 was not fun. Scanning planets in ME3 wasn't fun, but al least you got a bit of world building with it. I'm sooo bored of open world games. Bioware, you dun fukd it up. You could have made a more focused, non-open world game, and I guarantee you it would have been 100x better if it had the same budget of this travesty. The two biggest problems for me with the campaign are that the story is not engaging and the characters are not interesting at all. I think the 4 shades of paragon system they replaced the paragon/renegade system with is part of what really hurt the storytelling. Lol the stupid campaign wore out my spacebar on my keyboard from all of the conversation skipping.
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Post by Doctor Fumbles on Mar 29, 2017 22:48:01 GMT
Did you like ME 1? I'm curious because this one is probably the closest to being what people asked for (not everyone, I know.). You said yourself you are bored with open world games... this probably wasn't ever going to be the game for you since they have said from the start they were giving the focus back to open world exploration unlike the last 2 games. From what I have seen amongst my friends - if you liked the ME1 exploration/driving etc then generally ME:A is what you wanted. If you preferred ME2 and thought it was the best in the series... you hate this one. Personally I'm glad its more explore and less combat (and and whoever said ME1 had more political intrigue... please... this one has far more in terms of clashing factions, uncovering dirty secrets, faction infighting and power plays etc Sometimes I feel like Im playing a totally different game) I need to ask something. Where is everyone getting that data from? Because I hated the mako in ME1. I loved the combat in ME2, and I rate MEA to be the best Mass Effect of them all. Does game play improvements not go into peoples mind when they decide they like something because MEA>ME3>ME2>ME1 is my list. It's all about game play.
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Post by vonuber on Mar 29, 2017 22:48:03 GMT
The two biggest problems for me with the campaign are that the story is not engaging and the characters are not interesting at all. I think the 4 shades of paragon system they replaced the paragon/renegade system with is part of what really hurt the storytelling. L ol the stupid campaign wore out my spacebar on my keyboard from all of the conversation skipping. And you don't see a contradiction there at all? How can you find something engaging or interesting if you just skip it all?
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Post by lierah on Mar 29, 2017 22:52:13 GMT
I need to ask something. Where is everyone getting that data from? Because I hated the mako in ME1. I loved the combat in ME2, and I rate MEA to be the best Mass Effect of them all. Does game play improvements not go into peoples mind when they decide they like something because MEA>ME3>ME2>ME1 is my list. It's all about game play. Exactly what I said "From what I have seem amongst my friends". I'm just going by the reaction of people I know - friends/family/acquaintances. It seems to be a pattern across all of them. Obviously not true for everyone of course
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Post by Doctor Fumbles on Mar 29, 2017 22:54:29 GMT
I need to ask something. Where is everyone getting that data from? Because I hated the mako in ME1. I loved the combat in ME2, and I rate MEA to be the best Mass Effect of them all. Does game play improvements not go into peoples mind when they decide they like something because MEA>ME3>ME2>ME1 is my list. It's all about game play. Exactly what I said "From what I have seem amongst my friends". I'm just going by the reaction of people I know - friends/family/acquaintances. It seems to be a pattern across all of them. Obviously not true for everyone of course OK. I was just curious because you are not the only one to state that.
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Post by NormandySR3 on Mar 29, 2017 23:04:47 GMT
It's not tense enough, there's no want for me to push forward. Just keep running to target to target. I have to agree. There is no sense of urgency like there was throughout ME3. And the characters do not seem to be taking their mission as seriously, so it is hard to feel the real need to save humanity. I am only mid-game though, so hopefully things will escalate soon. At the moment, I do not even bother with side quests or those random kett hideouts. If you kill them, they all respawn anyway next time you return. So what's the point. -N03
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Post by hellcat0420 on Mar 29, 2017 23:08:05 GMT
The two biggest problems for me with the campaign are that the story is not engaging and the characters are not interesting at all. I think the 4 shades of paragon system they replaced the paragon/renegade system with is part of what really hurt the storytelling. L ol the stupid campaign wore out my spacebar on my keyboard from all of the conversation skipping. And you don't see a contradiction there at all? How can you find something engaging or interesting if you just skip it all? Because I didn't start out skipping it all. It's not like the campaign is only an hour long.
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Post by mrtijger on Mar 29, 2017 23:12:36 GMT
Bioware, you dun fukd it up. You could have made a more focused, non-open world game, and I guarantee you it would have been 100x better if it had the same budget of this travesty. Its not an open world game, invest some time and find out what the game does and doesnt contain? The first few hours arent the best the game has to offer.
