Listening to the reviews was a mistake!

May 28, 2017 21:23:35 GMT linksocarina said:

True,

I think the Kett has potential though. In particular how the Primus went against the Archon...

That small little scene, while it may mean nothing in Andromeda, makes the Kett somewhat more power-hungry and ambitious on their theocratic mandate. There is so much potential there...the hope is BioWare can get the chance to do something about it.

Sure, there is some intrigue and backstabbing, but that's hardly enough to make up for the fact that the Kett have the word "generic" practically carved into their foreheads,

or the fact that their genetic consumption of other species is a reboot of the Reaper thing - and I would argue an inferior reboot if only due to the fact that you just told this story not long ago,

you don't get to regurgitate it again and expect everyone to applaud just because you want to call the new game a "soft reboot" or whatever.

The idea that the Kett have different factions within them isn't half as dramatic as you are making it sound, certainly not enough to make them seem less like "generic hostile aliens number 37".

To me, the Kett look like an unholy mix of elements taken from existing designs of aliens from different franchises, the Turians, the Protheans, the Collectors, and some resemblance to certain

enemies from Halo, Destiny, and the "Grineer" faction from Warframe.

They could have made even that more interesting if they went with a similar route to how Stargate handled the Goa'uld Vs. Tok'ra conflict.

The idea that some Kett could be against these practices, perhaps those that retained much of what they were before the "exaltation".

It's just one example, but the way they were handled was extremely disappointing. We went all the way to another galaxy just to meet an adversary that didn't have anything original or even "Alien" about him.

It's as if the more things change, the more they stay the same.

The Kett (and the Angara) needed their own version of space magic, that just happens to work almost exactly like Biotics, but contrary to biotics which were invented

as a whole including the pseudo-scientific explanation for why they work, the new "aliens" just happen to control "bio-electricity" and "electromagnetic-fields", and are using them in a way which most certainly makes no sense.

The difference is that with Biotics, assuming Eezo exists, one could suspend their disbelief into accepting these fantastic applications.

But this? This is lazy as fuck and breaks suspension of disbelief for anyone with even a vague understanding of how "electromagnetic-fields" and "bio-electricity" work.

May 28, 2017 23:14:31 GMT colfoley said:

no one makes games like Bioware does...well in the western hemisphere .

That's not quite true anymore, but even if it was, it wouldn't make the criticism any less valid.