Why Mass Effect Andromeda is Well written.

I think trying to compare ME:A to the OT in terms of dialogue is perhaps missing the point slightly. The ME:A writers (and overall production of the game) intended it to have a lighter feel than the OT did. More Whedon-esque/Firefly than The Expanse, for example.

Now, you may prefer the style of the Expanse vs Firefly, and that's perfectly valid. But it's not a case of bad writing or bad writers. You may not like the style (and that's a perfectly valid opinion) but there were PLENTY of moments I found quite deep and connected with me on a profound emotional level.

The conversation with Drack in the medbay (previously cited here) is one of the more outstanding moments, but much of the ambient banter came through in such a way as well.

The main example I'm thinking of is a conversation between Liam and Jaal after the exaltation facility on Voeld, where we rescue the Moshae. Liam asks Jaal if he wants to talk about it, Jaal responds with something like "maybe, but...not now" and Liam finishes the dialogue with "Got it. Inane, pointless chatter coming up!"

Some people point to this as an example of bad writing. I say, if you think that's poor writing, you're missing the point. I'm a combat vet with PTSD, and there have been plenty of times my wife has started "inane, pointless" conversations to help me out of a particularly bad point. Someone at Bioware "gets it" from that perspective. It's a very simple thing, almost a throw-away line, but it's extremely poignant with deceptively deep meaning.

ME:A's dialogue is certainly not award winning fiction. It doesn't delve into the deeper, darker realms that the OT did. But for the tone of the game the writers intended, it fits. And there are some stellar moments, and some of 'em are so subtle that if you blink you'll miss 'em. I wonder how many people missed these moments, or simply didn't "get" them, and thus dismissed them.

As for me, it was the only outstanding moment. The whole Drack Kesh relationship is good. That's why I always exempt them from my criticism.

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Yeah i can see MEA 2 and 3 becoming much darker...and not just due to the audience complaints in MEA.

hope not. I wonder who will be back in the sequel on the squad.

no shit? I did but I've never noticed a difference.

They aren't special yet.  And this goes into the other thing from the post ending that I noticed.  Talked to SAM after the fact and his speech about how far Ryder came, and how they were both parts of a greater whole...I think most of us are missing the point.  I have had that feeling for a while now but SAMs dialogue cristylized it.  The intention, from Mac Walters perspective...always since Mass Effect 3...was to show how AI and 'organics' could come together as one.  Just the problem is in ME 3 it came way out of left field because there was nothing in the previous gameplay to suggest that this was possible, or desirable.  And that it looked like the entire Milky Way lost any sense of individuality.  But MEA addresses both concerns.  Ryder and SAM remain individuals, and seperate from the rest of the crew, but both of them together can achieve more then either of them can achieve seperatley.  Which, I suppose is why this debate even exists in the first place because the line of where Ryder ends and SAM begins is now...hard to quantify, but at the end, rather pointess.  They are now a hybrid, they are now in symbiosis.  Ryder is special not because of SAM but their own efforts and SAM is not special because of Ryder but because of his own efforts, but together?  They can be something truly remarkable. 

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I kind of just wanna see one of the crew get exalted. Woudln't that be great for a DLC and to really raise the stakes.

The way I figure it is I find it very likely that Peebee and Cora will stay with the Pathfinder and reurn for MEA2. Drack and Liam will be unlikely and they will move onto other positions. And I just cannot figure out Vetra and Jaal. Part of me says yes, part of me says no.

He is the likely choice since the Kett have already figured out the Angara. I mean we don't know if they have even figured out humanity yet.  But it would be just as much of a sucker unch, and perhaps a shock twist, to exalt one of the human crew. 

Its like that benefactor was not the Benefactor. 

I'm just gonna say that the reveal that blew my mind wide open. And I like  thatthere was a very subtle foreshadowing towards their reveal  but just subtle enough you could never acutally guess, unless you thought really outside the box.

I liked the themes of religion that were played with. From Suvi's questionaires to the

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it just adds so many subtle layers.

If philosophically, the OT was about free will, fatalism, cosmicism, and sacrifice, ME:A is definitely gearing themes towards creationism and the question of creation.

All the pinpoints OP layed out in his point basically reinvorgated the "mysteries of the galaxy" feeling of the OT. Nothing will beat Sovereign's revea;, but I find it disingenuous when people say there's no sense of wonder or novelty in ME:A. This game packed a lot of unsolved mysteries by the end of the game.

During my second playthrough I either read or heard something to the effect of the angara not having the "junk DNA" found in evolved species. It didn't even blip my radar the first time through, but the second time through was a different story.