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Post by malanek on Mar 29, 2017 23:36:14 GMT
Are you playing on console? I'm on pc and I don't know what all these bugs people keep talking about are. Could you give me some examples? I'm playing on PC, I can list some. - Falling through the floor of areas into empty space. - The quest marker appearing in front of you, then going behind you, then disappearing altogether at times - Enemies in walls and rocks shooting you, but you can target them or attack them back - Going into fights and not being able to draw any weapons - Being in conversations with NPCs using the dialogue wheel and getting attacked and killed while still in the conversation I could on, but I'll just get upset that the game was released in this state. 1) Never happened to me, is this with the Explorer teleport dodge? 2) Not quite sure what you mean. Are you talking about when you get close to something it goes away and the warm/cold G symbol starts throbbing? I think this is most likely by design, they wanted the player to actually have to look for some things but show you the general area 3) Happened to me once. Given how much you can throw enemies around I have actually been quite impressed there haven't been more of these sorts of problems. I consider this quite stable. 4) Never happened to me 5) I don't consider this a bug. If you start talking to someone why would an enemy stop shooting at you? You probably should be able to abort the conversation more easily, but this isn't a big issue to me. I have also had one crash to desktop, and I suspect there may be a slow memory leak. I had a single time the framerates dropped for no apparent reason, and sometimes saves take too long (although I think this may be fixed by disabling the cloud synch). Overall I think the game has been pretty stable, it is better than I expected for their first attempt at ME with a genuine Z axis and pushing all the powers into a new engine.
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Post by kino on Mar 29, 2017 23:40:30 GMT
I've played for a 110+ hrs so far. Not getting a boring vibe at all.
Still, sorry you're not liking it, man. It happens.
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Post by Sumerian Physics on Mar 29, 2017 23:46:00 GMT
I'm sooo bored of open world games. "WAIT A MINUTE THIS ISN'T MORTAL KOMBAT FUCK U BIOWARE" Pls be trolling
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Post by derrame on Mar 29, 2017 23:55:41 GMT
you played 2 hours, but the rest of the game it's the same it's boring and side quests are very boring and tedious
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Post by Space Cowboy on Mar 29, 2017 23:56:53 GMT
I explored the prologue habitat 7 for 2.5 hours..
OP too bad you didn't get to try the demo before release.
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Post by NormandySR3 on Mar 30, 2017 0:22:49 GMT
Interesting point about the mechanics of ME3. My memory of playing ME3 was nothing less than exhilarating, both b/c of the story, and perhaps also the gameplay as you say (ME3 probably had the smoothest gameplay of the series).
The mechanics of ME:A feel a bit awkward, with Ryder getting stuck in places, feeling like he's tripping over himself on small rocks, etc. Part of the issue is the massive open-world design. It's like the game is so large it is unmanageable.
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Post by varicite on Mar 30, 2017 0:26:47 GMT
I honestly can't think of a single Bioware game that I actually enjoyed 2 hours in, but looking back on most of them, that's not really what I remember.
Coincidentally, "Skip Peragus" was the first mod that I ever installed in a game...
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Post by suikoden on Mar 30, 2017 0:39:28 GMT
The two biggest problems for me with the campaign are that the story is not engaging and the characters are not interesting at all. I think the 4 shades of paragon system they replaced the paragon/renegade system with is part of what really hurt the storytelling. L ol the stupid campaign wore out my spacebar on my keyboard from all of the conversation skipping. And you don't see a contradiction there at all? How can you find something engaging or interesting if you just skip it all? Because the dialogue is atrocious. Only reason I kept playing was in hopes that that old Bioware storytelling magic would kick in, and that maybe they gave the intro to the interns or something. The magic is gone.
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Post by mrtijger on Mar 30, 2017 0:41:34 GMT
And you don't see a contradiction there at all? How can you find something engaging or interesting if you just skip it all? Because the dialogue is atrocious. Only reason I kept playing was in hopes that that old Bioware storytelling magic would kick in, and that maybe they gave the intro to the interns or something. The magic is gone. What magic was that, then? Which game specifically exemplifies that?
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Post by flyingovertrout on Mar 30, 2017 0:49:31 GMT
No. It's not. 2 hours is a long time. I've experience the gameplay. Unless a wand is suddenly waved and it gets good, then my "pronouncements" are correct bearing IT'S MY OPINION.
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