No wonder Andromeda sucks. Because the game formula they copied, The Witcher 3, sucks!

guy is complaining of the open world aspect because he has to cross the street to render the other side lol

Really don't mind if you play HZD and it makes you feel better. Regarding scanner, you're complaining about the feature that was not copied from TW3 - there is an overlap, but it is in those Andromeda quests where you follow wires hidden behind walls (for example), not in scanning objects for 'research points'. Also, please don't talk about Skyrim enemies being tied to "level design" in the context of the overworld combat encounters; surely you don't mean to say that they are tied to the PC level. Separated regions in open world games are caused by said games happening on remote islands, planets, or just in distant lands, and for a good reason. The first planet in Andromeda is sci-fi for sure, and it's enough to have one sci-fi planet to label the collection of them as sci-fi, what don't you understand.

Another gripe I have is every world I go to I need to activate 3 fricking monoliths and a vault grrrrr >___>

Also, don't lump this with the other Witcher 3 threads, or I'm out. This focus is different enough for me to not want to get lost in the mess of a thread to follow that is the merged Witcher 3 threads.



Anyway, disclaimer. I couldn't beat The Witcher 3. I tried, I really tried, but the game is so boring and flawed. Did everything in the first world map, and made it as far as hunting for the witch main quest - then doing that cave mission with her. After that I couldn't push myself to keep going with the flaws of this game.

Everyone is tooting this the next benchmark in open world gaming? But this is where the game bombs hardest.

Next, Andromeda really does rip off The Witcher 3 at every turn. Way more then I expected. So all the comparisons of Andromeda to The Witcher 3 are not at all unfound. It's like BioWare took it's skeleton literally and built upon it, because no standard folks are praising The Witcher 3 as the next standard in open and EA wants that open world success formula means they has to rip it off completely. So here are some similarities I've spotted.

- the hold a button long enough to activate something to activate something to save on the lack of buttons for console gamers
- the stupidly hard to pinpoint circle thing on NPCs you have to aim for to activate NPS dialog
- the way too many NPCs who just talk on their own and constant overlapping dialogs that happen with it
- the bland to explore open worlds
- the fact that the open world are not just one massive open world like Bethesda games, but several separate open world maps
- how combat in open world is very lazy thought out (just copy paste a group of enemies in the same setups over and over - for MEA is the same bases over and over, while for TW3 it's just a boring flat ground with sometimes massive foliage blocking your field of view)
- boring combat, but to ME:A's credit, TW3 is way more boring
- how exploring open world feels like a chore in both games
- how both games are padded with way to many boring fetch quests
- the interface for TS3 is also total garbage, lol
- in both game interest in collecting items OCD'ness ends soon because of how much crap these games toss at you and because the UI for menus are such balls to navigate that you never both to looks up and manage all this junk anyways.
- the stupid scanner, yep, in both games and just as stupid in TW3
- riding the horse sucks, riding the Nomad better, but still sucks. Both only serve purpose to get to next destination. While you can use the Nomad as cover, the horse can sometimes get in the way of combat, lol.
- etc, etc.


Gameplay wise and overall design wise, TW3 is actually worse then Andromeda. Not just because of gameplay combat, but how exploration is handled. It literally is a very linear game in a checklist of fetch quest. And you can't just have all the side and main quests market on the map all at once like in Skyrim so you can take the route of least resistance and maybe get sidetracked in discovering and opening/completing new quests discovered on the way to do other quests. No, you can only have one quest at a time highlighted on the map, and to toggle between quests, you have to enter another sub menu, lol. And did I mention on console (PS4) bringing up the map is not instant, but comes with an actual 3 or so seconds of loading?

So yeah, if you want to follow the quests marked on the map, you're basically doing way more riding horse waste of time across boring open world then needed, or wasting extra time in this game's total garbage UI for navigating between menus. "But what about the question marks on the map, surely they are an alternative for more open non-linear exploration" you say? Yeah, well it would have been if those question marks also listed the recommended levels for doing them too, because starting with the second map you end up in areas where enemies are too powerful for you. Meaning you've just arrived at "Waste of time destination! Proceed to next possible waste of time destination through boring over world because you aren't following the one at at time side quests markers marked on your 3 second load screen map!"

How this game got GotY is beyond me. Guess it's all those I have no standards people who say "RPGs don't need gameplay. Just build pretty graphics and story and we will pay." Or in the case of Andromeda "My face is tired animation and graphics to the song and dance of Mac Walters quality of writing & directing? Yes please!"

End rant/

Why is this a gripe? It's a way to add platforming, puzzle solving, and alien dungeons into the game. It diversifies the gameplay. If you play the game like some OCD person and target this then sure it may get repetitive. The game is meant to to be played where you do things as you discover them. Turn off your objectives

I could have told you that by playing The Witcher 2 which was a pretty looking game but sucked all the way around but thanks for sharing. I hope you didn't spend a lot of money on it.

Also what do expect from a game published by Warner Bros Interactive, in the USA, a company that is the worst AAA publisher and/or developer and does everything that focuses on DLC over the finished the game.

You want to play an unfinished buggy POS game then go play Batman: Arkham Knight on the PC, this a game so bad that it had to be pulled from Steam and that right there is a major achievement because Steam has shit ton bad games on it's severs that should be pulled down. They "fixed" it and by most reports it still just barely ran right on PC and seemed only to work half-way right on the PS4. 

Nope. If anything, reading the books makes the game a lot more enjoyable imo, but the game can be enjoyed on its own.

Are we playing same game?..MEA is not even in the top 20, the worst of ME games by far, game is short and not many enemies, W3 is in a different league, the other ME games are better then Andromeda, I think they can't make MEA any worst then what it is, storyline is boring and   not great, ending is  boring   and nothing to write home about, only about two characters in the game that are worth anything.

Sorry Andromeda does not cut it by any means.