Were we Too harsh on Mass Effect Andreomda???

Well you've given her a really pretty face is what I meant. The kind of pretty face I like to try to give my heroes in these games. But yeah faces do look better in MEA compared to most games on Frostbite. DAI's for example looks a bit cartoonish in comparison and up until MEA I've not really been that impressed by faces in Frostbite. Although it looks like Battlefront 2 looks like it's good some good faces so it's obviously something they've been working on to improve.

That's a really shitty way to look at life.

Personally, I expect a restaurant review to reflect the food now, not the food from five months ago. Only having a review from months ago is a problem.

Yeah, but you couldn't say the people who reviewed the restaurant when it first opened were being too harsh, or fault them if they found somewhere else to eat out at and never went back.

I believe we werent harsh enough! Most of the critics focused on animations and bugs when really there was more than just that like Bioware's inability to creative open worlds with emergent gameplay and the media gave Bioware a free pass on the copy and paste Asari faces.

I hope Anthem fails to which will force Bioware to go back to the drawing board and focus on what made them popular with BG, NWN, and KOTOR. Hopefully DA4 is the conclusion to the franchise.

My opinion hasn't really changed. I always felt it was a decent game, but very far from being the great game it could have been. I was pleasently surprised that the openish world structure worked far better in MEA than in DAI and the side questing had more substance to it. Given my low opinion of ME3, I felt this was a promising new entry to a series that had already stalled for me. I greatly enjoyed the change in tone and emphasis, letting us tackle a different kind of scenario in the first half of the game.

That said, the story with the Kett, Archon et al was dreadful, sub Halo rubbish and bored me to tears when I wasn't wincing with embarassment. Technical issues were unfortunate obviously, but not a big deal for me as I never really care about all that. Fallout New Vegas is one of my favorite RPGs for example and good luck getting through a whole session of that without it crashing... Ultimately, the CC let me make a Ryder I was happy with and that's enough to let the other animations off with a 'must try harder' rap on the knuckles.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. This is a decent game, but trying to manufacture it into an unjustly overlooked classic won't wash in this case. Because it simply wasn't good enough story wise for that. It was a good first draft of a game that really needed more time, but more than anything needed someone to be bold and tell it like it is to the writers. Because whilst the premise of the Andromeda Initiative, Alec Ryder, Pathfinders, the scramble to make a go of the desperate situation, find the Arks etc were all great, the Archon and Kett story was just awful. The narrative, rather than develop into something compelling, completely fizzles out after the first half. And this is the 2nd game in a row along with DAI where this has happened. Both games have good opening Acts that then fall apart.

Like developers getting death threats by fans?

Holy shit.

Conspiracy theorists have nothing on you Andromeda loving fools.

There is no facepalm meme grand enough for where this thread has gone...

If it doesn't jive with your simpleton's worldview, yes it must be a grand conspiracy.

LO fucking L

I dunno. Time Cube is pretty wild. They should print this on those Dr. Bronner's castile soap labels. 

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Bethesda taught me not to preorder from them with Fallout 3. It wasn't until all the DLC was out and the unofficial patch was released that I could really enjoy Fallout 3 on this rig. Then New Vegas came along from Obsidian and I was pumped. I really loved FO3 and NV had me enthralled with Ceasar. The DLC for NV is the best DLC ever made in my humble opinion. However, I didn't buy the game at launch. I was out in West Texas at the time and I just followed the patch notes and wow... when I got back, I ordered the DLC and didn't play until the unofficial patch was installed. Was it a great game? Maker yes! It's the best one that is faithful to the old canon. For the sake of the talented, newly-minted veterans... I WANT A DO-OVER. Nothing is impossible.