Extensive Analysis by Noah Gervais

...Well if his opinion is that 'Andromeda played it safe' kind of glad I elected not to watch it.

His entire summary at the end sums up my feeling on the game, but the one part that does it best was when he was talking about how the enemy stealing genetic material and turning us into them has already been used in every ME game so far, and ended with:

"Andromeda is a fresh start, to be this stale and uncreative is a choice that was deliberately made."

This is my new favorite reviewer. Thanks so much for sharing! I am going to check out more of his videos.

Edited to add my favorite highlights.

- Just went back and skimmed through it, and watched with my boyfriend who also enjoyed it (and laughed alot).

 - One of his best points was the way he described the tonal dialogue in MEA versus the paragon/renegade dialogue in MET  as "emotional complexity versus player identity".  Very true.  I preferred P/R system, because I preferred the extreme differences in identity.  On the other hand, I can totally understand why some folks would prefer to play the same character with different tones (which I found very effective in DAI, but not so much in MEA).

 - Every thing he said about the inventory/crafting system is spot on.

 - He mentioned Cool Runnings. 

 - and vat-grown hamburger (ouch!)

 - He focuses the first 1/2 of the video on my major gripe, which is the lack of risk in the story and emotional weight in the characters (and he does it eloquently, without emotional foot-stamping). I found it refreshing (especially considering that emotional foot-stamping is about all I can do to try to explain what I didn't like!).

That was a really interesting listen - thanks for the share.

Don't care to know about him. The only reviewer I have liked over the years is Totalbiscuit, and I plan to keep it that way. I don't need to hear the same bla bla stuff repeated over again other reviewers like to point out. I just don't care for it anymore.

Then at least consider checking out his non-Mass Effect content. Not that you need to, of course, but if you really care about games critique, there's no need to swear off a reviewer just because they disagree with you on a particular product. Noah's retrospectives are some of the best (and in some cases, only) in the field.

And for what its worth, his stuff isn't "bla bla," and he (as with many other reviewers) doesn't like to point out the same old things. He just kinda has to, because that's how the game is.

Sorry, the more you push for him; the more I don't want to or care too. I don't like it when people try to push their opinion on me whether it is like this or reviews.

It is pushing the way he keeps mentioning it and how he does it. You are pushing it as well. Let me put it more bluntly, I don't give two fucks about his opinion, nor will I ever give two fucks about that guys opinion. Frankly, I am fucking tired of seeing no name youtubers be brought up here, but that is another matter entirely. This conversation is now over. I am out of here. /peace

Well that is your loss then. If you never wanted to watch the guy anyway, why did you even post in the thread? So uh, take care, and calm down, mayhap.

What about professional reviewers' opinions then?
www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/mass-effect-andromeda

If you don't like other people's opinions pushed on you... And you're in a Bioware forum... You're gonna have a bad time.



*push.

I myself would love to interact with this critique, but I have very little tolerance for videos. Evertime I am browsing the web and see an article that sounds interesting and then click on it and find a video, I immediately close it. I'm probably too old fashioned, and prefer to read, especially if the content is long in form. That said, it doesn't sound too terribly unreasonable, althought to what extent I would agree or not would depend on further analysis. A lot of the argument from people around here is that the game is too different from the trilogy, so in what ways should it have strayed further from the template is something I would have to watch the video to asses fairly. I'll ask out of curiosity, does he see Andromeda, as a franchise, going forward as salvageable or does he feel sequels will inevitably suffer coming off the game is it is currently established? Thanks for the contribution.